CP NATIONAL CONVENTION JAN. 19-21, 1962

Fight for peace is supreme
issue says Communist Party

“No War Over Berlin” is the demand of Canada’s communists.

Meeting’ in

Toronto over the weekend of September 8, 9, 10 the National Committee of the Com-
munist Party of Canada pledged to the Canadian people that “communists will fight

for peace as for life.”

The CP calls upon the peo-
ple to insist that the govern-
ment clearly declare to the
world that Canadians are not
going ‘to die again because of
the expansionist aims of the
German trusts and military.

The members of the Commit-
tee, -coming from the Mari-
times to British Columbia au-
thorized its Executive to issue
the ‘Call to the 17th National
Convention of the party which
is.to be held in Toronto on
January 19, 20 and 21.

«The National Committee un-
animously adopted after a de-
tailed discussion a draft policy
resolution which will serve as
the basis of a three month pub-
lic _pre-convention discussion
throughout the ranks of the
party. It issued a letter to the
party asking for volunteers to
build the Communist Party, the
Young Communist League and
the circulation of the Canadian
Tribune, Pacific Tribune, Com-
bat and Marxist Review in hon-
or of the convention.

“The convention will be held
at the time of the 40th anni-
versary of the founding of the
Communist Party of Canada,
and special events are planned
to mark this occasion.

“The Committee paid tribute
to the memory
working class leader, William
Z. Foster, a founder and for
many years the chairman of
the Communist Party of the
USA; and to Bella Gauld one
ofthe founders in Montreal of
the: Communist Party of Can-
ada.

FIGHT FOR PEACE

The draft policy resolution

of the great |

places the fight for peace as
the supreme question of the
day for all peoples in all coun-
tries. It points out that the
party had made the fight for
peace and Canadian indepen-
dence the center of its activi-
ties.

It draws-attention to the re-
markable growth of sentiments
and actions for peace since
the 16th Convention of the
party in the fall of 1959. The
resolution says that the party
will de everything possible to
help the movements for peace
grow, particularly in the trade
union movement.

The drart cnarges that right-
wing leadership has been able
so far to keep important sec-
tion of the trade union move-
ment. out of active participation
in the struggle for peace.

The draft underscores the
communist position that war is
not inevitable. Despite the ex-
treme danger of the moment,
the Committee declares that
the forces of anti-colonialism,
the widespread sentiments and
actions for peace joined with
the powerful camp of socialism
makes it possible now to im-
pose peace on the imperialist
camp.

U.S.-CAN. OLIGARCHY

In a clear analysis of the sit-
uation prevailing in Canada the
draft resolution lays bare the
real causes of the deep-going
crisis of national policy which
seeps into every pore of Can-
adian life. The draft charges
that a deliberate policy of na-
tional betrayal by successive
Liberal and Tory governments
has delivered Canada into the

control of the ‘ruling U.S. mon-
opoly circles.

This control is exercised, the
Draft says, through a U.S.-Can-
adian oligarchy, for which the
Diefenbaker government is the
executor of policy, commits
Canada to support U.S. aggres-
sive war policies. It keeps Can-
ada in NATO and NORAD and
is striving to bring our country
into the Organization of Amer-
ican States as a satellite of the
USA to undermine the nation-
al struggles of the Latin Amer-
ican peoples, and, in particu:
lar, the socialist revolution in
Cuba.

The resolution points out
that the Canadian  govern-
ment’s endorsement of ‘the Ken-
nedy Doctrine, in which the
U.S. declares its intention of
intervening forcibly in the do-
mestic affairs of all American
states, is further proof of. the
consequences of the treacher-
ous policy of the Diefenbaker
administration.

The resolution stresses that
the fight to break U.S. control
of Canada requires recognition
that the main enemy of the
Canadian people is the U.S.-
Canadian monopolist oligarchy
which rules Canada in the in-
terests of U.S. imperialism.

It points out that the great
number of Canadians who de-
sire Canadian independence in-
clude the workers, farmers, the
majority of the intelligentsia
and sections of “nationalist”
capitalists who are outside of
the oligarchy who, to a certain
extent, advocate policies of na-
tional development.:The draft
charges that the removal of

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James E. Coyne, a spokesman
for the ‘Nationalist’ capital-
ists, was.an action of the U.S.-
Canadian -oligarchy.

The-resolution declares that
all these diverse elements will
make up.a great democratic na-
tional movement. that will re-
move the betrayers from poli-
tical office, break the U.S.
stranglehold on Canada, and
unhinge the monopoly capital
financial structure thus clear-
ing the road for the renovation
of Canada’s national life. This,
it says, would constitute a re-
volution in the life of Canada.

It points out that an import-
ant new factor in this struggle
is the rising demand of the
French Canadian people for the
right of national self-determin-
ation and sweeping democratic
reforms. This movement has
transformed French -Canada
from being the victim of Dup-
lessis reaction into the liveliest
political area in Canada.

ECONOMIC CRISIS

The resolution draws atten-
tion to the fact that since the
end of the second world war
there have been four cyclical
economic crisis in Canada. It
charges that these crises have
brought hardships to milions
of Canadians but rich profits
to the monopolists, who
strenghen their grip on the ec-
onomy during economic crisis.

The economic cyclical crisis
is complicatea py the displace-
ment of human labor through
improved technological proces-
ses which produces unemploy-
ment. even during periods of
“boom.”

In addition, the resolution
says,.as.a special feature of
Canada, these capitalist proces-
ses. operate in conditions which
are marked by the domination
of the. Canadian economy by
the USA, which holds back our
independent industrial devel-
opment,

| The draft calls for the crea-

tion of wide people’s unity to
curb and control monopoly in
defense.of the vital economic
needs of the workers, farmers,
middle classes” and — “national-
ist” capitalists. ee as

|The .draft stresses that the
roots of the working class un-
ited front, without which there
can be no real people’s unity,
lies in the plants and in the un-
ions. It declares that the. organ-
ized workers need unity for
increased wages and shorter
hours, to ‘defend their unions,
to organize the factory and-of-
fice, workers still unorganized,
to lift up the wages and work-
ing conditions of hundreds of
thousands of harshly exploited
workers no yet unionized, to
fight: the battle of the unem-
ployed, and to establish close
friendship with the workers of
other countries,

“NEW PARTY

Mail.to Pacific Tribune, 426 Main St., Vancouver, B.C.

It declares that a most im-

portant development in the

creation of people’s unity was —
the formation of the New De«

mocratic Party. The commit:

tee meeting affirmed the cor

rectness of the policy cf the —

Communists in the request t0
the NDP.

The CP call on its members

ship with the members and 7
supporters of the NDP to des

velop unity in action for peaces

independence, a foreign policy
of neutrality, democracy and
people’s needs. This work, thé
draft says, can help preak
through the right wing control.
of the NDP which prevented
the NDP founding convention
from taking a consistently ras,
dical position on the vital 1s
sues confronting Canada and
to which millions of Canadians
would have responded.

The resolution proposes that
in the coming federal elections
the party will nominate (its
candidates in a number of sel
ected constituencies. In othe —
constituencies where the CP
will not nominate it will sup:
port the candidates of the NDP, ©
with the exception of out-spok-
en supporters of policies which
cannot be endorsed by progres
sive voters.

It points out that the party -
places no conditions for its
support to genuine united front
activities and that Communists ©
are the most consistent and
hard-working participants in
such activities. However, if
emphasizes that there can bé
no effective united: front work
without the strongest efforts”
to build the influence and
membership of the Communist -
Party.

The Resolution contains 4
large number of proposals on
improving the work of the |
party and its leadership. It calls |
for the frankest discussion bY
the party membership and sup* |
porters of all phases ‘of per
policy and work.

The. Resolution will be pubs
lished in a special - convention °
paper to be called ‘Discussion +
‘which willbe issued from tim@
to time: prior to the convention
to print written comments .o8 ~ d
‘the policy and work of the CPs :

\Farm: Union sets
|convention -date

The annual provincial cont’ —
vention of the Farmers Unio® ~
has been set for. Nov. : 13-15’
-and. will be held in Fort Shee
John.

‘On Sunday, «Sept. 4, ined
Fraser Valley. district conver ‘
tion was held in Albion and
-elected district officers. ;

Elected were Verne:Stewarls
director; Mrs. MacFarlanés ”
women’s director; D. F. Reimet
and Mrs. G. Hilland, alternaté

“ directors and: AE. Bolton, oon"

ordinator-organizer,

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