CAMAD (AM PUBLIC. dete, Part of q la jitada, yit® Dhches connor: iy. . Vill ¢ politics in urn to right or left, Mm: Aasht. i ) atti Shlackont pon Said in spite 1) Com Sut he discerns a new unig e Public: t ¢ toward the tly the patty and its policies. oj ed to a Mmunist Party is Vj Togra i ae Standay ™ of protection Uses of ds while attacking which ‘dpea ©nopolies,? ee ; or votes for the mollterest ae Bank of Montreal announced last week that it had Cohan. rth Period. to 11% percent. The B of M reported profits for the 4 Of g's Six leadi; Nov. 1, 1973 to April 30, 1974 of $33,597,000. 8 73.9 002 banks reported total profits during the same period a) Other banks are considering following the lead of the Communist candidates, Kashtan asked, ‘‘What is a lost vote?” He answered it by saying that voting for candidates who do not put forward the program workers want is casting a lost vote. He urged his listeners to cast a positive vote for new policies for Canada by voting Communist. A large vote for Communist candidates will be the most meaningful vote a worker can cast — because it will indicate a growing demand for basic change. In outlining his party’s policy to elect a large bloc of progressives, Kashtan said the Communist Party cannot give ‘uncritical support” to any other party or candidates, including the NDP. He said voters in constituencies where the Communists are not running -should decide who to support on the basis of four criteria. He listed these as: ae. Do they support action to protect living standards and rollback of See COMMUNIST, pg. 12 Tribune ‘VOL. 35, No. 27 15° “The decision of the Toronto Globe and Mail to endorse the Conservative Party and call for its election on July 8 shows that an important and influential section of monopoly has thrown its weight behind Tory leader Stanfield and his anti-labor and anti-people’s program.” This statement was made by ‘Canadian Communist leader ‘William Kashtan, speaking to about 300 people at a picnic in Surrey Monday, held in support of Fraser Valley and New West- minster Communist candidates. “The Globe and Mail indicated what it expects from a Stanfield government, assuming it is elected, when it declared editorially on June 12: ‘They — the political parties — do not wish to say: We will slap a freeze on in- come and prices and hold them firmly in-place, however much it hurts, until inflation in the cost of domestic goods and services has ‘been arrested. They do not wish to say: We will cut government spending even if it means paring or eliminating programs which you, the people, like. They do not wish to say: We will tax you out of the -extra money you are spending on scarce goods and sending prices up.’ . 2 ‘“‘Apparently,”’ said Kashtan, “the Globe and Mail has found the political party which is prepared to say all these things and to promise to implement such an anti-people’s program if elected as the govern- ment. Mr. Stanfield’ and the Conservative Party is the vehicle through which such a program would be implemented. This is why the Globe and Mail has decided to endorse the Conservative Party and Mr. Stanfield. AT CITY RALLY. William Kashtan is shown addressing final Communist election meeting at i e last Sunday. Party candidates show left'to right are Rod Doran, New cea Kashtan; Maurice Rush, Vancouver East; Jim Beynon, Vancouver South; E 4 Homer Stevens, Burnaby-Richmond-Delta. Seated behind Kashtan is Prec Community Centr Greenwell, Vancouver Centre; Bianco, Surrey-White Rock; Communist leader Nigel Morgan. “One may expect that other papers through the country will join the parade in an effort to steamroller a majority Tory government to power. This poses a dangerous threat to the Canadian people. Such a program is a crisis pee. with the people as vic- ims. “The Communist Party,” said Kashtan, ‘‘was a thousand times right when it warned of an effort by reactionary forces to push politics to the right in this election. This drive to the right must and can be defeated. Even at this late date united action of the working class ‘and democratic forces throughout the country can block a Tory drive for majority government, by electing a large progressive block including Communists to Parliament. : ‘Now more than ever a vote for the candidates of the Communist Party is a vote for a democratic alternative to the crisis policies of reaction,’ concluded Kashtan. 12 Communist condidaves When voters go to the polls next Monday, July 8, they will find Com- munist Party candidates in 12 of B.C.’s 23 ridings. The Communist candidates are: Greater Vancouver: Maurice Rush, Vancouver East; Fred Wilson Vancouver Kingsway; Betty Greenwell, Vancouver Centre; Jim Beynon, Vancouver South; Eric Waugh, Burnaby-Seymour. : New Westminster and Fraser Valley: Homer Stevens, Burnaby- Richmond-Delta; Rod Doran, New Westminster; Fred Bianco, Surrey- White Rock; Harold Pritchett, Fraser Valley West. Vancouver Island: Mark Mosher, Comox-Alberni; Ernie Knott Nanaimo-Cowichan-Islands; Barry Dean, Esquimalt-Saanich. ‘ Under the name of the Communist candidate on your ballot will be the words in English and French, ‘Communist Party of Canada.”’ Vote onl: for them. 4 Do not be confused by the Maoist group calling themselves ‘‘Marxists- Leninists”’ who have paraded themselves as the Communist Party. The will not be able to use the Communist Party name and will appear on the ale as ‘‘Marxist-Leninsts’’. They are there to confuse you. Don’t be misled. most meaningful—Kashtan