Socialist path
M. Olson, Duncan; B.C. writes: In
Teply to the last letter of Gary
Mortenson, I would say that titles of

articles often mean nothing. His was _

Called, “Socialist Nationalization is

the Way’ — followed by abstract

Seneralizations. If titles meant

4 anything, the war in Vietnam would

a have been finished long ago, so many

} times has President Johnson titled

his “speeches ““Peace!’’ So just

calling an article “Socialism” isn’t
‘60lng to get us there any quicker.

ae at least Gary Mortenson has
| a obliged to enumerate some
- PS which might be taken toward

at Canadian goal, i.e., public
°wnership. However, in pointing his
aH at a phrase in the NDP program
aes for a Crown Corporation
tire loans te, or investing in,
a ing industries to enable them to

Pand, and to bring new industries
: the Province — let us take a
Pecific example.

: aia Canada needs a steel
ave af Not mill — industry. We
ic the basic requirements in
ae We are on the Pacific
aa acing the Orient, who need
ei goods. Steel is
ebay ed by international cartel, so
eno Steel industry in Western
: a. What would be wrong with
ee Investing in a_ steel
i ae What would be wrong with
: eg rPeration loaning money
nothin 1s? Need I go further? I see
State & wrong with the NDP
oe here. And if Mr.
another wants to interpret it
Piteve; ae why, the NDP has
~ arty, imed it was a socialist

Ber iter seems to envisage
a today and socialism
Cond, Wy, with no in-between. If
i ae to arrive at socialism by
i th: parliamentary means, I can
a en Although no one can
appen o advance what may
Politica feel that the first big
ensd Step in English-speaking
4 will be when capitalist

nterpr;
prs are owned and manged
Bhi many of them
Sts, in Canadian industries

, E thei, ~ been bought back from
a “a - Owners. And certainly this
Fist babpen all the while Canada
Norap® US, through NATO and
; This question Mr.
: avoids, as he avoids the
tween” entirely.
Sis wh
“orizing.

Mo :
“et tenson

fi
ae Say it’s armchair
at is he going to do

SOW to
Talking we Canadian socialism?
S0cialigm 8libly about a far-off
About if ta not doing something
» IS empty. I don’t know who

norte ; -
he Deak €nson is referring to when

S of bringing working people
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into all decisive positions of
management and administration. I
could name fifty prominent working
people from shipbuilders to loggers,
in the B.C. labor movement, who
wouldn’t know how to run a pulp mill
and chemical complex to save their
lives.

In the transition from capitalism
to socialism in Canada we need
people who work with hand and
brain, many of whom are not
considered by many others to be
“working people” today. We need
them, their know-how and ‘technical
training, if we are going to win
through to socialism peacefully.
They will be allies in the struggle for
an independent Canada, in which
neutrality from U.S. militarism
plays a dominant role. But they will
never be allies in the struggle for
socialist nationalization. You can’t
skip the ‘‘in-between’’.

I could not go along with the idea of
socialist nationalization of the
C.P.R. now, and after all, now is the
time we are concerned with. It would
be ridiculous. When the C.P.R. is
nationalized, it will depend on the
government of the day. That
government will be under pressure
from the Canadian people. And that
pressure will be in relation to their
understanding of the issue involved.
That understanding is something
that those parties who consider
themselves socialist in Canada
should be providing, and are not.

It’s all a word, in the dim and
distant future — ‘“‘Socialism”’ . . . and
no working out of possible steps, at

_ least we don’t read of any. And that

is why I object to criticism of the
NDP program as Mr. Mortenson did,
with no attempt to contribute
something better.

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COMMUNISTS TAKE STAND AT HEARING

‘Rapid, low-fare transit
key to city’s problem’

The key to solving Vancouver's
transportation problem is the
establishment of a rapid, low-fare
transit system. This is the central
point in a brief to be submitted by
Charles Caron, Vancouver secretary
of the Communist Party, tc a public
hearing called by city council on
Thursday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in Eric
Hamber Secondary School
auditorium.

The brief says that if Vancouver is
to develop in a planned way the
following five measures are

necessary:

e The citv council should rescind
its decision on the present freeway
plan.

e City council should urge an early
start on the tunnel crossing for rapid
transit facilities.

e City Council must assure, that
allowances are made in the new
crossing for rapid transit facilities.

e City council should immediately
order a survey of related matters
essential for a comprehensive plan
of development for Vancouver and
adjacent. municipalities in co-
operation with these municipalities.

Pollution at Cowichan

COWICHAN LAKE— Concern is
growing among residents in the
Cowichan Lake area over pollution of
the lake and river. It is now proposed
that sewage be dumped in the lake.

There is a growing feeling that the
only way pollution of this beautiful
and important lake and river system
can avoid the fate of other water
systems is for the provincial
‘government to bear the cost of an
adequate system of pollution control.

About 2,500 people live at the Lake

and it is pointed out that it would be
impossible for local residents to bear
the cost of an adequate anti-pollution
program. A system which would
prevent pollution of the entire river
and lake system could not possibly’

be borne by local taxpayers, ©

residents point out.
There is also a growing public
* feeling that government action was
necessary to establish flood-control
measures on the lake. In January,
1961 and again in December, 1966
there was considerable flood

damage.

Shuswap diversion hit

Recent announcements from
Victoria. that the provincial
government is giving serious
consideration to plans to divert the
waters of Shuswap Lake into the
Okanagan has given rise to
widespread concern to people living
in the Thompson Valley.

The Greater Kamloops Chamber
‘of Commerce on November 29
demanded in a letter to Minister of
Lands and Forests R. G. Williston,
that no steps be taken on the

diversion until all interested parties
have had an opportunity to be heard.

The Kamloops-Okanagan region of
the Communist Party has opposed
the scheme on the grounds that it is a
proposition put forward by real
estate sharks who will benefit most,
and further that. it means more
water for the U.S. while bringing
very little advantage to the farmers
who will have to pay for the project.
Waters from the Okanagan flow
south into the U.S.

e Cost of this proposed survey
should be shared between the
Federal and Provincial governments
and municipalities concerned.

The brief challenges the position
taken by City Engineer R. M. Martin
at the open hearing at city hall on
November 23 at which he stated in
reply to a question that he was
opposed to rapid transit since it was
necessary to subsidize it.

The Vancouver Committee of the
Communist Party takes the stand
that ‘in any plan of development
priority has to be given to a rapid
transit system. Bridges, roads and

“ such do not transport the people,

they are auxiliary facilities. In the
last analysis it is automobiles or
buses that actually transport people.
The relative merit of buses over
automobiles are overwhelming.”

. The brief quotes the Standford
Report of October 1964, which said: -
“By 1981 more than 300,000 private
vehicles will be entering and leaving
downtown each day. In addition a bus
rapid transit system is required to
carry a substantial part of the peak
hour traffic loads. Nothing less than
a freeway and transit system of
considerable magnitude is needed to
accommodate this traffic and permit
growth of downtown Vancouver.”
‘Charging that present freeway
plans adopted by city council are
primarily designed for the benefit of
private interests rather than those of
citizens as w hole, the brief says:
“Representatives of, business
projects such as Eaton-Cemp and
Project 200 wish to make certain
that whatever plans are worked out
they will be ‘geared’ to assist them
in making profits. This outlook must
not be the priority for planning. We
do not suggest that commercial
requirements should be ignored;
however, we submit that the first
consideration in planning
transportation must be the needs of
those that require transportation.”

The Communist: Party brief urges
city council to display “more
foresight than that shown in their
decision on freeway development;
and asks that comprehensive long
range plans be drawn up which will
take care of immediate needs as well
as those of future generations.

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