To put Canada Back To Work,
€xpand the economy, curb inflation
and raise living standards, the Com-
munist Party advances these points
ina public development program:
_|+.A crash program of 400,000
housing units annually for low and

medium incomes.
_ 2. The creation of a Government.

Operated Canadian Merchant Mo-
tine, .

__3. If necessary, the transference

| Of part of the auto industry over to

the _ production of rapid transit
€quipment, engines and passenger
rail cars and passenger busses. Na-

| tionalization of the CPR-CPI and.

all its operations and the creation

of a fully integrated all Canadian,
peeuely owned transportation sys-

, 4. Processing of natural resources
in Canada and the building of sec-
Ondary industry based on public
Ownership, including public owner-
ship of all sources of energy.
5. Guaranteed markets and
Stable prices for farm products.
_ 6. The extension of trade with
e socialist and. developing coun-
tries on a vast scale including pro-
Visions for long term, low interest
Credits.
The new government budget must
lave 4 new distribution of the na-

tional income in favor of the work-

Ing people as its aim: :
; 1. Such a redistribution should
Nclude the elimination of taxes on
Ncomes of $10,000 and less.

| ~ Communist Party program
| to put Canada back to work

2. A guaranteed annual: income
for working people in city and
countryside.

. 3, ‘ Further increases in pension
payments with eatlier retirement
and increased family allowances,

these to be tied not only to in-

creases in living costs but to in-
creased productivity and rising liv-
ing standards. Unemployment insur-
ance payments to be raised to 80%
of basic wages and continued for
the duration of unemployment.

4. Implementation of a program
of denticare and pharmacare.

5. Special measures fo ensure
adequate training, income and jobs
for young people leaving school and
seeking work, and for the unem-
ployed.

6. Raising the purchasing power

of the working people through sub- -

stantial wage increases.

7. The institution of price and
profit controls including rent cont-
rols. The establishment of a two
price system on oil and natural gas,
roll back on prices of basic food-
stuffs, rent, housing, clothing and
fuel to January 1973 levels.

The budget must strengthen
Canadian control and ownership
over the economy:

1. All companies operating in
Canada must be subject to Cana-
dian law.

2. Plants which close down
should be taken over and operated
in the public interest.

candidates run
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HAMILTON — The Hamilton

+

fa; pSclezation of the Commun-
“omra 4 of Greece composed of
Tof 4, © Costas Loules, member

"e Political Bureau of the
“munist Party-of Greece, and

vith «1° Betty Ambatielos, met

n tt
of o Of the Communist Party

a The two parties ex-
NOmic information on the eco-
Xistin and political situations
and he in Greece and Canada
Men; 5 in respect to develop-
On an international scale.

© Parties greeted recent de-
Regt in South East Asia
coi Particularly by the his-
ey of the heroic Viet-
ples’ Cambodian and Loatian
x Over U.S. imperialism
, ative reactionary regimes.
f a 8reeted also the overturn
ind 4 fascist junta in Greece
Ver the yaaa py paogacy
Ama : iv e-
me in Port 2 et ed fascist r
He. = Parties noted the histo-
hivershortance of the 30th an-
War “'Y of the Second World
mili, hich. ended with the
4 denine defeat of Hitler fascism,
Bemocr, ae. the road for broad,
M Euro Ic and socialist advance
Wotig Pe and throughout the
Worig’ "OW consolidated in a
eed gs system,~and the
ion1ee Of numerous new
“1, Hal states,

€ parties

ne agreed to con-.

fa work for the strengthen-
€ Cohesion and unity of

Wo :
orld communist movement

the Central Executive Com- .

cn the basis of Marxism-Lenin- '

ism and proletarian internatio-
nalism as the decisive element
in the world-wide struggle of
the international working class,
of all democratic and anti-impe-
rialist forces throughout the
world for. detente,. general and
universal disarmament and a
just and stable world peace.

As steps in this direction the
two parties called for: 1. a poli-
tical settlement in the Middle

East based on the pertinent UN |

resolutions and the early con-
vening of the Geneva Confer-
-ence on the Middle East, includ-
ing participation .by the Pales-
tine Liberation Organization as
the sole legitimate voice of the
Arab people of Palestine. 2.4
guaranteed peace - for Cyprus
based on’ the decisions of the
United Nations for the territo-
rial integrity, sovereignty and
independence on Cyprus. 3. The
withdrawal of NATO and U.S.

bases from Greece and the trans-

formation of the Mediterranean
into a sea cf peace and nuclear
free zone. 4. The convening of a
summit meeting this year to
adopt and sign .the treaty for
security and cooperation in
Europe. —

The two parties agreed to
strengthen further their long es-
tablished bonds of ‘friendship
and solidarity and to work con-
sistently to
bonds of friendship between the
Greek and Canadian peoples.

strengthen the

Committee of the Communist
Party of Canada held a public
meeting, Wednesday, May 14, at
the AUUC hall to introduce
their two candidates for the next
provincial election. ,

Art Walling, 26, a steelworker,

will contest the seat in Hamil-
ton Centre, and Mike Mirza, 45,

a mechanic, will run in Hamilton
Mountain. There will also be a
candidate in Hamilton East.

William Stewart, provincial
leader of the Communist Party
spoke to the meeting on the is-
sue of the rising crime and viol-

ence in the province and the ~

lack of action by the Davis gov-
ernment. He drew attention to
fascist, racist posters springing
up all over Toronto and to the
racist murder of young, 15-year-
old Michal Habbib.

-The audience responded to the
two candidates and to William
Stewart with great enthusiasm
and ajourned the meeting by
standing and singing the Inter-
national.

UNION-BUSTING
GIMLI, Man. — Fifty workers

have been laid off at the Mani-.

toba government owned Saund-
ers Aircraft Corporation in Gim-
li, Manitoba. The company has

been importing workers from
England, claiming that none

were available in Canada. All

- those laid off are Canadian.

Country-wide

growth

registered by CPC

Communist Party central or-

ganizer Alf Dewhurst told the.

Tribune this week that the
Party’s central committe was on
sound ground when it decided
last October to make 1975 a
year of party building.

Just returned from an organiz-
ing trip to British Columbia, Al-
berta and Manitoba, Dewhurst
said party recruitment across
the country is proceeding at a
tempo guaranteeing the fulfill-
ment of the modest objective set
by the committee for 1975.

He told the Tribune that while

‘results as yet are uneven across

the country, enthusiasm for the
campaign is good and in some
centres is high. He singled out
Calgary and Toronto for special
mention. where recruiting is at
a high level. Calgary, he said,
has almost fulfilled its original
target for the: year and has set
a new goal. Toronto has achiev-
ed better than 50% of its ob-
jective. —

He said experience. to date
shows that growth is most evi-
dent in those areas and locali-
ties where the party is active in
mass political action which com-

bines correctly the party’s inde- »

pendent campaigning and united

action with others-around com-

mon aims. :
He pointed out also that an

ALF DEWHURST

important part of recruitment to
date has been setting up clubs
in new areas such as work
places and in new localities.

Dewhurst estimates that as of
now the party is at the quarter
way mark on its objective of
500 new members for 1975. This
he claims: is good because it
takes time to get a campaign
rolling. It is his opinion the tar-
gets set will not only be met —
but will be overfulfilled because
of more favorable political con-
ditions. :

A life devoted 6 cause
of Black African freedom

Abram Louis Fischer, Lenin
Peace prize winner and member -
of the Central Committee of the -
South African Communist Party,
died May 8 in South Africa |

while under house arrest. He
was 67 years old.

Fischer was a political prison- |

er until a few months ago, when

the fascist apartheid South Afri- |

can government released him
from jail
pressure from around the world.
He was kept under temporary
house arrest, however.

Before his release he was

transferred to a Johannesburg |

hospital when it was discovered
that he was suffering from ter-
minal cancer.

_ His death is a great loss to the
South African and to the world
movements against racism and
imperialism. He had devoted
most of his life to the cause of
freedom and equality of the
Black African majority.

As a lawyer, Fischer led the

defence team at the: Treason
Trial in 1957. In 1961 at the con-

‘clusion of the Revonia trials, in

which the leadérs of the African
National Congress and Umkhon-
to We Sizwe were tried, he was
charged with furthering the aims
of the South African Commun-
ist Party, and with so-called
sabotage, fraud and forgery.

Born:in South Africa, Fischer
rejected his family background
of establishment jurists and gov-
ernment leaders and put his life
and talent to work against apar-,
theid.

He was a member of the
Transvaal Peace Council, the
Congress of Democrats and a!
member of South African Peace:
Council, of which he was chair-
man at one time.

After -his imprisonment,
among those who were in the
campaign that won his release

following mounting |

ABRAM FISCHER

were the’ South African Com-
munist Party; the World Peace
Council; the Women’s Interna-
tional Democratic Federation;
the Nigerian Ambassador to the
UN and Chairman of the Special
Committee on Apartheid, Edwin
O. Ogbu; the African National
Congress and the world com-
munist movement.

“You have grown old and gray in
-with this bottle of ksir dye. . .”

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