the

to

- World labor call on Viet war

_ PRAGUE—The World Federation of Trade Unions has appeal-
ed to workers and trade unionists in all countries to demon-
_ strate ever more resolutely their solidarity with the national
_ liberation struggle of the peoples of Indochina, and demand
an immediate end to U.S. aggression. :
The appeal was made after an emergency session of the
executive committee of the Stockholm Conference on Vietnam
ed to organize an International Week of Solidarity with
Peoples of Indochina from October 15 to 22, 1972. The
week will follow immediately the third session of the Interna-
Commission of Enquiry into U.S. Crimes in Indochina,
ye held in Copenhagen October 10 to 16.
ie WFTU calls upon workers and trade unions to redouble
efforts to rush material aid, especially medical supplies,
and to carry forward actions in all forms including the stoppage
of production, transport and loading of arms and war materials
__ to be used in the U.S. aggressive war in Indochina.

~ Tory attacks on UIC

not a sham battle ~

“David Lewis is wrong when
he charges that Tory ‘attacks
against unemployment insurance
is a sham battle. He is wrong
because it could serve to lull
working people into a false
sense of security,” declared Alf
Dewhurst, Communist candidate
in Toronto-Broadview.

Addressing a group of party
Supporters and workers in the
constituency at a Thanksgiving
supper, Mr. Dewhurst said, “The
attack against unemployment in-
surance benefits by Mr. Stanfield
as being ‘too high’ is the Con-
servative Party Leader’s way of
serving notice that a govern-
ment led by him would slash
these benefits,

“The Tories charge that un-
employment benefits now being
paid allow unemployed workers
to turn down jobs _ harvesting
fruit and vegetables and in
sweatshop industries. The ques-
tion immediately arises what
kind of wages do these jobs pay.
The reason that some seasonal
and part-time jobs go a-begging
is not ‘high unemployment in-
surance benefits,’ averaging $67
a week for a family breadwin-~
ner, but the scandalously low
wages paid. What is really need-
ed is a minimum wage of $3.00
per hour for both men and wo-
men, and strict enforcement of
this minimum.”

The Communist candidate em-
phasized that “working people
should make no mistake about
what the Conservative Party is
up to. Eagerly assisted by the
mass news media and other
right-wing politicians, the Con-
servative Party is out to amend
the Unemployment Insurance
Act to cut back the present in-
adequate benefits as well as the
duration of the benefit period,
and to cruelly harass the unem-
ployed while doing so.

“This very real and reaction-
ary attack against UIC is pari
and parcel of the big corpora-
tions’ frontal attack against the
entire structure of social wel-
fare legislation and benefits pre-
sently existing in our country.”

Dewhurst said the Broadview
constituency is populated mainly
by working class families, many
of whom through no fault of
their own are forced to exist on
totally inadequate welfare pay-
ments, disability and old age
pensions. Many more are em-
ployed in low wage areas.

taken together

“These families,’ he said,
“have much to lose if Mr. Stan-
field and the extremely right-
wing candidates running under
the Conservative banner come to
power in Ottawa. Neither have
working people any guarantee
that Mr. Trudeau and the Liber-
als will not back down before
the determination of the big cor-
porations to cut back on unem-
ployment insurance, pensions
and welfare payments, -which
would create
favorable conditons for continu-
ing low wages through a wage
freeze.”

The Broadview candidate urg-

’ ed-his audience to vote for the

candidate of the Communist
Party as the best possible vote
to cast for a job or adequate
income for every Canadian as a
right; for a 32-hour week with-
out reduction in pay and a $3.00
minimum wage for men and
women; retirement at 55 for wo-
men and 60 for men with a mini-
mum pension of $3,000 for a sin-
gle person and $5,000 for a fami-
ly, adjusted periodically in ac-
cordance with cost of living in-
creases; unemployment _insur-
ance benefits at 80% of wages

for the full period of unemploy- ©
price and rent review |

ment;
boards to roll back prices and
rents; single persons earning
less than $3,000 and married be-
low $5,000 to be exempted from
income tax.

The money for these reforms
he said must come from taxing
the big corporations and the
wealthy through a full capital
gains tax, and a fully operative
tax structure that ensures full
collection of income and corpor-
ation taxes in accordance with
ability to pay.

Annual wage is $73

MANAGUA—Half of Central
America’s families have an aver-
age income of only $73, more
than half have no running water
and cannot afford medical care.
These stark facts were made
public by the Secretariat of Eco-
nomic Integration of Central
America (SIECA) before the
Central American trade union
conference which took place in
the Nicaraguan capital.

_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE ---FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1972—PAGE 4

Tory attack on unemployed
seeks to undermine wages,

ek powers a i

batter down standards —

At various meetings he addressed
during his western tour, Communist
Party Leader William Kashtan warned
of the drive by sections of monopoly to
form a right-wing coalition whose aim
is to place the burden of the economic
difficulties on the backs of the working

people.

“The crudest expression of this is

‘tack on the unemployed and it
is also an effort to enforce wage
and price controls and attack
the right to strike.

“Behind the smiling face of
Stanfield is the ugly fist aimed
at the rights of the working peo-
ple. The late R. B. Bennett, who
was prime minister during the
crisis period of the 1930s, said
that his government would ‘not
subsidize idleness.’ Now Stan-
field is parroting the same old
refrain.

“The Communist Party is the
only party. which presents a
comprehensive program directed
to achieve full employment—the
right to a job for all Canadians.
While Trudeau pretends he is in
favor of a policy of full em-
ployment, he now proposes. that
414-5% unemployment should be
equated with full employment.
This means that Canadians are
to expect a permanent unem-
ployment amounting to over half
a million.

“Apart from the misery in-
flicted on the unemployed, this
will act as a deadweight on the

the attack on the Unemployment Insuh ~
ance Commission by the Tories and pal
ticularly by Mr. Stanfield,” he said.

“Their aim is not to eliminate fraud but —
to lower the UIC benefits below that of
the lowest wage. This would insure 2 ~
ample supply of cheap labor on the Pre —
tense that the Tories ‘want to put Cana

dians back to work.’ It is ra t

ly an ab
eee 2

working class aimed at lowering
the standards of the working
people.”

Mr. Kashtan stated that the
blackout by the Establishment
media on the campaign of the
Communist Party has been brok-
en. In_ Vancouver, Edmonton,
Calgary, Winnipeg and Thunder
Bay he received press coverage

‘on local radio, newspapers and

television. In B.C., the national
CBC ran a television interview
and the Canadian Press agency
carried many ‘statements by Mr.
Kashtan and the local Commu-
nist candidates.

Everywhere he spoke there
were enthusiastic meetings of
election workers, showing that
the party is all set to get into
the campaign with both feet. The
Communist election platform was
just off the press and it was
welcomed by the workers and is
presently being distributed wher-
ever candidates are running.

In his meetings Mr. Kashtan
also drew attention to the limit-
ations of the proposals advanced
by David Lewis with respect to

Communist Party names 30

as unemployment up to 7.1%

to-Davenport riding (shown above with Russel Rak, Communist can-
didate in Oshawa-Whitby riding, with Oshawa young people) leads
a team of 30 Communist standard-bearers, nominated for the Oct. 30
federal vote. (See page 5 for brief biographies. of the candidates.)

As though to underline the Communist election campaign, which
has been hammering from the first on the need to turn Canada’s
politics to curb the monopolies and provide the 2,500,000 jobs needed
by 1980 by establishing Canadian people’s control over the guidance

of our econoniy, unemployment figures on nomination day jumped
to 7.1%, of the work force, the highest figure for 10 years and sliding

into a repetition of the Hungry 1930s.

the “corporate welfare bums.”
“Mr. Lewis made clear that he
is not against the ‘corporate We"
fare bums,’ that he is only
against the unjust tax system
he said. “And the leader of the —
NDP has made it clear that his
government would likewise un
-dertake incentives to the Cor
porations.’ And not least, he
stressed that an NDP govern”
ment would not nationalize the
natural resource industries.
one adds up all of Mr. Lewis$ ~

statements, it is clear that he 1S
directing himself to big business —
assuring them that they have —
nothing to worry about with ;
NDP government and that Sue
a government would not roc
the boat.’ *

a eS

“All evidence brings home thé —
fact that only a vote for a COM —
munist candidate is a meaning =
ful vote. It will be a vote CaS” —
for Canadian control and public “
ownership of the natural rT 2
sources; including energy. It wie
be a vote cast for the develOP ~
ment of the North through pu —
lic ownership or Crown Corpol®
tions. ; “4

“It will be a vote for a neW
Canadian constitution based ee
the equal and voluntary partney ;
ship of our two peoples, Engle i
and French. It will be a VOW! —
cast for a policy of full employ,
ment, a genuine redistribution ;
the national income through ©
mocratic tax reform, a gual
teed annual income anda SUN
stantial increase in pension PY
ments,” he said.

Mr. Kashtan will be soon 2
ing ona second tour with vis!
to Vancouver, Winnipeg,
ton, Thunder Bay, Welland, °"
Catharines, Toronto and. Mon
real. d
40 million Mexicans
‘drink polluted water

MEXICO CITY—Water pollu”
tion in Mexico causes the deat
of more than 85,000 people
year, according to studies made
here by a private body, the Ags
sociation of Sanitary Engine@! 4
ing. 3

a”

‘e

The association says that pe
lution in Mexico City has reac a4
ed such a state it affects UW -

‘normal growth of trees. Of the”

country’s 50 million inhabitant!
some 40 million drink contami#t
ated water, the study points 04