ere Wie Hickle Plan fits sell-out pattern “Prime Minister Trudeau’s statement that the Government is not negotiating with the Unit- ed States on the sale of Cana- dian waters evades the basic issue before the Canadian people — the policy of continentalism pursued by the Government,” declares a statement issued by the C.C. of the Communist Par- ty of Canada. “The Hickle Plan proposes to integrate Canada’s energy re- sources with those of the U.S.A. It is a carrot-and-stick proposal. Give us your water, it says, and we will give you a larger mark- et for oil. If this plan were adopted it would, in the name of continentalism, hand over con- trol and ownership of Canada’s irreplaceable energy resources to U.S. monopoly. The net effect of such policies would be to seri- ously undermine independent economic development and ex- pansion in Canada. “The Hickle Plan was made possible because of the policy of continentalism pursued by the Trudeau Government and by its negotiations with the U.S.A. on resource energy in which it took the initiative. It spreads the il- lusion that continentalism could be carried out on the basis of a partnership of equals. In prac- tice, however, the policy of con- tinentalism has resulted and will continue to result in undermin- ing Canadian independence and sovereignty and stultifying Can- adian development. “Continentalism is a disas- trous course and is on a par with Prime Minister Trudeau’s austerity program. Both - slow _ down growth and expansion. “The Hickle Plan, which is just one aspect of the mounting pressures of U.S. imperialism on Canada, should serve as a warn- ing signal for the Canadian peo- ple. Canada cannot afford an- other Columbia River sell-out. Canada’s resource energy should be geared to independent eco- nomic development and expan- sion, the development of secon- dary industry and the expansion = se PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JANUARY 30, 1970—Page 4 of job opportunities for a grow- ing labor force. “To achieve these objectives, in fact to guarantee them, re- quires public ownership and con- trol of these energy resources. It is this the Canadian people should call upon Parliament to undertake. What the Canadian people need are not policies of integration with the U.S.A. but development based on_ public policies of independent economic ownership and control and an independent foreign policy.” Native peoples racism victims Failure to combat discrimina- tory practices could bankrupt modern society, Donald Mac- Donald, Ottawa, president of the Canadian Labor Congress, said in Montreal at a dinner given by the Jewish Labor Committee at which he received the commit- tee’s award as “Defender of Human Rights, 1970.” Mr. Mac- Donald said discrimination con- tinued to be practiced in many forms. He referred particularly to the treatment of Indians and Eskimos and the failure to cope with poverty. Great progress had been made in combatting discrimination, Mr. MacDonald said, and legis- lation had proved of great value, even though it was not a com- plete answer. However, discrimi- natory treatment of Indians still continued. “We have created conditions in which both Indians and Eski- mos are denied the type of life their ancestors followed, and at the same time we have barred them from our society,” Mr. MacDonald said. ‘Indian chil- dren are often left lacking the most elementary education, which we consider so important for our own children.” Despite the unprecedented availability of goods and servic- es little was being done to com- bat poverty, he declared. By BERT WHYTE Full employment, higher wages, better living conditions — ‘this is the story behind the figures released by the Central Board of Statistics of the U.S.S.R. The report, dealing with the fourth year of the 1966-1970 Five-Year Plan, noted that last year 110 million tons of steel, 328 million tons of oil and 608 million tons of coal were pro- duced in the Soviet Union. There was a big jump in production of household goods, notably tele- vision sets, refrigerators and washing machines. The Board noted that “unfav- orable weather conditions and natural disasters in some areas of the country adversely affected the operation of industrial enter- prises and agriculture.” Despite certain setbacks the national income increased by 6 percent last year as compared with the preceeding year. While the results of the four years that have passed show that the targets of the current Five- Year Plan will be reached, there is nevertheless a lagging behind in the rate of development of a number of industries says a leading article in Pravda. “Communist construction in our country is going on in a complex international situation. Some of the difficulties are of an objective nature. Certain causes of our difficulties are connected actually with the fact that we have entered such a stage of de- velopment which does not allow us to work by old methods. It requires new techniques and new solutions.” Pravda stresses a need to ac- celerate in every way progress in science and technology, to perfect the management of the national economy. A high degree of organization and strict disci- pline are essential. The article said that the recent Plenary Meeting of the CPSU Central Committee, also pointed to such shortcomings as the loss of the sense of responsibility by some employees, to the facts of carelessness, of violation of dis- cipline manifested, above all, in the light-minded attitude to- wards the implementation of state plans. “The Plenary Meeting like- wise criticized shortcomings in the development of agriculture and first of all animal husbandry. Konstantin Simonoy, the well- known Soviet writer, in an ar- ticle in Pravda describes the im- pressions of his recent trip to the United States where he was previously nine years ago. “In the complex of relations among the peoples today an im- portant place belongs, undoubt- ‘edly, to Soviet-American rela- tions,” Simonov writes. He thinks it possible that. un- der certain circumstances the aggressive forces of imperialism may unleash a war between the United States and the U.S.S.R. “On the one hand, one doesn’t even want to think of such things, but, on the other, it is precisely the thoughts of a pos- sibility of such calamities that gave rise to mutual efforts which culminated in the signing of a treaty on the non-proliferation of AAA A SULTUNUEUACEODUAUANEUAUOUOUGULECCUUOCEOSUDOUOUQOUUACLDOGUCOCUUUCEEUEDSCCOTEOECHO Fai DINIGRH RE RUTLEAANANRIRS Productivity must rise Fight for Five-Year Plan TEDEUULUEUEERETROGHCUOGUOEUUGGEOOEE MC A number of Republics and re- gions of the country with no reason reduced the numbers of cattle and fowl, the production of meat, milk and eggs, which led to difficulties in the provision of the population with animal products, especially in large in- dustrial centres. This requires serious measures to correct the situation in livestock breeding.” The Pravda article concluded by emphasizing that ‘“‘we have all the conditions to successfully implement the plan of 1970”. Indications point to the early introduction of new regulations in the Soviet Union designed to increase labor productivity. Numerous articles in the press deal with questions of absentee- ism due to heavy drinking, “‘id- ling and shirking,” and fluctua- tion of manpower. The inescapable conclusion is that new regulations will tighten labor discipline by giving plant managers wider powers in deal- ing with offenders. A recent article in Pravda notes that “Lenin linked a steady transition to higher forms of labor discipline with the one- man management principle in the economy. He stressed it was a mistake to believe that one-man administrative power is incom- patible with democracy, the Sov- iet Socialist principle of organiz- ation.” It goes on to say that the ideal relations of subordination of workers to the manager would be, as Lenin phrased it, “some- thing like the mild direction of an orchestra conductor.” nuclear weapons. And it is pre- cisely these thoughts that make people in different countries rack their minds over the possibility of new practical moves in this direction. Today, these moves have resulted in the beginning of talks in Helsinki. Tomorrow, they may lead to new talks, argu- ments, disagreements and search of solutions,” the author of four novels on World War 2 writes. Simonov describes his meet- ings with U Thant and Averell Harriman and writes about the hippies. ‘Whereas hippies’ out- ward paraphernalia is used by bourgeois fashion industry ever more frankly, their bitter shame for society finds an effective channel for itself, merging in- creasingly often with the wide stream of indignation expressed by the American young people - increase the strength, But Lenin also warned that would take decades to achiel such labor discipline. Meanwhil the Soviet people cannot put # with the situation “where m chines stand idle and producti?” assignments are not fulfillé through the fault of shirkers. TH waste of working time becaus of idling and shirking means thé scores of thousands of peop actually stay away from work the country’s enterprises 4% construction sites every aa After giving concrete exa ples of plants where violatio# of labor discipline occur, Pravda article stressed, ‘one the chief causes of the violatiO® is overindulgence in alcoho drinks. Suffice it to say, that ™ shirking is caused by drunkél ness for the most part.” i The conclusion drawn is th “the complete eradication of @ ; cipline problems, and the edu i tion of all working people if? spirit of respect for an obst vance of existing standards” laws require the correct comb ation of conviction and educat with administrative _ influel and coercion. It would be P liberalism only to constantly # monish persistent violators labor discipline. The pract when an idler who commits offense at one plant is accep with open arms at another, wil no attempt is made to punis shirker and drunkard by red ing his wages, has nothing © common with education.” It is clear from the above Soviet managers will soon given the right to fire drunka and that the circumstances |} be entered into the latter’s w0 book. It is also probable that state will take steps to curb cessive drinking. : At the same time Pravda n@ that “while applying adminis tive measures provided by for ensuring the necessary OF in production, it must not be gotten that the chief thing. the drive for high labor discipl!! is profound, thoughtful and § i tematic educational work . - « if “Organization and disciplt soli fi unity, mutual assistance and © lectivism in work They servé a decisive condition for acht ing the highest labor product ity — the most important # major thing for the victory of new social system, for the © umph of communist ideals.” Koweee Se SsoBS eK Seite if BSS a 4 Sa aE over the war in Vietnam fascism in their own countl): Touching on the events Song My, Simonov writes: — real friends of the Vietnam people in America and the e? world should watch out so the noise raised in the pres connection with this ‘against rules’ massacre should not used by the American gov! ment to divert the American’ ple’s attention from the chailt unceasing massacres with W the entire ‘presence’ of U troops in Vietnam has been © nected from beginning to end massacres which are alleg® done ‘in accordance with rules’ and which have alre cost the Vietnamese not % dreds of lives, as in Song — but hundreds upon hundred thosuands of lives.”