) | Ww f : | 'Onts in the months ahead. Economy may hut recovery will be slow a | be on mend 50 gust expla | vIICe Controls Wage curbs seen more likely a headlines in Canadian newspapers during July and August tell the on of the crisis of the capitalist system. All refer to Canada with een of two. In the light of predictions made in these headlines, €rs in Canada face sharp struggles on the economic and political VOTE SEPT. 18 es directions are. needed to i Wor . the government of Ontario ’ bo for people, not the cor- | ations,” said William Stewart, : tan unist Party leader in On- 1p a last week. The Communist | Sa is running 33 candidates in a 1 gy Y-called election by the Tory ; €rnment. Election day is “ptember 18, t Genin: of the Communist Party’s tah, al themes in the election & age is, “Jobs for all — calle Op Ontario for its people.’’ It S for development of Ontario’s resources in a planned oye matic way, under public Nership. and control; and ee ine the forest and mineral Ith of northern Ontario from : U.S. and Canadian cor- ations through the setting up of Wn corporations which — will Sage in secondary manufac- ‘ng and marketing. Bre’. urged by the Communist Palty 1s the bringing of oil and gas epction and distribution’ under i. atic public ownership. IS,” says the CP program, “‘is . Mices © to stop soaring energy | Salling for a Bill of Rights for iss » the Ontario Communist q ae urges that every worker be 1 oh anteed by law the right to a } their and to belong to the union of A ha Choice. It urges that workers ue the right to strike, picket and re heaceful assembly without Work to”: Also urged is a 30-hour | take , “eek without reduction in | } | na pay, shorter work day, ‘ iti ty in employment and a Vac Tum of three weeks paid ation per annum. ‘Sure, higher education and © | Dr, 2 per training for new jobs with cay Gequate income at all times is tin for as well as secure . ment at 60 with vested tome rights and a guaranteed einer of 80 per cent of pre- Sharing tt earnings, with unions oy © Control of pension funds. “fat Ontario needs,” says a Ontario Communists iCall for new policy recent Communist Party statement, “‘is to use the wealth of Ontario not to fatten corporation profits but to ensure jobs and security. A program to achieve this would include public ownership of all natural resources, the repatriation of all major industries under U.S. control, extension of public funds into a federal- provincial development plan for northern Ontario designed to ex- pand manufacturing; a massive program to build and renovate housing for low and middle income people, and trade relations ex- tended with all the world, including the socialist and newly-liberated countries.” Speaking at a meeting in Oshawa last week, Stewart criticized the NDP for not speaking up on basic issues. He appealed to the NDP to take up the real issues in the election. “If they do so,”’ he said, “together with the campaign of the Com- ‘munist Party the possibility still exists of electing a progressive alternative, and failing this of the election of a large progressive bloc including Communists, which would deny a majority to either of the two parties of big business.” Y WILLIAM STEWART Tenants propose major changes fo rental act The B.C. Tenants Organization has called for sweeping changes to rental housing administration within the province, including a major overhauling of the Ren- talsman’s office and the establish- ment of a B.C. Rental Housing Authority. The call was made in a submission to the Rent Review Commission, which was released this week in summarized form. The BCTO brief outlines a series of guidelines for the proposed Rental Housing Authority, which they see as evolving from existing Rent Review Commission. The main task of this body would be to “set objective levels of rent for premises, taking into con- sideration floor space, age, utilities, and, to some _ extent, location.’’ The rent level would be based on a formula related to in- | come, and, if the BCTO proposal is accepted, would be no more than 20 per cent of the average net income after. taxes, in the community involved. A rental authority of this nature would also own and operate rental premises, and would eventually construct them. This last point is in line with the B.C.T.O.’s repeated PROVOCATION Cont'd from pg. 2 mimeographed leaflets have been distributed in the Vancouver area over the past month, which seemingly are an attack- on the “Maoists in the IWA” or the “Ustashi (Yugoslav fascists) in the ILWU” but are cleverly written to appear to be produced in cooperation with the Communist Party. The leaflets are clearly the work of agents posing as maniacs. Throughout the United States and Canada the. actions of the NALP-NCLC have been compared to those of Hitler’s brown shirts previous to 1933. In their literature the NALP-NCLC glorify violence | and the “ghetto youth”’ whom they seek to lead a revolutionary movement. Their literature is, as well, preoccupied with sexual connotations, accusing all enemies of every perversion imaginable. “Tt is doubtful that they have more than a dozen members,” Morgan commented, “‘and of these the majority are American citizens, sent here from Seattle.”’ The CP leader said that the activities of the NALP have been more or less consistent across Canada and have prompted a directive to all Party members from the CP’s national executive in Toronto. ' “J would like to draw to the at- tention of all members of the Communist Party the contents of this directive,’ Morgan said, “and I do so publicly with the suggestion that it is sound advice for the entire labor movement. “Our national leadership has advised first of all that ‘the Communist Party of Canada establish no relationships on any level with members of this neo- fascist organization’. Secondly, ‘when members of this organization come to Party offices for “discussions” they are to be asked to leave immediately and ‘if they refuse they should be evicted.’ In addition all dialogue between NALP members and _ individual Party members should be rejec- ted, and finally wherever the NALP present themselves, at either public or trade union meetings, Party members should expose them as ‘neo-fascist and police-inspired enemies of the ‘working class.’ “These people can be sure that our Party will be firm in this ap- proach.” demand that only massive public housing can solve the rental problem in B.C. The BCTO proposals stress that the composition of the Authority would be ‘“‘decisive’’ and proposes that a board of directors be established with equal representa- tion from both tenants and land- lords. 4 Another major proposal is that Municipal Rental Housing Authorities be established in all major municipalities. These bodies would come under the umbrella of the provincial authority and would be financed provincially. The brief states that this was an election promise of the present provincial government in the 1972 election campaign, and should be honored. These bodies would again be made up of equal representation from both local tenants and lan- dlords, and would be responsible for hearing appeals regarding rental guidelines, and would ad- minister all other aspects of landlord-tenant relations, ‘“specificaNy terminations, repairs, tenant and landlord rights and management problems.” - In all matters other than rent appeals, the BCTO proposes a standard procedure which would guarantee a formal hearing within two weeks of receipt of a written complaint. Presently, through the centralized Rentalsman’s office, appeals take anywhere from six weeks and up to be heard. The brief states that it is im- perative that the bargaining strength of tenants be enhanced in order that rent controls can be -effective. This would come about through direct tenant repre- sentation of rental boards, and the common anniversary dates. In their submission, the BCTO stressed the necessity to revamp the Rentalsman’s apparatus, pointing out that it is highly cen- tralized and has no direct tenant or landlord input, but. has in fact become ‘‘an unofficial spokesman for the landlord’s policy to scrap rent controls.’”’ They said that the. sooner the Rentalsman’s office is overhauled “the earlier an equitable rent control program will be possible.” : The brief warned against a haphazard ‘“‘patch-up approach” set by a time deadline saying that the ‘‘whole. administration of the Landlord and Tenant Act needs to be completely overhauled”’. CP calls for public ownership While welcoming the an- nouncement by energy minister Donald MacDonald that the “continental energy policy has been laid to rest,’’ the Communist Party last week blasted the federal government for not advancing an all-Canadian energy policy based on public ownership of all energy resources in Canada. MacDonald’s remarks were made last month at the dedication - of the Libby Dam, the site of one of the greatest sellouts of Canadian resources in history, and a monument to the continental energy policy that the government followed through the 1960’s. The Communist Party statement cited MacDonald’s comments that the guiding philosophy of future Canada-U.S. energy negotiations would be a “cooperative, coor- dinated approach’’ and asked if MacDonald had ‘“‘changed words or changed policies.”’ The Columbia River Treaty was “a cooperative, coordinated ap- proach in which the U.S. got the benefit of flood control and elec- of energy tricity while B.C. got mud flats,” the CP said. ‘‘It is a living example of selling the real interests of the people of B.C. for a fast ‘‘Social Credit buck.” The CP pointed out that Mac- Donald’s remarks come against “the background of growing pressure on Canada to acquiesce in an Arctic pipeline financed by Canadians and owned by U.S. multinational corporations, aimed at benefiting U.S. imperialism at the expense of the immediate and long term interests of Canada and her people.”’ ‘Warning that the record of past and present governments has been one of ‘‘sellouts and betrayal’’ the CP urged the Canadian people not to accept MacDonald’s statements as indicating ‘a new approach and a new policy. : ‘““A new approach and a new policy means public ownership of energy resources and pipelines, so that these resources can be used for the independent, planned and ‘balanced growth of the economy,”’ the statement concluded. 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