Above is the front page of a four-page leaflet outlining the program of.

the Communist Party of Canada to fight the layoffs and the growing
€conomic crisis. It is being distributed in large quantities across Canada,
With some 35,000 being given out in B.C. Copies are available at the
B.C. Communist Party office, Rm. 408, Ford Bldg., Vancouver.

New Westminster
1975 BETHUNE SEMINARS

The following classes will be held at Douglas College, New
Westminster Campus, room 308D in the four room complex,
corner 8th Ave. and McBride Blvd.
All classes commence at 7:30 p.m.

(1) “Emancipation of Women — From a Class Viewpoint.”
Will be led by Mona Morgan — Sunday, February 9.

(2) “Role of the Soviet Union in World Affairs.” Will be led
by Jack Phillips — Sunday, February 16.

(3) “China’s Foreign Policy,” led by Ben Swankey —
February 23,

(4) “The Future of Canada’s Trade Union Movement.” Will
be led by George Hewison — Sunday, March 2.

Participants are requested to register in advance by phoning
521-5847 or by writing to 214 St. Patrick St. New
Westminster.

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Unified bargaining strategy
urged for all forest unions

Co-ordination between all unions
in B.C.’s forest industry and a
unified bargaining strategy for the
upcoming contract negotiations is
singled out as an urgent necessity
by the Wood Committee of the
Communist Party in a leaflet being
distributed. to woodworkers.

Headed, ‘“‘We Need Unity of
Wood, Pulp and Paper Unions,”’
the leaflet says:

“Collective agreements for
50,000 wood, pulp and paper
workers will expire in B.C. in June.
In August, the agreement covering
5,000 northern woodworkers. will
expire. This is the first time in
many years that these agreements
have a common termination date.

That means there is a real op-

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portunity for all unions in the in-
dustry to unite around common
bargaining goals.

‘‘We must take full advantage of
this new situation, instead of
allowing the multi-national cor-
porations with their integrated
operations to play one section of
the industry against the other. The
big bosses will try to take ad-
vantage of the layoffs to get a
cheap settlement in order to
maintain the highest possible level
of profits at the expense of the
workers.

“These bosses would like the
workers to bear the main burden of
the current crisis situation, a
situation created by big business
and the political parties who serve
them.”’

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Lessons of Chile
aired in article

By JACK PHILLIPS

“Internationally, the importance
of the Chilean revolution lies
primarily in the fact that her
courageous experience has proved
in principle a_ possibility and
historical practicability of
peaceful revolutionary forms in
modern times.”’

This is the opinion of Professor
Alexander Sobolev, PhD., chief of
the international Communist
Movement Sector, Institute of
Marxism-Leninism under the
Communist Party Soviet Union
Central Committee.

“The events in Chile have in-
troduced many new elements into
the substantiation. of the
development of the revolution in a
peaceful form. For this reason the
Communist parties are striving to
draw conclusions from the grim
lessons of the defeat of the Chilean
revolution. At the same time other
political forces are trying to give
their own appraisal of the Chilean
events and use Chile’s tragedy for
their demagogical ends.”

Sobolev’s article, which was
reproduced in Socialism, Theory
and Practice, November, 1974,
emphasises the priority right of the
Chilean comrades to determine the
causes and genesis of the military-
fascist coup. At the same time, it

’ emphasises the fact that Marxists

in other countries have a role to
play in the analysis of the
“problems and prospects of
struggle for democracy and
socialism in the light of the Chilean
experience.”

Whereas the ultra-left uses the
Chilean experience to deny the
possibility of a peaceful transition
to socialism, Sobolev offers a more
positive assessment: ‘‘Despite the
defeat of the revolution in Chile, it
can be viewed as an outstanding

dress rehearsal of the peaceful ,
development of the revolution at —

the contemporary stage of

struggle.”

The Communist Party of Chile
clearly determined the main blow:
against U.S. imperialism that held
sway in the country; against the
large landowners who sided with
the Yankees and local monopoly
capital; against local monopoly
capital.

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Working from that premise and
taking into account the alignment
of forces in the country, the
Communist Party launched a
vigorous struggle to unite all
working people. The Popular Unity
coalition was a political expression
of the success of the party’s policy.
Salvadore Allende was elected
president and a_ revolutionary-
democratic government (in its
social and political essence) was
formed.

Sobolev points out that while
major democratic undertakings
were carried out, the logic of the

See LESSONS, pg. 12

The leaflet outlines what the
Wood Committee of the Com-
munist Party believes are issues of
vital concern to all workers in the
industry this year. It lists them as
follows:

e A 32-hour work week with no
loss in take-home pay;

e A substantial wage increase
and improvement of the cost-of-
living formula;

e A better pension plan with the
option of retirement at 60 with full
pension;

e Severance pay at a minimum
of one month’s pay for every year
worked;

e A dental plan fully paid for by
the employers;

e A moratorium on further
closures of operations and on
layoffs; a public review board
made up of labor, employer,
provincial and federal government

representatives to supervise this -

moratorium, and take all possible
steps to put laid-off members back
to work;

e A one-year agreement.

Pointing out that the situation in
the industry cries out for im-
plementation of such a program,
the Communist statement urges
that “‘there:be an end to disunity
and bickering between the leaders
of the different unions in the in-
dustry,’’ and calls for a unified
bargaining strategy.

Outlining the profit picture in the
forest industry, the leaflet shows
how the rate of profit of the major
companies doubled from 1972 to
1973.

The IWA Wage and Contract
conference will be held in Van-
couver’s Georgia Hotel, March 21-
23.

TOM McEWEN

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