~ SHAS a

MAURICE RUSH
Vancouver East

WILLIAM TURNER
Vancouver Kingsway

The above six candidates had
€N nominated as Communist
a candidates to contest
ral ridings in B.C. when
Ninations closed Tuesday.
ae brief background sketches
le men carrying the Com-
Unist Party banner reveal they
€ one thing m common: All
‘ Cla Members of the working
ad SS, and all have spent their
Ut lives in the people’s strug-
*S for a better life.
Brice Rush, candidate for
COuver East, was raised and
Ueated in that constituency.

© y,) Ye as a labor organizer, he
+ Nteered for service in the

ERIC WAUGH
Burnaby-Seymour

ROD DORAN
New Westminster

war against fascism and was
reported missing in action, later
to be liberated from a German
prisoner of war camp. 5
In November, 1965 he met with
Ho Chi Minh and Premier Pham
Van Dong as a member of a
delegation to the Democratic
Republic of Vietnam. He has
played a leading role as founder
of the campaign for medical aid
to Vietnam, and for an end to the
U.S. war of aggression. _
At the age of 56, married with
a 22-year-old daughter, Rush is
the editor of the weekly Pacific
Tribune, and chairman of the
provincial organization of Com-

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1972

=

SEAN GRIFFIN
Vancouver South

MARK MOSHER
Comox-Alberni

munist Party of Canada, and a
member of its Central Com-
mittee.

Eric Waugh, candidate for
Burnaby-Seymour, was born in
1922 in Langley, B.C. He joined
the International Woodworkers
in the early 1940’s and has held
official positions in the IWA;
Vancouver Civic Workers,
Fishermen’s Union, and is pres-
ently a delegate to the Van-
couver Labor Council from the
Marine Workers and Boiler-
makers Industrial Union, Local

No. 1.
He is active in community ac-

See COMMUNIST, pg. 1 1

VOL. 33, No. 41

Right wing Liberals,
Tories push attack

The Tories and right wing Liberals are out to scuttle
the Unemployment Insurance scheme and to use the
current uproar about costs to whittle down benefits and
draw public attention away from the serious jobless

crisis.

This was the charge made by
Vancouver East Communist
candidate Maurice Rush follow-
ing a statement by Vancouver
Centre Conservative candidate
John McDonald last Wednes-
day on the Jack Webster open
line program calling for a cut
back in premium payments and
extension of the waiting period.

‘‘Now we know what Robert
Stanfield is talking about when
he condemns unemployment
insurance as destroying the
‘work-ethic.” What he means is
that working people who are
forced out of work through no
fault of their own, should be
forced to exist on near-star-
vation premiums, and be torced
to take work at low wages. That,
I suppose, would be restoring
the ‘work-ethic’ the way Stan-
field wants it,’’ said Rush.

Rush said, ‘‘Canada’s working
people don’t have to be told by
‘long-john’ Stanfield how to

_work. They are one of the most

productive working classes in
the world. The ‘ethic’ he wants
to re-establish is the right of big
business to force the unem-
ployed to take low-paying jobs
and thus undercut the standard
of living of other Canadians.”
The Communist candidate
pointed out that the Tories are
not the only ones attacking
Unemployment Insurance
which, with all its inadequacies
and need for improvements,
was fought for and won over

‘election

many years of struggle. He
pointed out that the Communist
Party was the first party to
launch a national campaign for
jobless insurance in the
Thirties.

‘‘The Tories have been joined
by right wing Liberals and a
section of the Liberal press in
the drive to scuttle the plan.’’ He
drew attention to recent criti-
cism of the plan by Gordon
Gibson, Liberal candidate in
Vancouver South and a close
advisor of Prime Minister
Trudeau, and an editorial last
week in the Vancouver Sun.

After pointing to the rise in
UIC payments in recent weeks
due to massive unemployment
the Sun editorial on October 5
ended up by saing, ‘‘It may be
that the whole plan will have to
be recast and its financing re
viewed.”

Gordon Gibson attacked the
plan more indirectly by saying
that instead of paying out such
large amounts in premiums at
least part of the money should be
diverted to the creation of pay-
rolls. ‘‘Certainly no one will
disagree that large sums of
money must be spent by the
Federal government to ¢reate
jobs. But coming in the context
of his remarks, he is aetually
calling for cutbacks in unem-
ployment payments.” said
Rush.

See JOBLESS, pg. 12

All out to Kashtan

rallies

—See page 12

siti RRR SSA ESN SME Te ROR Eo ey S