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continued impoverishment of
the working people and the per-
sistent rise in profits of the big-
gest capitalists and monopolists.

In 1970, for example the
average real wages of workers
declined by 3%, but the profits
of banks and industries rose’ by
over 10%. And to compound
this problem the budget for
1971-72 almost doubles its sub-
sidies to industrialists.

Of this budget, 45% goes into
direct military expenditures,
an increase from 30% in 1967-
68. But in the same period
spending on health, education
and welfare has dropped from
30% to 13%.

The process of impoverish-
ment is further highlighted by
the fact that in 1954 the 20%
of urban Jewish families in the
lowest income bracket drew
7% of the aggregate personal
income, in 1968-69, they drew
only 4.7%. On the other hand
the percentage of personal in-
come drawn by the top 20%
went up from 30% of aggregate
personal income to 43%.

The bulletin draws attention
to the development in the slums
of a “Black Panther” movement
having no organizational con-
nection with U.S. Black Pan-
thers, but with a common affin-
ity between them — poverty
and social anger against an “af-
fluent” society. which deprives
them of the basic means for a
productive and cultured life.

The bulletin concludes: “Nat-
turally the deterioration is due
to the aggressive policy of the
Israeli government which is
based on antagonism towards
the Arab national liberation
movement and subservience to
U.S. imperialism.” Talk of bridg-
ing the “social-economic gap,”
is “not only impossible under
capitalism, it is doubly so when
the ruling circles prepare for
war and use 30% of the gross
national product for military ex-
penditures.”

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can be learned is unemployment
is heavy and has existed since
early last fall. :
Thus the kind of economic
hardship, usually the lot firstly
of-the black workers, barred al-
most completely from the skilled
trades because of racism, prac-
tised by the corporations and ac-
commodated to by the UAW
leaders and most of the skilled
trades members, is now the lot
of more than half the skilled
workers. Likewise production
workers who have known unem-
ployment all their lives, see the
skilled workers joining them in
jobless lines. :
In the skilled trades, men with
25 years seniority, have quickly
exhausted the eight weeks of
supplementary unemployment
benefits (SUBS) with no pros-
pects of early call backs. The
industry has moved away from
yearly big model changes, to ma-
jor changes possibly every five
years, and only face-lifting In
the years in between. Of course
they increase the price of the
cars $150-$200 each model. This
radical change in model changes,
has resulted in the heavy and
long layoffs. The economic crisis
brought on by the $78 billion a
year for wars like in Indochina,
has -sharpened the worsened
conditions in: auto- for workers.

NEW PARTY PROGRAM

Bulgaria’s future is bright :

By WILLIAM STEWART

Increased efforts for unity of
the world Communist movement
and more of everything for
everybody at home were the
twin themes of the historic 10th
Congress of the Bulgarian Com-
munist Party which concluded
April 26 in beautiful Sofia. .

A keynote report delivered by
General Secretary Todor Zhiv-
kov elaborated on the five-year
plan being recommended to Par-
liament and a new party pro-
gram leading to an advanced
socialist society in Bulgaria.
1,700 delegates, representing
700,000 party members in this
land of eight million people, un-
animously approved the plan
and program which had been the
subject of discussion in. fac-
tories, collective farms, commu-
nities, schools and universities
for many months.

Fraternal delegates from 89
Communist and socialist parties,
led off by Leonid Brezhnev, First
Secretary of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union, ad-
dressed the Congress, each re-
ceiving a standing ovation.

Wm. Stewart, member of the
Central Executive of the Com-
munist Party of Canada and
head of the Canadian delegation,
compared the great vision un-
folded in the program and five-
year plan with the deep going
crisis existing in Canada and the
mood of despair about the fu-
ture. He declared that this com-
parison would not be lost sight of
by the Canadian working class.

Mike Comishin, member of the
Central Committee, was the
other Canadian delegate.

Coming on the the heels ofthe
inspiring 24th Congress of the
CPSU, one might have expected
the Bulgarian congress to be
somewhat of an anti-climax. It
was not. On the contrary, pick-
ing up where the Soviet congress
left off, it added an important
dimension to the growing trend
of unity in the world movement
and tackled the problems of
building an advanced socialist
society in Bulgaria in the truly
national traditions of a party
which was founded in 1891. The
names of Dimitry Blagoyev,
founder of the communist move-
ment in Bulgaria in the 1890’s,
and Georgi Dimitrov, the great
Bulgarian and international
working’class leader were on the
lips of all delegates and guests.

Great Tradition

The Bulgarian Communists
pointed with pride to their
party’s unblemished record in
the fight for working class inter-
nationalism, at the same time

Canadian delegates William
Stewart (left) and Mike Comishin

place wreaths at

. soleum.. 5. Sutiosncias ante Slama

Dimitrov’s mau-

Congress of Bulgarian Communist Party in session. Portraits on
wall (left to right): Dimitry Blagoyev, V. I. Lenin, Georgi Dimitrov.

being the foremost patriots of
their country. It was this tradi-
tion, the Congress was assured
time and time again, which
cemented the unbreakable unity
between the party and the work-
ing class, peasants, and intel-
ligentsia, as well its unshakable
unity with the CPSU and the
entire Soviet people.

Centering around the theme
“Everything in the name of man,
everything for the good of man,”
Todor Zhivkov’s report on the
five-year plan promises great
advance in the economic, social:
and cultural life of the entire
people. Greeting the new tech-
nological revolution as the hand-
maiden of socialism the report
sets out in glowing detail how
Bulgaria intends to harness the
new technology to shape its in-
dustry and agriculture into one
of the world’s most advanced.

Proves Superiority

When you recall that 25 short
years ago this was a country of
the wooden plow, you are as-
tounded at the point of embark-
ation for the next great advance
in this socialist land and the
horizons they sketch for thier
future. What a glowing testi-
mony to the superiority of the
socialist system!

Take time to digest these few
figures: ;

By 1975 real per-capita in-
comes are the rise by 25-30% -
while much greater funds are to
be set aside for pensions and
other social welfare funds; the
basic consumption structure is
calculated to expand by 38-40%;
250,000 flats are to be built un-
der state and co-operative hous-
ing projects; provision will be
made for a transition to a short-
er work week; 76% of children
between the ages of three and
seven will be accommodated in
kindergartens.

Public health, medical ser-
vices and recreational facilities
are to be improved at an acceler-
ated rate.

At the same time 26-28% of
the national income will be ear-
marked for accumulation and
the fixed capital of the country
will be increased by 48-50%.

Socialist Unity

This will require a closer in-
tegration of the Bulgarian eco-
nomy with that of the socialist
world and in the first place the
Soviet Union. For example, Bul-
garian electric power is slated
to increase by 54% — at least

. part of this big increase will

result from the construction of
a big power transmition line
which will connect the Bulgarian
power grid to that of the USSR.
Similar links are being bulit
with other neighboring socialist
countries. A gas pipeline be-
tween the USSR and Bulgaria is

to be in operation by 1974.

Shipbuilding will increase to
400,000 tons annually. Branch
after branch of Bulgaria’s exist-
ing industry is geared for rapid
expansion and whole new indus-
tries are planned to bring the
country fully into the technolo-
gical age.

In agriculture a 17% hoist in
output is anticipated. Major
steps to wipe out the still exist-
ing differences between the
quality of life in town and
village are included in the plan.
Tractors of more than 15 hp.
will number 136,000 and com-
bine harvesters at least 20,800
by 1975. An additional 250,000
hectares of land is to be brought
under irrigation.

Labor productivity is estim-
ated to rise by 40-50%, largely
as a result of new techniques.

The new party program is a
far-reaching document dealing
with the,transition from capital-
ism to socialism, the party’s
tasks in building an advanced
socialist society then com-
munism—the final goal.

Grand Future

This Bulgarian program is
must reading for Canadians, who
wish to see how socialism, with
the full participation of the
people, charts out the future. As
the program states, the objective
of socialism is to lift man ‘from
the kingdom of necessity into
the kingdom of freedom” and
this plan etches out the material,
social and cultural tasks of the
party, the state and the people
in this grand human strategy.
Care for man is the fundamental
concern of the party, the mean-
ing and content of its entire
policy, the program states, and
elaborates point by point the
Communist approach to the
complete man.

In the sphere of culture the
program deals with ideological
activity, fighting for a socialist
attitude to work—‘“‘the party
brooks no idleness, parasitism
and profitmaking.” It deals with
moral upbringing, proletarian in-
ternationalism, aesthetic educa-
tion, the fight against bourgeois
ideology and the _ struggle
against errors and shortcomings
in their own life which impede
the festest possible progress.

The Bulgarian five-year plan,
the party program and the new
democratic constitution now be-
ing discussed by the people and
on which a national referendum
will take place on May 14—to-
gether with the solidarity ex-
pressed to and by the 89 Com-
munist and socialist parties at-
tending it making this congress
a major milestone in the life of
the people of Bulgaria, and a
great event in the life of the
world workers’ movement.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE-—FRIDAY, MAY 14,,1971—PAGE,9