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HARRY

HUNTER

1903 — 1969

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War, wine is the Vietnam

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Treasury) to the Provincial

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the ments in Canada and
Sto ae States are about to
Stop it pen and if they can
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Globe & Mail

INFLATION

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De aN leader of the New
las, h Otic Party, T. C. Doug-
Con a Come out in sharp
the cil on of the cuts in
tie ice, currently bein
a Ort cot by the Epieeaniant
fetene ot: He told a press con-
Smer, wat the federal gov-
‘ants 4/8 Making civil ser-
4 Scapegoats and
Pe With 1 Its own failure to
: inflation,

ee eal Srgued that the
a Rts Was wildly firing at
© basing thout getting down
Puch reg It is his Opinion that
GPorted ANnada’s inflation is
totes from the United
ment Grad that the govern-
ng fi 5 indiscriminately fir-
a ded why ogists who were
N te, Vile spending money

Teno .
va
Rae tions, and other

: :
Cameron said that the

- things that could be dispensed

with,

He warned that there might
be an economic overkill, result-
ing in a recession. ;

“One of the alternatives Mr.
Douglas proposed was that
firings in the civil service should
be based solely on efficiency.
Of course, if it was so desired,
a good many people, including
some MPs, could be fired on
those grounds.

It is unfortunate that, in

i dealing with this question, in-

sofar as the public reports of
Mr. Douglas’ press release are
concerned, he made no men-
tion of Canada’s spending of
$1.8 billion dollars annually—
about $360 yearly for a family
of four—for so-called defense,
which is a substantial contribu-
ting factor in inflation. And
along with that is the con-
stant efforts by the big mono-
polies to increase their already
swollen profits.

MUSKEG VEHICLES

A Calgary firm will manufac-
ture 20 wide-track muskeg ve-
hicles for the Soviet Union.

The million dollar order was
negotiated by Foremost Indus-
tries, Ltd. after a Soviet dele-
gation headed by the Minister
of Oil Industry had seen the

machines operating in North-
r

ern Alberta.

eee aie Lee

LANGUAGE

Alberta Indians may now use
their native language to meet
the second language required
for admission to the University
of Alberta arts faculty, the

faculty council has announ’<c.

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Sditoré f

Bring Banks back

Renewed demands for the extradi-
tion to Canada of Hal Banks are being
raised once again. Hal Banks is one of
the many ugly faces of anti-Commun-
ism.

The political forces behind anti-Com-
munism always adopt a “holier-than-
thou” stance. They operate on the dic-
tum that they can do anything because,
for them, “the end justifies the means.”
This was the so-called justification for
the Ottawa Liberals to brin Hal
Banks, gangster, from the U.S.A. to

break the Canadian Seamen’s Union, .

which he did.
Later on, an out-of-control Banks.

had to be restrained. He jumped

$25,000 bail and
States, where he freely walks the

streets. :
“His name has continued to crop up,

usually because opposition parties want
to embarrass the government. The Lib-
eral Party moves heaven and earth to
keep him out of the country, afraid of

what he would say once here.
The last time pressure was on, the

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HARRY HUNTER

The Central Executive of the Communist
Party of Canada is sad to announce the death of
one of its members, comrade Harry Hunter of
Hamilton, Ontario. Comrade Hunter, who was
Hamilton City Organizer of the Party, member
of the Central Executive and the Central Com-
mittee, Ontario Provincial Executive, and Ont-
ario Committee of the Communist Party, died
suddenly from a heart attack, while performing
his duties, on Monday, October 20th, at the age
of 65.

He had just returned from the German Demo-
cratic Republic, where he headed a delegation
of the Communist Party of Canada, to the 20th
Anniversary celebrations of the founding of the
German Democratic Republic. ‘ ;

Harry Hunter had been a full-time official of
the Communist Party since 1945, when, at his
own request, he left full time work in the trade
union movement to undertake leadership of the
Party in the Hamilton region. He subsequently
became Ontario Party organizer, and Toronto
City organizer. ~

He was, in the full sense of the word, a real
son of the Canadian working class. As an out-
standing trade unionist he is remembered best
by Hamilton steelworkers for his role in helping.
to found the powerful Stelco local. He combined
a deep and abiding sense of internationalism
with a close personal sympathy with all the prob-
lems of the working people. His whole being
struck out indignantly at the injustice and cul-
tural depravity. of a dying capitalist system.

Harry stood always side-by-side with the
youth, whose champion he was, and who looked
up to him with respect and admiration.

His passing will leave a big gap to be filled
in our movement, but it is a tribute to the quali-
ties of comrade Hunter that he leaves behind
in the Hamilton region a strong united party
organization that is able to close ranks and carry
on from where he left off. The Central Executive
of the Communist Party wishes to express its
deep sympathy with the entire party organization
in Hamilton, and in the first place to Harry’s
wife Ivy, a strong and valuable member of our
party, his son Jim, and his sister and brother,
and entire family.

We dip our banners in sad and final testi-
mony to ~ dear friend and comrade, Harry
Hunter, < pledge this Executive to strengthen
its efforts . speed the day when the Canada
that he envisaged, and fought for his entire life,
a new socialist Canada will become a reality.

The funeral will take place on Thursday, at 2
p-m., from the Ukrainian Labor Temple, 746
Barton St. East, Hamilton, Ont. Arrangements
are being made by the Truscott Funeral Home,
1309 King St. East, Hamilton.

—Central Executive Committee
Communist Party of Canada

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fled to the United |

U.S. secretary of state, Dean Rusk,
wouldn’t sign the papers. Now the To-
ronto Telegram has “discovered” two
notes addressed to Dean Rusk, dated
at the time he refused to sign the extra-
dition papers, appealing to him not to
sign, one of them a three-page letter
from AFL-CIO president, George
Meany.

Meany’s letter states, in part, that
Banks went to Canada “in response to
a request, by the Canadian and Ameri-
can governments, for American trade
union assistance in dealing with a seri-
ous problem of Communist subversion
in the Canadian maritime industry.”

There it is in black-and-white, that
U.S. trade union leaders of Meany’s ilk
cooperated with a Canadian capitalist
government in smashing a Canadian
union, all in the name of anti-Commun-
ism. The people who paid the most ter-
rible price were the Canadian seamen.
But then, when did you meet a capital-
ist politician who gave a damn about
the workers?

These “holier-than-thou” government
leaders dredge the scum of society out
of the slime of the sewer to.do their
dirty work, all in the name of anti-
Communism. Hal Banks, that bloated,
gluttonous slug, should be extradited,
so that Canadians can have the oppor-
tunity to see for themselves the true
face of anti-Communism.

A purpose in life

_The papers are full of an investiga-
tion into the use of dope by young peo-

ple. The federal Commission of Inquiry

into the non-medical use of Drugs —
just begun—already proves that drug-
use has become a mass phenomenon in
present-day society.

_dust a few years back, public discus-
sions about the use of drugs were ca-
sual. Newspapers recounted the opin-

ions of so-called “progressives,” many -

of them professors and teachers, all
with a very “modern” and some even
with a “revolutionary” outlook, who
claimed that the use of “mind-expand-
ing” drugs helped people to “find them-
selves.”

There is no way of knowing how
many young Canadians have been turn-
ed into sub-humans. The horror story
is unfolding. Many young people have
had the direction of their lives warped
to the single desire of self-satisfaction
with dope.

One stream of youth, by far the
largest, have set their minds and hands
to bringing about social change. An-
other stream, seeking escape from the
emptiness, frenzy, and seeming hope-
lessness of life under capitalism, have
turned to drug-use.

Parents are increasingly worried as

-to how to defend their children from

this latest by-product of capitalism.
There is a way. That is to fight for a
new way of life.

Children have to be initiated into
progressive politics at an early age.
Each one of us is faced with the neces-
sity of actively participating in the
struggle for a better life, for a socialist
Canada. Struggle for such a grand goal
“turns you on” and taps spiritual qua-
lities that are truly “mind expanding,”
full of new, inspiring challenges every
minute of the day. Socialism liberates
man from material and spiritual en-
slavement, not the use of drugs.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 24, 1969-—Page 3

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