—Hesse in St. Louis Globe-Democrat

NEGOTIATION DEADLINE NEAR

14,000 TEACHERS ASK
GENERAL WAGE BOOST

British Columbia’s 14,000
teachers are seeking general
Wage increases, fringe benefits
and improvements in working
Conditions, Bargaining in 84
locals is under way between
teachers and local school board
representatives,

In the Vancouver metropolitan
area, where some 6,000teachers
are employed, demands are for
Wage increases in the 8 to 14
Percent range, Teacher spokes-
Men have indicated to the Pacific
Tribune that initial School Board
Offers in the metropolitan area
have been in the neighborhood of
2 to 3 percent, They have been
Tejected by several teachers’
locals,

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At the present time, starting
Salaries in Vancouver range from
$315 a month for elementary
teachers with two years’ train-
ing up to $462 for those with six
to seven years’ university train-
Ing,

Top salaries, after 10 to 14
years’ experience, range from
$479 to $771 per month, Teach-
€rs point to the disparity be-

tween these salaries and those
of other professionals,

“Considering the general in-
creases in wages this year, the
salaries of other professionals,
and teachers’ salaries in other
large Canadian metropolitan
areas we are entitled to a sub-
stantial wage increase this year,”
one teacher spokesman told the
Tribune,

“When education is of such
major and ever increasing im-
portance, the salaries and work-
ing conditions of teachers must
‘be adequate to attract and retain
large numbers of new teachers,
School Boards who refuse to pay
salaries in keeping with the re-
sponsibilities of the job are doing
a disservice not only to the
teacher, but to the children and
to education in general,” he con-
tinued,

If salary negotiations are not
concluded by October 31, a 15-
day conciliation period takes
place, If settlement has not been
reached by November 15, the
matter must be submitted to bind-
ing arbitration,

Whelming votes,

Seasons,

Herring men strike

By a decisive 94 percent vote some 640 herring fishermen
of the United Fishermen and Allied Workers Union, voted October
24 for strike action to win their demands,

The Fisheries Association representing the big companies
involved in the dispute have offered $14 per ton for reduction
herring, plus an emasculated health plan, Both offers were re-
jected by the herring fishermen at an earlier meeting by over-

The fishermen are seeking a minimum $14,88 per ton for
reduction herring, and a CUC medical coverage plan in which the
Companies will pay half the premium during the fishing season,
with the member maintaining his own premium coverage between

eect

How world Communist parties
reacted to changes in USSR

JOHN GOLLAN, Gen. Sec.,
Communist Party of Britain

“Concern among Communists
and among the general public at
the replacement of Comrade
Khrushchov as FirstSecretary of
the C,P,S,U, and Chairman ofthe
Soviet government is widespread
and deep,

“This great interest is an in-
dication of the key role in world
affairs occupied by the Soviet
Union, So, what at first glance
seems to be an exclusively in-
ternal Soviet affair, affects us all,

“There can be no doubt about
Comrade Khrushchov’s great
services tothe Communist cause,
particularly in rooting out the

evils associated with the cult of

the individual, restoring Social-
ist legality and collective leader-
ship, showing that was not fatally
inevitable, and the possibility of
new roads to Socialism,

“Of the greatest importance
arising from this were the bold
new measures taken by theSoviet
Union in furthering the cause of
world peace and the policy of
peaceful co-existence, It was in
this light above all that the people
of the world judged Comrade
Khrushchov’s contribution,

JOHN GOLLAN

“Why then the change? It would
appear (and one can make only
tentative judgments pending fur-
ther particulars) that the position
could be summed up as follows:

“The general political line of
the Soviet Union initiated by the
20th Congress remains firm and
unchanged, and the disagreement
appears to be in the main about
Comrade Khrushchov’s method
of work, a certain erratic ap-
proach and lack of consistency
. .. the difficulties concerning
agriculture, the over-emphasis
on this or that particular step
as the solution ofthe problem,...

“All these criticisms, know-
ing Comrade Khrushchov’s tem-
perament and character, may
well be true,

*No one could be satisfied,
either, with the state of relations
between the Socialist countries,
The basic position taken by the
Soviet Union on the main dif-
ferences in the international
Communist movement was cor-
rect, But the actual conduct of
the polemic left a lot to be de-
sired.

“Now. as to how the changes
were made, This is whatis caus-
ing the greatest concern to
Communists, because of the lack

of any public explanation, It may
be that such an explanation could
remove this concern,

“No Communist in Britain wants
an exaggerated and unbalanced
‘exposure’ of Khrushchov, But it
seems to us that a balanced public
presentation of the main points
at issue would be all to the good,

“Comrade Khrushchov as First
Secretary and Soviet Chairman
carried forward the fuller de-
velopments of Socialist democ-
racy, freedom, order and collec-
tive leadership to acertain stage,

“Would it not be better for the
prestige and authority of the
Soviet Union if the major facts
were made public and clear?

“What the friends of the Soviet
Union look for at this stage is a
rational explanation of problems,
however difficult they maybe at
any moment,”

FRANCE

The French Communist Party
has advised the Communist Party
of the Soviet Union that “it would
like to send a delegation to Mos-
cow to get more details and ex-
planations about last week’s
changes in the Soviet Party’s
leadership.”

A communique of the political
bureau of the French Party said:
“The political bureau of the
French Communist Party wishes
to obtain fuller details and the
necessary explanations concern-
ing the conditions and methods
‘under which the changes decided
by the central committee of the
Communist Party of the Soviet
Union were carried out.

“This is why the political
bureau has decided to ask the
central committee of the Com-
munist Party of the Soviet Union
to receive a delegation of the
French Communist Party,”

(It is reliably reported that
the delegation from the French
Communist Party are now in
Moscow, Ed.) ©

ITALY

“The way in which Nikita
Khrushchov was removed leaves
us worried and critical,” Italian
Communist Party leader Luigi
Longo said at a mass rally in
Milan,

“It indicates that the process
toward the restoration of the
Leninist method of free debate
inside the Communist movement
is still slow and uncertain,” he
continued. “This slowness and
uncertainty is all the more in-
explicable now, as the Soviet
Union is no longer suffocated by.
a capitalistic siege,”

Longo recalled Togliatti’s

“memorandum which condemned

the position of the Chinese Com-
munist leaders, but stressed the
necessity of not sharpening dif-
ferences,

“Unity is not conceivable with-
out Chinese Communists,” he
said,

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

A statement by the Presidium
of the Czechoslovak Communist
Party said that the party and the
people learned of Nikita Khrush-
chov’s release from his functions
“with surprise and emotion,”

The statement, distributed by
the news agency CTK, said: “Our
party and our people appreciated
the activities of Comrade
Khrushchoy, both with regard to
the execution of the general line
of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union in the struggle to
accomplish a policy of peaceful
coexistence, and disclosure of the
erroneous methods in the period
of the cult of the individual,”

AUSTRIA

“Volksstimme,” the Austrian
Communist Party newspaper,
said that Nikita Khrushchov“was
known throughout the world as the
flag-bearer of the policy of peace
and understanding,” and criti-
cized the CPSU for the “sparse
and unsatisfactory information”
it issued concerning Khrush-
chov’s resignation as premier,

“We would wish that the central
committee of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union and
Comrade Khrushchov himself
made detailed statements on the
charges,” the paper said,

SOVIET UNION

British Daily Worker Moscow
correspondent Peter Tempest,
writes from Moscow:

Party Organizations must not
let “even the most authoritative
person” out of their control, a
Soviet Communist Party Central
Committee Journal declared, He
should not be allowed to “imagine
he knows everything, can doany-
thing, and can disregard the
knowledge and experience of his
comrades,” said an editorial
article in Party Life,

“In this, every collective must
be utterly uncompromising and
insistent, and be able in good
time to check a person breaking
away,”

The editorial repeats Pravda’s
criticism last week of “boasting,
premature conclusions andhare-
brained schemes divorced from
reality.” The journal declares:
“Criticism and_ self-criticism,
mutual control—these_are anorm
of inner-Party life,”

“Experienced and _ influential
leaders who know their job enjoy
merited authority among us,
People gladly listen to what they
say, and note their views, This

is important for discipline, for a

business-like approach-and suc-
cess in carrying out Party direc-
tives,

“But legitimate respect has
nothing in common with the ex-
treme glorification and adulation
of a leader, with a situation when
anything said by the man ‘at the
top’ is presented as a revelation,
when his behaviour and actions
are considered infallible,

“This is precisely why the
Party is so exacting on the ques-
tion of observing the principle of
collective leadership, and of
Leninist norms of Party life in
all units of the Party and State
apparatus, ...

“But life shows that not all
comrades have entirely over-
come the ways, forms and meth-
ods of work established in the
period of the cult and rejected
by life.”

October 30, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3