x Danie oi en ‘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