COMMUNIST CANDIDATES AT PNE. Photos above show four of the five
Communist candidates at the Party’s colorful PNE booth. Featuring the
Party’s main slogan: “Oust the Socreds - End Big Business Rule,”’ the
booth highlights the campaign for 100,000 new jobs. Top photo shows
Vancouver East candidates Nigel Morgan and Barry Dean. Bottom
photo shows Vancouver Little Mountain candidates Homer Stevens
and Jim Beynon. The Party’s Surrey candidate Fred Bianco has also
taken part at the booth, which is in the Market Place Bldg., number

674.

—Carey Robson photos

‘Bennett is waging a phony fight against inflation. His main aim is to force the

wages of working people down while allowin ere |
profits at the highest rate in history,’’ Communist Party candidate in Little Mountain
constituency Homer Stevens told an election committee rally Monday night.

Stevens said the proof of this
charge is shown in a story in last
Saturday’s Vancouver Sun
which reported that in the first
six months of 1972 the profits of
B.C.’s major companies
increased a ‘‘startling 81.6
percent compared with the
same period a year ago.”’ At the
same time, Stevens pointed out,
the Bennett government
attempted to freeze wages toa
6.5 percent increase during the
spring session of the Legis-
lature.

While Bennett tried to freeze
wages, he did nothing to intro-
duce legislation to curb
excessive profiteering, nothing
to curb the landlord gouge of
tenants, nothing to curb the high
cost of living which stands at the
highest level in Canada.

Stevens said,‘‘If the Social
Credit government of which
Leslie Peterson was a leading
representative had really been
interested in fighting inflation it
would have taken steps to pro-
tect tenants from excessive
rents; would have adopted legis-
lation to enable the munici-
palities to set up provincial

Barry Dean, Communist candi-
date in Vancouver East said
this week that millions of tons of
Canadian goods are carried in
ships every year, yet not one of
the ships flies the Canadian flag
or employs Canadian workers.

At a meeting on Vancouver’s
East End waterfront Dean
charged that these are the kind
of policies that have kept our
country a vast reservoir of
natural wealth to be packed off
by foreign corporations while
B.C. has one of the highest unem-
ployment rates across the
country — particularly affecting
youth.

“In June, 1945, Liberal Cabi-
net Minister Ian Mackenzie
pledged ‘We are not going to

repeat past mistakes. It is the _

4

COMMUNIST LEADER NIGEL MORGAN is shown pointing to where raw
materials are shipped out of Vancouver harbor and where facilities for
a Canadian merchant marine can be built in Vancouver. With him is
running mate Barry Dean (in Vancouver East) who this week called for
getting on with the job of making a start on a Canadian merchant
marine.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, AUGUST 25, 1972—PAGE 8

determined policy of the present
government that Canada is in
the shipbuilding business for
good. The ships you built will
carry Canada’s trade to the end
of the world, creating employ-
ment and opportunity for
Canadian workers.’

‘‘The Liberal government is
slow in getting this promised pro-
gram underway. Nevertheless,
this statement, first made 27
years ago, cries for action today
at all levels of government,”’
Dean said.

“The building of Canadian Mer-
chant Marine which my union,
the Marine Workers and Boiler-
makers Unions’ has _ been
demanding for some time, would
provide a real shot in the arm to
our sagging economy. Thou-

sands of jobs could be provided
by activating our shipbuilding
industry.

“Tt would include the develop-
ment of Canadian technology in
heavy industry — steel, electri-
cal, machinery, and _ the
industrial use of computers
which is essential if we are to

remain a modern _ industrial
nation.”
The young Communist

candidate said a Canadian fleet
would greatly assist in the
development of foreign trade.
The ships would be manned by
Canadians, giving jobs to young
people who at the present time
constitute 50 percent of the
unemployed.

“Government activity and fin-
ances invested in a merchant
fleet could stimulate the flow of
Canadian capital into the second-
ary industry field. Canadian raw
materials; coal, iron ore,
copper and the overall extension
of a secondary industry must be
undertaken without further
delay. The building of a
merchant marine is a very
practical and sound way to start
this process,’’ Dean concluded.

MORGAN

Cont'd from pg. 1
democratic forces to oust the
Bennett government.

“We Communists are working
to end big business rule in B.C,
We are convinced that only a
progressive majority of NDP
and Communist MLAs provides
the hope for such a change. It
coincides with the needs of the
overwhelming majority of
British Columbians in today’s
circumstances,” Morgan con
cluded.

g big business a free reign to pile up

—

rental review boards. This was
within the power of the legis-
lature.”’

Stevens asked: ‘‘Why did
Bennett — and Peterson— not
take steps to see that prévincial
revenues got a portion of the
profits going to MacMillan-Bloe-
del and the forest company
giants through increased taxes?
Why didn’t they set up a Prices
Review Board which would
have required business to

justify price increases? All of
these things the Socreds could
have done in the last legislature,
but they did none of them:
Instead he forced a wage
freeze.” :

In short, Stevens said, Bet
nett’s plans to fight inflation is

keep working peoples’ wages _

down while allowing Dig
business to take all it can out?
the pockets of the public.

Where is the ‘‘good life’ for
the Indian in B.C.? Where are
human rights and dignity?

Under the Social Credit, the
Liberals, the Tories and a Big
Business rule the Indian people
have been’ discriminated
against, murdered, and isolated
in poverty and want. Now, under
the Bennett government, they
have come under a new attack.
Hundreds of Indian voters in the
interior have been left off the
voter’s lists.

Bill Wilson of the B.C. Asso-
ciation of Non-Status Indians has
brought to light how the provin-
cial government enumerators
have ignored the Indian voters
on many isolated reserves. He
quotes the Chief Electoral Of-
ficer, Ken Morton, as saying he
is ‘‘sick and tired of those
damned Indians.’’ This after he
had consistently hindered
attempts, according to Wilson,
of the Non-Status Indian Associa-
tion, to register the citizens on
the reserves.

The stealing of Indian lands,
brutality at the hands of the
police, semi-starvation, a life
expectancy half that of a white

EDITORIAL

Cont'd. from pg. 1
charges. (See Morgan state-
ment on front page. )

Barrett’s red-baiting attack
fits in with the ‘‘respectable”’
image he is trying to portray,
and which has caused him and
the right wing leaders of the
NDP to reject unity and to sweep
labor’s demands and labor repre-
sentation under the rug.

This red-baiting and oppor-
tunistic policy could do the NDP
much harm and has invited more
red-baiting and ‘‘fear’’ tactics
from Bennett and his right-wing
big business machine. —

But the Communist Party has
made it clear that regardless of
Barrett’s action the issues and
needs as well as alternatives
have not changed in this elec
tion.

The main job is still to end big
business rule and defeat the
Socreds..The needs still for new
policies which will put the
people’s interests first. That is
why on August 30 working and
progressive people should cast
their ballots to elect a majority
of NDP’ers and Communists to
Victoria.

unemployment and

erson, ;
4 Indian

poverty are the lot of the

eople. :
: But it need not be so. Racis™
is a class question. Today a
Indian workers realize the figh
for Indian equality is their fé
as well, for when one section?
the population is oppressed: ®
one is really free.

As a Canadian worker of
Indian - Ukrainian parentage
the problems facing the Indi
people is of major concern t0 ie
personally and to our party 4° :
whole. We fight for the follow!

rogram:
; Payment for the lands sto
from the Indians to devé .
industries on or near reserves.
provide employment. (The ba
of equality is economic. ) nt
o A program to provide es
housing and services lt in
Indian people now living a
shacks and hovels on desolate
serves.
o The provision of educa
facilities so that Indian you
not have to travel hundre
miles away from their homes

et an education. #
: Above all, we demand there
opening of enumeration fo
“forgotten”? citizens on ress
The lists of local Indian 48"
on the reserves could serve
base if personal enumerall
not possible at this late date

For too long the democy ve
rights of the Indian people
been trampled in the dust: a

Jobless youth rally

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of Unemployed Youth sate
sponsoring an All-Candi the
meeting on August ©” "cog
Grandview Community
tre. ibe
Organizer Gayle Gavin et
ports that all the Vane" ive
East riding candidate tio?
accepted their invit® rch
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before the meeting: “ark
gather at Grandview er of
(Williams and Kitchen’
Commercial) at oe the
march up Commerci4 of the
Centre. Vice-chairma?
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tend the meeting ® edt
employed youth are 35°
take part in the marc™.

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