‘Only war that makes sense

is war on

A call for stepped up efforts
to end United States aggression
coupled with the unfolding of a
campaign to end poverty in
Canada has been made by William
Kashtan, national leader of the
Communist Party,

Speaking at the opening session
of a meeting of the party’s Na-
tional Committee in Toronto
Kashtan declared: ‘The only
war that makes sense today is
the war against poverty.”

Commenting on the speech
from the throne, he charged that
past performance strongly sug-
gests that what the government
will undertake will be a skir-
mish not a war on poverty,”

To end poverty, he declared
there must be policies of full
employment, of raising pur-
chasing power and wages, of
making free education avail-
able to all young Canadians, of
providing low rental housing, of
undertaking a national medicare
plan at this session of parlia-
ment, not ten years from now,

poverty —

and of increasing pensions to all
senior citizens outside the scope
of the Canada Pension Plan,

Kashtan emphasized _ that
“ending U.S. aggression in Viet-
nam has become the most urgent
business confronting mankind,”

Of President Johnson’s call
for “unconditional discussions,”
Kashtan said that in reality this
is based on the following con-
ditions: “that alleged aggression
by North Vietnam must stop and
that the people of South Viet-
nam must give up their struggle
for national. independence and
freedom, This is not uncon-
ditional discussions, but a de-
mand for unconditional surren-
der, This is not a policy of
peace but a policy of brutal
conquest,”

He noted that “The Pearson
government, tied as it is to
support of the fundamental po-
sitions of U.S. policy, has been
under sharp criticism for failing

Frequent contributors to
columns of labor press

TIM BUCK, outstanding Canadian
Communist leader, whose articles and
statements dealing with problems fac-
ing Canadian workers were frequent
ly featured in our columns during the
past 30 years.

LESLIE MORRIS, late national

the
leader of the Communist Party, who
died last November, was one of Can-
ada’s outstanding journalists. His col-
umns and articles appeared regularly
in our press.

Greetings to the
Pacific Tribune on

its 30th Anniversary.

B.C.
PEACE
COUNCIL

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and continued

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Kashtan

to speak up in the interests of
Canada in this crisis,

“It is this plus its efforts to
get U.S. policy off the hook which
explains its proposal for a pause
“at the right time” in U.S. air
attacks on North Vietnam. This
qualified position of the Pearson

~ government is typical of its fear

to publicly: dissociate Canada
from US. policy.”

What is needed, Kashtan urged
is “a widening and extension of
the actions of the Canadian people
to bring pressure upon parlia-
ment directed: to not only debate
the crisis in Vietnam which af-
fects us all, but to call upon the
U.S. government to alter its
policies and withdrawits troops.”

WBA PARLEY
BACKS MEDICARE

The Vancouver District. con-
ference of the Worker’s Bene-
volent Association (WBA) held
on Sunday, April 25 protested the
U.S. action in’ Vietnam, The 80
delegates in attendance agreed to
write Prime Minister Pearson
and U.S, President Johnson,

The conference~also took a
stand on medicare, A resolution
sent to the Federal government
asked for a comprehensive medi-
care scheme now. A letter of
protest to the provincial govern-
ment was also adopted opposing
minicare and urging that Victoria
get behind a Federal medicare
plan and press for a compre-
hensive scheme,

Public meetings on medicare
will be organized by the WBA
throughout the province and a
petition will be circulated sup-
porting a comprehensive plan,

The WBA will hold its pro-
vincial annual picnic at Central
Park on Sunday, July 25th,

Greetings to the 30th
Anniversary!

Continue the noble fight for
Peace , Independence and
Socialism.

Rita & John Tanche

COFFEE PARTY
RECEPTION
THUR., MAY 6 at 7:30 P.M.

RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME
600 Campbell Ae .

You are invited to attend

to meet and talk with
three SOVIET STUDENTS

Everyone Welcome. *

May Day Greetings to all
our friends from

FEDERATION OF
RUSSIAN-
CANADIANS

600 Campbell Ave.

‘Vancouver 4, B.C.

Thirty years"

As our cartoonist saw them

Ernie Walker, the PT’s cartoonist, has been doll
cartoons for many years. His cartoons have appeares!
various labor papers and the daily press. Below are™
ue cartoons which appeared in the “Federationist "|

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‘Ye GETS HIS MAN”

30th Anniversary Greetings

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