j ional leader,
_ ported that the party had gain-
ed 15 percent in membership

sehreerentereerr re

restoration of name will be ex-
_ plained by Morgan.

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POL. 18, NO. 44

Phone MUtual 5-5288

Authorized as second class mail by
the Post Office Department, Ottawa.

VANCOUVER, B.C.

FRIDAY. OCTOBER 30, 1959

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and elaborated upon.

One of the decisions of the
convention was to change the
name of the Labor-Progress-\
ive Party to Communist Party
of Canada. Reasons for this

_At Toronto the party’s nat-
Tim Buck, .re-

during 1959. Rate of increase
in B.C. was 20 percent.

At a meeting of the provin-
tial committee of the CPC

here last Saturday, a_ five-
month plan of work was adop-

ted which called for a further

Nigel Morgan to speak
cat Communist rally

Nigel Morgan, provincial leader of the Communist
Party of Canada, will be the featured speaker at a “report
back” public rally in Pender Auditorium this Sunday,
November 1, wheré questions discussed at the recent
national convention of the CPC in Toronto will be outlined

B.C. membership increase of

10 percent by the time of the.

next CPC national plenum in
April, 1960.

Other objectives of the five-
month plan of work include:

@ Assistance to the youth
movement to increase iis mem-
bership by 30 percent.

@ An overali 10 percent

increase in press circulation.

@ Extension of the public
work of the party.

@ Intensification of the
struggle for united political
action, *

@® A broadening of
movement for peace.

the

OSTAL WORKERS REAI
O PUSH A STRIKE VOTE

Le

Vancouver postal clerks are prepared to consider strike action
-— in order to melt the Diefenbaker wage freeze — even if such a
course is rejected by other groups in the Canadian civil service.

At a meeting of the Van-
couver Branch, Canadian Post-
al Employees Association, held
in Hillcrest Hall on Sunday.
October 18, a two-point, action
resolution was adopted. It
called for:

@ That the national Joint
Action Committee représent-
ing 160,000 organized civil
servants should conduct a na-
tion-wide work stoppage vote.

@ That in the event of the
Joint Action Committee refus-
ing to take such a vote, a poll
should be taken among the
three major groups of postal
employees (clerks, letter car-
riers and railway mail clerks)
on strike action.

The meeting also went on
record as calling for the re-

right to bargain -collectively.

Bill Kay, president of the
Vancouver Branch CPE, was
highly critical of the Diefen-
baker government. In a state-
ment after the meeting he
said the government was
sharply criticised for its fail-
ure to implement the ‘salary
increases recommended by the
Civil Service Commission.

The meeting called for the
“support of organized labor
through the local district la-
bor council, the provincial fed-
eration of labor and the Can-
adian Labor Congress at the
national level.”

A number of postal clerks
were interviewed by the
Pacific Tribune and volunteer-
ed the following information:

Whereas before the war, Van-
couver postal clerks were on
a par with Vancouver police-
men and firemen (who enjoy
collective bargaining rights)
they now receive $900 less per
year.

@ Every post office system
in the world outside of Canada
provides chairs or stools for
mail sorters, but in Canada
they have to stand for a full
eight-hour shift and sometimes
for ten hours.

There are approximately
240,000 federal civil servants,
outside of the armed forces,
the RCMP and those employ-
ed by Crown.Corporations. Of

these. 120,000 are members of

the Civil Service Federation
(135. associations) and 40,000

peal of Section 55 of the In- }-
dustrial
putes Investigation Act, which
denies federal employees the

Relations and Dis-

not receive

® During the’
postal clerks were the only
group of civil servants who did
salary

last war,

national union with
branches in every province.

increase,

are members of the Civil Ser-
vice Association, which is a
local

COMMUNIST RALLY

Pender Auditorium, Sun., Nov. 1, 8 p.m.
You Are Invited To Hear

NATIONAL CONVENTION REPORTS

What are Canadian communists doing? What did
the convention decide? Why the change of nether

Which way Canada?

DISARMAMENT, NOT GERMAN REARMAMENT

Stop this dance of death!

In 1930 Britain, France and the
U.S.A. tore up the Versailles Treaty
provisions for the disarmament of Ger-
many and allowed the German militar-
ists to build 10,000-ton “pocket battle-
ships.”

“Only one,” they said, and “only

10,000 tons.”

Ten years later the Nazi cruiser,
Graf Spee was murdering and maraud-
ing over the high seas, and the Bis-
marck was ravaging the Royal Navy,
while U-boats sank hundreds of ships.

The 1930 decision was the start of
German rearmament and Hitlerite ag-
gression.

In 1948 West Germany, ruled by big
capitalists and militarists, was permit-
ted to rearm — in violation of the arm-
istice agreements. A Nazi war criminal,
Von Speidel, became commander of
Canadian forces in Europe.

On October 22, 1959, West Germany,
its militarists filled with the spirit of
revenge, was given permission by the
U.S. and its Western European satel-
lites to make guided missiles.

This is but one short step to allowing
West Germany to make nuclear bombs
and poison gases.

And already the West German army
is being armed with atomic weapons. __

- ___At a time when the world’s people

are, inspired by a new hope for peace
through general and complete disarm-
ament, as proposed by N. S. Khrushchev
to the United Nations — they are slap-
ped in the face by this decision to
strengthen the very militarist forces
in West Germany against whom Cana-

dians have fought in two devastating ©

world wars.

The Canadian government, as a
member of NATO, must be compelled to
oppose and condemn the further re-
armament of the German militarists!

Our Canadian troops in Germany
should be brought home. Canada must
support the growing demand for world
total disarmament.

_ We must stop this dance of death
with German militarists and their U.S.
counterparts.

Disarmament, not German rearm-
ament!

Life, not death! Goods for peace, not
war!

Canadians! Speak out to the govern-
ment now, demanding that Canada
takes a stand for peace through dis-
armament!

.

National Executive Committee,
Communist Party of Canada.

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