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and ending 350 jobs in it, and
threatening the loss of 900
lumber workers’ jobs. :

Sogefor: two wood-processing
plants in Mount Laurier, partly
owned by this Quebec govern-
ment enterprise. Ending opera-
tions and the jobs of 140 work-
ers.

Savage Shoes, Galt, Ontario:
closure, and the end of more
than 100 jobs.

Acadian Fisheries, Canso,
N.S.: closure. 800 jobs terml-
nated. ‘

Werlich Industries Ltd. in
Stratford, Ont.: end operations,
and of 150 toboggan manufac-
turing jobs.

Scott Maritimes Ltd.: 300
Nova Scotia pulp mill jobs gone.

Inco, Thompson, Man.: 60
salaried staff fired. ;

Canadian Ingersoll-Rand, in
Sherbrooke, Que.: foundry clos-
ing, and 300 jobs gone.

Westinghouse: now winding
up its phased closure in Brant-
ford, Ont., at the cost of 265
jobs.

Imasco Ltd. Delhi, Ont.: Clo-
sure, with the loss of 200 to-
bacco plant workers’ jobs.

Heywood-Wakefield in Oril-
lia, Ont.: ceasing manufacture
of bus and car seats, with the
loss of 90 jobs.

Cardinal Protein Ltd. in Can-
so, N.S.: closure, and the end of
100 jobs.

There isn’t a worker in Cana-
da who doesn’t know this is
only part of the picture. Or that
it’s going to darken fast. What's
at stake means labor must
quickly unite its forces to fight
as never before for policies to
create jobs—now!

Editor —MAURICE RUSH r é
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Fate!

Friendship with USSR
to our mutual benefit

The October 17 arrival in Canada of

Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin comes,
almost to the day, five months after the
May 19 signing in Moscow of the Can-
ada-USSR Protocol on Consultations.
Signed by Prime Minister Trudeau and
Premier Kosygin, that historic docu-
ment declares it is “inspired by a desire
to develop and strengthen relations of
friendship, good neighborliness and
mutual confidence between the two
countries.”

Supporting the Protocol immediately
upon his return from the Soviet Union,
Mr. Trudeau declared in the House of
Commons that only “a climate of con-
fidence, a climate in which men of dif-
fering social and economic systems
trust one another, can achieve a satis-
factory, just and continuing peace.”

Since then Canada’s existence as an
independent country has been threaten-
ed by momentous events. Already de-
formed by the “branch-plant economy”
policies fostered by Canadian govern-
ments in the interests of monopoly,
Canada’s economy is now menaced by
complete U.S. domination. Canadians
in all walks of life — organized work-
ers, farmers, scientists, educators, busi-

ness men — decry the looming danger

that we will sink to the exclusive and
supine role of supplier of natural re-
sources for the USA.

Without industry, without trade
with the rest of the world, disgorging
our vast natural wealth to the merci-
less appetites of U.S. imperialism, un-
told numbers of Canadian jobs would
disappear. The mass unemployment al-
ready created by the Trudeau govern-
ment would become a holocaust of eco-
nomic disaster.

With the visit of Soviet Premier Ko-
sygin, the moment has come to imple-
ment the spirit of friendship and of
mutual exchange expressed in the Pro-
tocol on Consultations. Canada’s real
interests are involved now in this most
opportune occasion. We need to find
markets for our goods. The Soviet
Union is one place where we can find
them on a mutually advantageous basis.

No hostile action — whether by the
Canadian Jewish Congress, by Ukrai-
nian-Canadian nationalists or by ultra-
right and neo-fascist groups — must be
allowed to jeopardize the present real
possibilities for developing peaceful,
friendly relationships between Canada
and the USSR through trade and scien-
tific exchanges.

The Canadian people expect that at
this moment their government will act
responsibly. The same kind of “warm
hospitality” for which Prime Minister
Trudeau thanked his Soviet hosts, the
overwhelming majority of Canadians
now want to show in dignity and re-
spect for Premier Kosygin, the visiting
head of a great state.

The Nixon administration and the
State Department in the USA want at
all costs to block the development of
friendly relations and trade between

Canada and our socialist northern
neighbor. :

Canada’s External Affairs Minister
Mitchell Sharp has warned that “an
exclusive relationship with the United
States . . . would tend to compromise
our political independence.”

Canadians look to their government
to permit no act that will compromise
the friendship of our people for the
people of the Soviet Union during Mr.
Kosygin’s welcome visit to our country.

Jobs—not snow shovels

Toronto’s city streets commissioner
is asking the city’s works committee to
approve “employment of up to 100
casual laborers to shovel snow from
residential sidewalks this winter.” The
newspapers are full of such reports as
municipalities and provincial govern-
ments rush to create the impression
something’s being done to solve the
crisis of unemployment.

Park benches are to be painted.
Beaches are to be cleaned. Rotting elms
cut down. And wild life is to be pre-
served!

These futile gestures make a mock-
ery of the tragedy of unemployment
that has already engulfed the lives of
more than a million Canadians and now
threatens countless more.

What lies ahead? How are we going
to provide 2.6 million new jobs in the
1970’s? That’s what the director of the
Economic Council of Canada estimates
will be required to reduce unemploy-
ment to about 4%, the level monopoly
considers “more or less acceptable.”

For the 25- to 30-year olds, the rate
of supply of jobs in the 70’s must be
double what it was in the last decade.

What is to happen to Canada’s
youth? Where are the jobs for them
now? Where are they to come from in
the years ahead?

The 2.6 million figure for jobs needed
in the 70’s is based simply on rates of
population of growth in Canada. But
the disastrous policy the Trudeau gov-
ernment implemented in the interests
of big. business — fight inflation by
creating mass unemployment — con-
tinues unabatingly. The plant closures
and mass layoffs that U.S. imperialism’s
economic aggression is causing are just
beginning — like whipping waves that
run before the tidal wave crashes.

Dec. 6 is too late for the federal-
provincial conference on unemploy-
ment. The Canadian working people
will not stand for any more politicking
about this by prime ministers and
premiers. The governments at Ottawa
and of the provinces that so fawningly
serve monopoly must act to provide
jobs and they must act now.

Words won’t make them do so. What
is needed is united action by the labor
and democratic movements.

That’s what the Communist Party
ealls for: Maximum unity of the labor
and democratic movements to compel
a change in the direction of govern-
ment policy, which has proven itself to
be completely bankrupt, and to win
new policies which would put Canada
back to work and ensure jobs or an
adequate income for all Canadians as
a right.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1971—PAGE 3