ELECTION NEWS ‘Communists nominate 23-year-old youth in Vancouver South Vancouver South Constituency association of the Communist Party of Canada, Monday night nominated Robin Smith, 23 year old office worker. to oppose Cabinet Minister Arthur Laing in Vancouver South. Miss Smith said she would fight hard on issues facing young Canadians. _Trudeau’s phoney ‘young’ image is no answer,’’ she said. ‘‘My campaign will make sure that real issues are not buried in Liberal hoop-la,”’ “These issues include American domination of our economic and political life. the sellout of young Canadian‘s resources, jobs and security for our young people, the continued repression of our Indian people, and the recognition of French Canada’s rights,”’ she said. “Laing and Trudeau can’t solve these problems. and don’t want to.” Miss Smith stated. “because they speak for big business. not for the people.” “I will fight for policies to correct the injustices we find around us, and to relate these policies to the perspective of a Socialist Canada, which. in the long run, offers the full solution to these problems.” IN NEW WESTMINSTER: Community leader named candidate Last Friday night the Delta New-Westminster Region of the Communist Party of Canada nominated Robert McLaren well-known community worker as their standard bearer in the New Westminster federal riding. In accepting the nomination McLaren said that we are the only socialist party running in this area, and our policy and program for the Canadian people wili not be said by any other party but the Communist Party.’ He Stressed the importance of denying the Liberals a majority in Parliament, a task Trudeau was selected by the establishment to attain and has already been denied them by the people in the last two elections. “The old line parties are directing this election on a question of personalities and not on the needs of the Canadian people.” he said. ‘In the next parliament we must have members who will serve the people and not the interests of the foreign monopolies. The war in Vietnam has puta great burden on our young people who are struggling to purchase a home. The federal government should advance mortgage loans at cost so that people can afford a home. They should also grant the provincial governments enough to cover the costs of elementary education. “The port facilities of New Westminster”, said McLaren, “must not be allowed to decay while the provincial and federal governments fight over who will use the taxpayers money to build Roberts Bank to export our raw resources for foreign investors because this means we are exporting jobs that the Canadian workers need. Federal aid is needed for Burnaby Lake to be made into a resort area and the development of a canal from Pitt River to Burrard Inlet to ease the flood conditions from the Fraser River. This area could be developed for grain elevators and industry and for deep sea shipping. “The election of a democratic alternative to the old line parties will help to make a better Canada and the Communist Party is ready and willing to build a strong democracy for Canadians.’ McLaren said. Page 12—PACIFIC TRIBUNE —MAY 24, 1968. LABOR SCENE: City labor to campaign for election of Douglas Tuesday's .Jession of the Vancouver and District Labor Council unanimously approved the idea of an all-in labor campaign to re- elect NDP national leader Tommy Douglas in the Burnaby-Seymour riding come election day. VLC secretary Paddy Neale declared that the decision of provincial Liberal leader Ray Perrault to leave that post and contest the riding in the ‘hope of defeating Douglas was a forlorn hope. ‘As provincial leader’, said Neale, ‘‘Perrault has made such a damn mess of it he had to get out. ‘Perrault has no hope of beating . Tommy Douglas, but after he himself is beaten he hopes he will either get an appointment as somebody's assistant in Ottawa at a fat salary, or maybe even a seat in the Senate”. The VLC secretary urged that a really big labor campaign in support of Tommy Douglas would ‘show Perrault that his is not the way to conduct politics’. VLC delegates also voiced their enthusiasm throughout Tuesday's. session when the returns started coming in from the Vancouver-South byelection, with NDP candidate Norman Levi well in the lead. Following the lead of the B.C. Federation of Labor, the VLC also voiced protest against City Council's decision not to sell some 600 acres of city-owned land af Fifty-fourth and Kerr to the Co Operative Housing Union for a low-cost housing project. Both bodies had already. on a previous occasion. urged the sale ot this land at its assessed value to the Co-op. Neale stated that when he interviewed certain aldermen on behalf of the Co-operative purchase. “some of these alderrnen had asked him if labor would climb onto the bandwagon supporting the Block 492- 92 deal? These people who have this kind of gall”, said Neale. “should be remembered when it comes election time”. * ok Ok An editorial in the May edition. of “The Barker’ ’, official organ of IWA Local 1-217 entitied. “The Nickel Negotiator’, notes that CLC vice- president Joe Morris, center of last year’s inter-union furor which resulted in four big IWA locals being temporarily suspended by the B.C. Federation, has greatly “improved” his negotiating ability since then. As “The Barker’ puts it: ‘Joe Morris is one of four top Canadian Labor Congress officers who recommended themselves a salary increase of $5,000 per year. Their annual salaries now are: for president, $25,000: secretary, $22,500: and executive vice- presidents, of whom Morris is one, $21,000". elections.” CPUSA in election: Henry Winston, national chairman of the U.S. Communist Party, announced recently that his party “will enter its own candidate for president and vice president in the November He said, “our candidates will contribute to the struggle for peace and for an end to the U.S. imperialist aggression in Vietnam.” The decision to run was made by a recent meeting of the National Executive Board of the Party and will go before a special convention on July 4 weekend. Ryerson to speak here on English-French issue Stanley Ryerson, outstanding authority on the problems of French Canada and editor of the Marxist quarterly “Horizons” will arrive in Vancouver next Tuesday to address a number of meetings. STANLEY RYERSON, outstanding authority on French Canada, and noted author whose latest book “Unequal Union’’ is a deep penetrating study of the problem facing Canada, will speak on behalf of B.C. Communist candidates at a number of rallies announced above. His major public appearance in Vancouver will be on Sunday, June 2 at 8 p.m. when he will address a mammoth election rally for the Vancouver Communist candidates in the Clinton Hall. 2605 E. Pender St. Ryerson’s first appearance will be on CHAN-TV from 11 to 12 a.m. on Wednesday. May 29 on the Mark Raine’s Show. On Thursday. Mav 30 he will address the students on the campus at Simon Fraser University at noon. On Friday, May 31 he will deliver a public lecture in Victoria at 8 p.m. in . The Inn”. 1528 Cook Street. On Saturday. June 1 from 2 to 4:30 p.m, he will be special guest at an Autograph Party at the Co-op Bookstore. 341 W. Pender St. in Vancouver -to introduce his latest book. ‘Unequal Union.” Monday. June 2 Ryerson will speak in Coquitlam. : WILLIAM KASHTAN, national lead- er of the Communist Party, told a nominating meeting in York East in accepting nomination as _ federal candidate that “to have a genuine national debate requires the partici- pation of spokesmen of all national or all Canadian parties irrespective of the number of candidates they may run. “For purposes of this debate what makes a Party national or all Can- adian is not the number of members it may have in Parliament but whether its program is truly national, copes with the central issues before the Canadian people and has a body of support for it throughout the country.’ He said on the basis of this yard- stick the CP asks to be included in the proposed CBC-CTV debate. “To limit the debate to two or three parties is to limit the range of alternatives be- fore the country.” Socreds suffer defeat Cont’d from pg. 1 The voters of Vancouver-South have spoken in unmistakeable terms. They want a change. and so do the people of British Columbia as a whole. Premier Bennett cannot ignore this forthright repudiation of his policies. In light of the byelection verdict, the Communist Party calls on Premier Bennett to: e Issue an immediate statement assuring the people of this province that the unproclaimed sections of Bill 33 will not be proclaimed, and that compulsory arbitration will be repealed by the next session; e Lift the school freeze without further delay and repeal the new and highly objectionable amendments to the Public School Act (Bill 86); e Take action to provide provincial assistance to roll back the heavy burden of municipal taxes; e Call an immediate halt to the natural resource giveaways, and develop an alternative course of industrial development to provide additional jobs and a higher return in government revenues to satisfy demands for iacreased social expenditures.