ELECTION —

Cont'd from pg. 1
‘We can depend that Mr, Bennett
will do precisely what he says in
this one respect, at least, ifheis
given a chance, We already have
the most vicious anti-labor leg-
islation in Canada to support his

reliability in this field,

The Socred government’s per-
formance has been one ofthe side
show huckster, stealing our re-
sources for the U.S, Trusts and
giving in return a few benefits
such as roads and tax concessions
for a small portion of the popu-
lation, The money for which came
from the people in the first
place,

Our Party calls on the people
to break big business control,

oust the Bennett government, ~

elect a Democratic majority.

To realize such a perspective
we will run a number of candi-
dates where we can advance the
fight for new policies and elect
communists. We intend to have
candidates in the following con-
stituencies — Victoria, Shuswap,.
North Vancouver Seymour, Van-
couver East, Vancouver Center,
Little Mountain and Rossland-
Trail,

We will campaign around four
main issues;

1, Eventual return ofallnatur-
al resources to the people of B.C,
to ensure their use for the
people’s benefit,

2, Extension of democracy by

bringing the monopolies under
democratic control and the ex-
pansion of the public sector
through nationalisation, The ex-
tension of democracy by giving
labor a full voice in planning, and
distribution of the benefits of au-
tomation and the elimination of
restrictive anti-labor legislation
so that labor can make it’s con-
tribution towards the solution of
our social problems,

3. Increase allocations for
health, hospital, ambulance and
welfare services, and raising
the standards to that required for
participation in the Federal Medi-
care Plan recommended in the
Hall Commission Report,

4, New fiscal policies suchas:
repeal of the Sales Tax, intro-
duction of taxation based on abili-
ty to pay, relief for local tax
payers through the Provincial
and Federal governments assum-
ing the full cost of education,
throughways, bridges and welfare
costs,

Communists appeal to all
democratic forces to unite in an
alliance based on co-operation of
N.D.P. supporters, militant trade
unionists, communists and other

democratic-minded Canadians to ©

oust the Bennett government and
elect a democratic majority.

This course we advocate opens
up the possibilities for fulfilling
the vital economic and social
needs confronting us today and
ultimately gaining a more equit-
able social system,

PEACE ARCH

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before more tragic Hiroshimas
occur”, The speaker urged her
fellow Americans to “continually
needle Congress until it does
something”,

Richard Lord, Department of
Mathematics, Yakima Valley Col-
lege, and also a Peace Candi-
date in a Washington Congres-
sional District, warned his
audience that as a result of U.S,
escalation of aggression in Viet-
nam “the shadow of the cloud
over Hiroshima hangs over all
of us ...man must learnto make
peace, If we are willing to spend
trillions of dollars to make war,
_ how much better to learn to spend

_ it on peace? Our ‘Great Society’
now betrayed, can be won only
by peace”,

Mrs, Grace McInnes, NDP-
M.P, (Vancouver-Kingsway) fired
the opening shot in her stirring

_ address by drawing attention to
the fact that Luci Baines Johnson,

daughter of President Johnson

_ “chose this Hiroshima Day as her

wedding day, Such a choice “is ©

an indictment of this continent
by the other side of the world,
because our biggest crime is in

We'll never get peace in Viet-
mam the speaker continued, “if
we go with an olive branch inone
hand, and a bomb in the other”,

We are building ‘‘a wall of hate”
and unless we can change soon
we can ask ourselves “how long
before we reach the point of no
return?” :

Mrs. MclInnes made a strong
appeal for the U.S, and the na-
tions involved to utilize the United
Nations authority as the prime
agency in seeking peace in Viet-
nam, Mrs, McInnes also urged
that our Canadian political lead-
ers, “Pearson and Martin to
stop gumshoeing, because a lotof
Canadians are not proud of you,
What is needed in this situation
is backbone instead of wishbone”,

The A-bomb which destroyed
Hiroshima and 80,000 of its people
in one blinding flash, is today
“a pathetic museum piece com-
pared to the H-bombs of today
with which we associate the term
‘megadeath’, the obliteration of
a million or more human beings
in one blinding flash”, The speak-
er was Dr, Giovanni Costigan,
Professor of History, University
of Washington,

Dr, Costigan’s keynote address
was an outstanding historical
documentation of U.S, aggression
and escalation of the war in Viet-
na, and the extreme gravity of
where such escalation will lead if
not stopped, viz, a confrontation
with the 700-million of China,

_and thermonuclear war, The

‘There’s nothing to study’
Carpenters tell Peterson _

The threatened lockout of the
Carpenters Union by some 185of
the 322 contracting firms said to

be represented by the Building.

Construction’s negotiating com-
mittee, headed by ex-labor fakir
R. K. Gervin, has fizzled down
to less than 50, and even some
of these are dubious about their
‘lockout’ strategy.

Meantime according to Arnold
Smith, president of the Provincial
Council of Carpenters over 100
building construction firms have
already signed a two-year con-
tract with the union, providing
for increased wage and fringe

’ benefits, plus & reduction of the
work week to 373 hours in 1967, -

Opposition to any reduction of
hours in the working week has
been the prime obstruction put
forward by the big construction
firms throughout a period of
long drawn outnegotiations, Even
now with new firms reaching
agreement with the Carpenters

almost daily, the big outfits ‘hang *

Helen Weir of Toronto (second from left),
member of Women’s International Demo-
cratic Federation and Canadian Congress of

tough’ and want the issue “sub-
mitted to an independent: body
for study”, mainly as a means
of stalling and obstructing final
agreement negotiations with the
Carpenters Union.

R. K. ‘Roly’ Gervin says ‘his
group would welcome such a
study”, At a session this week
with Labor Minister Peterson,
representatives of the Carpenters

struction job cooks, members of
Local 835 of the Beverage and
Culinary Workers Union became
involved in a dispute with their

- catering employer, Cal-Van Ca-

terers Ltd.

Tahsis construction manager
stated he cannot call the walkout
a ‘wildcat’ since ‘men have got
to eat’, At press time the opera-
tion is still shut down,

Union turned ‘thumbs down? onany *

proposals for such a ‘study’ by
an industrial commissioner or
others, since agreements were
being signed by a substantial
number of contractors and the
need for such a ‘study’ did not
exist,

* kK *

Some 600 workers walked off
the job Monday of this week at
the Tahsis Co, Ltd.’s pulp mill
now under construction at Gold
River.

The ‘beef’? arose when the con-

* OK OK

Following a vote last Sunday,
the 18,000 Steelworkers at the
International Nickel Co, of Can-
ada plants in Sudbury and Port
Colborne decided to terminate
their three-weeks ‘wildcat’ strike
and return.to work, }

At the time when strike action
began negotiations for a new
wage contract between INCO and
the Steelworkers Union were in
progress, but later broken off,
At press time it was not known
whether these had been resumed
or not,

_ Women, chatting with her American sisters

“demented arithmetic” of today
said Dr, Costigan tell us that
“within an hour we can have
300-million dead in Europe, the
Soviet Union and the U.S. This is
the Damoclean sword that hangs
over civilization”,

Dr. Costigan gave some start-
ling statistics on the cost of U.S,
war on Vietnam; $15-billion dol-
lars annually, with an estimated
cost of $1-million dollars for
every Vietnamese killed”, Dr,
Costigan also said that ‘only
94-percent of South Vietnam is
secure, that is under the control
of Saigon, All the rest of the
land area is in the hands of the
Vietcong, or destroyed by U.S,
chemical bombing”,

Dr. Costigan concluded his ad-
dress by quoting Canadian Col,
John McCrea’s poem “In Flanders
Fields”, and appealed that we

“Do not break faith” with those -
who died in the World Wars to win ©

lasting peace for all mankind, At
the conclusion of his address the
audience gave Dr, Costigan a pro-
longed standing ovation,

Wires were approved by the
Hiroshima Rally to be forwarded
to Pres, Johnson, demanding the
withdrawal of all U.S, troops, and
end to the bombings, and imme-
diate convening of the Geneva
Conference,

A cablegram was also approv-
ed to the Mayor of Hiroshima,
expressing sorrow and sympathy
for all who suffered ‘the inhu-
manities of war’, and pledging
“our determination to do all in
our power to prevent future wars,

Part of the Hiroshima Day
rally was the 30-mile ‘Peace
March’ from Vancouver, New
Westminster and Surrey to the
Peace Arch by scores of young
people, who played an active role
in focusing public attention onthe
Hiroshima anniversary and its
significance to the escalating U.S,
aggression in Vietnam,

KOK OK

At Buffalo, N.Y, Peace March-

ers from Toronto and U.S, centers
met in the middle of the Rainbow
Bridge at Niagara Falls, and there
marched back to Niagara Falls
for abig demonstration in Canada,

at the Peace Arch rally, August 6..The five
American women are members of the
Seattle ‘Women Strike for Peace C’ttee.’

Deadline—
to vote

Saturday midnight, August 13
is the B.C. voter’s ‘deadline’
to get on the Voter’s List, After
that witching hour, he (or she)
can rant at the Bennett Socred
government — but cannot cast a
vote to get rid of it unless they
register right away, Now —
Today!

That isthe essence of the
Bennett government’s scheme to
have voters register themselves,
instead of conducting a full and
complete enumeration of the
British Columbia electorate, In
that way Bennett hopes to de-
prive tens of thousands of voters,
especially youthful voters cast-
ing their first ballot — off the
voters’ list.

To assure an ‘ouster’ for the

‘Socred regime, register Now —

Right Now; Saturday midnight —
is your last chance, No doubt WAC
hopes you will miss it?

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