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Trudeau government is to be
Seen in its proposal to eliminate
25,000 jobs in the Federal public
Service and in its approach to
- those still employed in the public
Service,

_ AH cost increases. including
creases in salaries.’’ he stated
over TV. “must be made within
_ the limits imposed by the 1969-70

dollar level.”

What does that mean in
ce? Either the present
€vel_ of employment will be
Maintained with no increases in
Salary, or, salary increases will
© made by _ reducing
_€mployment in the Federal
Public service.

La Tn view of pending negotiations
) With the postal employees and

» Perhaps other groups of

€mployees, it suggests that the

S0vernment intends to pursue a
ee line against its employees.
in the name of combatting

Inflation,

ius hard line is also suggested

Prime Minister Trudeau’s
~ ftemarks about ‘‘reviewing old
and new programs.”’ What old
Programs? Those like Family
Metco? The Prime
Mister declared ‘‘there will be
Nereased spending on those

programs which help those who
need it most.’ Certainly the
time is-long overdue to cope with
poverty’ in a real way, to
increase pensions and other
social security measures by at
least a cost of living escalator.
enact a guaranteed annual
income, sickness and maternity
pay.

What is more likely however is
that the government may be
moving away from the principle
of universality in social security

and towards a policy of
selectivity based on the means
test — also in the name of

combatting inflation.

In these conditions it is
understandable that there were
no howls of rage by monopoly
after Prime Minister Trudeau
outlined his recipe for
combatting inflation. The arms
program remains untouched.
Unemployment will rise. Social
security programs may be
revised. Restraints on wages and
strikes will become the order of
the day. In short the working
class and people are to be made
the victims of an anti-inflation
program which is not likely to
combat inflation because it does
not get at the roots of it.

OBITUARIES

EWAN M. STRACHAN

poo in British Columbia lost
inte trade unionist, com-
- child M worker and pioneer of
ren welfare work in the
es Passing of Ewan M.
et an of 200 Ellesmere Ave.,

vt Burnaby in his 85th year.
Rote, in Aberdeenshire,
. nd in 1884, after serving
“engin apprenticeship as an
Wi a Mr. Strachan travelled
befor. as a_ship’s engineer
‘ served coming to Canada. He
; World In the RCN in the first
sett] War as an engineer, and

ed in Vancouver in 1921.

pen tctiye in community
charte r. Strachan was a
Hill a member of the Capitol
and y ommunity Hall Assoc.,
Dione SO a founding member and
C €r of the Children’s Jubilee

diary a member of the Cana-

at Legion and the Capitol Hill

or Citizens Assoc.
€ was a long-time active
ie and builder of the
lc Tribune and member of
Canagg mmaunist Party of
Survived Mr. Strachan is
ia by his wife. Florence,
ie ughter and one son and
brot be eadchildren, also. two
thes Ts and two sisters, three of
"~S€ resident in Scotland.
co services were held on
nie 16 at the Burnaby
So, Directors Chapel. Mr.
Stewart Hi of Burnaby and Mr.
fittin tuston of Surrey paid a
life sa paute to the dedicated
in th “Work of Ewan Strachan
€ Service of his fellowmen.
ANNA LESCHYNSKY
leet August 16 following a
esch y illness. Anna
Van YoSky of 3318 Dumfries St..

- «NCouver
Sithyear passed away in her

Sup

A
te. active leader and worker in
Ukr Association of United
ainian-Canadians (AUUC)

Asso the Workers | Benevolent
Reon (WBA), the PTA:

oe Chest work © and

tite other civic and com-
: eae organizations. Anna
a eS Ss passing while still
aaa woman is deeply
“Tned by many of her ‘éo-

workers in Vancouver and
further afield across Canada.
For many years also Anna
Leschynsky was a member of
the Communist Party and took
an active interest in all party
activities, and in the building and
promotion of a Communist and
progressive press in Canada.
Anna Leschynsky is survived
by her ageing mother, Mrs.
Mary Kiceluk. two daughters,
Audrey and Dianna, three grand-
children, one sister and two
brothers and other near

relatives. mah
Tributes to the memory of

Anna’s devoted activities and
work were paid by John
Chitrenky, John Klymchuk and
Jerry Shack.
: ALEXANDER SZAKAL

Twenty-four years a coal
miner in the Carbondale and
Drumheller mines in Alberta
before moving to Vancouver in
1955, Alexander Szakal, miner,
steelworker and shipyard
worker passed away on August 9
following a long illness in his
66th year.

Active in the unions of his
calling, the Workers
League then the United Mine
Workers in Alberta, and in B.C.
the Marine Workers Union, then
the United. Steelworkers, Alex
Szakal was a tireless and active
union man wherever he sought a
livelihood. He was also a long-
time member of the Communist
Party and an active builder of
the Communist press. including
the Slavic-language paper
‘*Munkas’’.

Born in Silita, Czechoslovakia
in 1903, Szakal and his wife
Barbara came to Canada in 1929.
leaving his native land to get
away from a severe economic
depression with its mass unem-
ployment and suffering for
workers, only to land right inthe
middle of a like depression in
Canada. :

Alexander Szakal is survived
by two sons, two daughters. one
brother in Michigan, U.S.A.. one
sister in Czechoslovakia and

.4 seven grandchildren.

Unity: ~

DS aOE BPR aed

As the Globe and Mail
declared last week. following
Prime Minister Trudeau's -
statement: ‘‘the slowing of
growth and easing of demand
pressures has’ not been
accompanied by a slowing of
inflation.’ According to it,
consumer prices rose by 4.2
percent in the first half of 1969.

Trudeau's recipe for
combatting inflation is to attack
the living standards of the
working class and people.

This “stop and go’? policy of
inflation and deflation illustrates
again that state monopoly
regulation cannot guarantee
economic stability and
continuous planned
development. Despite the claim

/of government that it is
dedicated to pursue policies of
full employment and stable

prices, it is unable to do so on the
basis of capitalist policies. A
government dedicated to defend
the interests of monopoly cannot
defend the interests of the
Canadian people.

Present government policy on
the background of a currency
war, an agrarian crisis and
growing signs of instability in
the capitalist world, could,
unless checked, bring about a
recession.

In these conditions, alongside
its tenacious struggle to win
substantial wage increases and
other benefits, the working class
and trade union movement ought
to press in the most vigorous
way for a drastic reduction in the
arms program, for democratic
control over those who set
prices, and interest rates, the
monopolies, banking and credit
system, for democratic reform
of the taxation system as an
important means of
redistributing income in favor of
the people, the further extension
of social security and the
inclusion of cost of living clauses
on all such measures so as to
to

give some _ protection
pensioners and other groups.
Trudeau's policies are

directed .to defend monopoly.
The democratic and labor
movement of this country ought
to press for policies such as the
above which are directed to
defend the interests of the
Canadian people.

LABOR DAY
Greetings
1969

To All Labor
from
NANAIMO
PRESS CLUB

“Keep in mind we do this to protect your way of life.”

The Modesto Bee

ELECTIONS

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although its vote remained
small. did a major job of
bringing forward the real issues
in the election. It is unity around
the fight on these issues that is
needed now,”’ said Morgan.

The PT will carry a fuller
analysis and final results in
succeeding issues.

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