AR id a ‘oom ANG ne ats, IRATE CONSUMERS TELL MPs: — ‘ROLL BACK HIGH PRICES’ By MARK SYDNEY “Parliament will have to listen to our demands when we come on October 15,” 1 said Maggie Bizzell, chairman of the Coalition to Roll Back Prices, which has bag called a demonstration that day as Commons: reopens. “They’re going to get an wee earful and a lot of questions from angry people about why prices on food and other commodities are rocketing out of sight for many working families, and fami- lies on fixed incomes.” — CP projects issues in Quebec election MONTREAL — Quebec’s Oc- tober 29 election, called by Pre- mier Robert Bourassa a year- and-a-half before expiration of his ‘terni, has about it an un- Commonly large number of un- Predictable factors. In Montreal Itself there is hardly a riding that has not been changed by the re-drawing of the electoral map, for example. Sam Walsh, president of the Parti Communiste du Quebec, Points out that while a recent Poll showed 40% of voters un- decided, “pretty well normal for Quebec” early in a campaign, What would not be normal “is that 40% remained: undecid- €d ‘for very’ long’. . » _ “All the parties of the opposi- tion,” he said, “with the excep- tion of the Union Nationale, are 80ing for government, that is, €né Levesque is certain that they (Parti Québecois) are go- gto become the.minority gov- ‘mment in this. election cam- Paign. The Créditistes are pre- dicting that they’re going to be 4 Majority government . . .” ~ Party Standings at dissolu- Yon were: ‘Liberals 70, Union Parti Québecois 7, Independent 2, vacant 2..A new electoral map to equalize numbers of vot- ers has added two seats, making a total of 110. Communist Candidates The Parti Communiste du Quebec has announced three candidates, Jeannette Walsh in Mercier (Premier Bourassa’s riding), Claude Demers in Pré- vost, and Ginette Poirier in Terrebonne. The PCQ’s 13-point election program includes a call for: “Action against influation by legislating substantial price reductions on the essentials of life; by taxing excess profits of the monopolies; by establishing a Quebec Committee on Price Revisions representative of labor, the farmers and the con-: sumers, with power to refuse price increases, to cut prices and to prosecute profiteers.” Other points in the program include, elimination of unem- ployment through planned deve- lopment; public ownership of banks, monopolies in key indus- tries and natural resources; a guaranteed annual income of $5,000; equal pay for women; @ Continued on page 6 Nationale 16, Creditiste 11, ne @ Yutermna News & Us. backs South Africa in UN UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. — The United States was "ported fighting hard in an attempt to beat back efforts to : allenge the credentials of the South African apartheid “gime’s delegate to-the United Nations, as the UN Gen- ‘tal Assembly resumed its sessions on Friday. Africg Sard Muller, the South S Can regime's Foreign Minis- a on Thursday was listed as As in the speakers’ list to ad- “ss.the General Assembly, but before he could speak, the dele- gete of Mauritius rose on a ques- tion of procedure and challenged Muller's credentials. For a durable peace... — roll back October 15 has been designated by the Coalition to Roll Back Prices as a Day of Protest against high prices, and will be highlighted by a demonstration and lob- by on Parliament Hill. The Tribune talked to Maggie Bizzell about the Coalition and its actions, “Specifically for October 15, we’re going to present the major demands of the Coalition just as Parliament reopens. Of course, our principal demand is our name Continued Israeli occupation of Arab lands and its refusal te recognize the legitimate rights of the Arab people of Palestine, is the underlying cause of the present military conflict in the Middle East. End Mideast injustice iT) ry conflict.” th 4nd went on: . TORONTO—“The present dangerous situation In the Middle East, arises from the refusal for the Past six years of the Israeli Government, backed y its patron, United States imperialism, to abide by the United Nations Security Council Resolu- tion Number 242, of 1967. ‘ It is this refusal which has brought on the mili- That is the position. of the Communist Party of anada, whose Central Executive Committee met October 9 to review Middle East developments arising from the renewed outbreak of hostilities. “The question as to which side started the pre- Sent conflict,” the Communist Party. stated, “is Secondary to the fact that its underlying cause 1s € continued Israeli occupation of Arab lands and Is refusal to recognize the legitimate rights of the rab people of Palestine. : . Until this is rectified the Middle East will con- tinue to be a centre of conflict and of war. a threat € peace and security. of the world,” it warned “That this basic injustice is not recognized by the Israeli Government and its military is to be seen in their statement that they intend to ‘teach the Arabs a lesson’, by totally destroying their armed forces and by continuing to occupy and annex Arab territory.” : - The answer, the Communist Party emphasized, ‘is not further annexation of the territory of the Arab peoples, but the right to existence of all countries and peoples in the Middle East, includ- ing the legitimate rights of the Arab people of Palestine, a concept enshrined in the 1967 UN Security Council Resolution, Number 242. “The present conflict must be ended by a cease fire and by a just and durable peace settlement.” “The Communist Party urged Canadians who are dedicated to peace to “press the Canadian gov- ernment to actively support and work for a cease- fire based on the UN Resolution No. 242 which calls for an Israeli pull-back to the armistice line that existed before the six day war in 1967. This @ Continued on page 10, rices. But we’re not going to stop here; we'll tell Parliament how this can be done. First, by prosecuting the profiteers immediately, and also by giv- ing Mrs. Plumptre’s Prices Re- view Board real powers to do something about, all unwarrant- ed price increases, instead of simply reporting a hundred or so isolated instances. Want Answers “We've asked for interviews with . Prime Minister Trudeau, opposition leader Stanfield, and NDP leader David Lewis. And we've also asked for a meeting with Mrs. Plumptre herself. “Our coalition has a lot of questions, and we want answers. For example, why profits go up at the tremendous rate they do, 49% higher in the first six months of this year than last, while even their statistics show that wages are lagging behind prices, and nowhere near pro- fits. People on our delegation, working people for the most part, will want to know how this can be justified.” The Tribune asked Mrs. Biz- zell why the coalition is focus- ing its Day of Protest on Ot- tawa. “The last demonstration we mounted,” she said, ‘was rather small, and yet out of that, the whole Coalition has grown. People have really re- sponded to the demands we put forward there and the’ publicity we received. Since then, the Prime Minister has felt com- pelled to send a personal 30- page brief to people who signed a petition .on food prices. And Mrs. Plumptre and her Board are talking about prosecuting profiteers. All this has come about from mass pressure, and it is only through increased mass pressure and organization that the government will be compelled to act.” As Many as Possible Plans for the demonstration are still going on, Mrs. Bizzell noted. The Coalition is attempt- ® Continued on page 10 “Ailot of angry people are go- ing to be asking Parlament on October 15 why wages have lag- ged behind prices, and certainly behind profits,” said Maggie Biz- zell, chairman of the Coalition to Roll Back Prices. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1973 — PAGE 5