Bio Be ashtan Cont'd from pg. 2 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. 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