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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.

The Montreal Central Council
of the Confederation of National
Trade Unions has called an
emergency meeting for Nov. 18
to organize support “for the
right to demonstrate in Mont-
real.” oe

The bylaw was adopted on
Nov. 12 after a six-hour debate
in the Montreal City Council,
the only real debate since it was
elected in 1966. Only by twist-
ing the screws on the members
of their Civic Party, the over-

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Soviet women are given guar-
anteed equal rights with men in
all spheres of life: government,
economy, politics, and culture.
Women account for 47 percent
of factory and office personnel,
and 72 percent of teachers, in-
spectors, and other workers in

education. Every third engineer

in the Soviet Union in a woman.
There are nearly 550,000 women-

‘engineers in the’U-S.S.R.

For their good services to
their country, more than a mil-
lion Women are awarded orders
and medals. Nearly 4,000 Soviet
women received the high award
of the Hero of Socialist Labor.
424 women have been elected to
the U.S.S.R. Supreme Soviet,
which is the Soviet parliament,
and nearly 3,000 women have
been elected to the Supreme So-
viets of the Union and Autono-
mous Republics, while in the
local organs of government, vil-
lage, district, city, regional and
territorial Soviets, the number of
women .is 875,000 or 43 percent
of all the deputies.

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challenge

Montreal parade ban

whelming majority of the City
Council, were Mayor Jean Dra-
peau and Executive Chairman
Lucien’ Saulnier able to over-
come the- obvious opposition
from within their own council
machine.

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

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