20 YEARS SINCE WAR ENDED

‘Main job today is fo
stop drift to new war’

- On the twentieth anniversary of the ending of Worid War II last
week the National Executive of the Communist Party of Canada re-
leased the following statement:

Twenty years have passed since World War Two was

ended with the surrender of the Nazis,

This is a time to pay homage to the memory of all the
men and women who gave their lives in that great struggle
for freedom and the future of humanity,

They did not die -in vain, The defeat of the forces of
Hitlerite reaction opened the way for great progressive changes
in our world—for the end of the cruel colonial oppression of
most of the human race, for the coming into being of a whole
system of socialist states which are lighting the way to the
realization of the noblest aspirations of mankind fora free and
abundant life,

This is also a time for re-dedication tothe cause of peace
and democracy for which so many millions fought two decades
ago,

For today, U,S, brinkmanship in South East Asia is
threatening to plunge us all into a Third World War.

The right of peoples to decide their own destiny is being
trampled upon in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, The
old Nazis restored to authority in West Germany by United
States imperialism are reaching out for nuclear weapons to
unleash new aggressions, The poisonous racism of the Nazis
lives on, and is spewed out by purveyors of hatred within our
own country,

To keep faith with our past and with our future on this

20th V-E Day means to fight with all our strength for the —

preservation of peace, for genuine disarmament for the right
of all peoples to be free, for the final stamping out of racism
everywhere upon this earth,

For Canadians, this anniversary points up the necessity
of a new foreign policy which, breaking with U.S, pressures,
would be wholly devoted to the prevention of World War III,
This would mean to work for the wiping out of the hot beds
of war which are represented by the revival of Nazi revenge
seekers in West Germany, and by the US, assaults on the
freedom of the peoples of Asia, Africa and Latin America,

It means recognizing the historic changes brought about
by the war and establishing diplomatic relations with the
German Democratic Republic and the People’s Republic of
China,

The winning of all these goals depends on stopping the
drift to nuclear war by stopping the U.S, aggression in Vietnam
and in the Dominican Republic, This is the most urgent matter
confronting mankind today, :

TOUGH SELL

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The Oakland Tribune

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KASHTAN COMMENTS ON NEW BUDGET

‘It will neither expand economy
nor do anything about poverty

By WILLIAM KASHTAN

Finance Minister Walter Gor-
don claims that the new federal
budget he introduced recently is
aimed at facilitating the * growth?
of the economy, If that is indeed
its purpose, it will fall far short
of achieving its objective,

In introducing the budget, Mr;
Gordon stated that our gross
national product will decline from
8.9 percent, or 6.5 percent after

-price-rises, to 7 percent, or 5

percent after price-rises, This
indicates -a decline in the rate of
growth of the GNP of 1,5 percent
this year—which means less ex-
pansion of the Canadian economy
and less employment,

Moreover, it is generally ex-
pected that the rate of growth

will decline even more next year

and that, according to the Eco-
nomic Council report, 300,000
new jobs will be needed yearly
over the next five years,

Will the budget proposals, in-
cluding its across-the-board tax
reductions, meet this challenge?
Not likely.

Nor does the budget jibe with
the government’s proclaimed aim
of undertaking a “war against
poverty,” Three to five cents

more take-home pay per day is..

no way to fight poverty, Nor will
it raise the purchasing power of
those who need it most,

Mr, Gordon seems to be look-
ing for poverty in the wrong di-
rection, What sort of poverty do
those earning from $60,000 to
$100,000 face that compels Mr,
Gordon to reduce their taxes by
$600 a year while a married man
with two dependents earning
$3,000 gets a reduction of only
$3?

Actually it is neither “growth”
nor “poverty” that Mr, Gordonis
concerned with, The proposed
tax reduction is really aimed at
softening the impact of the pay-
ments the people will have to
begin making toward the Canada
Pension Plan starting Jan, 1,
1966, which in any case ought to
be exempted from taxation,

The class bias shown in the
budget proposals is to be seen
in the consideration shown to the
corporate interests,

Generous credits are provided
corporations for research and
developments, Yet, do not stu-
dents also undertake “research
and development?” Why were no
provisions made in the budget
for free education, as a right of
all young Canadians, by allowing
university fees and students’
board and room to be deducted
from taxable incomes?

Big business has also been
granted extended depreciation al-
lowances on investments in new
machinery and equipment, But
why were no provisions made
for depreciation of human labor
in the form of increased basic
exemptions and increased pen-
sions for our senior citizens? Is
human labor less worthy than
the profits of the big corpora~
tions?

The purpose of the budget
should be to expand the home
market, This can best be done by
a drastic increase in purchasing

power through effective tax re-
ductions for those who need it
most,

The Communist Party has long
advocated tax reductions along
the following lines: raise the
basic income tax exemption to
$3,000 for single persons and
$5,000 for married persons; al-
low university fees to be deduct-
ed from taxable incomes; allow
mothers who work full time to
deduct the cost of child care be-
fore their wages are assessed
for income tax; allow the deduc-
tion of taxes paid on owner-
occupied homes of assessed value
not exceeding $5,000.

This is the kind of budget Mr,
Gordon ought to have introduced
and which Parliament ought to
press for, Instead, Mr, Gordon
has produced a“ stand pat” budget.

The Liberal government no
doubt hoped to receive wide ac-
claim for its “generosity” but
the widespread negative reaction
to it shows that large numbers
of Canadians were not taken in
by- it; .

Of considerable interestis Mr,
Gordon’s proposal for creating a
Canada Development Corpora-
tion, The investment firms have
attacked this proposal bitterly
and Donald Fleming, erstwhile
finance minister in the Tory gov-
ernment and himself a director
of a number of investment com-
panies, has likewise condemned
it as an attack on free enter-
prise, The Globe and Mail went
so far as to call it “backdoor
socialism,”

“on the CDC is not that ito

It is, of course, nothing of th
kind, The reason for this atta
any door to socialism but that it
limits the extent to which the?
corporations can monopolize
vestment and the precede
creates for some form of inte
ference in the operations
monopoly, }

The fact is that the CDC ®
proposed has many limitation
one of which is that it may
used not for new developmen
and additional job opportunili@ |
but to prevent takeovers. t

This is useful, of course, bit |
to have real value to the count! |
and the people it should servé AG
purpose of stimulating natio”
economic development i
public control and public owner”
ship while at the same
limiting United States contro
over our economy,

Whether it will do this #2
depend on the action of the peopl
and the proposals they adv |
to making the CDC serve helt s
interests, ‘a

One of the most obvious 18 14
actions to the new budget IS" |
it is geared to a possible elec” |
tion this year, Clearly, f
Gordon was not thinking so ™ an
about the growth of the Cane!
economy as about the grow
Liberal Party votes the bu
might bring, If so, it is anotl® |
example of the cyncial M™?
oeuvres of the Liberal govel™ —
ment, a

dget |

Soviet exchange student |
at UBC hounded by RCM?|

A Russian exchange student
who has been in Canada for seven
months complained in Winnipeg
recently that his Canadian friends
were being questioned by the
RCMP after talking to him,

Mark Markin, a 26-year-old
post-graduate student of Lenin-
grad University, admitted in an
interview that RCMP in Vancou-
ver have kept close tab on him
since he arrived seven months
ago to study at the University of
B.C,

Markin is an exchange student

MARK MARKIN

at UBC and is studying iol :
ism, He was in Winnipeg Wi ar?
other young Russians wh?
travelling across Canada on -
exchange program betwee? uth
Russian Committee of be
Organizations. and the cana :
Young Men’s Christian assocl® |
tion, +

ef
The three were guests of a :
YMCA in Vancouver last wee™ —

Markin was interviewed 6 |
Winnipeg’s central YMCA p "
reporter of the Winnipeé * ,)
Press, When asked whethe! |
had been. followed or wate! 4
while in Vancouver he repliet _

“Probably I was, but ! uri
to ignore it, not pay any attenti x
. . .” But he said he’ coulé |
longer ignore it after lear? ab
that some of his friends wf |
casual acquaintances were P= |
questioned by the RCMP,

He said he had complainel 7
the international student ~ |
change organization which pr
ised to look into the matter. ih
treatment, Dmitriyevitch oe 7
would not be given Canadian ron
dents in the Soviet Union U
similar circumstances,

_ Travelling with Markit a
Avromoy SimitrySergeievtch )
Karavayev Valery Borisov} vt
The latter is a 25-year-oldP? 1” 2
graduate student at the Univ? |
sity of Moscow.

May 14, 965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Po9”