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_CARACAS—The Soviet Union
rece world’s largest oil produ-
‘» according to figures com-
Mini by the Venezuelan Mines
ot Nistry for the first six months
hy 24; Soviet production rose
te 10% during the period to
9,018,000 barrels per day,
inistry said,
oe United States is the sec-
largest producer with

| ‘S89 000 barrels per day, up
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| Soviets lead in oil production

11.7%, while Iran is in fourth

place with 6,131,000 barrels per
day, an increase of 5.4%. .

Venezuela is the world’s fifth
largest producer with 3,113,000
barrels per day over the first six
months of the year, down 7.1%.

‘Following Venezuela in order
of oil production, are Kuwait,
Nigeria, Libya, Canada and Iraq.

RORONTO — The Metro To-
Bish Committee of the Commu-
Party of Canada presented a

€f to the Metropolitan Toron-

ohn Bizzell, Toronto chairman
: for g, communist Party, called
- bog, ‘independent police review
to ~' democratically constituted
labor ude representatives : of
tions. Gnd community organiza-

>

Call to democratize
Police Commission

to Review of Citizen-Police Com-
plaint Procedures charging that
“the Board of Commissioners of
Metro Toronto . . . is ‘profoundly
undemocratic.” ;

The public hearings into the
complaint department proced-
ures came as a result of the pub-
‘licity given to accusations that
members of the Toronto police
force have used excessive force,
and in some cases torture, in
handling arrested suspects, _

The brief from the Communist
Party was presented by John
Bizzell, chairman of the Toronto
Committee. In offering a solution
to the undemocratic manner in
which the Board of Commission-
ers is chosen, Bizzell told . the
public hearing: ‘Until such

time as the police of Metro To-

ronto come directly under the
control of Metro Toronto with
all members of the Board of
Commissioners coming directly
from among those persons elect-
ed popularly to civic govern-
ment, the exercise of law in this
city will remain beyond demo-

Continued on Page 9

By WILLIAM STEWART

Ontario Leader, Communist Party of Canada

Great responsibilities rest on the
labor movement for the period ahead.
The 800,000-member Ontario Federa- _
tion of Labor, representing as it does
more than one third of Canada’s organ-
ized trade union movement must bear

a heavy share of this load.

The alternatives stretching out before

the working people are challenging and
inspiring; at the same time. they are

stark and bone chilling.

The possibility is opening up for eas-
ing world tensions, for growing detente
and peaceful co-existence. At the same

Labor must chart
actiontobattice
Davis government

time the forces of war, cold-war and

and active.

lution added

increasing world tensions are powerful

The technological and scientific revo-

to the abundance of our

province and country, offers a limitless
_ future for the working people, farmers,
small-business and professional people.

What we face rather is dizzying infla-

is one of the several who have been arrested as they attempted

to stop professional strikebreakers

line. The strike by UE Local 535 has received the full support of
the St. Catharines District Labor Council.

USSR provides healthy |

holidays for millions

MOSCOW (TASS) — About
1,000 million rubles are allocated
in the Soviet Union every year
for treatment of people in san-
atoria and health resorts under
the budget of state social insur-
ance.

The. newspaper, Sovetskaya
Rossia writes that last year 31
million people in the Soviet
Union spent their vacations in
sanatoria, holiday hotels, at
tourist trips, and 20 million chil-
dren and teenagers stayed in
summer camps.

Thus, over half of the coun-
try’s population used the serv-
ices. of health resorts and

various organized forms of holi-

,daymaking and health treat-
ment.

New sanatoria, holiday hotels
and guest houses open in: the
Soviet Union every year.

All this“ is done to enable

4 Soviet people to use to the full
_the right to rest guaranteed by
the constitution, the newspaper
_ writes. An additional guarantee
for this is the fact that treat-
ment in a sanatorium, staying
in a holiday hotel or a tourist
camp does not-cost much, only
10% of vouchers are sold. at
their Yull cost, moést, are sup-
plied by trade unions at a 70%
discount,: and one-tenth of the
voucher are distributed free.

tion, mounting price gouging, high
rents and mortgage rates placing de-
cent accommodation out of reach for
an ever growing section of the popula-
tion. Unemployment is projected at 7%
of our labor force for the year 1975.
We may be teetering on the brink of a

depression.

The Canadian trade union
movement is proving once again
its ability to fight on behalf of
its members, and all working
people, against the attempts of
monopolies to make them bear
the burden of the present crisis.

In Ontario, second - quarter
increases ran at close to 14%
for 1974.

The working people have con-
ducted long and bitter battles,
two of which at Firestone Tire
and Goodyear Rubber are still
in progress, the workers refus-
ing to bow to company pressure
tactics even after seven and nine
months on the picket line.

Antiquated Laws

Frustrated by antiquated and
boss-loaded labor laws, workers
have taken matters into their
own hands and carried out an
unprecedented number of wild-
cat strikes when necessary.

New sections of working peo-
ple have entered the militant
battles against monopoly and its
Queen’s Park government. Onta-
rio teachers, Ontario hospital
workers and nurses, and now
Ontario civil servants have’ de-
fied slave-labor legis'ation as did
Metro Toronto transit workers.

This most fundamental ques-
tion of democracy has hecome
the centre of focus of Ontario
strugeles, the question of the
risht to strike unfettered bv re-
strictive legislation. Working
neople salute those teachers,
hosvital workers. civil servants
and transit workers who have
joined their forces with the 100-
year-old struggles of Ontario
workers for the preservation and
extension of this basic right.

Prices movements, including in
many cases the trade unions are

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LABOR MARCH IN N.B.

SAINT JOHN, N.B.—A march
by representatives of a dozen
labor unions on Oct. 18 wound
up a week-long series of walk-
outs throughout the city.

During the march up the mid-
dle of King Street, sections of
nine of the city’s main streets
were closed to traffic.

The march, led by Fred
Hodges, .a city councillor and
president of the Saint John and
District Labor Council, was sup-
ported by an estimated. 300 rep-
resentatives of a dozen unions

and was held in support of strik-

ing telephone operators.

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