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     Trudeau Attempts to Justify Govérnmén‘thitervien‘tion  
     
    
   
   
    
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     -Lnrrnns inn! 3x113 
     
     The Cadre, 
     
     iU.P.E.I.' 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     The contemporary economic 
     
     situation in Canada at pre— 
     
     sent is characterized by the 
     
     historical decline of the 
     
     Capitalist class,.necessar— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ily accompanied by the rise‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     of the working class as it 
     
     attempts to preserve its 
     
     historical gains, while at 
     
     the same time realizing its 
     
     historical goal of establi— 
     
     shing Socialism as the only 
     
     alternative to capitalism. 
     
     As capitalism attempts to 
     
     justify itself, to ward off 
     
     the socialist advance, it 
     
     finds itself on the defen— 
     
     sive which, as Engels poinf 
     
     ted out, is the position of 
     
     that which is moribund and 
     
    
   
   
    
     decadent. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Since capitalism 
     
     can no longer substantiate 
     
     its claim to rule, it is" 
     
     forced, With its back aga— 
     
     inst the wall, to resort to 
     
     fascist methods (which are 
     
     violent)\to maintain dom- 
     
     ination over workers, st—‘ 
     
     udents, farmers, intellec- 
     
     tuals, small business, etc. 
     
    

    
     Trudeau's admission that 
     
     the free enterprise (read: 
     
     capitalist) system is no lo— 
     
     nger workable, though true, 
     
     outrages Canadian capital- 
     
     ists and their mouthpieces 
     
     (the press) sufficiently to 
     
     bring their wrath to bear 
     
     down upon the Prime Minis- 
     
     ter . ' 
     
    
   
   
    
     This admission does not' 
     
    
   
   
    
     " make Trudeau a Socialist - 
     
     » on the contrary; he uses 
     
    
   
   
    
     this fact as justification 
     
    
   
   
    
     g for governmental interven—» 
     
    
   
   
    
     tion in the affairs of the 
     
    

    
     nations (English Canada 
     
    

    
     and French Canada)(v , 
     
     In capitalist society,the 
     
    

    
     political structure is the 
     
    

    
     politics of the leading cl- 
     
    

    
     ass — the property—owning 
     
    

    
     class. This political str— 
     
    

    
     ucture, embodied for the 
     
    

    
     most part in the existing go— 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' vernment (i.e. the Trudeau 
     
    
   
   
    
     Liberal government)-serves 
     
     its capitalist masters by be— 
     
     ing the executive arm of the 
     
     capitalist class. 
     
    

    
     When it acts (through pa- 
     
     rliamentary or legislative 
     
     activity), it does so on be— 
     
     half of the capitalist claSs 
     
     as a whole: It may, where 
     
     conditions warrant, punish 
     
     an organization or corpora— 
     
     tiOn, but in the interests 
     
     of the class.as a whole. 
     
    

    
     The present wage controls is 
     
     but the intervention of the 
     
     capitalist government on be— 
     
     half of the capitalist class 
     
     to protect profits # which 
     
    

    
     are at an all-time high in p 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     I said, “Take up the collection, not TAKE it!” _ 
     
    
   
   
    
     Christ died between thieves, so it’s fitting Redemptorist Priests 
     
     be at home in prisons, and among those out off from society. 
     
    
   
   
    
     Are you interested in putting in time — or using it we"? 
     
    
   
   
    
     The demptort , 
     
    
   
   
    
     In. Eugen. om. can. 121 com Avenue rm («0) new Toronto mess: 
     
    
   
   
    
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     our history. For the month' 
     
     of October, 1975, alone, as 
     
     a random sample,wthe profits 
     
     of various corporations ’" 
     
     were as followszra 
     
     l) VerSatile Manufacturing 
     
     Ltd., Manitoba, ' 
     
     $12,174,000.00 in the 
     
     first nine months — af— 
     
     ter taxes. -" 
     
     2) Canadian Couvers, Ltdt 
     
     Hamilton, $4,434,000.00 
     
     a 57.8% jump over_last 
     
     . year! 
     
     3) Canadian General Elect- 
     
     ' ric's. Jan to June ('75) 
     
     profit was $15,87&,000.00 
     
     4) Northern Electric's pros 
     
     ’ fit was $53,500,000.00- 
     
     as compared with a pov- 
     
     erty—stricken $42,000,-, 
     
     000.00 for 1974! 
     
    

    
     But the Trudeau formula 
     
     says "Wage and Price Freeze. 
     
     Nonsense! Wage freeze yes- 
     
     to 8%. But the price free— 
     
     ze is but verbal camouflage 
     
     to cover up for what is, in 
     
     fact, an all out attack on 
     
     labour, which is merely tr— 
     
     ying to stay abreast of in- 
     
     flation. . . 
     
    

    
     No worker is ever pleased 
     
     to go out On strike for the 
     
     simple-reasons: he loses in- 
     
     comé; he becomes subjected 
     
     to malicious attack (espec- 
     
     ially by the capitalist- 
     
     kept press): his family su- 
     
     ffers; the plant at which he 
     
     Works may use the strakegy 
     
     of closing down and moving 
     
     elsewhere as a means of de— 
     
     feating the strikers. Ne- 
     
     vertheless, when Canada has' 
     
     such a high rate of inflat— 
     
     ion and unemployment (7.3%) 
     
     the worker, to protect his 
     
     standard of living, is for— 
     
     ced to strike when managem- 
     
     ent refuses to give him a 
     
     decent living wage. 
     
    

    
     For_UPEI students, the 
     
     immediate future is bleak. 
     
     No longer does a "higher ed- 
     
     ucation" guarantee-a job 
     
     with security and freedom 
     
    
   
   
    
     ' from desparity; on the con— 
     
    
   
   
    
     trary, the latter is fast 
     
     becbming the rule in this 
     
     moribund and decadent capit— 
     
     alist society. 
     
    

    
     V It is for the students 
     
     themselves to organize and 
     
     unite to ensure that the ‘ 
     
     content of their educatiop 
     
     is relative to Island needs 
     
     and to work to implement 
     
     Island programs (agriculture 
     
     industry, livestock breed— 
     
     ing, fishing, etc) to ensure 
     
    
   
   
    
     (that Island youth will have' 
     
     * a stable future in which to 
     
    
   
   
    
     grow and'develop.‘ 
     
    
   
   
    
     UNITE 
     
     ORGANIZE. 
     
     . PLAN FOR ISLANDERS 
     
     ' DEMOCRACY FOR STUDENTS 
     
    
   
   
    
     S‘tan Dalton