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The above is only a cartoon, but it illustrates the move-
| Polie of products as manipulated by the large food mono-

0 in many cases even own the market gardens,

Sand dairy farms where food is produced. :
Will pe; “dependent producer cannot bargain for the price he
for his product. He either accepts the price quoted or
| At.’ Produce back home.
Poli very point of the process illustrated above, the mono-
» General Foods, or Safeway own and control the
the retail outlets, and at every point a profit is ex-
» Adding to the cost of what we consume.

VOL. 33, No. 38

Canada must
be master of —

own resources

A Ten-Year Plan of economic development to create two and a half million new
jobs is the foremost plank in the platform of the Canadian Communist Party in the

coming federal election.

Some thirty candidates have
already been nominated across
Canada. In B.C. five candidates
have already been nominated.
They are: Maurice Rush in
Vancouver East; William
Turner in Vancouver Kingsway;
Eric Waugh in Burnaby-Sey-
mour; Rod Doran in New West-
minster; and Mark Mosher in
Port Alberni. Further nomina-
tions are expected this week.

Within the next several weeks
500,000 copies of the party plat-
form will be distributed across
Canada. The stress on Canadian
control of resources, industry
and financial houses in the
program is in sharp contrast to

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“Secondly, the B.C. Mediation

~ Commission— which has neither

the confidence of labor or
management — should be sacked
without delay pending legislative
action to repeal Bill 33 and
replace it with a ‘‘Charter of
Rights for labor” ; Morgan
declared. ‘‘The Commisission 1S
as senseless as it is costly, and it
has done nothing but aggravate
labor-management relations,
create one confrontation after
another in B.C, labor relations
by assuring the monopolies that
the government is waiting 1n the
weeds to bail them out at every

turn. The Socreds Mediation

Commission headed by Judge
Parker has been a disaster for
this province and no time should
be lost is disposing of it.

“There is nothing the new
premier and his government
have promised that can't be
fulfilled. In fact much more—

Speedy action on schools
Mensions and transit urged

repeal of the sales tax higher
pensions and decisive action to
bring our natural resources back
under public control to ensure
maximum development _of
secondary and manufacturing
industries is entirely possible;
an stated.
ber key question now for the
entire labor and democratic
movement in this province is the
development of popular, left
unity around the people s
concrete needs to consolidate the
August 30th victory and push
B.C. further left”, Morgan said.
“Big business — the Howe
Street promoters, insurance
industry, big mining, forest,
petroleum tycoons, and B.C. Tel
are waiting in the weeds. We
should -not underestimate the
power they still wield, and the |
powerful pressures they will
exert to block every meaningful
See SPEEDY ACTION pg. 12

Proposals of other parties,
including the NDP.

The Communist program in-
cludes the stipulation of
Canadian control through public
ownership starting with energy
and natural resources, with
industries based on them.

Communists would national-
ize the CPR as a base for an
all-Canadian, _publicly-owned

_ transportation system, and

would develop science and tech-
nology for Canada as a whole,
not the monopolists. Legislation
to prevent foreign takeovers of
industry, land and services
would be part of the plan, as well
as the expansion of trade through
long-term credits with socialist
and newly developing nations.
Northern development under
public ownership, with direct
participation of northern
people, and the safe-guarding of
the ecology of the north is an
important part of the Ten-Year
Plan. d

SEAN GRIFFIN

A graduate of UBC and a
shipyard worker, Sean was nomi-
nated to represent Vancouver
South for the Communist Party in
the coming federal election. He is
a member of the Marine and
Boilermakers Union, and is plant
chairman and chief shop steward
at Allied Engineering works.

The nationalization of banks,
trust and insurance companies
and the credit system will secure
the necessary capital for these
priorities.

STRESS JOBS

The emphasis in the Com-
munist program is on jobs —
jobs that will provide workers
with a 32-hour week with no
reduction in pay; retirement
with higher pensions at the age
of 60 for men, the age of 55 for
women, and not least, a $3.00 an
hour minimum wage.

The program calls for legis-
lation to prevent plant closures,
unemployment insurance ben-
efits at 80 percent of wages
for the full period of un-
employment, income security
and old age pensions with a
minimum of $3,000 for a Single
person and $5,000 for a family
adjusted in accordance with
cost of living increases, and
made available without a means
test.

Two hundred and fifty
thousand new housing units
annually and the nationalization
of all land to be used for public
development purposes; price
and rent review boards to roll-
back prices and rents are other
necessities which the Com-
munist Party advocates as
immediate priorities of a new
government.

Tax reform based on ability to
pay; the closure of all tax
loopholes and evasions by large
corporations; medicare to
include denticare, nursing home

‘care and medicine, and the

nationalization of the pharm-
aceutical industry is

included as an immediate
priority.

TWO NATIONS
The party program puts
forward the need for a freely-
negotiated confederal pact
between the two-nations —

See CP PLATFORM, pg. 11