rs The Canadian Labor Congress fonsiders that the government White Paper on taxation falls Short of what is needed, C.L.C. President Donald MacDonald declared in a statement to the press last week. The Con- 8tess would present proposals for Change ‘at the public hearings Promised by the government, he intimated."Mr. MacDonald stated, 1 part: a hile the government’s : Ite Paper in principle has €cognized the inequitable na- ure of our tax system and is pro- Ene Some modifications of ex- Sting inequities, it has stopped “a Short of recommending what . believe should have been a oS reform in Canadian taxa- b n. No change, for example, has €€n proposed in the hidden 12 fercent federal sales tax, which $ imposed at the manufacturers’ ety the time’ this tax, which - €vied on almost all goods ex- Sa food, is paid by the consum- re it has pyramided beyond the ny 18inal 12 percent. It is paid by a and poor alike, thus negating © Principle of ‘ability to pay’, ato 1s consequently one of the in St regressive taxes in our en- " tax system. We cannot help ; be disappointed that after fats of study leading to the Publication of this important tax Scument, the government has oe no evidence that it intends make this tax more equitable. While the suggested improve- ses in the personal income tax Culd lead to the elimination or in Uction of taxes in the lower Come brackets, the fact is that oa tax savings are extremely ose The largest tax saving of a 7 for a married taxpayer with “a dependent children, with oe income of $4,000, is less , an $2.50 per week. For other BE ayers in the same category Te under $8,000, the tax Ving is even less. This can ardly be called a sweeping shift poe a more progressive per- pal income tax structure. sta Equally difficult to under- nd is why this White Paper Sad end ee 17,000 miners and smelter mereers employed in the Inter- ational Nickel Company of @nada’s Sudbury mines and acct Colborne refinery are now Ssessing the role of the United she workers of America leader- 1 which, after the workers’ = rday strike, agreed to recom- €nd a 93 cents across-the-board a increase for a three-year x React, a settlement which has Plit the workers’ ranks right wn the middle. : moudbury Local 6500 with a €mbership of over 15,000 voted Y a whisker margin of 166 out . 9,898 voting workers to ac- $1 the package increase of 298 The negotiating committee 5 Ort Colborne Local 6200 then pteed to recommend accept- Nee, as its: president, Jimmy abirad said, ‘against his will.” Chief negotiator for the USWA perabers in the two nickel work- S locals was Larry Sefton, Strict 6 director. His final stage Tanipulations to bring the 000 strikers into line with the i pant INCO’s offer resulted in Pb The S ae SS proposes new tax increases for those in the $10,000 to $15,000 income brackets but fails to pro- vide for proportionate tax in- creases for those with higher incomes. On the contrary, a tax- payer who receives $30,000 a year will pay an increase of $35 as against an increase of $177 for the ‘taxpayer who earns $15,000. “For those with incomes over $50,000, there are actual tax re- ductions, including a tax reduc- tion of $5,423 for those with gross incomes of $100,000.” “We welcome the proposal of the government to include capi- tal gains for income tax purpo- ses. There are many persons in Canada who derive their incomes: from making large capital gains -in the stock market and in real estate who at present are not subject to any form of tax. This practice has been one of the most unjust features of our tax sys- tem. But it is difficult to ascer- tain how effective this tax will be — in bringing about any significant degree of equity in our tax sys- tem. For example, it is hardly equitable than only one-half of capital gains made on publicly held shares is to be taxed.” MY FRIEND AND | WILL BE BACK AT THE SAME TIME TOMORROW CUADOR HONORS LENIN Jorge Zavala Baquerizo, vice- president of Ecuador, in a TASS interview, said that Lenin was one of mankind’s most outstand- ing figures and a theoretician and thinker who was able to foresee progress in social devel- opment. He was a man of action who believed in the triumph of his cause and implemented it, the vice president said. The So- viet state, founded by Lenin, he . said, “belongs to those countries that made a decisive impact on the history of mankind. Particu- larly noteworthy is the role of the Soviet Union in the cause of safeguarding peace.” Political and public organiza- tions, as well as scientific. and cultural circles, will mark the centenary of Lenin’s birth. to a great strike dividing the joint negotiating committee which throughout the strike had united the 15,000-plus | members of the Sudbury local with the 1,800 in Local 6200 of the Port Colborne refinery. Ba- birad said Sefton had moved in “an unprecedented and incred- ible manner.” He was speaking of Sefton’s decision to separate the 13 com- mittee members of Local 6500 in Sudbury from the five-man com- mittee from’ Port Colborne. Sef- ton did this because he could see the 18-man joint negotiating committee was split eleven to seven against accepting the com- pany offer. But the District 6 director of USWA knew also that the Sud- bury Local 6500 negotiation team of 13 members would vote seven to six in favor of accep- tance—with Local 6500 president Homer Seguin casting the decid- ing seventh vote. “It was such a great strike,” Local 6200’s president Babirad is reported to have said, “and it ended like this.” NOSE EA OK 245 [eee Seeiys 4 The INCO workers are meas- uring the terms of settlement against what they could have won had the USWA leadership not split their great strike solidarity. Labor to The executive of the Quebec Federation of Labor has decided to challenge the Montreal bylaw banning . demonstrations, an- nounced Fernand Daoust, QFL vice-president who is seeking election as general secretary at its present convention in Que- bec City. He was speaking at the Vietnam Moratorium meet- ing in Montreal on Nov. 14, where he added that the QFL executive is seeking opinion on the best method legally to con- test the bylaw. 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Abraham Cohen, .councillor from Snowdon district, was the only Civic Party member to op- pose the bylaw. “I served 60 days at the front in the last war in the struggle against fascism,” he declared. “If I participate in a demonstration in Montreal to- day I could be jailed for 60 days. On the front line,” he con- cluded, “I knew I was fighting for the right of free assembly. I am now therefore opposing this bylaw.” The bylaw became operative immediately on adoption, and is to remain in effect until Oct. 1, 1970, when Montreal’s munici- pal elections, held once every four years, will take place. First - victim of the demonstration ban was the silent torchlight parade planned for Thursday, Nov. 13 by the Vietnam Moratorium Committee in Montreal. As David Lewis, parliamentary caucus leader of the New Demo- cratic Party said, addressing the Moratorium meeting in Mont- real on the day after, “This is the only city on the continent where a demonstration as part of the Vietnam Moratorium has been banned.” " : follew ve this, the Montreal police director asked for and obtained agreement by Eaton’s department store to cancel its annual Santa Claus parade. Although Mayor Drapeau and Executive Chairman Lucien Saulnier called for adoption of the anti-demonstration bylaw on the grounds that “revolution is being prepared here among us”, it fell to Saulnier to reveal fully the fascist-like thinking behind it. In his inflammatory demand that council pass the bylaw, Saulnier asked the councillars to remember that “within the last 10, 25 and. 50 years the surface of the. world’s territory has shrunk. Has it been noted,” he continued, “how for some time it has been suggested to us to demonstrate against the situ- ation in Vietnam? Have we been invited to do this,” he asked, “against suppression by tanks in 1956 of liberty in Hungary? or in Berlin against the wall? or a year ago against the end of spring in Czechoslovakia?’ Before he launched into this reactionary tirade, objectively placing himself on record as supporting the U.S. aggression against the people of Vietnam, Saulnier attempted to argue against democracy on a “cost” basis. “These demonstrations are expensive,” he said: He ques- tioned whether, even when de- monstrations are orderly, the means would be available for controlling them. Citing figures supplied by the chief of police on the cost of police surveil- lance of demonstrations, Saul- nier maintained that “if this continues, it’s going to be dif- ficult to support it.” The. prime minister of Que- bec, leader of the Union Natio- nale government Jean-Jacques Bertrand, and Quebec’ Minister of Justice Rémi Paul, the latter under attack presently because of his support for the late fas- cist leader Adrien Arcand, have both publicly approved of the Montreal bylaw banning demon- strations. ‘3 «PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 21, 1969-—PAGE 7° sivereresianaessaieareseeserte seit SSeS ee