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Increased danger of war

Reject new NATO charter

TORONTO—Communist Party
leader William Kashton, on June
13, urged Prime Minister Tru-
. Geau not to support the pro-
posed Atlantic Charter the U.S.
Government has submitted to
the NATO Ministerial Confer-
ence taking place in Ottawa
June: 18-19.

In a letter to Mr. Trudeau,
and copies to the leaders of the
Parliamentary opposition par-
ties, the Communist Pa rty
leader (who is a federal candi-
date in Trinity riding in
Toronto), charged that the new
nuclear strategy proposed in
conjunction with the Charter,
based on acceptance of nuclear
weapons, instead of nuclear dis-
armament based on equality of
security, leads not to disarma-
ment but to a greater danger of
nuclear war. :

The complete text of Mr.
Kashtan’s letter follows:

The press reports that the
NATO Ministerial Conference
being held in Ottawa, June 18

LABOR SCENE

BY BRUCE MAGNUSON

What we need is a recession.
That is the only solution. We
‘have got to have a recession,
and it has to be deep enough
and long enough . . . The only
way this is going to be solved
‘is for enough people to get
hurt.”

The above statement was
quoted. May 29, 1974, in the U.S.
Daily World, in its column
World of Labor, by George Mor-
ris. The author of this brutal
statement is one Arthur E. Sind-
linger, founder of Sindlinger’s
Consumer Service, pollsters and
economic analysts. Sindlinger
has been an advisor to corpora-
tions and to the U.S. government
since Hoover days.

The quotation above contains
the substance of an interview
this man gave to Robert J. Dono-
van, associate editor of the Los
Angeles Times and published by
that paper last May 1.

According to Sindlinger, reces-
sions every three or four years
are not deep enough and long
enough to get the old capitalist
“supply and demand” machinery
working. What we need, he ar-
gues, is a recession that will hurt
the consumer so severely, by
siphoning off buyer power, as
to make inflation give away to
a “surplus.”

Like the ’30s

Unemployment of about five
million in the U.S. isn’t enough.
We have about that many out
even in “good times” notes
Sindlinger. We “need” a few
more million, on top of the 14
million on welfare rolls, and then
the “consumer” will contro] the
economy by reduced spending.
In the mind of this apologist for
U.S. capitalist greed, the only
hope is in a recession at least
as deep as the one of the 1930's.

This is how moribund state
monopoly capitalism looks back-
ward. Since this dying system

_has no future it is prepared to
commit the most horrendous
crimes against the people before
an angry citizenry arises to put
an end to its robbery, wars and
depredations.

‘What is conveniently omitted

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—-FRIDAY, JUNE 21, 1974—PAGE 8

will adopt an Atlantic Charter
and will also concur in a “new
flexible nuclear strategy.” This
new strategy seems directed to
the acceptance of the use. of
nuclear weapons for purposes of
attack, and veers away from
what is essential, nuclear dis-
armament based on equality of
security for all countries with-
out exception. Bearing in mind
President Nixon’s- provocative
world-wide alert during the
height of the Middle East crisis,
it requires no stretch of the
imagination to see that such a
policy, rather than leading: to
disarmament, will open the
doors wide to anew armaments
race and bring on a greater
danger of nuclear war.

This is a dangerous course to
which Canada should not be a
party. What is most urgent now
is that your Government not
commit Canada to a set of pol-
icies which leads to a deeper
involvement of Canada in’ the
NATO alliance and to further

integration in the U.S. military
machine. It is no secret that the
Atlantic Charter which is to
include Japan, is aimed at sub-
ordinating other countries to the
economic interests of U.S. im-
perialism. This would go in an
opposite direction to what the
majority of Canadians would
like to see—a greater measure
of freedom for Canada to deter-
mine economic policy, foreign
policy and its relationship to
NATO.

In our view the best course
for Canada would be advocacy
of policies leading to the disso-
lution of the NATO and Warsaw
military blocs, ‘combined with
effective measures leading to
nuclear disarmament based on
equality of security. Such meas-
urés would-create the necessary
conditions to move over from
détente to military détente and
would correspond with the vital
interests of the Canadian people.

I urge you give this your
careful consideration.

Capitalism charts
dangerous course

by the economists and_politi-
cians of the Right, is the fact
that in state-monopoly capitalist
society today recessions develop
simultaneously with “double-
digit-inflation.” In other words,
the old “supply and demand”
principle of pre-monopoly capi-
talism isn’t working anymore.
George Morris in the above men-
tioned column points out the
reasons why:

“First, monopolies are so
much stronger and more wide-
spread that they can force
higher prices arbitrarily notwith-
standing recession conditions.
(Inflation and unemployment
grow and feed upon each other).

“Second,..the immense expen-
ditures for military, (purposes),
affecting every industry, - force
tremendous upward price pres-
sure generally.

“Third, the scarcity of food
in much of the world is a force
for price increases and makes
export of food products prefer-
able to the profiteers (in an
archaic society geared to private
profit rather than to people
needs).

“Fourth, banking capital has
increased its dictation over
industry in the form of high
interest rates, currently nearly
12%, and this is another major
influence on prices. '

“Fifth, colossal military . ex-
penditures and other rising
costs of capitalist governments
are forcing ever higher taxation,
with the chief burden on the
common people.”

* * 2

In the current election cam-
paign in Canada, Tory leader
Stanfield has gathered about him
those sections of the monopoly
capitalist interests who advocate
a prices and incomes policy such
as practiced by British and U.S.
rightwing politicians. The
essence of this policy is wage
and price controls, which means
freezing of wages while paying
lip service to price controls.

The Tory Toronto Star is par-
ticularlv aggressive in advocat-
ing such a policy. Its June 15,

1974 edition is most insidious
in its attack on wages as the
alleged root of inflation. It por-
trays a sign on a Toronto down-
town street with the inscription
“Dishwasher wanted — $20 per
hour,” inferring, of course that
if inflation continues to grow
this may well come to pass.

But one may ask, why not
“Gasoline at $2 per gallon”? The
present reality of oil company-
government collusion to rob
Canadian gasoline and fuel oil
consumers of billions of dollars
through completely unjustifiable
price increases are passed over
without a mention. So is the
fantastic monopoly profiteering
in other areas such as after-tax
profits of Canadian corporations
in the first quarter of 1974 over
that of 1973; base metals 89%;
chemicals 91%; merchandising
101%; gold 125%; real estate
153%; construction and ma-
terials 248%; transportation
325%; etc. etc—see Toronto
Globe and Mail, Sat. June 15,
1974, .

Strengthen Left

Administrative measures reg-
ulating wages and prices are
meant to place the whole burden
of inflation on the backs of the
workers, farmers, small business
and professional people. No such
measures will solve inflation,
which is caused by monopoly
control of both the economy and
capitalist. governments.

What is needed now is a roll
back of prices; steps to control
profits, interest and rents; more
Public ownership and demo-
cratic control to curb monopoly
control of the Canadian
economy,

The way to open the door for
such a development and, to pre-
vent a “big bang” recession, is
to work to Strengthen the
forces of the left and defeat the
right wing politicians next July
8. This means to vote Commun-
ist wherever you can, elect a
large progressive bloc to the
new Parliament, and defeat the
drive to the right in Canadian
politics.

LABOR CAN REJOICE,
LOVESTONE RETIRES
WASHINGTON, D.C. — With
George*Meany’s “deep personal
Yegret,” Jay Lovestone retires,
effective June 30, from his post
as*director of the AFL-CIO In-
ternational Affairs Department.
Technically, he held that post
since 1963. Actually, he ran that
department since the merger of
1955 under one or another title,
and since the mid-thirties whe-
ther on the payroll of the Inter-

national Ladies Garment Work-

ers or the old AFL. :
For almost all of the 45 years
since he was flushed out of the
. Communist Party, © Lovestone
was building a bridge between
U.S. intelligence agencies and
the labor movement.

NEGOTIATIONS RESUME
AT UNITED AIRCRAFT

LONGUEUIL, Que. The
Quebec labor department has set
up a meeting for this week be-
tween representatives of United
Aircraft of Canada Ltd. and
striking production employees,
bringing some hope that the 514-
month dispute could move to-
wards a settlement.

Mediator Roger Pilote, who
has been unsuccessful.so far in
getting the parties to. discuss
outstanding issues, has invited
only four representatives to the
meeting.

ALBERTA LABOR
STAGES MASSIVE
GRAPE BOYCOTT

EDMONTON — The 90,000-
member Alberta Federation of
Labor (AFL) will participate in
an international boycott of Cali-
fornia grapes and lettuce on Sat-
urday, said AFL executive sec-
retary Eugene Mitchell.

AFL research officer Mike
Shields .of Edmonton said the
boycott is a token effort, unlike-
ly to have any effect_on the sale
of California produce - because
there is no practical way the

. Public can tell the controversial
products from other grapes and
lettuce in stores.

The AFL statement said “the
purpose of the boycott is to sup-
port the United Farm’ Workers

in their efforts to improve the

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