Communist pickets press

‘No to Austerity!’ drive

@ Cont'd from pg. 5

ple into a trap. “You are telling
them,” charged Mr. Kashtan,
_ “that they must accept either
inflation and rising prices, or
deflation with massive unem-
ployment and continuing rising
prices.”

To the Communist leader’s as-
sertion that the real alternative
to today’s danger of a recession
should be a policy of full em-
ployment without inflation, Mr.
Trudeau flatly declared, “That
is impossible.”

But he made no comment
when Mr. Kashtan told him,
“What you’re admitting, Mr.
Trudeau, is that the capitalist
system based on private pro-
perty is incapable of establish-
ing a stable economy!”

“What is needed is the estab-
lishment immediately of demo-
cratic boards, including trade
union and people’s representa-
tives, to control rents, to con-
trol prices,” he added. ‘There
“has to be a redistribution of in-
comes through a democratic tax
reform based on ability to pay.”

“Monopoly,”: the Communist
leader told Canada’s prime mini-
ster, “must be curbed.”

Mr. Trudeau smiled wanly,
and hurried into the meeting of
federal. and provincial govern-
ment heads.

Addressing the Communist
picketers, the CPC leader said,
“This is only the beginning of
a Canada-wide campaign to
change the direction of the gov-
ernment’s - policy. If it doesn’t
change, the people will have to
change the government. The
present system — and Mr. Tru-
deau’s government speaks for it
— tells the Canadian workers
they’ must tighten their belts. It
is preparing wage restraints to
force them to do so. But the
workers’ belts are already pulled
tight. And to the farmers, this

system says what’s needed is a
wheat mortorium, tells them to
stop producing wheat.

“The Trudeau government’s
policies,” concluded: Mr. Kash-
tan, “are spelling disaster for
the two main producers of all
the wealth of our country, the
workers and the farmers.”

As the CPC’ picketers left,
they could see alongside the
Chateau Laurier and facing the
Centennial Conference Centre a
large poster -announcing ‘“Feb-
ruary is Heart Month”. That was
on the other side of the hall,
away from the entrance used by
the representatives of mono-
poly’s -governments at Ottawa
and in the provincial capitals.
Those gentlemen wouldn’t know
what “heart” is.

Lakehead radio
audience told

austerity facts

In Thunder Bay thousands
heard Ontario CPC organizer
William Stewart explain the is-
sues over the local radio on
Feb. 14 and at a public meeting
the’ following day.

“The Trudeau austerity pro-
gram is. not bringing prices
down,” he told an estimated
45,000 radio audience. “In On-
tario there are 60,000 more un-
employed now than was the
case a year ago.

“This

cynical policy of the govern-
ment. Having allowed inflation
to develop to its present serious
proportions it is now charging
the effects against the poor
working man.”

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: BLAST OFF, BENSON
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FEBRUARY 20, 1970—Page &

. monstrations

provocations

is the deliberate and ~

Three members of an ultra
rightist society—two from Italy
and one from Belgium—organ-
ized provocatory anti-Soviet de-
in Moscow- last
month arranged to catch head-
lines and develop’ sentiment
hostile to the U.S.S.R. in West-
ern countries. The three were
tried and sentenced to one year
in jail (the Italians were later
released on pleas from their
compatriots and ejected from
the. Soviet Union). We feel
Canadians still should know
how these things “happen”, so
we here reprint a’ section of a
report by V. Vladimirov pub-
lished in Pravda.

Our foes abroad are not lucky.
How much energy and how ma-
ny dollars, pounds and marks
were wasted by them on sub-
versive activities against the
Land of the Soviets. Yet, it is
forging ahead, consolidating its
might and international posi-
tions. Our enemies from the im-
perialist camp are blinded by
spite and have recourse to base
because of the
awareness of their impotence
and at times of the poverty of
intellect.

This happened in the Central”

Department Store, Moscow, last
Saturday. The store was full of
shoppers in the evening. Sud-
denly filthy anti-Soviet leaflets

. began falling from the staircase

landing of the third floor. Two
persons—it turned out they were
foreigners—were standing there.
To produce a greater effect, they
had chained themselves by hard-

Wage freeze aim of fake price controls

@ Cont'd from pg. 5
profits through soaking Cana-
dian working people“and farm-
ers impossibly high prices for
what they themselves have pro-
duced — these same giant man-
ufacturing companies, banks,
trust and credit corporations, in-
surance companies and food
combines, are now going to
“control” their own price poli-
cies! Not only that, they’re go-
ing to be generous enough to
pay their own “controllers’’ on
the price review staff to do the
job! . perme
This agreement was condi-
tional, as the business spokes-
men made clear publicly. What’s
the condition they demand for
“controlling” their own price
structure? That labor. accept
wage restraints, wage controls.

The Prices and Incomes Com-
mission for its part made it very
clear that the meeting of Feb. 9
and 10 was designed to prepare
the next stage in the Trudeau
government’s plan to force or-
ganized labor to accept wage
controls.

How determined monopoly is
to handcuff labor was revealed
after the Ottawa meeting by
Stanley Randall, Ontario’s Trade
and Development minister. “If
controls are put on,” he said,
“they should provide for fines
and where necessary jail terms
for people failing to’ comply
with them.” Of course, he was
speaking about both bosses and
workers! The bosses are to be
“jailed” if they don’t go along
with the price controls suggest-
ed by the prices review staff of
the Prices and Incomes Com-
mission, staffed with experts
supplied and paid for by the
bosses themselves!

cuffs to the rail. These were
new shining handcuffs—a sym-
bol of the “free world” which
had sent these provocateurs be-
having like hooligans.

“What right do they have to
slander our country?” some
shouted angrily. “Give these
scoundrels a licking to keep
them from doing this again.”
The. provocateurs would have
been handled roughly had not

militiamen appeared on the
scene.
Next day, on Sunday, the

same act of political hooligan-
ism was committed by one more
foreign tourist. This time the
Musical Comedy Theatre had
been chosen as the place for a
hostile demonstration. The same
hand, the same style and an
almost identical content of leaf-
lets, though the provocateurs
had come from different coun-
tries and seemed to have no re-
lation to each other. However,
they had the same shining hand-
cuffs produced by one and the
same firm: Cleguso. It became
evident fhat one and the same
hand was directing the provo-
cateurs,

What are they, these ‘‘tour-
ists’ who impudently abused
the hospitality of Soviet people?
They are Teresa Marinuzzi and
Valentino Tacchi. They had
come from Rome and said they
represented the Italian youth or-
ganization “Europe _ Civilta.”
Victor van Brantegem is a Bel-
gian. He is “general secretary”
of a certain Flemish Catholic
Student Union.

Speaking of sanctions, Prime
Minister Trudeau has recently
said they figured very largely in
the government’s thinking. “If,
and when the time is right,” he
declared, “we will apply.them.”

Reaction to the growing dan-
ger of wage controls as_ex-
pressed by certain leaders of
organized labor in Canada is
causing misgivings among trade
unionists. To some labor leaders,
workers should be prepared to
stop fighting for higher wages.

Commenting on the’ Ottawa
meeting of the Prices and In-
comes Commission with busi-
nessmen, Murray Cotterill, pub-
licity director of the United
Steelworkers, stated, “If busi-
ness was serious about tying
together costs and prices, labor

Petition

@ . Cont'd from pg. 5

originate in the U.S. Once start-
ed there it will attract support
from. practically every country.

It is a campaign that must be
approached as a crusade. Every
conceivable method of gather-
ing signatures should be under-
taken. They must be collected
together in central depots in
every country and forwarded by
such depots to a _ collecting
agency located in Washington
for delivery to the White House.
Deadlines need to be set. With
the delivery of signatures on a
given date to the White House
being made the occassion for
huge supporting demonstrations
everywhere.

In Canada during the follow-
ing the completion of the gather-
ing of the people’s signatures
the governments of Canada and

. lavish monetary reward for ©

each day about socialism.”

It is easy to guess what thes
youth organizations are and
whose directions they fulfil
Van Brantegem said he had
ceived the leaflets and the
struction to spread them fro
Roger de-Biais, “president” of
the Flemish Catholic Stud
Union, the same de-Biais whit
was driven out of the Soviet
Union in June 1968 for fit
illegal smuggling of the putrid
printed matter of the so-callé
National Labor Union, the bro&
of malicious anti-Sovieteers all!
saboteurs subsidized by imp
ialist intelligence agencies,
CIA in the first place.

ONLY STOOGES

It is perfectly obvious tht
these “tourists” are only st00
es, that behind them are th
same familiar imperialist circ’
which had planned the use of
provocateurs, and equipped
financed them. As a matter df
fact, this is clear from the wol!
of Marinuzzi and Tacchi thet
selves, who admit that they @
not spend a single lira of thell
own on the trip to the Soviet
Union, that all their expens
were borne by “others.”
only did the patrons finance

trip but they even promised, it

fulfilment of the provocati
assignment. *

And is it not symptomatl!
that representatives of the boul
geois Western press ‘“‘happent”
to be quite accidentally” in ™
Central Department Store j¥§
at the time of the provocatio”

was willing to talk.” He wel
sure, Mr. Cotterill said, that u
the Prices and Incomes Comm
sion was willing to call indust!
meetings of company and lab
officials, labor would co-operal®
The Canadian Tribune recelY”
ed another point of view if

v2

letter from a Saskatchewa!
trade unionist. “There is
doubt,” he wrote, “that

propaganda about inflation
starting to get to rank and

people. The fear of the une
ployment situation is starti
to affect people’s thinkin
More and more people are 4
amining the alternative. I 2&
into deep discussions in the sh0P

Monopoly is creating its

Oe
“sravediggers.” -

or peace

public organizations of the pe”
ple should be invited to @ f
their signatures and seals ?
office. One can visualize a bi
and important delegation visit |
ing Prime Minister Trudeau 0
the signature of his governmel
to the demand for the U.S. @
get out of Vietnam.

The signature campaign shou
serve to complement the hu
dreds of protest actions that W!
place throughout the wd)
against the cruel U.S. imper!
ist aggression in Vietnam. It
something that can be undé
taken by anyone who wishes
do so. It can’ be the single thre
running through all anti-W
activities that unites all indiv”
dual actions into a gigant!
river of protest fed by countlé
streams of signatures fro
every corner of the earth.

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