~ election

The feature of this week’s
Federal Election cam-
paigning will be an address,
“The Real Issues of This Elec-
tion’ by William Kashtan,
leader of. the Communist
Party of Canada.

Kashtan, who will com-
mence his third and final
cross-country tour of this cam-
paign on the Pacific coast,
will speak in Vancouver and
Port Alberni this weekend.
He will speak with Van-
couver and Westminster
candidates Sunday, October
15 at 8 p.m. in Templeton
High School Auditorium (727

Templeton Drive).

On Monday, October 16 he
will speak at a public rally in
the Greenwood _ Hotel
(Beaver Creek and Heaslip
Rds.) Alberni, with can-
didate Mark Mosher.

Communist candidates will
be heard on the following all-
candidate broadcasts and
forums: Vancouver Radio
CKWX — Oct. 16 is Eric
Waugh (Burnaby-Seymour) ;
Oct. 23, Sean Griffin (Van.
South); and Oct. 25, Maurice
Rush (Van. East). All broad-
cast from | p.m. to 3 p.m.

Kashtan to address

rallies

On Wed. Oct. 18, at 7:30
p.m. Maurice Rush and Sean
Griffin will address an all-
candidate meeting in Temple-

ton High, and on Mon. Oct.
23, Maurice Rush will appear
with other Vancouver East
candidates at Brittania High
in Grandview at a forum
sponsored by the Grandview-
Woodlands Area Council.

On Wed. Oct. 25th at 7:30
p.m. Eric Waugh will speak
at an all-candidate meeting
in Westlawn United Church
in North Burnaby.

Jobs top priority
says C.P.’s Mosher

“The main priority of the Com-
munist Party is jobs — a job for
every Canadian who wants to
work,’’ Mark Mosher, the
party’s candidate in Comox-
Alberni told a Chamber of Com-
merce meeting in Alberni last
week. He was addressing the
chamber’s monthly luncheon
meeting, where candidates in
the federal election had been
invited to speak.

Mosher said many jobs and pro-
jects could be conceived and
financed to employ every
employable Canadian, ~but
because we are not masters in
our own house, this is not being
done.

“It’s a crying shame that Can-
ada doesn’t produce its own cars
and ships... . Our biggest goal
is to produce what Canadian
people need.”

Speaking of Canada’s foreign
policy, he said it is ‘‘gutless.”’
“Tt gives lip service to peace but
there is as much blood on our
hands as on Americans, because
we are selling arms and compo-

nents of arms for use in
Vietnam. It’s a_ national dis-
grace!”

Mosher, who is a longshore-
man and a member of the school
board, told Chamber members

PACIFIC TRIBUNE

PORT ALBERNI
GREENWOOD HOTEL

Beaver Cr. & Heaslip Rds.

MON., OCT. 16 - 8 p.m.
WILLIAM KASHTAN

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1972-——-PAGE 12

that he is a serious candidate for
the Alberni riding. ‘‘Our party is
far from being a frivolous party.
We are a very Serious party.”’
Explaining why his name

would be on the ballot without -

party designation, (due to
federal regulations that 50 candi-
dates must be placed in the field
by a party to ensure its name on
the ballot), Mosher said he was
not running under ~ false
pretences. “‘I will be running for
the Communist’ Party of
Canada.”’

He said he doesn’t see social
ownership of all means of
production on the horizon yet,
but it will come.

“It’s inevitable. It’s an econo-
mic fact that will come in due
courses, just as the system we
now have followed feudalism,
and as_ feudalism followed
slavery.”’ :

He said ‘‘even though our
friends in the NDP don’t like it,
socialism in Canada will prob-
ably come about through a coali-
tion between Communist and
socialistic parties similar to
what has happened in Italy,
France and Chile.”

He emphasized that he did not
visualize a violent revolution,
but revolution by the ballot box.

Need new policies to solve —
problems of New Westminster

By ROD DORAN
Communist Candidate,
New Westminster

The problems facing the peo-
ple in the New Westminster
riding are symptomatic of those
facing all of Canada. Only a new
direction, and new policies as
spelled out in our party’s elec-
tion program can pull our
country back from the brink of
increasing unemployment,
poverty, demoralization of our
youth and the complete sur-

render of Canadian inde-
pendence to U.S. monopoly
capital.

Any one of the proposals con-

~ tained in our platform would, if

implemented, be a_ great
advance to any of the ridings in
the federal election.

For example, our proposal to
provide 250,000 new housing units
annually to make available to:
every Canadian high standard,
low-cost and low-rental homes
has particular relevance to-the
Burnaby-Westminster and
Coquitlam areas.

There is a proposal that the
B.C. Penitentiary be moved
from New Westminster to the
Fraser Valley. The real estate
speculators are drooling over
the prospect of snatching this 83
acres of choice land-overlooking
the Fraser River and situated
between Queen’s Park and the
sports centres developed by the
eity. What an ideal spot for the
federal government to start on
a program of making housing a
public utility!

Our proposal to nationalize
the CPR as part of a publicly-
owned transportation system
could also assist in making
housing a public utility. Along
with the payolla granted by
successive big business federal
and provincial governments in
the form of right-of-ways, and
outright land grants; are the
large areas of real estate in the
metropolitan areas acquired by
the CPR and its subsidiary com
panies.

The concept of a, publicly-
owned transportation system is
a proposal that directly affects
the development of ports and
dock facilities. Our port facili-
ties in New Westminster and
Vancouver are 50 years behind
other major ports in the world,
particularly where contain-
erization is concerned.

As part of their election cam-
paign the Trudeau government
has now agreed to make funds
available for port development
in this area. We are all for the up-
grading of our dock facilities
but it must be done as part ot a
publicly-owned and operated
transportation system where
the docks are nationalized. In
other words, the people who are
paying for these facilities
should own and operate them. As
it stands now, the National
Harbors Board play the role of
philanthropist; spends millions

of dollars building dock and
freight handling facilities, then
hands them over to private
capital to operate.

Port development cannot be
looked at in isolation from the
need for a Canadian Merchant
Marine. Who is going to benefit
from the millions the federal
government proposes to spend
on container facilities? Mainly
the large foreign-owned
shipping lines who extract
millions each year from Canada
in the form of inflated freight

rates. Building dock facilities
alone will provide very few joDS:
the building of a merchant
marine, owned by the people,
would provide thousands of neW
jobs to operate and supply the
ships, but would mean as wel
the rebirth of our shipbuilding
and ship-repair industry.

The way to ensure that a new
direction is taken and new

- policies are adopted now in Cal:

ada is to elect Communists t0
parliament on October 30.

‘*Convening of the Special
Session of the B.C. Legislature-
next week is a welcome devel-
opment with unemployment
reaching its highest level in over
a decade, living costs rising
sharply, and a long backlog of
problems left behind by the
previous Socred adminis-
tration,’ Nigel Morgan, provin-
cial leader of the Communist
party said in a statement to the
press.

“‘The Communist Party wel-
comes the NDP’s initiative, and
looks to the new Legislature to
take decisive action on a
number of pressing problems
that cannot wait for the regular
spring session in January.

Emergency grants to reem-
ploy school staffs, reduce over-
crowded class rooms and cope
with School District deficits are
urgently needed. Old age pen-
sioners are in dire straits in
many instances and no time
should be lost in increasing
pension allowances. The
Socreds wage control regula-
tions must be repealed
immediately to restore free
collective bargaining. All
government employees should
be given the right to bargain, and
the Mediation Commission
sacked.

Also, if the promise to remove
the education tax from homes
and the family farm are to have
meaning for next year, action
must be taken in this area as
well before the year-end when
school and municipal budgeting
gets underway,’ Morgan de
clared.

‘“‘The Communist Party will
support the NDP in all such
initiatives, while pressing for
action on such questions as
control of exports of raw and
semi-processed resources,
measures to bring the prov-
ince’s natural resources back
under public control and owner-
ship to provide jobs, repeal of
the Sales Tax, and adoption of a
charter of Labor Rights at the
regular Session,”’ he said.

‘Strong pressure is already

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VANCOUVER
TEMPLETON HIGH SCHOOL AUD.

727 Templeton Drive, Vancouver

SUN., OCT. 15 - 8 p.m.
COMMUNIST CANDIDATES

Communists welcome
Legislative session

being exerted by B.C. Tel, the
powerful lumber, mining,
and gas monopolies, and thé
Employers Council and its Co™
tractors Association to ham
string and scare the new N
administration off,’ Morga®
charged.

“The Communist Party urges
the entire labor and democrat
movement to unite in defending
the new government against the
attacks of these powerful
monopoly interests, while at the
same time mobilizing public
opinion to insure that election
promises are fulfilled, and that
B.C. is pushed further left
consolidate the August
election victory.

A big job remains to be done
rid British Columbia of the
evils of twenty years of So
big business policies,” he ©”

cluded.
re

‘JOBLESS

Cont'd from pg |!

“‘The massive unemployment
insurance bill is the result?
Trudeau’s policies. The work!
people of Canada did not wa”
unemployment. They want jobs
at decent wages. But now tha

over half a million have bee?

forced out of work, right wilé
elements want to cut the pay”
ments and extend the waitie
period.

“Rather than cut back on thé
plan, Unemployment Insurance
premiums should be increased
80 percent of wages for the full
period of unemployment.
that still doesn’t solve the ba
problem — jobs. It should be th

sic

responsibility of the govel™

ment to provide jobs or 4”
adequate income for every Can®
dian as a right,” said Rush.
Pointing to the latest U™
employment figures showing
further jump to 7.1 percent of the
labor force in Canada and 8.2 P&
- cent in B.C., Rush said the CO™
munist Party’s solution is fof
10 year plan of balance
economic development based °
public ownership of resources ©
provide 2 million new jobs.

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