TORONTO DAILY STAR, Sat, May 8 1971
Bank of Canada Governor’ Louis Rasminsky says

“{nflation hasn't yet been brought under control, be-
cause there's still a pattern of wage increases that
far outrank likely ga:ns in productivity But the idea of
taxing wage and salary increases that are out of line »
is in the air.

‘qua
feces.

Warm greetings for the
CPCz 50th anniversary

“On the occasion of the 50th
anniversary of the Communist
Party of Czechoslovakia please
accept the greetings of our
party, its membership and
friends of socialism in our
country,” says a message to
the Central Committee of the
CPCz from the Central Com-
mittee of the CP of Canada.

; “This is an important event

_ for your party and for the work-
ing people, cooperative farmers
and intelligentsia of your coun-
try. The formation of your party
marked -a turning point for the
working class movement of
Czechoslovakia which up to
that point was largely under
the influence of bourgeois and
socialist-reformist ideology. The
Communist Party brought the
banner of Marxism-Leninism
and proletarian international-
ism to the working class and
opened up an entirely new per-
spective of revolutionary strug-
gle for working class political

power and the winning of so-

cialism.

“Throughout its 50 years of
existence, through the various
stages of the struggle, be it the
winning of the majority of the
' working class, the achievement
of political power, and the
building of a socialist Czecho-
slovakia, the Communist Party
has remained faithful to Marx-
ism-Leninism and _ proletarian
internationalism.

“In the more recent period
the Communist Party encoun-
tered some temporary difficul-
ties arising from an effort by

_ revisionists,

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opportunists and
others in the service of imper-
ialism, to move Czechoslovakia
back to capitalism and tear it
out of the socialist
Thanks to the healthy Marxist-
Leninist forces in the Commu-
nist Party of Czechoslovakia,
thanks to the profound interna-
tionalism of the Soviet Union
and other members of the War-
saw Treaty organization, these
plans were decisively defeated
and imperialism suffered a
sever setback.

“Your party, remaining true
to the principles of Marxism-
Leninism and proletarian inter-
nationalism and creatively ap-
plying these principles to the
conditions of your country, has
overcome the crisis in the party
and in the country, normalized
and consolidated the situation

and shown the way forward ©

for the working class and its
allies, in the building of a de-
veloped socialist system.

“We, like you, are continuing
to work for the strengthening
of the unity of the international
communist movement and of
all anti-imperialist forces in the
world. We, like you, continu-
ing to work to defeat imperial-
ist aggression and advance the
cause of peace, independence,
democracy and socialism.

“On this great occasion in the
life of your party we wish you
warm fraternal greetings and
success in the building of a de-
veloped socialist system of so-
ciety and in your common
struggle.”

Editor MAURICE RUSH
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Labor wants action

What’s holding back the Canadian
Labor Congress leadership from con-.:

vening an emergency conference for
jobs, for full employment policies?
What’s preventing it from organizing
a mass labor and unemployed lobby in
Ottawa to protest the federal govern-
ment’s “brink of disaster” policies?
That’s the stage mass unemployment
has reached, CLC president Donald
MacDonald said last week.

Speaking to the 15th annual meeting
of the Alberta Federation of Labor in
Calgary, MacDonald sharply criticized
the Trudeau government for having
“deliberately engineered” unemploy-
ment. Boldly he stated that any other
government “would have fallen” the
day after it introduced such a policy.

Of its own dead weight? Or because
it would have been pushed, because its
distastrous policy would have been de-
nounced by a mighty, united labor
movement? ;

Donald MacDonald told the Alberta
trade unionists the CLC has “served
notice” on the Ottawa government that
the unemployment situation in our
country has reached the “brink of dis-
aster.” (The 1,000,000 unemployed and
their families, the masses of those who
are working today but who face loss of
their jobs tomorrow, the record-shatter-
ing numbers of Canadians barely sur-
viving through welfare handouts, all

ean tell Mr. MacDonald that the govern-

ment’s policies have swept their lives
over the brink of disaster. He then de-
clared that the labor movement de-
mands “swift action from Ottawa to
solve this disgraceful situation.”

ee there the. CLC president stop-
ped.

After describing the magnitude of
the disaster of mass unemployment,
after fixing the Trudeau government’s
responsibility for it and asserting that
any other government would have fal-
len in such circumstances, and finally
after declaring the labor movement
wants action now — he stopped.

It’s like saying, “Let George do it.”

But that’s not what great sections of
the CLC membership want. They want
action for jobs, action led by the CLC
itself. Over the past months, numbers
of labor councils and union locals have
asked their CLC leadership to convene
an emergency conference for jobs, for

policies of full employment.

Mr. MacDonald’s own words, truly
spoken and truly accurate in their as-
sessment of the tragedy of unemploy-
ment and of labor’s demand for “swift
action” for jobs, will remain words only
unless he and the CLC leadership act.
It’s deeds thac count. ~

An emergency CLC conference, and
with it a mass Ottawa labor and un-
employed lobby, might well combine
the demand for jobs with the demand
for full restoration of labor’s democra-
tic rights and removal of all the anti-
labor legislation Mr. MacDonald so elo-
quently denounced in Calgary.

‘than in 1969!

Profits —at all cos

If you’re one of the million
loyed workers scraping to sul
in Canada today, or a student th
of whose school meal has shot ¥
as in Metro-Toronto, or one
masses of jobless trying to kee?
self and your wife and_childré
clothed and sheltered on Welfal®
you’re getting the government
month old-age pension and bell
ly, surely starved — then you
know it isn’t as tough as that for
one. A
Not by a long, long shot. —
Not for the monopolists. In th
five months of this year the
dend payments by Canadian com
reached a record $594,785,692 ji
half a billion dollars in clear &
profits so far this year!
higher than in 1970, and 13.7%

These have been the bitter y®
tragic time when the Trudealle
ment has mercilessly, calculat
plemented polos of mass Wy
ment. Why? The answer: to 84 wot
to monopoly a rising rate of PP,
lifeblood, drained from the ve
and lives of the workers.

Facing the facl

Speaking in Niagara Falls,
weeks ago, Prime Minister
expounded a thesis to the @”
the USSR is technologically.
country, the majority: of 16?
is engaged in farming and
to import wheat, ete. Se

Wherever he got his info
certainly does not correspo?
truth. a

Actually 56% of the Soviet
lives in cities, and of the at
in the countryside a large at Aa
engaged in pursuits other t dau
culture. That is because instr
placing farmers and driving &
the land into the cities 25!
(money is even spent here
public treasury to move), 14
they have a policy of devé
industries (canning factorlé:
yards and building materl@
prises, sugar refineries, etc.
culture itself is being more
mechanized. The high level oe
ployment of machinery and
in Soviet farming is acknoW me

As to the productivity, Pri
ter must have read the stort
papers that the U.S. agricy

t

partment trade experts are 2
voc because of the huge U t
harvests. “Soviet wheat gl h
West” was the Toronto St@ af
The Soviet Union did ei
grain difficulties some yeal? «iy
unfavorable climatic condi
it finds it cheaper to transP
from Canada by water
Eastern points than by 14” 4m
European USSR. Also it has
wheat to help other socialist ee
liberated countries in trade an
Mr. Trudeau took a button”, ;
‘a vest onto it. That’s not “hi
honesty, nor is it statesmans!
in the USSR he should look 3
first hand, instead of liste™!
tales, as he evidently has b&°