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Students discuss Mounties

The. Mounties won’t get their
student, if delegates to the re-
cent 27th congress of the National
Federation of UhiversityStudents
have their way.

The Edmonton congress, with

Students from 41 colleges and
universities, decided they don’t ©

have to answer RCMP questions
except in a court of law and
told the 115,000 students they re-
present that any answers should
be in writing, signed and dated.

NFUCS also demanded the fed-
eral government state its policy
on on-campus RCMP investiga-
tions by Nov. 15 or ‘suitable
demonstrations’’ of protest will
be held in Ottawa.

The problem of equal relations
between French and English-
Speaking Canadians also playeda
prominent role in the congress
discussions.

NDP ‘tax rich’

Third and final reading was
given by the House of Commons
last week to a bill increasing the
old age pension to $75 from $65
a month to those over 70 years
of age.

Before its passage, however,
two attempts to modify the fin-
ancing of the increase were ruled
out of order. The government plan
is to raise the money byincreas-
ing the old age security tax from
three to four percent on personal
income, raising the maximum
Paid from $90 to $120 a year.

An NDP motion proposed to re-
tain the present three percent tax

A resolution was adopted pro-
viding for ‘‘the establishment
of two equal groups, with inter-
nal sovereignty on questions
within their exclusive jurisdic-
tion, within the new Candian Union
of Students,”’

The federation’s president,
Dave Jenkins, claimed: ‘‘No other
organization in Canada recog-
nizes the two cultural groups—
the French and the English—as
separate linguistic and cultural
entities in the way NFCUS
does.’’

Although the basis of division
by the federation was on lin-

guistic rather thannational lines,

there was also agreement that
French and English-speaking
students in the province of Que-
bec would co-operate in advanc-
ing proposals to the government
of Quebec.

move killed

but increase the ceiling to be
paid. Andrew Brewin (Toronto-
Greenwood) said the tax increase
was regressive and uneconomical
and placed the burden on those
earning $3,000 a year or less.

Robert Perron of the Rallie-
ment des Creditistes, proposed
an amendment that would have the
Bank of Canada finance the in-
crease.

J. Waldo Monteith, health mini-
ster in the former Conservative

government, said the tax increase

was a disavowal of the Liberal
election promise to raise the old
age pension without a tax boost.

Kardash raps tax on co-ops

Total sales for the four de-
partments of the People’s Co-
Operative in Winnipeg, Man., sur-
passed $33 million, slightly below
last year, according tothe annual
report presented by President
W. A..Kardash,

Fuel customers were again

. allowed an eight percent dividend,

a

bringing the total dividends
to fuel customers to $250,
to fuel customers to $250,-
000 for the past 16 years. A divi-
dend to cream shippers of two
Cents per pound butterfat amount-
ed to $17,500 to bring this total
to $95,000 for the past 12 years.

A bonus of one week’s pay was
declared to the employees—the
Same as last year.

In his report Kardashcriticiz-
ed the campaign against the co-
Operatives on the taxation ques-
tion. Resorting to falsehood and
Mmisrepresentation, the monopo-
lies would like to see adiscrimin-
atory tax slapped on the co-
Operatives so as to reduce their

_ Ability to pass on savings in the

form of patronage dividends to
their members and customers, he
Stated,

He also emphasized the impor-
tance to C-rada and to the co-
Operative movement of the sign-

ing of the limited nuclear test
ban treaty in Moscow, the Free-
dom March of Aug. 28 in Wash-
ington and the half-billion dollar
sale of wheat and flour by Can-
ada to the Soviet Union.

All three events will strengthen
the movement for disarmament
and durable peace, lessen the ten-
sions between East and West
and prove beyond doubt that trade
among nations is far more bene-
ficial than an arms race.

Resolutions were unanimously’

adopted expressing solidarity
with the movement for racial

equality of the Negro people in-

the U.S.

) SELL THOSE TRIBS!

Soviet anniversary
to be marked in city

The Greater Vancouver Committee of the Communist Party
of Canada will celebrate the 46th anniversary of the Great Octo-
ber Revolution with a gala concert evening at the Russian, People’s

Ome, 600 Campbell Ave., on Thursday, Nov. 7, starting at 8 p.m.

Feature speaker will be PT Associate Editor Maurice Rush.

In addition to the main speaker, forces of several national group
Cultural organizations as well as the Vancouver Youth Singers will

be featured,

Coffee and cake will be served at the close of the meeting and

: there will be a collection at the door.
_ Everyone is cordially invited to attend.

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CIRCULATION ROUNDUP:

Sub drive picks up steam
-much more still needed

By JERRY SHACK
(Circulation Mgr.)

Our annual circulation drive
is beginning to pick up some
momentum, but not nearly enough
yet to ensure a victory for this
year. At time of writing, we
have raised roughly 29 percent
of our overall objective, leaving
71 percent still to come.

In the field of paper sales,
we have been doing even better
than expected. Already we have
received 60 percent of our drive
quota and quite a few clubs have
not mailed in money outstanding
for sales,

In this connection, we wish to
emphasize once again that we
cannot credit any club with having
sold papers until the funds have
been received in the office. So,
all you clubs with outstanding
bills for paper sales, please
get the money in this week and
improve your standings when the.
results are published in next

*OF CURSE WE WANT ACCURACY. But
CAN'T You BE ACCURATE THE. WAY
OUR ADVERTISERS LIKE ITP”

UP-TO-DATE BOX SCORE
City—151 subs, 138 P/S. Total—289
Prov.—163 subs, 85 P/S. Total—248
Grand Total—537 subs in on 1750

Total New Subs—24 in on 250

week’s issue of the ‘PT’,

Regarding picking up renewals
as they expire, the picture is not
nearly as bright. So far, only
about 21 percent_of the 1475 subs
required have come in. More
attention is needed here.

In the winning of new subs, we
are far behind. Only 24new read-
ers have been signed up since
the beginning of September—less
than 10 percent of our 250 tar-
get. Obviously, this is the phase
of our drive which will have to
be improved upon most of all.

Our budget simply will not
allow us‘to rest on laurels ac-
cumulated earlier in the year
in the field of circulation. From
the point of view of financing our
labor paper, we just can’t afford
to fail in this crucial campaign.

City and province are keeping
just about even, with neither being
able to pull into a commanding
lead, But there are still anumber
of clubs in both areas which are
lagging badly..@Ve appeal to them -
not to hold the drive back—get
into the campaign quickly; there
are only three weeks left!

ASIDE TO OKANAGAN, TRAIL

The ‘PT’ Circulation Manager
will be in the Trail-Nelson
vicinity from October 25-28
inclusive and in the Okanagan re-
gion from October 29 to
November 1. He will be looking
forward to meeting all our read-
ers and supporters while in the
interior and will be glad to an-
swer questions, provide inform-
ation, etc.

Contact your’ local press
director for detailed information.

Corrections

_In last week’s Tom McEwen
column the address of Paul
Bjarnson, author of ‘‘More
Echoes’’ was incorrect. The cor-
rect address is 1016 West 13th,
Vancouver, B.C.

In the same edition the coal
mining feature article by Sydney
Sarkin, a strip mining machine
was cited as weighing 12,000,000
tons. This should have read 12,-
000,000 Ibs.

We thank our readers for
bringing these typo errors toour
attention.

Con’t from pg. 6 .

upon development. Some of the:
quotations used by the authors)
of the June 14 document actually
contradict the spirit of Marxism-
Leninism in this respect. For ex-
ample, they quote the historic
words of Marx from his Critique
of the Gotha Program:

‘¢Between capitalist and com-
munist society lies the period of
the revolutionary transformation
of the one into the other. There
corresponds to this also a poli-
tical transition period in which
the state can be nothing but the
revolutionary dictatorship of the:
proletariat.’’ :

Using this fundamental thesis
of Marxism as though it were a
mechanistic dogma instead of as
Marx formulatedit, dialectically,
as a dynamic guide to action,
the Chinese party leaders pro-
ceed to confuse the form and the
content of Marxism-Leninism, of
working-class leadership of
society.

* * *

They place an interpretation
upon the historical-materialist
th-.+s that Marx wroteinhis cri-
tic.sm of the Gotha Program to

the effect that there will be no
change whatsoever in the forms
through which socialist demo-
cracy will. develop and eventu-
ally flower; from the day when
the dictatorship of the proleta-
riat is established as the supreme
guarantee that socialism will be
built, until’ the full maturity of
communist society.

The Chinese leaders should
know, if only from their own ex-
perience, that life does not AND
CANNOT develop that way. The
change that they are referring to
is that from the stateform estab-
lished by the socialist revolution
to overcome counter-revolution-
ary capitalist attempts at resis-
tance, replace capitalist economy
with socialist economy, and so

on; to the maturing of commun- :
ist society at the level where
no state organization

WHATSOEVER will be _ re-
quired. Nations cannot pass
through this great social change,
the greatest in all the history of
mankind, overnight as it were,
in one great leap forward; they
have to. grow and their citizens
must develop as they fight for it.

Lenin dealt with the question
of the evolution of the state be-
tween capitalism andcommunism
in his classic of Marxism, ‘‘State
and Revolution’’ but he dealt
with it in a very much different
manner than do the authors of
the June 14 document. Lenin
wrote that ‘*, . . Marx even spoke
‘of the ‘future state in communist
society; i.e., as though he recog-
nized the need for the state even
under communism’’,

Referring to the characteriza-
tion of the socialist state in the
Soviet Union as the state of all
the people, the authors of the
June 14 document write: ‘‘Does
this not fundamentally conflict
with the teachings of Marx and
Lenin onthe state of the dictator-
ship of the proletariat?’’

* oF *

We are fully justified in asking
the authors: Do you mean to im-
ply that Marx was also in con-
flict with Marxism, and Lenin
also? Because Lenin certainly
agreed that the withering away

of the state will be a very pro- —

tracted process. He wrote:

‘That is why we are entitled
to speak only of the inevitable
withering away of the state, em-
phasizing the protracted nature
of this process and its depen-
dence upon the rapidity of deve-
lopment of the HIGHER PHASE
of communism, and leaving the
question of the time required for,
or the concrete forms of, the
withering away quite open, be-

‘cause there is NO material for
‘answering these questions.’’

Lenin wrote further, in elabo-
ration of the thesis quoted above,
that, in communist society it may
be necessary to maintain for
some time ‘‘the bourgeois state
without the bourgeoisie.’’

The authors of the June 14
document chose to ignore Lenin’s
brilliant study of the conditions
which determine the development
of the state of the dictatorship of
the proletariat to the state of all
the people in the course of the
development of socialist demo-
cracy to the level at which the
majority, AND THEN THE
WHOLE POPULATION WITH-
OUT EXCEPTION, proceed to
discharge state functions. Their
avoidance of this shows that they
realize that Lenin’s historic
treatise refutes the thesis on
which they base their violent
attack on the characterization of
the Soviet state today, as the state
of all the people of the Soviet
Union. The CPSUis carrying for-
ward the science of Marx and

Lenin.

October 25, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7