SC ITEM: nocunal e ndamental rt ltawa begins Tties with U.S. review es i ae eee s US DAY, 1971- OTCAWA* DISCOVERS” AMERICA ; ‘ ‘ollowing partial list of 4nt closures, of opera- at la and of ensuing per- bos is the tip only of thy tic crisis crushing Miata Canadian workers. ie by the policies of au government, the Xoug, has been acutely and ton! deepened by the , lst drive of United An Perialism to “repat- Hy, Stican-owned plants in & itis is part of the U.S. i, Pe Out manufacturing ‘ ha to make of our », “Wers of wood and ., °f water. qglement this policy, the ercrce Department last h of enced, Canadian af- U.S. corporations ex- Mcrease substantially Pending this year and the extractive indus- thy Toleum, mining and ¢ he Motors: 2,000 work- ie, laid off in Ontario and tt Aluminum: 300 per- hs lbs killed in Quebec. hig, Telegram: 1,200 jobs Tre, the disappearance of 1 h be? ell, in Montmagny, WPant closure, with 400 é Ded out. Ny, @ Sarnia: a Crown cor- lhe that is phasing out ty, | 315 workers. §, \ Ltd.: closing its Three i, Quebec and Cornwall, A ives: with the firing ty, Y Of 650 and of 135 LY . Aters, Newfoundland: "'$ Corner Brook plant All other countries, $7.00 one year rezesorereiet¥.050.070s0,05%s%ets0s%e ete Boctatet, eeeeseeelesecestatataereteteteterererererereseet Se, Second class mail registration number 1560. as 5 3 “ Xing, going, gone... 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 Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., ONncouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. F . Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Conada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. Orth and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one yeor. 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