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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)

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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

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