The U.S. Daily World, whose new masthead appears below,

celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Marxist press Dec. 9.
Taking part in the event were (I. to r.) Len De Caux, former editor

of the CIO News; Gus Hall, general secretary of the U.S.
Communist Party; Angela Davis and Anton Refregier. The PT greets
the Daily World as we prepare to celebrate our 40th anniversary in
1975.

DAILY

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1975 BETHUNE SEMINARS

_. The 1975 Norman Bethune seminars sponsored by the

B.C. executive of the Communist Party will run for seven

consecutive Wednesdays, commencing January 15. All sessions

will be held in the Ukrainian Hall, 805 E. Pender St.,

Vancouver, commencing at 8 p.m.

The curriculum will be as follows:

“The Political Situation in B. C. "Discussion leader will be

___ Nigel Morgan.

(2) “The Canadian Economy — Recession or Depression?

which will be led by Emil Bjarnason.

(3) “Portugal — From Dictatorship to Democracy,”
led by Maurice Rush.

(4) “Emancipation of Women — From a Class Viewpoint.”
Discussion leader will be Mona Morgan.

(5) “Role of the Soviet Union in World Affairs”
leader will be Jack Phillips.

(6) “China's Foreign Policy,”” led by Ben Swankey.

(7) “The Future of Canada’s Trade Union Movement,” led by

George Hewison.

Registration forms can be obtained from Room 408, Ford
Building, 193 E. Hastinas St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone
684-1451.

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City union leader hails
foreign policy parley

By FRED WILSON

On December 7 and 8, 180 men
and women gathered at a
university in Ottawa for one of the
most important but least
publicized events in Canada in
many years. The 180 were
delegates to an Assembly for a
New Canadian Foreign Policy, and
among them were two from B.C.,
George Legebokoff and Bob
Hamilton.

On their return, the PT paid a
visit to one of them, Bob Hamilton,
in his office where he works as
president of the Lettercarriers
Union, Local 12.

Although an executive member
of the Vancouver Labor Council
and a prominent trade unionist,
Bob was not an official trade union
delegate, going instead as a repre-
sentative of the Canadian Congress
of Peace Forces in Vancouver, to

which the Labor Council had
donated $100.
Hamilton said he was

“somewhat amazed” at the low
level of publicity given to the
Assembly by the media, especially
considering the ‘“‘big names”’ and
the large numbers of church
groups, ethnic groups, peace
groups and trade union repre-
sentatives. :

Prominent figures such as
Chester Ronning, former Canadian
diplomat and former ambassador
to India; Professor Chaboneau,
president of the Quebec Teachers
Federation; and Andrew Brewin,
NDP MP, added considerable
weight to the assembly.

The conference itself consisted of
an opening plenary session,
followed by four workshop groups
covering the full gamut of foreign
affairs, and concluded by a final
plenary session that heard reports
from the workshops.

The assembly was especially
rich, Hamilton noted, by the
diversification of groups present
and their individual approaches to
a progressive foreign policy.

Hamilton’s workshop was titled,
“Sovereignty and Independence.”
It dealt with the role of multi-
national corporations, trade
unions, the CIA and the RCMP and
sought to define economic and
cultural independence. That
workshop, chaired by Nadine Hunt
of the Saskatchewan Federation of
Labor, posed a multitude of
questions but zeroed in on multi-
national corporations.

‘“‘They are present everywhere,”
Hamilton said, ‘‘in industry,
finance, trade, politics, religion,
ideology and culture. They are
completely integrated. They are
closely linked with government but
owe no allegiance to any country.”’

The workshop’s answer, as he
remembered, was, ‘‘Since the
multinational corporations are
responsible only to themselves,
and as production becomes
socialized while economics as well
as politics are becoming in-
ternationalized, why not
rationalize economic activities on
a world-wide scale. We should first
control them, forbid them to
finance political parties, etc., and
finally nationalize them.”

One part of the conference which

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particularly impressed Hamilton
was a special resolution regarding
the plight of 1,500 Haitians in
Canada who fear deportation
owing to the new immigration
laws. At present 10 Haitians a week
are being deported and many are
being sent to their death or prison
for sure at the hand of the Duvalier
dictatorship for alleged ‘‘com-
munist association.” ‘In Haiti
anything left of the John Birch
Society is communist,’’ Hamilton

quipped.

The only disappointment for
Hamilton was the lack of a
stronger trade union voice at the
assembly. ‘‘McCarthyism is not
dead,” he explained, ‘‘but labor
will have to lead us out of it. Trade

unions will have to play a large role
in the development of any peace
policy in this country,’’ he con-
cluded.

Among measures urged by the
workshop on International Peace
and Security were that the
government play an active role in
the upcoming UN Disarmament
conference; extricate Canada
from the Defence Production
sharing agreement with the U.S.;
and reduction of the military
budget by 25 to50% over two years.

Other proposals included the
demand that Canada not renew the
NORAD agreement; and that
Canada take a stand on the war in
Southeast Asia by pressing for
enforcement of the Paris Accord
and release of political prisoners.

Housing action demanded

Cont'd from pg. 1
Highlighting the comprehensive
set of proposals outlined in the

brief are the following:

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

@ Central Housing and Mortgage
Corporation (CMHC) to be charged
with implementing a national goal
of publicly supported building and
distribution of 300,000 units of
housing annually.

e CMHC to be given powers to
assist in the review and control of
prices with authority to make
recommendations of the
allowability of increases in all
components of housing — land,
materials, mortgages.

e Interest rates to be set no
higher than six per cent on all NHA
loans with the government: sub-
sidizing the cost of mortgage
money above six per cent in the
private money market.

e Removal of the 11% federal
sales tax on residential building
materials with the full benefits
passed on to consumers. The
establishment and implementation
of a strict national building code.

e Capital gains tax applied to
100% of capital gains for real
estate companies, land developers
and building corporations with
revenues so collected to be
allocated to housing finance and
construction.

PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENT

e The government to assess and
specify provincial housing needs.
In the Lower Mainland, the con-
struction of 20,000 units annually
over the next five years.

e The department of housing to
undertake a continuing program of
large scale land assembly and lot
servicing for public housing-
oriented development.

e All lands acquired or held by
the Crown with a potential for
residential development to remain
in the public domain.

e The department of housing to
develop its own. building and
financing capacity on a large
scale. Government building to be
non-profit and government
financing at an interest rate of no
higher than six per cent to in-
dividual home. buyers and
cooperative societies.

e The department of housing
should assist and encourage
municipal involvement in housing
activity through access to land,
building expertise and a_ public
construction corporation.

e Unilateral removal of the
provincial sales tax from
residential building materials.

MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT

e Municipalities in all large and
growing urban areas should un-
dertake to provide the main
responsibility and initiatives for
low rental housing; to plan, ap-
prove, build, acquire and operate
all public low rental housing in the
municipality other than that
provided by cooperative, non-
profit or provincial housing.

e Public rental housing to be
operated on the basis of
municipality-wide collective
bargaining on the terms of tenancy
and management-tenant relations
with tenants represented by an
independent tenants organization.
Access on the basis of need in
relation to income, assets and
family size.

e The regional district should
maintain its role of assisting
municipalities with planning and
coordination of municipal housing
activity.

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WANTED the loan, or purchase of
the book which gives statistical
information, on the type of in-
dustries, the amount of the loans,
the names of all those countries
that the Soviet Union has, and is
helping, develop. John Tanche,
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ANNOUNCEMENT

The TRIBUNE now has a new
telephone number. For those
readers who wish to make note —
685-8108.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—-FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1975—Page 7

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