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belieyi € the Conservatives are trying to lull the voters into

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This;
Sis what Tim Buck,

ii leader, told an
fone audience of some i
* ea Who-attended the
oem Togressive party’s ma-
<a ee rally in Exhibi-
Bes ears here Friday last
tb ity nd contributed $1,000
Ate Campaign funds.
of Conservative
allay the working
as Buck said,
the : Irect variance to
ing hoe bankers were giv-
5 “ big customers.
big ¢ Ts are advising their
atiiy ets that the present
leen IS going to be a lot
When and last a lot
liely ‘as anyone has pub-
; a anowledged. Some, in
tion, oS Warning that condi-
mais ae continue to deterio-
il they reach the stage
Buek acute general crisis,”
Th disclosed.
Cpr iberals were blaming
Sérya °hservatives —the Con-

tiv, .
iberals were blaming the

“Bo
Buck ae
four p

leaders ms
People’s .
Dare at

are responsible,”
charged. “In fact, all
; pie now represented
They aye are responsible.
of mi it Supported the policies
grating ary spending and inte-
of the ae economy with that
© br ‘S. which have led to
op €sent slump.
€ Labor - Progressive
aS warned repeatedly
the distortion of our
ny y to make it subordin-
and dependent upon the
Menace This made it
that a slump in the
Profound" have even more
Kets = and disastrous ef-
nN our own country.”

Tea said that even if big
Up eg Suucceded in lifting
Year € economy for another
om so by more military
af sy Ing and more inflation,
y uld not avert the crisis

ouch policies.
is th hat we are seeing now
€ consequence of the con-

trad;n:
adictions of capitalism,” he
€clared,

Party h
88ainst

€conom
at

eae said there were en-
aa Striking similarities be-
en the situation now and
oe ation in 1930 to justify
i phe the Conservative party
€pression.
nh 1930, in conditions of
— unemployment and deep-
Ning economic crisis, the late
B. “Iron Heel” Bennett
fame to power — “Bennett
who likewise asked for 4
Majority and said, ‘I will end

hg that this is only a temporary recession and that the

er the peak of unemployment, “big business is

ae g its attack upon labor. It is campaigning

ge increases even though the cost of living is still
€ next thing will be a demand for wage cuts.”

unemployment in thirty days,’
and who herded the unem-
ployed into relief camps, im-
posing terrible privation upon
the people while the monopo-
lies grew richer and stronger.”

Now John Diefenbaker was
campaigning up and down the
country, “promising all things
to all men, if only they will
give him a majority.

“] don’t say Diefenbaker
will necessarily follow the
same policy — I don’t believe
the people wil] let him —
but that is the direction of
Tory policy and that is the
danger if the voters place
their faith in Tory promises.”

Turning to his recent visit
to the Soviet Union and
China, Buck said everything
he saw impressed him with
the inherent superiority of
socialism, in peaceful competi-
tion with capitalism — “in
fact, it’s now beng demon-
started for all the world to
see.”

He recounted several in-
stances of socialist superiority
in technique in the Soviet
Union, including his flight
from Moscow to Peking in
nine hours in one of the
scores of TU-104 jet liners —
“quiet, comfortable, you would
hardly know you were in the
air? —- now in regular opera-
tion on Soviet air lines.

Nowhere, he said, were the
advances being made more ap-
parent than in China.

“China now has the most
modern industries and the
most advanced techniques, in-
cluding precision optical and
vacuum tube industries which
we still lack in Canada,” he
reported.

“Now China is building her
own planes for her own ex-
panding network of air lines.
More than that, she is build-
ing her. own military planes.
The MIG-17, the fastest and
most modern jet fighter in the
world, is now fully built in
China by Chinese.”

How. had China been able
to accomplish so much in so
few years? Buck said he had
asked chairman Mao Tse-tung
this qquestion and Mao had
told him it had been done
with the fraternal assistance
of the Soviet’ Union and other
socialist countries.

Soviet architects: and engi-
neers had built the factories
while young Chinese were
trained in the Soviet Union

TORIES SOFT -PEDAL SLUMP, SAYS BUCK

ut big business

Tim Buck, LPP national leader, is shown at the recent LPP national committee meet-

is act

ing in Toronto with some of his party’s federal candidates. They are (left to right): Maurice

Rush (Vancouver Centre), Nelson Clarke (Toron

Tim Buck, Tom McEwen (Vancouver South), Camille Dionne
Brenton (St. Lawrence-St. George).

to run them. Then the Soviet
Union had sent thousands of
technicians to get the factories
into production, withdrawing
them as Chinese technicians
were trained for the work.
Now most of the factories
were being operated and man-
ned by the Chinese them-
selves. ‘

Buck said he had asked
Mao how many such factories
had been supplied and Mao
had told him the Soviet Union
had supplied 182, Czechoslova-
ia 10 and the German Demo-
cratic Republic 5.

“You must owe a huge
amount for them,” Buck said
he had commented, and Mao
had replied, “We don’t owe
anything. They were the gift
of socialist countries to the
mutual building of socialism.”

Continuing his report of his
dicussions with Mao Tse-tung,
Buck said that Mao had told
him China would never go
through a period of agricul-
tural development in which all
work was done by horses.

“We can’t spare the land to
grow feed for the horses,”
Mao had said. ‘What we need
is fertilizer to make our land
fertile and tractors to work
hia

And, Buck added, fertilizer
was something that could
well be supplied by Canada.

“In fact, everything China
wants to buy —lumber, ply-
wood, fish—seems to be what
Canada wants to sell.”

Concluding, Buck said that
anyone who thought that the

Soviet Union and China,
through some _ weakness,
would be forced to make

some accomodation to the
United States, or that China
would crack, was mad — “not
so much mad, perhaps, as
just plain silly.”

This country’s future, he
said, depended on its linking
itself -to the new in the
world, not on opposing it.

“This election affords the
opportunity of beginning this,
by voting for LPP candidates,
by carrying forward the fight

LPP nominates Ross
in Winnipeg North

WINNIPEG — William C. Ross, Manitoba leader of the
Labor-Progressive party, has been nominated as his party’s
eandidate in the federal constituency of Winnipeg North.

A Secong World War veteran and a former Winnipeg school
trustee, he has ben active in the labor movement of this city

since the early thirties.

Accepting nomination, Ross
gave as the reason for the
LPP’s decision to contest the
traditionally labor riding:

“Only the LPP program of-
fers an alternative to the cold-
war policies of the parties of
monopoly. Whereas the CCF
candidate, Alistair Stewart,
supports Canada’s participa-

tion in NATO, supports the in-
tegration of Canada’s military
forces under U.S. command and
the establishment of U.S. mis-
sile bases on Canadian soil, I
stand for an independent Can-
adian peace policy which
would make our country a
bridge for peace between the
U.S. and the USSR.”

to-Parkdale), Sam Walsh (Toronto-Spadina),

(Montreal-Hochelaga), Frank

for new policies that will
bring peace, jobs and security
for the people.”

A sheaf of written questions
sent up from the audience was
handed to Buck to answer at
the conclusion of his speech.
Among them was one asking
what the federal government
should do first about unem-
ployment.

“The first thing Ottawa

should do. is to amend the
Unemployment Insurance Act
to make Unemployment In-
surance benefits payable in
full to every unemployed
worker as long as he or she
is unemployed,” said Buck.
‘ ‘The second thing Ottawa
should do, in conjunction with
provincial governments where
necessary, is to undertake im-
mediately those big nation-
building projects which have
long been discussed and prom-
ised. It wouldn’t solve the
problem but it would sub-
stantially alleviate it, and it
would help people to fight for
fuller solutions.”

Nigel Morgan, LPP provin-
cial leader, was chairman at
the rally and introduced three
of the four LPP federal candi-
dates already nominated in
this province — Maurice Rush
(Vancouver Centre); Tom Mc-
Ewen (Vancouver South) and
Alexander “Sandy” Mowers
(Okanagan - Revelstoke). The
fourth. LPP candidate, Charles
Stewart. (New Westminster),
was unable to attend because
he was speaking at another
election meeting.

Twenty-four year old
“Sandy” Mowers, introduced
by Morgan as “the youngest
candidate nominated by any
party in B.C. in this election,”
drew prolonged applause
when he said he was contest-
ing the election in the inter-

ests “of the socialist future of

our young people.”

March 14, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 3