S Communist candidates nominated for the forthcoming = federal elections: = BRITISH COLUMBIA = Maurice Rush Vancouver-East = Bill Turner Vancouver-Kingsway = Rod Doran New Westminster x = Mark Mosher Comox-Alberni Ree : ALBERTA | = Wm. Tuomi Edmonton-East = Colin Constant Calgary Centre = SASKATCHEWAN = Wm. C. Beeching Regina-East = MANITOBA = Wm. Ross Winnipeg-North = Don Currie Winnipeg-N. Centre = ONTARIO = Wm. Kashtan Toronto-Davenport = Gordon Massie Toronto-Lakeshore z Alfred Dewhurst Toronto-Broadview = John Weir Toronto-High Park 2 Maggie Bizzell Toronto-Spadina = Norman Freed Toronto-Trinity = John Bizzell Toronto-York West = Jim Bridgewood Hamilton-East = Bob Jaggard Hamilton-West = John Clout St. Catharines = . Clifford Wahl Port Arthur e QUEBEC = Jeannette Walsh Montreal-Laurier = Claire Demers Montreal-St. Jacques Vote and elect people’s ch <7 party’s candidate in Toronto-Davenport riding, snapped as he was taking notes during the discussion at the 21st convention of the party last November. Behind him is Rod Doran, who was a delegate and has since been nominated in New Westminster as one of the Communist standard-bearers in British Columbia. PULUTULUUHT LEELA EUUTUCUUEELSAUS LULA TU EREDAR LOU = as te he COMMUNIST PARTY CANDIDATES amas Demers Labelle J SVPUEUEUULCURUEUGUHNUGCUQUQGULERGQUGEUOCERUOUCUGUEUCGEEEEUULEUESEDECETEOUULEOEUOAUOEEUOUOCECECEEEEEERDEOEEEEENCEUEROEEOEE PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1972—-PAGE6 | .., William Kashtan, general secretary of the Communist Party of Canada and the - —_ — MMC Sharp issues in ¢@ The federal election, when it takes place, ‘will have particular meaning for the working class. A many-sided monopoly-inspired of- fensive is presently under way, direct- ed to take away gains won by the working class through hard and bitter struggle. The promise of maintaining high em- ployment, stable prices and rising stan- dards has given way to rising unem- ployment, rising prices, attacks on liv- ing standards and trade union rights, further proof of the fact that capital- ism can’t solve the basic problems con- fronting the working people of our country. The economy is in a state of near stagnation despite claims of so-called recovery and increased production. The rate of growth in the economy is not keeping pace with the growth of the labor force,. Indeed, increased produc- tion takes place with a smaller number of workers, proof again that the work- ing class, rather than getting the bene- fits of the technological revolution in terms of rising standards and lowered prices, has become its victim. Prices, as we know, keep on going up despite increased productivity, arising from monopoly control of the economy. Ad- ded to this is the emergence of per- manent unemployment, a reserve army of unemployed through which and with which monopoly strives to force wages down. Drive of Monopoly This attack on living standards while profits rise higher and higher finds further expression in monopoly-insp‘r- ed attacks on the right to strike. At this time the edge of this cam- paign is directed against working peo- ple in the public service sector of the ‘economy. However, it would be illusory to believe that the monopolists intend to stop there. Their real aim is to crip- ple the right to strike in industry, be it public or private, undermine collective bargaining and make it ineffective, in- tegrate the trade unions into the mech- anism of state-monopodly capitalism and make them pliable weapons of class collaboration in conditions of sharpening competition in the capitalist world market. This drive on the rights of the work- ing class finds further expression in efforts to impose an incomes policy or wage and price controls on the work- ing people of our country. Monopoly has been striving to do this for some time, but due to a num- ber of circumstances this policy was not adopted by the federal government. In the recent period the campaign to impose such a policy on the working class has been stepped up, aided and abetted by the wage policy pursued by the Nixon Administration in the USA. Mr. Hellyer, and the monopoly inter- ests who support him, established Ac- tion Canada to win public support for this objective. To his voice has been added that of Premier Bennett of Brit- ish Columbia who imposed a wage and salary freeze on teachers and govern- ment employees and then demanded that the federal government institute wage and price controls throughout the country, 2 Through control of the mass media and an inadequate fight-back policy by the right-wing leadership of the trade union movement which would show where the source of inflation comes from, monopoly has done quite a job in turning public opinion against the legitimate rights of the working people. Right-wing Misleadership Instead of going on the counter- — a F offensive, instead of working to ul all the forces of the working class democratic opinion so as to deft! these aims, the right-wing leaders { the NDP have, through the vol Mr. David Lewis, declared that a NDP would propose the establishm of a Price Review Board, that if if didn’t work, it would propose he controls, and if that didn’t work elt” the establishment of wage controls: al With such friends of labor, needs enemies? ov No one in the working-class mae ment needs to theoretically or © a wise argue about the main inte® wage and price controls and who if benefit from them. Even George et that arch-conservative in the union movement of the USA, was pelled to withdraw from thé in Board. And in Great Britain the M4 put up such a massive struggle bai by the ever-growing solidarity Suet! working class as to compel the government to retreat from its ince” olicy. Z A Rapes ‘and incomes policy is aw to increase productivity that ™ a creased exploitation, and _ inch oki profits at the. expense of wast class living and working standart is aimed at undermining col isi bargaining and the right 10 and thus hits at the very the trade union movement. a a og heat | and incomes policy moreoya yo chéck inflation, prevent unemPp or expand production. What They Want (0! It is interesting to note that se Hazen Argue recently declate’ if wage and price controls will ig central issue of the federal ®) g@ campaign. Whether it will oF yee thing is clear — wage and ptm trols will be a central issue ( elections, an integral part of a tionary -anti-labor drive of my wor which is determined to put “thé ing class in its place.” ae It is with this objective in ™ an effort is being made to gether a reactionary bloc com! Tories, right-wing liberals, 50 it and Action-Canada with the ale? pushing politics to the right © aif a majority in Parliament W: ice would be to enact wage and PUY ig trol legislation, curb trade U j and undermine collective move towards greater integ! the USA, sabotage trade, s¢ {pie % A " 0 a! Jim Bridgewood is one of he candidates in Hamilton.