AN

By TIM BUCK machinery,
tremendously in Can

war, but, be-

sased

eseanh unist Party
National

Leader

Lee THe

Th de se of tl] federal govern-
pend jobs policy, misnamed “in-
and Ul the industries
of s* of | m ‘turing finished pro-

have not grown in Can
our buying of
finished products. We
finished. pro-
from the US.
Deliberate Policy
It should be

| ducts

the

two peo

ada as fast as

1ported the

wey
mainly

ducts,

pointed out

at this lag
to forces be-
The most
causing it

nor due
yond our control.
influential factor
has been the policy of the fed-
eral government, which has
included: direct taxes to in
the prices of certain
finished manufactured
sacks ted: to
and
advantage
ian market to United

corporations over their
ely Canadian competitors.
lable are becom- Sh

crease

overseas
which

measures
in the

jobs in rel
jobs
this is, it was
done deliberately, for the pur-
pose of getting our economic
activity on to a North-South
basis; that is to
US:
was
alone

ocking as

say,

nt on the
When it introduced, the
i exposed it
condemned it as anti-Can-
We pointed out then
it would ruin Canada if it
June,

persisted in. In

John Diefenbaker
he would change
> elected but he backed
soon after he took

away very
even the most oppor-
politicians are going

be forced to take a stand
on this very soon,
Trend of Past 10 Years

The decline of employment
and earnings in the manufac-
turing industries as a propor-
tion of the total employment,
production, and national in
come, has become so _ great
that it is beginning to drag the
over-all totals down. For ex-
ample, in the 10 years of 1950-
1959 industrial production as

issue
vriters or ra-
runs to
dollars
ference repres-

degree, the

often
several thousands of
per The dif
ents to a large
large amount of labor that
been put into transforming
iron ore into finished products. |
Now, the sate of finished
manufactured products of all |
SO watches to road

cost

ton

has

from

Alberta Communists Say:

PUT ALBERTA’S OIL, NATURAL GAS
BACK UNDER CANADIAN CONTROL

The United States control of the
berta at a recent convention}. two main resources of our
ey a province has brought them
into crisis and denies their
full use for Canadian de-

Communists in Al-

decided to cam-|

paign to restore Canadian}

eontrol and ownership of| velopment.”
the oil and natural re-| The whole extraction and

natural gas in
dominated by
controlled com-

delivery of
Alberta is
two USS. -
panies,

ces of the province. }

William Tuomi, provin-|
cial leader, “the nee
has never been more urgent

sourc

said

hint- |
1.5. |

| period
have |

| manufacturing

;}a moment
has not been ac- |

; manufacturing
pro- |

National independence is|
key to “oe and jobs”

a whole in Canada, increased

by 64 percent
thirds). Yet; in the same per- |
iod the production of the

manufacturing. industries -in-

creased by only 47° percent
than half). In the

the total number of

employed... increased

but, in the

percent
industries by

(less

people
by..-19

only 11 percent.

If the reader will
the temptation to
study this evidence of speed-
up and more ahd more intense
exploitation the following will
complete the general illustra-
tion of the effect of ‘“‘integra-
tion” in bringing about a de-

cline of the finished products |
industries in |
to the ov-|

Canada in relation

| er-all growth of the economy.

| Decline
Canad- |
States |

pur- |

in Industrial Income

The over-all figures of man-

ufactured products published |

| This

by the agencies of the federal

government include news-
print, nickel ingots, alumin-
|}um and copper ingots, asbest-

|}os fibres

and such like partial-

|ly processed raw materials as

depend- | «

| has

manufactured products.”
Now the output of all these
been increased greatly

| during the past 10 years. Their
j values boost the total for the

manufacturing industries, but
they are not finished manufac-
tured products. Their end pro-
ducts are made elsewhere.

If such partly processed ma-
terials are excluded from the
figures of manufactured pro-
ducts the decline of second-
ary industry in Canada is re-
vealed as serious indeed.

The consequence of this. in
terms of jobs, living standards
and opportunities for careers,
is becoming evident now in
the decline of real income.
The Financial Post is author-
ity for the statement that real
income has declined by 3 per-
cent since 1956 and that there
is taking place now an: actual
decline in the standard of liv-
ing in Canada.

Must Reverse the Policy

Even if we approach the

| problem solely from the point

of view of more jobs, it is
clear that the labor movement
must: step to the forefront of
the struggle to reverse the ‘pol-
icy of forcing Canadian econ-
omy into a pattern of North-
South integration. That way
lies only irreversible depend-
ence on the United States and
the reduction of Canada to a
reservoir of industrial raw
materials.

As an example, the propa-
ganda in favor of integration
of the automobile industry on
a North American continental

i scale is, in effect, a proposal

same |

resist. for |

|ment by the provincial gov-

| whose long fight for the min-
|ers around the silicosis issue

(almost two- |&

Instead of building manufacturing industries like the one
shown above the present policy of “integration” is turn-
ing Canada into a raw material reservoir for U.S. industry.
providing fewer and poorer jobs for Canadians
says Tim Buck in this article.

Labor urges review
of Compensation Act

The Vancouver Labor Council last week called on the
provincial government to set up a royal commission to
investigate the Workmen’s Compensation Act and its ad-
ministration in British Columbia.

This followed an announce- | ‘ :
| Board in B.C. Unions coming
establishment | up against the board are un-
in- | animous in their opinion that
the board and the Act it ad-
ministers are biased in favor
of the big corporations.

The financing of workmen’s
compensation is so set up as
to provide a pecuniary inter-
est for the employers to keep
the accident level down in
their operation. While on the
face of it this is a laudable
objective, in practice it results
in employers attempting to
restrict the scope of the Act
and at the same time oppose
settlement of legitimate
claims in order to keep their
compensation costs down.

Most major unions have de-
: : ; veloped compensation experts
tion in which ho cars would who spend their entire time
be built in Canada. fighting cases before the

Along with the question of | hoard, Smaller unions and un-
jobs and opportunities, there} organized workers, however,
is also the inseparable ques-| are at the complete mercy of
tion of our national sovereign- | the board and the incident of
ty — our fight to Keep Cana-) unsatisfied claims are propor-
da Out Of War: tionately higher amongst

This is why. the Communist | these workers.

Party’s appeal, “Let’s Be It is expected that the de-
Masters In Our Own House!” |mand for a royal commission
is absolutely correct in empha-|to Investigate the Act and it’s
sizing that national sover-| administration will be picked
eignty is the key to peace and|up by the entire labor move-
to full employment. ment.

November 25, 1960-—-PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2

ernment of the
of such a commission to
vestigate the Act as it relates
to silicosis. The Mine Mill and
Smelters Workers Union,

forced the government to set
up this investigation, has de-
manded that the commission
be broadened out to cover all
aspects of the Act.

A long feud has existed be-
tween labor movement and
the Workmen’s ‘Compensation

to liquidate the Canadian au-
tomobile industry. Instead. of
“qa Canadian car” it would
quickly be reduced to a situa-