WINNIPEG — A proposal mining operations in the
‘by Eric Kierans, a former wit ye 3

| Industry calls Kierans proposal
on Manitoba mines ‘Communist’

province 10 years
federal. cabinet minister, was assailed by the indus-
that Manitoba take o ) ‘try yesterday as “a Com-
munist document.”

Just TAYING *RIBUTE
Tee ANNIVERSA y

of the COWALINIST MANIFESTO!

~ FLASHBACKS FROM _
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

RESOLUTION
ON WOMEN’S WORK

Realizing the backward poli-
tical consciousness of the work-
ing-class women of Canada, but
at the same time also realizing
that working-class women parti-
cipate actively in such forms of
the class struggle as that exhibit-
ed in the recent strike in Edmon-
ton, and further realizing the
: value of this proletarian spirit
and help, that it should be foster-
ed and more and more effectively
mobilized for further struggle,
we recommend,

That the (Workers’) Party take
such steps as will assist the
development and organization of
this potential revolutionary force
by insisting upon the following:

1) That all women members of
the Party who work in industry
and who can join unions, or
women’s auxiliaries, shall be
obligated to do so.

2) That where this is not pos-
sible the “members shall join
those existing women’s organiza-
tions recommended by the C.E.C.

The Worker, March 15, 1923

25 years ago...

LABOR AND THE
COMING ELECTIONS

Question: The LPP proposes to
work for the election of a CCF
government. Is there not a dang-
er that it would follow the Bevin-
Atlee line?

Answer: There is such a danger,
which must be confronted by the
‘sharpest vigilance and criticism
from labor and the people. While
there will be such a danger, it is
not inevitable that a CCF govern-
ment, elected by unity at the
polls, must of necessity betray
Canadian labor. If labor puts
forward its own militant program
in the election campaign and
fights for it, and makes sure by
the use of constructive criticism,
that the program is carried out
by a CCF government, mass pro-
tection against the danger of sur-
render to big business can be
secured. The defeat. of the old
line parties will open the path to
labor’s influence on _ national
policy.

Tribune, March 6, 1948

Worth quoting:

Especially do | note the dichotomy that exists here between town
and country — that pull between community and private identity
that is characteristic of being a woman; and characteristic, for that
matter, of life “north,” life in Canada. Perhaps we are a country
more feminine than we like to admit, because the unifying, regenera-
tive principle is a passion with us. We make a synthesis of those
two seasons, innocence and experience.

—Dorothy Livesay, Foreword to the Collected Poems

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Ed¢torial Comment hy

France and Chile

The March 4 elections in France and
Chile stand out as feet-on-the-ground,
working people’s achievements whose
influence will be felt far into the days
ahead, and well beyond the boundaries
of those two countries themselves,

In France, run-offs on March 11, to
settle seats where no candidate won
50% of the votes, will give us a more
complete picture. But nothing can de-
tract from the fact that in the first
round, Common Front candidates of
the Communist and Socialist Parties

were backed by 46% of the vote in an.

81% turnout of voters. T i
Gaullists took only 38%. os
In Chile, the aim of the combined op-
position was to capture a two-thirds
majority to enable it to deliver Chile
once more to the unhindered exploita-

tion of the people by U.S.-owned mono- _

poly — with generous leavings for the
local jackals. As a spectacular, they
hoped to impeach President Allende.

But the Right failed, even with Wall
Street backing, to regain its position of
living off the avails of merciless hard-
shin for the majority.

Popular Unity held its own — and
even made gains — against a vicious
campaign to smash it, a practical tri-
bute to working-class unity.

In France, despite election machine-
ry created by General De Gaulle to
keep his party in power, French work-
ers and people in small businesses. fed
ub with a second-rate standard of life
‘dictated by a monopoly-ruled govern-
ment, have taken the first step towards
a Common Front government.

The March 11 run-offs will tell
whether it is achieved this time. or
whether the monopoly interests "can
cling a little longer to power.

Whichever happens, France will
never be the same—will never go back
The unity and strength achieved by the
Cui - pociatt Common Front

as already shown the i

how to fight to win. ees So
_ Unity of Communists and Socialists
in programs on the economic and parli-
amentary fronts, on the fight for inde-
pendence from foreign domination, in
the battle against monopoly’s repres-
sion of the people, in countless possible
contexts — such unity has the bench-
mark of success for the working class

Here in Canada too, it is for the
working class to decide: the blandish-
ments of monopoly political parties
must be swept aside, their lying press
dismissed. In the unity of the trade
union movement, of all working people
lies the power to stop monopoly’s on-
slaught on our living standards, its
obliteration of our future, its handing
over of our country to a foreign power
_Working-class successes in the elec-
tions in France and Chile reveal the
worth of the Communist Party of Can-
ada’s advocacy of communist-socialist
unity around working-class aims, as
the way forward too for Canadians.

The CLC and NORAD

Canadian Labor Congress oppositi
to Canada’s continued nar Hepa eran
NORAD (North American Air Defense
agreement) as put forth in the CLC
brief to the federal government, is a
welcome voice in support of Canada’s
independence,

_ly took the profits from wal m4 Wi

External Affairs Minister Shale] tr.
soled the CLC saying that Cana]
approaching renewal of the 15-¥"]
agreement “very cautiously.” —

If that is so, one wonders Wh0ty
Defence Minister James Richaly
the idea it would be renewed. Me ‘e
widely quoted in the press Feb. a fe
ing it would be “unthinkable” fore) &
ada not to participate. HI

Mr. Sharp told the CLC that My
(North Atlantic Treaty Organi
on the other hand, “is on instru |
our own interests.” Each mills
his own interests, it seems. Bul nt
about. the interests of the Pe?)
Canada?

Peace accord stant!

The International Conferen™
Vietnam in Paris has weathered?)
of threats and hostile actions 2
reworking the Agreement of Ja Mare
27 in favor of the United State fen

Efforts to legalize the assertiO} § 4
Vietnam is a “world prob em) ar U
thereby to water down US. fl is
bity, have failed. The wrettlh ite
tempts by Mitchell Sharp to Beigsy
an U.S. out from under havé als
ed.

The fact is that Canada, whet | 4

used for U.S. atrocities in Viet jitop,
still trying to justify Nixo? 5g es!
strous acts of genocide. MH. fet
should be ashamed to show, te few
after performing such obscenll @

The U.S. is not only responsi id f
the mass killing of Vietnames® fag}
of obliteration by carpet pom iy
the inhumanities of napalm, ‘nl
sprays and torture; it is respo?” qj
for the actions of its puppet ra
The Paris Conference made thi8” |

The Western imperialists Wye
threatening to do something |
because they didn’t get their es §

Such behavior is not enti
related to the drama unfold)
Washington over reparations, ot
nam, “Aid,” they call it. A ral
peace investment,” Nixon into

Come off it, Dick! Article 2! ‘a
Agreement you signed commils ig q
contribute to the reconstruc gy
Vietnam and it’s time you ¢? jt!
with the U.S. people. The 52? nf)
debate all it likes, but short of ? ati
on the signing of an inter |
agreement it cannot undo ue,
moral and legal obligation to Py
its crimes. aft

The applicable part of the wv
ment is Chapter VIII, Article 2 ¢
(allowing some U.S. face-saV Pai
in part: “In pursuance of its ve cot
policy, the United States wil af
bute to healing the wounds of f
to postwar reconstruction jg!
Democratic Republic of Viet |
throughout Indochina.” ine

United States imperialism }* ay
ingly in disgrace around the wa ve
increasingly cornered by its ow, Hh
lescence.. But to imagine thay Hh
thereby rendered harmless wore pf]
mistake. If anything, it groW
irrational. Nothing short of z Hy
enforced by the people of the oe
world will curb its continuing "|
peace. |