Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 8, 1972, Winnipeg, Manitoba Print we we published daily sunday by coup Cox limited. 300 it Fulton i tract. R. S. Malone publisher editor in chief Peter Mclintock Maurice Western executive editor Ottawa editor r. H. Shelford Central Winnipeg free press Western Canada s National newspaper Winnipeg monday May 8, 1972 Freedom of Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights no one can win the Domestic International sales corporation invented by the United states Congress is the latest at tempt to reintroduce protectionism through the door and it is succeeding sooner than the inventors probably expected. With Large tax benefits on their Export sales these concerns Are heavily subsidized in foreign markets and the general agreement on tariffs and Trade is Cru Dely violated in spirit if not in letter. That contract reduced tariffs in the non communist world it prohibited Many commercial abuses but it did not foresee an ingenious device by which More than a thousand american companies doubtless with others to follow Are being Given special competitive advantages at the Cost of the taxpayers. Nor did Canada and other Trade partners of the United states anticipate such a threat at the very time when the Gatt signatories were planning at least in official statements to expand their non discriminatory Trade. But the threat is now a fact As the Canadian government has suddenly discovered. How Large and dangerous a fact the government does not know yet because the tax arrangements Between the individual corporations and the . Treasury do not have to be disclosed until 1974. Even the corporations thus benefited and their exported goods will not necessarily be identified before then. Meanwhile however Trade min ister Jean Luc Pepin has found that his earlier information was wrong and that some american companies including automobile manufacturers Are using the disc mechanism in Canada. Whether they will use it to Cut their prices Here or by maintaining them to increase their operations and profits at Home or. Pepin has been unable to learn. In any Case the new United states tax Law will encourage retaliation from countries like Canada that consider themselves unfairly treated and the results could be Gra vely damaging to All concerned. Already the Canadian government or. Pepin says is studying measures of this sort and governments elsewhere Are Likely to do the same. If the disc is an obvious breach of the Gatt no nation can claim innocence from commercial sin. Canada for example has applied so called voluntary quotas to various imports at the Cost of its own Consumers. It has also refused to remove its Tariff on privately imported automobiles and As the United states sees it has broken its original commitment. The european common Market too has clearly defied the intentions of the Gatt by its restrictions on agricultural imports mainly from the United states. In the argument now under Way no important nation enters the court with clean hands. Certainly the United states has a Case to argue though it is undermined in Justice by the disc initiative. When the world s richest nation continues to run a record deficit in its foreign Exchange despite the recent realign ment of currencies it must act by one Means or another to staunch the Haemorrhage. But the disc invention in just in its Export subsidies is calculated to be self defeat ing in its. Results if it stimulates similar protectionist poli cies among the United states customers. In such a dog eat dog contest there can be no winners As history has so often proved. And Canada because it depends More than nation on foreign Trade would be one of the chief losers. Before a general Retreat to the old storm cellar of economic isolation begins the great trading nations should arid realize where it would end As it ended in the i sifter of the 1930s. Since Trade Between Canada and the the world s largest bilateral movement of services and Money these neighbors should be the first to preserve it expand it and seek its expansion abroad. Instead the United states is moving in the opposite direction on the plea of dire necessity. Canada with a substantial Trade surplus and a uniquely floating cur Rency refuses to renegotiate the automotive pact the major sticking Point in the Long argument because the government fears to lose votes in the protected areas of Ontario and the opposition parties Are equally or More timid in an election year. Events will not pause to suit the convenience of politicians and clearly Canada now faces a problem that dwarfs the electoral ambitions of any party. As the disc system spreads in the american Economy and still stronger protectionist legislation is proposed in the Congress with the ardent support of organized labor the hour is late but not too late even worse injury throughout the world Economy. In preventing it by a re turn to the Gatt principles with a general enlargement of Trade instead of its contraction Canada and the United states have the duty and the special Chance to take the Lead while there is still time but not much. Problems of Urban America a big City s blues by Tim Traynor but this is the exciting part waiting for when they Spring their elections on us before we go again to the same old Dull tjh1ladelpha we were mints annually and almost a driving through aging and 52 billion would go to states depressing Philadelphia neigh this could help states ease Bur hours. We talked of the j their own taxes. Cities would City the scene of the launch-1 be Able to use the Money for ing of the american Republic j Public safety Public trans and of what was happening por tation or environmental needs. Philadelphia would receive million annually or roughly per person. This will be important but other things loomed Large As we Rode through the City streets. One was the Apollo expedition to the Moon and the space shuttle project which lies beyond Apollo. The shuttle a re usable vehicle for probing space is also under consideration by Congress and is expected to receive final approval Short m y companion was be mused. Philadelphia s mayor he noted had talked of get Ting 8100 million from the Federal government for City needs. And they Are going to turn around and spend Bil Lions on the space shuttle. I think we could do t31sk i reservations about or. Brandt s treaties a German in Poland b scots wha Hae Onn a prominent West German member of parliament who jokes about his secret ambition to be mayor of Yellowknife has played an interesting background role to the treaties ratification crisis. Peter Petersen of the opposition Christian democrats and member of the bundles t a g Ost politic committee made a personal inspection tour of Poland with a col league before the Bonn War saw treaty was signed. He attempted then to establish the bipartisan approach to the treaties with Poland and Russia that has become the object of repeated crisis meetings Between Chancellor Willy Brandt and opposition Leader Rainer Barzel during recent Days. I warned we either do it together or it won t work. But i failed or. Petersen has an Abid ing interest in North America dating to the Early 1930s when he drove a truck in new York. He also went to Stan Ford University briefly. He Speaks polished English today and cultivates his links with North America by regu Lar official visits. One of these took him around Dew line Sites As senior member of the bundestag defence committee in 1970. He was fascinated with Yellowknife and kept expressing an interest in it. By the time the tour ended the joke was for mayor. As such Canadian maps welcomed. Him a year later for the nato parliamentary conference in Ottawa. Or. Petersen Drew on a Peculiar Canadian example to illustrate his party s reservations about the treaties. It is easier for me to go to Yellowknife than to Rugen in East Germany where i went to school and it is far easier for Yellowknife people to come to West Germany than for by Humphreys been satisfied with a note from the polish government. Undertakings Are Given in it to consider human problems arising from the present frontiers of Poland and the two Germany. The treaty it self contains a general refer ence to broadening co opera Tion. In Exchange for recognition of the Oder Neisse line As Poland s Western Border or. Petersen said Bonn might have got an undertaking specifically allowing West Ger mans former Homes in what is now Poland. This would answer simple but deep human longings like the right to place Flowers on the grave of a loved one or. Petersen s background role began with a particularly vicious polish speech against West Germany at a parliamentary conference in India. As Bonn s Delegate m r. Petersen decided to reply with a conciliatory speech about ideas for improving polish West German relations. Scottish students especially those of the nationalist variety have strange ways of s h o w i n g their a unlike Canadian students of this ilk they do not protest inroads of foreign investment or the influence of foreign owned Book publishing houses. Instead they resort to the practice of stealing traditional scottish relics. Some years ago it was the Stone of scone. Earlier 36 years ago it was sir Wil Liam Wallace s sword. Now the Wallace sword has Digap p e a r e d again and while there has been no identification of the culprits As yet the students Are the first on the list. For the uninitiated Wal lace s sword is part of the Wallace Monument near Stirling the scene of his most famous Battle. It is no Ordinary sword. Wallace by All accounts was a giant of a Man and his sword six feet in length is of such dimensions that it would have taken a giant to Wield it. The last time it was stolen a group of students was responsible and considering its dimensions it was probably a group activity again. While Many scots will be outraged Over the theft most will find Comfort in the knowledge that All or Viou thie veries of this sort have not turned out. To be Perma or. Petersen was rather concerned about the meaning of Freedom. He had visited a Warsaw cellar where Young people were playing pirated Rock music from radio free Europe. Discovering two f re e germans in their midst they devoted the rest of the evening to questioning the visitors. When they talked about a Freedom they were thinking of something quite different from what they would find in he said. I think we should be Rede fining what we mean by free the upshot of their visit was a 10-Point proposal for German polish reconciliation which or. Petersen said forced our party to think seriously about these prob typically one was that the former German City of Breslau would never be German again As a Conse Quence of the Mutual renunciation of Force a Strong Point in both the polish and russian treaties. It might have taken an other year to win specific treaty undertakings from the Chance that some semblance of bipartisanship May be salvaged for this week s ratification. The opposition says the government ignored them until its majority began to dwindle. The government says the opposition has. Been inconsistent and shifty in its criticisms. Both sides now agree at least that common agree ment would be desirable for an Issue so fundamental to Germany and the future of Europe. It would be a trag Edy if the treaties went through by Only a vote or or. Petersen said because then the poles and the russians might have Rea son for thinking the germans still could not be trusted be cause nearly half their representatives voted against the in the country. My companion was a Philadelphia journalist. Philadelphia s idea of j Urban renewal is to put cobblestones on the he said. In the area known As society Hill he explained the atmosphere of Early Phi Ladelphia was being recreated. Cobblestones were being put Down or Laid Bare to complement restoration of town houses dating from the Early Days of the City. My companion was Point ing to this Effort which certainly does not Tell the whole Story As a shorthand comment on a City wallowing in the problems of Urban America 1972. Philadelphia will be the better for having historic streets restored. But beyond that is the More mundane and infinitely More important of coming to grips with All the needs of deteriorating but a historic neighbourhoods. It would take a massive push a push far beyond the Al ready severely strained re sources of the City govern ment. From talk of the decaying heart of Philadelphia it was but a Short jump to talk of the doings and my doings of the nation s Central government. As it happens new life is being breathed into a pro Gram for directed new Feder Al monies to state govern ments and to hard pressed cities like Philadelphia. Pres ident Nixon put Forward what he called Revenue sharing several years ago. But it has been blocked until now by a key congressional committee. I n reshaped form and under a different name the program recently came out of the committee and the likelihood is that it will be approved before the end of this year. That would mean that about billion of new Federal funds would be made available to local govern sort of Money and then inevitably there was Vietnam. It is always a grim subject but my com Panion s tone was especially grim. He is Black and for him there was a direct connection Between the billions of dollars which have gone and continue to go for the War and the wretchedness of Black neighbourhoods in Phila Delphia and other cities. He was rhumb and bitter about the fact that the War continues though the Public in his View has Long since ceased to it. I know How we could end it it would Stop pretty Quick if everyone stopped paying their taxes but in the next breath he was saying but americans Are so Compla cent it s an awful thing to say. But maybe what we need to bring us to our senses is a land War Here in the ." today s scripture love work eth no ill to his neighbor therefore love is the fulfilling of the Law. Romans poles the people of the main opposition to the nent. Sooner or later the apart froth Petratos get tired of against them prank or of lugging comes Down to such cumbersome relics the government the Stone of scone or hard or Ion Wallace sword and they done so i missing item turns up believes specs harmed. Such peccadilloes improving 1 a recognized part of communist Subj life like the wearing of have been Kilt the playing of the into the treat pipes and the periodic this p o i r i n g s of the Loch social 1 Democrat Coa railway Man Western Canada has the rest diced its fair share of Distin a westerners Guishow railway Man. Not goods under least is n. R. Crump retiring chairman has always re Canadian Friend of the j or. C r u m a born in stemming from Vel Stoke b.c., worked his youth As a f Way up from a car labourer. He was Well respected As there Wen Liam entry press g narc in practical railway Man by 111 , was not in att Dan who were associated it is fitting that Crump hav in recent years he e s t e r n Canad spoke on the subject of of retirement Dian Unity. He understood to pairing problems of transportation Reading books Western archaeology the West must sell be the busiest r chief products wheat Ever Potash and lumber on free pros markets and at world Many friends but. Because the West is part. Crump a Rhi Rumei inc Orpo 3. T Willy Crump chosen surprised by this tack the polish Delegate invited or. Petersen to see Poland on the usual conducted tour basis. He agreed Only on condition that he drive his own car and go anywhere talking to anyone he chose taking along a colleague. After six months the poles agreed in May 1970, seven months be fore the treaty was signed in Warsaw. M r. Petersen described several moving encounters with germans living in Poland attracted by his car and licence plates. They implored us not to forget them. They said that if we signed a treaty without assuring them of their rights they would be lost because the government claimed their rights were Only a polish of what he had in mind were rights equal to those of All native poles the right to speak the German language now forbidden and retain cultural activities. The poles had traumatic experiences with minorities particularly germans. H e would not expect approval for German clubs. It would i be even More unrealistic to j expect Poland to allow mass i emigration of germans in upper Silesia. The Economy would simply break Down. I Breslau was destroyed by the germans and the rus sians and rebuilt by the poles and it is ridiculous for us to think we May one Day kick them Well Short of that there was room for firm undertakings. I Don t care whether a certain town is on one Side of a Border or another but i do care How people live on either to acknowledged that considerable emigration had Al ready taken place 26.000 from Poland last year. Some had forgotten How to handle finding life in i w o s t. Germany More Dif. Licule. What was the underlying the cd reservations appears to be this View that the Brandt government s negotiations were altogether too Short and facile. In contrast the cd can Point to the Tough line taken successfully by the late or. K o n r a d Adenauer in establishing diplomatic relations with Moscow in 1955. Tough or gun tit contrary policies towards unions t Ondon Trade Union jul troubles Are endemic in Britain partly because governments especially conservative governments never quite know which of two contrary Trade Union policies they Are trying to pursue. Is the aim to keep Trade Union leaders reasonably Friendly even with tory ministers in the vague Hope that they might then co operate in not calling so Many strikes not imposing so Man y restrictive practices and not making quite such at first the russians Are j exorbitant wage demands supposed to have laughed or is the aim to beat strikes by n. A. D. A term of the new Industrial relations act. On the other hand the resistance to the miners strike had not worked because the government had eventually caved in with a hugely inflationary wage settlement of Over 20 per cent and the Industrial relations act did not seem to be working either because the big unions had contract had not yet run out. Their action took the form of a so called work to Rule and an overtime ban. As this meant that locomotive Drivers who had not reached their eventual destinations by the scheduled time because of the work to Rule Felt free to get out of their locomotives and leave the Passen Gers stranded the general Public waxed rather Cross about this. Within a few clays of taking when Adenauer presented his to legislate against restrict meekly run away lists of 10.000 prisoners of tic practices to see that in threatened to do dire things. Over or Carrs Iob and de to any big firms that sued Sajle Nis personal belief Flat. Unions for indulging in what has be to be the act Calls unfair in dust a Nice to the Trade Al and big firms unions War he wanted released As a condition. Only when the Chancellor ordered his air Craft to return Home did Khrushchev Call for another meeting and in fact released All what the cd has concluded and applied to the current talks is that the other Side s interests in reaching agreement must be calculated and pressed hard. At the weekend it was considered no better than a 50-50 Flati onary wage demands Are not granted kindly gentle mannered Robert Carr left the Job of Secretary of employment at his own request on april s because he Felt that he had failed in both jobs. To his great regret the Trade Union leaders did not love him because they regarded him As the architect of the attempt to resist Jast Gebru Arv s Coal miners strike and s joins n wishing Long and merc you can go Down the Drain if you Don t look after yourself. Over there the party toils you what to or. Macmillan Learned from a National opinion poll in the daily mail that 43 per. Cent of the British Public thought that the Heath government s policy towards the Trade unions was not Tough 33 per cent thought that it was about right and Only 18 per cent thought it was too greatly daring or. Mac Millan therefore moved to take one action under the Industrial relations act him self. He put in a successful plea to the Industrial court for an order that the Railroad unions should suspend their work to Rule during a Brief Cooling off period while negotiations can take place. Left wingers said that the Railroad unions would never agree to this and for a silly business by not allowing period o a few hours there their trucks into Merseyside j were headlines say info that a docks the dockers objected great confrontation Between to the cargo in these trucks government and Trade unions being packed in an efficient " As being risked. I Way which necessitates less Bui the Railroad leaders of work being done by them. Course were sensible enough j selves. To obey the order. Recently the Industrial court said j s o m c Union leaders even i that the bar. On these trucks came to have drinks with or. Macmillan and later with the Arch Demon prime minister Heath chose As Robert Carr s Suc Cessor Maurice Macmillan the Debonair son of former prime minister Harold Mac Millan. Who also conceives his Job As being Nice to the Trade but or. Mac Millan took Over at an Odd moment. First some Desper ate Small firms of truck owners had at last moved to sue Britain s biggest Union the giant transport and general workers Union led by left Winger Jack Jones for the unfair Industrial prac Tice of driving them out of i was indeed an unfair Indus trial practice and imposed a even Fine on or. Jones Union. At the unscheduled withdrawals or. Heath. The government is fright fully bucked about this and thinks that it Means that the Union leaders Are now in to treat towards a policy of co operation. In fact however the Railroad Union leaders think that the government will be vory eager to show Success for Tho negotiations meant what lie had at first i during inc Brief Cooling off i Zajf period they confidently meanwhile the Railroad i Peel that Mother wildly in unions took action to try to1 Flati onary settlement will he get. A 20 per cent wage in made for their members. It. Crease like the miners even remains to be seen it they although their previous Wace Are first at least or. Jones did not pay and his men went on Banning the trucks. Even left Wing newspapers then began to protest that a Mogul like or. Jones must not be allowed to flout a court order by a judge and or. Jones then hurried to indicate that perhaps lie had not quite ;