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rector, writes: Should any
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Every new sub and every
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STUDENT JOBS?

Taxpayer, Vancouver, writes:
What happened to that Socred
cabinet decision, in facta double -
barrelled decision, to supply
Phil Gaglardi with two
successive $5,000 handouts to set
up a string of offices in various
provincial centres ostensibly to

find jobs for students in the |

summer of 1969?

With Gaglardi’s elevation to
the post of Minister of
“Deadbeats’’, (his own
terminology) — in which he has
shown himself to be an ably
qualified incumbent — were
those ‘‘jobs - for - students”
offices closed, and if so, what
were the results, if any?

Also, what, if anything, is the

Bennett government and its
Minister of ‘‘Deadbeats’’ doing
on the student job problem of
1970, which has been rendered
more acute by the
Benson/Trudeau tax heist which
says in essence — more jobless
or more inflation, witha written -

in assurance of both? S

KASHTAN SAYS:

Lenin’s ideas are valid
in labor struggles today

By MABEL RICHARDS

“The workers produce wealth.
They don’t create inflation— nor
do farmers, housewives,
students and old people. The
government and monopoly
control in Canada has created
inflation’’, said William
Kashtan, national leader of the
Communist Party of Canada,
speaking to an audience of over'

200 people in the AUUC hall on |

Sunday night.

The meeting, called to mark
the Lenin Centennary being
celebrated internationally this
year, heard the national leader
analyze the forces at work in
Canada from a Marxist -
Leninist viewpoint.

Inflation is not a homemade.
- product, he pointed out. It is

imported from the United
States, a product of the Vietnam
war and monopoly control.

There is a growing sickness in
capitalism, and because of that a
stepped-up offensive on the part

~ of the monopolists. The attack is

featured by the combined efforts
of the federal government and
monopolists to resolve the

growing contradictions through’

slowing down the economy,
creating unemployment and
weakening the working class.

The result, said Kashtan, is
that today 6.5 percent of the
labor-force is unemployed, and
Trudeau is reported to have said
that he will not budge until 8
percent are unemployed. Still
prices rise, though unemploy-
ment grows in every province.

Alongside the attack on
working people’s jobs, there is a
major crisis in agriculture.
Kashtan~ reported that mass
meetings of farmers are being
held in many points on the
prairies, and they are angry. He
said the crisis is not of their
making. Like workers, they have
been told to produce, produce,
now the Trudeau policy of a
moratorium on growing wheat
will benefit only the big farmers,
while serving to force the small
farmer off the land, into the
cities to join the lines of
unemployed.

But, Kashtan said, the workers
and farmers will refuse to
accept the government - mono-
polist line that can only lead to a
major recession.
postal workers in Quebec, the
auto workers in Ontario, the
farmers on the prairies, and

unionists everywhere are
protesting the “austerity”
program.

The fight-back of the trade
unions and farmers is highly
patriotic, he said, for they refuse
to “buy” unemployment and
recession. The trade unions have
also refused to ‘‘buy”’ the Prices
and Income Commission, for
amongst other evils it means
that in essence the government
would bargain-for the workers.

There is growing realization
that our troubles stem from the
fact that our economy is tied so
closely to that of the United
States. The Communist Party
has for years led the struggle for
independence from U.S. -

~ dominated monopoly control,

and now even the NDP has been
compelled, under pressure, to
take a stand by fighting against

NATO, the Nixon resource
“sharing”? scheme, and other
phases of U.S. domination.
Because the Communist Party
bases its policies on the
teachings of Lenin, Kashtan
said, they defend the immediate
interests of the people and strive
to bring about a revolutionary
transformation of society.

‘CALL OFF TESTS’

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. — The
City’ Council here has
unanimously passed a motion to
write Prime Minister Trudeau
asking him to express Canada’s
opposition to any further tests of
atomic weapons in the Aleutian
Islands.

Port Alberni was the centre of
opposition to the last U.S. test,
and its citizens are deeply
concerned that one of these tests

_ could touch off a tidal wave such

as hit this Vancouver Island city
before resulting in a: major
disaster.

‘Lenin was a giant amongst
men in his ability to foresee
events, his participation in
events, and in so doing helped to
change the world’, the CP
leader said.

Recognition of the stature of
Lenin is demonstrated by the
fact that today millions of people
the world over are celebrating
the centennary of his birth. The
United Nations, through
UNESCO, is also honoring him

this year because of the profound.

changes: his theories and
teaching have brought about ona
world scale.

May Day issue

This year’s May Day edition
will be the issue of April 24. It
will be 12 pages in color with
many__interesting and
important features. Bundles of
this issue should be ordered
now.

Advertising and greetings
should be inthe PT office by
Friday, April 17.

MARXIST CLASSROOM

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Sat., April 11, 8:30 p.m. Hard
Times party honoring Al and
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APRIL 22 — CONCERT
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YEARS of LENIN’S BIRTH
will be held on WEDNESDAY
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PEOPLE’S HOME - 600
Campbell Ave. Guest speak-
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Special displays of Lenin’s
Works in Russian & English.
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ANNIVERSARY of LENIN’S

_ BIRTH at a Gala BANQUET
and dance to be held SAT.
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