pate boycott of Kraft products
| 2°Y the National Farmer’s Union
S still in effect.
: ie National Farmer’s Union,
© largest direct-membership
ae policy group in Canada, is
ing Canadians to support
ag boycott of all products
thon by the Kraftco Corpora-
a The NFU is attempting to
i ure collective bargaining
Mehts for the dairy-men who
© members of the union.
af this point the dairy farm-
= ave no say at all about the
ea aoe paid for the milk
& e giant corporations
like Kraft. : :
abl e result of this is unbeliev-
a low incomes. Farmers and
a families are being driven
i their land every day. From
A to e they have no choice but
Peeve into the cities to add
Mselves to the unemploy-
| i,t rolls, compete for scarce
short and add to the housing
d sta Age, overcrowding and other
) e8ering urban problems.
+ back: NFU has chosen to fight
(om against monopolistic food
Rafe ons and has_ chosen
i} eet €O Corporation as. the tar-
*,0f their boycott.
tone ftco is the largest dairy
Fig wooly in North America. “It
€ 32nd largest corporation

With your

with sales in 1969 of $2.6 bil-
lion. That’s BILLION, not mil-
lion.

Kraftco is larger than such
known corporate giants as Gen-
eral Dynamics, Firestone, Litton
Industries, Lockheed Aircraft,
Dow Chemicals, Aluminum Com-
pany of America and Republic
Steel.

Kraftco is so large it has sales
about double those of the Coca
Cola Corporation, and greater
than either Kresge’s or Wool-
worth’s.

In the food industry Kraftco’s
total sales rank second only to
the huge Swift. Packers mono-
poly. However, Kraftco has net
profits more than three times as
large as Swift's.

Kraftco is a notorious ex-
ploiter of labor. It pays its
workers low wages and is a
shameless union-buster. Not one
of the three Kraft plants in On-
tario is organized into a union.

Kraft -is a manufacturer of a
wide range of products. It sells

both domestic and imported

cheeses under the labels Cracker
Barrel, Velveeta, Cheese Whiz,
and of course, Kraft.

It sells Miracle Whip salad
dressing, Mayonnaise, Tartar
Sauce, Sandwich Spread, Bar-

sor

ip: we will win.

- Scie :
tq ‘tists of four socialist
Cratic ®S — the German Demo-
Vit Ung Public, Poland, the So-
have ae and Czechoslovakia—
*Uipm €signed new seismic
lttecage tt Which will help to
‘ €arthquakes.
ty a instruments have al-
NUS €n used successfully at
fag Seismic Stations, says
pactor Tikhomirov,
€ Soviet delegation
ice eon S working group on
iP, the struments, (Comecon
pgttic pencil for Mutual Eco-
“8 son Stance of the Euro-
lalist States.)
only one of many

Xt NOTDwa

examples of valuable new equip-
ment developed by Comecon
scientists.

Others mentioned by Profes-
sor Tikhomirov were spectro-
scopic instruments and an auto-
matic rapid processing system
for mass medical checks.

A great deal of attention is
being given to automation in
medical research. Bulgarian and
Soviet engineers, for instance,
are working on devices to pro-
cess data from heart examina-
tions.

Comecon also has centres for
metal corrosion control, hard-
board production, and biological
problems.

| Keep up Kraft boycott

becue Sauce, Mustard and Spa-
ghetti Sauce.

It sells four margarines—Par-
kay, Deluxe, Miracle and Soft
Parkay—complete lines of jel-
lies and jams; cahdies such as
Kraft Caramels, peanut brittle
and marshmallows; Kraft Din-
ners; Ice Cream Toppings; cit-
rus fruit products; coffee and
vegetable oil.

Its subsidiaries sell dairy
milk, cream, butter, ice cream
and other food products.

The tentacles of the Kraft oc-
topus stretch around the world.
It has plants in the United
States, the location of its head-
quarters; Canada, Guatemala,
Venezuela, Belgium, France,
Denmark, Mexico, Sweden, Phil-
lipines, Panama, England, Ger-
many, Australia, Spain and
Italy.

The NFU has the following
comments to make regarding
the government marketing agen-
cies:

“When we approached them
for a price increase to the far-
mer in the past they could. al-
ways find a hundred reasons
why it wasn’t practical; why it
couldn’t be done. Not once did
they even bother to look for a
way of doing it.

“They are-tools the monopolies
use to keep down the price they
pay us for our milk. To add in-
‘sult to injury, they force us to
finance their operations with
our money.

“We're no longer going to ac-
cept this situation. We want to
deal directly with Kraft and the
other corporations who control
these boards. The boards can
continue to administer the or-
derly shipping of milk,’ but
price and working arrangements
must. be, set through the pro-
cess of collective bargaining.”

-

aoe

PHOTO: MARK, DETROIT

A cheering 15,000 people welcomed Angela Davis to Detroit's
State Fair Collusium last week as she travelled across the United
States to thank the people who have worked over the past 16 months
. for her victory. Shown speaking here behind a protective bulletproof
glass screen, Angela told the crowd, “Welcome, Comrades, Brothers,
Sisters, | will applaud for you and | wish | could do it as loud as
you because, without you and millions more | would never have
been here. That | am able to speak to you today shows the tremen-

dous power of the people.

“The words ‘not guilty’ for me, were your victory because you too,
were in that courtroom.” She urged that “our celebration be the

foundation for a greater struggle for liberation . . .

Among the speakers were Rosa Parks, the courageous black
woman who in 1955 challenged racism in Birmingham by refusing to
sit at the back of the bus; Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.); Jackie
Vaughan, State Representative and co-chairman of the Michigan
Committee to Free Angela Davis and State Senator Coleman Young,
Democratic Party Committeeman from Michigan.

BOOK REVIEW

Social-Democracy: the way it is

By GERRY VAN HOUTEN

The Novosti Press Agency has
just published a very timely
pamphlet etitled Communists
and Social-Democrats (Progress
Books, 30 cents). Its purpose is
to explain the history and na-
ture of’ Social-Democracy,; the
trends which presently exist
within it, how Communists dif-
fer from Social-Democrats on
the questions of the state and
revolution (and hence the dif-
ferences in the strategies of the
two basic currents in the work-
ing class movement), and how
Communists relate to them es-
pecially within the realm of the
economic and political struggle
against monopoly.

The first chapter shows that

Social-Democracy had. gained
its support during the great

class battles of the late 19th and —

early 20th centuries. “The party
which in such crucial moments
emerges upon the historical
area as the spokesmen of the
working class may retain -its
leading role for fairly long per-
iods of time, its influence being
consolidated not only by the
lasting memory of the first vic-
tories but also by the force of
political inertia.” Paradoxically,
then, Social-Democracy has re-
tained its support for precisely
the opposite reason it gained it.
This is a very important histo-
trical lesson which maintains its
significance for Canada as well.

The second chapter explains

the contradictory developments
in the ideology of Social-Demo-
cracy. The early opportunist
trend in Social-Democracy, e.g.
Kautsky, still recognized that
socialism would not come about
without the active intervention
of the working class, whereas
modern right-wing Social Demo-

_cracy argues that capitalism’s

most flagrant contradictions
have been removed. But all So-
cial-Democrats, past and pre-
sent, still make certain funda-
mental errors with regard to the
nature of the state and revolu-
tion. Social-Democrats see the
state as above classes and
thereby sees the present state
as a vehicle for the socialist
transformation of society. They
do not recognize the necessity
of abolishing the bourgeois state
before socialism can be con-
structed.

Secondly, Social - Democrats
equate state property with so-
cialism. ;

But Social-Democracy is by
no means a homogendus force.
Chapter 3 shows that large sec-
tions of the reformist workers’
parties cannot reconcile them-
selves with the right-wing pro-
monopoly leadership of most So-
cial-Democratic parties. This
move to the right on the part of
one’ section of Social-Democra-
cy and the move to the left on
the part of the other section re-
flects the sharpening differentia-
tion of Social-Democracy as its
left wing increasingly makes the

short term, and to a lesser ex-
tent long term, interests of the
working class its primary pro-
gramatic objective.

What. makes this pamphlet
especially good is that it not
only poses an alternative stra-
tegy (Chaper 4), but also shows
the Communist approach to So-
cial-Democrats, namely, unity
of action of the workers’ par-
ties in the defense of the im-
mediate economic and political
demands of the working class. A
united front of workers and 4
popular front of workers and
its democratic allies permits the
people as a whole to defend,
consolidate their interests and
extend them in an all-round at-
tack against monopoly. The
united and popular front weak-
ens the monopoly bourgeoisie
and opens the door for the tran-
sition to socialism.

°

The pamphlet “shows how
Communists have creatively
used the united front, first ela-
borated by Lenin and then de-
veloped by Dimitrov. It tells us
what Social-Democracy is and
how to deal with it. It is com-

prehensive, concise and easily

understandable. It is a must for
all Communists and at 30 cents

a copy, it is a downright bar-
gain.

As recently as 1950, 19% of
Canada’s labor force was work-
ing on farms. Today, that figure
has dropped to 6.5%.

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