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other methods, and such meth-
ods have crossed the border
in the UAW and other inter-
national union constitutions.
The anti-communist clause
of the UAW constitution is not
needed in Canada and is for-
eign to our political thinking.
The union and the country
would be better without it.
Editorial, Windsor Daily Star

SALUTE TO JULY 26

The people of Cuba are set-
ting out to harvest 10 million
tons of sugar in honor of the
10th anniversary of the attack
on the Moncada Barracks. The
historic July 26th attack led to
the eventual overthrow of the
U.S.-backed Batista dictator-
ship and to the estabilshment
of the first socialist state in the
western hemisphere.

Once rid of the old system,
the Cuban people rapidly over-

- came such age-old problems

as illiteracy, starvation, unem-
ployment, racism and poverty,
and began their march on the

high-road of socialist advance. :

With the support of the other
socialist countries and in the
first place the Soviet Union,
the heroic Cuban people have
defied all the many attempts
of U.S. imperialism to re-
establish its sway in Cuba.
What Cuba has achieved in
the last ten years will be multi-
plied scores of times over in the
years ahead, inspiring people
everywhere in North and South
America to fight harder for
socialism in our time.

tom NATO!

Issued by The COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA

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Premiers evade problems

Nine of Canada’s provincial premiers
are at an annual meeting.
Admittedly, at the time of writing,

the conference isn’t over, and more may

be done than has yet been reported. One
can, however, already stand in awe, not
at the questions coped with, but at the
vast range of.problems left untouched.

Manitoba’s new NDP premier, at the
opening of the Premier's meeting, said
he and his colleagues would not be
discussing what he termed Canada’s
most important issue: taxation. .

“T am not aware of this group ever
discussing the problems in depth—then
going to the federal government with
concrete proposals. If they want to do
something worthwhile . . . they should
discuss it. If they do not, they are not
dealing with the most important issue
facing the country.”

However, widely ranging differences
and conflicts, between province and
province, and between the provinces
and the federal government, could not
be obscured.

Quebec’s Premier Bertrand, in a po-
litical manoeuvre that appears to have
had some complexity to it, addressed
the other premiers as heads of state.
Premier Bertrand said that the prov-
inces are heading in a direction that
will give them a greater role in Can-
ada. “Consequently,” he said, “member
states of the Canadian confederation
must organize themselves to play their
state role, responsible and conscious of
their futures.”

Thus, the failure to resolve the two-
nation crisis in our country, correctly,
continues to divide Canada. The feder-
al government, in its efforts to preserve
the status quo, has moved in the direc-
tion of extending the “rights” of all the
provinces, particularly in the field of
taxation. More recent taxation agree-
ments tend to veer in the direction of

reversing the gains made by the more:

poorly developed provinces.

It’s high. time Ottawa implemented
many of the more progressive propo-
sals of the Carter Royal Commission
on Taxation. Property taxes continue
to soar. Income taxes, siphon off a
huge chunk of the weekly cheque at its
source, and inflation cuts purchasing
power at the other end.

Inflation promises to continue. This
year, already, house prices have risen
by 10 percent above the 1968 level, to
complete a 25 percent increase in 3
years—with Toronto houses selling the
highest in Canada, at an average price
of $30,000. The retail food price soars.

There is the wheat market problem,
and the shaping up of an international
price war. Prairie provincial govern-
ments already predict a decline in
budgetary estimated revenues, and pri-
mitive barter trade has developed.

A great, long list could be provided
of the multiplicity of crises affecting
every facet of our lives: the growing
economic and social problems of our
youth; the grown in unemployment;

‘the need for an anti-poverty program;

the vast, problems ‘of rural areas; the
serious overcrowding and understaffing
of our hospitals and schools.

_ But, if the premier’s conference con-
tinues as it began, Canadians can ex-
pect more of the same..

Farmers on the move

Nearly a thousand militant farm
delegates in Winnipeg labelled it an

historic occasion. The formation of a

national farmer’s union, against which
governments worked, introduces a new
quality to the anti-monopoly struggles
of the Canadian people by further unit-
ing the forces in that struggle. —

Farmers have influenced politics and
have elected governments. In recent
times political parties have underesti-
mated them, thinking that the farmers
no longer bear much weight in shaping
the future of our country . :

In contemporary history, farm de-
mands have helped force some. distinct
breaks with the cold war lines laid
down by Washington, of which Cana-
dian trade with Socialist countries is
one concrete example. At its founding
convention, the National Farmer's
Union calls for the diplomatic recogni-
tion, not only of the Chinese People’s
Republic, but also of the German Demo-
cratic Republic. é

There is a growing mood of militan-
cy and determination—yes, and despe-
yation — among the farmers, which
brought out a couple of score of riot
police in Regina and Saskatoon to
“protect” that arrogant aristocrat,
Trudeau, from their anger.

In the past farmers were split by
sectional interests. The organization of
the National Farmer’s Union carries
with it the promise that sectional inter-
ests will be subordinated to the over-all
needs of the farmers. This immediately
strengthens, not only the hand of the
farmers, but also the workers and other
sections struggling for answers to the
crises affecting their lives.

The current market crisis for agri-
cultural products is different from yes-
teryear, when Liberal Agricultural Mi-
nister Jimmy Gardiner said “Wheat in
the granary is like money in the bank,”
and when Tory Agriculural Minister
Alvin Hamilton said, “Grow all the
wheat you can and we will sell it.” It
comes when the economic situation in
Canada and the United States con-
tinues to worsen, with a threat of a
new international currency crisis.

The solutions required are more com-
plex, demanding a revamping of the
obsolete, cold war policies, still follow-
ed by Ottawa.

The Canadian government provides
no direction, has no plans, and proposes

no alternatives. In an act of political -

cowardice, agricultural minister Olson,
cancelled his appearance at the found-
ing convention at the last minute. :
The growing consciousness of the
farmers strengthens the opportunity
and provides a wider base for far-
mer-labor unity. The anti-monopoly
coalition is taking form. The heart of
that coalition is the worker-farmer al-
liance. The success of the farmers de-
pends upon their own militancy, but
also upon the degree to which they are
able to join. with labor in common
struggle for each other’s interests.
PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 8, 1969—PAGE 3

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