election mccciaietleins damaged election sign. The Bob McLaren Election A large election sign owned car he was driving. if another sign was put up. you have to expect trouble.” “Communists protest violence BOB McLAREN, New Westminster Communist candidate, is shown beside OK following statement dealing with recent act of violence against supporters of the Communist candidate: - Westminster riding, with the candidate’s name, Bob McLaren on it was torn down Tuesday, June 4, fence. The sign was located on private property on Sperling Avenue. = The resident saw the youth and also got the license number of the The incident was reported to police but no information has as yet been received on the ownership of the car. Sunday morning a group of about 20 youths poured gasoline and maliciously set fire to the sign at 3:30 a.m. When the homeowner called out to them, they threatened to pour gas on the house and residents and set fire to both When police arrived the sign was still burning and grass was also afire from the burning debris. Beer bottles had been thrown all over the yard. The police remarked ‘that this was an unusual sign and The Communist Party does not condone vandalism and violence and calls on all citizens to respect the rights of all political parties. Committee this week issued the by the Communist Party in New by a youth who climbed over the By EUNICE PARKER Bob McLaren, New Westminster ia Communist candidate, _ speaking ee at a public meeting in Dreamland —— Hall last Sunday, cited the disgrace- ful spectacle of the Federal and Provincial governments _ fighting over who will build the port at Roberts Bank to export our jobs and resources. trouble.” . ‘Millions will be spent to facilitate the making of profits for the Kaiser Co. with a very real threat to migratory birds and pollution of the waters in the Roberts Bank area. The port at New Westminster is at a standstill and Federal money ‘is needed to expand these facilities and create jobs. _ “The need for more schools is critical, especially in the Coquitlam area, where hundreds of children will be forced to attend school in shifts. It's a case of freeze and free, freeze the schools and free money McLaren hits export of jobs and resources for foreign monopolies. The pollution of the Fraser River continues unchecked and there has been no promise to help the surrounding municipalities with the building of sewage treatment plants. ~ - “We are living on a society based on violence. Across our borders another terrible assassination has taken place and here in our own area a gang of hoodlums in the dead of night entered private property, poured gasoline around and lit fire to one of our election signs, threatening the homeowner with the same fate. ‘‘We must try to lead young people to a new way of thinking, to demand that recreational facilities be provided for them. It would be much cheaper to provide community centres and organized activity than- penal institutions for ever increasing numbers of kids who are getting into trouble. federal aid urged ‘Financial support for ed- ucation is the responsibility of the federal as well as pro- vincial government,’ says Charles Caron, Com- munist Party candidate in the Vancouver East riding. In a_ series of proposals Caron outlined a_ radical revision of Canadian educa- tion, beginning with mas- sive federal aid. “That outdated act of a foreign parliament, the BNA Act, has been used for years as an excuse for Ottawa to stay clear of supporting education. Today the increased needs and costs of education make it imperative that this situation be changed. The federal government already makes large, though inadequate, grants to the provinces for post-secondary training. What is required is a commitment by Ottawa to pay a substantial share: of the elementary and secondary costs. “There are several ways that this can be done. The federal government could pay the full cost of a basic minimum program of elementary education, or it could share both elementary and secondary costs. A per pupil grant could form the basis for such payment. Special attention would be given to areas of serious poverty and deprivation such as the Maritimes. Education of Indian children to ensure equality of opportunity is another area requiring particular attention.” As to how the proposals would affect Quebec, Caron places it this way: ‘‘In Canada there are two nations — French and)English. Both nations have the right to control the education of their children. For French Canada the solution might be for Ottawa to decrease federal taxes by. the amount which would go to education. This would leave Quebec free to handle the matter in their own way. In English Canada an agreement between the provinces could certainly be worked out.” Caron went on to say, ‘‘The effect of large scale federal aid would be to allow the provincial government to pay 80% or more of the remaining costs. Thus the local taxpayers would find that property taxes for. - education were only 10-20% of what they are now. What a help this would - be to the small homeowner who. presently finds taxation nearly at the breaking point.” “The present crisis in B.C. ‘education is a disgrace and is the “most damning indictment of the Social Credit government to date. The construction freeze, the Kashtan nation in Quebec and seeing it mainly as an ‘“‘economic problem” help. It will only make the crisis of national unity more severe. ‘The issue is not a particular status or special rights for Quebec but. equal status.” He said a new confederal pact in which both French and English speaking nations will be equal can avoid sharpening the differences and lay the basis for a voluntary union of the two. nations PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 14, 1968——Page 8 calls for new Cont’d from pg. 1 and stronger Canadian unity. The old line parties, by refusing to recognize French Canadian national feelings, . ‘are stimulating separatism in French Canada, said Kashtan. = Tracing the evolution of the. policies advocated by Liberal and Tory parties, Kashtan said there is no essential difference on basic issues but what has actually emerged is a bi-partisan policy on most major questions. 5 policies He said big business in Canada wants a which can adopt ‘tough policies” — in other words stand up to the _ public demand for progressive leg- islation. “‘The best outcome would ~ be to deny either party a majority and to elect a strong progressive bloc including Communists.’ * Speaking with Kashtan were Van-— couver South candidate Robin Smith and Vancouver East canadiate Charles Caron. = ; ‘majority government — dictatorial new aspects of Bill 86 and the restrictive new finance formula show the Socreds contempt for education. The failure by successive Liberal and Tory governments to assist education indicates that their philosophy of education is identical to our ex-Tory Premier Bennett's views. Rae ‘*Local school boards are burdened with financial problems. Federal aid would enable them to overcome these and tackle some of the really profound questions of philosophy, curriculum, and the need for democratization of our schools which must have attention now. ‘‘Canadian Communists believe that a full education is the right of every child and that a share in ‘Every child has right to full education’—Caron running education must be given to workers, teachers, students and parents in general. Educational policy decisions are not the responsibility of the privileged few. Everyone has a right to share in them. Such a step to democratize education is possible today. Removal of financial obstacles to educational progress is the first step which makes democratization much easier. ‘‘Communists consider that such basic reforms as these are the means by which working people can control education and thus help shape their own future. We see this as an important stride toward a society where workers, farmers and students will plan their own destiny entirely — a Socialist society.” Mosher calls for curbs on raw material exports ‘Canada’s next Parliament must establish strict Federal controls over exports of our natural resources and adopt new fiscal policies that will mobilize the capital of our country to ensure’ jobs and rising living standards for all Canadians,” Mark Mosher, Communist candidate in Comox-Alberni told a rally in Alberni Longshoremen’s Union Hall Tuesday. ““As one of your local: School Trustees, I can tell you that without such changes we can never meet todays, let alone tomorrows educational requirements,’ Mosher declared at the first election rally held in the Island lumber and shipping centre. ‘“‘We’ve got to have someone in Ottawa who will challenge present policies of the Trudeau government and curb profiteering instead of employment. opportunities and educational and health standards. The government has got to provide funds for education — get a better return from natural resources and lift the burden off homes.” ‘‘As a longshoreman I see the growing export of raw materials through this and other Island ports,”’ he said. *‘But a few miles from here at Metsachi Lake the Hillcrest Mill has been closed and its log production turned over by the C.P.R. for shipment to Japan with the loss of several hundred jobs. And that is only one of many such examples in British Columbia. We need new policies, and not more of what we’ve had,”’ he declared in a sharp attack on policies of the Liberal adminis- tration. “Take our fishing resources. Our herring fisheries have been all but destroyed by lack of conservation and planning. There used to be 20 or 30 boats tied up in Alberni every weekend, taking on supplies, food provisions and spending dollars in this community. Now that’s all gone. There used to be eleven fish packing plants down the Alberni Canal and Barclay Sound. Today there is but one left,’’ Mosher declared. PROTECT LABOR’S RIGHTS - Cont'd from'pg. 1 has rights and workers must be given a voice in determining these matters. The Freedman Report. which recommended that workers be given a say in any changes brought about by technological de- -velopments should be implemented as government policy. : “What. is needed now is unity and militancy by labor in the fight for its rights.. Labor should repudiate people like Pen Baskin who join in -collusion with employers and reactionary governments in attacking and undermining labor’s rights.”” eg ROBIN SMITH, Vancouver South: “I was born in the trade union - movement. My parents were part of - the struggles which built democratic traditions in our country. : “Today Simon Fraser University students are trying to rid themselves of authoritarian rule by the big business oriented Board. of Governors. IWA workers are about to fight the united wood corporations. Common enemy to students. and workers is the Socred government which _appointed both the Board of Governors and wrote * Bill 33. ‘Communists feel that democracy must be extended for workers and | students. We must maintain present © conditions and push for new gains — . _ the type of -gains that will move Canada forward to socialism, the. only. solution to our unequal democracy.” . ROBERT McLAREN, New Westminster: ‘‘The need for federal legislation to protect labor’s democratic rights from attack by reactionary employers and ’ government's is underlined in B.C. this week by the arrogant action of © the giant forest monopolies in threatening to shut down the entire forest industry in a lockout rather than bargain in good faith on the just demands of the woodworkers. : “Ottawa must also be compelled to give full rights of collective bargaining to/all federal civil service > workers to end the present intolerable situation which makes second class citizens of government 3 employees.”