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Alexander W. Mowers
OKANAGAN-REVELSTOKE

Sandy" Mowers was born 31 years ago in Parry Sound.
Ontario. He has lived in the Salmon Arm area for 15 years
and is a graduate of Salmon Arm High School. He is married

and the father of two young daughters. While in high school
Sandy became interested in politics. After studying many of
the social problems of the working people he became con-
vinced that socialism was the answer. He became active in the
youth movement and at 18 years of age joined the Communist
Party. In 1958 he was Communist candidate in Okanagan-

Revelstoke.

‘Must act to help
Interior farmers’

he Liberals and the Conser-

vative government before
them, have managed to sell out
to U.S, interests, large blocks of
raw materials including the great
Columbia River which could be
the sound base for secondary in-
dustry throughout the Okanagan-
Revelstoke ‘constituency.

We need candidates in Ottawa
who will put the interests of the
Okanagan- Revelstoke people be-
fore the interests of the mining,
lumber, and power monopolies,
Unless there is legislation passed
both provincially and federally,
to put an end to the giving away
of our natural resources, in-
dustries that do locate in our
valley will probably be bought out
and closed down by U.S, interests
in the same manner as the great
majority of B.C.’s tomato can-
neries,

Farmers in the Okanagan
Valley find it more difficult to

make a living, On the one side

they are faced by the high prices
of machinery, feed and fer-
tilizers — and on the other side,
by the dumping of farm produce
into B.C, from the U.S, Dumping

of farm products into Canada has —

been allowed to continue by both
old line parties for many years.

This has created a serious
preakdown in many phases of the
agricultural industry. In the
Okanagan Valley it has caused
the elimination of a great num-
per of producers. Now due to the
practise of dumping in the first
place, we have toimport millions
of apples, carrots, potatoes, etc,
from the U.S.A. These products
could and should be grown right
here in the Valley.

It is now almostimpossible for
young people to take up farming.
In a recent survey, it was found
that the total average farm re-
ceipts were well below Canada’s
average family income, We need
government action to bring the
income of these farmers up to a
much fairer level,

The eight million in govern-
ment grants to the growers to
compensate for last year’s tree
damage must be carried further
by government grants to the
unemployment office in this area
to help the great numbers of
workers who suffer lost jobs,

—Alexander Mowers

HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ELECTION PLATFORM
OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA

A FOREIGN POLICY OF PEACE, FREE OF
U.S. DOMINATION

@ End the cruel, senseless war in Vietnam through negotiations
based on Geneva Agreements. Withdraw U.S. armed forces. Guaran-
tee the right of the people to decide their own future.

@Keep out of OAS. Friendship; trade and cultural exchange with
peoples of Latin America. Condemn U.S. intervention in Dominican
Republic.

@ Remove U.S. nuclear weapons bases from Canada. Make Can-
ada a nuclear-free zone. Press for disarmament, oppose spread of nuc-
lear weapons. Cut arms costs in favor of people’s needs. Urge non-
aggression pact between NATO and Warsaw Pact leading to final
abolition of military alliances.

® Make UN universal and an effective peace force. Recognize
China and other socialist states.

PLANNED ECONOMIC GROWTH TO
MEET THE CHALLENGE OF AUTOMATION

® Make automation benefit people, not monopolies. Set up Fed-
Prov Authority on automation with labor and farmer representation, to
control process. Reduce hours of work and prices, higher wages as pro-
ductiivty increases.

@ Full employment through large-scale public investment to build
industry, develop resources. Government responsibility to retain and re-
locate workers displaced by automation.

@ Take bdck ownership of resources from U.S. Conserve and de-
velop own resources. Safeguard water. End one-sided trade depen-
dence on U.S. Expand trade with socialist and new independent states.

@ Abolish poverty by eliminating slums through vast low-rental
housing. Modernize our cities. Adopt medicare and increase minimum
wages, pensions and social security. New deal for farmers by floor on
farm prices and low interest credits, curbing monopolies.

@ Abolish university fees, replace them by grants. Raise income
tax exemptions. Tax capital gains. Exempt municipal taxes from
income tax. Lift cost of elementary education from municipalities.

EQUALITY OF OUR TWO NATIONS—A
NEW CANADIAN CONSTITUTION TO
UNITE CANADA

@ End denial of equal status for French Canada in present consti-
tution. Call a constituent convention in which representatives of French-
and English-speaking Canada will meet on equal footing to work out
terms of new, voluntary confederal agreement. This to be embodied in
a new constitution recognizing bi-national character of Canada and
guaranteeing right of self-determination of each of the two nations.

October 29, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7