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The first candidate of the
Communist Party to be nominated in
B.C. to contest the June 25th federal
election is Charles Caron.

At an enthusiastic and well
attended nominating meeting in
Vancouver East last Thursday the
City secretary of the Communist
Party was chosen to run in-that
traditional working class
Constitutency.

Caron is a plasterer and iron
Worker by trade. He has given many
years service to the labor and
-Progressive movement in this
Province.

During the war he was secretary of

the Marine Workers & Boilermakers -

Union.

In 1963 and 1965 he contested the
Coast-Capilano riding for his party
and polled the largest number of
Communist votes across the country.

Caron was born of French parents
and is especially qualified to speak
on the relationships between French
and English speaking Canadians.

According to Caron, ‘The
€ssential question of relationships
between the two peoples of Canada is
One of the full acceptance of the
legitimate demands of French
Speaking Canadians for sovereignty,
‘cluding their own state structure in
Quebec.,”’

“Only on such an equal basis is it
Possible to. gain. a confederal alliance
Of the two nations, English and
French, and a made-in-Canada
Constitution, one that will strengthen
the country’s independence from the
danger of U.S. take-over,” he said.

The Communist Party in this
election will campaign on the
Constitutional question and at the
Same time will call for a truly new
and independent foreign policy of
disengagement from all military
Commitments. These commitments
Now see our country morally and
€conomically involved in the dirty
U.S. war of aggression against the
People of Vietnam. One of the
Consequences in this country is
Steeply rising prices and taxes.

“In a province whose resources
are predominantly foreign owned,
_ Working people are not only saddled
With the most repressive labor

legislation but also the highest
unemployed rate in the country. This
is a direct result of the policy of the

CHARLES CARON

ruling circles to subordinate the
Canadian economy to that of the
United States, to reduce us to the
position of mere suppliers of raw
materials,”’ said Caron.

“This policy is one of the export of
jobs and can only be stopped by the
working people assuming a major
role in the economic and political
affairs of the country.”

Caron stated that his party would
“stress the indispensable necessity
to nationalize foreign and,
particularly, U.S. holdings’. He
said, “Communists will campaign
for many such far-reaching demands
required today. Demands that are, to
us, a part of the fight to further
peoples needs and inseparably bound-
up with the struggle for Socialism in
Canada’’. For this reason the
Communist Party will call on
workers in Vancouver East to
register their votes for Caron on
June 25th.

‘Liberals endanger unity’

Charles Caron, Communist Party
candidate in Vancouver East has
charged the Liberal Party with
deliberately inflaming English
speaking prejudices.

“Pierre Elliott Trudeau and John
Marchand seek to create the
impression that Quebec is taking
over the running of the. country.”
Caron said the treacherous role of
the Liberals, ‘‘endangers Canadian
unity since its effect is to strengthen
the appeal of separatism in Quebec.”

Caron was commenting on the
statement in the Vancouver Sun
which says that ‘‘Prime Minister
Trudeau has confirmed that the
confrontation between Ottawa and
Quebec on the control of foreign
affairs is the main reason for the
federal election’, and the allegation
of Immigration Minister Marchand
in a Burnaby speech that an
“unbearable situation (exists) when
the Quebec Government is acting as
if there is no Federal Government”’.

“The position of the Conservative
Party on the bi-national character of

Canada ‘is’ no ‘different ‘from: the.

Liberals, that is, 'maintendnce of the
unequal status quo. The platform of

the NDP falls short of recognizing
the sovereign right of the French
Canadian people in Quebec to have
their own state structure. Only the
Communist Party stands
unequivocally for this fundamental
democratic right’’, said Caron.

“National sovereignty is not just a
matter of language rights. French
Canadians want the right to control
their own economy and to enjoy fully
their cultural heritage. They desire
the opportunity to advance in their
own land. They do not want to be told
that they cannot get a job, or become
a foreman or manager, simply
because they do not speak English.
In order to guarantee these
economic and social aspirations it is
necessary that they be masters in
their own house.

‘Recognition of this fact 1s
necessary to the solution of the
relationships between our two
peoples’, said Caron. ‘‘Once this has
been recognized then the real
conditions would have been met for
the writing of a new, made-in-
Canada, constitution based on the
full ‘equality of ‘thes English and

French nations which make up'this »

country.”

New export of pulp,
jobs follow Japan
visit by Williston

By NIGEL MORGAN
Plans for the export of several
thousand more job opportunities in
B.C.’s pulp and paper manufacturing
industry were revealed by Forest
and Resources Minister Ray

Williston’s recent trip to Japan.

Reports on Williston’s return from
Japan established the fact that
discussions were held during his
Tokyo visit which could result in
parcelling out the last remaining,
large-scale timber reserves to the
rapidly-expanding Japanese paper
trusts. Indicative of the size of the
deal is the announcement that
Williston’s negotiations could give
the Japanese the third largest stake
in B.C. forest production.

“Japan, like other countries
today,’’ said Williston, ‘‘Is faced
with capital financing. However,
they emphasized they have to ensure
pulp flows to their industry.” He also
reported that Japanese forest
moguls are concerned with the
prolonged Southern Interior
woodworkers strike’.

**B.C.’s labor laws, the militancy
of its unions, the federal Carter
Report and immigration laws of
Canada took centre stage,” it was
recently reported at another Tokyo
conference of Japanese businessmen
and a 55-man delegation of the
Vancouver Board of Trade. ‘‘Bill 33
will provide new machinery to
mediate disputes and hopefully
provide an incentive to more
realistic bargaining,’ the Japanese
businessmen were assured according
to press reports.

Press reports indicate three of
japan’s largest — (the Diashowa
group of pulp and paper companies,
the Sanyo-Nissho Co. and Oji Pulp
Company) are prepared to invest
$150 million to obtain ‘‘kraft paper
for shipment to and manufacture in
Japan’’, and ‘‘groundwood pulp” to
upgrade other types of log and pulp
imports.

The Oji Company, in the process of,
merging with the Honshu Company
(already building a mill at
Skookumchuk in the East
Kootenays) and the Judo Company
(with holdings at Mackenzie, 150
miles north of Prince George) will

fee,

form the largest pulp and Paper
combine in the world.

Wood and pulp is the basis for
thousands of products, while British
Columbia presently produces and
exports practically all of it, if not in
raw material, only in semi-
manufactured form. The new
Japanese deal indicates again that

maximum benefit for the people of +

British Columbia (the job
Opportunities, and the higher return
for resource utilization) will never
be realized so long as it is left in the
hands of private monopoly interests
and monopoly representatives in
government who exploit them for a
fast buck.

RANKIN SAYS:

‘Vote NO
on Block 42’

Calling for a NO vote on
the Block 42 plebsicite being
held in Vancouver on May 22,
Alderman Harry Rankin
charged in a large newspaper
advertisement Wednesday
that “many of the true facts
behind the agreement
between the City and Cemp-
Eaton's, Toronto-Dominion
Bank promoters have been
withheld from the public.”

He said the city council is
planning to misuse public
funds earmarked for a civic
centre and urban renewal to
buy Block 42. “We will be
losing $3 to $5 million on the
deal,” he said.

Rankin said “if we set a
precedent by expropriating
Block 42, than no property is
safe from real estate
promoters. Your property may
be next.”

“We can’t afford this kind
of development. We’re* giving
away too much with nothing in
return.”

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