Word: clc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Against the general backdrop of depressing economic developments and political realignments, the New Democratic Party and the National Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) are intensifying their cooperative electoral efforts. The Congress is preparing to commit an unprecedented number of staff people and field organizers to the NDP for the 60 days prior to election...
...CLC and the NDP have agreed on a platform that advocates Keynesian economic tactics coordinated by and rooted in longer-term industrial planning. Both organizations see industrial planning as essential if Canada is to protect its resources, diversify its economy and use its manpower effectively. But while industrial planning is one thing, an industrial plan is quite another. To date, no one has proposed anything resembling a comprehensive plan...
...inability to generate such a plan is one surface manifestation of labor's fundamental political weakness. Both the CLC and the NDP have become centralized, elite-dominated organizations that pursue change through state bureaucracies and parliamentary committees rather than through organized political pressure. Mired down in bureaucratic intricacies, both organizations have focused on narrow economic questions and have neglected the broader issue of political power...
...Cost of Living Council (CLC), chaired by Treasury Secretary John B. Connolly, will develop wage-price "yardsticks" and set over-all policies, goals and objectives to be administrated by a Price Commission, a Pay Board, and a Government Committee on Interests and Dividends...