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thane. Ules Stelp and Tom McEwen, McEwen was named honorary

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Memorial meeting hears
Warm tributes to Buck

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the tic is address which traced
Working Contribution of Buck to
dian “a Out the solution of Cana-
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Kash souinist theory.
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Canada and making it a signi-
ficant factor in Canadian life.

Tracing Buck’s theoretical
contributions to working class
theory, Kashtan said Buck
helped found the Communist
Party asapoliticalinstrument
to advance the immediate and
long term interests of the work-
ing class, tointegrate Marxism-
Leninism with the workers’
struggles to build a new society
and end the exploitation of man
by man.

He said Buck fought against
narrow trade unionism, to
organize the unorganized, to
build industrial unions, and
pioneered in the fight for a
united, autonomous and inde-
pendent trade union movement.

Buck always pointed out that
the trade unionstruggle by itself
could not take the working class
out of the confines of capitalist
politics, that what was needed
was forthe working class to be-
come conscious of itself as a
class which required the bring-
ing of socialist consciousness to
the working class through the
work of a Communist Party.

Kashtan pointed to the great
contribution Buck made in
developing the Canadian Com-
munist Party’s theory on such
important issues as the fight for
peaceful co-existence, solution
of the problem of unity of

See MEMORIAL, pg. 11

Tim Buck photo

The PT has received many
enquiries whether the photo-
graph of Tim Buck on the
memorial program at last
Friday’s meeting was avail-
able. This beautiful photo
was taken for the PT during
one of Tim’s last visits to the
coast.

The PT has decidedthatin
recognition of the great con-
tribution Tim has made to the
working class press, this
photo, considerably enlarg-
ed and in a frame with
an inscription, will be pre-
sented to each reader and sup-
porter who raises $82 in the
current financial drive —
that is one dollar for each
year of the life of this beloved
Communist leader.

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‘NEW ERA HAS OPENED’

CP convention echoes call

By SEAN GRIFFIN

‘“‘We must come out of the
shadow of the Cold War; weneed
to get out in the sun.”

These words of William Kash-
tan, General Secretary of the
Communist Party of Canadain
addressing the B.C. provincial
convention last Sunday were
echoed by every delegate who
took part in the debate during the
two day meeting.

The change was significant:
in Vietnam where the peace-
loving peoples of the world had
torn the U.S. planes from the sky
and revealed the sun again; to
the streets of Chile where the
slogans of Popular Unity serve
as a colorful reminder to the
‘‘momios’’— the bearers of reac-
tion — of the invincibility of
people’s unity.

And as some 81 delegates
from 36 Communist Party clubs
throughout British Columbia
took their place at last week-
end’sconvention, they brought
with them a sense of the world
wide significance of Vietnam,
of Chile, of France anda deter-
mination toputthe Communist
Party of Canada into the main-
stream of Canadian politics.

More than half of the dele-
gates were trade unionists,
many of them the elected
representatives of thousands of
workers — like Bill Stewart,
secretary-treasurer of the
Marineworkers and Boiler-
makers Union and recently-
elected fifth vice-president of
the B.C. Federation of Labor.

Several were _ elected
municipal officials — like
Dorothy Lynas and Mark Mosher
who both topped the poll in their
respective areas in elections
for school board. Mosher also
polled the highest Communist
vote inthe country inhis bid for
the seat of Comox-Alberni in the
last federal election.

“The year 1973 marks the
beginning of a new era in British
Columbia politics,’’ provincial
secretary Nigel Morgan
declared in his main report to
the convention, ‘‘and working
people have gained new confi-
dence in their strength and
ability to influence the course of
events.”

It was theimpact of the trade
union upheavals and the role of
Communists in leading thou-
sands of workers in those
struggles that was of such signi-
ficance in defeating the Socreds
in the provincial election,
Morgan said.

“Communist Party members
must actively participate in the
daily struggles of the people;
boldly put forward the Party’s
program and proposals; engage
vigorously in public work on the
issues of theday; strive onevery
possible occasion for unity of
the working class.”

Delegates sounded the note of
optimism, heralding the
election of an NDP government
as a decisive development for
the numbers of people that the
election had brought into
motion.

And they pointed to the
struggles ahead—for the trade
union movement, for the need to
strengthen anti-monopoly alli-

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ances, for the greater parti-
cipation of working people in
political affairs.

Trade union delegates took
part in a special panel dis-
cussion on labor policy, and
emphasized. the paramount
importance of the trade union
movement in shifting politics in
Canada to the left.

‘‘We should. press for leg-
islation in the interests of the
working people and join with
other democratic, anti-
monopoly forces in calling for
broad and far-reaching

WILLIAM KASHTAN addressing
the Communist Party convention
last Sunday.

reforms,” the delegates stated.
“The trade union movement
should speak out independently
in the interest of the working
class and find those forms of
extra-parliamentary activity
that will make it possible to win
major gains from parliament
and legislatures in this fluid poli-
tical situation.”

The debate also pointed to the
need for independent Canadian
trade union activity, free from
the reactionary policies of the

for stronger public voice

dominant leadership of the
executive council of the AFL-
CIO. ‘‘Our Party stands for a
united sovereign trade union
movement based on class
struggle policies and recog-
nition of the two-nation char-
acter of Canada,’’ delegates con-
cluded.

“Canadian members of in-
ternational unions must demand
and achieve complete auton-
omy, the right to conduct nego-
tiations and to strike resting
exclusively with the Canadian
membership.”’

In another panel on municipal
affairs, delegates emphasized
the importance of several
citizen groups that have entered
the field of municipal politics
and the effect on political align-
ments that these groups have
had. They noted the partici-
pation of Communists in these
various organizations and the
need to continue putting
forward policies that are respon-
sive to the problems of working
people.

The role of the NDP in pro-
vincial and civic politics was
often at the centre of the dis-
cussion. Delegates in the dis-
cussion on municipal affairs
criticized the position of the
NDP in many areas in arro-
gating to itself all the functions
of a united movement and divid-
ing the voters in so doing.

In his address, Bill Kashtan
outlined the relation of Com-
munists to the NDP.

‘““While we should press the
NDP for reforms and changes,
we should also advance our own
program,”’ he said. ‘‘We are the
conscience of the working class
and of progressive people in this
province and while weassistin
the fight for reforms, we are the
party of socialism, of funda-
mental social change.”’

- “At the same time,’’ Kashtan
declared, ‘‘we must fight to
stimulate the leftinthe NDP to
sit down and discuss unity and
cooperation with us.”’

“That is the lesson of Chile
and France.”

Fraternal delegates from the United States attended the B.C.
convention last weekend and brought greetings. They are shown here

listening to the discussion.

—Sean Griffin photos .

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