— TURNER BUDGET demonstrations. athe dat ara tikes by Palestinians in West Bank Protest strikes and demonstrations erupted in the Nest Bank territory occupied by Israel on Wednesday and | lursday. Israeli paratroopers were being used as strike- Meakers against the Palestinians. while in Israel itself. Not police were used to try to curb Israeli workers’ strikes. alestinian young people in Nablus, the West Bank's largest city, ted in small groups on Thursday to shout rhythmic chants of “Ar- ~ We Are With You!” (‘Arafat — Nahnu Ma’ek!”’). The Israeli troopers, wearing red berets and battle-dress, and carrying rifles submachine guns, attacked the groups which scattered and quickly | Tefop Med elsewhere. Schools at Nablus, Halhul and other West Bank ‘hw. ts Were deserted. West Bank shops had closed down on Wednesday e Were reopened at gunpoint by the paratroopers. Calgary Communists are dis- jointed by the failure of pub- School board candidate David ; ltefield to be elected in the r. elections. Fighting a vig- hic Campaign, in reporting a the media invariably com- ated on his active member- ih, Of the Communist Party, ign cela led the demand for ition Cant improvement in educ- ton linking the implementa- any advance to improve tay orale and conditions espe- Y Wages for teachers. fre local struggle at the same 4 Was linked to the wider iy. UCial need to use new reve- Tom oil for social purposes in.0 the nécessity of strug- , Sil 8 against the multi-national the [onopolies which dominate Ougheed Government. wcviewing the campaign in lag the Communists received Vite Votes, the Party’s largest the a the city for a generation, ity committee agreed that ing .2® Of the Communist vote € excellent support of pro- Special to the Tribune Sate NNIPEG — Saunder’s Air- ate Corporation is a small air- & .,“anufacturing plant locat- ip ' Gimli, Manitoba, employ- §bout 300 people. bop however, a firm with big Mleyg PTOblems. Today, with the bee rising militancy of ti, 22 workers and a sharp tty, the number and length of Mus that should not seem lida, 2. But it is when ‘you con- the following facts. thy “Nder’s is 81.7% owned by thy S0Vernment of Manitoba Rey Bh its investment and loan hen, » the Manitoba Develop- Orporation. Manitoba has Marg 80verned for the past six by Ed Schreyer’s New it .°Cratic Party. Here is a look Monk Teyer-style ‘‘socialism” at Wr othe United Automobile Work- Monk ion, which represents the Meo’, At Saunder’s, had been fy, ating with the company ho, months, Negotiations were £n off two weeks ago on the : biis of the company’s last offer, (algary candidates win 8,000 votes gressive candidates Joanne Dun- das and David Wallis, each of whom received over: 2,000 votes, proved that conditions _already exist for the election of -a coali- tion of Communists and progres- sives at the municipal level. The absence of success is due to the weakness of the Party both numerically and qualita- tively. Addressing the. Commit- tee after the election, long-time chairman Art Roberts declared that “‘the lesson is to build the Party and to continue even more vigorously the policy of public work.” As part of the program of Party Building, General Secre- tary William Kashtan addressed a large meeting on Nov. 15 in which he outlined to an enthu- siastic audience the decisive need to build the Party this year around a program of detente and social progress. Calgary Communists respond- ed a eet sit four new Party members at the meeting, bring- ing to seven the number to en- ter the Party in a week. follows: oe $1.04 pay increase over two _years (a little over 12%) ea cost-of-living rise to come into effect next April, to a maximum of 10-cents per hour, e complete elimination of seniority, @ elimination of job security, in that job security will be based on efficiency, with the company having the sole decision as to what efficient is, and e elimination of any griev- ance procedures for any prob- lems that may arise outside the contract. Management presented this contract offer to the union ac- companied with the ultimatum that if the union did not accept, its members would be released from employment and workers brought in from England through a labor contractor to take their place. This ultimatum, of course, left the union no choice ‘but to break off negotiations. At its next local meeting, the 224 union_ The most recent Turner Budget gives the Canadian people more of the same medicine that successive Liberal and Conservative governments have been dishing out year after year in dreary monotony. The deep rooted policy of the federal government to re-distribute the national income in favor of corpor- ate wealth remains as the point of de- parture of the new budget. Turner’s budget fails absolutely to get at the root cause of inflation and of the developing recession. Consequently the working class and all those on low middle incomes will continue to suffer the effects of the twin evils of capital- ism—galloping inflation and unemploy- ment — while corporate profits and By ALF DEWHURST MORE OF SAME MEDICINE prices will continue to soar. If the government had really wanted to combat inflation and recession in a way that would benefit those who pro- duce the real wealth of our country it would have reversed the order of its tax concessions. Rather than giving the substantial concessions it has to the resource and manufacturing corpora- tions it should have made substantial It should measures to members é i 86% in favor of strike action. However, one worker stated, “That offer left us no choice but to strike. But that’s just what the company wants. They’ve timed contracts so that there’s practically no work right now, when our old contract has al- ready. run out. A strike won't hurt them. We’re over a barrel.” Approximately 100 workers under labor contract from Eng- land already work at Saunder’s, and it is felt among many em- ployees that when the strike does come, they will cross the picket line. They could easily handle the little work that is currently in progress. It is to be hoped that these workers refuse to scab and do not cross any picket lines. . One worker sees the situation as follows: trying to break the union, or at least to make it practically pow- erless. So they are forcing us to strike when everything is in their favor.” in attendance voted “The company is. Five workers have already been laid off, without considera- tion as to seniority, and one has been fired under very unjust cir- cumstances. When the union tried to take this up with man- agement, it was simply told that the contract was up and they could do what they wanted. More layoffs are expected any day, and management will likely attempt to get rid of the most militant and active unionists in the plant through this means. It is shocking that this kind of situation can occur in an NDP government - owned enterprise. But maybe it is not so shocking when you consider Premier Screyer. In the last federal elec- tions he came out in favor of wage and price controls, under- -cutting the federal NDP’s posi- tion that any such action would constitute an attack on the liv- ing standards of working people. He has become to a certain ex- tent isolated from the labor movement in Manitoba, and has resisted many of labor's de- Continued on page 10 PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1974—Page 5 income tax reductions to all those with incomes of $10,000 or less, it should have reduced mortgage rates on homes, extended social security services, and substantially increased pensions and welfare payments. have proposed effective roll back prices on essen- tial foods, clothing, and housing, established stable and meaning- ful farm incomes, provided for profit ceilings on the corpora- tions and middle men, as well as effective measures to put an end to the criminal speculation in food stuffs, land and housing. To really stimulate employ- ment the budget should have made provision for a massive in- crease in housing ‘construction. Indeed, it should have declared that henceforth the government would consider housing as a vital public utility. On this basis the budget should have made provi- sion for large-scale land assem- bly as part of a comprehensive housing program aimed at mak- ing low-cost housing. and rental accommodation available to. all who are in need of such housing, at rates they can afford. Instead of a taxation write off policy for oil and petroleum ex- ploration of 100%, and of 30% for development, the budget should have included measures for a public take-over, under democratic control, of the en- ergy and resource industries. If the public treasury is to finance exploration and development of our oil and’ gas resources it stands to reason that the public should own them, not the giant oil corporations. : The indefinite continuation of write-offs for firms modernizing their manufacturing plant will not add to employment. Moder- nization prcsupposes a cut-back in manpower and increased pro- fit-taking for the firms. It is indeed hypocritical for the finance minister to speak piously for self-discipline and restraint by all Canadians when his budget is directed to enforce continued restraint on the’ low and middle income. groups and nothing is done to curb the bla- tant profiteering of the monopo- i Continued on page 10 TORONTO — Angela Davis will address a public meeting here on “Racism and Political Repression” at Convocation Hall, Univer- sity of Toronto, Nov. 22 at 7.30 p.m.