: 8towing challenge within

pene class to the policies
Israel} Peet ruling circles in
elect Ound expression in the
0 Ons to the 11th Congress
Wor i General Federation of
Which S in Israel (Histadrut)
Were held Sept. 2.
Sem emunist Party of Israel
aa an Information Bul-
an yzing these results. The
& points are made:

: Communist Party of Israe!
abatered a remarkable suc-
: Be me over 13,400 votes
btained in : aan 8,300 votes
tions hela in re reo elec
resi net and “unofficial”
torate show that out of an elec-
if) ts, | Ol nearly one million vot-

Dart 8, than 65 percent took

has
n
‘allo

list
C

= the elections.
ion Penne Alignment, coali-
Susly tof Labor Party (previ-
Raf p Mapai, Ahdut-Ha’avoda,
ae, and Mapam (social-
Setback: party) suffered a big

ived ere Alignment list re-
Votes ay Out 62 percent of the
cent Pc cectison with 77 per-
Patties ained by the Alignment
“logs Combined together in

hee HADEREKH, the organ of

hist pottal Committee, Commu-
itoriat of Israel, wrote an
ing containing the follow-
8 €stimation:
} age Spacant is the low percent-
lowest “tual voters. This is the
the Wh Percentage of voters in
rut, Ole history of the Hista-
| bunds 'Y abstaining from voting,
| ders ee of thousands of mem-
‘ Xpressed their protest
‘6 the policy of the leader-.
Gee Histadrut, which,
__Aand with the employers

kane a4 W. E. WIGGINS

Cana, q sticultural Institute of

n ai held its annual meeting
ed ‘atoon on August 27, re-
dn the Western Producer.

“her,
hk tual ¢ 's no mention of any ac-

armer being present.

- mee entire attention of this
Dobler” was directed to’ the
anadia of getting some 200,000
Woe farmers out of the
Ment of a profitable develop-

icky, Canadian agriculture.
the jen 2ttel Plaunt, director of
) Mens €ral agricultural depart-
Sion farm management divi-
"fore, Alled for a continuing task
Sig, on agricultural policy. He
) Adjuge, Increasing the rate of
shoulg ent on Canadian farms”
this 5, be the main concern of
ig define’: He said “adjustment
i) att ree as directed change to
j in a 4 given set of goals with-
i | Woy Changing environment.”

Y \ of sd a mouthful, Darrel).
to Reese this adjustment had
an the ,Vorked out carefully, said
Se epee! government repre-
| Sibje .Ye: “It is clearly not fea-
a Dumb © move people out in the
3. pros required by large scale
) tion ,Priation or by police ac-
j Adjust et one may assume this
lity. had considered that pos-

E.Oh .,

ogy ute “a mass training and
iitation program”

farmer see what he is

=
oy

would

and the government, acted
against the interests of the
workers. Members of the Hista-
drut who abstained from voting
expressed their opposition to the
continued bloodshed, their lack
of confidence in the official po-
licy carried by the leadership of
the Alignment, which shows no
prospect for peace and security.

The main and positive result
in these elections is the great
set-back of the Alignment. The
Alignment dropped from 77.7
percent, received in the previous
elections held in 1965, to 62 per-
cent in the present elections.
This steep fall proves the grow-
ing opposition to the policy of
the Alignment and its leadership,
who instead of representing the
interests of the workers, led a
fight against the workers’ strug-
gle in defense of their rights,
issued conscription orders to
striking workers, opposed their
just demands and _ slandered
them.

An important positive result
of the elections is the big suc-
cess of our Communist Party list
(Rakah). Our list was the most
slandered and opposed by the
ruling parties and their satelites.
In spite of terror, varied forms
of pressure, administrative re-
striction of movement of many
of our, party leaders and activ-
ists, thousands of Jewish and
Arab workers supported our list.
If in the 1965 Histadrut elections
our list received over 8,000
votes, now in accordance with
preliminary results the. Commu-
nist list received over 13,000.
This is an increase of over 60
percent.

Our consistent struggle in
defense of the workers’ inter-

Business— Dump

up against and “help him decide
and bear the responsibility for
the actions taken.” And, pre-
sumably keep his mouth shut.

Now read this: “It is also
necessary to change the environ-
ment in which he—the farmer—
makes his decisions, to remove
some of the barriers to adjust-
ment and to create an environ-
ment which is more conducive to
adjustment.” (Say that again, Mr.
Darrell, I thought you said you
could make it tougher for the
farmer to hang on where he is).

And this: “Agricultural lead-
ers, and the farm population, can
decidé to pursue a policy of in
creased net farm income through
planned adjustment and staged
withdrawal of prices and income
support programs. (Is that dou-
ble-talk, or is it?).

Mr. A. M. Runciman, presi-
dent of United Grain Growers,
a partly farmer-owned elevator
company, held out no hope of
a better market for grain than
now exists, he opined that our
troubles with western grain will
not improve and will probably
be worse in the next five years.

Then there was Everett Biggs,
president of the Agricultural In-
stitute and deputy minister of
the Ontario Department of Agri-
culture and Food, who had words
of wisdom and other words of
little clarity to say. Liké, ‘any-
one who suggests that the solu-

ests and rights has borne fruit.
Our consistent policy against the
adventurist policy of the ruling
circles who are sabotaging the
efforts for ending bloodshed in
our region by fulfilment of the
Security Council Resolution of
November 22, 1967, this consist-
ent policy and courageous strug-
gle of our Party for peace has
gained support and appreciation.

It is only natural that the Arab
workers voted en-masse for our
Communist list, for the party
that holds high and sacred prin-
ciples of equality of rights and
peoples’ brotherhood, for the
party that opposes occupation
and annexation, and struggles
against imperialist intrigues and
for peace without annexations.

It is most encouraging that
thousands of Jewish workers, in
spite of the difficult choking
chauvinist atmosphere voted for
our Communist list and in great-
er numbers than in 1965.

The Mikunis-Sneh group suf-
fered a political set-back. It lost
thousands of its 1965 supporters.
If it did not receive the same
number of votes as in 1965 —
between 10-11 thousand voters

— it is due to the fact that they .

had the support of those anti-
Soviet and anti-communist ele-
ments in Mapam who gave their
votes to the Mikunis-Sneh group

_in order to enable them to con-

tinue to exist and carry out their
undermining activity within the
Left forces in the international
field.

The results of the Histadrut
elections prove that the discon-
tent of the working people with
the existing official policy and
with the existing state of affairs
is growing ‘wider.

farmers”

tions to agriculture can be found
with the farmer himself and
not with those individuals and
situations with whom the farmer
has to associate is neither honest
nor realistic.”

I believe a great many farm-
ers are of the opinion that
“those individuals” etc. with
whom he has associated in the
past have looked after their own
special interests and simply
taken advantage of the farmers’
inability to hold those charact-
ers off. ;

Granted that this meeting at
Saskatoon will not be the end of
the matter, what seems to come
through in the reporters’ ver-
sions of the speeches, is that
those small-scale—non-commer-
cial—farmers are not going to
be asked much about what each
individual would like to do in
this ‘great adjustment”. The
“associates” have decided that
price and income support prog-
rams “conflict directly with the
profitable development of Cana-
dian agriculture”. This is the
“new sophistication” of the AIC;
(they should call it the CIA.)

Neither the farmers who pro-
duce the food nor the two bil-
lion hungry stomachs around
the world who need it will get
any consideration when “free”?
enterprise really takes over the
handling of Canadian agricul-
ture.

oppressive character of imiperial-
: PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 26, 1969—PAGE 9

--Need pressure on Inco

to meet union demands

.The current labor rate paid to
unskilled workers by the Inter-
national Nickel Company at
Sudbury and Port Colborne, On-
tario, is in the range of $2.57
to $2.67 per hour. With the latest
base rate offer of 6044 cents
per hour, this rate would come
to $3.29 1/3 cents per hour by
1972, when the base rate in-
crease would be 62 1/3 cents.

At a time when the universal
demand for a legal minimum
wage of $2.50 per hour is ad-
vanced as a means of overcom-
ing poverty and hardship, this
offer from a multi-billion dollar
corporation such as Internation-
al Nickle is both picayune and
indicative of a callous disregard
for the welfare of its workers.

The overall direct increase is
calculated by the company to
average 99.3 cents per hour in
the pay envelopes in the third
and final year of a new contract.
This rate is arrived at after the
full impact of fringe benefits are
included. These benefits would
include absorption by the com-
pany of workers’ present contri-
butions to health and hospital
plans, higher vacation and holi-
day pay, incentives and overtime
rates, as well as Sunday and
shift premiums. This is about-
one-half. of the union’s propos-
als for a package increase of
$1.80 per hour average.

Canadian CP
Party's 50th

A warm greeting to the Com-
munist Party of the U.S.A. on
the occasion of its 50th anniver-
sary was sent last week by
William Kashtan, general secre-
tary of the Communist Party of
Canada:

“On behalf of Canadian Com- -
munists we extend warm greet-
ings and congratulations to all
members of your Party on the
occasion of your 50th Anniver-
sary.

“As next door neighbors we
have followed the work of your
Party throughout its existence
‘with great interest and learned
much from its experiences.

“Your Party has pioneered in
many fields, be it in the historic
breakthrough of the open shop
and the organization of the unor-
ganized; in the principled and
systematic strug gle ‘waged
against racism and in defense
of the rights of the black people
of the U.S.A., in the battle for
peace and against U.S. imperial-
ism’s drive for world domina-
tion; in defense of the interests
of the young generation.

“Very few Communist Parties
had to work in the conditions
which confronted your Party
from its very birth, situated as
it was in the very heart of the
strongest imperialist power in
the world. Notwithstanding the
difficulties, your Party has stood
firm against McCarthy reaction
and other imperialist pressures.

“You staunchly defended Marx-

ism-Leninism and proletarian in-
ternationalism against. all its
enemies. Your Party has a record
of combatting the various theo-
ries of class collaborationism no
matter how they are disguised.
“Your firmness and defense of
principles, your efforts to streng-
then the unity of the internation-
al communist movement, to ex-
pose the inherent inhuman and

The above offer has to be com-
pared to $1.22 an hour by Stelco,
an offer which Hamilton steel
workers rejected on August 2. -

In the meantime, the strike of
nearly 40,000 nickle and steel
workers has brought the cost
of food and drug bills absorbed
by the union on behalf of its
members to nearly a million dol-
lars per week. Insurance premi-
ums paid on behalf of employees
absorb: another $200,000 per
week. To this huge sacrifice
must be added the wages ordi-
narily collected by these work-
ers, while this most profitable
foreign-controlled corporation is
holding the line in comfort, an-
ticipating a huge increase in the
price of nickle to enhance its
profits. :

It is more than high time that
public opinion be aroused
against this mammoth corpora-
tion and its treatment of its em-
ployees, who after all is said
and done, produce all the wealth
accumulated by INCO. In this
respect the Students For Demo-
cratic Action in California are
showing the way of solidarity
by demonstrating their support
for the Inco workers. The time
has come for some public pres-
sure to be applied also in this
country, particularly by organiz-
ed workers showing the way of
support through the means of
public demonstrations.

greets U.S.
Anniversary

ism constitutes a great source
of strength for peace and pro-
gress. This is most pertinent
today when imperialism has
stepped up its aggressive and

subversive activities against —

peace, socialism, the national
liberation movement and the
working class. ,

“Your 50th Anniversary takes
place in conditions of a growing
crisis of U.S. imperialist policy
and a radical upsurge of the
people of the U.S.A. Engels once
aptly remarked that when the
working class of the U.S.A. will
move, it will move with seven
league boots. We are entering
that period of . development
where the U.S. working class is
becoming more-conscious of its
real role and interests and when
the peace and democratic forces
are on the march.

“The real democratic America
is beginning to assert itself.

“The Communist Party of the
U.S.A. is part of that historical
process as it has been over the
past 50 years. This will become
even more evident as the demo-
cratic mass movements unfold in
the U.S.A. None of the efforts
of U.S. imperialism to isolate
your Party from the working
class and the democratic cur-
rents could succeed in the past.
Nor can it succeed now in the
conditions of the historical de-

cline of U.S. imperialism and the ©

necessity for fundamental social
change in your country.
“Despite all difficulties we are
sure that the objective you have
set yourself, of building a mass
party, will succeed. :
“May we on the occasion of
your 50th Anniversary wish you

every success in the struggle for

peace, democracy, social pro-
gress and socialism. ee
“For ever stronger bonds of
solidarity between our two par-
ties in the common struggle
against U.S. imperialism.”