Higher meal prices
Work of ‘gangsters’
Cabinet minister says

50 years ago...

WHOLESALE ARRESTS
IN NOVA SCOTIA

McLachlan and Dan Liv-

. Jim

- ings,
One, officials of the miners’

Union

Tested of Nova Scotia, were ar-
SDreadion July 6, charged with

“later tH false news, which was

aNd sea ed to by seditious libel
Tae ious conspiracy.

ie ; MacDonald, arrested July

an a with seditious utter-
_% strike meeting at

Mines,

With making “tumul-

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Teak Olses” and with intent to
the peace,

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Dect eh Various charges con
Ihy str} ith Picketing and molest-

Tike breakers,

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Test Wis, 72 years old, ar-

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ww el the Dominion Coal
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© Worker, Aug. 8, 1923

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25 years ago...

PRICES ADVANCE
FASTER IN. CANADA
Frequent use is made by apo-
logists for the high prices in
Canada that “the U.S. is to
blame.” The Parliamentary Com-
mittee used it; the spokesmen for

- free enterprise use it.

But in actual fact, the index of
Canadian prices since 1947 has
increased 10.1 points MORE than
the U.S. comparable price index.
(This is the figure commonly re-
ferred to as the cost of living

index.)
Here are the figures:
CANADA
June. 1948 «orn tercene 154.3
Jan 194) oe 127.0
IMCTEASC | erence 27:3
UNITED STATES
May, 1948 rmnnnnctinree 170.5
Jan 1047. 153.3
INCTEASE  -nrersrrne 17.2

It must be noted in comparing
them that wages are consider-
ably higher in the U.S. than in
Canada, more than compensating
for the slightly higher com-

modities.
Tribune, Aug. 7, 1948

Worth quoting:

at p
Yu g hase 4 really means is that if you have a family of four,

ing phased out.”

—Comments of Milwaukee’s Mayor Henry Maier,
The Milwaukee Journal, July 24, on Nixon's Phase IV.

* Pacifie Tribune

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Editorial Comment...
Still serving U.S. in Indochina

The sham of neutrality of the Cana-
dian government and its team on the
International Commission of Control
and Supervision quickly disintegrated
as the Canadians left Vietnam.

It is betrayal of the Paris Agree-
ments, which recognized two_govern-
ments in South Vietnam, for External
Affairs Minister Sharp to give his gov-
ernment’s blessing and recognition to
Saigon’s master of the torture cham-

ber—Thieu, while refusing to recog-.

nize the Provisional Revolutionary
Government, one of the four major
Paris signatories.

Canadian ICCS members publicly
and eagerly stripped themselves of the
disguise of impartiality behind which
they entered the ICCS, now displaying
the racism and anti-communism in
which they were so well tutored by
their leader, Michel Gauvin, chief ICCS
propagandist for U.S. imperialism.
(Gauvin now sinks back into the job
of ambassador to Canada’s NATO ally,
fascist Greece.)

When the USA failed, last April, “to
bring crude pressure to bear on Poland
and Hungary,” states the Hungarian
newspaper Magyar Hirlap, “the Cana-
dian contingent was marshalled” by the
U.S. to heap condemnation and slander
on the PRG, the Democratic Republic

of Vietnam, and on other ICCS teams.

The Canadians also covered up Thieu’s
land-grabbing, the paper charged..

The. glowing opportunity Canada
had to serve the cause of peace in
South-East Asia, which she threw
aside in favor of servility to the U.S.
State Department, is on permanent
record.

But. far from quieting the demands
of the Canadian people, Ottawa’s ICCS
withdrawal calls for insistence that the
government speak in the interests of
the Canadian people and of world
peace despite the Canadian withdrawal.

After Ottawa efforts to wreck the
whole agreement, it must be hammered

at to return to, and strictly adhere to, -

the Paris Agreements in all its actions.
In that spirit, Canada must recog-
nize at once the Provisional Revolu-
tionary Government of the Republic of
South Vietnam. It must get past the
window dressing, and give credence to
its recognition of the DRV by appoint-
ing an ambassador.
- Canadian self-respect demands that
the government break off its disgust-
ing submissiveness to the USA, and act
as.a responsible member of the world
community, in the first place in its at-
titude to the Agreements on peace in
Vietnam.

e e .
Evading the issues

_ The Commonwealth Heads of Gov-
ernment Meeting taking place at Ot-
tawa seems to have been prepared as an
exercise in evasion of the ,real issues
confronting the peoples of the thirty-
two diverse countries comprising the
Commonwealth.

Prime Minister Trudeau in his capa-
city as host Minister openly orchestrat-
ed the Meeting to perform at a low-ke
philosophical level, in this way provid-
ing a basis upon which to approach the
varied economic, social and political
problems besetting the Commonwealth
in abstract academic fashion. A style,
incidentally, Mr. Trudeau is quite adept
at.
So far the Meeting has skirted the
burning question of mounting effective
struggle within the Commonwealth
against the gecisice ule of the fas-
cist-like regimes in South Africa and
Rhodesia. It has side-stepped the seri-
ous economic effects of Britain’s entry
into the Common Market on sister
countries which is a key element to-
wards the goal of equality within the
Commonwealth.

The Meeting has been equally evasive
in ‘respect to furthering the process of
detente and the lessening of tensions
d scale, as witness the water-
ing down of the resolution on banning
of all nuclear tests, introduced by New
Zealand. General and universal dis-
armament has yet to be discussed. Or
measures to put an end to the waging
of aggressive wars. : ;

The Meeting shows every intention
of keeping its collective eyes closed to
the struggles being waged in Southern
Africa and in other parts of the world
for national independence and social
justice. Never mind giving moral or
material support to these just struggles

f the peoples.
: The POtawa Meeting of Common-

wealth Heads of Government, as well
as Canada’s role. in giving guidance to
the work of the Meeting, will be judged
by the peoples of the Commonwealth
on the basis of tangible results and not
by obscure philosophical tenets voiced
by Mr. Trudeau and other Heads of

Government.
The peoples of the Commonwealth

expect their Heads of Government to:

come up with workable measures to
advance the solutions of the vital eco-
nomic, social and political problems they
confront.

Piling up millions

_ The consumer is paying more for
items other than food — for housing,
appliances, heating, transport, cloth-
ing. What all Canadian consumers
should know is the funds into which
they are paying when they buy pro-
ducts.

There is for example the more than
$41-million profit of' the Steel Co. of
Canada, for the first six months of
1978; and that’s not a one-time gain.

Last year they took out $37.7-million. -

The wages of steel workers certainly
didn’t damage profits for Stelco.

_A few others — all for just the first
six months of this year compared with
the same period last year: Bell Canada
—$81-million ($75-million), Ford Motor
Co. — $84.7-million ($57-million), Fal-
conbridge Nickel Mines—$19.8-million
($4-million), B.C. Forest Products —
$13-million ($4.7-million), Alcan Alu-

minum — $38-million ($33-million), .

Husky Oil of Calgary — $7.6-million
($4-million), Union Oil — $6-million
($3.8-million), Dominion Textile—$8.8-
million ($7-million), Placer Develop-
ment of Vancouver — $23.4-million
($5-million).

This small sampling - reveals the
multi-millions in profits consumers are
being forced to pay on every product
purchased.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1973 PAGE 3

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