Speech from the Throne

More trouble for Ontario

By WILLIAM STEWART

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this year (plus $145 million it
had promised to spend on hous-
ing last year and was still sit-
ting on.) This, plus $200 million
Federal government spending,
plus $100 million from the pri-
vate sector will produce 20,000
new housing starts, not 30,000
as the government indicated. It
is estimated that this will gener-
ate some 4,000 jobs in house
building and an additional 13,500
jobs in tertiary industries, for a
total of 17,500 new jobs.

In addition to this the govern-
ment plans to produce an addi-
tional 3,000 dead-end summer
jobs for students cleaning up
the woods around the province.
Total number of jobs, 20,000—
total number of jobless 250,000
—total number still left unem-
ployed—230,000.

Nor does this take into ac-
count that the housing jobs cre-
ated end when the houses are
built and furnished and do not

PRESIDENT ALLENDE

confident that the state will keep
in its hands the levers permit-
ting it to plan the economy.

Masters. of Chile

“The people’s struggle was.

waged namely with the purpose
of placing power in the country
in the hands of the people, in
other words, so that the work-
ers, peasants, office workers and

intellectuals should be masters

of Chile.

“That is why we are doing
our utmost so that our people
should become aware of it and
that the majority of population
should have a possibility to take

part in the implementation of
plans of the people’s govern-

ment.”

The People’s Repu

mary school.

blic of Congo has one of
Africa. All children are

create additional wealth to
create additional jobs.

Thus the provincial govern-
ment has no answer in its throne
speech whatsoever to the grow-
ing economic crisis. Compare
this cynical irresponsibility with
the just concluded blacked out
Congress of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union where
a plan for raising the real pur-
chasing power of the people of
the USSR by 37% over the next
five years was unveiled. A plan
to increase educational -oppor-
tunities, expand hospital and
health facilities, increase recre-
ational facilities, enrich the
cultural life of all citizens. A
plan to continue the full employ-
ment typical of socialist society.
No wonder the capitalist press
blacked out the CPSU congress
and only mentioned it when it
could find an opening for hostil-
ity. The comparison is too dead-
ly for public scrutiny.

The Tory Throne Speech must
be regarded as an inauspicious
beginning for Premier Davis.
For Mr. Grossman, Minister of
Economic Development, it was
calamity. For the people of On-
tario it was a disaster.

Regional government schemes,
launched by former Minister of

Municipal Affairs Darcy Mc-
Keough, lie in ruins around the
province.

Tory reassessment policy which
has taken over the reassessment
of all Ontario property has
aroused the ire of ratepayers and
farmers as it became clear that
the government intended to shift
the burden of taxes even further
onto small homeowners and
small businessmen.

High school and “post-secon-
dary education in Ontario is un-
der assault. Teachers are being
laid off, classes are being furth-
er crowded, working class stu-
dents are being viciously stream-
ed out of the education system
at the earliest possible level.

Not-a word about any solutions

‘to these problems in the Throne

Speech, just smug complacency.
It is obvious that the fat+cat
arrogance and self-satisfaction
of the Ontario Tories was not
solved by the removal of Robarts
and the reshuffling of the cabi-
net. It is equally obvious that
only the most highly organized,
united mass action of the labor
movement and all the demo-
cratic forces in the province will
be able to wring concessions
from the powers that be.

This unity must stretch into
the constituencies in the upcom-
ing elections to rout ‘the Tories
and the Liberals out of Queen’s
Park and replace them with
workers from the shops, farmers
from the land and intellectuals
who will legislate against mono-
poly and for the democratic
forces in Ontario.

ee

the highest developed
obliged to attend pri-

Cosmonaut A. Nikolayev talks with a group of fellow-delegates,
Communists from the Donbas in Soviet Ukraine, at the CPSU

Congress.

Great demos for peace
called for April 24

A ‘wofld-wide response is de-
veloping to the joint call of the
People’s Coalition for Peace and
Justice and the National Peace
Action Coalition to make April
24 a day of massive demonstra-
tions to ‘end the Vietnam War.

Hundreds of thousands of
U.S. citizens are preparing to be
in Washington and San Fran-
cisco on that day.

In Canada on April 24 demon-
strations are being organized in
centres across the country in-
cluding Vancouver, Edmonton,
Saskatoon, Winnipeg, Ottawa,
Montreal, Halifax, Fredericton,
St. John, Sydney and Antigon-
ish.

A group of delegates to the
NDP. convention are planning to
ask that business be so arranged
that -the entire convention can
participate in the Ottawa dem-
onstration.

In Toronto a demonstration
drawing people from all over
southern Ontario will take place
on Sunday, April 25.

A whole series of demonstra-
tive actions have already begun
in the United States. Last week-
end there were many marches
in commemoration of Martin
Luther King on the third anni-
versary of his assassination. In
the New York demonstration
forces were joined by the South-
ern Christian Leadership Con-
ference, the National Welfare
Rights Organization, and the
two leading peace coalitions
mentioned above.

An important aspect of the
April 24 actions is the endorse-
ment by U.S. labor leaders, in-
cluding Frank Rosenblum, sec-
retary-treasurer of the Amalga-
mated Clothing Workers, Harold
Gibbons, Teamsters Internation-
al vice-president, Gus Scholle,
‘Michigan AFL-CIO _ president,
Paul Schrade, UAW western re-
gional director, and Abe Fein-
glass, Amalgamated Meatcut-
ters vice-president.

This new upsurge of peace
action takes place against the
background of the defeat of the
South Vietnam puppet army in
Laos, and the conviction of
Lieut. William Calley on_ ir-
refutable evidence of the mur-
der of “at least” 22 civilians at
My Lai.

Bowing to racist and reaction-
ary pressures from those who
‘support “our boys” no matter
what hideous crimes they com-
mit in Vietnam, President Nixon

has released Calley from stock-
ade imprisonment while he
awaits appeal.

“President Nixon’s relaxation

of First Lieut. William Calley’s -

confinement — following convic-
tion for murder of 22 civilians—
to the point of virtually unre-
stricted freedom will cheer and
encourage all of the fascistic-
tainted elements in the nation,”
wrote the Daily World. “That
was the president’s intention ...

“Millions who supported, but
who have become increasingly
troubled, by the president’s war
in Indochina will be convinced
by his action that as commander-
in-chief he is equally guilty for
the barbarous crimes committed
under his leadership.”

The Committee to Free An
gela Davis has denounced Presi-
dent Nixon’s order freeing Cal-
ley from the stockade at Fort
Benning, while failing to take
any action to assure humane
treatment for Angela Davis, the
Black woman Communist who
has not even been tried.

As Nixon placates the reac-
tionaries, the movement to end
the war is growing in Congress.
There are mounting pressures in
favor of legislation to cut off all
funds for the war on Dec. 3],
1971.

Senators Vance: Hartke of In-
diana and Mike Gravel of Alas-
ka, both Democrats, have en-
dorsed plans for a massive me-
morial to Vietnam War Dead on
April 23. Thirteen members of
the House of Representatives to
date have endorsed the action.

A group of churchmen, led by
William A. Banfield, the head
of the U.S. Presbyterian church,
met with nine congressmen to
issue a joint statement which
said in part: “This joint gather-
ing of clergymen and congress-

‘men advocates military with-

drawal from Vietnam before
Dec. 31, 1971. We offer our-
selves to go into the country-
side carrying our convictions on
this critical subject to the
American people.” ,

Raid CPI paper
: TEL AVIV—Hoodlums wear-
ing the uniform of fascist Beitar
stormtroopers raided the offices
of the Israeli Communist Party
paper Zo Haderekh last Thurs-
day, beating the secretary, who
was alone in the office, and
painting swastikas and_ anti-
Soviet slogans on the walls.

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