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tae Pe the 1960’s’” was ad-
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approved is keynote speech and
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munist p ONnvention of the Com-
nas a of Canada, held in
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rol ee them under public con-
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"ee during the parley and
to its Complete unanimity both
aati Content and timeliness.
Movem ng with ‘the rise of the
Tia for French Canadian
hi from Anglo-Canadian
Speech ton in his keynote
Re oe Morris called for ‘‘a
ti adian unity of the two na-

QS, in
a new 5 : 55
Such a Constitution.

——2 federal pact **would be

LESLIE MORRIS, who was unani-
mously elected National Leader of
the Communist Party of Canada, at
last weekend’s convention.

people will more and more sup-
port a separation from Confed-
eration.

“In one way or another the
French-Canadian people will in-
sist on their own state, whether
in collaboration in afederal state
with English Canada, or sep-
arately.’”
the finest and most democratic
way to commemorate Confedera-
tion inthe centennial year of 1967.

“At the same time we Say that
if the Anglo-Canadian ruling
class denies this right to French
Canada then it is only logical to
assume that the French Canadian

The struggle of the French
Canadian people, said Morris,

arises out of the whole body of
Canadian historical development,

‘and it has now received strong

impetus from the national libera-
tion movements in Cuba and Latin

America.
‘It is a part of the national
liberation movement every-

where, and it is no less aclassi-
cal movement for national lib-
eration because it takes place in
a highly developed capitalist
country instead of in a colonial

country.” ; ;
The report traced the histori-

cal changes which have taken
place in the world since the cold
war was first thrust upon it al-
most 18 years ago.

Recent signs of increasing vic-
tories for peaceful coexistence,
it said, are creating the objective
conditions which will make pos
sible a substantial rise in the
growth of the party, its press
and literature.

This new situation arises, said
Morris, ‘‘not out of wishful think-
ing, but out of reality.’’ However,
having said that, ‘‘the WILL to
achieve such growth becomes

decisive.” :
A special resolution on party

growth and organization was pre-
sented to the convention,
pearing in mind the policies out-
lined in Morris’ main report.
Approximately 30 delegates rose
to debate this resolution.

‘Need new economic policy’

ny
ees domination and a
ieee T° to end it are both
erie le facts of life in Can-
man of oe re-elected Chair-
ada, ec mnist Party of
re. the party’s 18th na-
‘vention,
Rejonuced a draft state-
A New Economic
cs Canada’’ which cov-
r Bing ie range of subjects,
the eae U.S. penetration to
Wiang > f automation on Cana-
&
dla ‘Partnership’ of Cana-
Monopoyy Poly capital with U.S.
atlazonic, Pte is charged with
‘ SM,” said the resolution.

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driy, to resist the U.S.

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On
a :
Stresco) mation, the document
Ment ang that the labor move-
Vten sy St not limit itself to a
47 v8 attitude

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: x Jobs automation of-
‘Ne ab ae Possibility of creat-
er life Nce for all and a rich-

rich ail - We can use it to
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Contr) "er democratic public
Fool.

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is :

ary s cession of the revolution-
Pred “alimplic ations of this un-
lage 5 nt ectnologicaladvance
ae hind discussion of its

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tion oct called for leg-
ee automation un-
ns e ol of public com-
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© gover yY the trade unions,
Sts j ‘ tments and the employ-

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TIM BUCK, who was unanimously
named fo the post of National
Chairman of the Communist Party.

base for industrial growth:
nationalization of the resources
industries. (e.g. electric power)
and financial institutes.

It also advocated re-establish-
ment of Canada’s merchant mar-
ine; improved social services and
higher pensions.

In introducing the new econo-
mic policy, Buck carefully point-
ed out that it corresponds to the
actual needs of the ’60’s.

“The economic policy of ‘in-
tegration’ with U.S. economy, ini-
tiated by the St. Laurent gov-

ernment in 1947, was based upon
a firm belief that war between the
socialist and capitalist worlds
was inevitable.’’ he said.

‘‘However, the dialectics of life
in the nuclear age are convinc-
ing more and more people that
war has become unthinkable; that

the only sane course forthe world

-to follow is one of peaceful co-

existence between the two world

systems,

‘*Hence, this removes the
whole basis of the argument for
‘integration’ of the Canadian and
U.S. economies.

‘It naturally follows that the
only realistic course of action
for our country is to embark
upon a totally new economic pol-
icy for Canada.’’

Greetings from 31 parties
feature of CP convention

Fraternal greetings from 31
Communist and Workers parties,
sent from allover the world, were
a feature of the 18th national
convention of the Communist
Party of Canada.

The greetings came from some
of the largest parties in the
world (Soviet Union, France, It-
aly, etc) and from parties which
are engaged insome of the sharp-
est struggles of the day (Cyprus,
Vietnam, South Africa, etc.).

Two parties were directly rep-
resented in the personages of
Claude Lightfoot (USA) and Ali-
cia de la Pena (Argentina).

Fraternal delegates from the

Communist Parties of France and
the Soviet Union were refused
entry visas by the Pearson gov-
ernment and the convention de-
cided to strongly protest this ar-
bitrary decision to the federal
government.

The meet also urged the con-
vening of an international con-
ference of Communist and Work-
ers’ parties ‘‘to restore the unity
of our world movement” and
called upon all Canadian
Communists to reject the ‘*tot-
ally wrong and un-Marxist line’’
of the Communist Party of China.

To accomplish a restoration

See GREETINGS, pg. 6

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WORKERS &
COMMUNITY
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been in front of the Ontario parliament buildings demanding legislation
to curb runaway plants. The picketing is aimed at drawing public atten-

tion to the need for laws to guarantee seniority and other rights to all.

workers when an employer moves anywhere in Ontario. The pickets are

shown above.

Partnership of French,
English Canada is urged

A strong plea for English Can
ada to be ‘‘mature enough’’ tc
accept French Canadaas an equal
partner in a new truly confed-
eral pact was made to a Tor-
onto audience last week by Mi-
chel Chartrand, president of the
central committee of the Parti
Socialiste du Quebec.

French Canadians, Chartrand
said, feel they are a nation in
their own right, and are con-
vinced they are mature enough to
be partners in this country. But,
he stressed, French Canadians
think they were ‘‘taken for a ride”’
by the British North America
Act and feel the need for a new
agreement between French and
English Canada.

The PSQ is not a separatist
organization, Chartrand. empha-
sized, but it believes in the right
of self-determination for French
Canada. He declared, however,
that if it is true the people of
English Canada do not want to
work out a new pact with French
Canada, ‘‘it may happen French
Canadians will decide they're
going to have their own show.””
Then it will be more difficult
to have an understanding as there
is enough bitterness now.

Chartrand was speaking to a
meeting organized by the Toronto
area council of the New Demo-
cratic Youth.

The main question for French
Canadians, he said, ‘‘is whether
we will have the power to run
our economy,”’ including the im-
plementation of socialist plan-
ning. Quebec did not want to ex-
change foreign economic dic-
tatorship for a French-Canadian
dictatorship,

But “capitalism in our provy-
ince has an Anglo-Saxon accent.’*
This does not come only from
English Canada, but from the Un-
ited States as well, which dom-
inates all aspects of French Can-
adian life together with Canadian
monopolies.

Chartrand said there is no
French-Canadian’ but an Eng-
lish-Canadian problem in Can-
ada, ‘“‘The problem is whether
English Canada will accept
French Canada as a partner.”

This Wednesday, April-1, stu-
dents from all the French lang-
uage universities and schools will
march on the Quebec legislature
to demand not only free educa-
tion, but also that the Lesage
government replace its ‘‘bour-
geois policies’’ with *‘ social poli-
cies.”’

The students will also urge
that the Pearson government
make the financial arrangements
necessary to allow Quebec to
adopt such a ‘‘social policy’’ in
education, social security, unem-
ployment, and economic develop-
ment.

Pierre Marois, student presi-
dent of the University of Mont-
real, said the students wanted to
speak for all those now denied
education. Students wanted a new
set of priorities, concentrating on
the fight against unemployment
and insecurity, he added. Finally,
they wanted creation of a system
to benefit all of society,
just a privileged minority.

A press release issued by the
student representatives of allthe
universities and classical col-
leges of Quebec made it clear
the aim of the march was acom-
plete renovation of Quebec’s soc-
ial and economic policies.

not

JOSEPH ZUKEN, Communist alder-
man in Winnipeg, won the city’s
municipal council support of a
motion last week to send a letter
to the federal department of justice
and the postmaster-general asking
action to stop the flood of race-
hate literature coming into Mani-
toba.

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