SETTLE BERLIN iSSUE PEACEFULLY - KHRUSHCHEV — -@ Free housing New 20-Year Plan Calls For: -@ Wages fo go up 3’ times @ Shortest work in the world @ 5-fold boost in production and services VOL. 20, NO. 4¢ VANCOUVER, B.C. atc > ~*~ ee is shocking news was re- Saled this week in an an- Nouncement from the com- ‘Anding officer of the Bangor a} e "defence camp at Brunswick, aine, yuilitary personnel announced ©nday that the U.S. military Ut will gradually assume con- bt and direction of a large of eastern Canada’s de- Se Edwin A. Doss at Top- < FRIDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1961 US. military to take over east Canadian defence’ : The Pentagon plans to completely take over the air 7 defence” of Eastern Canada by January, 1963. 8m Air Force Station, said | © change will take place by | January, 1963 and will mean that the U.S. military sector will ‘‘pick up” the defence or- ganization in Canada. Disclosure of this planned move further proves repeated charges made in the Pacific Tribune that the Pentagon is establishing tighter military oc- cupation of Canada. It was fur- ther revealed in last week’s integrated “Operation Sky- shield.” | | treaty, and to settle the prob- this week. Soviet Premier Krushchev, in his report on behalf of the Central Committee, outlined to the 6,000 delegates and guests from over 80 countries, the struggle of the Soviet govern- ment for peaceful co-existence. Stressing the sharp interna- tional situation created over the Berlin and German prob- lem, Khrushchev emphasized the need for a German peace ‘lem of West Berlin. Krush- | chev urged early talks with |the West aimed at resolving this problem. While stressing the stand of) his government for peaceful| co-existence, which he said is today possible, he pointed out} the Soviet Union must be pre- its defense capability. Referring to the recent nu- clear tests he said the Soviet series of tests will be finished by the end of October, and that ‘py then the Soviet Union in- tends to test a 50-megaton bomb. He emphasized the fer- vent hope of his government that these weapons will never Phave to be used. The peaceful intentions of the Soviet Union and its hopes for a peaceful world were ex- pressed in the new program of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. which sets out the program for the building of the world’s first Communist society. Highlights of the Draft Pro- gram and the 20 year Soviet plan include the following: SOVIETS LAUNCH VAST LAN FOR PROGRESS A stirring call for world peace and a vast inspiring plan of peacetime development which will raise standards of living in the Soviet Union to the highest in the world, highlighted the opening sessions of the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party in Moscow pared for any eventuality and) has therefore strengthened) ® A fivefold increase in| whole non-Communist world Soviet industrial production} turns out at present. within 20 years, with the © Real wages will go up at least 342 times. Most of this increase being based on greater productivity of labor. During this period the shortest work week in the world will be established. Krushchev told his listeners maximum acceleration of scientific and technical pro- gress. At the end of the 20-year plan, said Khrushchev, Soviet industry will be producing nearly twice as much as the six-hour working day, or a 35- hour work week will be estab< lished for the bulk of the work« ing people, and still shorter working time, 30 hours a week for the rest. e Free modern housing with comfortable living quariers for all, and free basic communal services like transpori, gas, heating, and free meals aé& work. ® The entire system of social services is to be extended. Premier Khrushchev called on the West to accept the chal- lenge offered by the program to compete in raising peoples living standards. N. Ss. KHRUSHCHEV Condemn Ottawa ‘go ahead’ to undemocratic anti-laborites A demand that Ministe1 of Justice Davie Fulton “uphold the Bill of Rights, put an end to McCarthyite techniques and investigate the breakup of a meeting in Oshawa”, was voiced by the National Executive of the Communist Party in a letier this week. The letter ‘protests in the strongest possible terms at the breaking up of a public meeting organized by the Communist Party on the theme: ‘No War Over Berlin’.” Criticizing the government's “go ahead” to undemocratic and anti-labor elements across the country, the letter charges that “your government is calculating building up an atmos- phere in which freedom of choice, freedom of speech and assembly” are being undermined. EDITORIAL HE founding convention of oe British Columbia or- ‘ tZation of the New Demo- ‘ian Party opens its three- E Sessions in Vancouver on Bac 27, immediately fol- of f: the annual convention a € British Columbia Fed- lon of Labor. a organized labor, the i; oo and wide sections of th Stessive thinking people, DP convention will be an i¢ event. Given the vision i Unity to meet the challeng- au Issues of the day, the NDP Be vocome the people's al- Bh ive to long years of °poly - dominated govern- Baas Cy] a in the next provincial Sction, stor I " B.C., perhaps more so he ton of Saskatchewan (the Ratig, Province of the NDP’s “tte leader, CCF Premier My” Douglas) ihe outlook well foy an NDP §Ugurs AU a a eS Qn: d “a in any other Canadian! ‘ince, with the possible ex-| ish Columbia. NDP FACES A CHALLENGE "break-through” at the polls. For two decades the CCF has been a powerful contender at the polls, receiving a con- sistent high average of votes, although not always reflected in the CCF seats won. For the same length of time the CCF has been the official Opposi- tion in the B.C. Legislature. With this strength transfer- red to the NDP, plus a forth- tight policy and program based upon peace, Canadian in- dependence and development; a decisive break with the “in- tegration” policies of U.S. im- perialism which menace the peace, jobs and well-being of the Canadian people, plus a broad unity of all labor and progressive forces to achieve these aims, and the NDP could confidently look towards being the next government of Briit- The fight for peace and a decisive break with U.S.-Cana- dian monopoly domination of the nation’s domestic and for- eign affairs is indivisable from the fight to win urgent econo- mic, social and health needs for the people of factory and farm. And the winning of these basic needs is only possible when the maximum unity and strength is mobilized to accom- plish these tasks. We greet the delegates to the B.C. founding convention of the NDP. In the fighting tradition of B.C. labor and the people, we are confident the NDP convention can and will rise to the challenge the his- tory of the times place before it: to hammer out policies commensurate with the vital needs of the people. Policies directed to winning disarma- ment and peace, sovereign in- dependence and economic ad- vancement. To these ends we wish the NDP founding convention in British Columbia every success in its efforts to provide a new political alternative for the people of this monopoly-ridden province. es U.S. THREATENS INTERVENTION IN S. VIET NAM. A few days ago President Kennedy announced he would send his personal envoy, Gen. Maxwell Taylor, to inspect the situation and report back to him. This is seen as public preparation for more open U.S. intervention. U.S. troops have been in the country for some time, The pro-U.S. Ngo Dinh Diem ruling clique is widely hated in the country. Above picture shows a demonstration of forty thousand people in Hanoi earlier this year to protest against U.S. intervention and unpopular government policies. that in the next ten years a -