AND PEARKES

By LESLIE MORRIS

Next year the Communist Party of the Soviet Union will
hold its 22nd Congress. Already the party’s central committee
is working on a 20-year plan to present to the Congress. The
plan will be the heart of a program for building a communist
society, wherein each will receive according to his need.

Here in Canada the press is forecasting another and worse
economic depression. Finance Minister Fleming built his budget
around an anticipated six percent rise in national production
this year. In the first three months it was only one percent.

The other day Khrushchev gave the Rumanian Workers’
Party Congress a few salient facts about the Soviet Union’s
economic progress which Canadians would do well to ponder—
in the light of the economic situation in Canada and our present
adventurist foreign policy.

Generally, said the premier, “our successes are remark-
able and things are going well in our country.” The Soviet
Union has entered a new historical period — - the active build-
ing, of a communist society.

Industrial production is 40 times bigger than it was at
the time of the 1917 revolution.

The present seven-year plan (1959-1965) is being success-
fully carried through. It will almost double industrial output.

Farm production is 1% times bigger than six years ago.
Land under crop has enlarged by 96 million acres.

The most difficult part of farming is the production of
meat. It was ina bad state in the USSR a few years ago. Since
1958 state purchases of meat have more than doubled and milk
is more than twice as plentiful.

There are excellent prospects for the 1960 harvest.

This year everybody goes over to the 7-hour day (the
gix hour day for miners and others in hazardous occupations).

Millions of industrial and office workers have been re-
lieved of paying taxes. By 1965 all taxes on all workers
will be removed.

The day is not far off, the premier said, when Soviet
citizens will be the first to live in a country without taxes,
with the shortest working day, and the highest living standard.

This will happen not only in the Soviet Union. All social-
fst states will before long be able to do the same thing.

Krushchev rightly emphasized that these achievements
were important not only for socialist citizens, but for all
people in the world. “The working people of all countries
see in these social victories examples of how a socialist state
eoncerns itself with public welfare.”

Contrast Fleming’s blunder, described above, with Khrush-
ehev’s words: “‘There never was, and there never will be, a
capitalist state which could abolish taxes on the people. If it
passed any such law it would by the same token sign its own
death sentence, because no capitalist state can exist without
taxing the working people.”

Next time you draw your pay. Look at the income tax
deduction. The government has to collect it via the pay
cheque. How could it ever hope to snatch it otherwise? It is a
built-in feature of the wages system in Canada today. And
the whole of the Canadian income tax goes to armaments.

* * *

One of the biggest problems of modern society is housing.
How is it tackled under socialism, and under capitalism?

In the biggest capitalist country, the USA, state housing
projects have built 444,000 units since 1936 and cleared only
seven percent of the slums. At this rate it would need 280
years to clear away present slums.

In the USSR, in the first year of the seven-year plan
alone, 2,200,000 housing units were built in urban areas and
$00,000 in the villages. Fifteen million apartments will be
built in the whole seven-year plan.

To get some idea of what this means, Khrushchev pointed
out that this is the equivalent of building 180 new cities, each
with 250,000 people; it is three times the housing space in all
pre-revolutionary Russia.

Every year the Soviet Union constructs more apartments
fhan the USA, Britain, France, West Germany, Sweden, Hol-
Jand, Belgium and Switzerland all together. Perhaps we could

fave thrown in Canada, for good measure!
* * *

These are the facts of socialist life. All the wailings and
eaterwaulings of capitalists and their political stooges will not
suffice to erase them.

Let Mr. Fleming put these economic facts of socialist life
up against his phoney budget; and let General ‘Blimp’ Pearkes
take another look at his Bomarc fiasco in the light of Premier
Khrushchev’s magnificent address to the Rumanian Workers’
Party congress.

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A call for “bold united ac-
tion by the entire labor move-

ment to compel government to
move on the jobless crisis,”
was made this week by Provin-
cial Leader Nigel Morgan in
the name of seventeen candi-
dates nominated by the Com-
munist Party to contest the
coming provincial election.
“That is the only answer to
Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s
callous rejection of Vancouver

FLEMING, KHRUSHCHEV Communist candidates demand —
fast action on jobless crisis

City Council’s request for a
national conference to cope
with the growing unemploy-
ment problem,’ Morgan — de-
clared. :

“Permanent unemployment
has again emerged as a feature
of the Canadian economy and
the Tory government’s attempt
to put off taking action by hid-
ing behind their Senate Com-
mittee enquiry into the cause
of the crisis can’t cover the

Preparations of the Com-
munist Party for the forthcom-
ing B.C. election — announce-
ment of which is expected any
day now — are nearing com-
pletion, Nigel Morgan, B. C.
leader of the Party announced
this week.

With seventeen candidates
already fielded and_ second
nominees to be named this
week in the two-member con-
stituencies of Vancouver Cen-
tre and Vancouver North, the
Communist Party nominations
in 19 of the 52 ridings will be
complete.

C.P. NAMES B.C. CANDIDATES

Already nominated are:
Vancouver East, Nigel Morgan
and Jack Phillips; Vancouver
Burrard, Lionel Edwards and
Roy Samuelson; Vancouver
Centre, Maurice Rush; Vancou-
ver North, William Stewart:
Burnaby, Harold Pritchett;
Delta, Homer Stevens and
George Lakusta; Alberni, Mark
Mosher; Comox, Jack Higgen;
Cowichan-Newcasile, Hjalmar
Bergren; Nanaimo, Irving Mor-
tinson; Sannich, Ernie Knott;
Dewdney, Carl Hilland; North
Okanagan, Nick Klim; and
Rossland-Trail, Al Warrington.

facts. Study is no answer
thousands. of our fellow cil#
zens already suffering aculé
hardships. Immediate action ®
what’s required. |

“Opviously the oven
has no intention of moviné
without a sharp struggle. The
labor movement and the uf
employed need to unite arout
a common program in defent?
of jobs, for new national
policies to provide employ
ment and develop secondaly
industries; for extension °
trade with the Socialist world
for large scale, low cost hou®
ing; the building of schools
hospitals and highways; for T®
duced taxes; for the extensi0
and improvement of unempl0y
ment insurance benefits a?
for government _ legislatid!
against evictions, foreclosul®
and dispossession of goods; all
for a reduction in hours %
-work without any reduction #
take-home pay.

Joint action directed at fet
eral, provincial and municip?
levels of government is tht

urgent need today.” ;

A POLITICIAN’S EMPTY PROMISE .

‘PERMANENT HARD CORE’

By LEE BELLAND
Star Staff Writer
OTTAWA — A developing}
pattern of @amidian unem-
‘|ployment, persisting further
into the spring and ‘with an
increasingly hard core, ‘was
shown in‘the latest figures
on unemployment insurance
claims issued by the domin-
ion bureau o£ statistics to-
day.
_ The number of claims for
unemployment benefits at

Canada.

Baise

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ficit.””.

For Canada as 2 whole
the number of claimants for :
seasonal benefits totallinesd
228,600 »

“As long as I ain prime
_ minister, no man or woman)
F.Will suffer because of unem-
ployment, deficit or no de-

| The promise was made by,
t'Prime Minister Diefenbaker

714,900 Jobless--- Ottawa

April 29 stood: at 714,900.
This was down 13 per cent
ae the month previous, but

17 per cent from the
ipaihte nd figure for April,
The stubborn new pattern,

was showing up in figures
both for Ontario and across :

in Ontario

Make Dietenbaker deliver jobs

July 8, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pas®

YoRew* b, Stat

number of regular benefit)
claimants — the “hard core
— showed an increase, of

104 over 19:
e number of here are]

aol

year was 732,900, off only 4
»lminute amount from the
weekly average of 733,
beneficiaries ‘for the previa
month, but bie ahead of.t

of
—Illustrations Courtesy U.E. N