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U.S. OUT TO
GRAB MARKET
A blunt warning that the
United States will continue its
aggressive trade policies and
corner as much of the world’s
wheat market as possible was
given here recently by U.S. Sec-
retary of Agriculture, Ezra Taft
PS as guest speaker to the.
Canadian Federation of Ag-
riculture in the hope that he
would allay the growing anxiety
among Canadian farmers, Ben-
son instead told his audience
that the U.S. intends to compete
“aggressively” in the world mar-
ket. His government, the secre-
tary said, was still dissatisfied
with the rate at which their huge
wheat stock are being moved
and wants them expanded
beyond the current 250-million
s annually.
bushel y sare
July 4, 1955

“FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

WORLD NEGRO
WORKERS RALLY

New York — Comrade Ford,’

the chairman of the committee
for the eae of the Inter-
national Conference of Negro
Workers declares that the pro-
hibition of the MacDonald Gov-
ernment against holding the
conference in London will not
prevent the conference from
taking place. Delegates to the
conference have already been
elected in Kenya Colony, South
Africa, Jamaica, Haiti, Cuba,
Panama and the United States.
A national conference of Negro
workers in the United States will
take place in New York on the
21st of June.

The clothing workers union
has already elected a Negro
working woman to attend the
International Negro Workers
conference and to attend the
eighth congress of the Red In-
ternational of Labor Unions.

The Worker,
July 5, 1930

Profiteer of the week:

Who says food prices are bad news? Robin
Hood Multifoods Ltd., Toronto, says food
prices zooming upward are great news. Robin
Hood had an after-tax profit of $8,555,000 for
the year ended Feb. 29, 1980. A year earlier
the take was $5,770,000. Could you call that
inflationary profits?

Figures used are from the company’s financial statements.

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FAD KO RIPAVIE
COMIMUEINT

Sit-in part of fightback

Mass layoffs, plant closures and
numerous assaults on workers’ living
standards, are sweeping Canada.
Thousands upon thousands of workers
are effected. As the total picture takes
shape of the ruin awaiting workers re-
sulting from monopoly capitalism’s deep
crisis, a united fightback is gathering
steam. It is a fitting answer to any who

think the ruling class is well-intentioned

toward the working class and its demo-
cratic allies.

In eastern Canada, auto workers are
among the hardest hit, as plants control-
led by U.S. parent companies dump
Canadians and ship the jobs south of the
border. (In Ontario, 10 of the most re-
cent 11 shutdowns were ordered from
the USA.) More and more workers see
that big business Canadian governments
have no policies independent of the
multi-national corporations and the U.S.
adminstration. The result is systematic

robbery of working-class families both of
their income and their future.

It’s clear that every means is needed
now to counter the anti-labor attacks.
Only through a united fightback can
jobs, and the hard-won rights of workers
be defended. .

Workers are showing good judgement
in turning again to the sit-in, a weapon
proven years ago against the corporate
bosses. Giving his support to sit-ins, lob-

‘bies and demonstrations, Bob White,

United Auto Workers’ Canadian direc-
tor said, June 24: “We'll do whatever is
needed to focus attention on this prob-
lem,” the problem of winning legislation
to defend working people. The UAW
demand for a minimum six-month
notice of plant closing is one such piece
of legislation.

The fightback is made more urgent by
the recession creeping across the U.S.
border and into our lives.

Rights, MacGuigan style

Canadians who saw the newspaper
headline — MacGuigan sets human
rights standards for trade — might well
have been overjoyed.

Quoted in Mexico City back in April,
Canada’s external affairs minster said: “1
hope we will choose our targets from
among those countries where we have no
serious problems about their attitude on
human rights.”

A sterling statement. ©

But we have trade with South Africa
whose police on April 23 fired tear gas at
8,000 school children, and ever since has
been killing, jailing and imposing press
bans. Does MacGuigan consider that a
plus for human rights.

Or, where was MacGuigan’s response
to the Board of Trustees of Queen’s
University in Kingston? On the weekend
of April 12-13 they told the board of
directors’ of Noranda Mines Ltd., which
has heavy investsments in fascist Chile,
that the Pinochet government’s lack of
human rights, was being supported by
Noranda with “a look of moral responsi-
bility”.

More recently, MacGuigan’s ministry
has raised the status of Canadian consu-
lates in genocidal Brazil and totalitarian
Argentina, to Consulate-General. That
was on June 10.

On June 13 the department of exter-
nals: affairs signed agreements on “in-
creased trade and investment” with that
dictatorial hell — Haiti.

On the
McGuigan’s department announced the
minister’s visits to those oases of human
rights — Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore

and Hong Kong. There, he “will

Strengthen the growing relations be-
tween Canada and the members of
ASEAN, the U.S. puppet organization in
south-east Asia.

Fresh from these endorsements of
dictatorship, aggressive doctrines, and
exploitation of the starving, MacGuigan
was ready, at the Venice summit, to per-
form for the USA, defending its election
spectacular grain boycott of the USSR.

He gained some notoriety by question-
ing U.S. foreign policy — “their lack of
consultation ... their lack of adequate

same date, June 13, -

leadership . . . in terms of their tactics, I
think it leaves a lot to be desired.”

The right-wing Tory, Flora Mac-
Donald, attacked MacGuigan from the
right, but in the end, the two ended up in
the same stall, with MacGuigan attacking
the Olympic Games, attacking the
Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
(for not caving in under Western subver-
sion), and attacking the Soviet Union, as
all tried U.S. puppets must do to earn
their keep. ;

Human rights? They’re probably sub-
versive.

Fish law needed

-Who’s got hold of the tiller in
Washington? An east-coast fisheries
agreement negotiated by Canada and
the Carter administration in late 1978,
has still not been ratified by the USA

_ because of blockage in the Senate.

The agreement sets quotas for east-
coast fishermen of both countries, and
submits a boundaries dispute (over-
lapping of 200-mile limits) to inter-
national arbitration.

Meanwhile, Canadian fishermen have
been observing the quotas laid down,
while U.S. scallop fishermen have not.
The hold up is over amendments by
Senator Edward Kennedy, which would
shift more advantages to the USA.
Rhode Island Senator Pell is chief in-
stigator of the bottleneck.

In exasperation, Canada’s fisheries
minister, Romeo LeBlanc, on June 12,
doubled quotas of cod, haddock and
flounder (ground fish) which Canadians
may take, on George’s Bank, off Nova
Scotia. It was to match the USA’s deplet-
ing of the scallop fisheries.

The whole operation calls into ques-
tion the reliability of the USA as a treaty
or trade partner. Worse, it reveals a body
of U.S. lawmakers who think they can
scupper Canadian interests and answer
to no one. That is not, and cannot be, the
case. The federal fisheries department
must defend the livelihoods of our
fishermen, and the food export interests

of all Canadians.
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