Right-wing NDP heads
lower boom on Waffle

By RICHARD ORLANDINI

Delegates to the Provincial
Council of the Ontario New
Democratic Party voted in Oril-
lia last weekend to disband the
Waffle. The vote was 217 to 88
for the Riverdale Riding Asso-
ciation resolution which stated
that the “present structure and
behavior cannot continue.”

The vote on the Riverdale re-
solution followed a long floor
debate which saw the Waffle
delegates and supporters endors-
ing another resolution which
would have allowed the Waffle
an associate status within the
NDP. Throughout the debate,
the Waffle delegates insisted
that the Riverdale resolution
was in no way a compromise
and that it, indeed, opened the
way for a purge by the right-
wing elements of the party.

In speaking in favor of the
Riverdale resolution, Robert
MacKenzie, an executive of the
United Steelworkers said that
the resolution “gives us the tools
to finish the job.” Other speak-
ers in favor of the Riverdale
resolution asked why the party
(the NDP) “should have to make
concessions to the Waffle?”

Prior to the vote, Stephen
Lewis, Ontario leader of the
NDP addressed the delegates
and told them that the resolu-
tion would effectively dissolve
the Waffle and that it would re-
move “the Waffle forever as an
encumbrance around my neck.”

When the vote was called
most of the delegates stood for
the vote to pass the resolution
but rank and file NDPers in the
audience expressed their dis-
content when the no vote was
called. Although the observers
could not vote, they rose al-

most as a man_and stood quietly
while the 88 “no” voters were
counted.

Immediately after the vote
the Tribune canvassed many of
the delegates and observers for
their reactions. Most of the
Waffle had a “we'll wait and
see” attitude, referring to the
upcoming meeting of the Waffle
scheduled for August. Many of
the moderate elements who were
neither Waffle nor entirely satis-
fied with the actions taken by
the executive felt that the re-
solution was ambiguous and
they were not sure what the
executive planned to do with it.
Still other ‘moderates’ were
happy with the resolution and
saw it as a unifying factor for
the coming federal elections.
Delegates who voted for the re-
solution were sure that the cor-
rect steps were taken and that
they “did what they had to do
to make the party credible
again.”

After adjournment of the
meeting the Waffle delegates
and supporters met in the
Orange Hall in Orillia to discuss
further actions.

There, in the face of the re-
solution which called for the
Waffle to dissolve, the Waffle
voted to continue as a group
within the party and made plans
for the August meeting where it
is to decide whether not it is
going to remain within the NDP.
They also decided to publish the
Waffle News, hold emergency
meetings when necessary and
conduct meetings on the riding
level. The plan appears to be to
challenge the NDP leadership to
act on the resolution and from
all indications the Jeadership
appears to be more than ready
to accept the challenge.

Process natural resources based on public ownership!
Expand manufacturing for all-Canadian economic development!
Build a publidy-owned Mackenzie Valley pipeline!

Jobs or adequate income-32 hour work week!
Stable markets—adequate income for farmers!

Pre-election poster of the Communist Party of Canada highlights
the main issues in the campaign. (Stories on electioneering activity
and new nominations in our next issue.)

JOAN FONTAINE HITS APARTHEID
DURBAN—U:S. film acress Joan Fontaine said in Durban that
the theater in South Africa will remain in danger as long as there
is no actors’ union based on the principle of equality of all members

regardless of color or race.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JUNE 30, 1972—PAGE 10

Of course, in reality patients in the GDR do pay a certal
pay checks, just like social security. Their factory or e
adds a large amount as well (the trade union organiza
ever). This means that sick pay, old-age pensions and all medical or
of them, including medicines and any extras as well, from the ambulance,

“Ow!” Which hurts more, the hole the dentist drills into your tooth or the one he puts into
In the German Democratic Republic, as in other socialist countries, it’s only the former ;
bother you. Dental care is covered by Medicare, so that when you go to the dentist you can lea¥
wallet, checkbook or bankbook at home—and simply concentrate on that drill.
n sum. Every month it is withdrawn from of!

cure in the mountains or at the seashore. .

(When are we going to have dental services under Medicare in Canada?)

DR. DWIGHT L. JOHNSON

USSR allots
billion for
labor health

MOSCOW — More than a bil-
lion roubles is annually spent in
the USSR for labor protection,
ensuring healthy and safe work-
ing conditions at industrial
enterprises.

All matters concerning safety
engineering and improving work-
ing conditions as Well as pro-
phylaxis of industrial diseases
are tackled in the Soviet Union
on a wide scientific basis. This
work is directed by the Labor,
Hygiene and Industrial Diseases
Institute of the USSR Academy
of Medical Sciences in Moscow
where research is conducted on
major theoretical problems.

Means of protection for work-
ers at enterprises are elaborated
where due to scientific and tech-
nological progress the latest
types of energy, ultrasound,
radioactive substances, etc., are
used. Protecting steel smelters
from heat radiation, eliminating
noise in textile mills, combatting
of vibration, dust and gas in
shops — such are the problems
tackled by scientists and re-
searchers in 20 laboratories of
this institution.

Some 100 research establish-
ments in the Soviet Union, in-
cluding hygiene and technolo-
gical institutes, chairs in medical
institutes and sanitary-epidemio-
logical stations conduct activities
under the guidance of this insti-
tute.

It has an industrial diseases
clinic where research is con-
ducted on early diagnostics and
free medical assistance is ren-
dered.

No chemical compound can be
produced and used in production
before its toxic. qualities are
checked in the institute’s labora-
tories. On the recommendation
of scientists a shorter work day
and longer vacations are provid-
ed to workers in chemical enter-
prises.

State standards are fixed and
rules made for using harmful
substances.

The great majority of Cana-
dian. farms are less than 300

miles from the southern border.

Dr. Dwight L. Johnson, 74,

passed away in Vancouver, B.C.

on. June 3, 1972 after a lengthy
illness. Born and educated in
Rapid City, Manitoba, he was
widely known for his profes-
sional service in the Brandon
area, as well as in his profes-
sion and the political life of the
province.

During the first world war he
went overseas as a young lad,
serving with the 226th Infantry
Batallion. Upon return he gradu-
ated in medicine from the Uni-
versity of Manitoba in 1926 after
which he spent five years as
superintendent of a hospital in
Iloilo, Philippine Islands. He
carried on his medical practice
in Brandon from 1932 to 1959
and in Gibsons, B.C:-from 1960
to 1971.

His experiences in the first
world war and his work in the
Philippines helped him to un-
derstand more clearly the na-
ture and role of imperialism —
how it resorts to the most viol-
ent means and most brutal op-
pression to satisfy its greed for
profit.

He established practice in
Brandon during the years of the
Hungry Thirties when unem-
ployment in Canada was at its
height and the farmers had no
markets for their products de-
spite Prime Miniter Bennett’s
promise to “blast his way into
world markets.”

His wife, Dorothy, and he be-
came interested in the radical
movements developing among
the workers and farmers. They
supported the Canadian volun-
teers who went to Spain to help
the Republican government fight
the fascist Franco and his part-
ners, Hitler and Mussolini. They
actively supported the campaign
for peace, a ban on shipments
of scrap iron to Japan, an axis
partner of Hitler and Mussolini.

During the second world war
Dr. Johnson was elected from

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with two other CCE
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and Wilbur Doneleyk®
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the end.

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read man, a deep
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studied many works
Engels and Lenin.

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supporter and particlP
peace movement.

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