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FLASHBACKS FROM
| THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

JOBS FOR JOBLESS

a4 HAMILTON'S WORRY
Cia Se TON—Federal and provin-
ed ine ments were petition-
ae 4 resolution adopted by the
ae Council to assist financially
eye Municipalities. which are
ane Ing to solve their unemploy-
ia nt problems. by proceeding
ith public works, The resolution

fae et that unemployment is
.¢Sute in Hamilton where the ma-

re of jobless men prefer work
accepting doles,

sitiidtie sn mlities where such
‘ Ons prevail are helped by

80vernments to bear a por-

on of the cost of such work, it
elieved that the present acute-

measureably ap-

ti

There are said to be 1,800 men

out of work here. Nine hundred

h :
vie a far registered for work at
irch Avenue sewer system.
ae resolution similar. to that
nae by anal has already
orwar. -
ployed, ed by the unem

The Worker, Feb. 2, 1924

25 years ago...

TEACHERS LOCAL
SIGNS CONTRACT

Teachers organized into Local
195 of the United Office and Pro-
fessional Workers, CIO, have
signed their first wage contract
with the Grove Nursery School,
Toronto, it was announced by the
union last week. This is the first
instance in the Toronto area in
which teachers have organized
into an international union have
signed a collective agreement
with their employers.

The new contract provides for
wage increases ranging from $7.50
to $10 per month for half day
teachers, and $15 to $20 for full-
time. These increases are to be
applied: on the basis of the
seniority, training, experience and
responsibility of teachers.

With this success behind them,
the union announced it is now go-
ing to appeal to all nursery school
teachers in Toronto to join
UOPWUA. Z

Tribune, Jan. 31, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

Although you can’t see that they produce
anything that's useful to society, you know
by their name — Trust Companies — that
there’s something inately good about them
(like faith, hope and charity), that they are
indeed glistening pillars of capitalist society.
Our judges selected two of the fattest of
these pillars for honors — Royal, which
jumped last year’s $12,477,000 profit to
$14,246,000 for 1973. Also, Canada, which
while it dropped $91,000 this year, did hit
$12,863,000 in the course of adding to our
individual lives whatever it is it adds...

Publish Editor — MAURICE RUSH ;
: ied weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St.,
Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288.

Subscrip
ortha

North and South A

Second class mail registration number 1560.

Business & Circulation Manager, FRED WILSON :

tion Rate: Canada, $6.00 one year; $3.50 for six months

nd South America and Commonwealth countries, $7.00

All other countries, $8.00 one year

merica and Commonwealth countries, $7.00 one year

When food market profiteers stick a
higher price tag over the old one they
invite and get a wave of public protest.

Oil monopolies were sticking on new

tags at a cost of billions of dollars to

working people in North America at
the very time when high-placed author-
ities were telling consumers to sacrifice
for the energy crisis. Were it not for
deliberate beclouding of the issues such
profiteering at the people’s expense
would be enough to bring demands for
immediate public ownership of the oil
monopolies.

Exxon, which, with other multi-
nationals owns and controls virtually
all Canadian oil — domestic and im-
ported — upped profits at its U.S. head
office by 60% in 1978, to net $2.44-bil-
lion.

Imperial Oil, Exxon’s Canadian sub-
sidiary, pumped into its coffers $288-
million in profits for the year, a 69%
increase over 1972!

No more stunning proof is needed
that whatever the real extent of the
energy crisis, the disruption of the
economy, including layoffs and inflated
living costs, it has meant fortunes to
the multi-national oil corporations. The
world’s seven largest averaged a 46%
profit jump last year.

In Canada, the first ministers’ energy
conference, characterized by low pro-
ductivity, creaking under capitalist
contradictions and the inability of Can-
ada’s 1867 Constitution to properly

allocate reponsibility forthe country’s

- Highest oil profits in ‘crisis’

energy, produced few tangible guar-
antees for the Canadian people.

If there is an energy crisis endanger-
ing Canada’s economy as various levels
of government assert then it is only a
step from treason to allow the oil mo-
nopolies to exploit such a crisis. (Tex-
aco Canada Ltd., for example, netted
$12,928,000 more in 1978 than in 1972,
for a tax-free total of $55,367,000.)

Even the capitalist class and its rep-
resentative federal and provincial gov-
ernments shy away from leaving other
sectors of monopoly at the mercy of
the oil octopus. Hence the patriotic
fervor for a.Canada-wide policy.

In a socialist Canada whose resources
belong to the people, no such profiteer-
ing on the country’s resources will be
permitted.

In the present period of increasing
organized opposition to monopoly prac-
tices, pressure from working-class or-
ganizations, is crucial. to the curbing
of monopoly. Demands for heavier tax-
ation on the oil giants would reduce
the billion-dollar burden they have up
to now shifted onto the working people.
Pressure is needed for legislation to
outlaw price rises dictated by these cor-
porations, and for placing energy under
buble ownership and democratic con-

rol.

Such political action is at the same
time a stand for Canadian indepen-
dence, without which our lives will con-
tinue to be directed by multi-national
corporations whose goal is greater
profit whatever the cost to the people
of Canada.

More power to miners

A strike vote by Britain’s 270,000 coal
miners, members of the National
Union of Mineworkers, is scheduled for
this week to back up demands for a
30% pay increase. The raise would still
leave British miners’ pay trailing that
of miners in neighboring northern
European countries.

The Heath Government’s refusal to
allow the increase, precipitating the
vote which could bring the miners out
by Feb. 10, follows the government’s
rigid class stand against all efforts by
the working people to even maintain,
let alone improve, their living stand-
ards. Heath’s decreed three-day work
week has wrought further havoc —
slashing take-home pay and putting a
million on unemployment insurance.

More power to the British coal min-
ers who are standing up to this deeply
class-inspired onslaught, who are hold-
ing the line against a decrepit govern-

ment intent on dragging down stand- -

ards for the working class in every
sphere from education to housing to
the right to a job. It is not surprising
that union leaders expect a strike vote
well over the required 55% in favor.

Heath’s policies aimed at shoring up
the obsolete capitalist class have
brought only ruin to the British people.
It is to the credit of the miners (and
the train drivers who for six weeks
have been working to rule), and the
unions who support them, that a fight
is being waged against a government
which becomes more vicious against

Dal

‘= workers at home, as against those

tas

it tries to colonize abroad (Ireland) the
faster it sinks from a second-rate to a
third-rate imperialist power.

The struggle of the British workers,
as it gathers unity, will give aid to
working-class struggles everywhere.

- Evasion in show trial

Well, they got old K. C. Irving for
monopolizing the press in New Bruns-
wick. But after the judge pronounces
sentence at 10 a.m. on March 12 (what
precision!) surely the actors will all
come out and take their bows — good
friends again in real life. Or is K. C.
Irving, who with his three sons bought
up all five New Brunswick English-

language papers, really Canada’s king

of monopolists?

Certainly the “wretched Irving news-
papers,” as they have been called, serve
nothing progressive or forward-look-
ing, nothing to benefit the class in as-
cendency in Canada — the working
class. Truth is, not any of the ruling-
class press, chains or “independents,”
do so.

While this class wields its press

ower to mislead the reading public
into believing its anti-labor, anti-Com-
munist, anti-Soviet excesses, it falls to
the labor, democratic and Communist

press to express ideas unfettered by im-.

perialist domination.

Capitalism’s show trial against the
feudal Irving empire leaves the mon-
strous press monopoly weighted against
the working people to ply its trade
coast to coast. This monopoly deserves
the defiant challenge of the working
people, going over its head to the peo-
ple’s press for amunition.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, FEBRUARY i, 1974 PAGE 3

ATEN: fF YRAUSES1 YACHI—SMLBIST DAIDAS