Monopoly the enemy
says Communist Party

The enemy is monopoly! That was the title of the Labor
Day message issued by the Central Executive Committee of
the Communist Party of Canada last week. Text of the mess-
age reads:

Among the most urgent problems facing the trade unions on
this Labor Day, 1973, are:

@ United action to fight monopoly and state power robbing
the working people.

e A struggle to increase wages and social security pay-
ments.

@ Action to force a roll-back of prices and monopoly profits.

e A new direction of state policy to curb monopoly domina-
tion.

Monopolization of our economic life byasmall number of
greedy, rich and powerful men, equals monopoly profit-
eering at the expense of the working people. It finds expres-
sion inunemployment, rising prices, inflationand reduced
buying power of wages. It means bitter struggle for bare sur-
vival by people who work for a living, and those on fixed
incomes.

But for the corporate elite, which dominates government
policies in Canada today, inflation means accumulation of
fabulous wealth. The State has become an instrument which
organizes the monopoly drive formaximum profits. Itdoes
this by the placing of the heaviest tax load on the backs of the
working people, while passing onhuge sums toenrich the larg-
est corporations.

The only way to combat this is to extend and support the
growing movement for more wages, a fair return for
farmers, and to combat and roll back prices, rents, interest,
profits and taxes.

The Trudeau minority government can be forced tomake
such concessions at the expense of monopoly profits. But
this calls for both parliamentary and extra-parliamentary
pressure. It requires the mobilization and action by ever
growing numbers of Canadians, directed towards imple-
mentation of policies that will benefit the people and curb
monopoly profiteers.

Monopoly control of governments is a danger to democ-
racy. Itcreates inevitable pressures for encroachmentson
our fundamental rights and liberties, such as Bill 89in Que-
bec and the Canada-wide propaganda against the right to
strike in public services as the thin edge of the wedge to des-
troy this fundamental right of working people whichis indivis-
able.

Monopoly control means increasing reliance by the state on
military and police power. Increasing armaments is a
threat to world peace. It is the growing power of socialism
in the world which has opened the way for world peace and
disarmament, based on a policy of peaceful coexistence.

On this Labor Day it is important that the united voice of
Canadian labor is heard loud and clear in the fight for peace.
Demand that Canada pursue a foreign policy of peace and
peaceful coexistence, promoting detente instead of cold war
tensions, reducing armaments and helping to extinguish
remaining hotbeds of war in the world.

Finally, working people united around an anti-monopoly pro-
gram must takesteps to prepare now for the next federal elec-
tion, regardless of when such an election may be called
Working people need to put forward candidates they can
trust, people willing and able to help set Canada ontheroad
towards long overdue fundamental social change, towards the
socialist goal.

Acurb on monopoly profiteering! Fullemployment without
inflation! A greater share of the national income to labor and
people of low and moderate fixed incomes!

A policy of peace, independence and democratic progress!

Visitors to Seattle saw this billboard on the highway protesting Saigon’s political prisoners. The sign is spo™

sored by the Seattle Religious Peace Action Coalition.

PRICES

Cont'd. from pg. 1
months rose 228.6 percent over
the same period in 1972!

Is any further proof needed to
show that it’s the giant cor

.porations who are responsible

for runaway prices? But the Lib-
eral government, friend of the
giant corporations, refuses to
take the only action that can
bring the cost of living under
control: that is effective action
to roll-back high prices, curbing
the big monopolies, and revamp-
ing the Prices Review Board as
an effective instrument to
protect the public from gouging
corporations.

The public should continue to
press the Trudeau government,
while Parliamentisinsession,
to demand meaningful action
— not stop-gap measures — to
protect the people’s welfare.

Five B.C. pages

in next issue

The editorial staff of the Paci-
fic Tribune wishes to apolo-
gize to its readers for not hav-
ing five B.C. pagesin thisissue
as was announced last week.

Because of the short week
after the Labor Day holiday
and continuing staff holidays
five pages were not possible.

Next week’s issue will carry
five pages according to the
projected coverage from Sep-
tember to December as well
as further details on the
circulation drive which will
open with that issue.

Teamsters campaign

cont'd. from pg. 1

you are only a pawn ina jurisdic-
tional dispute between the
Teamsters and the United
Farm Workers Union.”’
Elsewhere in the folder, which
was sent out by Jim Hansen,
Director of Public Information
for the Western Conference of
Teamsters, is a comparison be-
tween contracts won by the

. UF WU and those supposedly

“negotiated” by the Team

Sters.

The comparison is intended to .

demonstrate the superior wages
and conditions contained inthe
Teamster agreements, but the
comparison speaks more elo-
quently by its omissions than
by its contents.

Nowhere does the Teamsters
Union point out that one minute
after the UF WU contracts with
the growers expired, new con-
tracts were signed — by the
Teamsters — without any nego-
tiation involving the. farm
workers themselves and with-
out any consultation with the
farm workers. In short, they
were sweetheart agreements
signed and sealed with the
growers’ blessing.

Nowhere does it point out that
the “‘patrone’’ system will re-
turn— by which farm labor is re-
cruited through slavemaster -
type labor contractors, be-
cause the Teamsters have
abolished the hiring hall right
which the UF WU only wrested
from the growers after a long
struggle.

Nowhere does it say that the
Teamsters have recruited child

labor in order to break the grape
strike bythe UF WU. Atleast 13
cases of child labor have re-
portedly been brought before
the U.S. courts, all of them
involving growers whose work-
ers were supposedly repre-
sented by the Teamsters.

Nowhere does it point out that
hundreds of rank - and - file
Teamsters havedemonstrated
against their union raiding the
UF WU in the fields.

And nowhere does it point out
that Teamster goons have
stalked the grape fields to inti-
midate the strikers and pro-
voke violence — which has re-
sulted in the deaths of two
UFWU members.

And nothing is said of the
alleged links between the Fitz-
simmons and the Nixon adminis-
tration, which has stood by
while laborers were being smug-
gled illegally across the Mexi-
can border to work in the struck
fields.

Underlying the campaign is
the racism of the Teamster
leadership which was betrayed

by Western Conference direc-\

tor Einar Mohn when he said of
Chicana workers ‘‘ .... these
Mexicans can’trun their meet-
ings ...;’’ the corruption and
class - collaboration of Fitzsim-
mons and others who sit to-
gether in $100 a plate dinners
with leaders in the Nixon
administration.

It will be largely up to B.C.
trade unionists and consumers
to defeat the growers’ plot en-

 tirely.

STRIKEBREAKING

cont'd. from pg. 1

Canadian public loses and
rnonoply gains.” :

The Communist Party called
on the Canadian Labor Congress:
all unions and all democrati¢
forces in Canada to declare thell
complete support of the ral
workers. ;

Elsewhereinthe labor counell
meeting, delegates moved 1
invite a speaker from the
Montreal labor council to address
some future meeting and
reciprocate witha speaker from
Vancouver.

The motion was in response?
a letter from B.C. Federation
Labor secretary Ray Haynes
which stated that Louis Labers®
would not be invited to the B-U
Federation convention aS tHe
labor council had requested as H€
had addressed a convention @
few years before. :

In presenting the motiom
Laborers delegate Charlie Shane
argued that Laberge had 1?
addressed a convention
many years and that a fellow
trade unionist from’ Frenc®
Canada would be a welco '
speaker in view of the turmoil?
events surrounding the passag
of the War Measures Act and ‘
recent public service strike th?
resulted in the imprisonme?
Laberge, Charbonneau 4
Pepin.

Council president sit ‘
Thompson, in reporting 08 ti
continuing dispute at Red Ba
and Huntting-Merritt shing
mills, stated that ‘‘our worké
in that mill have instructed US
present, at the first opportuni:
our position on provincial 1ab?
legislation. We are not satis’
with the governments §
ness in moving. Every time 1a"
end up in court, it is under lee),
tionenacted by Social Credit

Thompson indicated that!
shingle workers would one
their position known t0 xt
government possibly at the 9°
provincial NDP convention. te

Referring to the latest $"j
ments of earnings announce ;
MacMillan-Bloedel, Thomps
said that ‘‘not only our worn
but the public at large SMO,
have a fair share of the mace en
profits MacMillan-Bloedé
raking in.” 102

Delegates also gave assent the
motion presented PY joy
executive calling on the a
council together with the?’ 4
councils of the NDP
Committee of Progrés
Electors to convene
conference in order tolau? ard
public campaign for a full
system for Vancouver.

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