the October 12-13 meet-
the Central Committee,
St Party of Canada de-
‘by the Party’s genera!-
‘Wm. Kashtan.
nce Minister Turner has
me known that despite
tise Pledges, government
S to improve the housing
On, the transportation sys-
S Social programs, are
0 be delayed in the inter-

€xercising “government

end

Bu, being done around the
argument that restraints
io vernment —_ expenditures
en fee inflation. However,
Tes on socially useful

iis. SUCh as housing, denti-
aNsig Pharmacare, and on the
Create of the economy do
hs, im € inflation. They create
prove the quality of life,
Se living standards. On
R,..-' hand expenditures on
of merostam or the financ-
Vesti Onopoly owned capital
li, “Mt programs by the
Be eravate inflationary

Present government pol-
Moderate restraints” has
ey Tesulted in “no growth”,
lo Stagflation” and rising
yment. The government
nig rough such “moderate
Demin Curb inflation with-
Mle, 8 the door to large
ssi ovment. But this is

ist “€ without far-reach-
me bution of the national
, 2 Course monopoly op-

. fact is that the “mo-
Muated program has
brow the housing crisis
aM on large scale lay-
Quebe woods industry in
5 Bie and Alberta. Such
pe have a multiplier
the economy as a

Ole
Moyen ne on further un-

inate Testraints” is not
tine ation program. It is
e Bere program, It will
_~T€ct on inflation, but it

RQ
impor — In announcing

® lace Nt public meeting to
° fro On Nov. 10, a press
n aS the Toronto Asso-
ber €ace states that “On
We are once again

Anti-ine
Nti-internment
Atpaign begi
haan begins
tee GN — A national com-
Ect oy been formed here to
a enatures for an anti-
d to Tesolution to be pre-
Ri the United Nations
Bhts Commission and

~ Dremj
Ttelang. *

Dp: clution, to be present-

nd 1974 — Interna-
ween Rights Day —
“4, “re opposed in prin-
tho internment of civi-
"8 that ut trial. We also
lang vtemment in North-
neon, j now three years in
Of Viol both a continuing
Cle €nce and a primary
tives ‘He success of peace

a Or these reasons,
' the immediate re-
ternees in Northern

rs of Great Britain

fee” in the growth of .

will stimulate unemployment in
industry after industry. :

Recently, Mr. Lawson, presi-
dent of the Canadian Manufac-
turers Association, propose d
that the government convene a
national conference of govern-
ment, business and labor to seek
the causes and possible solu-
tions for inflation. Prime Minis-
ter Trudeau rejected it for the
time being.

It #8 extremely doubtful that
Mr. Lawson wants to get at the

real causes and solutions for”

inflation. What he and the CMA

_are striving for, are restrictions

and restraints on the working
class and trade unions. The last
thing monopoly would want is a
serious examination of the real
causes of inflation. Such an
examination would show that it
is due to monopoly’s drive for
maximum profits and its control
of the market. It is this which
generates price rises and infla-
tion. A basic cause of inflation
is the concentration and central-
ization of production and capital
in the hands of a few monopo-
lies and multi-national corpora-
tions and their control of the
market. For Canada an impor-
tant factor is the export of in-
flation and slumps from the USA
into Canada through the arms
program and the transnational
and multi-national corporations.
Various forms of democratic
control and nationalization
would begin to get at the virus
of inflation which at bottom
arises from capitalism and the
way in which it works. Inflation,
stagnation and growing unem-
ployment, running concurrently,
are all expressions of a growing
crisis in the very structure of
capitalism.

' This cannot be over-stressed.

Monopoly and its media have
striven to separate inflation from
its source, state monopoly capi-
talism, so as to make it easier to
blame wages for spiralling infla-
tion. However, inflation is an 1n-
tegral part of state monopoly

orton Bradford meeting

irther action for peace

celebrating Armistice Day. But’

rs after the end of the
te: end all wars’ there still
is no peace. Every year over
$200-billion are spent on arma-
ments, while inflation and shor-
tages, starvation and misery are
increasing in most parts of the
Id.
een avert catastrophe, the
United Nations is calling @
World Disarmament Conference.
In preparation for this Confer-
ence, 28 Non-Governmental Or-
ganizations affiliated with the
UN met in Bradford, England,
from August 28 to September 1
“Canada was represented at
the Bradford Meeting by Ms. Jill
Glover from Winnipeg. On the
invitation of the Toronto Asso-
ciation for Peace, Ms. plo
will report on the Bradfor
Meeting and on further actions
for Peace and Disarmament on
November 10, 1974, at 8 p.m., Be
the First Unite USER 1
ir Avenue West. —
ot eTaOnee Association for
Peace is also calling on all To-
rontonians to voice their core
cern for Peace and Disarmamen
at the celebration of noes
Day at the Cenotaph in front 0
the Old City Hall at 11 a.m, on

November 11.”

capitalism, one of its bi-products
and permanent features.

All the proposals and “anti-in--

flation” programs advanced by
spokesmen for monopoly includ-
ing for “moderate restraints,”
have one central aim — to place
the burden of inflation and a de-
veloping economic crisis on the
backs of the working people
through lower living standards,
rising unemployment and rising
prices. Inflation has wiped out
any real wage gains achieved in
the early 70's. According to a

Metro Toronto Social Planning —

Council report “a typical family
of four new spends 30% more
than it did two years ago to
maintain a comparable standard
of living.” The Council estimates
that a family of four spends
about 43% more on food, 42%
more on housing, 32% more on
recreation, and 30% more on
transporcation. é

Based on these new figures
the Council estimates that a net
income of at least $9,000 a year
is needed to maintain physical
and social well being. In 1972
the same four could live on $6,-
949.00. However, the percentage
of workers who earn $9,000 con-
stitutes but a minority of work-
ers in Canada, showing to what
extent the workers are slipping
in their race to catch up with
inflation.

Now that the majority of
Canadians have rejected wage
and price controls monopoly in-
terests are focussing ever great-
er attention on increased pro-
ductivity, i.e., stepped up exploi-
tation through increased output
per man hour by speedup, as an
answer to inflation. Through all
the verbiage of the mass media
and of monopoly spokesmen, the
real target of monopoly is
wages and the right to strike.
This fits in with the drive of
monopoly for markets and for

* maximum profits.

GREGORY OKULEVICH

Communist
editor dies

The progressive movement in
Canada was saddened by the
death on October 28 of Gregory
Okulevich, a long-time member
of the Communist Party and ac-
tivist in the working people’s
struggle.

“The passing away of Com-
rade Grisha Okulevich is a great
loss to the Communist Party of
which he was a member for
many years,” said Communist
Party General Secretary William
Kashtan, when told the news.

“His death is no less a loss to
the entire progressive move-
ment,” Kashtan said. ‘He was
editor of the Russian language
paper, Vestnik for many years,
and a leader of the Federation of
Russian Canadians, as well as an
outstanding fighter in the cause
of peace, democracy and social-
ism in Canada.

“He was held in high esteem
by all who .knew him. And this
found expression in his long
membership in the Central Com-
mittee of the Communist Party
and latterly as a member of the
Central Appeals Committee. He
will be missed by all who knew
him,” Kashtan said.

The funeral service will be
held Thursday, October 31, two
p.m. at 300 Bathurst Street,

- Toronto.

Used by building trades internationals

Economic blackmail on CLC

By RICHARD ORLANDINI

“NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.— At
least three of the international
building trades unions are
withholding part of their per
capita tax from the Canadian
Labour Congress.

The move, which has been
described by one building trades
union local official as “economic
blackmail” comes as a result of
the international building trades
unions’ opposition to the new
autonomy resolution passed at
the CLC convention in May of
this. year. The three unions
withholding funds from the CLC

-are: the International Brother-

hood of Electrical Workers, the
Plumbers international union
and the Ironworkers interna-
tional union.

(The autonomy recommenda-
tions as brought forward at the
CLC convention in May, were:
1) that where an international
union is affiliated to an interna-
tional trade secretariat, the
Canadian section of that union
should be affiliated separately
to ensure a Canadian presence
and voice at the international
industry level and 2) that inter-
national unions take whatever
action is necessary to ensure
that the Canadian membership
will not be prevented by consti-
tutional requirements of policy
decisions from participating in

By JOHN GULLIVER

BERLIN. — The Communist
Party of the FRG has issued a
strong condemnation of the
Peking leadership’s renewed sup-
port of NATO, the European
Economic Community, a West-
ern anti-Soviet bloc and attacks
on the sovereignty of the Ger-
man Democratic Republic.

The sharp critique by West
Germany’s communists followed
a visit earlier this month to
Bonn by Peking’s Deputy Fore-
ign Minister, Chiao Kuan-Hua.
In conferences with FRG govern-
ment leaders and in public state-
ments, the Peking minister made
it clear that the Maoist leader-
ship supports a strengthening of
a Western European anti-Soviet
military front. He also derided
the internationally-accepted fact
that - there are two German
states developing along different
national, political and economic
lines. :

Despite the fact that Peking
recognized the sovereignty and
independent existence of the
GDR a quarter of century ago,
he repeated the catchwords that
“there is only one German na-

- tion.” That is a familiar cry of

all those in the FRG who have
still not reconciled themselves to
the historical fact of the GDR’s
sovereignty and national inde-
pendence. Thus, Die Welt of
Hamburg, the snarling, ultra-
reactionary mouthpiece of Axel
Springer’s monopoly press em-
pire in the FRG, lavishly praised
the visiting Peking minister.
The paper, which still prints
the name of the GDR only in
quotation marks, called for com-
mon anti-Soviet front with the
Peking Maoist leadership. It had

special praise for Peking’s oppo-
sition to the policy of detente
when it wrote, such relaxation
“could lull our watchfulness
with regard to Soviet power
claims.” Here in the GDR atten-

the social, cultural, economic
and political life of the Cana-
dian community.)

Although the exact amount
being withheld is not known,
estimates are that all three in-
ternational unions are holding
back on at least the increase per
capita that was passed at the
CLC convention. :

Canadian Labour Congress of-
ficials, including Joe Morris, its
president, will be meeting next
week with representatives of
the international building trades
unions to try to resolve the
problems, and Morris is hopeful
that a solution can be worked
out. At the Vancouver CLC con-
vention several building trade
delegates who were in favor of
the autonomy resolutions took
the mikes and asked that their
internationals not force them to
choose between the _interna-
tional and the CLC. .

When asked what he thought
about the news, the withholding
of funds from the CLC, one
building trade delegate to the
OFL convention this week in
Niagara Falls, told the Tribune:
“At least now the union mem-
bers in the locals will know
what has been happening. Up
until now everything has been
done in the back rooms. Now,
we in the locals can discuss it
and decider what we can do to
prevent this kind of blackmail.”

tion has: already been drawn in
editorial comments to Peking’s
policy of seeking an alliance
with the most extremist reac-
tionary political forces in vari-
ous countries.

An analysis of Chiao Kuan-
Hua’s latest anti-Soviet and anti-
GDR declarations in Bonn by the
West German Communist Party
(DKP) was issued in Duesseldof.
It declared, “what can it mean
when Peking’s_ representative
,States that there is agreement
between the policy of Peking
and the ruling circles in the FRG
on all basic questions? It can
only mean that West German
imperialism and the Maoists
leaders: agree to the strengthen-
ing of NATO and building up of
the EEC. :

“The Chinese -Deputy Foreign
Minister has utilized his visit to
the FRG to present a case for
supposed unity of the German
nation. He thereby came forward
as a comrade-in-arms of the most
reactionary circles of West Ger-
man imperialism. This, at a time
when the political servants of
West German monopoly capital-
ism have launched a new anti-
Ccmmunist and nationalist cam-
paign against the GDR, the
heart of which is the claim of
one German nation.

“The Peking representative
has made himself a willing pro-
pagandist in this campaign,
which is directed against the
independence and sovereignty of
the socialist German state. He
has thus again emphasized the
open betrayal of socialism by
Peking’s. leaders. We Commun-
ists are for normal relations be-
tween the FRG and the People’s
Republic of China. But in the in-
terests of peace and of the work-
ing people of our land, we reject
all attempts to misuse the de-
velopment of such relation for
attacks against socialist states
for purposes hostile to detente.”

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