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POSTAL PRESIDENT
SLAMS FEDS

OTTAWA — CUPW president
Jean Claude Parrot termed recent

Statements by Postmaster General

Gilles Lamontagne. that postal
workers were seeking a 2'/2hour

Working day and jhad rejected a
13.2% basic wage increase offer as

‘“Nonsense.’?

“If Lamontagne wants to put
this 13.2% increase in writing’,
Parrot said, ‘‘we’ll be glad to con-
sider it ... There is no doubt the
union is trying to negotiate a reduc-
tion in the work week both because
of widespread unemployment and
of adverse effects of technological
change such as. elimination of
jobs.”” The government, he said
was playing dishonest games to
Cover the fact they only offered
rollbacks and “‘NO solutions.”

“TORONTO

TRANSIT TALKS

TORONTO — Officials of the

Oronto Transit Commission
Were meeting with the bargaining
Committee of Local 113 Amalga-
Matéd Transit Union, as the
Tribune went to press, to discuss
the stand off between the workers
and the commission over a new
Collective agreement. Metro’s
7,000 transit workers voted 91%
Aug. 21 to reject a 6% wage in-

crease over two years. The union
wants. better wage increases and
cost of living provisions. Local
113 president Charlie Johnson
said a strike vote could be held
after the Aug. 25 meeting with the

company.

CARPENTERS’
STRIKE VOTE

EDMONTON — Without a con-
tract since April 30, 1978, North-
ern Alberta’s 2,350 organized car-
penters, members of the United
Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners were taking strike votes
Aug. 25-26. -

If the members of Local 1325
decide to hit the bricks, a meeting

Aug. 28 will be called to discuss
strategy, a union spokesman said.

ARMY TAKES
PERUVIAN MINES
LIMA, Peru — The Peruvian

army, moving to crush a three-
week strike in five mining regions.

in the country, placed the mines

in these areas under military con--
trol forbidding the workers from,

holding public meetings, and giv-
ing the army the power to arrest
workers and search their homes
without warrants, order deporta-
tion and forbid entrance or exit
from Peru.

- Profiteer of the week:

Developers are just there to help things
happen, to see that we all get the develop-
ments we need. Our development in the life of
Daon Development Corp., Vancouver, was
that in six months ended April 30, 1978, they
made $5,732,000 tax-free profit, up from
$4,326,000 in the same period a year earlier.

hy do property prices take artificial leaps?

 A&Bk Daon.

Figures used are from the company's financial statements.

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ED ITORIAIL
COMIMUENT

Let’s reclaim our economy

_ Since the. Liberal government, way
back in the mid-1940’s, set Canada on
the course of U.S.-Canadian “economic
integration”, we have been promised
great things.

Canada, said the Liberal leaders of the
day, has raw materials ... the U.S. has

s the technological plant. The two neigh-

bors would “work together” for our
common good.
~ That was 30 years ago.

Today we can say this country stands
number one as the most completely
t dominated economy in the industrial

world. Our “good neighbor” owns and
controls the commanding heights —
auto, rubber, electrical, shitiacen, as-
bestos, oil and gas, metal mining, chemi-
cal, lumber, pulp and paper, and other
key sectors. Its political leverage in gov-
ernment is enormous.

We can also say in 1978 the integration
policy gave us a stagnant economy, run-
away plants, a double-digit inflation rate,
a dangerous balance of payments deficit
and a disgraceful unemployment rate.

Despite indisputable facts today’s Lib-

eral government, with an unabiding
faith in this disastrous course and acom-
plete lack of patriotism, offers us more of
‘the same medicine.

But there’s a difference.

For the first time the majority of
Canadians have expressed their wish to
weaken U.S. economic control. Fifty-
three percent in a recent poll now agree
this country should take steps to repat-
riate our economy which, by definition,

a

_“\., There comes a time when you
have to bite the bloody bullet and go full
speed ahead and damn the torpedoes,”
Treasury Board president Robert An-
dras told reporters last week.

Over a private luncheon of roast beef,
wine and blueberries, Andras unveiled
the first stage of the government's two-
phase program aimed at fulfilling
Trudeau’s August 1 promise to cut $2-
billion from government programs.

The government is gearing up for an
election, and its program-cutting is de-
signed to undercut the Tories. Trudeau
is out to show that monopoly can rely on
the Liberals. He is determined to prove
his government is as ruthless, anti-labor
and pro-free enterprise as Clark’s.

Andras repeated the fundamental
principle this corrupt government oper-
ates on: the cuts are designed “to in-
crease confidence” in the economy lead-
ing to more job-creation through private
sector investment. What garbage! The

- government's reliance on the private sec-

tor and its strategy of continentalism has

taken Canada into economic chaos and -

foreign domination, It- has created a
massive army of jobless and poor.

With the Trudeau offensive in full
gear, working class and democratic-
_minded Canadians require maximum
unity to protect their hard-won gains.
This unity and a determined fightback
are needed in both the economic and
political arenas to reverse the sell-out of

_ future o

will mean weakening U.S. political inter-
ference here.

The Communist Party at thousands of
meetings, in elections, by leaflets and
pamphlets and through its press has
hammered away against the integration
policy from the day it was introduced. It
warned that economic control by the
giant U.S. multinationals would spell
disaster for Canada. It spoke of the rape
of resources, the downgrading and dis-
appearance of a viable manufacturing
industry.

The poll means a shift in public opin-
ion. But it also means that more than
polls will be needed to change the situa-
tion which has had 30 years to
tighten its stranglehold on Canadian
life. The recent Senate recommendation
for a “free trade” set-up between Canada
and the U.S. which would put the coup
de grace on Canada’s economy certainly
proves this. a

‘The key is Canadian control through
public ownership, not handing the
economy over to Canadian monopolies
(many of which are branch plants any-
way). New made-in-Canada policies are
needed to limit and roll back monopoly
control, to nationalize domestic -and
foreign-owned monopolies, expand
manufacturing and processing indus-
tries, create new jobs and raise living
standards. ;

This can be done. And it.can be.done
without a drop in living standards. The
billions nicked out of this country each
year in corporate profits attest to that.

Biting the bloody bullet

Canada and its terrible effects on the
majority of Canadians.
Organized labor is increasingly being

drawn into the fight and more action is

needed. In the‘coming federal election
this determination can be expressed by

_ Strengthening the voice of democracy

and labor in the new Parliament.

Labor Day 1978

The Tribune greets the working
people of our country this Labor Day:
1978.

Since 1922, a succession of Com-
munist newspapers have consistently
printed the story of labor’s struggles, ad-
vancing pee and fighting for the

a socialist Canada. They have
defended workers’ rights and the inde-
pendence of Canada.

The capitalist class, of course, has its

newspapers, radio and television which —

tell its story. This media advances
capitalist ideals, its anti-labor concepts
and the free enterprise system. It is
financed and defended by its owners and
backers.

Today more than ever working people —

need their own press, a stronger voice
with which to speak in their own in-
terests. We wish our supporters con-
tinued successes on this oe Day and
invite those who may be reading our
paper for the first time to subscribe to the
Tribune.

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