—Tvorba, Prague e ~ Macmillan!” “And you wipe your feet, | BID TO ENTER THE ¢ COMMON MARKET ~ Soviet Party congress has large world-wide impact —Br. OAS during line in the U.S.-dominated Frondizi flew into the capita! -for a four-day trip after hold- - ing talks in Trinidad with Am- erican U.N. ambassador Adlai -. Stevenson on the OAS proposal -for collective hemispheric ac- tion against Cuba. A There was no mistaking that one of his chief aims was to “encourage” Prime Minister -Diefenbaker to take a more Samide step toward joining the + 21-nation OAS. In last week’s communique ‘after the Frondizi visit, Dief- -enbaker agreed on the need - for closer collaboration in the | =a eee: hemisphere. But the reason for such coHaboration = was to prevent» “the spread of a a Ottawa pressed to join Frondizi call Another phase in the squeeze-play to pull Canada into Organization of American - States was ticked off recently by the Ottawa visit of _ Argentine president Arturo Frondizi. Communism and foreign ides!- ogies throughout the Amer- icas.” According to some sources, Frondizi made it clear that Argentina along with the U.S. was angered over continuing Canadian trade with Cuba. That tradé inthe first six months of this year was already three times higher than in the first six months of 1960. Rather than allow these nor- mal relations to grow, the sources suggested, Kennedy and Frondizi and other OAS directors were campaigning to get Canada into OAS and “straighten her out” about Cuba. ee An appeal that Canada not ~ acquire nuclear weapons has been sent to Prime Minister - Diefenbaker by Church and four Anglican clergymen in Toronto.” _- The ministers also strongly opposed present plans for civil ~ defense, by which the “Canad- ian people are now being en- - couraged to believe that thev - @an survive a nuclear attack,” “Such a belief,” they said, “is both false and dangerous. We cannot cooperate. with — §No nuclear arms for Canada’ (10 ministers urge Diefenbaker an An appeal that Canada not acquire nuclear weapons ~ has been sent to Prime Minister Diefenbaker by six United _ Church -and four Anglican clergymen in Toronto. six United |. plans which Ere. based on this false premise.” The clergymen coupled their appeal against. nuclear weap- ons for Canada with a plea net “to allow the armed forces of other nations to use them on, or over Canadian soil. “This means,” they declared, “the -immediate present flights by U.S. bomb- ers armed with nuclear weap- ons, and refuelled from Canad- ian bases, over Canadian soil.” : and may the comin cause of peace, na and socialism. Season’s Greetings even greater advances for the COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA. B. C. PROVINCIAL COMMITTEE, g year see tional independence ft @ Entertainment Supper only, $1.50; Gilchinlc New Vous s Eve AUUC Hall — 805 East Pender SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31 | Supper — Featuring Ukrainian Dishes 6:30 p.m. @ Favors ® Dancing 10 p.m. uma Supper and Dance, $2.50 Each Dance only, $1.50 Sponsored by Association of United Ukrainian Canadians and the W.R.AL Daily Worker’! cessation of |, Mission, VIEWS OF ead CONGRESS REPORT .. By LESLIE MORRI of the decisions of the : be twofold: First, the impact fight for peace; second, the im- ‘pact of the program on the social outlook of millions. The most immediate will be |the impact of the world | struggle to avert war. | The report to the congress by the Central Committee through Nikita Khrushchev on_ this paramount question cannot fail to have a deep effect. on the people of the West in particu- lar; especially as the Commun- ist Parties in the Western coun- tries develop their public ex- planation of the Soviet posi- tion as it was elaborated at the congress. The fact is that the repeat- ed offers by the Soviet Union to negotiate a German settle- ment via a peace treaty puts the Western would-be agres- sors in the defensive and tac- tically difficult position of proposing a course of violence because a peace treaty is pro- posed and signed. ists in highly developed capi- talist countries, not to speak underdeveloped countries. U.S. production is falling be- hind in rate and volume of production per capita; the same is true of Canada — the two countries which emerged from the war with the _ greatest The patiently expounded to abolish nuclear weapons and to bring about general and complete and controlled dis- armament cannot but super- sede the hollow and_ preten- ‘tious arguments which con- centrate on stopping _ tests while leaving present nuclear weapons untouched. . Such arguments are, in part, propaganda to retain nuciear weapons and avoid disarma- ment by making the tests the main thing. The 22nd Congress met at a moment of severe crisis over tests, disarmament and Berlin. It was fortunate that it met when it did because it will have a sobering effect on the }hotheads and an encouraging influence on the fighters for peace. And it must not be forgotten that the speech of Defence Min- ister Marshal Malinovsky de- scribing the defense capacity of the USSR, coming as it did a few days after Premier Khrushchev’s announcement HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE IVENS One of British Columbia grand old veterans. of social- ism, Joe Ivens of Okanagan celebrated his 81st birthday on November 30. Hale and hearty at 81, Joe continues to be one of the PT’s most |active and generous support- ers. The PT staff and all our readers and supporters extend hearty birthday greetings to Comrade Joe, and wish* him many more years of good health and fighting spirit. Be a aoe Pe It seems to me that the impact on world public’ opinion 22nd Congress of the CPSU wil! on the} of their work: in the so-called: proposals of the Soviet Union; from Ottawa, about the intention to test a 50 megaton bomb, will also act as a deterrent to the would- be warmakers and so aid the cause of peace. The governments of the West are bound to try to maintain! a mass basis for their policies, and. this they have succeeded in doing over the past several years by a combination of cold war propaganda and the help of the right wing of the labor movement, : The change in the character of fighting wars from so-ca‘led conventional to nuclear weap- ons has not done away with this necessity. The Pentagon may talk of “push-button war” but the generals and President Ken- nedy and their satellites are not yet in a position and never will be, to “push-button” the masses of the people. Even in the USA, where in- timidation has been most sev- ere, there are many signs that! larger numbers of the Ameri- can people are not “sold” on Kennedy’s line or brain-wash- ed by President Meany of the AFL-CIO. All in all, then, the image of the Soviet Union as the cham- pion’ of peace and a country that will not be intimidated or provoked, has been drawn ever more clearly by the work of the congress. The unanimous public opin- ion in the Soviet Union which was shown in. the reception given to the congress by the Soviet people, will be noted abroad and will spike the wish- ful thought speculations about “splits” and ‘inner weakness’’ spread by the press commen- tators and editorial writers in the Western capitalist news- papers and journals. ONLY BEGINNING As for the impact of the program on the social outlook ‘of the people of the capitalist countries, we are seeing only the beginning of it. The detailed plans of the Soviet Union over the next 20 years are so vast in their scope that a little time will be needed to grasp them. — Perhaps the most vivid and] succinct description of the pro- gram’s spacious prospects was given by Premier Khrushchev when he introduced it to the congress: the program fore- sees a growth in'industrial pro- duction equal to the creation of five more Soviet Unions, and two more Soviet Unions in farming. Think what this will mean for the work ‘of the Commun- ONLY 31,000 MORE JOBLESS According to latest figures unemployment in Canada rose by 31,000 to 349.000 at mid-November from 318,000 in October — “an un- usually small increase’, said | the Bureau of Statistics. : . - December 15, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page wealth ever. in’ their posse sions, and ~whose post-war deez velopment was .the result’ not os much of inner strength bu of other peopie’s difficuties. In Canada, the year 195! was the high point of per ca ita production. Since then th picture is one of decline. The Communist Party 0 Canada is not alone in descri ing the economy as being in condition of stagnation. Th leading financial . papers us the same werds as Phe Com-— munists. Stagnation and decline, with a shrinking of the. presen volume of production, in th leading: capitalist countri and five new Soviet Unions i the ‘leading socialist country What a gripping influen this will have on the people - of the West and of the newly independent: and still ape ent countries. : A MYTH EXPOSED 4 The myth of North Ameri-. can superiority is fast being” exposed. ‘ When masses of people the West see that the capital ism, to which in their majority they have given support for so_ many years, is not” only falling d ‘behind the Soviet Union in a_ relative sense, but also in abso- lute volumes of production— ~ the whee] of history will begin to revolve quickly ‘and the- world balance will tilt, as. Ni-— kita Khrushchev put Th. a Higher production with 2a heavy physical . labor, “rising - real wages and farm incomes, © cultural leaps to hitherto un attained creative .works,.. the - emergence of the new Man— which Khrushchev. correctly said was‘the main product © socialism and communism. — and, in the capitalist countries declining production. and in creased unemployment. lowe real: wages and the abandon ment of. agriculture by million of small farmers,-and cultura degradation. : AWAKENING Can this deadly contrast fail to stir millioas into that politi-_ cal self-activity which is the primary- requisite for political advance in the West? i That awakening is now on the agenda! we are living in a_ period of revolution, in the West as well as in the colonial — world; and this objective truth will sink quickly now into th consciousness of the masses. The world will not be the a same after the adoption of thé 7 CPSU program. a The Soviet Union and the ~ socialist world community will | surge forward; capitalist sO- ciety and colonialism have been given further heavy blows and the calise of peace and peaceful co-existence was — never more powerful and p® — tentially victorious. There will be many critical turns of events. But the die of history has been cast. The CPSU and its leadership, at thé head of the noble and heroi Soviet people, together 5 cast this die of world history- the coming epoch of . wor 7 wide communism. a