| the 10 provinces will be meet-| ing in Ottawa with the gov- 6€rnment of Canada to discuss the terms of a new federal- ) Provincial financial agreement | to replace the one which ex- 1 Pires in 1962. FEDERAL - PROVINCIAL CONFERENCE ~ By NELSON CLARKE sie This month the premiers of| land, homes and buildings. They cannot continue to do | SO. | * % * The whole problem is fur- by the fact that the big corpor- |ations of this country mostly Collusion charged | ther deepened and complicated | by lronworkers Canadian Ironworkers’ Local The issues at stake are of| have their head offices in two| No. 1 has applied to the B.C. Ontario Vital concern to the: Canadian People. This article is intend- tion which it is hoped will be Useful to readers of the Pacific Tribune in following these de- j, opments and in taking part a i the much needed pressure © shape them in the interests of the people, * ~ *& * ace problem of federal-pro- See financial relations is €cades old in this country. In the first place it stems q eo the divisions of powers J “tablished in the British ae America Act which set the Canadian confedera- “nh, and in effect the constitu- ton of Canada. paneer the BNA Act, the fed- . §0vernment has wide tax- § Powers. Not only ‘does it ave full control of customs hist’ but it can impose vir- aed any kind of taxation it a 8, including such indirect S as the “hidden” federal Sales tax. Pas Provinces are restricted A rect taxation, that is, taxes fear everyone is perfectly : 2 they are paying, such as “ales tax which is collected Te = Store on top of the pur- taxati price on. the article, ©N on land and buildings, o SO on. nae, Provinces also have the to levy taxes on incomes 2 th fee orations, but because ik pre government has A tietg ‘ga so heavily in this d Qebe € provinces (outside of ©) no longer impose such tt taxe S é! : Oe RR > ET. te D tig * *® p . Al acy the other hand, the BNA onsinnn® the provinces re- 4 Beat ¢ for many things of of 4, Portance to the lives J Catig, People — health, edu- , Vhs.” all kinds of social ser- fl the = Tesult has been that as JI tieg © as well as the justi- Sen, aoe demand for that f Proyi ng, has increased, the | dep UceS have had to shoul- J he increasing expendi- 4 tion wVithout having the tax- ) Ses to carry them. ) poe, tly hard hit in this They are the municipalities. Pitigs -° Created by the pro- tax p., and have no powers to the ®YOnd those possessed by : Province, the ere in recent years Pay Uncipalities have had to Pending” Greatly increased €d to provide some informa- | provinces — and Quebec. NELSON CLARKE Editor, Canadian Tribune The owners of these big corporations — the big shots of Canada — also mostly have their places of residence in these two provinces. The consequence is that the other eight provinces cannot impose effective taxation on these corporations and indiv- iduals, even though a good part of their wealth is drawn from the exploitation of people and resources in these other pro- vinces. This is a very convenient set up for the big monopolies, and the only way to really get at them is action by the federal government to impose on them the kind of income and corpor- ation taxes they can well af- ford to pay. The further point needs to be made that the monopolies have up to this time had gov- ernments in Ontario and Que- bec which have made good and. sure that their interests are protected. The people of these pro- vinces do not benefit to any significant degree from the great concentrations of wealth on Montreal’s St. James Street, and Toronto’s Bay Street. Finally, and of first rate im- portance, no discussion of gov- ernment financing in Canada is complete without drawing attention to the central prob- lem of so called “defence” spending by the federal gov- ernment which has been run- ning at the rate of $1.5 fo $2 billion per year for more than a decade. This has robbed the Cana- dian people of vast sums of money which could have been used to provide for the ade- quate education of all our young »people, to combat dis- ease, to build new homes, and meet many another urgent dug i ©n such things as N, out of direct taxes need. Labor Relations Board for de- certification of Local 97 Inter- national Ironworkers for Do- minion Bridge and other firms | B.C. Beef Cattle Growers that | | between 1949 and 1958 the on the grounds that Local 97 is influenced by the employers and therefore does not consti- tute a union under the mean- ing of the act. At the same time they have applied for certification of three other firms. The applica- tions are awaiting hearing be- fore the board. Loeal No. 1 charged collu- sion between the companies and the International and pro- duced a letter from Local 97 to back up the charge. The let- ter asked the companies to hire only members of Local 97 pointing out the “friendly rela- tions’ ‘existing between that local and the companies. Meanwhile Norm Eddison. Business Agent of Local No. 1 has left for the prairie prov- inces to tour the locals of the ironworkers there and _ ac- quaint them with the situation in: Bcy CIVIC WORKERS Continued from page 1 vastating facts on the destruc- tive capacity of nuclear weap- BEEF PRODUCERS GET LESS: It was pointed out at the last annual convention of the producers share of the — retail price of beef had fallen 14.6% and has fallen still further since then. It was also shown that the price paid to the beef producer on January 1, 1958 was exact- ly the same as it had been 10 years previously, whereas the consumer price of sirloin steak, for example, went up 6$%: 70% of total slaughterings are handled by Canada Pack- ers, Swifts and Burns. CFA OPPOSES INCREASE IN FERTILIZER PRICE The Canadian Federation of Agriculture is fighting a move by Canadian chemical com- panies to increase tariffs on fertilizers, pesticides and in- secticides. The effect of an in- crease in import duties would be higher prices charged to farmers and still higher profits to chemical companies. & The following are extracts from an article in the June 1960 issue of World Marxist Review by John Hellman en- titled “U.S. Farmers: Their ons Gov. Meyner states “That is why I say we are fostering a cruel decpetion on the Amer- ican people if we try to per- suade them that they can have civilian defence through un- derground shelters in the next war.” “We ought to be forging links. with other peoples in- stead of forging iron doors to deep cellars. Our ties to other peoples—the goodwill we can earn — the support we can justify. for world leadership— these will contribute far more to our safety and peace of mind than the holes we can jump into wlien it’s too late” An appeal accompanys the ad under the signatures of Bruce Mackinnon Pres., Don Guise Bus. Agent and Jack Phillips Sec’y of the Civic Em- ployees Union. The appeal asks those who agree with the sen- timents of the message in the ad to clip it out and mail it to your city council, mayor or reeve. The Pacific Tribune urges its readers to follow the recom- mendations of the Civic Work- ers Union and also to ask your work-mates and friends to do likewise. Problems, Life and Struggle” (which we recommend to our readers). “The Communist Party de- mands that price supports pro- tect for each farmer only that amount of production which is necessary to sustain a family farmer.” “While fighting to preserve the small farmer the Commun- ist Party explains the econom- ic laws of capitalism which cause the steady elimination of small producers, and points the way to socialism as the. only solution to the capitalist agricultural crisis. The Party exposes the monopolies as the chief enemy of the working farmer. It challenges the re- formist illusions that a way can Two-faced Tories would bring nuclear arms in back door ) The Diefenbaker govern« ment is in a dilemna in try- ing to find a formula to bring about Canadian membership in the “nuclear ~ club” -over~ the The prime minister admitted as much when he announced in the House of Commons July 4 that, after 18 months of nex gotiations, Canada and the U-S. have not been able to reach jan agreement on how U.S.-con< | trolled nuclear arms are to be | introduced into the Canadian |army ana stored at Bomare bases on Canadian soil. The Bomarc project, which will initially cost the Canadian taxpayers $545 million, is part of a program which is sup- posed to ensure us defence in the nuclear age. On Feb. 20, 1959 the prime minister told the House “the full potential of these defensive weapons is achieved only when they are armed with nuclear warheads.” In the light of this state< ment it doesn’t make sense for the prime minister, because of public opposition, to now pres tend that the government is still uncommitted to the US. as to where it stands in the nuclear arms race. In fact, it points up instead the government’s attempt to mislead the people as to how subservient to the aggressive military plans of the U-S. it has really become. The extent of Canadian in- volvement with U.S. nuclear war plans was’ underlined June 30 in a report tabled in the House of Commons by the external affairs department that discussion on the diplo- matic level had commenced on the storing of nuclear war- heads at the U.S.-leased bases at Stephenville and Goose Bay, Newfoundland. be found to return to the pre- monopoly relations when small farmers predominated.’ the Soviet Union -will surpass the U:S.A..in per capita farm= ing output. ‘This applies first of all to food products. Last year the USSR already har- vested almost twice as much wheat as the U.S.A. Male 2 “Alright, I know I said free style!” July 15, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7 opposition of public opinion. & “In the course of its current seven-year plan . (1958-1965) ..