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Who picks up the tab? Come September 1971, Ottawa plans to stop sending the Family Allowance cheque to 80% of families. With the cut-off at $10,000 combined family income (before taxes) the “Just Society” will pick UP oo... $294 million 20% of the lowest income families will receive slightly-increased benefits and this will use up ....... $100 million The Public Treasury experts to clear on the deal $194 million This is the Family Income Security Plan which would replace the present baby bonuses in effect since 1945: 4 Combined Family Income Level Benefit per Child Under 16 $16.00 per mo. 15.00

9,501 Over 10,000

Families will be required to re-apply annually—in other words, the hated Means Test instead of universal application.

“No more free stuff,” says Trudeau.

We declare the concept of a comprehensive universally applied social security is not “free stuff.” Canadians fought long and hard to pull Canada’s standards close to the levels of other advanced industrial countries. ,

We believe the wealth of a country is best expressed in the way it values its people. Those who have children contribute to the building of the nation, and the concept of Family Allowances was established to provide a measure of recognition of this special con- tribution. (Modest estimates claim in costs a minimum of $25-$30 per week to raise one child).

The proposed $10,000 cut-off ignores family sizes and circum- stances. It could presume two people each working for less than the “average” wage. Since when is the average family income in- terpreted as super security? Direct and indirect taxes eat up about

es aoc Of a dollar =<

- more if Medicare payments are included.

The White Papers pouring out of Ottawa these days expose a sharp assault against the working people. Their plan is to protect large private incomes and corporate profits.

Why should Benson’s new tax schedule propose to increase the rate on the lowest bracket of taxable income by nearly 50%? Why should there be no tax increase at all when income reaches $24,000? And above that level, the rate be actually reduced?

It appears the rich and great wealth are not to be touched for purposes such as income security for working people in need.

Funds to sustain the needy and poverty-stricken are to come from others who are a little less needy and a little less poverty

stricken.

Benefits not needed by the wealthy can be recaptured through a proper tax system based on ability to pay. KEEP FAMILY ALLOWANCES FOR EVERYBODY!

Confront your MP about these

proposals.

Reject a “Means Test” society!

plans—urge him to reject the

End poverty — don’t polarize it! —Issued by Women’s Commission, Communist Party of Canada.

Bourassa worse than

By DON CURRIE

WINNIPEG .— Jean Pare, mili- tant trade union leader, told 300 ' at a May Day meeting here that the reason why the Trudeau government enacted the War Measures Act was to divert the Canadian people from fighting for a decent standard of living. Only the stand of NDP MP’s, the public demonstration of the Communist Party the day after the legislation was enacted, the many demonstrations and meet- ings by trade unionists and de- mocratic minded people, and the opposition of the Parti Que- becois prevented.a sharper, more

dangerous turn to the Right. The UE vice-president said that the action taken by Prime Minister Bourassa of Quebec was more extreme than that of

“Padlock Law” Duplessis had .

been. Duplessis used the police to supress the workers, but Bou- rassa used the police and called in the army besides. Within hours «after the WMA was en-

forced, 500 Quebec workers were prisoners of war in peace- time.

Pare observed that workers unite readily to win economic gains and to fight the boss but have not yet learned the lesson of uniting against the political representatives of the boss. One such political struggle involved that would guarantee full equal- fighting for a new Constitution ity and self-determination to Quebec, which was the only real way to prevent separation. “Unless this change takes place, I don’t know how we can pre- vent Separation,” he stated.

Ald. Joseph Zuken said U.S. society is sick and people all over North America are caught in the squeeze between rising prices and unemployment. The governments- were trying to meet this crisis with repressive legislation. Pointing out that there was a history of such tac- tics by ruling class, he cited the Winnipeg General Strike and

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY MAY 14, 1971—PAGE 10

Soviet films are popular

A capacity audience attended the first of a series of 10 pro- grams of Soviet films sponsored by the Cinémathéque of the So- ciété culturelle Québec/URSS on April 27. Feature film was Crucified Island by the Georgian director, Shalva Managadze.

Encouraged by the response, directors of the newly-organized Cinémathéque extended the series to Mondays and Tuesdays instead of the once per. week schedule originally planned.

Discussion periods follow each two-hour screening and program notes are distributed

a week in advance of each pro-

gram. Programs begin precisely at 8 p.m. in the Society’s Salle de cinéma, #3124-1600, rue Berri, Montréal.

eOn May 10-11 we saw Neuf Jours d’une année (1961), Nine Days of One Life, Mikhail Mik- hail Romm’s drama of a young physicist torn between nuclear research and his personal life.

The following feature films’

make up the balance of the series (every program also in- cludes documentary shorts):

e@ 17-18 May — La Jeunesse de Felix Dzherzhinsky — Bio- graphic film about a Soviet re- volutionary leader around 1900.

@ 24-25 — Petite’ chérie — Sergei Kolokov’s treatment of Chekhov’s well known short story, Darling.

e@ 31 May/1 June — Torrent de fer (1968) — Efim Dzigan. Heroic march during the Soviet Civil War period.

'@ 7-8 June — Octobre (1927)

—Sound version of Eisenstein’s

famous masterpiece.

e 14-15 June — Le Nord (1968) — Gorin. Siberia in color — living color. This is the “true north strong and free” that Can- ada could have.

e@ 21-22 June — Sur le che- min de Berlin (1969) — Mikhail Erchov. Human vignettes dur- ing the final offensive of World War 2.

e 28-29 June — I’m Twenty Years Old — Marlen Khutsiev. Sergei returns from military service and learns how to live. An intimate view of life in Moscow.

The next series of 15 pro- grams will begin on September 13. Co-directors of the Cinéma- theque of the Société culturalle Québec/URSS are Laurence Nowry and Roy Kirkman.

Duplessis

Section 98, the misuse of the Riot Act and the Unlawful As- sembly Act, the Defense of Can- ada Regulations all of which had been used against Communists and workers and democrats time and again.

Ald. Zuken said he didn’t buy the argument that the govern- ment panicked when it enacted the WMA. Rather it was the out- come in practice of the idea that workers’ struggles must be sup- pressed by violence.

Zuken denounced the war in Vietnam and lauded the growth of the peace forces in U.S. and called for mounting peace ac- tions to put an end to this “vici- ous, filthy war.” :

May Day greetings were sent to Angela Davis and a resolution called President Nixon and Gov- ernor Reagan to release her and all U.S. political prisoners. An- other resolution called for the defense and release of the poli- tical victims of the War Meas- ures Act.

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Canada’s first cultural visitors from abroad this srl _ famed Georgian State Song and Dance Ensemble 's ets: to perform in 19 cities. Acclaimed by Vancouver's !¢ as “the greatest and most spectacular dance comp! world,” the ensemble from Soviet Georgia, shown mi , appear in Toronto at the Maple Leaf Gardens on May ©”

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Demand a moratoril! on all plant closuré

A call for a moratorium on all plant closures and layoffs, “until alternative employment oppor- tunities are found”, was one of a number of demands for fede- ral and provincial legislation ad- vanced in the resolution on plant closures adopted by the recent Metropolitan Toronto Conven- tion of the Communist Party. The resolution states:

The issue of plant closures to- day arises out of the sharpened struggle of monopolies for high- er productivity, lower costs and more monopoly profits. In this process monopoly strives to eli- minate competition within par- ticular spheres of operation by means of mergers and domina- tion of markets. This process in turn leads to more and sharper competition in general at a high- er level and between the various monopolies, on both a national and international level. In this process the aim and the results are more profits for monopoly and a continued squeeze on the incomes, living standards and needs of the masses of working people.

Plant closures and layoffs hit hard at working people. They add to unemployment which to- day is used by monopoly and by the Trudeau government as the main means to hold down wages and salaries of the working class. They affect whole communities, and tend in the direction of a halt to economic growth and ris- ing living standards, made pos- sible today by a new technology which can be applied to our abundant resources.

Therefore, one of the main aims of the working class move- ment today must be to put a curb on monopoly, to put a stop to its drive to deprive the mass- es of people of a decent liveli- hood, and to declare the right to a meaningful and creative job to be the inalienable right of every Canadian. :

This Metropolitan Toronto convention of the Communist Party of Canada calls upon all people’s organizations, and in particular upon the trade union movement, to join forces in a demand for legislation at the fed- eral and provincial levels along the following lines:

_ & Legislation guaranteeing a job and a decent livelihood as a right of every citizen,

“ A moratorium on all plant closures and layoffs in both the

private and ‘public sector until.

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tunities are foun worker affected by plated closures and ;

The Ontario g0Ve establish a Public Be mission with labor He if tion to conduct a PU” of gation into each cas closures.

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