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UNITE TO MAKE OTTAWA ACT!

Simultaneous increases in unem-
ployment and cost of living this
summer, as recently announced by
Statistics Canada, have confronted
Canada’s working people with the
urgent need for united action to
reverse the present disastrous
course of the government’s policies.

In this serious situation, the Cent-
ral Executive Committee of the
Communist Party of Canada over
the signature of the party’s general
secretary, William Kashtan, has ad-
dressed the following open letter to
David Lewis, leader of the New
Democratic Party; Donald Mac-
Donald, president of the Canadian

Labor Congress; Marcel Pepin, out--

going president of the Confedera-
tion of National Trade. Unions; and
Roy Atkinson, president of the Na-
tional Farmers Union:

The continued rise in unemploy-
ment and prices which was reported
last week is cause for serious alarm,
all the more so because it took
place before the effects of the 10%
surcharge imposed by the U.S. gov-
ernment are fully felt.

These latest figures show, as our
party has repeatedly warned, that
government economic policy was
not directed to the achievement of
full employment and stable prices
but rather to deliberately increasing
unemployment in the name of curb-
ing inflation. These. policies, how-
ever, have not curbed inflation and
have not halted the growth of un-
employment which, with the re-
curring currency crises, have be-
come embedded in the capitalist

system.

What is self-evident is that the
economic policies pursued by the
government are eroding living stand-
ards and closing the door to jobs
for hundreds of thousands of work-
ers, young and ald.

All indications point to a winter
even harder and more bitter for the
working people than the last one—
but a good year for monopoly whose
profits keep mounting.

What is equally evident is that
monopoly and its governments are

Recent four-power agreement on West Berlin, followed by a meet-

_

ing between Soviet Communist Party leader Leonid Brezhnev and
West German Chancellor Willy Brandt (pictured above) opened the
way for an all-European security conference and the meeting of rep-
resentatives of all countries on earth to plan world disarmament,
which the USSR proposes at the present United Nations session. It
is at this junttur® that thé’ British Tory government has embarked on
a trumped-up “Soviet spy scare” campaign in an effort to revive the

cold war.

: ‘Sorry, you'll have to wait!’
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1971—PAGE 8.

using the present Situation to
impose some kind of incomes
policy or wage freeze on the
working people and to restrict
their right to strike. Indeed, a
calculated effort is being made to
“suck in” the working people ,
behind such policies under thé
false slogan of “defending the
national interest,” to mask the
real aim of defending the profits
of monopoly. It would do great
harm to the working people and
to the cause of democratic prog-
ress to be taken in by these false
slogans.

What is required is maximum
unity of the labor and democra-
tic movements to compel a
change in the direction of gov-
ernment policy, which has prov-
en itself to be completely bank-
rupt; and to win new policies
which would put Canada back
to work and ensure jobs or an
adequate income for all Cana-
dians as a right.

United action by the labor
and democratic movements is
essential to achieve such a
change of policy and to defeat
the anti-labor and anti-peoples
offensive of monopoly.

We advance the following pro-
gram around which action com-
mittees can be built in every
city and town and in the coun-
tryside:

e Raise the purchasing power
of the working people in cities
and on farms by reducing the
taxes of low-income families
and by a guaranteed annual in-
come.

e Democratic tax reform bas-
ed on ability to pay.

e A crash program of public
works in the cities to meet the
crisis.

e A 250,000-unit public hous-
ing program.

e Roll back prices. Establish
price and rent review boards.

e Resist wage freeze or in-
come policies.

e Defend the workers’ right
to strike.

e@ Strengthen Canadian inde-
pendence by restructuring the
Canadian economy using our na-
tural resources for balanced in-
dustrialization based on public
ownership. The establishment of
an all-Canada power grid, ga
and oil pipelines.

e Restructuring of Canada’s —
trade policies to lessen depen-
dence on the U.S. market. EX
tend trade with the socialist
countries and all other coun:
tries on a mutually satisfactory —
basis.

e Fight inflation by compél-
ling the U.S. government to end
its war of aggression in Indo-
china, and by extricating Cal
ada from complicity in U.S. im
perialist aggression.

The Communist Party asks
you to consider these proposals
which it believes to be most ur
gent if the monopoly offensive
against the Canadian people is
to be defeated and Canada’s real
interests defended.

The Communist Party believes
that a coalition of the New
Democratic Party, the Canadian
Labor Congress, the Confedera-
tion of National Trade Unions:
the National Farmers Union, the
Communist Party and other
democratic forces is essential t0
compel the government to adopt
policies leading to jobs OF
adequate income for all Cana

dians as a right. i,

Scab grapes

By JERRY HILL

Saturday morning 150 Toron-
torians demonstrated at Darri-
go’s who are selling “Pia” grapes
which are scab grown in Cali-
fornia. The demonstration took
place at Darrigo’s warehouse at
Caledonia and St, Clair where
the grapes are sold right off the
boxcar.

Bill Masterson, co-ordinator
of the Farm Workers Committee
in Toronto, said that. 75% of
California wine grapes are sold
in Canada, 50% of these in To-
ronto, then Montreal, Vancouver
and Ottawa in that order. They
come in by the trainload and up
to $2,000 profit is pocketed by
Darrigo who pays his employees
only $1.65 per hour.

Mr. Masterson and represen-
tatives of the Farm Workers
committee approached Darrigo
and asked him to sell union
grown grapes. Darrigo respond-
ed by throwing them off his pro-
perty. “It was after this,” stated
Mr. Masterson, “that we started
getting intimidating phone calls,
which threatened physical vio-
lence.” The Farm Workers, not
to be intimitaded, called for soli-
darity of all those who support
the California grape pickers.
People from many organizations,
such as the Communist Party,
New Democratic Party, and Waf-
fle, Italian Democratic organiza-
tion, Young Communist League
and others, and _ individuals
showed up and showed that
threats are useless.

protested

Carrying placards such as
“Don’t Buy PIA,” demonstrators
sang “All we are saying, Be
union grapes” to the tune
Beatle song “‘All we. are sayin’
give peace a chance.” Leafl é
in both Italian and English Wo
handed out and many of
go’s customers showed inte!
Many refused to cross the P! |
line and were loudly applaud
by the marchers. People we
asked to go to other near tg
grape merchants who ham
union grown grapes.

terest.
ck

Three candidates in the. On:

tario provincial elections Hill
on the picket line. Elizabeth
Communist candidate in St. od!
drew-St. Patrick riding, St4
“From the very beginning,
to organize the farm worke ned
California have been supP? be’
by the Communist Party, ting
cause we deplore the appal def
slave wages and conditons un K-
which the fruit pickers are WO),
ing. Most of the workers
Mexicans and Chicanos 4? is
suffering doubly from 1°":
and exploitation. This action |.
a true show of international ait
darity from among rk
American and Canadian wo!
ers and intellectuals.”

Dan Heap, also of St. andtens
St. Patrick, said that he ‘ine
supported the boycott fn ust’
beginning” and is also for
ice for the farm workers on.
international labor cooperat
Steve Penner of Dovercou
also at the demonstration.

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