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ro Monday, Sept. 3, was
aside Day, the day that is set
: each year to honor working
People and of the contribution
organized labor to the fibre of
“‘Madian society.

8 4ncouver Island’s annual
Pa: or Day picnic, held last Sun-
ch mushroomed into the lar-
. = labor day event ever heldon
as Island, as it drew 1,000
¢ aa to Parksville’s Com-
Phic ity Centre. The day long pic-
f Which featured a host of
pal events ranging froma
> ing °r Queen contest to a box-
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PF son, St the celebrations for
the ‘ Serious perspectives for
“labor movement.

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sutl representative for
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ancouver Labor Coun-
Boke on the issue of Cana-
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less full autonomy is_ sec-
ured for Canadian labor, there
will be more breakaways, and
deeper splits within the Cana-
dian trade union movement.”

Turning his remarks toward
the NDP, Phillips reminded the
government of labor’s deter-
mination to scrap the Socred
labor laws and to win a new
labor code. ‘‘This government
should understand,’’ Phillips
pointed out, ‘‘that the trade
union movement is the most
powerful bloc of supportithas.
But for yearsit has beenchained
by the same laws that they have
allowed to remain on the books.

‘Unleash that force, and to-
gether with the NDP and other
democratic forces, the pro-
gress of the province will be en-
sured. If they failtodo this, their
term of office could be short
lived,”’ he said.

Karen Sanford, NDP MLA,
who spoke following Phillips of-
fered little in reply except to
give assurance that new labor
legislation would be introduced
at the fall session. Sanford in-
voked a coolresponse when she
told the gathering, ‘‘Labor

- won’t get everything it wants,”’

but she received a warmer
response for her pledge of
solidarity with Shoppers Drug
Mart employees and California
grape workers.

were most deserving.

Now it seems that we have
community members appointed
strictly on a party basis, be-
cause while they are known in
NDP circles they have never
been in the forefront in overall
campaigns for the betterment of
the community.

What is of much more concern
however, is that thanks to the
City Fathers, we have lost the
one spokesman who could be
relied on, to take up the cudgels
on behalf of the residents. The

feeling in the community is

that they would willingly trade
all five of the city appointees,
who are isolated and insulated
from the traffic and parking

‘problems, living as they do at

the opposite side of the city, for
one Harry Rankin who knows the
problems and is pledged to take
the lead for their improvement.

Regretfully, theoptimism of
last March is now turning to
unease, and suspicion of parti-
san appointments.

COMMUNIST LEADER SAYS:

‘United action key in fight
to defend living standards’

Rising prices are undermin-
ing living standards while add-
ing to the profits of the corpora-
tions. This situation will not be
changed by the four - point pro-
gram on inflation advanced by
the NDP caucus. It can be
changed, if in and outside Parlia-
ment the NDP _ co-operates
with other working class
organizations, the labor and
farm movements, in a powerful
crusade to compel government
action against the inflationary
spiral and its effects on work-
ing people.

This was a central pointina
speech by Communist Party
leader William Kasthan when
he spoke to some 2,000 people at
the annual Labor Festival, near
Oakville, Ontario, recently.
Kashtan said that united mass ac-
tionis the key to defending liv-
ing standards and beating back
the monopoly offensive.

Ina speech which frankly con-
trasted our soaring cost of liv-
ing with stability in the socialist
world, he charged that there’s
no reason for prices rising ‘‘on
every item of importance to the
working people of Canada.

“The government,”’ he said,
‘‘tries to give us a number of
theories as to why this situation
has come about. Prime Minister
Trudeau says this is not a Cana-
dian phenomenon; it’s world
wide.

‘“‘No, Prime Minister Tru-
deau. It’s not world wide. It’s
capitalist wide, but not world
wide, because under socialism
there aren’t these problems.”

The Communist Party leader,
recently back from a visit to
the USSR, reported that ...
‘rents are stable, foodisstable,
the necessities of life don’t rise
atallinthesocialist countries,
whereas the purchasing power
of their currency continues to
rise. Inthe Soviet Union it rose
8.4%. Can we say the same of
Canada?

“The factis,’’ he said, “‘that
under socialism it is possible to

prevent inflation, whereas
under capitalism inflation has
become inevitable — like

unemployment, like the cur-
rency crisis, like poverty — as
part of the incurable ills of capi-
talism itself.

‘And until the working people
realize, and begin to fight it,
they will have one hand tied be-
hind their backs in the battle to
try to protect themselves
against the effects of this infla-
tionary price rise.”

Mr. Kashtan recalled that
Prices Review Board chairman
Beryl Plumptre had directed
Canadians to ‘‘buy cheaper cuts
of meat; don’t hoard; be careful
what you buy.’ ‘“‘What non-
sense,’ he chided. ‘‘What
worker is hoarding his meat? He
can hardly afford to buy any
meat.

‘“‘Every housewife knows she
has to be careful when she buys;
she looks at prices time and
again.”

He accused Mrs. Plumptre of
saying, in effect, ‘‘that the peo-
ple— not capitalism— areres-
ponsible for inflation . . . as if
you and I, who have no control
over the mechanism of capi-
talism at the present time, are

responsible for the situationin
which the purchasing power of
the dollar has gone down about
50 cents in the last 10 years.”

Mr. Stanfield was ‘‘going up
and down the country,’ the
Communist leader said, “‘par-
roting demands for wage and
price controls. And to the shame
of the New Democratic Party
leaders in British Columbia,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba,
they say the same thing. Why do
they want to puta freeze onthe
low wages of the workers?’’ he
demanded.

“‘Tf you want to know whois re-
sponsible for inflation,’ he
said, ‘‘look at monopoly— look
at monopoly profits— not at the
working class which produces
the wealth of our country and
has tofight and struggletolive
and exist.”’

WILLIAM KASHTAN

Referring to the possible re-
call of Parliament, he said the
Communist Party does not con-
sider the issue to be ‘‘whether
there should be an election or
not tomorrow. What is neces-
sary,’ hestressed, ‘‘isthatthe
people of our country should

unite to compel the government
to roll back prices,’ adding: “‘It
can be done.”’

An anti-inflation program,
such as proposed by the Com-
munist Party, was needed now,
Mr. Kashtan said, ‘‘the kind of
program that would begin to
come to grips with the mono-
poly power in the economy.”

However, he said, it is not
enough simply to protect peo-
ple against the effects of infla-
tion. ‘‘Whatisimportantis to be-
gintogetat thecauses of infla-
tion. . .tounderstand thatitis
the policies of state monopoly
capitalism that are bringing
about the inflationary situa-
tion.

‘The contribution of the Com-
munist Party,’ itsleader said,
“is not only to show the workers
how to protect themselves to-
day, but how to get rid of asys-
tem which continually places
the working people in a posi-
tion in which either they are
impoverished, over - taxed,
exploited or put ina position to
fight even to maintain their
inadequate living standards.

“It’s time to change this,”’ he
stated. ‘‘And we appeal to work-
ers who agree with theneed for
a fundamental change in so-
ciety to joinus inthis struggle,
to unite with us, to join our
ranks, to join the ranks of the
Young Communist League, to
expand the influence of the
Canadian Tribune, because I
want to say clearly and unmis-
takably: there will be no funda-
mental change in Canada until
there is a mass Communist
Party in Canada, which ad-
vances its program of so-
cialism.

‘‘We are entering a period of
sharp struggle. The workers
need aparty. . .which will not
betray them— whichwillstand
firm against monopoly, which
will continually work to unite
every section of the working
people of this country in the bat-
tle against monopoly, for demo-
cratic advance, and for so-
cialism.”’

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