May 1, 1974

OTTAWA — The poor in| The report said some
Canada are getting poorer, | landlords might take their
+t | 2 government advisory | buildings off the market if

agency said in a report last | they objected to rent con-

at housing for the poor.

would not
maintain their buildings.
The council criticized the
monthly consumer price in-

Sa study, the

"| creases in the cost of liv.
ing.

Poor are getting poorer
welfare council declares

; Cost houses and lower qual- which are the staple of low by the poor and by senior
| income families have risen
in cost

Dur-
ing 1973 the price of ham-
burger jumped 35 per cent,
wiener:

Per cent, potatoes 25 per
cent, pasta 40 per cent.

“The recol
vivid of the week the super-
|. | dex, prepared by Statistics | markets proudly -
it, | Canada, as a guide: to in- | that the

citizens and that social se-
curity pay be tied to
such increases rather than
the “‘average’’ increase.

The report cited evidence | {
that stores in poor neigh-
lection is sti | bothoods charge moi nid

's 37 per cent, liver 35

FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...
LET YAPPING CEASE

Canadian labor demands that
the yapping going-.on at the heels
of the Russian Trading Delegation
cease. The “Financial Post”, the
“Saturday Night” and a host of
other kept sheets have been “rid-
ing” the Delegation with all the
venom they can muster. This was
to have been expected. Thev
would, of course, do everything
possible to horrify our Mr. George
Babbitts with such facts as that
Soviet stationery carries the mot-
to “Workers of the World Unite”.
But the seizure of Mr. Yazikoff's
personal library by government
officials, is a gross outrage. Mr.
Mackenzie King, in his “I-know-
my-place” humble colonial way,
recognized the Russian Delegation
after British recognition of the
Soviet Union had given him his
cue. Great Byitain has not yet
withdrawn that recognition, so
there is no earthly reason except
spitefulness for the petty perse-
cution of the Delegation’ by Cus-
toms bureaucrats.

The Worker, May 107 1924

25 years ago...

1,800 TURN OUT FOR
MAY DAY RALLY

TORONTO — Communist speak-
ers addressing an open air May
Day meeting in Toronto for the
first time in 10 years, repeated
their plea for peace which’ was
the keynote of the last meeting in
1939,

Eighteen hundred workers, stu-
dents: and professional people
echoed the speakers’ peace senti-
ments in their warm and enthu-
siastic response. They covered the
Willowdale slope, after marching
from many corners of the city.
They carried slogans: “Canadians
Won't Die for the Yankee Dollar”,
“Not a Man, Not a Gun for Wall

‘Street War” and “Send Tim Buck

to Parliament for Trinity”.

The National Federation of Lab-
or Youth formed a small chorus
which led the crowd in many of

‘the old labor songs. Their own

NFLY ‘song with its line “we're
working for a new tomorrow. .. .
for a land where working men
will rule!” brought quick response
from the throng.

: Tribune, May 9, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

costs soared
that figures.

Determination to make profits despite all
threats shines through in the case of Maple
Leaf Mills, winner of this week’s award. With
a flourish the big outfit swept in $2,851,000
clear profit in the first three months of 1974,
compared with $1,099,000 in that period last
year, about a 159°, jump. That’s not bad,
considering sales rose by only 43°) from 55
to $78 million. In that same period living

for families across Canada—

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The growing militancy of the labor
movement, the rejection in Parliament
of the socalled anti-gouging bill, now
the sleight-of-hand Budget presented
by Finance Minister John Turner, and
the voiced prospects of an imminent
election, all add up to what was fore-
cast by Communist Party leader Wil-
liam Kashtan at the opening of 1974
as “a very turbulent year.”

The chicanery of the budget, its

pretense at relieving the cost-of-living

squeeze, while actually doing nothing
to solve the country’s gigantic problems
of inflation and unemployment, comes
at a time to sharpen the attention of all
labor, and particularly labor represen-
tatives meeting in the Canadian Labour
Congress convention in Vancouver,
May 13-17.

As pointed out by Communist leader
Kashtan elsewhere in this paper: “In-
stead of democratic tax reform and

substantial tax reductions for work
people, the Budget continues its pou
of favoring the corporations an
wealthy.”

Does anyone think that a “temporal!
10% surtax” on some corporations, :
last but one year is going to do fro!
thing to protect Canadian families
the same price gouging they’ve sullé :
in the past? Are jobs and stability
ing to flow from the gimmicks Mr.
ner says are not in his Budget
which project from every paragraP

S
Going through the Budget one ah
on every hand the continuation ol
policy of favoring the corporations

If: the working people needed ar
tional reasons for tightening bef
unity, and going on the ’ ri
against monopoly domination,
of such reasons has descended on ©
from the Turner Budget. It’s a buee”

es rejection.
that deserv s re] =

‘Roll back prices!

The demand is mounting across Can-

ada for a roll-baek of prices and prose-
cution of the profiteers. Unlike the fed-
eral budget, the members of a number
of organizations are doing something
about it. Signatures on a petition de-
manding government action are add-
ing to the thousands, and the campaign
was given a spurt on May 4 which was
Ree eee Canada-wide petitioning
ay.

Results are already being reported
in southern Ontario and from talking
to those doing the petitioning it is clear
that, as they said: “It’s easy to get
Signatures supporting a campaign to

roll back prices — and prosecute profit-
eers.”” :

During the May 4 blitz 35 péople

went out in Hamilton, using the Steel-

workers’ centre as their headquarters,

and collected between 3,500 and 3,700
signatures. This kind of broadside can
help move a government — or fuel
an election campaign if that’s what’s
needed.

In Oshawa, about 500 signatures
were added when 10 trade unionists

talked to shoppers at the Miracle Mart.

store. Radio station CKLB and the
Oshawa Times gave the campaign pub-.
licity. ’ It shows what more people in
more places, talking to shoppers could
do. In Oshawa it even meant that a
woman who worked on petitioning day,
made a special trip next day to sign.

Reports that members of Auto, Elec-
trical and Steel locals are active in the
campaign, that the Ontario Anti-
Poverty Organization, the Coalition to
Roll Back Prices, the Congress of Cana-
dian Women, and Women Against Soar-
ing Prices were all participating — as
well as members of the Young Commu-
nist League, the Communist Party, and
others, indicates that the campaign is
gathering steam — and is not by any
means over!

In the Toronto borough of Etobicoke
and in Toronto itself, :

sometimes more, have been stationing
themselves at food stores and on bus

Corners, and the response is: “Sure Pil

sign.”
The Hamilton Labor Committee to

‘Trades, UE (504) and UAW

‘Labor’s strength can ensure 4 P

-mains for the next round.

groups of two,

Roll Back Prices, noting rises 1m int
est rates, and the 81% average Pi, i
increase by 12 food companies Maa
last three months of 1973, was es ae
ground in saying “that the m ratio?
wages being responsible for 1m
has been exploded for all time. --

The five locals involved there Ping
(1005), Teamsters (879), (aot) nit
: at
the nail on the head; and with esc
ing labor participation this a
can hit the profiteers where it 2).

roll-back in fact as well as resolutio®

First round to left

. ¢
First choice of the 26 million ae
voters in the first round of FY®™ io |
two-stage election was decisive y of |
candidate of the “common progr neds
Communists and Socialists, ages |
Mitterand, leader of the S0ct
Party. (Votes from France’s ov
territories are yet to be counted.

oe
Mitterand’s 43% of the popular rap
towered over independent repr tne :
Valery Giscard d’Estaing’s 337 = ullish
shattering 14% showing by_™. ei) Oe
Jacques Chaban-Delmas. The des! |
change was clearly voiced. re |
How much change there will Pot |
Elim! a ay

of Chaban-Delmas leaves 4

anic

race for the presidency; and ay ; ral |

gang-up attempt is taking place .
a money crew of rightists, centrist. |
variegated political groups 1”, jate of
ditch effort to defeat the cand |
the united left. ay

In the battle from now till the
19 second round, Communist-S0° met
supporters must round up ar nei
6.6 of the vote either by con fro?
voters to switch candidates, °°.

into the fight with calm reso p
having begun to formulate his *
dential responsibilities.

The pollsters wll be busy que
interval: but the French voters 1%
ready spoken; and the message
they do not want the past
future,