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TRUDEAU LOOKS
WRONG WAY

Prime Minister Trudeau's
‘statement that the government
Intends to curtail expenditures
the name of combating in-
Gtidn does not augur well for
the Canadian people. It has
dy declared it will cur-
federal - provincial cost -
ring programs. Now pres-
S are mounting to impose
means test on family allow-

‘The government is looking
in the wrong direction to at-
inflation. It is not people’s
hasing power, already too
s which is a source of the
em, but the arms prog-
and defense expendi-
both here and in the ca-
Glist world. This is the area
should be drastically
giled. Moreover, were the
Government to undertake
democratic reform of the tax
stem, ample funds would be
‘Wailable to expand social se-
Curity and undertake a mean-
ingful war against poverty.

illiam Kashtan, Leader,
Communist Party of Canada

1ONALIZE BREWERIES

It is not good enough. for
1 Basford, Minister of Con-
er Affairs, to say there are
Ws to prevent take-overs
multi-national corporations,
eference to reports that the
Morris Company is going
tchase Canadian Brew-

“If this is true then emer-
gency legislation should be
adopted by Parliament to put
a stop to foreign control of
Canadian industry and natural
resources. The fact is, however,
that legislation was adopted to
prevent foreign ownership and
control of the banks, the press,
the transportation and com-
munication system. Why can it
not be extended to cover other
sectors of the Canadian eco-
nomy?

“These multi-national corpo-
rations and conglomerates are
a menace to Canada’s sover-
eignty and independence as
they are a threat to the well-
being of the Canadian people.
Their economic and _ political
power makes it possible for
them to interfere with econo-
mic, social and foreign trade
policies of governments and
parliament, to set prices at will

and weaken collective bargain-

ing.

“Under Liberal and Conser-
vative governments the coun-
try, its resources and wealth,
have been bartered away piece
by piece to American inter-
ests. If this keeps up, before
too long there will be nothing
left to sell.

“Instead of telling the Cana-
dian people why nothing can
be done, the Trudeau govern-
ment must be impelled by pub-
lic pressure to put a stop to
the give-aways and the take-
overs. Instead of Canadian
Breweries being taken over by
a multi-national corporation, it
should be publicly operated
and its profits used to develop

Canadian sports, Canadian

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culture and help finance edu-
cation. In New Zealand the
breweries are a public utility.
Why not in Canada? Moreover
the Anti-Combines Act should
be strengthened to deal with
the menace of monopoly be it
multi-national, conglomerate
or any other form of mono-
poly.”

Central Executive Committee,

Communist Party of Canada.

WHAT TIME IS “SUITABLE”?

Mr. T. C. Douglas (Nanai-
mo-Cowichan-The Islands):

1. At the NATO Ministerial
meeting held in Washington
last week, did the Canadian
Government make strong rep-
resentations denouncing the
military Greek Government for
violating the European human
rights convention through op-
pression and torture and, if
not, for what reason?

2. Did any other member
countries of NATO express
their concern regarding activi-
ties of the military Government
of Greece?

Mr. Jean-Pierre Goyer (Par-
liamentary Secretary of State
for External Affairs): No. In the
view of the Government, the
Washington meeting was not
a suitable occasion on which
to comment on such matters.

There was no specific refer-
ence to Greece or its govern-
ment in the statements of any
of the representatives at the
Washington meeting.

House of Commons,
_ May 7, 1969.

Disarm the police

On Monday, May 5, at 1.30 a.m., a shot rang
out in the Yonge-Eglinton area of Toronto and
Angelo Nobrega, a young Portuguese immi-
grant, lay dead on the street.

_Nobrega was unarmed. He was guilty of no

crime. Yet at the tender age of twenty his life
was snuffed out in a split second by a bullet
through the brain.
_ There will be an inquest, we are told. At that
inquest the record of who was right and who
was wrong will be put straight, we are led to
believe.

But Angelo Nobrego is dead and detective
Kevin Boyd, who pulled the trigger, is alive. It
will be small consolation for Angelo Nobrega
and his family and friends if the inquest pins
the blame on Detective Boyd.

Indeed if the inquest is to serve a useful
purpose at all for the citizens of Toronto, if it
is to make any meaningful retribution to the
Portuguese community which is inflamed over
the tragedy, it will echo the demand of Liberal
MPP for Dovercourt, Dante Demonte, who call-
ed for the disarming of the police.

There is much more than a suspicion in the
minds of most people that police mentality is
very much shaped by the comfortable bulge of
a revolver on their hip. This, after all, as the
case of pres? Nobrega graphically illustrates,
is the clinching argument the policeman has in
the pursuance of his duties.

In the city of Hamilton, five young workers
are before the bar of justice charged with mur-
dering a policeman with his own gun. The case
is before the courts and it is not within the realm
of this paper to speculate on some of the pecu-
liar circumstances surrounding it. It is indisput-
able. however, that if the police had not been
armed when they staked out the house where
the youth were partying, there would have been
no dead policeman. No one else had a gun.

Immigrant workers, and working people
generally have a nagging conviction that there
is a class and discriminatory approach to the
activities of police forces. Jose Rafael, president
of the Portuguese Immigrant Aid Society, put
it this way: “If that had been a Cadillac, what
do you think? . . .” Someone from the audience
of people gathered at a protest meeting said,
“Rich guys drive Cadillacs. Police don’t bother
rich guys.”

Police are supposed to be the servants of
the people. The taxes of the people, mostly work-
ing people, finance their operations to make the
streets safe to walk on and keep to a minimum
the overation of criminal elements.

They are not paid to harass innocent people,
immigrant people, and to prey on the organized
labor movement by herding scabs through their
nicket lines. and hurling deadly Mace gas into
their peaceful demonstrations.

They ‘are not hired to put bullets into the
heads of innocent twentv-year-olds.

Let us disarm the police as an initial step to-
wards making them servants of the people, not
bullies in the defense of propertied interests.

“Yes, we do have a job with good pay, good hours and
good holidays; it happens to be mine!”

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