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Munist leader said. The real is-

tther takeover of Canadian

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| "tgy resources which are es-

‘tial to build the economy
Create jobs in Canada.”
For Real Debate

Vine: Kashtan pointed out that

Ore it switched to the sup-
Th of the Conservatives, the
Tonto Star had stated that a
fal debate, not a side show”
“8 needed on the very issues
ich the Communists had cam-

Financial Post had also
‘ ted that a real discussion was
tpg nial on U.S.-Canadian rela-
8, “otherwise why did the
€tnment decide to hold an
“tion.” Various church bodies

fhe out that ‘essential ques- -

{ns were not being discussed. -

€se facts showed the crisis
apitalist politics, the Com-

8 can’t be evaded, avoided or.
ept under the rug... - ee

|The difficulty. of the, old-line

a and the crisis in their
had demonstrated also in
hs, Mr. Stanfield’s. main lieu-
att in Quebeg puts his leader
Bat background, just as Lib-
rh Candidates put,.their party
the background. It was ex-
essed in the shift by~ which
',° Toronto dailies with national
ificance switched allegiances,
ii Pe and Mail to the. sup-
| t of. Mr. Trudeau and the ‘To-
nto Star. finding .Mr.. Stanfield
its liking. te
- Prisoners of Press
It is a pity that Toronto
Ple should be prisoners of
ch Papers as the Star, which
Y to tell them how they should
ink,” said Mr. Kashtan, urging
Wide circulation for the Cana-~
Tribune to tell the truth to
€ electorate.
the Liberal Party’s economic
Icy has not served the inter-
S of the Canadian people, nor
it intended to do so, he

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ptended on LIP and other pro-

} S, it does not come to grips
th rising unemployment and
Ing inflation.

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..©ontinued from page 4

/ %n, Loblaws and Steinbergs.

4 € cited the fact that in the
"nth of August beef prices to
tmers declined by 8% but in
ame month. retail - prices

ed by 8%. He pointed
also that in 1963 wages in
essing beef totalled $11.50
Every $100 in costs, but in
the wage bill was down to

‘le charged that in September
this month supermarkets
€ paying $213.96 for an aver-

i Carcass containing 428 lbs.
W..dible beef which ’they re-
ed for $640.90, a mark-up of

26.94.

Dewhurst drew attention to
, sdvertisement published in
; Newspapers on October 14

Ominion Stores which stat-

that every dollar in sales
them 12¢ in wages. Even

“Wng their own figures he

"BUYERS OF MACHINERY
},.ccording to a Department of
“dustry, Trade and Commerce
Port, machinery valued at ap-
°ximately $336 million was
qiPorted by Canadian firms
Uty-free under the department’s
achinery Program during 1971.

ld party policies bring
|more jobless, inflation

; ‘Continued from page 4

“Unemployment and inflation
have become a way of life in
our society. Mr. Trudeau says
he is perplexed why unemploy-
ment should increase at the
same time as there is a growth
of investment and the. gross na-
tional product. He shouldn’t be,
because the technological revolu-
tion means that more goods are
produced by fewer workers. The
investment does not go into

building new industries but into
_ improving machinery in existing

plants and throwing more work-

ers out of jobs.
“Mr. Trudeau could deal with

the situation. The introduction
‘of a 32-hour work week with-
‘out reduction in pay and raising

the minimum, wage and pensions
so people could retire at an ear-
lier age with dignity and not
poverty, would create a million

; jobs. within 24 hours.”

Instead, Mr. Trudeau is say-
ing that 4.5% or 5% unemploy-

x

ment should be considered “full

employment,” .that is, he is opt-

-ing for a permanent army of
" half-a-million unemployed, main-
"ly young people.

The Canadian people cannot
accept such a perspective.

Tory Frauds S.

“Mr, Stanfield is waging war
against ‘frauds’ drawing unem-
ployment insurance benefits. If

he is so concerned about frauds, .

he could examine the. tax evad-
ers, the other crimes against the
people. What the ‘Conservatives
want is to destroy the UIC, for
which the workers fought for
years. They want a big pool of
cheap labor. They must not be
allowed to get away with it!”

Mr. Kashtan recalled an ex-
change that took place in a
union-sponsored all - candidates
meeting in Malton, where the
Conservative spokesman stated
his party would bring in wage
and price controls.

“What if the workers won't
accept a wage freeze?” he was
asked from the floor.

“They'll be forced to accept
it!” the Tory replied.

“And if they strike?”

End soaring prices

showed that in selling an aver-
age 428 Ib. beef carcass at
$640.90 the cost in wages to Do-
minion amounted to $76.90 leav-
ing the food chain profit clear
of wages of $350.04 on an aver-
age beef carcass.

The Communist candidate

said, ‘this giant corporation .

that daily and hourly drums
into our ears the atrocious lie
about “deep discount prices”
sells beef which they buy for an
average of 57¢ a pound in the
carcass from an associated pack-
ing plant at fantastic prices:
steaks from $2.25 to $2.75 a Ib.,
roasts from $1.69 to $1.75, pot
roasts for $1.30, boiling for 99¢
and hamburger for 98¢.”
“This,” he said, ‘Gs the case
for the charge of legalized rob-
bery committed against the
consuming public by the food
corporations which neither the

‘ Liberals nor Conservatives have

done nothing to stop when they
were the government and had
the power to end it. That is why
we, the consumers, should start
fighting now to bring prices
down. That is why we should
vote Communist. on October
30th as the best protest vote
possible.”

“Then we'll put their union
leaders in jail.”

At this juncture Mr. Kashtan
intervened to ask whether this
was official Conservative policy.

“Oh, Mr. Kashtan, I know
Conservative policy better than
you do!” the Tory replied.

That’s the situation on the eve

‘of the election.

Candies to Rich

Trudeau is promising candies
to Big Business. Stanfield is of-
fering candies to Big Business.
And the Canadian people are ex-
pected to pay for those candies.

Neither of them, giving mil-
lions as “incentive” to Big Busi-
ness will change the situation.
Neither of them will provide
new jobs.

The Canadian people don’t
need such policies.

“We need full employment
without inflation,’ Mr. Kashtan
said. “The Liberal party offers
the prospect of more unemploy-
ment and‘ continued inflation,
and should be rejected at the
polls. The Conservative Party is
saying, ‘Put Canada back to
work’—stealing the slogan from
the Communist Party as Mr.
Diefenbaker took the slogan ‘Put
Canada first’ and was elected in
1958. But they will rather put
the Canadian working class on
its back if they get the chance,
‘solving’ unemployment the way
Tory prime minister R. B. Ben-

Joe Wallace’s many friends
across the country greet Cana-
da’s leading worker’s poet on his
83th birthday Oct. 29. The Trib-
une wishes Joe Wallace, whois
presently in hospital, a speedy
recovery and many happy re-
turns.

nett, who won the election in
1930 by promising to end unem-
ployment in 30 days, did — by
instituting slave camps at 20
cents a day. ‘

“The. wages and price freeze?
That’s already~in force in the

. U.S. with the result that, wages

are kept down while prices and
profits keep -rising. That’s be-
cause wages do not determine

prices, which are set by the

monopolies at what the traffic
will bear.” :

Mr. Kashtan pointed to the
ultra-rights who have been no-
minated by the Conservative
Party, such as Kupiak, who was
convicted of mass murder in the
Ukraine, Zink, Roman, Jelinek
and others.. These are indicative
of the Tory endeavor to drive
politics to the far right and
should be soundly trounced at
the polls.

Lewis’s Record
In ridings where Communist
candidates are running, all who

seek a real alternative in policy,
a new direction for Canada based

-on public ownership of the pow-

er and natural resources and
building secondary industry with
far-reaching social reforms,
should vote for the Communists.
The best outcome of the election
would be the election of a large
bloc of progressive MPs, includ-
ing NDP members and Commu-
nists.

Does the NDP offer the alter-
native?

Mr. Kashtan here reviewed
the record of the right-wing
leaders of the NDP in Parlia-
ment and in the election cam-
paign:

e The NDP voted twice—in
the case of the Montreal dockers
and Vancouver longshoremen—
to compel workers to go back
to work. :

e Mr. Lewis candidly told a
railroaders meeting in Toronto
that a government led by him
would not permit -railwaymen
and others in “essential” occu-
pations to strike “for long.”

e Mr. Lewis has come out for
a Wages dnd Prices Control
Board, putting in the same boat
workers, who must negotiate for
months and strike to win wage
demands, and monopolies that
can raise prices at will.

e Mr. Lewis can be compli-
mented on his exposure of “cor-
porate welfare bums” (Commu-

nists. have been campaigning on
this issue}, but he goes out of
his way to point out at every
opportunity that he is not at-
tacking corporations, only gov-~
ernment loopholes in. the tax

‘structure, assuring Big Business _

that: it has nothing to fear from
him. The real task is not only
to compel the corporations to.
pay their share of the taxes, but
to take away their power over:
Canada’s economy.

Real Alternative

Mr. Kashtan called upon all
who. agree that a basic change
is néeded to vote for Communist
candidates where they are nomi-!
nated. t

“Don’t waste your vote,” he
concluded. “You can’t vote for.
parties and policies that are;
against your interests. Yous
cannot depend on the NDP under ¢
right-wing leadership to defend :
your interests. In those ridings
where the Communist Party has.
nominated, the most meaningful
vote is for the Communist can-
didates.”

This is a vote for the unity of
labor, farmer, democratic forces
that will: curb monopoly and
eventually lead to socialism.

MOSCOW THEATRES
Moscow has 29 drama and
musical theatres, annually pat-
ronized by over 12,000,000 spec-
tators. Annual attendance in the
city’s 118 cinemas is 140,000,000.

“ Nobody told us...”

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