3 LABOR FRONT § BY. WILLIAM KASHTAN The capitalist press has not taken too kindly to Canadian Congress President Jodoin’s resignation from the National Productivity Council. And from their standpoint this is quite understandable. Ostensibly the National Productivity Council was set up . by the government to examine various problems confronting the Canadian economy. In fact, however, as this column warn- ed at the time, the main purpose of the Council was to devis2 ways and means of developing speed-up and committing the trade union movement to support such measures including others that are positively harmful to the working class. Events have proven that our estimate was correct, that in. The real working class were not dealt with here — problems that have to do with an ex- panding economy and expanding job op- portunities; with automation and _ techno- logical developments in industry and the fact the National Productivity Council was a vehicle of class collaboration through which to glorify speed-up with all its evil consequences for the working class. * * * problems confronting the nance of mass unemployment; with chronic-unemployment; with austerity and its effects on jobs and living standards. On the contrary, the council’s main function, to quote its chairman, George de Young, is to have “labor, management and gOvernment, study economics out of the same book.” What book has he in mind? What possible affinity is there between the economics of monopoly, whose primary interest is maximum profits through, exploitation and rising prices, and the continuing efforts of the working class to maintain a decent standard of living? What possible affinity is there between the economics of monopoly, whose policies lead to mass unemployment, and the ceaseless struggle of the working class for jobs and job secur- ity? What affinity is there between the economics of monopoly and its governments, which strives to weaken the trade union movement through anti-labor legislation and injunctions, and the continuing efforts of the working class and trade union movement to defend and advance its democratic rights? What affinity is there between the economics of monopoly whose policies lead to war, and the ceaseless efforts of the working class to maintain waa * De Young is not the oe one who tries to disarm the working class. Increasingly other voices are being raised that the class struggle is obsolete, that trikes are outmoded, pre- cisely at a time when U.S.-Canadian monopoly is extending its offensive on the } obs, standards and rights of the working class. On a par with the line being advanced by de Young is an editorial in the Toronto Star, entitled, “Point of No Return,” which calls for a wage policy geared to national productivity, a policy which President Kennedy is pressing for in the USA ‘and which the U.S. trade union is striving to break. One can anticipate that proposals for wage restraints and wage freezes will be advanced more and more under the specious argument that labor and management are in the same boat and must sink or swim together. In practice, however, as history has proven time and time again, it is the working class: that is called upon to sink for the glory of more and more pro- fits for monopoly. Class collaboration is a dead-end street for the trade union movement. It is to be hoped, therefore, that President Jodoin’s resignation from the Productivity-Council is more than a ges- ture; that it signifies a recognition, belated as it is, that the new problems and challenges confronting the working class: can only be met by militant policies and a genuinely united. trade union movement. Hydro issue in Quebe The Liberal premier of Quebec, Jean Lesage, has ealled a general provincial election for Wednesday, Nov. 14 and has announced that the main issue will be nation- alization of the 11 power companies operating in the province. The government decision to risk all on this highly. popular issue, came about as no accident. Sam Walsh, Communist Party provincial leader, wrote recently in the Canadian Tribune that Rene Levesque, Lesage’s right hand man and minister of na- tural resources, was stumping the province advocating na- tionalization of hydro power as the prerequisite to the “economic emancipation of Quebec.” It would appear that Le- vesque was doing more listen- ing than advocating, for Le- sage had steadfastly refused Sept. 28, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 2 to commit himself on _ the issue until he was apparent- ly satisfied that the majority of Quebec’s people favored the takeover. JEAN LESAGE g WHAT A PARLIAMENT THAT WOULD BET . 25th PA RLIAMENT MEETS No. 1 Canadian problem Domination by the U.S. CANADIAN TRIBUNE Amid the usual pomp and ceremony and _with the reading of the Speech from the Throne, the first session of Canada’s 25th Parliament will be opened this week, follow- ing which the newly-elected and re-elected MPs will sit down to look into the state of the nation. * They will certainly have a lot to look into, for never since Confederation have this coun- try’s affairs been in such a sorry mess as they are today. The big question is: can we get-out of this mess? This newspaper believes we can, if—and only if — Parliament faces up to the No. 1 problem facing our nation: the domination of our couniry by the United Siates. * * * This issue was very studiously evaded dur- ing the election by each of the parties now in the House, including, regrettably the New Democratic Party. But it cannot be evaded any longer, for it contains the key to the solu- tion of every one of our major problems... Economy — The rate of our industrial out- put has been at a standstill for over five years now. Can we get our economy out of this stag- nation? Yes — but only if we break the stan- glehold the U.S. monopolists now have on, it and chart an independent course for its growth and expansion. Trade — In the recent period we have drop- ped from the first to the eighth place in the world in per capita trade..Can we win back our former position? Yes, but only if we abandon the made-in-Washington policy of cold war in trade and begin trading on a free and equal basis with all countries. Defense — Can the $1.5 billion we spend every year on armaments and war prepara- the war-geared policies of Washington, P out of NATO and NORAD, and declare @ icy of neutrality. : Jobs — Canada’s unemployment is PE© . ly higher than that of any other indus’ nation in the world. But this need not be With a Canadian-orientated economy 1° of a U.S.-dominated one, with money SP. industrial and consumer goods and wo ing projects instead of useless armé : with the entire world as our market, A could readily be found for eVELY Canad * * The prospects of the Sree of U. a qT men ination being dealt with by this session liament, however, are slim indeed. The and the Liberals will steer clear of thi tion because they are the parties of bi8 ~ ness — those very same big Canaaian vit olists who have sold ang are still selling this country to the U.S. financial interests who, in partnership with these interests, led this country into its present state. The Social Credit spokesmen, as cha of untramelled ‘‘free enterprise”’ and op ents of nationalization, certainly won't up this issue. It remains for the New Democr MPs to expose this root cause of our a ills in the House and take up the patt j Canada’s sovereignty and independer® this fight they would win many new and would not be found wanting eh suP anadl from the vast majority of the people. We sincerely hope the NDP challenge. This is a fight that must be up now, without further delay. Every goes by makes the crisis deeper 4” acute and the way out of it that muc™ difficult. At stake is our country’s survival, atic Pie é th meet © + eas will t ok C tions be cut drastically? Yes, if we break with ‘Soviets want peace’-Chisholm — By B. M. VICTORIA “Peace is the most impor- tant word. No other word in our language has such a bearing on, the lives of the present generation and on those of our children who will follow us.” With these words Dr. Brock Chisholm began his report on the World Con- gress of Peace and Disarma- ment to a large and inter- ested audience in Victoria. He stated that a completely new world situation, com- pared to the past, has arisen because ‘‘man used to be able to wage wars of national survival, but now a world war is national suicide and there will be no or very few survivors.” stay in Russia was short, ne was solidly of the opinion, “that Russia and the other Socialist states will avoid war at almost any cost. The U.S.S.R. is completely in- volved in a gigantic develop- ment program and is not in- terested in war. They have nothing to gain and every- thing to lose. In the new development program the country will absorb every- thing it has for a generation or so.” Dr. Chisholm considered the meeting as one of the most successful world peace congresses ever held and said there was great unity among the extremely broad and representative delega- tions on the need to end all He also said that, while his —nuclear testing and to carry out complete and gener armament under strict re national inspection 4? trol. ae He laid particular sg the need for the proad of the people to get } struggle for peace oe governments would P pelled to carry OU wishes. NEW APARTMENT EVERY 13 MINUTES ve A new apartmem je 13 minutes is built ae ingrad at present. exté achieved through the | oo sive industrializatio® — id struction which has ey fp 22,000 new apartme? in the city annually: