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FERGONAL

TWO-CAR GIFT.

When the Georgian “Dielo”
Ensemble gave a two-and-a-
half hour concert of old and
modern as well as folk and
comical Georgian songs over
French _ television. recently,
streets in Paris were deserted
and not a single auto accident
killing or big robbery was re-
ported. As one of the city offi-
cials told the Ensemble head:
“We are in debt to you, as

- each of your singers has made

what one could call a two-car

gift to Paris.”
Soviet Union Today

CHANGE FOR THE BETTER

The city council of Calcutta
has renamed Harrington street,
Ho Chi Minh street.

The U.S. consulate, and the
office of the deputy British
High Commissioner are locat-

ed on this street.
Reuters

NIGHTSTICK

A policeman who used his
truncheon to settle a quarrel
between two men in Ust-Bistri,
in the Rostov region, was dis-
missed from the force for
“breaking socialist legality,
the newspaper Komsomolska-
ya Pravda said yesterday. The
dismissal came after one of the
men complained about the in-

cident, the paper said. or

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Associate Editor —MAU RICE RUSH

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Civic election time

It’s civic election time. Candidates
are being launched with a fanfare more
suited to a great historic event. Sac-
charine speeches from the incumbents.
You'd swear each one had personally
built all the hospitals, schools and
houses we need—and that we live in a
land where every human need has been
satisfied.

Its all heady stuff, and you have to
pinch yourself to see if you are still
living in the same old joint with all the
payments due on everything as usual.

Their line is the usual one: Taxes
must go up because of the growing
need for services. After all, they say,
you can’t have all these things without
paying for them; it’s only proper that
those who use them should pay for
them.

Well! The auto corporations are the
main beneficiaries from highway and
road construction, along with the big
highway construction outfits. Business
benefits from our educational system,
which turns out trained workers for it.
So do the construction companies who
build them. And, it goes without say-
ing, that the public transportation sys-
tem, the hospitals and health services,
benefit the business concerns, although
the workers have to provide most of the
money for all of it.

Business also profits from the great
land development deals. These swindles
have made many a new millionaire. Side
deals, political patronage, and unmen-
tionable things go on, that make the

operations of the Mafia look like a chil-

dren’s lemonade stand operation.
Civic politics are at the centre of the
struggles of the working people of Can-
ada for tax cuts, jobs, housing, and for
a widening of democracy, for the elimi-
nation of poverty, for adequate ser-
vices and housing, and against the
spending of two billion dollars yearly
on armaments.
Our ability to
erises besetting
lives is contingent on changing the di-
rection of Ottawa’s policies so as to
divert the spending of a third of its bud-
get on war, to constructive purposes.
No candidate can carry out his prom-
ises to cut taxes, and to provide services
without tackling this question.

attack the serious

Half of the money spent on arms .

over the last twenty years would have
built one million homes, ten hospitals
at eight million dollars each, a hundred
hospitals at two million dollars each, a
thousand schools at a million dollars
each; with enough money left over to
give a tax holiday to everyone for at
least two whole years.
lot of money. It came out of the pockets

of the taxpayers.
The need was never more urgent for

the progressive forces in our society to

contest civic elections. No election
should go by default. An alternative
program should be put forward in every
election area, a program based on the
people’s needs that a rich, highly devel-
oped country like Canada is well able
to provide.

It is possible to eliminate slums and
backwardness, to provide equality of
opportunity for Canada’s youth, no
matter where they live, to provide every
one with education and health services,

and to end all unemployment.

every aspect of our.

Now that’s a-

The growing crises in our cities, and
rural areas, calls for leadership from
the organizations of the working peo-
ple. This year people’s opposition to the
program of austerity imposed on work-
ing people, a program which means the
slashing of spending on people’s needs,
a glut of surplus farm products, and
the deliberate creation of unemploy-
ment — opposition to all this can best
be mounted in civic election areas.
That’s the answer the working people
must give to the pink-tea, baby kissing
artists who promise us more of the
same.

Canadian jobs at stake

Simultaneously, as the oil monopoly’s
ship Manhattan chalked up a first in
breaking through northern ice, a group
of U.S.A. oil tycoons rode across Alber-
ta in a specially chartered train. We are
told that the deals they made with the
Alaska government total nearly a bil-
lion. If there was no chance to make
a lot of money out of it, they wouldn’t
risk a penny, of course.

A rather substantial number of im-
portant questions are being thrust to
the fore in this whole deal. There is a
problem of establishing Canadian sov-
ereignty over its north.

The voyage of the Manhattan is also
fraught with grave consequences for
the prairie region of our country. So
much so that ex-Premier Manning felt
impelled to issue a public warning that
oil from the north threatens to displace
western Canadian oil both in Eastern
Canada and the United States. It would
be a serious blow to the prairie econo-
my, already hard hit with a wheat ex-
port crisis.

There is no need for this crisis. Can-
ada can supply its own needs and meet
all foreign competition. The oil dis-
coveries in the north emphasize the
fact that Canada has far more untouch-
ed reserves of natural wealth than are
presently being exploited. A plan to
develop them in the public interest
could change the whole economic pic-
ture in Canada.

Mr. Trudeau states his government
has the matter under consideration.
This paragraph from a news item in
the capitalist press exposes the “con-
siderations” he has in mind, “How Can-
ada fares in the likely new oil-import:
set up is seen more as a political issue,
and will depend on several factors, in-
cluding how much stress Washington
puts on the continental defense con-
cept.” And, to round out the picture, is
the opinion that the United States: is
opposing Canada’s plan to declare the
Northwest Passage Canadian, using the
12-mile limit as the basis. The U.S.
wants to only recognize a 3-mile limit
and, secondly, and very political, is con-

cerned lest the Canadian declaration

will evoke a similar claim by Jakarta
for the waters between hundreds of
islands making up Indonesia.

The U.S. wants its “rights” guaran-
teed there, it says, in the event of future
political change in Indonesia. All of
which proves that oil and polities go
hand-in-glove. Shrouded in secrecy, it
appears as though the Trudeau admin-
istration is engineering another great
betrayal of Canada’s interests.

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