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before .weting its final stage
Be ee. day July 8, the 12

Chust; Munist candidates took to
Mlicies we’ 0 outline their party’s
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for Nanai: eTnie Knott, candidate
Utged M0-Cowichan-the Islands
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State ro US off” and called for real
He ham Mpanies to be taken over.
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lakeoy Y which a government
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Metchosin PTA and has run twice
for school trustee in the Sooke

District. j *
Barry Dean, Communist can-

didate in Esquimalt-Saanich, told
an audience at Victoria High
School last week that labor was not
to blame for the increased cost of
living, and said -that his party
advocated a 25 percent roll-back on
the cost of food, clothing, and fuel.

He urged lower mortgage rates for °

homes, a $250 a month pension for
senior citizens and abolition of
income taxes on individuals who
earn less than $5,000 a year.
Mark Mosher, Comox-Alberni,
said in a statement in the Comox
Valley Star that the buying power
of the worker’s wage dollar since
the year 1949 dwindled to 29 cents.
He charged that the tax burden is

“being transferred to the poor and

the federal government is sub-
sidizing the already gorged
profiteering corporations. :
“The interests of the Canadian
people will not be served by voting
for either of the capitalist parties.
The people’s interests will only be
advanced by working and voting
for new policies — a new direction
for Canada, the election of a large
progressive bloc including Com-
munists as well as NDPers, to
Parliament, pledged to uphold the
people’s interests, pledged to curb
the power of monopoly and place
Canada firmly on the path of peace
and independence,” said Mosher.
He added that the Communists
will bring to the forefront the fight
for a greater share in the wealth.
‘Do not forget. It is profits, not

wages, which is the underlying
cause of inflation,” he said.
* * *

Branding the present housing
situation in Canada as ‘‘a scan-
dal’, Surrey-White Rock Com-
munist candidate Fred Bianco told
an audience at an all-candidate

meeting at Johnston Heights

See ELECTIONS, pg. 11

| Rush, Wilson condemn

Tory-Liberal record

The Communist campaign in

Vancouver East was kicked off last
Monday evening at a public rally in
the Swedish Hall.
Communist Party candidate in
Esquimalt-Saanich, Barry Dean,
the meeting heard from two
Vancouver candidates,
Wilson, Vancouver Kingsway; and
Maurice Rush, Vancouver East.

Chaired by

Fred

Wilson pointed to housing as one

of the main issues in Kingsway. He
claimed that if a real estate firm’s
profits were not at least 100%

higher than last year they ‘‘are
simply not with the scene’’.

Trudeau’s housing policy ‘does
’ nothing to reduce the price of

housing,’’ Wilson said, “‘what his
policy amounts to is an easier route
to get burned.”

Wilson noted figures published
by Vancouver Real Estate Board
that showed a 33 foot lot in Grand-
view sold for $11,000 in 1971 and for
$23,000 in 1973 — more than a 100%
increase in two years. ‘“‘You can’t
blame labor for that,” Wilson said,
“because not a worker or tool has
set foot on it. There is only one
reason for that kind of increase —
pure speculation.”’

“The Communist Party has a
clear policy, nationalize land being
held for speculation; then the price
of land will come down. The
Communist Party says a 5%
mortgage rate with no income

qualification, then the price of a
home will be closer to what it’s’

worth and not the cost of borrowing
money. The Communist Party says
build 300,000 units of housing an-
nually under public ownership,
then the monopoly would be broken
and we would raise the vacancy

rate out of the hole it is presently
in?

Maurice Rush rounded out the
inflationary picture pointing to the
May consumer price index as an
indicator that 1974 will see the
highest increase in the cost of
living since WWII. “We face the
possibility of a 20 percent inflation
rate this year,” Rush said, ‘but
what is more serious is that one
half of that increase is due to the
increased cost of food which will
particularly affect working class
and low income families.’? Rush
said that present indications are
that food costs will rise from 30 to
40 percent in 1974. :

Rush quoted federal agricultural
minister Whelan from a_ press
statement in September of 1973 as
saying that Canada had 10 times
more food than was needed. ‘“‘But
prices still go up under the guise of

Shortages,” Rush said. He referred

to articles in the Pacific Tribune
showing that 12 million dozen eggs
and millions of pounds of poultry ,
are being stored and kept off the
market to push prices up.

“Successive Liberal and Tory
governments have shifted the
national income in favour of the
rich,” Rush said. He pointed to a
study on income tax distribution as
proof. ‘‘Between 1962 and 1973 a
person with an income of $6,000
suffered an increase of 45.3 percent
in taxes, while those earning
$40,000 a year or more had an in-
crease of only 12 percent in the
same period. Liberal and Tory
governments have deliberately
widened the gap between the rich
and the poor,” he said’

ELECTION ROUND-UP

By NIGEL MORGAN
B.C. Campaign Manager

With more than double the
number of candidates nominated
in this Federal election (69 across
the country, and 12 of these in B.C.)
enthusiasm is running high among
Communist Party members and
supporters. More volunteer
workers, more campaign funds
and more new recruits are being
reported from all twelve con-
stituencies in B.C.

"to date a total of 29 ‘‘free-time”’

radio and TV broadcasts have been -

reported, and 46 “‘all-candidate”

meetings have invited represen-.

tatives of the Communist Party to
present the Communist platform.
Free-time national network
coverage has been allocated by the
C.B.C. Broadcasts, originating in
Ottawa, will be heard on the C.B.C.
network from coast to coast:
TV [English]
Thursday, June 27, 8:30 p.m.
TV [French]
Thursday, June 27, 11 p.m.

Radio [English]
Saturday, June 29, 11:55a.m.

-Radio [French]
Saturday, June 29, 11:15 p.m.

Additional allocations will be
made by local CBC stations. The
first of these will be heard over
C.B.U. (Vancouver) on Friday,
Juné 21, 6:07 p.m.

Homer Stevens will present the
Communist Party platform on
CHAN 8 (Burnaby) Wednesday,
July 3 at 7 p:m. in an “all-
candidate’ interview.

A total of over a quarter of a
million (275,000) copies of the
Communist Party platform have
been printed in B.C. and are now in
the hands of constituency com-
mittees for distribution. Most
committees are utilizing postal
delivery services this time, as well
as mobilizing members and sup-
porters for this mammoth job.

Over 5,000 colorful posters are.

also in the process of being posted
— some advertising the names of
Communist candidates; others the

Party’s main election slogans —
“Roll Back Prices’’; ‘‘Make
Parliament Act;. “Jobs For All’;
“Public Ownership Of Energy’, -
and ‘‘People Before Profits’’.
Three features distinguish the
Communist Party candidates —
first, their forthright political
stand on the main issues of the fitht
against inflation and for a
redistribution of the national in-
come; secondly, there are a much
higher percentage of trade
unionists (working people) among
them; and thirdly, they’re a higher
percentage of women and oung
people. Eighteen of the Party’s 69
candidates are women — 28 per-
cent, with 8 of the 14 Communist
candidates in Quebec being

women. «
IMPORTANT AN-

NOUNCEMENT: Keep Sunday,
June 30, 8 p.m. open for a final
election rally in Vancouver.
Speaker will be William Kashtan,
Canadian party leader, and Lower
Mainland candidates. Watch for
announcement of place.

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