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all this by instituting a capital gains
tax, increased corporation taxes and
a 50% cut in arms spending. Adopt
the main recommendations of the
Carter Commission. Expanding
prosperity and not expanding
austerity is the demand of the
Canadian people.”

The 5% surtax levelled against
those who pay $100 in income tax will
net the government an additional
$138 million. There is a $600
maximum on the payment of the
surtax, which means that all those in
the higher income brackets are
getting a special exemption. This
exemption for the rich will amount
to a saving of about $4.3 million.

An example of the favoritism
shown the wealthy in the new budget
is seen by the following fact: If only
one recommendation of the Carter
Commission had been acted on, that
is to increase corporation taxes on
mining companies, this alone would
have netted $134 million and would
have made the 5% surtax on lower
income groups unnecessary.

Since 80% of the mining
corporations are ‘‘non-resident’’,
mainly U.S., this would have
produced more revenues from
foreign monopolies exploiting
Canadian resources. This the
Federal government refused to do
and chose instead to put the load on
the backs of Canada’s poor.

The Ass’n of United Ukrainian Canadians
Presents

CENTENNIAL CHRISTMAS CONCERT
SUNDAY — DEC. 17th — 8:30 P.M.
QUEEN ELIZABETH PLAYHOUSE

Colourful Dances, Music & Songs

Adults — $2. Students — $1. Tickets
available at: Co-op Books — 341 W. Pender —
MU 5-5836 or AUUC Hall — 805 E. Pender St.
254-3436

«iain tae .
DECEMBER’, 1967—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 12

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LABOR SCENE:

VLC brand Sharp budgel
as ‘payoff’ to monopoly

Strong condemnation was voiced
at this week’ session of the
Vancouver and District Labor
Council of Finance Minister Mitchell
Sharp’s mini-budget tabled in
Commons last week.

Described by delegates as “‘a
reactionary retrogressive measure’
directly primarily against labor and
the people in low and medium
income brackets, the Sharp mini-
budget arrogantly brushed aside all
recommendations on a revised
taxation structure embodied in the
Carter Commission report.
Delegates termed it a government
‘“payoff’’ to the big monopolies. and
brings ‘‘additional despiar to the
under-privileged’’.

“It is imperative,’ stated Ray
Haynes, secretary-treasurer of the
B.C. Federation of Labor, -‘‘that
organized labor take up the cudgels
to assure that the Carter Report will
not be buried. The Sharp budget robs
the poor and give it to the rich, it is
aimed primarily at working people
and as such must be resisted with all
the strength labor can muster’’.
Haynes reported that the BCFL has
invited Carter to come to Vancouver
and if this is possible the BCFL will
stage a big conference of labor to
hear this noted authority on tax
structure. :

The VLC approved a strong wire of
protest to Mitchell Sharp on his mini-
budget and his government’s
deliberate ignoring of the Carter
Commission recommendations.
Delegates who took part in the
discussion emphasize that there was
“not one cent of tax increase on the
rich’? in Sharp’s budget; all the
millions he planned to extract would
“come out of the hides of the poor.”

IWA delegate Sid Thompson called
for a gigantic mobilization of labor’s
forces to reverse government fiscal
policies. ‘In this fight against
government tax extortion the labor
movement has got to be the driving
force,’’ said Thompson.

The IWA delegate predicted, as
evidenced by the Sharp mini-budget
and the federal government's total
ignoring’ of the principles of the
Carter report, that ‘‘we are in for a
period of warfare between ourselves
and those who are running the
economy of this country to get a fair
share of the wealth we produce.
These government policies have
deep implications, not only for the
immediate future, but for years to
come. They are disastrous for the
working people’.

Delegate W. Stewart (Marine
Workers) cited some startling facts
and figures relative to government
policies with regard to shipbuilding
and the export of raw resources.
Stewart cited the example of Japan
to illustrate Canadian government
policies. :

FORMER U.S.
OFFICIAL SPEAKS
AGAINST WAR

Donald Luce, a former director of
the U.S. International Voluntary
Services in Saigon, who resigned
recently in protest against the U-S.
war in Vietnam will speak in
Vancouver this Sunday, Dec. 10 at 8
p.m. in the Unitarian Church, 49th

“and Oak.

A previous supporter of the war,
Luce became convinced of the
futility and inhumanity of the war.
He is now touring North America
under the auspices of the Friends
Services Committee. His Vancouver
meeting is sponsored by a number of

peace groups.

“The bulk of our iron ore and
coking coal are exported to Japan.
Governments in Ottawa and Victoria
provide every facility, at the
taxpayer’s expense to make - this
export profitable to American
monopoly and its Canadian
subsidiaries. Canada has no
Merchant Marine of its own, and so
far government policy is to resist
building one, either to provide jobs
for Canadian ship builders or
Canadian seamen.

“But the CPR of Bermuda Ltd.
places large orders for giant tankers
and bulk carriers, to be built in
Japan, manned by Japanese seamen,
to carry away our iron ore, coal and
other resources for Japanese
industry, then sell it back to us in
manufactured form.

_ “None of these ships are built in
Canada. Not one flies the Canadian
flag. None employ Canadian seamen.
All carry Canadian raw materials
for the. benefit of foreign
manufacturing industries. And. the
profits from all this for all practical
purposes go tax free; go into the
maw of the biggest monopoly

corporation in Canada — the CPR of .

Bermuda.

“Sharp’s budget doesn’t get one
cent from powerful monopolies like
the CPR which manage to exploit
Canada to the limit from the vantage
position of an absentee owner,”
Stewart declared.

*x***

The B.C. Federation of Labor has
declared all products of Canada Rice
Mills and Martin and Robertson ‘‘hot
products’’. Since October 30
approximately 100 employees of
these plants, members of the Retail,
Wholesale and Department Store
Union have been on strike for modest
wage increases.

In an attempt to break the strike

these companies are now bringing in*

their rice supplied from the

* depressed wage areas of Arkansas,

U.S. The struck companies are
printing their containers in

Vancouver and shipping these t the
U.S. for packaging. The VLC 4
BCFL have pledged full support
the Canada Rice Mills strikers.

** *

Ona complaint filed by MacMillan
Bloedel (Alberni) Ltd., to the babe
Relations Board charging an ineg@l
work stoppage by 22 buckers 4%
fallers at Sproat Lake, and a sim
stoppage at Franklin River
involving approximately 48 fallers,4
hearing has been ordered by the Li
to be held December 1
Vancouver. Those members
Local 1-85 involved in the dispute 2”
charged under Sect. 5 (2) of ‘
Labor Relations Act.

Cause of the work stoppage at
Sproat Lake and Franklin Ri :
according to the M & B complain
filed with the LRB, was that Spr
Lake ‘‘fallers and buckers would 1°
go to work until the company prouell
back two fallers on laye
Apparently company refusal
comply with the workers’ Ted wrt
precipitated the alleged illegal ¥
stoppage in both Sproat Lake
Franklin River.

The real issue according to an
men on the job, is that senior a
are being laid off, and being reP™
by new fallers and buckers now ae
the job for the gypo lobna ea
normally done by the se? Ol
Following a work stopP@
approximately one week.

The Order sought by MacMil z
Bloedel from the LRB ae
“certain members” of IwA Loca.
85 stipulated in part that fi \
said members of IWA Loca re
their agents and the employees” ri)
said MacMillan-Bloedel ee
Sproat Lake Division and FF “ti8
River Divsion, to cease supp? int
encouraging, condoning, OF a dO
in activities that are intent aor
restrict or limit produc will®
services of the sai Mac
Bloedel...”’. :

Smells like an injunction.

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Dow products

The Committee Against Canadian Production for U.
spearheading the campaign, announced there will be m
this weekend. Safeway Store at Ist & Commercial will
Friday, Dec. 8, from 7 to 9 p.m. and again on Saturday, ee

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Pickets at the Kamloops and Hastings St. Sa ove
Vancouver last Friday forced the store manager to tf

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About 35 pickets walked in the rain for an hour carrying placate
handing out leaflets to the public explaining the reason for
line. Many customers, seeing the picket and having the iss
walked away and refused to enter the store.

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he manaser

A delegation of four went into the store and spoke to t d that
indicated he would comply with the delegation’s demands an
products would remain off his shelves. ;

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