Old before our tim By LESLIE MORRIS sig we Our country is in sore need of renovation. It is “h' new Ountry. : We shall not be celebrating our centenary until 1967. : But in many ways we-are old, suffering from the ills o thility. How is it that a young country is so pre- maturely senile? 2% : This is now a subject for widespread pie cussion. Hardly a day goes by but what it appears in the press or on the radio or television. One man said the other day that our one. There is a great deal of truth in that; but it would be wrong not to see the phy- sical basis of our moral problems. * * * : Our country is stagnating. It is not keeping pace with the needs of the country. The people responsible for this are he powerful financial tycoons who are anatomized in the Parks’ book, The Anatomy of Big BuSiness. They are respon- ble because they own the economy. Yet, the economic “plant” is not even owned in Canada, Cither is it controlled in Canada. It is under the thumb of he United States. Unemployment is not like it was in the Thirties, a sudden Aff] ction which, overnight, attacked the working people. It ‘Now permanent and chronic, the biggest in the western “orld, in proportion to our population. f Who is responsible for unemployment? Again, those "10 own the economy, those who will not operate the plants inless it brings them maximum profit. The factories do not Nn for the good of Canada, but of the shareholders. Men Nd women are heartlessly displaced by machines and auto- Nation. Private profits come first. * ae When labor tries to meet this sore problem and advocates! ‘ shorter work-day, higher pay and job security, the vice-pres- nt of the CPR (the old-time socialists used to call it Cax- as Principal Robbers) speaking for the monopolists, calls compulsory arbitration, that is, the outlawing of strikes. If the strike weapon is taken away from labor, labor be- €s slave labor. The main difference between a modern ge-worker and the chattel slave is that the worker can go Strike. _ * * * _ Canadian young people, leaving school by the thousands, 2 postwar generation, now growing up, are restless, uneasy. th good reason. The stagnating economic system cannot Orb them and give them a bare living, let alone satisfy desire to be at one with the revolutionary atomic and *ctronic age in, which we now live. Hes € proper combination of the industrial technique 0 New age with schooling is unknown to us, yet the ex- rightly say that education must be for living, and the ential part of living is working. * * * Time was when the Canadian people took pride in the lopment of their country. Construction was the theme that development: breaking the prairie, harnessing the ers, building the towns, opening the roads. Construction now, in the main, is parasitic. New sky- i ’Pers—and the Columbia River going into Yankee hands moss we stop it; fine new speedways and festering slums. ® Athabaska tar sands, with 900 billion barrels of oil in een, left alone. Wasted energy and our energy altogether Ho taotic state; water conservation in turmeit, pres ueNce for appearances (“keeping up with the Jonses ) instead r national growth. Built-in obsolescence; a wasted labor "€ in the shape of thousands of cut-throat salesmen, each "8 to outdo the other, to sell things people neither can ~“, nor do they need. _*® stagnation, add anarchy. * * * Labor's program must now go beyond the immediate “8, ithportant as they are, and encompass the nation. ue the nation grows and the paralyzing hand of the U.S. vs 0 ian monopolists is lifted from our economic ee : aeety. will perish, and labor’s immediate needs will not be ed. S] Only labor, with no stake in dividends, no dollars for 8 the country to foreign exploiters, can save the nation. “labor is the nation. ne € renovation of our economy is in the hands of hag People. Will they apply their hands and their heads is task? As far as the Communists are concerned, they say yes! th must this be done for the good of the Bo Sacto ; © 00d of the working class, for without a change In the Ry there can be no real benefits for the workers. mate g h ly under public control; Canadian industry in ee q 24S; the great plants and financial concerns national- “@ working for Canada, not the United States. country’s crisis is a moral, not a physical ~ Teat issue of Canadian modern times is shaping UP: PRAVDA DRAWS FIVE LESSONS FROM RECENT CUBAN CRISIS By PETER TEMPEST MOSCOW — Five les- sons are drawn from the Cuba crisis in a major ar- ticle in Sunday’s Pravda. The article is by Boris Pono- maryov, a_ secretary of ‘the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party. He says: 1. People of all countries saw that Communism saved peace and nothing could conceal the fact of the world’s gratitude to the Soviet Government and Premier Khrushchev. 2. Peoples of the world saw how correct were persistent Com- munist warnings of the danger from imperialism; U.S. militar- ists had been ready to plunge BORIS PONOMARYOV the world recklesly into thermo. nuclear war. 3. For the first time in their history the American people had felt ‘the scorching breath of nu- clear rocket war’ and as a re- . sult anti-war feeling sharply in- creased. The recent U.S. ‘elections, re- ‘marks Ponomaryov, showed that more and more Americans re- jected McCarthyism at home and the Dulles line in foreign policy. 4. Divisions were revealed among the Nato countries, many of whom showed ‘reluctance to risk their existence on account of the criminal actions of Ameri- can militarists.’’ Ponomaryov remarked: ‘This will undoubtedly be reflected in a stepping up of the struggle by anti-war and patriotic forces for abolishing U.S. and Nato war bases.”’ 5. The countries liberated from colonialism played ‘‘a consider. able role’ in condemning Ameri- can actions and supporting the rights of Cuba. This was practical proof that joint action by the liberated countries and Socialist States against the war threat was ‘‘the greatest factor for world peace.” DECISIVE FACTOR The outcome of the crisis, Pono- maryov says, fully confirmed the view put forward five years ago at the Moscow conference of Communists and Workers’ Parties that the Socialist and anti-im- perialist forces were now the decisive factor in shaping history. A third world war could be averted by the united action of the forces of the Socialist coun- tries, and the working class, liberation and world peace move- _ ments. Looking back over Communist advances in the past five years, Ponomaryov noted that the Soviet Union had now surpassed the United States in production of coal, coke, machine tools, tract- ors, cement, milk and animal fats. “The time is not far off when the Soviet Union will leave the U.S. behind in all economic indices. “Of great importance is the fact that the Soviet Union has securely taken first place in the world in the decisive branches of science and technology.”’ Since 1957 25 countries had |, won national independence and in the capitalist countries class struggles had grown increasingly sharp. The upsurge of the working class and national liberation movements showed how much combustible material had accurn- ulated in the countries of capital, what great possibilities existed ior the mass working people’s strug- gle for their immediate and ulti- mate aims. Referring to the Albanian lead- ers, Ponomaryov said they were telling the whole Communist movement how to fight imperial- ism while themselves standing aside from the struggle and by provocative actions undermining the cause of peace and Socialism. Greater Vancouver CLUB TARGET Advance 35 Bayview 25 Bill Bennett 50 Broadway - 80. Cedar Cottage 40 Dry Dock . 50 Frank Rogers 40 Georgia 15 Kensington 60 Niilo Makela 15 Norquay 50 Olgin 10 Point Grey 35 Seamen 75 Vancouver East 90 Victory Square 60 West End 30 North Burnaby 50 South Burnaby 30 ‘Edmonds 30 North Shore 75 City Miscellan. 55 CITY TOTAL 1000 Province General Fernie-Michel 15 Nelson 25 Powell River 40 Prince Rupert 45 Sointula 20 SUDS I ..:: c | | 600 still to go! 1 t be extended! Drive can not be extended! ONLY ONE WEEK LEFT BEFORE THE NOV. 30 CLOSING DATE! CLUB TARGET ACHIEV. . Steveston 10 4 ACHIEV. Trail-Rossland 40 24 33 Correspondent 15 12 12 Prov. Miscell. 70 24 31 Vancouver Island 3 Alberni 50 42 33 Campbell River 30 18 18 Cumberland 40 40 % Cowichan 60 39 41 2 _ Nanaimo 100 43 ieee ere a re Victoria a3 Saanich 25 20 29 ? Dewdney 3 79 Haney-Maple Rg 40 21: 19 Mission 15 8 » Okanagan 26 Kamloops 15 17 37 Notch Hill 30 14 70 Vernon 35 LES 27 Delta 678 Fort Langley 25 16 Ladner 15 7 New West. Ind. . 50 47 3 South Surrey 15 26° 12 Surrey 70 74 33 PROV. TOTAL 900 617 1 CITY TOTAL 1000 678. AS Grand Total 1900 t i :