The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

ts l 6t3 tnCs y 4: i. esn o o 8 ons oo ib gag‘t . oY Riep 1 hoi tC o Sn ts oi it td e ow d uie n n n + 9. #P Snel .. f i: T4. C. 4 * _â€"I WANTED â€" One Millifon Jobs|_ This Country Is In One Hell OF A Mess|â€" I.Ou-luc-“u_ilh.ti.t | y 2 Cmaies yrom Wntering fom scton ad entogs to ununptorment l.l.lllO“CM-sfivhnumthmlwd.mfi.thMd â€" f ‘ to § PL.::‘u-uâ€"Mh--fi; « | 6. Farmers are being driven off the land. ‘ 7. Smail Businessmen are being wiped out. 3 : 8. Inadequate Housing & Development Program has created a one million housing unit shortage. v99 7 o & 9# All told, the situation confronting us is verging on the disastrous for a country with such great potential wealth as Canada. Adding to the crisis conditions, is the fact that very few economists or leading public figures â€" other than politicians â€" will prophesy any appreciable upward climb for the economy under the political conditions of toâ€"day. * The statements of Government and Leaders of Industry have placed the blame for this situation at the feet of the working people of this country. However an examination of the facts clearly refutes this claim. , 2. Build 250,000 low cost and low rental housing units per year for the next five years as a minimum. Ease tax and other restrictions which hold back this development. Substanâ€" tial allocation of funds at both the Federal and Provincial levels for urban renewal Pubâ€" lic works, including financing of needed public works at the municipal devel, such as sewage treatment plants and other pollution controls. While this job program is getting underway thére remains the pressing problem of the * Increased Canada and Quebec Pension Plans by adjustment related to average wag‘; aged. the underprivileged, the unemployables and the unemployed. The following actions and salary level and maintain the relationship. by government are immediately urgent to meet these problems: . Place a moratorium on plant closures and layâ€"offs in both the private and public sector until alternative employment is found for every worker affected by such contemplated closures or layâ€"offs. * Immediate sharp tax reduction on Family Incomes below $15,000 a year and rebate of surtax. * A guaranteed annual income at a health and decency level for all Canadians â€" no means tests. * Increased Old Age Security benefit to $200 per month plus full Costâ€"ofâ€"living adjustments Stop the give away of Canadian resources, use for Canadian development â€" no sale 12. Research and development expenditures of government to go only to Canadian conâ€" or export until Canada‘s future potential is assured. trolled corporations to assure Canada as most technologically advanced nation. Imâ€" plement Freedman Report on technological advancement. Develop Canadian Development Corporation (CDC) as a vehicle to advance Canadiâ€" 10. Provide immediate assistance to the Farming Industry to keep Canadian Farmers an Industrialization and Independence. on the land. Establish Crown Corporations to process and fabricate Canadian materials where _ 11. Sharply reduce "defense" expenditures by two thirds to provide funds for immediâ€" processing and fabricating now done outside of Canada. ate Cangdian needs. GOVERNMENT â€" â€" BIG BUSINESS RESPONSIBLE Thank you LABOUR IS NOT TO BLAME FOR We call for united action by employed workers, along with those who suffer the effects of unemployment and poverty, in support of the following program and its implementation:â€" © The foreign control of our industry. ©® The giveaway of Canada‘s natural resources. © The war in Indo China, which is the major cause of inflation. © Forgivable loans to assist in runaway plants to low wage areas. © The vast amounts of Canadian Capital leaving this country. © Price Manipulation and Profit Gouging. ' © Unemployment. Sponsored by the Federation of Students, Inc., university of Waterloo IMMEDIATE INCREASED PURCHASING POWER VITAL ACTION ON A NEW ECONOMIC POLICY NEEDED Graduvating class of 71 Nor E,;‘.i’d â€" 8. Apply legislative restrictions on multiâ€"national corporations, re: export of dividends. parentâ€"subsidiary pricings. Opening foreign markets for Canadian subsidiaries. Workers employed in basic industry and service occupations WILL ONLY SECURE THEIR JOBS to the extent by which they participate in the struggle for jobs and equal rights for those who are unemployed. « _ The Trudeau Gomment boidly admits it created the unemployment situation in this country. The resolv the problem for the Canadian people in coming to grips with growâ€" ing unemployment and poverty, is to develop a peoples‘ program of action. Such a proâ€" gram must be placed before Government at all levels and /actively campaigned for. We must call upon the Trudeau Liberal Government at Ottawa to reverse its economic policy of catering to Big Business and to embark upon a policy of full employment. The facts are that 1961 to 1970 were bonanza years for Big Business, which fattened on rising inflation. But with workers trying to catch up on the inflation through bargaining and through strikes when necessary, government and big business, using inflation as the bogey, stepped up their attacks on labour and deliberately brought about a slowdown in the economy, using increased unemployment as a brake on labour‘s demands, with the reâ€" sults we see today â€" mass unemployment and prices and taxes still climbing. 9. Restrict imports where these imports are detrimental to vital Canadian Industry. 6. Develop Eastâ€"West electrical grid,. oil and gas pipelines to tie Canada more closely toâ€" I * gether and assure primary Canadian Development. industrial and economic. 7. Implement Carter Commission Report on Taxation. * Providing unemployment insurance at 75% of all who are willing to work. * Establishing a minimum wage of $2.50 an hour â€" adjusted annually in relation to rising prices and wage levels. TRUDEAU ADMITS GUILT earmings for duration of unemployment for sY 4 [ss