land (Minister

Action. wins victory

Determined action by the
Fraserview Veterans Associa-
tion has forestalled a sched-
uledrent increase.

*bout 700 residents of the
Fraservi®w district, living in
premises rented from _ the
Centra! Mortgage & Housing
Corporation, received a wire
last Tuesday from Stewart
Bates, CMHC president, tell-
ing them that Hon. J. R. Gar-
of National

Revenue) had instructed him
“to postpone the rental in-
crease for the time being.”

After first hearing of the
proposed increase, which
would have boosted rents by
$3.50-$11 a month, the FVA
set up a picket line in front
of the Vancouver offices of
CMHC. This resulted in the
subsequent wire from Bates.

Photo: Deni Eagland,
VANCOUVER SUN.

Cont’d from pq. 1
Comox, B.C. This before the ink
On its test-ban treaty signature
was scarcely dry.

Election appeal urges |
unity to oust Socreds Sept. 30

“There is no record of the
Bennett-Bonner Socreds, or of
Liberal leader Ray Perrault or
Tory leader Davie Fulton protest-
ing this infamous violation of Can-
adian sovereignty and __ peace.
Their silence can only be con-
Strued as tacit agreement on this
Pearson-Washington suicide deal.

“In this election campaign, the
People must see to it that this
Vital issue of peace and survival
Sets top priority, because it is
Mseparably bound up with the
Sellout of their resources heritage

t ta U.S. monopoly.

“B.C. needs a government,
speaking in the name of its peo-
ple, which will say to Lester B.
Pearson and his Washington trig-
ger-men: “Wipe out this shame
—no nuclear arms in Canada, now
or later. A nuclear-free Canada
is the most vital essential for sov-
ereign integrity and a United
Canadian Contederatioon—not the
flimsy pretext of a “Confedera-
tion” Bennett now uses to again
hoodwink the people for a hurry
up election.

NOT SOCRED, BUT REAL

PROSPERITY
“In this election, short as the

Socred dictum allows, there is a
great opportunity for the people

native.

Communist Party
Room 502, Ford Building,

Name
Address

Town

‘SACK WAC’

An appeal from the Communist Party

YOUR DOLLARS can help defeat w. A. C. Bennett and his
Socred sell out government on Sept. 30.
YOUR DOLiARS can help elect a genuine people's alter-

YOUR DOLLARS can make certain that the real issues are
debated on the hustings . . . the sellout of our na-

tural resources and the threat to our peace and
security represented by a nuclear dump at Comox,

YOUR DOLLARS can ensure that the Communist message
will come through strong and clear and provide a
clear lead for labor and the people.

YOUR DOLiARS can work for you in this important election.

DON'T WAIT — DONATE TODAY

193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver.
Here is my contribution of $
Business at the polls onSept. 30.

to defeat Big

abor

of B.C. to unload this Socred
dictatorial brokerage and elect
an NDP government, fully rep-
resentative of labor, farmers, and
the people generally.

“The key to NDP victory, to
end the maladministration and
sellout of Socred dictatorship. to
break the restrictive legislative
shackles the Bennett government
has placed upon organized labor,
is unity and more unity.

“Unity around policies of dem-
ocratic reform and resources de-
velopment serving the interests,
first and foremost of B.C., can
topple the Bennett government
and restore the rich heritage of
B.C. to its people.

“The Fultons and Perraults,
like Bennett, have nothing to of-
fer B.C. except a continuation of
policies dictated by Washington.
Giving a clear-cut and courageous
lead, and the will and readiness
to unite with all sections of the
people and organized labor, the
NDP can be the next government

of B.C. But to achieve this its

leadership must divorce _ itself
from mimicking the  old-line
parties of Big Business, from
‘out liberaling’ the Liberals and
Tories in an effort to appear
respectable.

“The burning need of the people
is to win back their province and
its rich resources for their own
well-being, not respectability.
Such a clear and decisive bid for
the unity required to topple the
Bennett regime would also end
the defeatism evident in working
class ranks because of this at-
titude of respectability.

“NDP-farmer-labor unity at the
polls on September 30, augment-
ed by a number of Communist
candidates and a Communist pro-
gram for B.C. which places all
the issues in bold perspective,
and particularly that of resources
and peace, can assure the end
of a Socred regime of betrayal
and doublecross. The best alterna-
tive for the people of British
Columbia will be the election of
an NDP government.. The Com-
munist Party will join with labor,
farmers, and small business peo-
ple to achieve that goal.”

B.C. Communist Party cam-
paign manager Charles Caron

- told the PT Wednesday that the

Provincial Committee of the
party will meet in Vancouver Sat-
urday to get the election cam-
paign into high gear, to consider
the party’s program and nomina-

J tion of candidetes.—

CP LABOR DAY MESSAGE

Labor’s major task
is fight for peace

Fellow Workers: E

Just when it appeared that the first steps were being
taken to prevent the spread of nuclear arms and to begin
the process of nuclear disarmament, the Pearson govern-
ment has seen fit to bring these U.S. death weapons into
our country.

By this action it has made Canada a member of the
nuclear club and opened the door to th: spreading of
nuclear arms to other countries, in the first place rev-

' enge-seeking Western Germany.

The Pearson government talks about disarmament
but in fact is torpedoing it and opening the door to Can-
ada becoming an expendable force in a nuclear war.

sk ca
* *

The organized labor movement cannot ignore this
new threat to the security of our country, the lives of the
Canadian people and to all that labor stands for.

It should make Labor Day this year into a mighty
demonstration for peace, peaceful coexistence, disarma-
ment and unalterable opposition to nuclear arms for Can-
ada and her armed forces, and for new national policies
that mean more jobs, higher living standards and im-
proved social security for the Canadian people.

The fight for peace and against, nuclear arms for
Canada is the most important business confronting the
working class and the great trade union movement today.

If organized labor uses its great strength: if it coop-
erates with all like minded Canadians, it can compel can-
cellation of the nuclear agreement and thereby strike a
great blow for peace, for disarmament, for Canadian se-
curity and the well-being of the Canadian people.

In extending fraternal greetings to the organized la-
bor movement and to every working man and woman in
Canada this Labor Day, the Communist Party calls up-
on all to speak with one voice and act together; to com-
pel the government and Parliament to cancel the nuc-

lear agreement.

or face defeat.

No nuclear arms for Canada!
It can be done. Compel the government to retreat

National Executive Committee _
COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA

LABOR ROUNDUP:
Quebec Labor Code change
would be a great victory

Proposed changes in the Quebec
labor code came up for discus-
sion in the provincial legislature
‘recently. They are expected to
be acted upon during the fall
session.

As reported in the July-August
issue of the Montreal publication
“Labor Facts,’’ the new code
would repeal a vicious McCarthy-
ite provision, adopted in 1953
(but made effective retroactively
to 1944) under the Duplessis re-
gime, which has long been attack-
ed by the labor movement.

Sec. 6 of the Labor Relations

Act calls for decertification of:

any union which ‘“‘tolerates,
among its organizers or officers
. » . persons adhering to a com-
munist party or movement.”

The proposal to repeal this in-
famous provision came about as
a result of a conference between
labor, management and govern-

ment.
e

In B.C., a number of coming
events will be of major interest
to the labor movement in the
province. These are:

e@ The international convention
of the International Woodworkers
of America. It will be held at the
Bayshore Inn from Sept. 16-20
(inclusive). Among the guest
speakers will be Walter Reuther,
president of the United Auto
Workers, federal labor minister
McEachen, NDP national leader
Tommy Douglas and CLC pres-
ident Claude Jodoin.

© The IWA district convention,
at the Regional Auditorium, 2859
Commercial. Donald MacDonald,
secretary-treasurer of the CLC,
has been invited to attend. Dates
are October 8-11.

® The annual convention of the

B.C. Federation of Labor, to be

held at the Hotel Vancouver from
November 12-16.

e The provincial convention of
the NDP will open on Monday,
November 18. Site will be the-
Villa Motor Hotel, 4330 Dominion
Ave., in Burnaby.

Expected to play a prominent
part in the deliberations of all:
the above meets will be issues

ass

WALTER REUTHER

such as automation, medicare,
labor’s position in regard to NA-
TO and NORAD and the peace
fight in general, a Canadian
merchant marine, etc.

e

The National Union of Public
Employees and the National
Union of Public Service Employ-
ees will also be meeting. They
will gather in separate conven-
tions and then in a merging con-
vention in Winnipeg, sometime
around September 24.

Their amalgamation would form
the largest single national union
in the country.

As usual, the PT will carry full
reports of all these important
events.

_. August 30 ,1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3