CON Ca iat lers new Wa Beles enly Sally.” hs KS; ostil pent the oF Te ns Iti¢ wit! ing Be SHES S ake mec sion): na imi in sm bt t ui S i unit. tioni.. mo tanc le’s thi on £ tem] pot OV err ll he ——— & Page Four Be Gh WORE RSs News September 11, 1956 Bruce Makes Strong Appeal’ (Continued from page 3) for jobs. But in that period no worker was unemployed at all times except for the lumpen proletariat which capitalism develops. But to- day there is a large section of the people for which capitalism cannot and never will provide work. Even the capitalists and their govern- ments are classifying the unem- ployed as “employable” and “unem- ployable’’ with plans to reduce the latter to a lumpen proletariat or on a miserable relief dole or starvation, while utilizing the former as a bat- tering ram on wage rates or isolat— ing them on remote relief work away from centers of struggle. Along with the worsening condi- tions of the working class, farmers, small business men, many profes- sionals and intellectuals there is also the worsenin=e conditions for the rising generation. Children are not properly cared for physically. Grants for educational facilities are being reduced, the youth, even those equipped with a high school and éven a college education and train- ing have no future. Crime is on the inerease, as is also mental defective- ness, the average physical standard of our people is being lowered and fhe cultural needs of the people are almost wholly neglected Such is in part the picture that capitalist rule and ownership of the means of wealth production presents. Profits Up—Wages Down In order to work out a correct policy and tactical line our party always faces realities, and analyses fhe existing situation and takes into account and utilizes the subjective factors that operate, in order to at- tain the maximum results within the given situation. First of all it must be recognized that there is evident a revival of trade and commerce throughout Canada generally and in B. G particularly. Wigures released by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics Show that car loadings, a barometer in such matters, showed increase over those of last year by 11% per cent. Bank clearings also show an increase over that of last year. The same is true generally of trading on stock exchanges, bond sale prices and the current general level of stock prices. But this much- heralded improvement does not mean that the workers and farmers are correspondingly better off than a year, ago. While it is true that ¢fhere is an increase in payrolls in B.C, it is small as compared to the increased output or the increase of profits. There are already indica- tions that the markets are again approaching. the point of satura- tion. There has been little dimuni tion in unemployment, due to intro- “duction of labor-saving machinery, improved technique and speed-up. Real wages and in many cases nom-— inal wages have tended to fall, and within the last two months there has been a sharp advance in the cost of consumers’ goods Y On the broad field the main tasks facine our party are those of com- patting the rise of fascism, the struggle for the maintenance’ ,.of peace and the securing of better living conditions for the workin: people. Im carrying out and fulfill- ing these tasks the seventh con- gress of the ©. I. and the recent meetings of our Central Committee has given us @ Jead by analyzing and appraising the existing situation and the inevitable changes that will take place in the period ahead and working out a tactical line which the situation calls for. Ajl experience and Marxist-Lenin— ist theory teach that alone the pro- letarist cannot achieve its freedom. The workers must have allies. Capi- falism in its economic decline is pauperizing great numbers of small business men and cannot take care of the number of professional and intellectual people in modern so- ciety. The same holds true in the field of art. The radio and production of sound in the motion picture industry has thrown thousands of musicians on to the breadline. The motion picture industry has almost destroy- ed the “legitimate” theatre, thus throwing many thousands of people out of work. These pauperized pbusi- ness men, professionals and intel- jectuals are the people who will be decisive; these are the people whose support we must win, Build the United Front Because of their whole back- ground, class make up and environ- ment, they are incapable of political initiative and historically unable to play an independent political role, and there is the danger that they become a prey to fascist demagzogy. This is what happened in Germany, although fascism is the rule of the most reactionary section of finan- cial industrial monopoly capitalism, it must have a mass base before it can establish its rule- In Germany it found it not only in the middie elass and professional people. It found it also in disillusioned and dispairing backward workers and among the intelligencia. This de- yelopment has not taken place in France and Spain to any appreciable extent, because of the fate these people met at the hands of fascism in Germany and chiefly because of the establishment of the united front syhich embraced those people and gave them the prospect of a future which the overthrow of capitalism, such as in the Soviet Union showed alone, can fully provide. In this province there are many of those people, and we must win them over to the side of the forces of progress and against fascism, re- action and war. We can do so by making their grievances our con- cern, by agitating amongst them, organizing and assisting them in the redress of their many grievances and in the righting of their wrongs, by propaganda and educational work showing the happy condition and bright future their counterparts enjoy in the Soviet Union and con- trasting their good fortune there with the deplorably wretched fate of those who were fooled, misled and betrayed by fascist demagc in Germany and arher fascist coun- tries. And we must do it in a con- erete manner. Opposed to war, just as we are, they can be won for joint strugele with us nd other friends of peace to preserve the peace of the world. We must recos- nize them, as we recognize all others who suffer from capitalism, as brothers and potential allies and comrades in arms against poverty, reaction and social degeneration. To them as to all who suffer from the effects of capitalism, to religious people, even to those who have been misled into support of definitely anti-working class organizations, we hold out our hands; making a sharp distinction between them and their reactionary leaders. We must work to unite all those who endure the same misfortunes as ourselves. In the face of the growing strength of reaction and the danger of war the building of the United Front is of the greatest importance. in B.C. a recognition of this task meant that the maximum unity be developed between our party and the G.C.F. which had arisen three years ago and is looked upon by a large section of the workers, farm- ers, lower middle class and a goodly number of professional people as providing the instrument for lifting the burden imposed upon them by capitalism, through the instrumen- tality of the two old political parties. This recobnition also meant that unity of the trade union moyement be effected with the least possible delay. While unity with the C.C.P-. and unity of the trade union move- ment were and still remain the most important steps in the achieve- ment of unity, it does not mean that unity stops there. On the con- trary, there must be effected unity of the broadest masses, of all pro- gressive forces in the siruggle against reaction. The C.C.F. At the time of our last district convention the CCF. was but little more than a year old and was yet something of a federated body. Since that time it has absorbed the S.P-C. There were many who regarded the C.GE in its inception and early days as something of mushroom erowth and destined to vanish soon from the political scene as had so many parties of a similar character. Those who so regarded it failed to take into account the changes that were taking place in the minds and political outlook of the people as a whole, the great majority of whom were not ready to come over to the support of and accept the load of the G.P., but were ready to desert the parties of capitalism and join or at least support the C.C.F. And history tells us that the people move in this halting though by no means hopeless manner and not at one leap from the support of eapital-— ist parties to support for Com- munism. Unity With ©.CE. Instead of the €.C.F. being a flash in the pan, the federal elections last October showed that it has at jeast maintained its ground, that there are some 100,000 people in this province who are looking to the C.GC.F. as a way out, Such a phen- omenon is something that our party must take into account. And our party has done so. In earryinge out the policy and tactic of the united cial convention to the left, and par- ticularly angered because of its deci- sion to put an end to “Red-baiting,”’ which is the chief stock-in-trade of -isht wing reactionaries in unprin- cipled