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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.

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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.

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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
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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.

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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. Communist Party leader
Maurice Rush summed up Allf's
contribution to the progressive
movement aptly, with a few lines
from ‘‘one of Alf’s favorite poets,
Joe Wallace: ‘You didn’t live to see
the dawn, but helped it onits way.”

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