NS Ea oe CELL

September 11, 1936

B.C. WORKERS’

NEWS

Page Three

District Organizer’s Report

The toilowing is a summary of excerpts from the ex-
haustive Organizational Report given by Comrade Fergus
McKean at the Convention of the C.P. of B.C.

It embodies many points of interest to the party mem-
bership as well as the general public. Space does not permit
the publication of the whole report, much as the “B.C.
Workers’ News” would like to do so. We are confident,
however, that such of Comrade McKean’s report as is given
here will be of deep interest to party and non-party mem-

bers alike.—Editor.

The successful fulfillment of the
tasks facing our Party in B.C. which
were outlined by Comrade Bruce in
his report depend mainly on two
factors. First, correct organization
as a medium for carrying out the
political line, and secondly, the rapid
ereation of a MASS Communist
Party. A Party linked by a thousand
threads to all strata of the working
class. A Party rooted in the mines,
mills, shops and transport system of
our province. A Party known and
respected in every community, in
every neighborhood.

Only such a Party will be capable
of carrying into life the decisions
of the 7th World Congress, and the
tasks laid down by the 9th and-10th
Plenums of our Central Committee
which are based on Canadian condi-
tions.

Only such a Party can lead the
working class of B.C. and all the
toilers, all the oppressed, along the
right road. Can really influence the
course of events and make history,
by consciously and deliberately
charting the course events will take.

After we have hammered out a
proper line, a correct line, then or-
fanization, leadership, and sufficient
trained people are the decisive fac-
ters in carryine out that line; in
making it a living reality. They are
the factors that will make possible
the creation of a powerful United
Front of the working class, a mono-
lithies, solidified, militant working
elass capable of crushing the forces
of reaction, of fascism, capable of
winning allies, of winnings over the
middle class, of uniting them in a
Stull broader United Front, a Peo-
ple’s Front against Fascism and
War.

We have not yet achieved a mass
Communist Party but we are build-
ing it and we will achieve it. Don’t
letsus forget, revolutionary parties
are not born; they are made. Built
over a period of years, through a
process of selection and rejection;
built through experience sained
from activity in the front ranks of
the class struggle, through experi-
ences gained in defeats and vic-
tories, through becoming steeled in
Struggle until Zinally they embody
all that is finest, all that is noblest
in the ranks of the working class.
In a word, the wisest and most
courageous sons and daughters of
the working class.

-We are building such a Party in
B.C. and already we can record some
epic achievements in the vanguard
of the strugele for a better life. The
Stubborn fight of the unemployed to
obtain sufficient food, clothing and
Shelter from a reactionary fsovern-
ment, the strike movements of the
logeers and sawmill workers which
forced wages up nearly 100 per cent
from the low of 1931, the splendid
Struggle of the longshoremen and
seamen to maintain their unions,
and the heroic trek of the B.C. eamp
boys. Our Party rendered every as-
sistance to the organization and
leadership of these struge¢les.

Sixty per cent of our membership
in B.C. are Anglo-Saxons or Cana-
dian-born_

Recruitins—How to
Build the Party

The successful eulmination of the
stubborn struggle of the progressive
democratic section of the Canadian
people led by our Party for the re-
peal of Section 98 has opened new
avenues of advancing the entire
labor movement and building a mass
Communist Party. If we are to
firmly establish our Party and so
strengthen its influence that it will
be impossible for the bourgeoisie to
again outlaw it; then it is absolutely
necessary for us to accelerate the
tempo of recruiting.

it was because we recognized this
and also the new possibilities in re-
cruiting since the repeal of Section
98 that the Provincial Executive in-
augurated the campaign for every
party member to recruit a new
member in the period of three
months. We also believed, and still
believe, that a planned campaign
with the allocation of definite tasks
Can be much more successful than
@ general policy of haphazard re-
cruiting, although we realize that
recruiting is one of the normal daily
activities of our Party. This is why
We gave the definite task of recruit-
ing one new member during the
three-month period of July, Aweust
and September, to each individual
Member of our Party. Comrades!
We expect these tasks to be ful-
filled and after the campaign is over
We will check up and see WHO has
not fulfilled their task, and we will
demand an explanation from those
comrades. NO one is excused from
this task, from the Provincial Ex-
ecutive members to the rank and
file unit members, and anyone who
has NOT recruited one new mem-
ber will be regarded as a member
who has failed, failed in his duty to
the Party.

Membership Drive

As the figures I quoted in the
beginning of the report show the
Campaiegn is proceeding too slowly.
the figures for August indicate an
inereased tempo over July. Septem-
ber will undoubtedly record much
Sreater gains, nevertheless these
figures are VERY unsatisfactory.
We must have 3,000 members in our
Party by October 9 1500 new merm-
bers, and our records show only

“200 have been recruited since July

i. With only one month to go we
must redouble our efforts, this task
MUST BE FULFILLED

The responsibility for seeing it is
fulfilled rests primarily with the
Section organizers, the unit organ-
izers and the fraction leaders. The
Provincial Executive will hold each
Section Organizer personally respon-
sible for the fulfillment of the sec-
tion quota. Unit Organizers in turn
are responsible to the section com-
mittee for seeing to it that each in-
dividual member of the unit fulfills
his or her task of recruitine at least
ene, at least one new membenm As
forthe fraction leaders, we will
check up during the drive and call
for a statement on the number re-

eruited directly by the fraction, at-

the close of this drive. All fractions
are now authorized to recruit direct-
ly without reference to the units, to
recruit directly into the fractions
and then have the new members
placed in suitable units ARPTER
they have been accepted by the
fraction. Just as the unit organizers
Should set the pace in each unit in
Securing the highest number of re-

GREETINGS TO
T. & L. CONGRESS

The B.C. District Convention
of the Communist Party of Gana-
da extends best wishes to the
Trades and Labor Congress of
Canada, expressing the hope that

its deliberations will further ac-
celerate the unity of all trade
unionists in Canada, and greater
improvement in their economic
Standards. In extending our
Sreetings to the 52nd Congress
we pledge ourselyes to bring:
25,000 new trades unionists into
the Trades and Labor Congress
by the time of its next conven-
tion.

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cruits and the section organizers
set the pace for the entire Section,
so the fraction leaders must set the
pace in each Trade Union and mass
organization.

Trip To Toronto

And comrades, the member who
recruits the highest number of new
members between July 1 ance Octo-
ber 1 will be the honored guest of
the Provincial Executive to the Na-
tional Congress on October 9 with
all expenses paid. All fixures for re-
cruiting will be based on the actual
number of initiation stamps ordered
and all recruiting figures for indi-
viduals competing for prizes ‘will
have to be verified by the unit frac-
tion orf section committee con-
cerned.

Some units and sections have done
very well. Vancouver Centre section
is leading with 52 new recruits. The
Grandview section comes next with
48 new members. The most out-
Standing success in recruiting by
units Was recorded by the Mount
Pleasant unit of the Vancouver
Centre section. This unit almost
doubled its membership in one
month, recruiting 14 new members
and since then has been keeping up
the good work Having 18 other
Prospects they intend to draw in.
The recruiting in this unit was done
mostly by two comrades. To date
one has recruited five new members
and the other six new _ members.
These comrades engaged in Socialist
competition and have both produced
splendid results. Of the 14 recruited
four were trade unionists and four
were women. A good balance.

Qne of the chief mediums for
securing new recruits, used by these
comrades was the labor press, the
Weekly Clarion and the B.C. Work
ers’ News. They interviewed ATJ.
workers in the area who subscribed
to the papers and were successful
in recruiting a good percentage into
our Party.

Comrades, this method could be
well emulated by our entire mem-
bership. So also should our litera-
ture circulation be followed up with
interviews with the purpose of re-
eruitinge. Especially is this true of
the pamphlet, “What the Commun-
ist Party Stands For,”’ of which our
district has procured 10,000 copies.
The information cards issued by the
Provincial Executive have also
brought good results in many cases.
Any requests received at our office
on these cards were replied to by a
circular letter on Party stationery
asking for an appointment for an in
terview. We also forward a copy of
“What the Communist Party Stands
Por,” in each instance.

Some outstanding successes in re-
eruiting have also been attained
threugh properly organized sympa-
thizers’ meetings. To be properly or-

ganized a sympathizers’ meeting
should be composed of neighbors
and friends of the comrades in

whose house the meeting is being
held, rather than contacts drawn
from a widely scattered area who are
unknown to each other. The meet-
ing should take place in a friendly
social atmosphere and should be
qtite informal with plenty of ques-
tions and discussion rather than a
jons-winded theoretical lecture. We
believe that many more sympa-
thizers’ meetings can be organized
than is the case. These meetings
Should be a normal feature of Party
activity at all times and in all local-

ities. It is the responsibility of each
SecHion Committee to see to it that
a Soodly number of such meetings
are held throughout the _ section
area monthly.

The Initiation of New

Members

Qur entire membership must real-
ize that their duties to new members
are not ended once they actually join
our Party, New members must be
received into the units with cour
tesy, kindness and made to feel the
old members ARE their comrades,
real comrades. New members should
not be loaded down with tasks as
Soon as they are brought into the
unit. On the contrary, the units
must See that only light tasks which
the new member is capable of ful-
filling, are alloted during the first
few weeks. Furthermore, if the
comrade who brought the new mem-
ber in is not in a position to spend
the necessary time to explain the
functioning of the Party, then the
unit Should appoint Someone else to
explain the Party apparatus and
methods of work to the new com-
rade. Not only do we wish to re-
eruit new members into our Party
we also wish to RETAIN the new
recruits and FRAIN and DEVELOP
them to become valuable members of
our Party. Therefore it is necessary,
that personal attention be given our
new members until they become
fully acquainted with the workings
of the Party.

In some units the manner of wel-
coming and initiating new members,
or perhaps I should say the utter
LACK of either a welcome OR an
initiation, is a discredit to our
Party, The practise of simply iznor-
ing a new member when he attends
a unit for the first time and in some
eases not even initiating the new
comrade until the middle of the
meetine or not at all, must be ter-
Minated in our Party for all fime.
When a new member is brought
into a unit he should be made to
feel at home at once and greeted in
the friendliest manner. The very
first item on the agenda MUST be
the initiation of the new member.

Organizational Forms
of Our Party

In B.C. our Party has adopted the
following forms of organization: (1)
Shop units, (2) Street or area units,
(3) Industrial units, (4) Special units,
©) An open Communist Party
branch.

The shop and area units are the
basic forms of organization of our
Party at the present time. The shop
unit is composed of Communists
employed in the same shop, mine,
mill, or factory. Their centre of ac-
tivity is the place of employment.
Tf the shop is unorganized their
main task is to build the ‘Trade
Union in the shop to improve and
defend their conditions, see that the
workers get honest and capable
leadership, recruit into the Party,
consolidating the influence of the
Party in every industry.

The area units are made up of
workers EMPLOYED in shops or in-
dustries, in which there are no shop
er industrial units established, un-
employed workers, small business
men, housewives, ete. The centre o*
activity of the area units is th-
neighborhood in which the unit is
located.

The industrial unit is a form of
organization closest to and leadine=
to the establishment of shop units.
It is composed of workers ACTUAL-
LY employed in the same industry
but employed in different shops and
Sometimes liying in widely scattered
areas. The main purpose for the
formation of the industrial units is
to enable Communists to most ef-
fectively look after the interests of
the workers employed in the same
industry, to co-ordinate their ac-
tivities in organizing the workers of
the industry in Trade Unions, re-
cruiting into the Party, and forming
shop units wherever possible. The
establishment of industrial units
have already given impetus to
building both the Trade Unions and
the Party. We have 20 such units
in all.

Special units are designed to give
greater protection to people engaged
in occupations in which exposure
would be ruinous to their welfare,
would minimize their usefulness to
the Party, and also to enable them
to more effectively co-ordinate their
activities in a particular field of
work. These units are mainly com-
posed of professional people, doc-
tors, lawyers, Small business men,
Civil engineers, ete., and intellec-
tuals, journalists, teachers, artists,
ete. We have four such units in this
province.

The Communist Party branch
which is located in Mount Pleasant,
Vancouver, is a result of a decision
made at the 10th Plenum of the
Central Committe last June. It was
decided at this Plenum +o estab-
lish two open Communist Party
branches in Canada; one in Toronto
and one in Vancouver as an experi-
ment to be fully reported on at the
Wational Congress when a policy
regarding such forms of organiza-
tion will be laid down.

' Discipline

Just a word on discipline. WDis-
cipline is not something arbitrarily
applied by the top committees of the
Party. Discipline is primarily self
imposed by the members and its
success depends upon the methods
of allotment of tasks, comradely
Suidance, check-up and activity of
the unit itself. The Suardine of the
discipline of our Party is one of
the CHTEF RESPONSIBILITIES of
our units. Whether our Party is a
Glosely-lknit, well-disciplined body or
a loose, irresponsible organization is
ALL IMPORTANT to the VERY
LIFE of our Party. Therefore, the
maintenance and strengthening of
Communist discipline must be given

attention and the units
MUST realize that primarily it is
THEIR responsibility.

Leadership

The importance of leadership is
Something that is under-estimated
in our Party. It was Lénin who in
the famous pamphlet, “Left-Wing
Communism,’ unmercifully flayed
those “Jeft’” Communists who argued
that leaders were unnecessary, that
the workers required no leaders, but
only their own brawny arms. Not
only are leaders necessary, they are
imperative; GOOD leaders trained in
the fires of the class strugele, and
more of them; this is the erying
need of the hour. The very
structure and strategy of our Party
is based on the law of leadership,
the PRINCIPLE of leadership. The
Party leaders are not something
Separate and apart from the Party.
The leaders lead the Party and the
Party leads the masses. This is the
principle on which our Party works.
However, in order for our Party to
do this, it is necessary that MORE
leaders, NEW leaders be continual-
ly developed and advanced to re-
sponsible positions in our Party.

All of us I believe, are familiar
with the famous slogan created by
Comrade Stalin: “Cadres decide
everythinge’—BVERYTHING, mind
you. It should be clear then, that
without trained cadres, leaders, our
Party cannot go forward. Comrade
Dimitroff at the Seventh World
Gongress stressed the importance
of trained leaders and stated the
qualifications. The main qualifica-
tion for Party leaders is that they
must also be mass leaders: recoge-
nized by the masses as THEIR
leaders. We must eect away from
the old conception of leadership, the
old methods of narrow Party lead-
ership in which the Party leaders
Were unknown to the masses.

Executive Ability

What is required of our Party
leaders. What does leadership imply?
The bourgeoisie have a term which
they use to express some of the
qualities of leadership. The term IS
executive ability. They define this
term as the ability to analyze, or-
ganize, deputize and supervise. What
does this mean? I would interpret it
to mean FIRST, to correctly analyze
the given situation, the relative
Strensth of class forces, the degree
of radicalization of the people in-
volved, their readiness to strugele,
the leadership that can be provided,
the possibility of securing allies and
4 correct estimation of the streneth
of the opposine forces. SECONDLY,
to ORGANIZE, to establish the
correct organizational forms, the
linking up of organizations, to set
up the necessary committees, sub
cemmiuttees assigned*to specific tasks
and finally centralize all activities
in one authoritative Suidinge com-
mittee. THIRDLY, to DEPUTIZE.
To select the right people for the
right job. To assign people to tasks
which they are capable of earryine
out, to be able to PERSUADE peo-
ple to accept certain tasks and in a
comradely manner instruct them
how to work. LASTLY, to SUPER-
WISE, to check up on the entire or-
ganization, give the necessary as-
sistance and advice where fre-
quired, see that each task is being
carried out and finally be RESPON_
SISLE for the entire activity.

It is people who can do THESE
things that we must have. In order
that we can train and develop such
people it is necessary that our
comrades maintain the closest con-
tact with the -masses. Understand

the masses, learn from the masses
as well as teach the masses. In 9
word be an inseparable part of the
masses. Know their yery desire.

Section Committees

Our section committees MUST
become the bodies that will really
LEAD the masses in every town and
village in BC. Political bodies, cap-
able of dealing with the most com-
plicated politica] problems, capable
of leading entire organizations ana
even providing leadership to major

Strike strugelés. Already we have
given the responsibility of caring

for trade union locals to our section
committees.
From now on our entire member-

ship must see to it that LEADING S
Trade Unionists are appointed to the
Section committees. With the ex-
ception of the full time officials
EVERY MEMBER of the Provincial
Executive should be a member of a

section committee ONLY in this
way is it possible for the section
committees to really lead. At the

beginning of the year we made some
Changes in the leadership of the
sections and also in the section
boundaries. I believe, however, that
still further improvements can be
made in the section boundaries. We
find these boundaries in many in-
Stances indiscriminately overlap the
boundaries of the electoral ridings.
This makes extremely difficult the
work of participating in election
campaigns, and also in conducting
United Front negotiations with the
district councils of the C.C.F., which
are BASED on the provincial rid-
ings. I believe this Convention
should recommend to the incoming
Provincial Executive, the realign-
ment of the section boundaries in
closer conformity to the electoral
districts to take place in six months
time.

Division Of Work

rom time to time tendencies de-
velop in our Party to create depart-
ments; to set up various Committees
and commissions and to refer some
of our most important Gommunist
tasks to these committees. Our

arty is not based on the principle
of departments, of departmentaliza-
tion. What we do have is division
of work; where one member is ap-
pointed to head a certain phase of
work. Commissions are only formed
where absolutely necessary in order

GREETINGS TO
WORLD FIGHTERS

The B.C. District Convention
of the Communist Party sent its
Warm greetings and deep ad-
miration to the heroic Spanish
masses fighting against the fasc-
ist barbarians, and pledged to
raise substantial funds and full
support on their behalf. It sent
its warmest greetings to the
great revolutionary leader, Ernst
Thaelmann and demanded his
immediate release and the re-
lease of all anti-Nazi victims.
It sent its greetings to Mooney
and Billings, and called for their
release. The Convention further
sent its heartiest greetings to the
Popular Front government of
France and the French Com-
munist Party, pledging to
sterngthen in Canada, interna-
tional action in the fight against
Pp war and fascism.

to co-ordinate the activities of the
sections and fractions in some par-
ticular field of activity. But the
Simpler our apparatus is, the fewer
the committees and commissions
there are, the better.

If the work of our units and sec-
tion committees is properly. divided,
if we have a proper division, there
should be little need for additional
committees. Just as the unit bureau
takes care of the work of the unit

and provides leadership, so must
the section committees properly
divide the work of the section,

making each member of the section
committee responsible for a particu-
lar phase of work. The section or-
ganizer, of course, is responsible to
the Provincial Executive for the
work of the ENTIRE section ana
Should have assistance in dealing
with the routine organizational
problems. In order that the section
organizer may BECOME a mass
leader, a public speaker, it is neces-
Sary that someone else take care of
smaller details.

If we de these things, THEN we
will develop a core of mass leaders;
leaders able to sail on the turbulent
Waves of the class struggle; leaders
who will gain the confidence and
Support of the masses and lead them
along the road to a new social order.

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sented the greetings from the

Washington district,
ship is in the trade unions.

struggles.

“THE INTERNATIONALE”
UNITES THE HUMAN RACE

From far away Australia, from across the boundary of the
South and from the Province of Alberta, came delegates to the
B.C. District Convention of the Communist Party,
internationalism and hemogenity

The dramatic appearance of an Australian seaman at the
Convention mass meeting was the Signal for thunderous applause.
greetings this comrade pointed out the great growth
of the Communist Party of Australia, and how with the support
eent of the trade unions and through united action,
up to the present all attempts of the Sovernment to illegalize the
Communist Party had been frustrated,

The Convention hall rang with the strains of the Internationale
five (four men and one woman) pre-
Party to the South. In a stirring
speech, the leader of the delegation pictured the rapid growth of
the Communist Party of America, especially dealing with his, the
where now 60 per cent of the Party member-
He dealt with the Similarity of the
problems facing the Ganadian and US. parties, particularly the
need for more co-operative action, especially in the waterfront

WELCOME, ANDY HOGARTH!

The Convention welcomed with warm cheers an old friend of
the B.C. Party, Andy Hogarth, who is now the organizer of the
Alberta district. Gomrade Hogarth stressed the need of correctly
understanding the way the discontented masses are breaking with
the old-line parties, and because there is not yet a strong unified
Farmer-Labor Party, this discontent finds strange forms, such as
the Social Credit Government of Alberta.
incorrectly estimating such movements as fascist, not recognizing
that the masses that embrace them are prosressive forces seeing
a way out of capitalist misery, and the task before the Party is to
find ways and means of uniting this mass with the party and the
progressive organizations on the basis of immediate demands and
from this building the Farmer-Labor Party. In British Columbia,
he warned the comrades, it is vital that unity with the CCF. and
progressive forces must be speeded up so that a similar develop-
ment as in Alberta will be avoided.

expressing
of the great Communist move-

The danger is in

C.P. Convention Calls For Mass Unit

7 serious

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Bruce Makes Strong Appeal

Bruce, as he
port at

of B.C.

Malcolm Bruce
Chairman B.C.
Section C.P.of C.

the
session of the Convention. Known through-
out the continent for his tireless campaigning
on behalf of the workers of Canada, his selec-
tion to lead the B.C. Section was no surprise.
Comrade Bruce is editor of the B.C. Workers’
News and chairman of the Communist Party

Rousing cheers greeted veteran Malcolm

arose to give the political re-
opening of the second

His appeal to the workers and middle-
classes of Canada comes from one who has
deyoted the greater part of his life in uniting
anti-capitalist forces.
nearly three years in Kingstone penitentiary,

For this he served

a victim’ of the infamous Section 98.

Comrades:

This is the first District conven-
tion ever held without the shadow
of either Section 98 or the Orders in
Council of the same character as
Section 98, hanging over our heads.
Since our last District convention
about two years ago which was held
in a situation of legal outlawry of
our Party, the hated section re-
ferred to has been repealed—a tre-
mendous victory in itself for not
only our Party but for the entire
working: class, and an achievement
which speaks volumes for the cour-
age, the determination and persist-
ence of our Party as well as a vin-
dication of the policy of mass agita-
tion and mass pressure and the
unity of the mobilized forces behind
and in support of our Party which

made the achievement possible. We

would indeed be remiss in our duty
were we to fail to take advantage
of the greater freedom of action and
other opportunities that the repeal
of Section 98 has made possible.

Victory Of Socialism

Since our last district conyention
many changes of tremendous im-
portance and far-reachine= conse-
quences have taken place in the
world situation, and in the national
and provincial situation as well. It
would take volumes to enumerate
them, but for our present purpose
we can state a few: The world pic-
ture shows the victory of socialism
in the Soviet Union ,its marvelous
Success in building socialist indus-
try, in collective farming, its mop-
ping up of the remnants of ecapital-
ism, its improvement in the lot of its
people, materially, culturally and
socially, in its unquestioned leader-
ship in the world struggle for peace
and the crowning achievement of
its new constitution which fuaran-
tees a greater measure of democracy
than the world has eyer known not
only the right to work and complete
equality and rights of women, a full
and free franchise for the people of
the Soviet Union, which Signalises

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action of the world working class.

AS against the achievements of
the workers state there is the con-
tinuing degeneration of capitalism,
with its unemployment, its growing
misery for the vast mass of the
people and against their already low
standard of living As against the
extension of democracy in the So-
viet Union the capitalist world
shows the growth of fascism and its
development to a point where it con-
stitutes an imminent and growing
menace to existing democratic rights
and to world peace. But although
fascism has extended its territory,
there has grown up and developed
the means and forms of successful
struggle against it in the anti-fas-
cist front of the people as exempli-
fied in the great Popular Fronts in
France and Spain without which
even today fascism would be trium-
phant in Spain and in all probability
in France as well.

The Two Camps

Internationally, the world is in a
broad way dividing ito two camps.
@n the one side there are the forces
seeking to defend existing democ-
racy led by the Soviet Union, against
the attacks of international fascism
led by Hitler and Mussolini with the
secret and open assistance of the
friends of fascism in democratic
countries under the leadership of
the national government of Baldwin.
After the success of Mussolini in
Abyssinia, a success that was not
possible without the assistance of
the British, French (that is, the
Laval) and Canadian governments,
fascism was strengthened. Riding:
the crest, Hitler after been support-
ed by the British government in his
huge rearmament (Program, occu-
pied the Rhineland, makine a direct
thrust at the heart of democratic
France. Discouraged and embitter-
ed over the success of the People’s
Irront in France and Spain and the
Setback fascism received in those
countries, Hitler and Mussolini
openly, and the Baldwin government

the almost total elimination of secretly, fomented and supported
capitalist remnants of capitalist With money, munition, airplanes and
ideology, the conquest of its inner] Persounel a miilitarist-fascist revolt

foes, the victory of collective farm-=
ing over kulakism—in short the vic-
tery of Socialism. It is a vindication
in life of the Marxist-Leninist
Theory of the necessity for the over-
throw and destruction of the capital-
ist state apparatus and the Setting
up of the dictatorship of the pro-
letariat for the purpose of SUPPress-
ing the former rulers in their at-
tempts at capitalist restoration. The
relaxation in the dictatorship of the
Proletariat as evidenced in the new

in Spain against the democratically
elected government of the people
with the plan of the further encircle-
ment of France and the westward
extension of fascism, thus endanger-
ing democratic goyernment and the
formation of a powerful West Euro-
pean bloc for attack against the
Soviet Union.

The theory that Great Britain,
past master in the art of hypocritical
posing as the promotor of peace, is
opposed to the establishment of fasc-
cism in Spain because of her inter

constitution is living proof of the x a >
correctness of the revolutionary ests in the Mediterranean, is a dan~
theory of the ‘Withering away of | S@! British imperialists want a fas-
the state” cist Spain, because they do not for
a Moment contemplate that because
Renegades it would be largely through the open
This relaxation does not mean, | Support of Germany and Italy that

however, that the door is opened to

counter-revolutionary renegades to
step in and destroy the Socialist
fatherland and murder its leaders.

The very unity of the people of the
Soviet Union is attested in the
universal demand that the counter-
revolutionary murderers, a group of
Trotskyites who, In co-operation
with the Hitlerist butchers, sought
by assassination and armed counter-_
>evolutionary revolt to destroy the
work initiated and led by Lenin and
after him Jed to world-shaking suc-
cesses by the incomparable
of the world working elass, Comrade
Stalin, he exterminated.

The new Soviet constitution is a
severe blow to the imperialist rulers
of the capitalist world, and a power-
ful weapon in the hands of the in-
ternational working class in its fight
for a better life, for peace and for
freedom.

The new constitution is in itself
a living proof of its success and its
rapid advance of the Soviet Union
in the transition period from the
conquest of power to Communism.

While attaining the victory of So-
cialism the Soviet Union has become
a world power of the first rank. It
has become the greatest force for
world peace. As a member of the
League of Nations it has rallied and
Siven leadership to those nations
which fear imperialist war because
they stand to lose at the hands of
the greater imperialist powers and
for that reason strive to avert war.
The entrance of the Soviet Union
into the League has changed its
character to such an extent that,
leading and being given support by
the peace-desirine nations and peo-
ple of the world, it can be used in
the interests of peace. And this the
Soviet has done was shown by its ef-
forts to save Abyssinia from the at-
tack by Italian fascism jan effort
that would have succeeded had it not
been sabotaged by the reactionary
sovernments of Laval and Baldwin,
and hampered by the confusion
created by the opposition to sanc-
tions by the reformists and the fail-
ure of the International Federation
of Trade Unions and the Second In-
ternational to join in an  inter-
national united front to compel the
League of Nations to enfore ade-
quate sanctions by the independent

leader

such an end would be achieved.
British imperialists are workine for
a fascist Spain that would be under
the control of Britain. British as-
sistance made the establishing of
fascism possible in Portugal, and
fascist Portugal is a virtual pupper
of Britain and at the same time the
main source of entry of war ma-

terials and men for the fascist rebels
of Spain.
Dwelling on this phase here is

done because of its importance for
the Canadian people. The Ganadian
Sovernment is tied up in interna-
tional politics with the British £ov-
ernment, is committed to assistance
of Britain in the event of war and
follows a similar policy because its
imperialist interests are bound up
with British imperialist interests
more than with those of any other
country. The visit of Sir Maurice
Sankey for secret talks with the
Bennett cabinet a few years ago is
followed by the present tour of
Canada of the imperialist Lord Eli_
bank, whose purpose is the working
up of sentiment in fayor of war and
to further bind the Canadian Fov-
ernment to the imperialist war
chariot of MBritain, the indiscret
statements of Tan MacKenzie to the
contrary notwithstanding.

Army Of Unemployed

In contrast to the achievements
of the Soviet Union there is the in-
tensified attack upon the living stan-
dards of the people in eapitalist
countries, with the exception of
France, where the People’s Front
has improved the condition and liv-
ing standard of the people even
within the framework of capitalism.
In Canada there is already a partial
abrogation of democratic rights with
every Sign that the ruling class in-
tend to further restrict them. There
is the determined @ffort to not only
Maintain the flow of profits, but to
further increase them. -

In Canada in common with the
eapitalist world there has srown up
an army of unemployed, the greater

portion of whom never again will
secure employment. As Marx point-
ed out, capitalism before its mod-

erm decline needed a “reserve army
of unemployed” for the purpose of
lowering wages through competition

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