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VICTORIA — The NDP
government caucus met with a
delegation of seven from the B.C.
Peace Council on Wednesday,
April 16 and expressed their ap-
proval of proposals for peace
action with vigorous table thum-
ping after the brief was presented
by spokesperson Dorothy
Morrison.

Included on the delegation were
representatives of the Victoria
Peace Council. Chaired by Karen
Sanford, the NDP caucus members
listened attentively as_ brief
stressed that ‘‘universal peace and
security are indispensable” and
outlined four proposals on which
the government was urged to act.

The NDP government was asked

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somewhat better return on some of
the people’s natural resources; to
protect B.C.’s limited agricultural
land from the developers and real
estate sharks, as well as enact a
considerable body of legislation to
protect and advance labor and
democratic rights.

The monopolies fear the ex-
tension of such programs, and loss
of special privileges they enjoyed
under successive Tory, Liberal and
Socred administrations. For,
despite some justifiable criticisms
of the Barrett government for its
failure to implement certain of its

election promises, and for not

doing enough to redistribute the
tax burden in favor of working
people, it has brought auto in-
surance under public ownership

MAY DAY GREETINGS |

to all
our friends
from
sa FEDERATION OF
RUSSIAN-CANADIANS

- and cut rates at a time when the
much higher rates in other
provinces, where private en-
terprise insurance still has control
have been increased 18 per cent
and more.

They have increased | the
minimum wage to $2.50 an hour;
provided 420,000 B.C. residents
with free prescription drugs
(Pharmacare); guaranteed B.C.’s
203,000 pensioners with Mincome of
$234.13 per month; passed a Farm
Assistance Act to ensure farm
income and saved the jobs of

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workers at Ocean Falls and

Columbia Cellulose pulp
operations by government
takeover.

There is a natural and growing
concern in labor and democratic
circles — particularly among trade
unionists, pensioners, ratepayers,
tenants and the underprivileged —
over the monopolists efforts to turn
B.C. politics to the right, and the
, danger of a return to the Socreds.

The Communist Party shares that
concern.

Recent statements by Premier
Barrett to a Faculty of Commerce
dinner at the University of B.C.
clearly shows the dangers we face
if the idea that “‘it should’be left to
' the government” gains ascen-
dancy, and the labor and
democratic movement does not put
pressure on the NDP government.

His statement that ‘‘the policies
being developed by the NDP follow

_ we have always had an ex-
citing form of popularism in B.C.
During the 1930s B.C. had an in-
novative and dynamic Liberal
government, which in many
respects was as forward thinking
as the NDP is today,’”’ makes it
clear that the Barrett government
has no intention of doing anything
fundamentally to challenge the
economic power of the big multi-
national corporations. This is
borne out in Premier Barrett’s
assurance to B.C. Tel, which has
just applied for a mammoth 20 per
cent rate hike, that government
takeover of this vital utility is not a
“priority” even in the NDP’s
second term of office and his
continuing opposition to phasing
out B.C.’s $716 million sales tax on
consumers.

The NDP government has in-
troduced a number of worthwhile
reforms to eliminate some of the
worst excesses of the monopolists,

but it shies away from the fun-

a long historical tradition yal Ca

damental changes necessary to
end control and exploitation by the
multinational corporations —
despite what many militant

:workers may like to think. That is. .
‘why it is necessary for the working

class, and particularly socialist-
minded working people, to
recognize the limits of present
NDP policy.

The real interests of the people in
today’s world can be served by

‘ curbing the monopolies and putting

forward a genuine anti-monopoly
program. Labor and progressive
forces need to use their collective
strength to persuade the NDP to
act on a number of pressing needs
of the people: removal of the costs
of education from homes and the
family farm; expansion of low-
cost, low-rental housing;
protection of tenants’ rights and a
halt to rent-gouging; bringing B.C.
Tel and the province’s whole
natural gas system under public
ownership and democratic
management; facing up to the
unemployment crisis to get .a
better return in jobs and govern-
ment revenues from the people’s
natural resources.

British Columbia’s most urgent
need this May Day is a broad
alliance of trade unionists,
ratepayers, pensioners, teachers,
tenants, students, farmers and the
underprivileged; together with the
NDP, the Communist Party and
other anti-monopoly forces to curb
the monopolies and challenge their
campaign of distortions and lies in
the mass media.

With today’s powerful surge of
the forces of socialism, liberation,
detente and social progress, May
Day, 1975 provides good reason to
move forward with strong con-
fidence, renewed solidarity and
firm determination to win a bright
new future.

NDP govt caucus hears
B.C. Peace Council brief

to study the ‘‘Peoples’ Charter for
a Just and Lasting Peace,”’ which
was drawn up at the conference of
the Canadian Peace Congress held
in April, 1974, and to have it en-
dorsed by the legislature. The
central point of the Charter calls
for a new Canadian foreign policy
based on the strengthening of
world peace and detente.

A second proposal called on the
legislature to adopt a resolution
calling on the federal government

~to insist that construction of the

Trident sub base at Bangor,
Washington be halted. Such a
resolution is now on the Order
paper introduced by Dewdney
MLA Peter Rolston, but has not yet
come before the house.

The delegation expressed its
appreciation to Rolston for having
introduced the issue of the Trident
sub base to the legislature and for
his public campaign against it.
Later the delegation were invited
to Rolston’s office to talk about the
Trident sub base and see some of
the enlarged photos of the base. He
also discussed with the Victoria
members of the delegation the
possibility of a public meeting in
Victoria to develop understanding
of the Trident base and the need for
a nuclear free Pacific.

A third issue placed before the
caucus was the proposal that the
legislature adopt a resolution
urging the federal government not
to renew the NORAD agreement.

PLANIS. PICNIC

The Vancouver Island Labor
Day Picnic committee held its first
meeting to plan the annual popular
event on April 13. The next meeting
will be held on June 15 at 2 p.m. at
the Malaspina... Hotel, Nanaimo.
Everyone welcome to attend.

MAY DAY
GREETINGS

VICTORY TO THE
VIETNAMESE PEOPLE
IN THEIR LONG
STRUGGLE AGAINST
OPPRESSION

The Padghams

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