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By WILLIAM KASHTAN

Interim and long-term measures are
needed to cope with the energy crisis, a
crisis arising from the short-sightedness
of the capitalist governments, Liberal and
Tory alike, and from capitalist policies.

A fully-integrated, all-Canadian energy
policy is required to cope with the situa-
tion. More immediately, a Canadian
petroleum corporation should be estab-
ished, a Crown Corporation with the

authority to set prices. The first thing it
should do is establish a uniform price for
all parts of Canada and ensure security
of supply all across the country. The sec-

ond thing it should do is prevent price:

rises and profits gouging.

The Canadian people should not have
to pay through the nose in increased
prices, be it for heating, transportation,
indeed everything which moves and
warms because of the supine attitude of

the government and all opposition parties
to the Mideast crisis, and for capitalist
policies which place the profits of the
U.S. multinational oil corporations ahead
of the real interests of the Canadian
people.

Public ownership of energy is the way
to ensure that energy will be under Can-
adian control, serve the needs of Canadian
economic development aud the interests
of the Canadian people.

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Junta condemned at

solidarity meeting

TORONTO — More than 450
people took the opportunity to
participate in a moving “Home-
naje a Chile Libre’ — Homage
to Free Chile, at Convocation
Hall on November 4, sponsored
by the Canadian Committee
for Solidarity with Democratic

Chile.

Featured on the program was
a speaker from Chile, Olga Mor-
ris, representing Popular Unity
and the Chilean resistance,
along with poetry of Pablo Ne-
ruda and slides of Chile after
the coup.

Any thought as to Canada’s
“distant impartiality” regarding
the military takeover of Chile
and the toppling of the Allende
government was. quickly dis-
pelled by the meeting’s chair-
man, John Harney, NDP MP
from Scarborough West, who
had brought with him confiden-
tial documents received just
two days before from a- source
in the Department of External
Affairs.

The documents, mainly con-
sisting of communications be-
tween the Department and the
Canadian ambassador to Chile,
Andrew Ross, made it quite
clear that the Canadian govern-
ment actually welcomed the
overthrow of the Popular Unity
government, although the way
in which it was done, according
to them, perhaps was “‘indeli-

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Inflation and jobs |
twin issues facing
Ontario unionists

By WILLIAM STEWART
Leader, Ontario Communist
Party

The working people of On-
tario, whether consciously or
not, are looking to the mighty
800,000 strong trade-union cen-
tre to point the way out of end-
less inflation, unemployment,
insecurity and poverty.

Working people are searching
for a durable solution to these
problems and this convention of

the Ontario Federation of Labor
can help pravide such a solu-
tion.

In the short year since this
body last met, significant and
hopeful developments have tak-
en place in the world which
open up prospects for a durable
peace. The war in Vietnam has
been brought to an end and con-
ditions created for settling the
entire situation in Indochina.
This was a great victory for the

tion of Labor Convention meets.

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world peace forces, for all pro-
gressive mankind and a stuning
defeat for the global strategy of
U.S. imperialism.

In Europe, treaties have been
signed providing a solution to
the tense state boundary ques-
tion which has simmered since
the end of the second world
war, and settling the question ~
of the two German states. This
has opened the door for a Eu-
ropean security Conference
which can do much to further
normalize the relations between
all states of Europe and mini-
mize the danger from that tra-
ditional hot-bed of world war.

Although it is still too early

. to light a candle, there are none-

theless encouraging signs in the
present Mid-East situation that
under the United Nations the
initiatives of the Soviet Union
compelled joint action with the
United States. Within this
framework the Arab countries
and the state of Israel are mov-
ing towards a settlement of this
critical matter that will see the
return of all occupied territories
to the Arab countries and at the
same time give firm guarantees
to Israel for its existence as a
state.

Without minimizing future
possibilities of conflicts, and
problems still remaining in these
three crucial areas, it is none-
theless quite reasonable to con-
clude that the positive develop-
ments towards peace and the
victories for the concept of
peaceful co-existence between
the capitalist and socialist world
systems, are great victories for
mankind. They can but strength-
en the determination of all the
forces for peace to redouble
their efforts to block any return
to brinkmanship and reduce the
danger of nuclear war.

Here at home in Ontario the
prospects are not quite so pro-
‘mising. A crushing offensive has
been mounted by the big mono-
polies against the living stand-
ards of the people. In the face
of this, governments turn a blind
eye at best, and at worst openly
coalesce with the big corpora-
tions in their brazen rape of our
resources and their pillage of
the pocketbooks of the working
people.

The twin evils of inflation and
unemployment continue unabat-
ed and the entire costs of these
calamaties are charged against
the producers of wealth while
.those, who are expropriating the
«oongeajed labor of past and

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*F DACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1973—PAGE 5