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MAURICE RUSH
Va Ncouver East

ERIC WAUGH

—_2naby-Seymour

ROD DORAN
New. Westminster

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1972

CURB MONOPOLY POWER,
JOBS FOR ALL CANADIANS’

Canada’s Communists

Communist
candidates

These five candidates of
the Communist Party were
already nominated in B.C.
Federal ridings when Prime
Minister Pierre Trudeau
announced the Federal elec-
tion date last Friday.

The B.C. executive of the
Party announced this week
that consideration is being
given to further nomina-
tions in the next few days.

WILLIAM TURNER
Vancouver-Kingsway

MARK MOSHER
Comox-Alberni

VOL. 33, No. 36

issue election call

Full employment with jobs or an adequate income
as a right for all Canadians is given high priority in the
election platform of the Communist Party made public
as Prime Minister Trudeau last Friday dissolved
Parliament and set October 30 as the date for a Federal

election.

Calling for a new direction in
Canadian affairs, the platform
proposes policies which will curb
the power of monopoly in Canada
and break U.S. control of the
economy.

The Communist election
platform which will be presented
to the Canadian people by more
than 30 candidates in constitu-
encies across Canada, high-
lights five major planks. These
are:

e Jobs or adequate incomes
as a right for all Canadians, full
employment without inflation,
higher living standards.

e Genuine Canadian inde-
pendence based on public owner-
ship.

e@ Equality and the right of self-

determination for Canada’s two
nations.

eA new Bill of Rights
enshrined in a made-in-Canada
constitution.

e An independent foreign
policy of peace and peaceful
coexistence.

Introducing an extensive
program of new policies for
Canada for which the Com-

r .
Wag pehelect Dave Barrett
the finer wee next week to form
Vinee? P Sovernment in the
: Vednesd. .. history after last
Sociay poy § crushing defeat of
the vo credit and rejection by
- back 5. 0! the attempted come
Pinay the Liberals and Tories.
NDP ¢ "results showed that the
Vhelmi neo 38 MLAs, an over-
Nembe 8 majority in the 55-
Credit " Legislature. Social
3B it ele as Teduced to 9 from the
Were aaa In 1969. The Liberals
ad 5, the same number
“lecteg ane and the Tories

e
the Np oPular vote showed that
the Vote received 39 percent of
Percent. Cast; the Socreds 32
and theme Liberals 16 percent
Mes 13 percent.

_ People look to NDP gov

The NDP sweep was province-
wide. All industrial as well as
many rural ridings were taken
by the NDP. Although the
Tories, who took many votes
from the Socreds increased their
vote substantially, an analysis
of riding by riding shows that
even without this split vote the
NDP would have elected suffi-
cient members to form the next
government. :

Labor ridings such as Alberni
and Rossland-Trail which the
Socreds carried in 1969, swung
overwhelmingly to the NDP,
showing the widespread effect
the Socred’s anti-labor policies
had in swinging a united working
class vote to defeat them.

The overriding desire for a
change to end the 20-year big

business rule of the Socreds with
its reactionary right-wing anti-
people’s policies, and the fact
that the NDP stood as the most
likely alternative, swept the
NDP to the largest vote it ever
received in a provincial election
in B.C.

On election night Premier-
elect Barrett told his campaign
workers that ‘‘the peor of BS

xpect a great deal from us an
ins a istdelvens: The NDP
must be aware that it owes its
stunning victory to the hundreds
of thousands of working people
who had their rights taken away
by the Socreds; to the teachers,
government employees,
pensioners and welfare
recipients, farmers and small
business people, as well as the

t for action

youth whose interests were all
under attack by a reactionary
government.

The people expect that the
NDP will now move to change
the direction of B.C.’s policies as
Dave Barrett promised.
Spokesmen for labor, govern-
ment employees, teachers, pen-
sioners, civic leaders and others
have voiced high optimism that
the new policies will be imple-
mented by the Barrett govern-
ment. And indeed, if the NDP is
to consolidate its victory of
August 30 it must move
decisively to implement these
promises. That is the first order
of business before the new
government.

However, the labor movement

See NDP GOV'T, pg. 12

munists will work, the platform
says:

“The federal election is taking
place at an extremely critical
time. Our country, rich in
natural resources and in the
skills and talents of its indus-
trious people, is in the midst of a
growing crisis affecting almost
all aspects of Canadian life.
The crisis is further aggravated
by the massive U.S. domination
of the Canadianeconomy. . .

“Instead of balanced economic
development there is con-

More election
news, pages 4, 8

tinuous economic instability.
National inequality of French
Canada is deliberately prac
ticed threatening the break-
up of our country. Regional
disparity is a built-in feature of
capitalist Canada. . .

“The stark reality of Canada
today exposes the myth that
monopoly capitalism can satisfy
the material and spiritual needs
of our people. Monopoly
capitalism is unable to satisfy
these needs. Its aim is— first,
last and always — the drive for
maximum profits at the expense
of the people’s well-being and
their democratic rights and
liberties. . .

““More and more Canadians
now realize that monopoly
capitalism is an outworn social
system. This finds reflection in
the crisis of policy of the parties
of monopoly — Liberal and
Progressive Conservative. . .

“The two old capitalist
parties are committed to defend
and extend monopoly rule. They
cannot be expected to take effec-
tive measures to curb monopoly,
break the grip of the U.S. finan-
cial octopus on the Canadian
economy, and to put the inter-
ests of the people first. . .

“‘U.S. monopoly capitalism,
with the connivance of sections
of Canadian monopoly, has been
able to export unemployment,
inflation and the currency crisis

See JOBS, pg. 12

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