rs, By ALAIN PATRIE “describing imperialism Len- Wrote that “uneven economic Political development is an fie law of capitalism. This eof course to the socio- aa picture of Canada and a hited States. This “uneven “0pment,” is characterized Snly over the long term his- oie Period but also in brief ed Matic zig zags that are re- 4 to international trade. othr . of the prime contenders i power among the im- oe . nations is Japan. In her sen €ague romp to power and ae her need for resources eae sharp. Natural re- ' S feed the belly of indus- ] with (P29 has turned to Canada “Metal Slgantic orders for coal, a and wood. The trade that — these demands has alutary effect on seg- ets of our eronauiye : “of ca of course, is only one aM nations who have “‘dis- nadi our nation’s wealth. tea a Capitalists have been able to selling our birth- ealth, exchange for instant » Their alacrity precludes a 5 a bo nsideration for the vast < ey, rine from these sales bY the ae long run will suffer Oss ij Sources of these irreplaceable transitory effect of this 0 ne has a primary effect on Nomy pency: The Canadian eco- the esins to look attractive Patti International speculator. nt he fularly with the develop- Nee Of a favorable trade bal- terms € Canadian dollar in HH very a Potential profit becomes tigg tractive. The sharks and Of the financial world this monetary strength. Occasions have arisen in auto €rmany where the as- Valuat the mark finally forced Con ion: versely the American eco- es Odes nothing but ill. The The collar continues to erode. Overnment has moved very oble a dealing with economic On in 8. The war-caused infla- an the U.S. has been greater ilar a om fVen Mi ot June 1, when Finance Nouns Benson made a Sunday : Feecent that unpegged the ime ag dollars. Up to that " di American could buy a a dollar for 92 cents. Xt day he could sell it for By CHARLES MASCOT a read between what the § What ects for his produce and Roca, Worker pays has right- Write, ved much attention. The hate ea tke to carry this 3 er, by its very nature can Produced in large-scale NS such as set into mo- thtnes amounts of capital. Per ati € ever increasing scale of Vey tea and the application of Unit . Proving. technique the ; Oneybs 1s continually reduced. ‘Vany.” 2288, however, taking ad- ang 4 of his strong economic “onono Itical position charges ay Prices — all the traffic e Pera y: ion tio With ct €r of Canadians who will . a : 1 ghyWhere else. “Cont Ae all these ingredients that | uted to the dramatic 96 or 97 cents. ; In essence what had happened was in the best tradition of ca- pitalist speculation and _profit- eering. The internationalists had- read the signs right and descend- ed with an avalanche of buying Canadian dollars. Unexpectedly Canada hada glut of U.S. dollars. So much so that it seriously en- dangered the economy and might have contributed to more infla- tion. To have continued on this course Ottawa would have had to print more dollars and truly caused severe dislocation. There was no other solution but to unpeg the Canadian dol- lar. As the dollar floats freely with supply and demand there is a release on the incredible buy- ing of the dollar since the profit margin begins to shrink, Mean- while some capitalists have made a neat fortune. Besides the villainous manipu- lation and fortune making by the financier, what are the con- sequences of all this on the peo- ple of Canada? How will the working people fare after all these events? True, on the sur- face there seems to be no un- toward effect. If anything the pleasant prospect of cheaper American dollars appeals to those who intend to spend some holidays in the U.S. Effects on One of the instant effects is in our exports. If an American could buy our commodity for 92 cents it will now cost him 97 cents or more. Thus disabled, our manufacturing industries will have to pay for this and in turn will force the workers to pay. . : Canada imports over a billion dollars worth of foodstuffs and large quantities of manufactur- ed goods from the U.S. Since it is now cheaper to buy these foreign goods, there is every rea- son to see the imports increase to the detriment of our farmers and workers. : It is a two-edged knife that finance capital, Canadian version, uses. Our monopolists drain the resources out of our country for instant profit and then drain our human resources with every ¢xX- ploitive trick imaginable. State monopoly capital cares little even for the small Canadian manufacturers and less for the Canadian worker. Anyone who contemplates a cheaper vacation in the United States this summer better think again. It may cost far more than he bargained for. | Labor-farmer interests Steel not only enters directly into the manufacture of many consumers’ goods, but is widely used in the manufacture of the means of both consumption and production, also transportation. Among other industries that concern us here are petroleum and chemicals. The farmer must pay monopoly prices for his machinery and chemicals. Both the farmer and the worker must pay monopoly prices for their personal and family needs. In passing, it can be mentioned that with increasing agricultural specialization there is a decreas- ing variety of home grown food- stuffs available to farm families. Both the working farmer and . the worker must pay an inordi- nate proportion of taxes. Much of the tax money is squandered in the means of destruction, in preparation for imperialist war. Both farmer and worker must pay monopoly prices for build- ing and maintenance materials. Housing is not only involved with the heavy taxation men- tioned, but under capitalism is almost inextricably entangled -in many kinds of speculation and racketeering. It is not intended here to take the heat off the processor and distributors of foodstuffs, nor such interests as metal fabricat- ing. They surely ‘get theirs.” Furthermore, with the rise of the irational conglomerate: form of monopoly-capital, capitalist po- litical economy becomes entan- gled indeed. The better organized workers do not make any gains that they have made at the expense of the farmers. Neither do they do so at the expense of the unorgan- ized, unemployed or pensioned workers. What is true is that when any séction of the working people fails to support another . section under attack it is work- ing against itself. This is, of course, far more true when we repeat capitalist canards, to say nothing of farmers and workers working against one another. British bureaucracy in Ottawa By GEORGE THOMPSON A policy which’ frustrates many Canadians — not only Quebecers — is the deliberate fostering of a British bureaucra- tic clique in the Federal Govern- ment by the Canadian and for- eign rich who control the coun- try. The reactionary Immigration Department and pro-British hir- ing policies in the Federal civil service have combined to create an administrative hierarchy with no ties at all with the working people of Canada, French or English speaking. Faithful hatchet men for the ~ rich, they attempt to govern Canada in the style of a colonial regime. It is no accident that ex- British colonialists including bu- reacurats and army officers abound in the Federal Govern- ment. This is not an anti-British diatribe. The traditions brought here by British working class immigrants have been progres- sive. But what about the Federal “Oxbridge” and ex-British offi- cer type who executes the anti- human policies of the Govern- ment and who is so prominent in Federal agencies such-as the CBC. Thisis the kind of British brain drain the Canadian people can well do without. Or’ even the servile top journalists in the Ottawa press gallery who swim among their British confreres in the civil service like fish in the sea. The British agent in the Fed- eral Government is fanatically anti-Quebec and dutifully learns French only with the aim of in- _tegrating as few French-speak- iig bureaucrats as possible jnto the machinery of oppression. Because of him, B and B is a farce. Progressives can sympathize with Réné Lévesque’s experien- ces in attempting to deal with these tight-lipped neo-colonial- ists when he was a Quebec ca- binet minister. Some Quebecers it drives to drink, others to sep- aratism. - oS Even more can progressives sympathize with the Indians and Eskimos administered by the super-colonialist,, British-man- ned Department of Indian Af- fairs, which appears to work hand-in-hand with ‘the HBC (Here Before Christ) to oppress the natives. These British bureaucrats too often stand ‘between the Cana- dian working people and the super-rich who steal billions a - year from their victims. They are at the retail of the mon- strous apparatus of government oppression and should be the last to be surprised that they consti- tute the visible enemy for a big part of the French-speaking na- tion and the indigenous Cana- dians. : Well paid, super-brainwashed, servile and with a huge capacity. to whore it up, the “Anglo- phone” clique’s days are num- bered. The hatred engendered by the policies they administer is aimed right at these inhuman agents of imperialism. ; Joint manifesto in Quebec State care, not medicare MONTREAL — A system of state medicine, not medical care insurance, is the united demand of over 600,000. Quebec grganiz- ed workers, farmers and teach- ers. The joint manifesto issued last week by the Quebec Federa- tion of Labor, the Confederation of National Trade Unions, the Quebec Teachers’ Corporation and the Catholic Farmers’ Un- jon rejects outright the medi- care bill introduced by Que- bec’s new Liberal government. Earlier, QFL president ‘Louis Laberge declared: “The Bouras- sa government should have no illusions. Organized -workers will not accept a public medical care insurance plan that does not recognize the rights they have already won in their nego- tiations with private enterprise _..A plan of medical care must be a public service and neither ‘a philanthropic venture nor one designed to be financially profit- able to the doctors.” His statement followed the decision by Quebec’s big busi- ness government to cut costs by suspending 98 of 120 hospital projects. Said Quebec Liberal Health Minister Claude Caston- guay in announcing this callous decision, “The demand is ex- tremely elastic in this sector. The more beds available, the more the people are ill to fill them.” Publication of the Quebec labor-farmer-teacher manifesto for a system of state medicine, similar to the British one, mark- ed the opening June 25 of a vast province-wide campaign to or- ganize democratic pressure against the Bourassa govern- ment’s medicare insurance plan. Plans include distribution of hundreds of thousands of pam- phiets, and the holding of pub- lic meetings in more than 20 cities and towns. The solidarity of Quebec’s two organized labor centres — the QFL and the CNTU — with farmers and teachers represents popular rejection of medicare insurance plans of the kind that are deliberately robbing the people of Ontario and ‘several other provinces for the enrich- ment of private insurance Car- ° riers and doctors. Among the principal demands of the state medicine manifesto are: e Payment of all health care professionals through direct government salaries, and aboli- tion of individual medical fee payments. e Comprehensive coverage of all health care costs, including drugs and dentists’ bills. e Abolition of corporate bodies, now secretly negotiating terms of the proposed medical care insurance plan with the Bourassa government on behalf of the various health profes- sions. : e Abolition of all private medical insurance plans which today cover less than half of Quebec’s 6,000,000 population. e Establishment of a Quebec crown corporation that -will manufacture and sell pharma- ceutical products to compete with the pharmaceutical “trust”, with direct government controls over profits in the retail drug industry. * Day care centres imperative OTTAWA — A study entitled | “Working Mothers and Their Child Care Arrangements,” ini- tiated by the Women’s Bureau of the Department of Labor, re- ports that more than one million children under the age of 14 years have mothers who work. The survey reveals that 20% of all mothers working for pay, average two children under the age of 14 each, and comprise nearly 25% of the female labor’ PACIFIC TRI force. Half of the working mo- thers have children under six years of age, half of whom are cared for in their own homes. There are no. regular care ar- rangements for one in 10 child- ren of working mothers. A third of them are taken care of by~ their fathers. In makes out a good case for day care nurseries, which are a state institution in socialist countries# os = a BUNE—FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1970—Page 9.