Sta gnatic Canada’s «bY, LESLIE MORRIS oa sha ecmic position is one of stagnation. Let the nity 4 eral politicians brag all they like about our Y, that is the fact. ee the National Institute of Economic and Soc- AG ca een) proved that Canada is ninth in a ara be ist countries which were examined for their Othe 19 economic growth. Ets of"o years from 1950 to 1959 our economy grew at f percent a year, but in the last half of that 10 years, in the five years from 1954-1959, it grew at the rate of 1.8 percent. Japan, Italy, West Germany, France the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the USA were ahead of Canada. Denmark and Britain were behind with Britain at the bottom of the list. Re of he That, gentlemen of the Tory and Lib- eral parties, is stagnation. Such annual ec- onomic growth does not take into account Yr population or provide enough for the ex- 10n of the eco Worn-out eel It barely looks after the renewal ae OG now have an official army of 560,000 un- @ million oa unofficial” “guerilla” army of getting on aie People, like the 100,000 young people who loyment €ach year, have not graduated to having an un- ork pee once number because they haven’t started sian landlord aren't officially counted. They are like the & offici Ta's serfs described in Gogol’s Dead Souls who Slally existed. One Ss . : ” the ee this trouble, our economy is the most slavish 2 In * ore} pay fee United States had $71.4 billion invested in 8 eae four times s much as in 1930 and almost By ne in 1953. : a of this money is invested in industries in 00,000 es. Right now, in proud and independent Eng- The le toil in American factories. Ne most ae is worse in Canada because this country is pore th ominated by Yankee millionaire corporations. foreign si One-third of all American direct investments Sj Pee cirizes goes to Canada: 37 percent of them. than to all the countries of Latin America (22 Western Europe (22 percent). ‘in, 8 One tj : : s ‘in, that it 23 the characteristics of finance capital, said Ey. Paying j skins the animal twice.” Canadians are skin- Skinneg pacrest on U.S. financial investments; they are ure # Y outright American ownership of plants and American Canadian markets by goods produced in Canada fan capital. h ca of Canadian exports held by American-owned. and American subsidies in Canada amounts to et wages, PorSS: American money comes into Canada, pays re 800ds “a to workers in similar plants in the U.S., pro- lf) 8nd so N Canada for sale abroad (including the U-S. a Up grabs markets which otherwise could have been Oth : Y Canadian capital. Pats + ad increase of ou oO oO yee, Cad he ont which should be remembered: enormous 8 of ae American goods into Canada, the flow into etWeen oe capital is much larger. 2 50 and 1958, for example, the export of Am- to Canada rose from $2 billion to $3.7 billion, Bato $1o merican investment in Canada rose from $3.6 ‘ 0.2 billion, * * . So Canada aha ay virtually under the control of the US. * especial make them; and millions of our working @ Y young folk, far from possessing the. skills © a developed country, are largely unskilled or Baia. ause we haven't got the highly-developed ‘ 8 industries to train them in, and for. » -aada’s * * ; Se ata e ©conomic stagnation is the main characteristic | ation j ac Situation; and one of the main factors in that f the ae t we are that country most under the economic hited States. Ationalization of American-owned industries is al- ary economic necessity; soon it will be politically pees again the Communists are pioneering in the = "9 costs going up ie asume of living rose to a near-record high last mont on Mas, Price index jumped to 130.3 on April 1 from ees Sh. according to the Dominion Bureau of Sta- Main = Costs, h as Pward pressures were for higher food and health- S is © recent devaluation of the Canadian dollar to _ ~ ©Xpected to lead to a new high in living costs. rm at high prices; car exports of finished and semi- - HEALTH PLAN OPPOSED BY MEDICS, OLD LINE P By NORMAN BRUDY Saskatchewan Organizer of the Communist Party The provincial govern- ment’s medical care plan has become, in Saskatchewan, the main issue in the general election. Shoved off the stage are such vital questions as peace, Canadian neutrality, and ending U.S. domination. Even the publicity -hound, John Diefenbaker, can’t get front page space. The campaign against the medicare plan is being organ- ized by the Liberal Party of Sask. and its renegade leader Ross Thatcher, with the full support of the Tories and Social Credit. The daily press, radio and TV are work- ing overtime to whip up pub- lic support for the Medical Association. Headlines of a size usually used for a dec- laration of war are a weekly occurrence. The purpose of this cam- paign is not to protect the welfare and the freedom of the people, but to destroy the Sask. government. This campaign has a sec- ondary aim — and that is to prevent the people of Saskat- chewan from-uniting around the NDP and Communist candidates to break the mon- opoly of the old line parties. The Saskatchewan Medi- care Plan does not in any way infringe on the rights of the doctors. Nor does it change the doctor-patient re- lationship. Under the plan a person has complete freedom to go to any doctor he wishes. The doctor can treat his patient in exactly the same manner as at present. No one will tell the doctor how or with what he shall treat his patient. The plan changes only the method of payment — instead of the patient paying, the bill will now be paid by the plan. The Medical Plan even allows a doctor to bill his patient instead of submitting the bill directly to the plan, so as not to give the doctor a psychosis. The plan offers to pay 85 percent of the fees set by the College of Physi- cians. This is equally as high as payments under any of the private plans in operation. Yet the doctors are threaten- ing to go on strike! The organizers of this anti- medical plan campaign are using every means at their disposal to fool ,and scare the people into submission. ARTIES They threaten to leave the province, just like the mine- owners threaten to move the mine! And for effect, they have closed down offices located in residential shop- ping centres. The Liberal ma- chine is organizing petitions and delegations against the plan. But the people are fighting back. Premier Lloyd and his government are taking a firm stand and are going to im- plement the plan on July 1. The Saskatchewan Federa- tion of Labor is now circulat- ing a petition in support of the plan, as a result of de- mands from its affiliates. Various local unions have appealed to the doctors to give the plan a fair trial. Farm organizations and co- ops are speaking up in sup- port of the plan. Independent groups of people have organ- ized petitions in support of the plan. The people are now realiz- ing it was not enough to sit back and say the doctors are bluffing. They are becoming acute- ly aware of the fact that this big effort goes beyond the doctors. They are realizing that it is a plot against the See HEALTH, pg. 8 | E MADE IT! Thanks to all our readers and supporters for helping us to raise our objective of $18,000 and so enable our presses to keep running for another year. It was a terrific actomplishment, and HERE’S HOW IT WAS DONE: Greater Vancouver CLUB Quota Advance .-_----- $350 Bayview --..-.-- 275 Broadway __----- 300 Cedar Cottage __. 200 Dry: Dock 2—-- 350 Hast Bad: == =-— 275 Frank Rogers _-_ 350 Georgia = = =— = 150 Grandview -- --. 500 Hastings East _-_ 600 Kensington --_- 525 Maritime _------- 700 Mt. Pleasant __--- 300 Niilo Makela __-_ 150 Norquay ---.----- 400 Olein, 3 175 Point Grey ---- -- 250 Strathcona 2 670004 Students — —= —— 65 Victory Square __ 400 West End _--- -- 175 North Burnbay -- 500 South Burnaby -- 356 Edmonds, Burnaby 250 North Shore _--- 750 City Miscellaneous 1,350 Unpledged —---- 1,485 City Total _. 11,500 Delta Fort Langley _--- 250 Tadner 22 oy 28 ‘N.W Industrial __ 300 Steveston _.-- -.- 150 North Surrey -- - 275 South Surrey --.- 225 Whalley -...-- - _ 200 TOTAL _. --. 1,525 Dewdney Achieved CLUB Quota Achieved Haney - 531.75 Maple Ridge __. 325 325.25 ar 000 Mission __.... .__ 100 148.00 AGES TOTAL __._.__ 425 -_473.25 377.07 Vancouver Island 251.50 Albernis __.___._ 350 357.00 350.75 Campbell River __ 150 151.00 161.50 Cumberland __ __ 200 211.01 682.50 Cowichan: =. =~ = 300 338.50 868.15 Nanaimo —._ __ 400 457.80 661.50 Parksville _.__. __ 75 96.75 794.00 Victoria = __ 400 312.00 nts Suen Se ee i) 207.00 ‘ ATK pesca 2,275. 2,131.06 180.00 Okanagan Region 207.00 Kamloops __ __ 100 § 102.50 558.75 Notch Hill __ __ 150 159.00 davoe gga ct 20280 ; AT Se "50 206.50 i ee 588.96 Province General a | Michel-Fertriie 1 252.46 Nelson} ==) 5 50 aes 847.85 Powell River __-. 200 206.51 1,352.26 Prince Rupert __ 100 56.00 63.41 Sointula -___ __ 100 84 00 11,578.96 Trail-Rossland - 300 356.00 Correspondence __ 225 315.15 Tom McEwen’s : 281.00 Column = 100 121.00 139.75 TOTAL _____ 1,200 1,292.66 450.30 Province 135.85 Unpledged 222-450 75 336.90 Province Total ___ 6,500 6,377.28 431.50 City Total __ 11,500 11,578.96 : Bast GRAND TOTAL | 18,000 17,956.24