COMMUNIST PARTY MAY DAY STATEMENT

_ On this May Day, 1973, the Commun-

ist Party of Canada extends greetings

and a pledge of firm solidarity with the

anadian working class in its struggle

nie pees: independence, and democratic
a

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. Unemployment and inflation are
‘Win evils of state-monopoly capital-
a Both have the effect of robbing
ue working class of the benefits de-
Tived from increased productivity.
Jnder monopoly control new produc-
10n methods and physical speed-up re-
Sult in loss of jobs for the workers and
sigher profits for monopoly. To add
Msult to injury, workers’ wages are
rubject to confiscatory State taxes,
taken from pay envelopes before they
Borie their pay. A growing part of

€ taxes collected by the State from

€ working people is used to subsidize
Monopoly profits.

full employment is needed. A job for
every Canadian man or woman, or an
adequate income as a right.

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Monopoly price-fixing and profiteer-
ing, coupled with government mone-
tary and fiscal policies aimed to facil-
itate and subsidize corporate profits at
the expense of the working class and
the majority of the population are the
main reasons for inflation. Non-produc-

tive spending, such as armaments, adds.

to an abnormal expansion of the money
supply. All this, plus large-scale cur-
se manipulation and speculation
results in the rapid decline in the value
of the dollar. This erosion of the buying
power of wagés is the evil that must be
combatted.

To know what steps must be taken to
combat rising prices, taxes and infla-
tion, it is essential to know the real
causes of inflation. It is a lie that infla-
tion is a product of rising wages. The

For Peace, Jobs, Indep

endence!

truth is that the buying power of wages

is eroded by inflation.

The real culprit is monopoly profit-
eering. Tying wages to productivity,
over which labor has no control under a

private profit-system, merely enhances:

monopoly profiteering. The only way
workers can protect the buying power
of wages is to struggle for more wages

at the expense of profits. This, together

with a sustained and tenacious fight
against rising prices and taxes, is the
only way the working class can com-
bat the effects of inflation and protect
the purchasing power of wages.

* * *

To create full employment requires
a new national policy of industrializa-
tion and balanced economic expansion.
The basis for such a policy is democratic
ownership and control of our natural
resources and sources of energy. This,
in turn means putting an end to foreign

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a new national policy to promote

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eandiaat © — The left coalition.
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On Sy ere
alaliin, w@day, giving the elector-
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was regarded as a clear setback
for Premier ,Kakuei Tanaka and
his ruling . Liberal-Democratic
Party; Tanaka had . intervened
personally in the Nagoya race to
campaign for the LDP candidate.
The winner, however, was Masao.
Motoyama, 62, a former profes-
sor of education at Nagoya Uni-
versity.

Press working-class
policies—Kashtan

While some gains have been achieved, the basic issues confronting the Cana-
dian people are still unresolved, said William: Kashtan, general secretary of the
Communist Party of Canada, commentifg about the session of Parliament now

‘adjourned until May 7.

The results of the parliamentary session so far,” he said, “suggest that a min-

. ority government may have some value under certain conditions, and be com,el-

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led to press for legislation more in the interests of the ee
“This has also been noted by a number of papers, which have begun to take up

Protesters win round

dump Tory energy tax

To
toroan ONTO — Public pressure
a Prong mo Tories to cancel
ena et Seven percent tax
ers oa Sources for domestic
Rdpet b Ich was part of the
John yy prought in by Treasurer
Pa, "tite last week at Queen’s

C

Dittee ope the Ontario Com-

Which sy the Communist Party
acted immediately to

the Goy,
nd °™Mment announcement

ri
ture a the Ontario Legisla-
Op Apri} 192 150-strong picket
anizati 2 (See photo) people's
‘Nee Ons across the prov-
the HuréS into action against
witi-poyeets led by Ontario’s
ember Y coalition whose
ites into weanizations __ fired
lpeg ‘ © the Legislature and
tig Cie Movements in On-
Ih ee and towns.
leg b wy, mass petitioning,
tythe Wh te businessmen, drew
© Nia Ole area population. In
ne ae Peninsula 300 peo-
tact to ou together and threat-
tneether t off their power al-
© Bove and Simultaneously, if
iA Tore ment did not relent.
for onto Meeting was call-
—wesday, April 24° by

AND UNITED TRADE UNION MOV

the Ontario Anti-Poverty coali-
tion to discuss mass action
against the sales tax increase.

e

Deluge of Protests

MLA’s, home for the Easter
recess were deluged with pro-
tests from their communities
and many Conservative back-
benchers indicated they would
vote against the proposal for
extending the sales tax to do-
mestic energy when it came up
in the house. The government

was faced with a real crisis”

when even members of the cabi-
net publicly expressed their dis-
agreement with White’s budget.

In Hamilton the Labor Coun-
cil unanimously condemned the
sales tax and delegates heard
members to the Council call for
mass action at Queen’s Park to
back up the condemnation.

It was against this back-
ground that Wm. Davis rose in
the House at 2 p.m., April 24,
to announce that the govern-
ment was. withdrawing the
seven percent energy tax alto-
gether.

the propositions advanced by the Communist Party to make parliament work for

the people.

TRIBUNE PHOTO — CHRISTIAN
Among the marchers at a Queen’s Park demonstration called April
17 by the Ontario Communist Party to protest the provincial budget
are, |. to r.: William Kashtan, CP general secretary, Lillian lomaki,
and Violet Dewhurst. Faced with mass opposition, Provincial Treas-
urer John White was forced to withdraw the proposed 7g tax on
energy resources for domestic use.

SOVEREIGN

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Mr. Kashtan observed that,
“The Toronto Globe and Mail
is now trying to draw a balance
on the situation. It fears that the
Trudeau government is making
too many concessions to the
NDP and the working people of
Canada, and wants the Conser-
vatives to adopt a more positive
attitude to the government in
the sense of advancing amend-
ments to various questions and
thereby influencing. legislation
in a right-wing direction. The
Globe and Mail also wants Par-
liament to work,” he said, “but
for monopoly.

“This . undoubtedly _corres-
ponds to the view of monoply
interests throughout the coun-
try, who think the government
is giving away too much to the
NDP and to the working people
in order to stay in power.

“The fact is, however, that
while some limited gains have
been achieved so far, the basic
issues confronting the Canadian
people are still unresolved,” Mr.
Kashtan said. .

While he noted that “much
has been made about the decline

in unemployment,” he pointed .

out that “it is still high, at 5.

of the labor force. And 10.3% of

those unemployed are in the age

group of 15 to 24 years of age;

eight to nine percent of the un-
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