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Programme

@ Establishing new industries in communities where obsolete plants close
down.

@ Protecting the public against monopoly control of automated industries.

PLANNED IMMIGRATION
The New Democratic Party will encourage planned immigra-

tion to Canada by —

@ Ensuring that the immigrants will have jobs on arrival.

@ Providing proper services to establish them in the community.

@ Protecting them against unscrupulous exploitation.

@ Prohibiting any racial discrimination.

NEW HOPE FOR THE FARMER

The New Democratic Party’s objective for agriculture is a
maximum food production for Canada and a hungry world. This
will be accomplished by —
@ Supporting the establishment of a World Food Bank.

Instituting a parity price policy to provide levels of farm income con-
sistent with the rest of the economy.

Providing a comprehensive system of crop insurance.

Establishing a national programme of resource conservation and devel-
opment.

SMALL BUSINESS

The New Democratic Party will protect the economic down-
turns and depressions of small business enterprises by —
@ Protecting them against unfair competition.

@ Establishing a al division of the Department of Trade and Com-
merce to serve

@ Assisting them to a adequate working capital.

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New Party
Election
Choices

The election of associate presi-
dents and the vice-presidents of
the New Democratic Party
brought a good number of new
personalities to the front ranks
of political leaders in Canada.

Outstanding selections were in
the choice of associate presidents.
Elected by acclamation were
Michael Oliver, professor of poli-
tical science at McGill Univer-
sity, Montreal, and Gerard Pic-
ard, leading trade unionist in the
CNTU of Quebec.

Vice-presidential choices found
three newcomers backing up two
veterans in the national scene.
Oldtimers David Lewis, former
CCF president of Toronto, and
Harold Winch, M.P. Vancouver
East, were backed up by UPWA
Canadian Director Fred Dow-
ling, farmer-businessman from
Prince Edward Island Leo Mc-
Isaac and ge labor leader
Romeo Mathieu

Eamon Park, ‘deeistant to the
Director, United Steelworkers,
was elected NDP treasurer.

The following were elected to
the Council of the New Demo-
cratic Party:

George Grube
Therese Casgrain

(Ontario),
(Quebec),

CANADIAN CONGRESS OF LABOUR PRESIDENT, Claude Jodoin, delivering his
keynote address to the New Democratic Party's Founding Convention. th
right of President Jodoin, is Roger Provost, Canadian Labour Congress Vice-
_ President i in Quebec.

~ Andrew Brewin (Ontario), Hon. Mullen (Alberta), Gilles Roch-
Olaf Turnbull (Sask.), H. W.
Herridge, M.P. (B.C.), Reginald
Boisvert (Quebec), Ed McAllis-
ter (N.B.), E. P. O’Neil (B.C.),
H. Gargrave (Ontario), Ed

J. Whitehouse
J. Bentley (Ontario),
Des Sparham (Ontario).

MEET THREE GENERATIONS OF THE (aris FAMILY
A DYNASTY OF SHOE CRAFTSMEN

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Question and Answer Period at the regular family bull-session. This is the crucible in which tradition is distilled and 4
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