(Contributed by William Allan, Detroit) mage bas made many gifts to his Big Business pals, Tax writeoffs, i Ustries zes, etc. The latest one is where he told Congress that estimate yenowld be repaid the $100 million to $120 million they ; they lost because of bans on use of cyclamates. The arti- Clal eet Sweetners were linked with cancer. * * * men Federal Trade Commission, supposed to be the U.S. govern- - Casion ate Over exorbit prices and phony advertising gimmicks, oc- Y justifies its existence and big salaries. Recently they ) Ties on} ofile Bread to reveal that each slice has seven fewer calo- ee Y because it is sliced thinner. ; * * 2 P ; § ere getting closer to understanding the establishment and mong ¢ entatives, Bankers and financial heads used to chalk up F See folks a respect percentage of 67%. Now with a grow- _ ing has Beepening depression and 10 million unemployed their rat- “Nessmen peened to 31% of the population respecting them. Busi- "asked ibaa to a respect ratio of only 28% —that’s all of those ~ Still thought they were part of the human race. * a * Ther : ®gains rai growing attacks as the depression deepens here, The game Kers, jobless, who seek public aid to keep from starving. NB stori of course is to keep people away from demanding aid. > Welfare — appear now in the capitalist press about the “cost” of Of the ai oy hteag the prostitutes who write this garbage never tell id given business by the Nixon Administration in com- Parison wi “ . A , - Parison ee people in need grudgingly get. Here is a com- © To aq ety $ 7,653,000,000 airlj $14,610,200,000 * * x It’ : land's famed here that six members of Queen Elizabeth of Eng- ndon ‘temonial cavalry unit, the Life Guards were tossed in a Strike Jail because they did the unheard of thing: they went on look aft €y struck because they contended that with 26 men to Was: « €r 90 horses, they were overworked. Their princpal demand € man, one horse.” * * * BoA, , Pederay wetaph or two back we were talking of how little the U.S. e Rec Commission officials do for their salaries, to protect =P. F from swindlers, high prices, phony goods, etc. Remem- thing €r's Little Liver Pills? Back in 1944 the FTC Said there was the ie the pills to warrant the use of the word “liver.” Now + Strick 4 from the brand name. It took 15 years to wipe out the Vertising charges that the pills were good for one’s liver. % Bo "oe If eat we 8argle with Listerine, drink Ocean Spray Cranberry Juice, 8 sg Bread or drive your car on Chevron gasoline, the FTC ged all of these products with deceiving advertising. ak % % ae night on television pitchmen for H&R Block and } to Corp. were telling 30 million viewers that if you wanted The » Save j : A PS money on filing your income tax use either of the two firms. 5 No ; Mation roth companies have been accused of using the tax infor- life. nsy €y got from customers, turning it over to loan companies, hustle Tance and mutual fund outfits. Millions of people were life ing 2 the mail because of this to go for loans, sign up for Surance, etc, Wright Report is fraud Th Misgigg att Report of the Com- Cation ie Post-Secondary Edu- Ommiga; Ontario (the Wright than a Sion) “is nothing less of a attack on the system this, S@Condary education in ati vince and upon the edu- other reductions in social ser- vices and assistance that are be- ing implemented by the same government. The submission, in conclu- sion set out three “modest pro- posals” for the future work of tunitj Standards and oppor- the Wright Commission. Point- the ie our people,” stated ing out the purpose of the Com ine Committee of the Commission to create a smoke- Slon to a Party in a submis- screen of public discussion by the Upplementary hearings while the Tories go ahead with ts report tight Commission on educational retrenchment, the Poses * here Feb. 28. “It pro- brief demanded that the com- Pengio, “CSist and slow the ex- missioners repudiate the basic : "Olment of undergraduate en- position of the Draft Report, this ¢ ae dilute the quality of that a new report be drawn up time ation and at the same based on the many briefs pres- ented to the Commission de- signed really, to promote the ex- pansion of Ontario’s system of post secondary education, and “acknowledging the fraudulent Rain ioe it more difficult to nal SS to graduate and pro- training.” or Commission report &d, is . Yes» as the brief stat- lato Bove overUP for the On- purpose underlying the exist- $ Rent’ proposed cut- ence of this Commission” they * Policy educational spending, should immediately tender their - 7, Which is in line with all. resignations. ts here have finally banned the use of the word and it’s to” By JERRY HILL A “massive, monumental bed- lam of bureaucratic confusion,” were the words used by the Tory MP for Wellington to de- scribe the present situation at the Unemployment Insurance Commission offices. He stated that there were lengthy delays in receiving cheques, claims can’t be traced and complicated forms were baffling “the unem- ployed, employers and UIC of- ficials alike.” Substantiating these claims, UE News reports that Ed Broad- bent, NDP MP for. Oshawa- Whitby has called for an “in- vestigation by an all-party Com- mons committee into this major bureaucratic foul-up.” At a seminar sponsored by . the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers, (UE) in To- ronto on Feb. 2, union staff members and local activists dis- played. “sharp dissatisfaction” with ~ administrative bungling and foul-ups that cause lengthy delays of six to eight weeks be- fore a jobless worker receives his first benefit cheque under the new UIC Act. The seminar was ‘told of real hardships suffered by unemployed who were forced to go on welfare while waiting for their first UIC cheque. Further, a wide-ranging “cata- log of administrative snafus and red-tape conflicting rulings on the part of commission offi- cials, and many grave injustices under the new act,” were hotly cited by speaker after speaker. UIC officials. have tried to deny this. They state that 88% of claimants receive their che- que within four weeks. U.S. based Time magazine also. tries to whitewash UIC fumblings by saying that only 5,079 out of “600,000 cases on commission books” were “unduly delayed,” ie. less than 1% of claimants. Even the UIC officials with their whitewashing figure of 88% put the big lie to Time magazine. Most claims are six to eight weeks late and some even up to “three, four and five months.” According to Val Bjarnasson UE-Northern Electric co-ordina- tor, this was confirmed by a UIC. official, who recently ad- dressed a meetjng of shop stew- ards of Local 531. And Frank Krouse, business agent of UE- Westinghouse Local 504, stated that this situation was a far cry from the “slick public relations job that was done by the gov- ernment prior to the new act coming into effect,”- in which officials predicted that the un- employed would receive three weeks’ benefits. within two weeks. Added Mr. Krouse, “Such has certainly not .been the case.” The seminar pointed out many other injustices in the new UIC Act. Severance pay is classed as earnings and claimants are ‘disqualified from UIC benefits for a corresponding period that equals the amount of money they received. Also holiday pay on termina- tion of employment is classed as earnings and thus affects benefits. This is particularly hard on the already hard-press- ed construction workers, many of whom.change jobs two, three and even four times a year due’ to the nature of their work. A hard hat, under the new act, cannot plana holiday with his wife and children. If his wife works she too has company regulated holidays. Further- more, children cannot be yank- ed out of school at any time. As Trade Winds, the magazine of Local 46 of the Plumbers and Steamfitters, put it, ‘construc- tion workers are “subsidizing” the UIC funds to the tune of many thousands per month. UIC benefits became taxable this year. But one Peterboro worker who received his Nov- ember and December 1971 bene- fits in January will have to pay tax on them. How many other workers are in the same boat? Most Ontario locals of UE were represented at the discus- sion which resulted in two reso- lutions. The first was put for- ward by C. S: Jackson, UE Na- __Holdups deliberate’ Snare ent ereee “we demand to know why persons who have establisheded their entitlement to insurance have to wait three months or more for their cheque,” David Archer of the Ontario Federa- tion of Labor told the press. “We believe this delay to be deliberate. About a year ago the commission issued a directive to all offices demanding a crack- down on what they called ‘chis- ellers’, persons receiving unem- ployment insurance cheques il- legally. The unions were consult- ed when this campaign started and we stated we would not be party to a witch-hunt. We said if there were persons receiving cheques illegally, then there must be something radically wrong with the administrative machinery of the UIC. “It would appear that some branches have taken the direc- tive so seriously that they have devised a quota system of turn- ing back claims to prove to their superiors. that they are faithful- ly carrying out their directives. We called the UIC office and were . assured that a certain cheque was in the mail. Two weeks la- ter the claimant called to say he hadn’t received his cheque. When asked about the letter he received, he said it was just an- other form to fill in that he had filled in twice before. We could multiply this experience many times. over.” SISAR Uneiploned waiting Gulside ‘8 ey A aE tional president, which said that “locals should canvass their unemployed members to asecertain the problems they are experiencing with UIC claims,” so that the information can form the basis for future repre- sentation to government. The second resolution urged locals to send delegations to municipal councils “to focus at- tention on the plight of the job- less”. It was felt that local gov- ernments would be responsive to the union’s position on need- ed changes in the UIC Act, “as public assistance to those who should be on unemployment benefits was driving up welfare costs and forcing municipalities to cut back vital services in other areas.” UE Research: Director Norm Ferguson suggested that further such seminars be held to deal with growing experience of lo- cals on this problem and to deal with other emerging problems of the UIC Act. UE composite local 523, rep- resenting about 2,000 workers in a dozen plants in the Welland area, made representation to the civic body on Feb. 15, asking that Welland City Council “de- mand that federal government immediately adopt special meas- ures to speed up payment of unemployment benefits.” A mo- tion by Alderman Bruce Smith, who is also a business agent of the local, which was _ unani- mously endorsed by council, asked that “the federal depart- ment of manpower and immigra- tion be petitioned to speed up payment of unemployment in- surance. claims.” Already at Bathurst, New Brunswick, on the impoverished North Shore a two day sit-in was held by about 200 at the lo- cal UIC offices. Most of the pro- testors were Acadian French who are the hardest hit by un- employment. They were drag- ged away by Mounties and local cops. In Toronto 30 demonstra- tors picketed UIC offices on Hol- ly St. A 23-year old Toronto recep- tionist was going to take her UIC problem to CBC television. She was scheduled to go on the air when Minister of Manpower Bryce Mackasey heard about it. He asked for her name and so- cial security number “so that the minister will have a bit of background.” On the afternoon of the scheduled CBC broadcast, a UIC official delivered a che- que for $240 to her Wellesley St. home. The young woman commented “I reckon that must be about the first house call UIC ever made.” Protests, do help. ~ PACIFIC TRIBUNE-—FRIDAY,, MARCH 10, 1972—PAGES.