ee | SSE 3 es ene NS : z pe ay tes apt In the final account, the ques- tion of who will come out on top in the peaceful competition between the capitalist and so- cialist systems will be decided by which system provides more benefits for the people. Capitalism, especially as rep- resented by its most highly developed country, the United States (to which some add, and others do not, Canada—to para- phrase W. S. Gilbert), is on the skids. How: is socialism’s most developed country, the Soviet Union, doing?—and remember it started as one of the most un- developed countries in Europe and has gone through two devastating world wars fought on its territories, civil _ war, blockade, cold war, etc. e As during the past four decades, there is no unemploy- ment, while the number of em- ployed persons in the economy increased in the first six months -of 1971 by 2,500,000, bringing the total of production and of- fice workers to 91,300,000 (in 1960 the number was 62 mil- lion). ; e Output in those six months increased by 8.5% (the plan called for 6.9%) over the same period last year. Industrial ar- ticles sold above plan - alone amounted to 4,500 million rou- bles. e The rouble is and always will be stable, prices don’t rise (they go down as productivity - increases), a decision by the CMEA countries is directed to- ward making the rouble conver- tible in the socialist community countries. e Average monthly wages have risen 4% compared with last year, while real incomes I No WAGE FREEZE! NO Mo SURRENDER (grants and social security bene- fits have risen still faster than wages) are 7% over last year’s. The average monthly real wages are 168 roubles. e Minimum wages for rail- way men, tractor and machine workers and other categories have risen. So have pensions for factory and office workers and disability. and widow’s pen- sions for collective farmers. e Production of consumer goods is accelerating with an estimated 35% increase in the current Five-Year Plan in the manufacture of clothing, tex- tiles and footwear; 500 new fac- tory complexes turning out these kind of goods are to go into operation and light indus- try is to be supplied with twice as much new machinery and equipment as in 1966-70. e The food industry is getting 50% higher - allocations. In the Hungry. 1930’s_ the working people of Canada, so many of them unemployed, look- ed at the USSR and saw that it was possible to have work for all and rising living standards where the people were in power and operated the economy in a planned way. Since then decades of war and of relative “prosperity” blunted that understanding. Today, as unemployment rises and econo- mic chaos deepens, they look again to the socialist world. The evidence shows that so- cialist production in the USSR and other socialist lands is steadily growing, and with it the standard of life and culture of the people are going up. No economic crises. No un- employment. No “floating” money. No inflation. No capitalism. (J.W.) es SS otereleleteteteres peistels Editor —MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bidg., Mezzonine No. 3, 193 E. Hostings St., Vancouver 4, 8.C. Phone 685-5288. : Sinister plan for Canada’s army The White Paper on Defense has an+ nounced the federal government’s in- tention to do away with the US. ’ BOMARC nuclear missile bases in Can- ada. Good. That’s what the Communist Party of Canada and the Canadian Tri- bune led the battle for over many years. Significantly, however, the govern- ment does not propose to withdraw our country from either NATO or NORAD. Canada, it is planned, is to remain ‘enmeshed in U.S. militarism. While our people are being subjected to the eco- nomic aggression of American imperial- ism, the so-called defense budget is to be increased, instead of cut by 50%! The orientation of government de- fense policy remains based on the false premise that the danger to peace lies in the possibility of an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States. And this in spite of the fact U.S. policies of military aggression stand condemned before mankind! No less sinister than its false orienta- tion is the White Paper’s indication that Canada’s armed forces are to be used to preserve “civil order” in our country. The army, it appears, is now to be turn- ed against the Canadian people. Labor and the democratic forces can- not keep quiet about this dangerous policy of the Trudeau government. | The battle for an independent foreign policy for Canada—a policy free of the choking grip of U.S. imperialism—has still to be won. To win it, the first step must be Canada’s withdrawal from NORAD, from NATO and from the Canada-U.S. defense sharing agree- ment. It’s official! Jobs are just not there... The jobs of workers across Canada are already being savagely chopped as the first effects of the Nixon measures begin to compound the unemployment catastrophe originally created by the policies of the Trudeau government. Present indications are that it is in On- tario, Canada’s most industrialized province, that the workers’ jobs will be- come casualties in the greatest num- bers. Creeping up on an election, Ontario’s Premier Davis is trying to pretend there is no cause for worry about the crushing effects on Canada’s economy that the U.S. economic blitz is causing. One of his cabinet members, however, has let the cat out of the bag. Social and Family Services Minister Thomas Wells ruthlessly calls for “work for welfare” measures. He’s demanding Ontario municipalities set up what he calls “municipal job placement ser- vices,” the name he gives forced labor bureaus. He wants city fathers to adopt a get-tough attitude to welfare recip- ients.. Last week, addressing Ontario muni- cipal representatives with his “work for welfare” demands, Wells confessed, -eighty or more million in NO S02 al a Organized labor in Ontario, 2% Canada, is gearing up to give 18% answer at the polls and on picket —jobs or an adequate income Canadians, as a right! Albertans break ” Socred grip The defeat in Alberta of the Credit government creates 4 tical situation in that provineé years of its rule had stifled. _ As in nearly all recent provi tions, so now in Alberta a stron for change moved the people & break the hold the Socred mae for so long fastened on them. The diate beneficiaries have been the who demagogically used the i urge for change to advance t line party into governmental has never before had in Alber The decisive defeat of the SU) ernment is a serious setback j much-publicized plans of Sock ‘| to resuscitate itself as a polit! on the federal scale. ro In this new situation with the“ mould now smashed, and in SPs large Tory majority—48 in 4 a of 75 — the labor - farmer - dehy forces will strengthen the "i. badly-needed democratic ref in so doing they will move 1 mala dependent labor-farmer politi’ wit Political currents in Albert@ aN like those existing in Manito a katchewan where New Demo ernments have been elected. Me the NDP in Alberta has suc¢ é in winning the election to ie ture of its leader, Grant NO Lest we forge! |; ans On July 28, 1914, the first Moy war began. It was precedet Boer war at the turn of they and the Balkan wars. The i and Labor International saw? adopted in 1912 a strong res? alas, to be thrown overboard, of its leaders once the guns roar — about stopping the ‘iO ternational working class 2¢ Lenin and his party in Russi4 with the left socialists in seve countries, remained true t lution. ae On September 1, 1939, thé World War began. In b since we have had a number wars. The war toll in our centur tat \¥ = Blood is still flowing in In As capitalism today writh@ seeking to forestall its doo™ () slaught on the socialist . sharper inter-imperialist ™ qi markets, attempts to restoP iy slavery in Asia,-Africa and rica, the danger of desperat® war, world nuclear war, 1154 Humanity now has it Yi power to stop the bloodshed jy areas where aggression is 4 “to compel nuclear curbs, and f ly to achieve complete disar™ Let “No more war!” res) gether with “T,S.—withd! Vietnam NOW!” this Labo Aarne tpt th Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Canade, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South A a and C Ith countries, $6.00 one year. All other countrits, $7.00 one year “But for the most part the jobs are just not there, that’s why the welfare rolls are so na Se What Ontario’s premier tries to hide, its welfare minister admits. Second class mail registration number 1560.