|All issues recede before
war danger -CP convention

“All issues recede before the danger of war” and Canadians who desire peace
have no real choice except to disengage the country from thé present military
alliance with the United States, and adopt a policy of neutrality.
~ So declared the 17th Na-
tional Convention of the Com-| be secured,” said Mr. Buck.
munist Party which econclud- °
ed its three-day sessions last Communists - will -work

Sunday night. harder for the unity of the
labor movement, and of all
democratic Canadians, for
peace, the independence of
Canada; ‘the democratic unity
of French and»English Cana-
da, andthe - political unity
which can Jead.to the defeat
of the old-line parties, Mr.
Buck said.

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bute its literature and make
its views known.

The convention adopted a
policy resolution and the
main ‘planks of the patty’s
élection: platform, embracing
peace, Canadian independ-
ence, the nationalization of
U'S.-owned monopolies, the
building of Canadian manu-
facturing; and projects to ad--
vance the economie develop-
ment of Canada.

The New Democratic Party, e
the. convention agreed, if it
takes a firm and progressive }
line in domestie and foreign
affairs, a truly independent
working-class and farm _pol-
icy, can win great support.
It is not excluded, the con-
vention said, that by provid-
ing a democratic alternative
to the Tories ‘and Liberals,
the NDP can win a majority-
in parliament. But this could
not be done unless the NDP
broke with the policies of
right-wing compromise which
characterized the CCF in
past years.

Such a policy of neutrality,
said. the convention, would
permit Canada to follow an
independent policy in the
United Nations, and really
dedicate itself to peace’ and
disarmament.

Délegates came from all
parts of Canada, 163 of them,
to celebrate at the convention
the 40th Anniversary of the
Communist Party which was
founded in Toronto in Febru-
ary, 1922. Veteran party lea-
der, Tim Buck, in his keynote
address, emphasised the pri-
mary nature of the fight for
peace. Peaceful co-existence
of states with different social
and political systems, he
said, with general and com-
plete disarmament, are goals
which can be achieved. “War

—KUKRINSKY_ in Pravda ees
LOOKING BOB bese

The convention adopted a |
special resolution’ on Cana-
da and the European Common
Market. The entry of Britain
into the ECM brings a new
trade crisis for Canada, which
makes it necessary to find
new markets in the socialist
countries and Latin America,
the convention agreed.

Seine city hall
for support of demands

Vancouver city council en-; building with their placards,
dorsed a demand by. the B.C.| which were kept in evidence
Federation of Unemployed | throughout the meeting with
for a 20 per cent increase in| the city fathers.
social assistance allowances, The delegation is part of
and indicated. a measure of| the province - wide prepara-
support for most proposals| tions for the unemployed
set forth ina brief submitted | march to Victoria scheduled
last fall by the unemployed. | for February 19.

This was made known at Vancouver unemployed of-
meeting between a delega-| ficials say $2000 has been
tion of 70 members of the! collected from unions’ for the

- Vancouver Council of Unem-| march up to now, and from
ployed, and city council, held| the reaction they are confi-

Solidarity with the people
of Cuba, and with all of La-
tin America, was voiced in a
special resolution.

is not inevitable. Peace can

The convention -elected a
national committee of 51
members, and 10 altérnate
members.

Tim Buck, who has been
the party’s general secretary
since 1929, recommended

The Communist*Party will
run candidates in’ the com-
ing federal election in a num-
i; ber of constituencies. Four

have already been nominated:

at city hall last Tuesday. dent that the Victoria demon- The United Fishermen and| Leslie Morris in Toronto- that because. he has now

The unemployed crowded | stration will exceed last| ajjjeqd Workers ‘Union has| Trinity, Phyllis Clarke in reached 71 years, and to as-
committee room 1 at city hall} year, when close to 1800 par-| sot March 17 as the date for Toronto-Davenport Tom Me-| sist the development of
and. marched through the! ticipated. its eighteenth annual conven-) Ewen in bt anenieube East and | Younger party leadership, he

should not stand now as gen-
eral secretary and party
leader. The newly elected na-
tional committee accepted

tion.
‘The Convention Call names
March 12 as the deadline for

William: Ross in» Winnipeg
North. Others will be nomin-
ated. shortly.

Hillcrest loggers 11% hours
from home for 8 hours pay

Loggers working for the
Hillerest Lumber Company,
and living in the Duncan

area, spend 1144 hours away
from home each day to pock-

_ et 8 hours wages.

This is how it works, ac-
cording to a statement issued
by the loggers committee of
Hillerest Lumber, who are
Involved in a dispute with the
company over. the issue of
free transportation from
Duncan to the company’s
Woods office at -Mesachie
Lake:

A logger living in the
Duncan area arises at 4:30
a.m.; boards a bus at 5:45;
travels 25 miles to the woods

office, arriving there at 6:30;
transfers to a crummy and
travels another 15 miles to
the worksite, arriving at 7:15;
works from 7:30 until 4 p.m.
with a half hour for lunch,
then repeats the same opera-
tion in reverse, getting back
to Duncan at 5:15 p.m.

The company has stopped
running the buses as an “‘ec-
onomy” measure, and the
men have responded by ar-
riving at the regular time
each morning at the bus stops
and then going home. Other
loggers on the operation, not
living in the Duncan area,
have stayed away from work
in their support.

-From Britain —

JR. (Jock) Campbell

Former Editor British: Daily. Worker
and Leading British Communist -
will speak at a Mass Rally on

“Britain, Canada and E.C.M.”
Sunday, Feb. 4, 8 p.m.
Pender. Auditorium

339 WEST" PENDER ‘ST., VANCOUVER...
Sponsored by: Vancouver a =e CPC.

resolutions and presents a
short review of the problems
facing that union and the
labor movement generally.
Stressed in the review are
problems of unemployment
and rising taxation and the
need for complete unity of

Communists ‘will urge the el-
ection “of NDP candidates, ex-
cept in eases where the can-
didate’s right-wing views are
such as to make him unde-
serving of popular support.

fishermen and all labor to
answer the attack on trade
unions.

World labor unity in the
battle for peace is called for
in the statement.

The UFAWA has also an-
nounced that it plans to send
a lobby to Victoria on Feb.
19, coincident with the Un-
employed March. The lobby
will demand answers fo ques-
tions of jobs, Bill 42 and 43
and restoration’ of fisheries.

% * *

One member of the Van-
couver Civic Employees Un
ion (Outside Workers) has
been charged and three others
suspended from attending un-
ion meetings pending apolo-
gies for statements and ac-
tions detrimental to the in-
terests of the union.

These actions are a sequel).

to the attack on the leader-

“ship of the union last falland

early this year in an obvious
attempt to unseat the pre-

sent administration.

More than three hundred:

members were in attendance |
= | at. the meeting “where’ «the |:
against’ the-« four}
| were’ ‘taken and there-was*full’

sanctions

‘approval: for the: Measures!

Communist Party will distri-

In’ 6ther ‘constituencies the | the opinions of Mr. Buck, and
elected Leslie Morris as gen-
eral secretary and party lead-
er. The convention endorsed

these changes.

Mr. Buck was. elected
' chairman of the party and a
member of its National Ex-
ecutive Committee.

In all constituencies, the

1? Prémier W.A. c. Bennett.

Scrap Columbia Treaty
says Communist parley

A demand that the Columbia Treaty be scrapped and
that Canada adopt a power policy based on building of
a national hydro grid to serve the interests of the nation,
was voiced in a special resolution unanimously adopted
by the Communisi Party national convention in Toronto
last weekend.

Pointing to recent announcements by Justice Minister
Fulton, following on talks with U.S. Interior Secretary’
Udall, the resolution warns that Federalsaction on push-
ing ahead with the treaty may come soon.

“Ratification of the present Columbia Treaty would
constitute a gross betrayal of Canada’s national interests,
and turn over to the U.S. the lion’s share of the vast
hydro resources of Canada’s Pacific coast,” warns the
resolution,

The Communist Party resolution also draws attention
to the budget recently submitted by U.S. president Ken-
nedy which includes appropriations for the preliminary
work on the building of a 1000 mile power line from the
B.C. border to California. *

This budget provision, says the’C.P. resolution “‘dis-
Closes the long-range aim of U.S.-Canadian big business to
develop B.C. hydro resources on a north-south basis, thus
depriving Canada of the economi¢ advantage of large
blocks of cheap hydro power. ©
* “Copies of the résolution are being sent to Prime
Minister Diefenbaket, Liberal leader Lester Pearson, NDP
leaders” Hazen” Argue and Tommy Soe and to B.C.

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