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Labour's Day of Protest -- The Issues and the Press
Publisher: Canadian News Synthesis Project, Toronto, CanadaYear Published: 1976 Pages: 4pp Price: $0.15 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX161 An issue sheet examining the biases of the Canadian Press in its coverage of the Oct 14th national Day of Protest against wage and price control policies. Abstract: This issue sheet examines the biases of the Canadian press in its coverage of the Oct 14th national Day of Protest against wage and price control policies. The report shows how press opinion allies itself with the views of the corporate elite and without further analysis, denounces the protest as illegal and anti-democratic. The business and government position is one of redistributing income from wages to profits in order to meet Canada's future investment needs. However, the analysis of information provided in the press itself on corporate financial activity shows that controls have done little to curb price and profit increases or to keep investment capital in Canada. The report places the wage question as secondary to the moral and political issues of using legislation to control labors' democratic rights to collective bargaining and protest. It concludes by arguing that the Day of Protest is a logical step, an historic event which expresses genuine feelings of concern and injustice. Charts included show the interlocking interests between the press and business and the profit increases of Canadian companies for 1976. Subject Headings |