~ Parliament must act

Continued from page 5

brought into Canada via the
multi-national and transnational
corporations. and their branch
plants in Canada. Inflation arises
as well from state monopoly re-
gulation of the economy. In both
areas effective measures aimed
at curbing the multi-national
corporations and monopoly con-
trol over the economy through
various forms of democratic con-
trol and nationalization, would
begin to get at the virus of in-
flation.
é :

Instead of this approach the
false conclusion is made that
wages are responsible for infla-
tion. Irresponiible statements
are made that wages should be
restrained, when in fact it is
monopoly power and monopoly
profiteering which should be re-
strained.

Another false conclusion is
that a restraint on government
expenditure would curb inflation.
Expenditures on socially useful
‘projects such as housing, denti-
care and pharmacare and on the
expansion of the economy do not
create inflation. They create
jobs, improve the quality of life,
and raise living standards. On
the other hand expenditures on
the arms program or the financ-
ing of monopoly owned capital
investment programs by the
State aggravate inflationary ten-

- dencies.

The present government policy
of “moderate restraints” and
high interest rates when policies
are required to assure full em-
ployment, has already resulted
in “no growth,” to rising unem-
ployment, particularly in hous-
ing with over 8,000 woodwork-
ers in B.C. laid off, and to grow-
ing unemployment in other jin-
dustries,

Nor can inflation be licked by
deflationary policies. The Cana-
dan people have already had a
taste of such policies in the
reecnt past with its consequent
mass unemployment PLUS infla-

_ tion,
®

Until and unless a basic attack
is made on the sources of infla-
tion the Canadian people will
continue to be plagued by infla-
tion, stagflation, recession, de-
pression, :

We believe Parliament has a
respensibility. to make such a
basic attack on the causes of in-
flation.

It is with this in mind that the
Communist Party proposes:

1. CURB INFLATION without
creating unemployment. This is
possible provided there is far
reaching redistribution of the na-
tional income at the expense of
monopoly profits and the multi-
national corporations.

This process can be begun -by
policies directed to roll back
prices on foodstuffs, rent, hous-
ing, clothing and by curbing mo-
nopoly profiteering and price
rigging.

It can be started by policies
of democratic taxation based on
ability to pay, by the adoption
of a guaranteed annual income,
by guaranteeing markets and in-
come for farmers and by a crash
program of low cost public
housing.

It can be begun by encourag-
ing and supporting the efforts of
workers and their trade unions
to win substantial wage _in-
creases, substantial enough to
protect them from the inflation-
ary price spiral and increased
productivity, and by a firm dec-
laration by Parliament that it
upholds and defends the collec-
tive bargaining rights of all

workers.

It can be begun by cost of
living clauses adjusted quarterly

in all social payments and by
increasing Unemployment Insur-
ance payments to 80% of earn-
ings, this too adjusted quarterly.

2. ACHIEVE FULL EMPLOY-
MENT based on policies which
will assure continuous and bal-
anced economic growth in all
parts of Canada. Such policies
should be based on the process-

‘ing of raw materials in Canada

and the building of secondary
industry at the source of these
resources. It should include the
adoption of an all Canadian
Transportation Policy based on
public ownership ‘of all means
of transportation, starting with
the CPR, ensure transportation
as a service to the Canadian peo-
ple whilst eliminating inequali-
ties in freight rates. It should
include an all Canadian Energy
Policy likewise based on public
ownership of all energy re-
sources, with these resources
and raw materials constituting
a firm basis upon which to build
a strong industrial bi-national
state. :

Such policies in our view, will
help strengthen Canadian. inde-
pendence particularly now, when
there is growing pressure on
Canada to accept “continental-

.ism” as the basis of economic

policy and to in effect hand over

Canada’s energy and natural re-

sources to the USA. The last
thing Canada needs today is a
policy of continentalism or a
“common market” with the
USA. What are really required
are policies which buttress its
ability to act as an independent
and sovereign bi-national. state
in the world. The establishment
of a Canadian Petroleum Cor-
poration as part of an all Cana-
dian Energy Policy based on pub-
lic_ ownership would move in
that direction. So would the ef-
fective strengthening of the For-
eign Investment Review Act, to
stop, once and for all, continued
foreign control and take over of
any sector of the Canadian eco-
nomy and the land. Rather than
a Common Market Canada
should expand its trade, cultural
and scientific exchanges with all
countries on a mutually benefi-
cial basis.

3. PEACE AND TRADE are
good antidotes to inflation. It is
in Canada’s interests to work to
make detente irreversible on the
economic, politcal and military
fronts. As steps in that direction
Canda should withdraw from
the arms race and from NORAD.
This would be a good way to at-
tack inflation and “wrestle it
into the ground.” Canada should

call “finis” to the cold war by

undertaking diplomatic recogni-
tion of the German Democratic
‘Republie, by recognition of the
Democratic Republic of Korea,
and by the recognition of the
Revolutionary People’s Govern-
ment of South Vietnam on the
basis of the Paris Peace Treaty.

We firmly believe that the. pol-
icies outlined here can protect
the Canadian people from the
ravages of the inflationary price
spiral, from economic policies
which lead to recession and de-
Pression, strengthen Canadian
independence, and make Canada
a more vital force for peace and
security.

Working people in city and
countryside will never forgive or
forget a Parliament and govern-
ment which placed the burden
of recession on their backs.

Working people are determin-
ed, and rightly so, to protect

themselves and their families

from an inflationary price spiral
for which they are not respon-
sible.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1974—Page 10

_ Continued from page 5

Feb. 1973. When one couples
this with their demand for 58
cents in 1974, which would give
them-a total of 84 cents, one
can see that their demands are
anything but inflationary. Fire-
stone ‘~nd Goodyear are two of
the biggest monopolies in our
country, and monopolies in gen-
eral are experiencing record pro-
fits, which are increasing at an
annual rate of 28%, while the
real wages of workers have been
declining at an annual rate of
5.6%.

A nation-wide boycott of all
Firestone ‘and Goodyear pro-
ducts, called for by the U.R.W.,
warrants the support of every
worker. Organized labor in turn
has the responsibility of carry-
ing the message into their com-
munities and gathering the sup-
port .of all other democratic
forces. The actions of 16 locals
of the United Rubber Workers in
picketing the border crossings
at Fort Erie on Sept. 5 are signs
of the determination being ex-
pressed by the workers.

At a recent meeting of Local
232 of Goodyear Workers, Wil-
liam Punnett, Canadian Director
of the union was censored by
the membership, a further sign
of the workers’ determination to
win through to a. contract that
satisfies their needs.

At a meeting held at the Team-

By FILS DELISLE

Political observers have in
recent weeks had an unusual op-
portunity to assess the sharp
differences between the divisive
and anti-detente line of the Pe-
king Maoists and the internatio-
nal solidarity advocated and
practiced between the socialist
countries of Europe and the re-
volutionary and liberation forces
of Asia. ;

The contrast between the two
policy trends has been clearly
spelled out by the much publiciz-
ed trip to China of Helmut Kohl,
chairman of the reactionary CDU
Party in the Federal Republic of
Germany and the weeklong visit
in the German Democratic Re-
public of a delegation of the
Republic of South Vietnam.

During Kohl’s nine days in
China as a guest of the Peking
governent, Maoist leaders openly
assured Him that they “under-

Stand and support” ‘the ultra

right, revanchist and anti-detente
Policies of his party and the al-
lied CSU. They joined with him
im oppositing detente with the
Soviet Union. And they declared
flatly that they endorsed the
stand of the rightist ultras in the
FRG that there could be no two
German states and no two devel-
oping German nations.
‘Common’ Front

These anti-GDR statements
and the call for a Western im-
perialist front against the Soviet
Union and the socialist world
were repeated a number of times
by _Teng Hsiao Ping, deputy
chairman of the State Council,
and Chiao Kuan Hua, deputy for-
eign minister, At a banquet for
Kohl they even Proposed a toast
“to the one and only German
nation,” meaning the FRG.

Kohl, delighted with this as-
tounding support for the revan-
chist program, kept issuing
statements praising Peking’s
anti-GDR and anti-detente po-
sition at every opportunity on
his way home, then in Bonn,

then in press and TV interviews.

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sional

sters Hall in Hamilton, sponsor-
ed by Local 113, and . which
brought, together rubber work-
ers, steelworkers, _ electrical
workers, autoworkers, team-
sters, building trades workers,
civic workers and workers from
the American Can, feelings were
expressed for the need to bring
to the public at large the issues

in the strike, and to rally com- .

munity support for the striking
workers. At its regular meeting
on Sept. 19 the Hamilton and
District Labour Council endors-
ed a full page advertisement in
the local paper, in support of
striking Firestone workers and

reaffirmed their support ©
demands. at
Tire imports have inet
between 1972 and 1973 BY
During the current sti
parent companies of oe
plants have been dump nati
erican tires on the
market. This calls for 4
on the federal govern”
take immediate steps t0
importation of prodta
Canada that are beiné af
replace lost production ?
sult of the strikes at
and Goodyear, a 4
forward by Stephen Lé
meeting in Hamilton te

Upsurge in strike action

Continued from page 5
compulsory’ arbitration. The
workers eventually voted ‘to re-
turn to work and wait the deci-
sion of the arbitrator. Even so
over 1,000 voted to continue to
defy the law and it is uncertain
what will happen if the arbi-
trator fails to come up with a
decent settlement.

A readiness to defy provincial
laws denying the right to strike
has also been shown by other
workers and professions, with
achers, hospital workers and
civil servants all prepared to

defy these anti-democratic laws.

Teachers demonstrated 40,000-

Those in the FRG who refuse
even today to accept the out-
come of the Second World War,
who continue to clamor for ter-
ritories belonging to Czecho-
slovakia, Poland and the USSR,
and who call for the swallowing
up of the GDR by the FRG, en-

thusiastically applauded the sup- '

port given them now so openly
by Peking. More sober observers,
however, noted that-the Peking
Maoists’ blasts at the sovereign-
ty and integrity of the socialist
GDR run counter to the body of
agreements on German ques-
tions and the attitude of U.N.
and the world.
Vietnamese Praise Aid

- While Peking leaders were en-
livening Kohl’s stay in China
wtih their attacks on the GDR
and the socialist world, the dele-
gation of the Republic of South
Vietnam visiting the GDR was
talkng along completely differ-
ent lines. It reached agreement
with GDR leaders on further
support for the struggle of the
South Vienamese Republic and
assured socialist Germany of its
profound friendship.

The head of the delegation
was Nguyen Huu Tho, chairman
of the Presidium of the National
Front for the Liberation of
South Vietnam, and chairman of
the Consultative Council of the
Provisional Revolutionary Gov-
ernment of the South Vietnam-
ese Republic,

Tho praised the successes of
the working people in the GDR
in building a developed socialist
society. He declared that in the
joint anti-imperialist struggle,
close and comradely relations
had developed between the GDR
and the Republic of South Viet-
nam. In the name of the Provi-
Revolutionary Govern-
ment and all South Vietnamese
patriots, he thanked the Socialist
Unity Party, the GDR govern-
ment and people ‘for the frater-
nal solidarity and support at all
times given the Republic of
South Vietnam.”

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cember and_ hospital és
after a very skillful rs
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demanding a 61.5% int ot
one year have voted 10 a
the Davis government
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work as of Jan. 1, 1970
CUPE Locals 79 and bet
failed to win sufficient tion
creases to offset infla Oi
now demanding wage Fe™

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the question has beer ade
Why thas the Peking ! ec!
delivered itself of sue
tions that run counjer
whole trend in the W®
why through such any
reactionary as Helm
Neues Deutschland, Uni
paper of the Socialist ol
ty here, has given the eat
answer: “It is by no MY.
cidental that Kohl wa
to Peking precisely ar:
ment, and that the polit
CDU/CSU_ was pra
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socialist community US
gathered round the
creases, and the process
national relaxation adv a,
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to throw the world oe
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WORKERS DEMONS?
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of their factory for y
on Sept. 20, where the
to cars and office
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