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‘m closing down. Furthermore, all companies
ist be Made to show cause before

public, tribunal which includes representatives
ithe trade union movement;

fore any layoffs are permitted.

All Workers who are laid off must be guaranteed
* Maintenance of their incomes for the |
ration of unemployment. A debt moratorium
duld be instituted to ensure that

| unemployed workers loses his or her home
/Personal possessions.

i \

Hours of work should be reduced to 30

Ours pay.

Taxes On earnings of $10,000 or less
go be eliminated. If Government
Boegude: tax free incomes for MP's,
FS, MLA's and other public servants,

it should guarantee such exemptions for all
the working people who create the real wealth
of the country.

@ A guaranteed annual income for working people

in city. and countryside, the adoption of
pharmacare and denticare is long overdue.
So is the establishment of day care centres
financed by federal, provincial governments
and the corporations.

® Government measures must be undertaken
to ensure guaranteed markets and

stable prices for farm produce.

® Prices should be rolled back to the
January 1973 level on basic foodstuffs,
rent, housing, clothing and fuel

under strict controls.

© Public ownership of the meat packing and
food processing industry should be instituted.

Together with the above measures, an all-out
attack should. be undertaken by

all levels of Government on unemployment.
The Federal Government must declare itself
in support of a policy of full employment and
in line with this bring in another budget

at an early date which outlines these steps
it will take to achieve this objective.

These steps must include:

e A vast housing program of 300,000 housing units

annually. Housing should be considered

a public utility, land banks created to

take housing out of the hands of the developers
and speculators. Interest on mortgages

should be set at 5 percent. All taxes

on building materials should be eliminated.

e Natural resources should be processed

in Canada with industries built at the source
of these resources including energy,

thereby creating thousands of additional jobs
for a growing labor force. Energy and
natural resources should be publicly owned
in all provinces and developed in such a way
as to benefit the Canadian people

and strengthen Canadian independence.

Canada has an alternative to being tied
to the crisis ridden U.S. economy with which

we conduct 20 percent of our trade. -

The Canadian. Government should extend trade,
cultural and scientific exchanges with the
socialist countries and the newly liberated
countries. This is possible if Canada pursues

a policy of peace, detente and disarmament and
actively supports the peoples striving for
national and social liberation. The Government
should reduce defence expenditures by 50 percent.
Peace, trade and jobs go together.

FELLOW CANADIANS:

The adoption of such a program would be

in our interests. It would prevent monopoly
from saddling the working people with the
present economic slump and inflationary price
spiral for which monopoly and government
are responsible.

In 1929 monopoly and its governments placed
the burden of the Great Crash on the backs
of the working people in city and countryside.

They must not be allowed to do so this time.

The trade union movement, the farm movement,
the youth movement, the women’s movement,
all the democratic forces of our country

are strong enough to prevent it. All we need is
unity of action around a common program.
Such unity of action on the economic and
political fronts could compel the adoption of
legislation to protect the Canadian people
from the inflationary price spiral and

the threat of depression -

Mass democratic action, delegation and lobbies
to municipal and provincial bodies and

to the Federal Parliament are essential to compel
Governments to act in the people’s interest.

The Communist Party of Canada urges

all working class and democratic forces to unite
their efforts around such a common program.
We have outlined what we consider to be
essential. We call upon other sections of the
working class and democratic movement

to do likewise and through common action
win the battle for a new direction for Canada,
full employment policies, rising standards,
peace, detente and social progress.

CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1975—Page 5