Unemployment grows while living costs tise, says Tim Buck.

Yet, given correct

policies,

opportunities were never brighter.

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_ What will parliament do?

; Here, just across the threshold of another
asking themselves, “What will 1959 bring?”

In every month of 1958
1957,

The declines of 1958 from
1957 grew worse every month
and yet, in spite of that, the
cost of living increased stead-
ily all through the year.

In one year,: the Diefen-~
baker government has brought
Canada to the situation, in
which, for the first time in our
history, the cost of living keeps
on increasing in spite of enorm-

ous surpluses of unsold pro-
Gucts, growing bankruptcies
and unemployment.
As parliament opens the
‘membérs of the House of Com-
mons should be asking them-
selves: “What should we do
in this session to correct this
situation?”
The president of the chart-
ered banks are raising this
question, the* more serious
newspapers are raising it, the
Financial Post admitted in its
first issue of the year:
“We cannot remember a
parliamentary. session which
must set so many policies
which will have such dramatic
effect . . . The consequences
of failure... can be awful.”
The editor could, just as truly
have written, “never before
were our opportunities so
bright if we do but adopt cor-
rect policies.”

_ Let it be noted that the Fi-
nancial Post published its
warning before Soviet scien-
tists provided their most stu-
pendous demonstration of the
superiority of socialism and
the futility of the policies
now being pursued by the Die-
fenbaker government.

Within a year and _ three
months of launching the, first

_ earth satellite into orbit around

the earth, Soviet scientists
have successfully propelled a
vehicle weighing a ton and a
half packed with instruments,
far beyond the earth’s atmos-
phere, far beyond the moon,
to become a man-made planet
circling the sun.

It opens a new age, the age
of the conquest of space and
exploration of the universe.

The information that this
new planet sends back over
320,000 miles of space will
revolutionize the  scientist’s
knowledge of the universe.
This knowledge will become
_ the property of all mankind.

It will become recognized
as the turning point to gen-
eral recognition that socialism

In every month of 1958, industrial employment w
In every month of 1958 there were more workers unemplo

By TIM BUCK

year, men and women all across Canada are

railway freight car loadings were below the same month of

provides the conditions for the
development of science and for
scientific achievements far be-
yond the limits imposed by
the capitalist search for profit.

As the Soviet announeement
pointed out, this new triumph-
ant conquest of space is fur-
ther evidence tht preparations
for war of guided missiles and
hydrogen bombs is futile waste.

To start now a series of
“crash programs” on prepara-
tions for space warfare as is
proposed in the United States
would be criminal. It would be

instead of the great historic
adventure of mankind’s con-
quest of outer space and the
exploration of other planets.
The peoples of all countries
must insist now that their gov_
ernments declare themselves
in favor of an international
agreement for the peaceful ex-
ploration and use -of outer

Space, for an end to all tests’ -

of A- and. H-bombs, an end
to the threat of war of guided
missiles and wholeseale nu-
clear destruction.

se Ee: xt

tunity for the Diefenbaker
government to stop the infla-
tion of Canada’s money supply,
stop the price increases, ex-
pand Canada’s foreign trade
and start again the growth of
Canadian manufacturing.

In its Speech -from the
Throne, the Diefenbaker gov-
ernment. should have stated
frankly that it recognizes the
hecessity for a change. In-
flation has reached the danger-
ous point at which specula-
tors are getting rich simply
by betting against the Cana-
dian dollar on the stock mar-
ket. The Throne Speech should
have assured the people that
this would be stopped by stop.
ping inflation. This would
stop the, steady increase in the

to choose mutual destruction

as below the same month of 1957.
yed than in the same month of 1957,

cost-of-living. Prices
even come down.

The Throne Speech should
have assured the people that
inflation would be stopped
without any increase of taxa-
tion. The government can sec-
ure real money—instead of the
phoney money that it gets
now by inflation—by changing
the purpose for which | it
spends.

might

For example, the 13 percent
by which it diluted the money
supply during 1958 was still
less by hundreds of miilions

than the amount it ‘spent be-
cause of its servile tie-up with
the U.S. in its preparations
for war. :
_The “Throne Speech should
have admitted frankly that the
‘nearly $2 billion a year that
Canada has been spending be-
cause of this tie-up was wasted
and the time has come to stop
this waste.

By cancelling its orders for
Bomarc missiles from, the U.S.
and basing all its expenditures
on the prospect of long-term
peaceful co-existence between

_ Canada and the countries of
This is a wonderful oppor-

the socialist world system, the
Diefenbaker government would
make available more revenue

for civil expenditures than i

secured last year by inflation,
at the same time it would free
its policies from the domina-
tion of the U.S. war depart-
ment.

This would open the-way to
great new foreign markets
and a revival of growth in
Canada’s manufacturing indus-
tries. ,

The Throne Speech should
have provided for a tremend-
ous expansion of foreign trade
by proposing that Canada sell
her products to all countries

for the money of the purchas-

ing country without any dis-
crimination. This one measure
could increase Canada’s over-

seas exports by a billion dol-
lars a year.

The Throne Speech* should
have encouraged the expansion
of manufacturing industries by
proposing a long-term plan for
development. of Canada’s vast
potential for cheap electrical
energy, under public owner-

ship, and growing markets at

home.and abroad for the pro-
ducts of industries using the
power.

This sort of policy is nec-
essary now, to stop inflation,
to meet the problem of in-
creasing unemployment, to
stop the futile and criminal
rush to. war. :

In addition it is the key to
lower prices, higher family al-
lowances, old age pensions of
$100 per month Starting at
the age of 65, universal hos-

pitalization and medical sery-
ice and widening richer oppor-

tunities for
youth.

It is not likely that the Die-
fenbaker government will in-
troduce the sort of policies
indicated here.

But that is because the Die.
fenbaker government js a
prisoner of the past — trying
to serve interests which have
become an obstacle to Canada’s:
progress. :

In the meantime, “The
World Moves.” The new planet
which revolves around the
sun governed by the same
laws that govern the earth is
the demonstration of man’s
ability to-conquer space — to
journey into space, to explore
other planets, ;

This revolutinoary develop-
ment of man’s ability to mas-
ter his environment, to. har-

the country’s

- women.

fO85I0
CORDES Ba gr ernie

Here unemployed demon
tors pose the issue of U:
grabbing of Canadian resou
and U.S. dictation of Canadian
trade policies. §

hess it, cannot be restricted :
cuter space, it will exert a pro-
found influence upon all hu
man thought. ost
. This social system whic
raises science to this level ani
places it in the service 0
peace must become the socia
aim of all democratic men‘an

Whether along with or i
opposition to the Diefenbake!

ieve new gains for peace and
understanding between our

great new socialist world.

Unemployment cuts —

‘student enrolment

TORONTO — The effects of
unemployment are being re-
flected in student enrolment
at University of Toronto, 3

Enrolment at Osgoode Hall, ~
Ontario’s law | school, has
dropped from 957 to 880 and
Ontario Reports, official pub-
lication of the Law Society of
Upper Canada, observes that
the national economic position
“has made it increasingly dif-
ficult for students to obtain
summer employment as re-
munerative as in former years,
and also may reflect the in-
ability. on the part of their
parents to finance their future
education.” : 4

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‘THE LEGISLATURE AND YOU‘

Reported by Charlie Caron
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