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: By BRUCE MAGNUSON
h LABOR SECRETARY, COMMUNIST PARTY
Sok parties which are to gather in Ottawa on
ment ln 26 for a three-day conference of govern-
freer, abor and management to discuss a wage
see of 5 percent per year, in return for a 2.5
: ae ceiling on price increases, are not all as
ye as Labor Minister Bryce Mackasey would
aan the believe. In fact, this is a diabolical plot,
induy " part of the Trudeau administration and
la a iS and business tycoons, to sell a few top
Polie. eaders on the idea of an anti-labor incomes
will y behind the backs of their memberships. It
Fe) ne work! :
the aber Should stay away from and repudiate
tives i-partite conference and its aims and objec-
ctol Qs called by the Trudeau government for
wy ber 26 in Ottawa. .
: Rrakh te Prices and Incomes Commission was
} 7 8blished by the government last May its terms
| ups erence were: "to inquire into and report
meee? causes, processes and consequences ©
| and tion and to inform.those making current price
; oneal decisions, the general public ane
achieved on how price stability may es e
| soniteed of this, the Prices and Incomes Commis-
| ment as, in fact, been transformed into an instru-
~ Union Whose aims now are to integrate the trade
State movement into the elaborate mechanism of
Class Reropoly capitalism, to make the working
— Bone © victim of government policies to limit
| With omic growth by regulating wages, interfering
| inde Collective bargaining and undermining the
| Theondence of the trade union movement.
| and © trade union movement can never accept this
tivis Surrender to a meaningless existence in cap-
lead of the bosses. Woe betide any trade union
Nefari who dares to lend his support to such a
ian scheme as this. No mandate has been
leade y the rank and file union members to any
ine 4 to enter into any deal whatever along this
Tn ah er to lend his ear to—much less to cooperate
oT. Y way—with those who promote such plans.
1) repose udeau administration is well aware, from
Sofa made by its Economic Council, that profits
| by ” Corporate capitalist structure rose in 1968
Only 7 Percent. At the same time wages rose by
abart . percent. If price increases are deducted,
the 3 eae increased payroll and other taxation,
a ual increase was closer to 2 to 2.5 percent.
Ada } Uctivity rose by a great deal more in Can-
Inf a It did in the United States.
bby the ion-in the United States has been caused
i] fact €conomic impact of the war in Vietham—a
| Can whic has an over-riding impact also on
ate S economy.
rete, 3° circumstances it is sheer hypocrisy to

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€nd not to know where lie the causes of infla-
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rudeau’s call to Reaction

77

Clean out CBC CYC

civil service—or else!

By WILLIAM BEECHING

In a manner which previously
became apparent in his dealings
with Western farmers and some
ultra - leftists in Vancouver,
Prime Minister Trudeau deliver-
ed a rough and tough ultimatum
to the people of Quebec calling
for a purge of the Company of
Young Canadians, a rigid censor-
ship of the CBC in Quebec, com-
bined with proposals for the
forces of reaction to unite to
preserve the status quo in Que-
bec.

Not even a glimmer of an in-
tention to adopt measures that
would help resolve the burning
issues faced by French Canada
that have been the underlying
causes of serious public unrest,
can be discovered in anything
the Prime Minister said.

Among questions pressing for
answers, behind which has built
up a great reservoir or dissatis-
faction and resentment in the
French-Canadian working class,
is that of lower wages than the
rest of Canada, which Trudeau’s
wage freeze threatens to fix into

a permanent mold, 43 percent
of all unemployed in Canada are
in Quebec.

Mr. Trudeau blames economic
stagnation in. Quebec on separat-
ism. It is a convenient scape-
goat for both Trudeau and Ber-
trand, To prove his point, the
Prime Minister says that there
is now proportionally less for-
eign investment in Quebec than
in the rest of Canada.

What a commentary on gov-
ernment responsibility! The di-
rect responsibility of the Tru-

Neve

event that would be!

and world opinion.
This vast upsurge,

qualitative stage.

paigns, and the battl

ESCALATE PEACE

By WILLIAM KASHTAN

Frederick Engels said
class of America moves,
league boots. The huge d
today indicate that the struggle has reached a
new stage of development. It is. possible that a
mass coalition could compel the Nixon administra-
tion to withdraw from Vietnam. What a historic

it will move with seven
emonstrations for peace

It would be a signal defeat for the American
administration. Tricky Dick has sneered at this
event today, and has been reported as saying he
will not pay any attention to the American people.
I think we can say that, no matter how many tricks
Tricky Dick has up his sleeve, U.S. imperialism
will finally be compelled to withdraw from Viet-
nam. There will be other major peace events
around November 15th. This is a process of esca-
lation of peace activity. There will be a twotee
one then, and later a three-day one, and this wi ]
continue until Nixon is made to listen to American

which includes American
boys in Vietnam wearing black ribbons to show
their solidarity, is symptomatic of the growing
crisis of American imperialism. What we see 1s a
vast opening up of the peace movement into a new,

We need to roll up our sleeves for the next eee
of the effort. We will help to see that in Cana
there will be a united, synchronized demonstration
to compel the Trudeau government to demand that .
Nixon withdraw U.S. troops and bases, and that
Canada recognizes the provisional revolutionary
government in South Vietnam.
We are reaching a development on a world

scale in which there is an irresistible demand for

eace and a demand for change. We will weave
peace into the municipal election campal
are going on at’ this present time. It wil be our
contribution to those muncipal election cam-
efor democratic progress.

that when the working

s that

deau administration — a respon-
sibility it is evading — is the
overcoming of regional dispari-
ties, the creation of conditions
to make it possible for everyone
in the entire country to enjoy
equal levels of education, health
and standards of life. To com-

plain that Quebec is losing in a_

contest to sell the ownership of
its resources to U.S. monopolies
‘may be good continentalism, but
it isn’t good Canadianism.

- In the grand, puffed up style
of a little dictator, he bluntly
stated that either the CBC would
clean separatists out of the
French-language network itself,
or the government would, per-
haps be asking defense minister
“Leo Cadieux to take Radio
Canada in hand.”

No effort was made by the
Prime Minister to discuss the
creative contribution of the peo-
ple working for CBC in Quebec,
of any efforts they have made
to give a French-Canadian con-
tent to their programming. His
was a Straight condemnation of
the CBC, with a blunt order for
it to move behind his policies,
or else the military would do it.

The Company of Young Cana-
dians was set up by the Liberal
government under Lester B.
Pearson to mobilize the young
people of Canada, who were en-
thusiastic and idealistic, to go
to work helping the people with
their problems. It remains a stub-
born fact that to help people
with their problems does re-
quire organization and struggle.

Premier Ross Thatcher, and
others, attacked the CYC from
time to time when it tried to
help Indians, hippies, and even
took peace actions. Mr. Pear-
son, on those occasions came to
its defense.

Now, however, there is the
new Trudeau approach. It has an
ominous ring. He has gone furth-
er to the right than any other
Caadian Prime Minister in recent
years. Mr. Trudeau’s position on
Quebec dovetails with his aus-
terity program, his do-nothing
policies on farm problems, his
refusal to take meaningful steps
to deal with regional disparity,
poverty, and the developing
crises in every aspect of life in
our ‘country.

In this he was backed by
Montreal’s Mayor Drapeau, who
said that the investigation into
the CYC involves developing a
royal commission of enquiry in
all of Canada. Mr. Trudeau’s per-
sonal friend, Jean Marchand,
publicly charges that the Quebec
civil service is riddled with sep-
aratists—and so the dogs are
unleashed and the witch hunt is
under way.

And CBC’s. George Davidson,
bowing to the threat from Tru-
deau, announced that a witch
hunt would begin inside the CBC
in Quebec.

Prime Minister Trudeau also
let loose a broadside, at the Ber-
trand government, which he
blamed for permitting an atmo-
sphere of violence and terror to
develop. He summed. up the na-
tional aspirations of the people
of Quebec by calling them only
a small band of terrorists.

He advised English-speaking
residents of Quebec to fight.

Don’t let anyone push you :

around , he said. Being a minor-
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