Roll back prices!
Prosecute profiteers!

@ Continued from page 5
and veterans’ allowances, free
of tax.

e@ Redistribute national in-
come through tax reform and
with periodic increases in social
benefit payments.

e A $3 per hour country-wide
minimum wage.

@ Make the oil companies roll
back gasoline and oil prices to
January 1, 1973, and impose an
excess profit tax on all private
monopolies.

The proposal to build a pipe-
line to Montreal is sound. The
line should be placed under pub-
lic ownership and control. The
oil monopolies should be made
roll back prices to January,
1973. There is no energy crisis
in Canada. It was and is an
artificially created crisis by the
foreign (U.S.) oil monopolies to
gouge the public.

The recently announced gov-
ernment subsidies provide no as-
surance that the prices of bread
and milk will not be raised
again. The increase of a mere $5

a month to our senior citizens is
a disgrace. The appeal to the oil
magnates for a voluntary five-
month freeze on gasoline and oil
is meaningless.

Contrast the indecent haste of
the parliamentary majority of
the Liberals and Tories to im-
pose a strikebreaking law on rail
workers and their refusal to
lift a finger against the mono-
poly profiteers.

The parliamentary majority
acts with dispatch against the
working people and the public
interest and protects and de-
fends the real enemies of the
public interest — the monopoly
profiteers.

The food processing industry,
the large chain stores, the devel-
opers and land gougers are en-
gaged in a profit orgy. They
raise prices to realize the high-
est rate of profit on investment
in postwar history.

The Communist Party, in its
statement, urged millions of
Canadians to demand action
around the seven proposals ad-
vanced above.

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We fought it together

@ Continued from page 5

exposed to even greater glare
the shameless marriage of the
companies and government, con-
summated when Canada’s Justice
Department obediently followed
company directives to lay charg-
es against railway workers
named in company-supplied lists.

Every worker in Canada is
served by this reminder of the
myth of government neutrality
— the reminder that monopoly
and monopoly-run government
have the same aim of soaking
the worker. |

Politics entered into the strike
by way of the monopoly and
government efforts to shift. the
burden of inflation onto the
striking workers. But the strike
instead, dramatized the econo-
mic facts of life — runaway
prices, inflation, the crude role
of government.

Communist Demand

At the moment of crisis when
charges were being laid against
workers. on the west cosat, the
Communist Party of Canada,
which earlier issued a statement
in full support of the railway
workers’ demands, wired Minis-
ter of Labor Munro, and Prime
Minister Trudeau, demanding

that the government “withdraw
the punitive measures taken. . .”
A similar wire to New Democra-
tic Party leader, David Lewis,
urged him to protest the meas-
ures in Parliament.

The message to the govern-
ment, signed by Communist
Party leader, William Kashtan
on behalf of the Central Exe-
cutive Committee, read:

“Urge your Government to
withdraw the punitive measures
taken against railway workers
who are upholding the right to
strike and collective bargaining
and who oppose the sub stan-
dard wage settlement imposed
by Parliament.

“Such punitive measures
against working people who are
striving to catch up with spiral-
ling prices contrasts
with the inaction of the Parlia-
mentary majority of Liberals
and Conservatives regarding
monopoly price gouging and pro-
fiteering.”

Criticized CLC

As unity of the railway work-
ers hardened, criticism of the
soft line of the Canadian Labor
Congress leadership was picked
up by other than the railway
workers.

Battle against diabetes

SOFIA Regular medical
check-ups in Bulgaria help to
discover diabetes in its early
stages. It has been found that
almost 2% of the population
are suffering from latent dia-
betes as in the highly developed
countries. The incidence of dia-
betes in the towns is almost
double what it is in the villages.
Office workers suffer the most
from this disease.

Since last year every citizen
suffering from diabetes has his
own registration file where the
‘full data on the course of the
disease, the treatment applied,
etc., are recorded. It is assumed
that the new kind of check-ups
will make it possible to draw
general scientific conclusions on
diabetes in this country and on
how to plan still better medi-
cal and preventive measures.

Besides free medical treat-

ment all patients suffering from
diabetes in Bulgaria receive free
insulin preparations.

More than 50 clinics and hos-
pital departments and two sana-
toria (one for children) have
already been set up for diabe-
tics. There is also a boarding
school for children suffering
from diabetes. Here they receive
training for suitable professions.

Though research work on dia-
betes started not long ago, the
Bulgarian endocrinologists have
made some original contribu-
tions to the diagnostics and pa-
thogenesis of this disease. For
example, they were the first to
report that insulin antibodies
exist even in the organisms of
diabetics who have not been
treated with insulin. Interesting
results have been obtained from
research on the connection be-

. tween diabetes and obesity.

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Louis Laberge, president of the
250,000-member Quebec Federa-
tion of Labor (serving a jail term
for similar labor militancy, but
freed temporarily to attend a
CLC executive council meeting
in Charlottetown) openly critic-
ized the stand of CLC president
Donald MacDonald, that once a
law is enacted it should be
obeyed.

“You either have the right to
strike or you don’t have it.” Mr.
Laberge said. “If the only strikes
that are permitted are those that
don’t hurt anyone, you might as
well not have the right.”

He said he did not agree that
a “special law enacted by a gov-
ernment elected by big corpora-
tions . . . is one we should obey.”
He said if he had been head of
the CLC he would have urged
the workers to disregard the
legislation.

At Tribune press time, the
railways were operating; but the
railway workers’ memories are
not so short that they have for-
gotten where they are going, and
who is the enemy.. The lessons
learned by the railway workers
and the rest of Canadian labor
during this strike will be am-
munition in all of labor’s battles
ahead.

Food uses 44%

of allowances

THUNDER BAY — Colleen
Miller, treasurer of Mothers On
Budgets, told the Thunder Bay
Council, Aug. 28, that mothers
on welfare must spend approxi-
mately 44% of their budgets on
food, as compared with 32%
before the recent profit orgy in
the food industry.

Alderman Inksetter admitted
that he would not’ survive a
week if his family had to rely
on the low budgets provided.

Agreement was reached to
make an appeal to the Davis
Government of Ontario, and the
federal government, to increase ”
welfare allowances of cities the
size of Thunder Bay. The policy
committee to which the matter
was referred was to meet on
Sept. 10.

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SASKATOON — National
Farmers Union President Roy
Atkinson claims that the ceiling
on wheat sold for flour consum-
ed in Canada will cost Canadian
wheat producers $72 million an-
nually. It is expected that about
66 million bushels will go into
the domestic market this year,
and Mr. Atkinson claims that at
current world prices, farmers
will lose $1.10 on each bushel.

Mr. Atkinson described it as
an “unlegislated tax’ and
charged that the “government
treats no other group in society
this way.” He said, “We agree
with the principle of a consumer
subsidy to keep down the price
of bread to Canadians but vio-
lently disagree with the govern-
ment’s attempt to make the
farmer bear almost the entire
burden.

Could Bring Defeat

“In contrast to the $72 million

Mr. Lang is leeching from wheat

‘farmers the government is only

putting up $16.5 million in new

money into the subsidy,” he criminatory treatment, tins
said. “This is simply unheard of, know what does,” Mr. A :
unprecedented.” said. —

“It is completely unjust and
unless the government agrees. :
legislate a minimum floor pre”
of $4.50 a bushel, because of ee
cent increases in the cost
production, and with a base Pp
escalator formula to provide
inflation, for at least the next
years, it should be enough
bring about the defeat of
government,” he said. to

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note is that both the announe
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matters involve roll backs fi
price, one at the farm gate, he
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