tof ~ by i are “freeloaders” who ‘ Class — So © 'Porate and high prices, the vi ' Pon « Ne 4 ‘Sorry, I'm lunching alone!’ Vote for your boss?.. Chiefs of the two major € parties, Liberals. and Bovatives, are running true Bites. In this election. Trudeau S Out swinging against the ®ss by claiming that a lot of The Old-lin Cons i and fraud” to take ad- ae of welfare programs. eld, smelling what he be- May be a_vote-getter, Sy, Beccsts that the jobless are deg 28 SO well off that it is Oyin, th “a Tine? Bet is 1e work-ethic,” and Charea. additional mileage he ‘the 8es that all this is due to Tr oo icken ¥ Millionaire leaders of of erties, Trudeau by reason iene and Stanfield Workin Selling long johns to People, express their €rests by attacking the socialism” of 1 Selye © least able to defend them- Oeanioat® jobless and the un- Made Bee sition of Trudeau is by 4 " the more contemptible 8eneray fact that economists halt e.. agree that probably 300,009 those now unemployed, Teaso, Plus, are jobless by n of Of the deliberate action Creays “TUdeau government in nN: antider Unemployment as the stead to inflation. Thy hy Of lower prices, the inthe ,.,POlicies have resulted July. Ae index shooting up in Tate th ust this year at a higher also h for the past decade. Ploymen @s the ate of unem- AUBust “ being 6.7 percent in In this against 6.3% in July. ment Period of high unem- friends of Trudeau and ._ lave fattened consider- Stan ably fie] bilion get Profits rising to $10.2 ANd of 170 $7.4 billion at the Seletetece! | Pacific Tribune West Coast edition, Canadian Tri e Much of this corporate fat comes right out of the public purse, as is peing well exposed during this election. Countless millions of’ dollars have been handed the corporations in out- right grants, loans and deferred (catch - me - if - you - can) ‘ taxes. These are the real “freeload- ers,” sheltered and coddled by © club members Trudeau and Stanfield. If the boss came along and asked workers to vote for a wage cut, would they? It is not likely. Yet voting for the big- business parties is the equiva- lent of voting for the boss, cer- tainly as far as pay packets are concerned. Real wages are also cut by direct government action through the tax structure. The lower and middle-income groups, the overwhelming majority of Canadians, pay the lion’s share of taxes. Tax increases on the worker are a cut in real wages. To vote for big-business candi- dates is to surely vote for higher taxes on worker incomes. Trudeau, with no objection from Stanfield, has already pro- vided for reducing the corpora- tion tax from 49 to 40%. The millions in lost tax revenue from corporate sources will, if the friends of big business have a clear majority in the next Parliament, be squeezed out of the working class in higher taxes and reduced social pay- ments. me The corporations pour millions of dollars into the coffers of the old-line parties to elect their own kind to govern this land. It is time for a change. It makes no sense for workers to vote for the boss. (George Harris in UE News) bune: setatetel Published Editor — MAURICE RUSH Weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST SObi. = North Benton Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $ South America and Commonwealth countries, 2.75 for six months. $6.00 one year. All other countries, $7.00 one year - Sis istration number 1560. Second class mail reg There’s no excuse for Cold War line There is no excuse for the Canadian government, today under Trudeau as previously under Diefenbaker, to allow the Cold War mentality and rules to govern its Department of Citizenship and Immigration. There’s no excuse for barring: visit- ors from socialist countries, or for re- fusing entry to professors (or others) to work here because they are supposed to be There’s no excuse for sheltering war criminals in contravention of inter- national law. There’s no excuse for cod- dling Right-wing emigres, while dis- criminating against hard-working im- migrants who hold progressive views, denying them citizenship, ete. To do this is not in line with the turn commenced by Mr. Trudeau towards a - detente in international affairs, to the establishment of normal relations with socialist countries based on Canada’s own interests, on the development of - international amity and the preserva- tion of world peace. When Mr. Trudeau points to increas- ed trade with the Soviet Union and People’s China as justification for such a turn, he is right as far as he goes. He should add, however, the tremen- dous perspectives in store if we con- tinue along the road, not only in eco- nomic and other exchanges, but also the practical possibilities for maintain- ing stable peace, the elimination of the heavy load of. armament, the creation of conditions for full-fledged Canadian independence at home and abroad. Editorial Co Marxist or non-conformist. That’s what a policy of oe means bo fe emg y the same token, procrastinati or reversal of that policy carries pias it the danger of increasingly isolating Canada from the socialist and “third world” countries, with the most nume- rous populations and most dynamic eco- nomies, tying us to the dying world of imperialism, increasing our subser- vience to the U.S. monopolists, holdin us back economically, culturally ai po iieally ate ne dread spectre of a rd world war of n i ton ever ee uclear extermina- at’s not just electi ic, it’ ine po ; ection rhetoric, it’s t is not to excuse Trudeau’s timidi and wavering that we centre fire sd Conese in this regard. - ill anyone be so naive as to i i that the Toronto stable of Tory “eth. nic” candidates got assembled by acci- dent? What does the nomination of Kupiak, convicted in the Ukraine as a war criminal, of the ultra-Right luna- tic-fringe Lubor J. Zink, of representa- tives of runaway “refugee” capitalists Roman and Jelinek, signify if not a defiant demonstration that Mr. Stan- field and his party consider that Can- ada should have supported Hitler in the - Second World War. that we should back to the Cold W aca ig ord War Three? “ ee at line-up is not accid Stanfield cannot plead rape Un less the Conservatives repudiate those candidates and what they stand for sey ae tarred with the ultra-Right Canada won’t go back to the Cold War policy. Canadians want to move forward, not back. They will ; the Cold Warriors at tie ee ei Star's anti-labor game spiked The Toronto Star’s campaign. the Star of leading a thinly agreements in the i against the right to strike in the veiled campaign to rob the labor than strikes on Gis side oe eae publi c sector of the economy movement of its hard-won gains pulsory arbitration on the other “came a cropper” at the Star and pointed to the loaded panel With the mentality of an em- Forum on Sept. 26 at the Toron- to Town Hall. The Star had loaded the dice against labor with four out of a panel of six taking sights on the right tration. Grabek set the tone. which to strike for public em- was followed by every speaker cussion, after initially making a on the stage as an example of ployer and the eye iti the kind of “justice” that work- cian he was cos ae = aa ers got out of compulsory arbi- to gore labor’s ox without ed pearing to do so. Sadly at the end of the dis- ployees, while at the same time from the audience for the next solid, if not spirited defense of not leaving much doubt that this hour. “We shed blood to win the right of public workers to was just the first stage ofa plan the right to strike,” said Pat strike: both Little and Edwards to curb the strike weapon in the Demarco from Local 1967 UAW. “And we'll shed more to save and give some credence to the a : if- it from the likes of you!” he - slippe Ositi The audience, however, had di hurled at the Forum organizers. ight occ ore aii On the panel tered at the Star and Abrams, Peter Riggin and Alder- private sector as well. ferent ideas, and a line up of peo- ple at the two mikes at the Town Hall blis appeared to back off somewhat One got the impression t were Larry they were scared off by the eos tancy of the response from the the anti-strike members of the man Rotenberg favoring the cur- floor and perhaps miffed at the pa campaign being waged by the nel, and ripped into the whole tailment the strike rights of antics of some of the inevi workers in the public sector. he inevitable “crazies” who got the mikes, press, government and big busi- ness against labor’s rights. Not a single person went to the floor to support a curb on labor’s right to strike. The meet- ing was changed from a polite “questions from the audience format which the Star had in- tended, into a militant form for labor when Joe Grabek of the Ironworkers Union refused to be limited to asking a question of the panelists and tore a strip off the Toronto Star and the four anti-labor panelists. He accused Defending the right to strike were Stanley Little, National President of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, and Claude Edwards, head of the Govern- ment Employees Union. The moderator of the panel was an editorial employee of the Toronto Star. The oiliest member of the panel was Alderman Rotenberg, who attempted to weasel in be- tween the two opposing views on the panel by suggesting some other method of settling dis- including some who spread their attacks equally against the Star and the labor movement. While no one expects that this forum will cause the Toron- to Star to stop its attack on or- ganized labor, at the same time it may proceed with just a lit- tle more caution since once its opinion was subjected to the real world outside its cosy edit- orial offices, it got such short shrift. (O.L.) PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1972—PAGE 3 Joli AER eta ee * SUNOS KScAq ee fe ee ae)