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‘ston not simply to beg for
handout but to teach Nixon
owe facts of life as discovered
ivtg ago by Marx and Lenin.
|tyhow, we give the floor to
igtter Desbarats, Ottawa editor
ji! the Toronto Star, in an art-
n@le (Dev. 11) headed, “Did
ixon really understand Pierre
deau?”:
@ This, he says, is what Tru-
c#au said to Nixon:
P “We want an answer to this:
fe you saying that you will
ntinue to want to receive
0m Canada and indeed from
hall the world, interest and divi-
nds coming back into the
Mnited States every. year, and
pot let the rest of the world and
anada pay for that by selling:
Nore goods to you?
#4 “Therefore are you saying
iat you must export long-term
m@merican capital to all coun-
‘Mes of the world?
“In other words, are you say-
(Mg that your economic system
S leading you to try and buy
S:-much of the world as pos-
ble?
| ‘I. don’t think they have
Nought this through,” con-
Nued Trudeau. “You know this
eS real Marxist theory about im-
i@rialism being-the last stage
Of capitalism.”
Later in the interview he re-
e“med to this idea:
I “t think we’re forcing them
mn come to grips with that prob-
‘m. I don’t think that they
vould admit that they are be-
Having as capitalists the way
she Marxists say that they are
having.”
al Thus far we have been quot-
i rs Mr. Desbarats’ quotations
om an interview by Prime
auinister Trudeau. There’s more,
“cluding Trudeau’s reference
M0 a book he read 25 years ago
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Stage of Capitalism” (as a mat-
ter of fact the title is of Len-
in’s brilliant book, while Sweezy
just quoted it), but that’s the
guts of the item.

First is the fact that after
singing hosannahs to all the
various “refuters of” and ”sub-
stitutes for’ Marxism, even
heads of the ship of state are
compelled by the cold and in-
controvertible logic of econo-
mic development (which is at
the bottom of politics) to look
to Marxism for explanations.
Of course, Trudeau is not a
Marxist—but he had to turn to
Marxism to bolster his argument
for a change of policy on the
part of Nixon. in respect to
Canada.

Desbarats is justified in sug-
gesting that Nixon wasn’t really
listening and the Trudeau’s im-
pression that the president
agreed with him was “inane.”

Desbarats says that “the Can-
adian prime minister in fact
asked the president of the Unit-
ed States if he intends to alter
the nature of world capitalism.”

If such a naive question was
entertained, LOENS columnist
James Reston set the matter on
its feet in his column “Neigh-
bor policy” (Toronto Globe &
Mail, Dec. 13):

“For Mr. Nixon, this is a hard
political and foreign
problem. He wants to be re-
elected. Big business in Ameri-
ca is his natural ally. He needs
its financial support. Therefore,
he doesn’t want to interfere
with its freedom to invest in
Canada or anywhere else, but
he cannot avoid this dilemma
between his political interests
and his foreign-policy interests.”

If Mr. Trudeau will delve
deeper into Marxism he’ll find
explanations for that too. The
capitalist system won’t be
changed except by struggle of
the working people, and all who
join the forces of progress.

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policy —

For jobs—in an

independent Canada

What size turkey, if any? What gifts
for the children? For this festive sea-
son, how much, if anything, can the
family budget stand?

The rich laugh at such questions.
Their profits know no seasons. With
their take from the working people’s
labor Canada’s monopolists are bloated
the year round.

They’re not the victims of unemploy-
ment. They create this monster that
like a hated intruder they have forced
into every Canadian worker’s home.

Today unemployment or the threat
of it blights the lives of all our working
people. Jobs, the battle for full employ-
ment policies, is now the most urgent
of all labor’s struggles. It is and will
be increasingly fought around many
conerete demands, as integral parts of
the key struggle for genuine Canadian
independence.

One of these demands was effectively
voiced earlier this month by the Ontario
director of the Canadian Labor Con-
gress. To fight unemployment, “to pro-
duce 1,000,000 new jobs”, Harry Simon,

addressing a conference of labor coun-

cils, urged organized labor to begin
negotiating for a four-day, 32-hour
work week with the same take-home
pay.

We welcome this. It was the Com-
munist Party of Canada, and with it
this paper, that first raised the slogan
of 1,000,000 new jobs that has since won
wide support in the organized labor
movement. To give content to the slo-
gan, a number of concrete demands
were raised that are more than ever
valid in today’s great battle for jobs
or an adequate income for every Can-
adian as a right.

The four-day, 32-hour work week is
one of these demands that include no
wage freeze, a moratorium on plant
closures and layoffs, earlier retirement
with higher pensions.

There is no doubt that as its Ontario
director, Simon was speaking for the
CLC. The harsh realities of today’s
jobs crisis, however, call for this main
body of Canadian organized labor to
undertake much more.

What’s needed is a country-wide cam-
paign for full employment policies of
which the shorter. work week demand
is but one part.

Around the great, unfolding struggle
for genuine Canadian independence,
of which the working class will become
the leading force, the call today is for
new policies. Policies for balanced all-
Canadian industrialization using our
natural resources under Canadian con-
trol and public ownership. New trade
policies for the expansion of Canadian
trade with the socialist countries and
the developing countries, to break the

stranglehold of U.S. imperialism on our

economy and our foreign policy.

When it advanced the need for these
policies, the Communist Party called
on organized labor to lead the fight for
them.

By boldly assuming its great respon-

sibility in this hour the Canadian Labor
Congress will have the support of not
only the 1,700,000 organized workers
it represents but of every Canadian
worker.

‘Anti-communism, the
hosses broken bludgeon

_ Anti-communism, like anti-Sovietism,
is an ideological weapon of reaction in
the class struggle. It’s the bosses’ last
ditch bludgeon, the one they use to try
to divide workers, farmers, all working
people whenever they unite to defend
their interests against those who ex-
ploit them.

Certain right-wing misleaders in the;
labor and farm movements willingly
undertake the dirty assignment of
doing the bosses’ red-baiting for them.
Dennis McDermott, Canadian director
of the United Auto Workers has just
offered an example of this kind of
treacherous conduct in his attempt to
justify the open strikebreaking he and
other International officers of that
union perpetrated against the striking
Douglas Aircraft workers in Malton,
Ontario.

Does McDermott think his rabid anti-
communism can blind the brave mem-
bers of UAW Local 1967 to the fact
that he with Leonard Woodcock, the
UAW president and others of the
union’s International officers have braz-
enly conspired with the U.S. McDon-
nell-Douglas Corporation. to impose
Nixon’s wage freeze on Canadian
workers?

The undisguised dictatorial methods
they used to smash this strike with its
great “no wage freeze!” slogan can’t
be covered up with fiea-bitten, rotten
anti-communism. McDermott no doubt

‘will have to answer to the auto work-

ers for the job he’s done for the bosses
and for U.S. imperialism.

A different kind of leadership, as dif-
ferent as light from darkness, was de-
monstrated in last week’s convention
of the National Farmers Union by its
president, Roy Atkinson.

Denouncing anti-communism as re-
action’s “old game of divide and con-
quer,” Atkinson charged that the aim
of the anti-communist campaign
against the NFU is to get “farmers all
up-tight about some bogey man. It’s the
neatest trick of the age.”

To which we add only, as “neat” as
a coffin!

Neither Canadian monopoly nor U.S.
imperialism, even with their right-wing
“friends”, can ever bury the gathering
unity in action of Canada’s organized
labor and farm movements.

Ain example to follow

The fight for jobs can’t be waged
only in Ottawa and in provincial capi-
tals. That’s what the members of the
United Electrical, Radio and Machine
Workers Union (UE) have effectively
proven.

Their union’s brief on the economic
and jobs crisis has been projected onto
the municipal level in a number of On-
tario cities.

An excellent example for all Cana-
dian trade unions to emulate.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1971—PAGE 3