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By PEGGY CHUNN

The delegates and visitors sat
quietly, giving their closest at-
tention to the speaker, She was
young, attractive, auburn-haired
Maria Maluenda, Member of Par-
liament, and Member of the Cen-
tral Committee of the Communist
Party of Chile, one of the fra-
ternal delegates to the National
Convention of the Communist
Party of Canada,

There was thunderous applause
as she brought the greetings of
her Party to the Canadian Party
of Communists, In a most elo-
quent manner she spoke of the
work of the Party in Chile. Des-
cribing it as a Party with a solid
proletarian base, she went on to
speak of some of the struggles
of her people, ..

The miners of El Salvador
mining camp and their struggle
against American Imperialism,
(El Salvador is a subsidiary of
the Anaconda Company — Amer-
ican), The Party’s struggle for
unity among all progressives in
Chile and underlying her entire
address was the knowledge that
American Imperialism was “the
main enemy,” and one’s duty as
a Communist was to work to-
wards uniting all those forces
within the country against their
common enemy,

There is growing participation
of Chilean women in these strug-
gles, she said, and pointed out
also, that the only woman mem-
ber of the Senate there, is a
Communist,

Delivering most of speech in
English, she went on to recite
Pablo Neruda’s poem on peace,

in Spanish, It was a rare treat
to listen to sucha dramatic pres-
entation — one did notneed to
know the language to understand
the meaning and to feel emo-
tionally moved by the passionate
appeal of that beautiful voice.

As she brought her address to
a close by presenting a picture of
the Founder of the Chilean Com-
munist Party to the Convention,
the entire audience rose to its
feet and almost brought the roof
down once more — then we sat
down feeling limp and exhausted
after such an emotional experi-
ence and at the same time with
such a feeling of international
solidarity after this brief glimpse
at the struggles of our Chilean
comrades in their fight for inde-
pendence and peace,

We had another opportunity to
listen to this outstanding woman:
Jeanette Walsh, of the Communist

‘Party of French Canada, made

a presentation to her, on behalf
of all of us. In expressing her
thanks and appreciation, Maria
Maluenda ended with the following
words: *, ,. .each step forward
a people takes, is a step forward
for all peoples of the world.”
One cannot express international
solidarity more succinctly than
that!

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B.C.-wide parley
on pollution urged

The Alberni Valley Citizen’s
Committee on Pollution has call-
ed for a province-wide confer-
ence of interested groups and
individuals to discuss and for-
mulate plans and policies for
effective control and elimination
of all forms of pollution.

In a letter to Hon, Ray Willis-
ton, Minister of Resources in
Victoria, the committee suggest-
ed next November as a Suitable
time for such a conference and
that the conference should be
called by the three-member cab-
inet committee which was set up
during the last session of the
legislature to consider and act
upon the pollution control prob-
_ lem,

This is after the federal pol-
lution conference which is to be
held in Montreal in October at-
which Williston will represent
B.C,, and itis suggested that-he
could report to the provincial
conference the results of the
federal meeting.

The letter to Williston suggests
that all organizations and in-
terested individuals be invited,
including Wildlife organizations,
sport and commercial fishermen,
labor and agricultural groups,

- Last week Municipal Affairs
Minister Dan Campbell, in a
letter to Colin Wilson, chairman
of the Alberni committee on pol-
lution, said he considered the
suggestion “very timelv’’.

‘Share the wealth’

Canadian companies whose
“profits are at all-time record
levels,” should ‘share the
wealth” with the common working
man said David B, Archer, pres-
ident of the Ontario Federation of
Labor last week,

*¢We want every Canadian to
have a share in the prosperity
which this nation is yielding,”
he told an Ontario conference of
the International Woodworkers of
America,

He said General Motors could
have reduced the price on every
car by $300, and still made a

profit of 13 percent on its in-
vestment, Or, he added, the
company could have paid almost
$3,000 more to every person it
employs and still have made 13
percent profit.

Pointing to increased produc-
tivity, Archer said that in 1965,
667,700 workers in Canada and
the U.S, produced 11,114,000 cars
and trucks, In 1947 626,400 work-
ers produced only 4,792,800 cars
and trucks, This amounted toa
131.9 percent increase in pro-

duction with only a 6.6 percent
increase in the number of work-

ers,

CP PARLEY CHARGES:

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‘Monopoly-rigged prices
are cause of inflation’

Condemning monopoly-rigged
prices as the cause of inflation,
the Communist Party of Canada at
its recent convention called for
increased taxation on the big
corporations, andthe provision of
means by which consumers can
resist monopoly goughing
through the establishment of a
Price Review Board.

The party charged that the
present curtailment of serv-
ices by the CPR shows that public
transportation cannot be operated
in the interests of private capital
as well as in the interests of
the country, and demanded the
nationalization of the CPR, and
the evolvement of a publicly-
owned, all Canadian integrated
public transportation system,

Taking note of the mounting
pressure for diversion of Can-
adian water resources to the
U.S.A., the Communists called
for a “comprehensive national
policy to preserve Canadian con-
trol over and to provide for the
maximum use of Canadian water
resources to facilitiate the all-

round development of the Can-
adian economy and to guarantee
against any alienation of our
water which would jeopardize
adequate supplies for all Can-
adian needs in the future.

The Convention called for a
new deal for the municipalities,
under which senior governments
would assume financial responsi-
bility for the ever-increasing
costs of education, health, wel-
fare and justice, It urged the
forthcoming conference of
premiers in Victoria to convene
a federal-provincial- municipal
conference,

Criticism was voiced of the .

Pearson government’s failure to
move ahead on the implementa-
tion of the Cohen report on hate
literature, and the demand was
advanced for legislation ‘*to make
it a criminal offense to incite to
race hatred and genocide.”

The Convention re-affirmed
the party’s demand for disas-
sociation by the Canadian govern-~
ment from the U.S, policy of

- aggression in Vietnam, for the

immediate halt to the bombing of
North Vietnam, and the immed-
iate withdrawal of all foreign
troops from South Vietnam, _ It
condemned the training of Ger-
man troops in Canada, and the
U,S. drive to place nuclear arms
in the hands of the West German
government, It called on the
United States government to re-
spect international law in its
dealings with Cuba, and to give

up the U.S, base at Guantanamo ~

which it charged is a centre for
provocations and espionage,

The convention sharply pro-
tested the actions of the Salazar
government of Portugal in waging
a cruel war of oppression against
the people of the Portuguese Afri-
can colonies, and in using its
power to uphold the racist Smith
regime in Rhodesia,

Noting that 1966 marks the
30th anniversary of the Spanish
Civil war in which 600 of Can-
ada’s finest sons died fighting
for democracy, the convention
demanded the release of all po-

litical prisoners now in Spanish

jails,

In a further resolution on the
theme of international solidarity,’
the Communists called for an end
to the apartheid system in South
‘Africa, for the release of South
African democrats imprisoned
for fighting the racism of the
Verwoerd government, and for
the extension in Canada of the
boycott of South African goods.

The Convention identified it--
self with, and fully supported the
widening militant actions of the
labor movement to counter mon-
opoly’s profit drive by in-
creased wages and salaries for
the people.

It also pledged support to all
movements of housewives,
consumers and other democratic
forces striving to check the big.
business drive against living
standards,

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