| wee MEMORIAL In 1938, already a member of the Alfred Dewhurst—columnist, \ ‘of Communist Party, which he joined Ommunist leader, union mie and peace activist—was cee the epitome of what Lenin tel terized as the “worker in- Sctual,”” said the leader of the “mmunist Party of Canada in a tribute Saturday. it% et Was a man who could help Ee €rs understand the laws of the clopment of capitalism and ap- P ta to their own problems,”’ said am Kashtan at a memorial ser- for the veteran communist. Vice in 1934, he helped organize the In- ternational Woodworkers local in Port Alberni, a period fondly recalled by fellow logger Mark -Mosher in his tribute. “Alf had a lot of class. He didn’t preach at you, he reasoned with you,”’ recalled Mosher in a tribute marked with humorous anecdotes. Mosher himself was persuaded to join the Communist Party after he’d asked Alf why it was that he always seemed to have the right answers. Alf was also a founder of the Alberni and District Labor Coun- cil, which admitted to membership unions from both the AFL and CIO, then separate organizations, “which was quite a radical thing to do the,’’ said Mosher. In the Communist Party Alf held numerous posts, becoming Vancouver Island organizer in 1946 and B.C. provincial organizer in 1949, before moving to Toronto as a member of the central executive committee. Mona Morgan, widow of the former B.C. CP leader Nigel Morgan, worked closely with Alf and his widow Violet in the early days of the WA. Violet was a*Nanaimo laundry worker who was fired for par- ticipating in a B.C. Federation of Labor conference. That led to the famous laundry workers’ strike, supported by the Vancouver Island Labor movement under Alf’s leadership. ones of friends and long-time Workers packed the Sunnyside s feemty Hall in South Surrey cries tributes from Kashtan and ers who had known Alf Bs Sughout his more than 50 years fe activity in the causes of alism, labor and peace. os best known to Tribune age through his regular col- Toda, e Marxism-Leninism ie 'Y, "which the paper had car- Since 1975. The last column ap- after h in the May 6 issue just days bot € died, following a lengthy with cancer, at age 74. an Alf’s weekly writings were y the latest in a long career in the ~Class movement. | if an Into a working-class family "Engl € textile town of Bolton, Deri and in 1908, his first work ex- the ee Came as a farm laborer in alo Taser Valley. Later he became ‘the a and an active member of umber and Sawmill Workers Mion at Harrison Lake. eee Annual YCL SPRING SCHOOL Commemorating the Marx Centenary May 28 & 29 Ladner UFAWU Hall _ $7.50 per day or $12 weekend Includes meals, accommodation. For info, phone Kim, 594-8215 (eves.) or Donalda, 254-9836 (days). ASH STREET PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY LEON BIBB PRODUCTIONS LTD. present A TRIBUTE TO PAUL ROBESON LEON BIBB JIM JOHNSON MOUNTAIN DANCE THEATRE ROSEMARY THEMBA TANA Bd ‘AND OTHERS Sunday, JUNE 12th, 2 p.m. QUEEN ELIZABETH THEATRE TICKETS: VTC, CBO, Eaton’s, Woodward's, Co-op Books, UBC/AMS. Charge-it: 687-1818 ong Packed meeting pays final Ihonor to Alfred Dewhurst In Toronto Alf held the posts of CP education Director and editor of the theoretical journal, Com- munist Viewpoint. In two periods — 1956-58, and 1965-67 — he was Canada’s representative on the editorial board of World Marxist Review, the international Com- munist journal of theory and cur- rent events, based in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The experience brought Alf “face to face with the great achievements of socialism’’ and was ‘‘among the richest ex- periences in his life,”’ said Kashtan. In 1960 Alf was among those who visited the new society formed after the 1959 revolution in Cuba, as the first official Canadian delegation. As a leader in the peace move- ment, Alf ‘‘fought vigorously against narrowing the peace move- ment. But he also pointed out that the danger of war is from capitalism,’”’ Kashtan noted. “Jt is so hard to put in a few words the tremendous contribu- tion our dear friend and comrade Alf made to the advance of the peace movement in Canada,” said Rosaleen Ross of the B.C. Peace Council. Alf ‘‘carried no banners, held no titles’? in the peace effort. ‘“His strength was his outstanding ability to use the tool of Marxist-Leninist ananlysis to pinpoint, to focus on the immediate tasks which must be done to achieve the ultimate goal of general and complete disarmament and a world at peace,”’ she said. Kashtan remembered Alf as a ‘warm, friendly and modest human being. He was no bureaucrat or intellectual snob. Nothing human was alien to him. “His ideological strength, his modesty, his complete dedication and firmness of principle inspired all of us who worked with him and Vi, who made her own fine con- tribution in all those years,’’ said Morgan.. ‘He was really a teacher — an excellent teacher — with all those essential qualities of understanding and patience that are called for in an educator,”’ Ross recalled. B.C. 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