CPSU 20th CONGRESS

Morris

gives

LPP position

TORONTO

Answering questions posed by the daily press about de-

cisions of the 20th congress of

the Soviet Communist party,

Leslie Morris, national organizer of the Labor-Progressive

party, said here this week:

The outstanding fact is that the Soviet Union ‘has built

a socialist society and is advanc-!
ing to communism, when each
citizen will receive according to’
need.
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It is asked whether the state-|
ments about Stalin are true. |
The published record of the;
20th congress available in Can-|
ada declares that in the three,
years since the death of Stalin,'
collective leadership in the Com-
munist Party of the Soviet Un-!
ion has been re-established. It!
was said that in the 20 years up
to 1952 the cult of the individual!
led to arbitrary decisions and vi-
olations of the legal rights of some
citizens. All this is frankly ad-
mitted, and in the past three
years has been boldly corrected.

It is asked whether the Labor-
Progressive party thinks that
Stalin will be totally discredited
over a period of time.

It is clear that the contribution
made by Stalin to the victory of
socialism in the USSR is ack-
nowledged and will continue to
be given its rightful place. These
contributions will be precisely as-
sessed by new work on the his-
tory of the Communist party.
The creative role of the masses
of the people, who are the build-
ers of communism, is being em-
phasized, along with the work of
the Communist party, who _to-
gether have built a new socialist
system. :

It is also asked what the Labor-
Progressive party thinks of this.

We believe that the congress
made great historical decisions
which Communists and labor peo-
ple all over the world are greet-
ing as enormous, contributfons to
world peace and the cause of
socialism.

The Labor-Progressive party, in
common with Communist and
Socialist parties throughout the
world, is actively studying and
discussing the main work of the
20th congress, which is — the
magnificent sixth Five-Year Plan,
the strengthening of the prin-
ciple of the peaceful coexistence
of states with different social sys-
tems, the recording of the fact
that war is not inevitable and
that the socialist idea is the dom-
inant idea in the world today.

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ists is the view that because of ©

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this there are new possibilities
for the peaceful transition to
socialism. The 20th congress
was a challenging invitation to
heal the split in the labor move-
ment in the interests of world

| peace.

As the 1954 program of the
Labor-Progressive party envisag-
ed these possibilities we are és-
pecially interested in the con-
gress’ views. The LPP is also

studying closely the rich and posi-
tive lessons for the labor move-
ment of all countries which are
contained in the experiences of
the Soviet Union regarding the
role of the individual in a system
of collectivism.

It is asked whether the change
of policy in the Soviet Union is
a new tactic and if it will help
the cause of peace with the West.

The 20th congress decisions

help to strengthen peace and fur-
ther relax tensions. They were
not “propaganda tricks” as is al-
leged, but a leap ahead along the
paths charted by Marxism-Lenin-
ism. Only good can come out of
the application of the Communist
principle of the open recognition
of errors. The usual capitalist
party principle is to cover them
up.
While it is of enormous in-
terest to the people of all coun-
tries, the present discussion is
primarily the domestic affair
of the Soviet people. Enemies
of the Soviet Union are trying
to make political capital out
of the admission of errors; the
truth is they do not like these
admissions because they know
that their effect is to streng-
then socialism and weaken cap-
italism.

Out of the present discussions
the Soviet Union and her people
are emerging even stronger and
with still higher authority among
the millions who are demanding
and achieving a life of peace,
democracy and socialism.

We believe that the cause of
friendship between the Canadian
and Soviet people is being rein-
forced by the present events, and
as a party of Canadian Marxists
it is only natural that we should
take a lively interest in the in-
ternational ideas which stamped
the work of the 20th Congress of
the Communist Party of the So-
viet Union.

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North Yard
demands fire
protection

SQUAMISH, B.C.

Two fires within two weeks,
whicH resulted in total destruc-
tion of a house and a trailer home
(fortunately without loss of life)
have aroused citizens of the North

Yard district of Squamish to de-
mand some system of fire pro-
tection. ‘

Lying just outside of the vil-
lage municipality, the North Yard
district is not served by the
Squamish fire brigade. In -any
case, lack of an adequate water
supply makes fire-fighting equip-
ment useless.

“There is a half-inch water
pipe servicing homes, and a fire
hose is useless because there are
no fire hydrants,” said Mrs. Beryl
M. Wheeldon, secretary of the
newly formed Mamquam Rate-
payers’ Association, which is
campaigning for funds to buy
fire equipment.

“We realise that this equipment
will be useless unless a water
supply is assured,” continued Mrs,
Wheeldon. “The present supply
ocmes through antiquated mains
and then into the half-inch line
to homes.

“Even a bucket brigade was
unable to function properly when
it tried to fight the recent fires.

“The PGE has assured us that
a new main will be put in to, the
North Yard crossing, but offers
no suggestion as to how homes
are to be serviced except at the
homeowners’ direct expense.

There are 50 homes in the dis-
trict, and more are going up.
Most of the residents are PGE
employees.

“No wonder fire insurance rates
are double ‘normal rates.”

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Nationalist leader
hits resources sellout

“Political ‘independence is
dependence.” With that as h
of Quebec’s leading nationalist

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utopian without economic in-
is keynote, Rene Chaloult, one

personalities, has been stumping —

the province, speaking to societies and groups, rousing French

Canada against the sellout of
trusts.

Chaloult was chosen by the St.
John Baptiste Society recently to
make the important closing
speech at the annual congress —
a challenging speech in which he
said: :

“Our province is rich . . . but
who gains from this wealth? Cer-
tainly not us. We are no longer
masters in our own house. More
than four-fifths of the population
of Quebec are French-Canadians
who do not possess one-fifth their
wealth.

“Our natural resources — our
forests, our hydro-electric power,
our mines — which constitute our
national patrimony are more and
more handed over to foreigners
who exploit them cynically for
themselves, when it is not against
us.

- “it is through the applica-
tion in Quebec of a French-
Canadian policy that we will
come to emancipate ourselves,

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her natural resources to U.S.
“It is through the partial and

gradual nationalization of certain
categories of enterprises, which
should be exploited in our prov-
ince, that we will succeed most
effectively in winning our free-
domi.)

“Ceftain trusts are so power-
ful that they dominate govern-
ments and exploit the majority
of the population without pity.
They threaten the public welfare
and should be expropriated. Isn’t
this the only means to make the
French-Canadian people masters
of their own destiny? ..:

“Instead our iron ore is trans-
formed in the U.S. despite the
protestations of many public fig-
ures. This is how our natural re-
sources are handed over to for-
eigners! ... To French-Canadian,
the hole in the ground, to strang-
ers, the large profits!

“Now that the quarrel ove!
fiscal autonomy is settled, thé
problem of the hour is our econ
omic liberation!”

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