A STATEMENT

BY THE NATIONAL EXECUTIVE, COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA

' Founding

a founding of the New
ae Party marks a step
a din the development of
peeaent labor-farmer poli-
Ba action. This is so because,

ing into existence as a fed-
ed Movement based on the
lation of trade unions. and
a Organizations, it provides
Aas class and other
tl ie forces with a politi-
Made strument which can be
bits oe tesponsive to the will of

filiated organizations.

fw strength has. been

Bie. eation within it of a
ae active grouping of
Pind y : Canadian democrats
ae iofalists and in the rec-
the ea by the convention of
ee once. of the French
yi Sg nation. This is a

Y important contribution
force, development of unity be-

m the working peopie of
aa: speaking and French

Es National Committee of
“Ada ommunist Party of Can-
x meeting last February,
ee ntion to the ‘“‘real pos-
Part les today for the New
tent to become the rallying
demo of very broad circles of
sidian ee, peace loving Can-
Bono providing it took up
f nee the fight for peace and
Jan independence.
‘ t deplore the fact that the
Wing which has control-
Biss n° new party since the
ia SYePS were taken to estab-
ee evented the founding
© Beat lon from realizing that
we : botential at this time.
fe result of right control
t unding convention failed
1 8ce up to the central prob-
a U.S. domination of our
8 and failed: to even
dia, Wledge the issue of Can-
yy, Neutrality.
a the decision of the con-
F ty C n to oppose nuclear arms
it ae is to be welcomed,
‘the | hot reaffirm the call of
oe CCF ‘convention for
N. aa withdrawal from
ee eed the right wing
Bay: about the adopticn of
Bt. ley of continuing support
Ye, Ss War alliance. at the
‘ Moment when the peace
threats world is immediately
y ae by its operation in
nk Sision ©. The net effect of this
. = is to confine the NDP
. he straitjacket of sup-
ad war policies of U.S.
Roy y aa rationalized by ex-
Pca. same pretenses that
ait a byeboth the Tory gov-
 Wsition and the Liberal op-

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| b petbility for this rests
ee ei € shoulders of CLC
hos €nt Claude Jodoin and
{hae Who support him, who,
Sou the pretext that “labor
Night dominate the party,”
thay Bo minimize the role
ons ust be played by the
Wing While at the same time
Dosit; all the weight of his
- the a to secure support for
= Th. TO war alliance.
Don compromise”
at € convention suggests
he a port for NATO should
| Xo aditional on that alliance
| The ee pting nuclear arms.
| 8 a reme political short-
q q hess of this was reveal-
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foisted

a | Ren most before the delegates
| Ministen home, when Prime
| me. Diefenbaker, in the
} tian of ‘Strengthening Cana-
« tticipation in NATO,
Win . Clear that our troops
armed with nuclear

br
Bm veht’ to the NDP. by the|

Convention

weapons ‘“‘within whatever con-
trol arrangement theraiNATO
alliance worked out.” This
statement has promptly under-
lined how ridiculous it is to
suggest that support for NATO
can lead to anything else than
the nuclear armament of Can-
ada.

As in foreign, so in domes-
tic policy. Instead of putting
forward an economic program
which would emphasize above
all the importance of develop-
ing Canadian resources and in-
dustries and opening up new
jobs by fighting against WAS:
domination of our country’s
economy and its development,
and for a policy of indenend-
ent Canadian development, the
right wing misled the conven:
tion with high sounding for-
mulas about “planning” which
in itself is meaningless without
strong measures to pring the
pig U.S. monopolies, which
hold the commanding heights
in our economy, under the con-
trol of the Canadian people
through a program of demo-
cratic nationalization.

And, instead of carrying for-
ward the call of the Winnipeg

broadly based people’s political
movement,” the right wing has
succeeded in narrowing down
the potential base of the New
Party by excluding froin its
ranks. on the basis of divisive
anti-ccommunism many unions
and other organizations (in-

itself) which could be a power-
ful force for its advance, and
which are in fact an essential
part of any effective united
front against the monopolie

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frustrated the expectations

of “moderation”
convention to the right.
Right wing policies

new party and to our country

ing a majority of MP’

of the old line parties.

Our party mes
struggle waged against

pecially with respect to NATO
by a substantial body of dele
gates in the convention.
weaknesses. of those

that they have not as yet de

hat they want. :
Warmly greeting the social

ist aspirations

constitu
designed to represent, and up

on which it must be based
The party of socialism: in Can
ada is the Communist Party
As our program points out

the road to socialism in our
st be found in

t of a democra-

country can be

the developmen

tic national coalition of patri

Of The New Democratic Party

order to take part in the strug-|ment. This is what the NDP

otic forces for peace, Canadian
independence and social pro-

gress.
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The New Democratic Party
could have become such a coa-
lition, and thereby a very pow-
erful parliamentary force,
right from. its founding con-

vention, but for the right wing.
Tt can still became such a coa-
lition providing that the pro-

gressive and patriotic forces
within it grasp clearly the need

convention of 1958 for Cart|

cluding the Communist Party |

and their anti-national policies.
*
Acting thus the right wing

hopes and enthusiasm of the
majority of delegates (as well
as new party supporters across
the country) and, in the name
steered the

have
done a grave digservice to the

seriously weakened the etfect-
iveness of the New Democratic

Party and thereby undermined
the possibility of the NAP | forward their views on all ques-

making those electoral advanc- | tions with respect to

es, even to the point of elect-
s, which
it could have made with clear-
cut alternative policies to those

welcomes the
the

positions of the right wing, eS

The
in the
convention who fought for the
adoption of policies of peace
and advanced referm did not
flow out of their lack of num-
bers but rather ous of the fact

veloped a united conception of

expressed by
many of these delegates on the
floor of the convention, Wwe

suggest that they consider the
ency that the NDP. is

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founding convention

progress.

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for such an objective and fight
consistently for it.

Again we emphasize the re-
sponsibilities of the organized
labor movement in respect to
the development of the new
party and the need for its poli-
cies to be the subject of con-
tinuous discussion by members
of locaf unions and labor coun-
cils which should actively put

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their
party. Unions which have not

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| mine labor’s advance. Elimina-
“| tion of a certain reliance on le-
galism, proper preparation of
the labor movement to strike
jf necessary, and development
of a policy of careful co-ordin-
ation and solidarity are essen-
tial.

Side by side with this must
go the struggle for the united,
all-inclusive New Party cevel-
. lopment, embracing all trade un-
ions and all political parties
and people’s movements willing
to work for a common anti-
monopoly program and the re-
placement of big business dom-
_lination in B.C. by a labor-far-
mer-people’s government.

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stablishment of a New De-
ET ocrstic Party nationally
last month, in spite of all the
distortions from the original
Winnipeg Resolution by the

THE NEW PARTY IN SESSION. This statement by

into a democratic national coalition of patriotic forces

yet affiliated should do so in
es od Ba ae

What's Ahead For

gle to make the NDP the kind
of party it must be to serve
the interests of the working
class and the nation.

We believe that organized
labor and all other progressive
forces around the NDP must
pay close attention to the pro-
vincial conventions this fall
which will establish provincial
sections of the NDP. ‘These

must become if it is to meet
the demands of the hour and
the hopes of millions of Can-
adians.

Our country is right now at
one of the most critical mo-
ments in all our history with
the prime minister openly de-
claring the intention of his gov-
ernment to accept nuclear
weapons for Canada. There are

conventions will be called up-
on to take vigorous actions in

the interests of peace, Cana-
dian independence and the
needs of the people in the light
of rapidly changing conditions
abroad and at home.

The basic attitude of the
Communist Party towards the
New Democratic Party remains
as our’ National Committee
stated it in February — one
of support for a proadly basea
all-inclusive political move-
ment of the workers and farm-
ers for peace, democracy and
independent Canadian develop-

the Communist Party analyzes the

and points up the need for the New Democratic Party to be built
for. peace, independence and social
Photo courtesy THE FISHERMAN.

no differences between the
NDP and the Communist Party

in Opposition to nuclear arms
for Canada which would
threaten the very survival of
our country. Let our members
act unitedly in every commun-
ity across this Jand to rally
every peace-loving and patri-
otic Canadian in a mighty
movement which can block and
defeat this new, and deeper
betrayal of Canada to the war-
makers of the United States.
National Executive Commit-
tee, Communist Party of
Canada.

right wing, and its obvious
shortcomings, represents an im-
portant step forward in the di-
rection of independent labor
political action.

In B.C. there are more than
215,000 trade union members,
and the CCF, while unable to
form a government on its own,
had commanded the support of
a third of the electorate for
over a quarter of a century.
Any alliance that leaves out
the United Fishermen,. the
Teamsters, the Civil Servants,
Mine Mill, the Teachers Feder-
ation (the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th
largest trade unions in this
province), as wellsas thousands
of other smaller unions whose
members for one reason or an
other are not affiliated to the
B.C. Federation of Labor is
doomed to failure, as last Sep-
tember’s provincial election

amply demonstrated.
On. the other hand, B.C. trade

irrespective

unionists (united

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of affiliation) and working in
alliance with the CCI, the
Communist Party and their
supporters, and the progressive
middle strata of the people,
have the power to bring decis-
ive political changes to B.C.
The achievement of such a goal
must be placed in the top ot
our aims.

Seven weeks from now the
B.C. Federation of Labor will

meet in annual convention. The
decisions of that gathering (and.
what’s done about them after-
wards) will to large measure
determine what B.C. labor will
be able to achieve in the year
ahead. Progressives must see
that the cold war in the labor
movement is ended, and that
the labor movement develops
greater unity, a clearer sense
of direction, more militancy,
and more confidence. History
and the whole. world is on our
side,

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