SLUT ELECTION PROGRAM wi unmiincnniminn OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY FOLLOWING IS THE FIVE POINT ELECTION PROGRAM OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY (1) FOR NATIONAL SURVIVAL — Put Canada First wetoclaim Canada’s neutrality. Refuse nuclear tice and declare Canada an atom-free zone. Too Taw from NATO and NORAD. Bring our alliany home from Germany. Cancel the military aeons with the American generals in the Pen- Benera) peak up in the U.N. for complete and control disarmament, with strict inspection and Out of €stroy all thermonuclear weapons. Stay Sire Organization of American States and their § the people of Cuba and Latin America in Cut ¢ 8ht for freedom. Recognize People’s China. € arms budget by 50 percent at once. (2) LET'S pe MASTERS IN OUR OWN HOUSE — Control Our Own Economy and Trade dusty cnalize the U.S. owned and controlled in- Makin: 8. Build up Canadian manufacturing by our a 800ds out of our own raw materials. Bring Contro] qealand energy resources under public trusts } and take them out of the hands of the Canadi uild an all-Canada power grid, including a forms an Columbia River hydro system. Bring all and nati transportation under public ownership banks 1onalize the CPR. Nationalize the private the cea and insurance companies, and make ade a of Canada the single Canadian bank. Cricg ith all countries — especially. Latin Am- Onies. Se, Socialist states and the newly-free col- “ountrie nc Canadian trade representatives to all S to make independent agreement with them offering long term credits at cost. Open up the Northland. Provide new jobs through new markets. (3) WIPE OUT POVERTY AND UNEMPLOYMENT — The People Before the Monopolies Mobilize public funds to build new factories to provide the world with goods, to take advantage of new markets, to provide new jobs. Give the workers the benefit of automation, by means of the 5-day, 30-hour week at the same take-home pay. Unemployment insurance for the full period of unemployment (including unemployment caused by sickness) at two-thirds the average wage. Old age pensions of $100 monthly at 60 for women and 65 for men with no means tests: laws to pro- vide full vesting and portability of employees ensions. Double family allowances, payable as ong as children are in school. A national health scheme covering all medical and dental treatments, hospitalization and drugs. Higher taxes on the rich, including their capital gains, and $3,000 basic income tax exemption for married couples, $2,000 for single persons and married women. Federal grants to meet the cost of education, and to cut municipal taxes. A federal low-rental housing program to build thousands of new homes and wipe out slums. A federal youth program, to train for jobs, provide sports and scholarships. A national minimum wage of $1.25 per hour. A national labor code to guarantee the right to strike and political action by unions. A floor under farm prices, aid to the family farm through long-term loans at cost and actions to curb the monopolies who exploit the farmer. A federal arts program, to encourage Canadian culture and protect our people from U.S. ‘dollar culture.’ (4) A NEW CANADIAN CONSTITUTION — Made in Canada Replace the British North America Act with a new Canadian constitution, adopted by an all-Can- ada constitutional conference, including represen- tatives of labor and the farmers. A new federal pact between English and French Canada, safe- guarding the equality of rights and interests of each, explicitly guaranteeing to French Canada the right of self-determination. A Canadian flag symbolizing the fraternity and equality of the English and French Canadians. Proclamation of “OQ CANADA” as the national anthem. (5) STRENGTHEN AND SAFEGUARD Canadian Democracy Protect the democratic and parliamentary in- stitutions of Canada from reactionary attack, by writing into the Canadian constitution a bill of rights beyond the reach of Parliament. Remove from the criminal code all anti-democratic and anti-labor provisions. Put an end to the political branch of the RCMP; and grant citizenship to all who have lived in Canada for five years and desire it. The vote at 18. Curb the growing monopoly of the press, radio, television by private interests. Stop discrimination against the Indian and Arctic peoples of Canada, recognize their democratic right of self government, and their demand for full economic and social equality. SLL Tn ene ERT ‘he Present wave Strikes rock Franco regime iron and steel plants, electri- turian miners who fought stability,” pointed out that workers. Strikes ee fascist - ruled N May be the begin- hin ‘ of the end for Franco. n . Dregs iy of reports in the Strike at a nation-wide — faileg fall last week had 80,09, , .° Strike of some heayy ers and workers in Nore ‘Ndustry, which began in 8 an three weeks ago Astur; Northern provinces of pounding cal equipment factories, and many other branches of heavy industry. Laws promulgated at the start of Franco’s regime more than 25 years ago declared strikes illegal and placed them on the same category as military rebellion, subject to the penalties of a military court. But this regime has failed to subdue the tough dock workers of Bilbao or the As- Franco in the mountains dur- ing the civil war. U.S. BOLSTERS FRANCO In the last seven years, more than a billion dollars in U.S. economic aid has served to bolster Spain’s fascist dic- tatorship. The widespread opposition to the regime, however, could be seen in the fact that even the Catholic Action Workers Brotherhood, which “conced- ed the need for financial Franco’s efforts to lift Spain economically had placed the heaviest burden on the workers. In Madrid on May 7 police used clubs to disperse hun- dreds of students who demon- strated in sympathy with the striking miners and factory workers. The Spanish Communist Party has urged the working people and all the opponents of the Franco regime ‘‘to The World Federation of Trade Unions has called on workers all over the world to express their support for the struggle of the Spanish workers against the repres- sion of the Franco govern: ment. In France, a great move- ment of solidarity with the Spanish strikers has already started with mass petitions being sent to the Spanish Embassy and with collections I} 2c |.’ Vizcaya and Guipu- make use of this favorable for the strikers’ families the one Spread to Cadiz in moment to launch a struggle being taken in most large | we the h, and from Leon in for their economic and politi- plants. | et, rthwest to Barcdionsue cal demands throughout the | . Northdast. Useg Franco regime has Vent 4! measures to pre- ‘hg “oa Strike from spread- to @ a the miners’ regions Ou. Actories, s} arme : 30,000 troops and the Police were dispatched | ®Xisti, | Utias to supplement a 2D th °rces of repression erg C area. Franco also or- py tn Ast °Nsumer co-operatives I) to hes Not to sell goods | Gs, miners on credit. j hag & Taconic measures fg 4, °° some of the min: Doran, Urn to work tem- 1} thing ae but more than one- country,” and to express their CBC Radio plans to give a solidarity with the striking radio series on “The Afriean miners and metal workers. Revolution” and its inter- The Communist Party has © views with noted African appealed to Spanish citizens leaders. We trust CBC will to protest the dictatorship’s do a more honest job on repressions and to organize Africa than CBC-TV did in par eg material aid to strikers and _ its anti-Mine-Mill ‘‘Commun- the families of imprisoned ist” smear. , FORMER NAZIS HAVE VOTE Many thousand Canadians denied vote charges Sago to Work 8° Who went back special conference of the t 7 | : pee these people i ; *Bain Bee. out on strike Canadian Council of Na- _ the dete of aot aake The strike day. tional Groups heard M. J. “but have their hands tied CoE spread to Sago, public relations direc- when it comes to exercising Smmu,: : tor for CCNG, charge that their rights in a national elec. Th the UNists Gain thousands of Canadians will tion.” | flee 1 Tecent British local be prevented from voting in “Former Nazis and war ‘ art aus, the Communist the June 18 federal elections. criminals have no such diffi- ant Viet raed some import- “In effect, these people are culty,” he said y | Seats ces It won new denied the franchise for the The conference which was ! Messi e peed up an im- very reasons that free elec- held in Immigration Minister any & Stal of votes, in tions are held — to provide Ellen Fairclough’s home rid- é sitive eee Pushing Conser- ee for the full and free exercise ing of Hamilton West, adopt- ‘ tt, Idates down to the “An organic democracy unmar- of differing political ideas : e “hoicgg. of the electors’ © To. loss of eties suffered a net Seats, a stinging Ir cold war poli- Teh 1} . aS to th o described Spain as ; z s oa by the spectacle of free elections.” While the U.S. has illi +, “aid”, most of it going for mili- in a billion dollars in ald. n es patency poverty and squalor is prety iete ae Pe eae aie living conditions in the “romantic city oe e, where workers live in ramshackle huts with no sanitation. and alignments in our nation- al life,” Sago stated. The speaker told delegates from seven national group organizations that many of: May 25, 1962—PACIFI ed plans to publish an Open Letter to Mrs. Fairclough on the issue of citizenship rights, and set up a Hamilton local of the CCNG.