| Analysis

University student this week that he had Red China on
tthe brain. Mr. Green then went on to demonstrate that in

fany discussion on China, Mr.

he brain.—From an editorial

Green has United States on
in the Toronto Globe and Mail

Khrushchev speaks on
8/-party statement

MOSCOW — A switch
eonsumer goods as the next

of investment from steel to
step in the building of Com-

manism is envisaged by Soviet Premier Khrushchev in a
speech made public here last week.

“You cannot build Com-
munism while offering only
gnachines and ferrous and non-
ferrous metals.” he says.
| “People have to be provided
with good food, clothing, hous-
ing and other material and
‘eultural benefits,” he declares.

The Soviet Communist Party
feader was reporting on the
recent conference of world
-€ommunist Parties to a meet-
ne of the Higher Party School,
the Academy of Social Sciences
and the Institute of Marxism-

-Leninism. The report was pub- |

Jished in the Party’s theoreti-
eal organ, Kommunist

The Soviet Communist
qParty’s main tasks are to lay
the material basis for Com-
Jmunism, to develop social rela-
gions and to shape the man
pet the new society, he declares.

The © current Seven- Year
Plan is a key stage in the ful-
filment of the first. With
Present rates of development

Andustrial output will by 1965} §

€0 up 100 percent, instead of
-the seheduied 80 percent. And,
-if steel output continues to
inerease at the present rate,
the Seviet Union will be pro-
- ducing 100-102 million tons by
1965. ©

| WRrushehev said that the
-@radual withering away of the

‘State apparatus, especially its | fe

reaercive bodies is already tak-
-fng place in the Soviet Union.
{ “He disclosed that the Soviet
-aeegation at the 81 party con-
“ference opposed any — prefer-
ence to the Seviet Union as
*Jeader’ of the socialist camp.

22nd Congress
To Meet Oct. 17

| MOSCOW — The 22nd
| congress of the Commun-
ist Party. of the Soviet
|| Union will take place on
|| Oct. 17 of this year, it was
‘| decided at the plenum of
the party’s central com-
mittee here last week.
| Among the reports to
) be heard at the congress
will be one on a draft
program of the CPSU.
The theme of the con-
gress is expected to be
the long-term plan for
building communism in
the Soviet Union.

{

|

TIM BUCK, in prison uni-
form and with head shaved,
as he was moved from King-
ston to Toronto to testify at

the trial of A. E. Smith.

\Story_of Tim Buck

The

BY JOHN WEIR
Third of a Series

Those who strive to create

in the public mind a picture of} ;

the Communist Party as “anti-
democratic” don’t bother to

point to any views or actions) }

of the party that would be

against Canadian democracy— §&

and don’t mention that Cana-

dian Communists have: suffer-:

ed governmental suppression

‘three times in th@ir history

(not counting the “padlock
law” in Quebec and the un-
ceasing discrimination, persec-
ution and slander on the job,
by the authorities, denial of
hall facilities, and radio “or
TV time, lies’ in the news-
papers, victimization of reac-
tionary union officials, etc.)
The Communist. Party in
Canada was first organized. in
conditions of illegality under
the War Measures Act and

only in 1922 could ‘emerge as; -

a legal party (under the name
of the Workers’ Party).

In 1931 members of the, na-
tional executive of the party,
with Tim Buck at their head,
were arrested under Section
98 of the Criminal Code; the
party was declared illegal and
eight of its leaders sentenced
to five years’ imprisonment in
Kingston penitentiary.

In 1940 the party was again
outlawed under~ the special
powers. granted in the War
Measures Act and hundreds of
Communists and other workers
were imprisoned: or interned.

These ‘persecutions were
carried out by both ‘Liberal
and. Tory governments—both
capitalist parties carried on in
the tradition of Bond Head, of
the executioners of Lount and
Matthews, and the hangmen of
Louis Riel, of those who made
trade unionism illegal until
defeated by the “‘Globe’”’ strik-

-es and labor unity around

them ..

In each ease the suppres-
sion of the Communists: was
for the purpose of preventing
their exposure Of monsifous
crimes being put over on the
workers and people of Canada
by the capitalist class and its
government. :

The suppression after 1917
that lasted into the early 1920’s
was for the purpose of: carry-
ing. on ‘armed intervention
against the Soviet: Union and
to ‘place the burden of the
transfer from war to peacetime
economy. on the backs of the
Canadian workers, Section 98

was enacted in 1919 against.

the leaders of the Winnipeg

| General Strike.

In 1931 the suppression was

for the purpose of unloading}

the burdens of the economic
crisis onto the ‘backs of the
workers and farmers and at
the same time to take a course

courage and ~ defiance
‘marked his address (hindered,

\
lron

TIM BUCK, as he appeared
in 1934, soon after his re-
lease from Kingston peni-
tentiary.

that would lead to aggressive
policies in world trade (‘blast
our way into foreign markets,”
was the way the then Prime
Minister R. B. Bennett put it)
which, of course, is a policy
leading to war.

And in 1940 it was the plot
to “switch” from a war against
the fascist axis to a war
against the USSR (remember
‘dittle Finland’’?).

The only “crime” of the
Communists “was ‘that - they
wanted publicity to tell the
truth about these real crimes
being perpetrated against Can-
ada and our people.

One - of. the -finest’ pages
written into the history of the
Canadian working class was
that day in November, 1931,
when Tim Buck rose at the
trial to defend himself, his
comrades and his party from
the attack, to lay bare the
causes for that attack and pre-
sent the views. and policies of
the Communist Party to the
picked jury, the judge who
was there “to do a job,” and
above all; to the people of
Canada.

Self-defense is a Communist
tradition from the day when
Karl Marx confounded his ac-
cusers at the Cologne trial. In
the most famous trial of mod-
ern times Georgi. Dimitrov
stood before a nazi hangmen’s
court in Leipzig and pinned
the guilt for the Reichstag fire
on Hitler himself, driving
Goering in foaming rage from
the witness stand. In Canada,
Annie Buller (at Estevan), A.

E. Smith and many others

bravely followed this example.
. Tim Buck — and he was act-

‘ing, of course, on behalf of his

fellow-accused comrades and
of the party as a whole—did a
magnificent job. It was not just
that

interrupted and curtailed by

‘the fuming judge as it was)

but his reasoned exposition of
the case of the Communists
against: their accusers.

' While that speech carries,
naturally, of ‘th
time when it was delivered, it

the mark of the}

Heel

can be read with great pleas
ure and profit today not only
for its historical value but als?
for its lucid explanation of the
Communist Party’s views an@
activities.
FIGHT FOR FREEDOM :
The struggle for the releas@
of Tim Buck and his comrades -

from prison and the repeal of ;

Section 98 was an inseparabl@ -
part of and high-lighted the -
great. struggles of the unem®
ployed, the employed workers .
and the farmers in the Hung é
Thirties. @

The story of that struggle # .
told in Tim Buck’s “Thit#Y
Years,’ in pamphlets and a
ticles published in the past
three decades, and in A. & .
Smith’s book “All My Life”
(A, E. Smith and Becky Buhay
who are no longer with us
headed the Canadian Lab0
Defense League and its mas
campaigns — they will live
forever in the history of thé
Canadian people). a

Successes in that movemedl 3
threw the ruling circles into 4 ~
frenzy. The authorities tried ®
implicate the Communists wD
a prisoners’ riot in Kingsto?
penitentiary — and then. ¥
came oui that on Oct. 20, 1992)
several shois had been firef
into Tim Buck’s cell in a d@
liberate attempt to murdet
him. It was only by a miracl
that he escaped death.

There was a late attempt BY
federal Minister of Justit®
Guthrie to “explain” that th®
shots had been fired merely tf
“cow” Tim into ceasing “
agitate in the riot.” This whit®
wash collapsed when _ it wat
shown that the attempted mul
der had occured three day
after the Tiots had ended—al™
Tim Buck had taken no pat
in the rioting anyhow. 4

If Canada’s rulers were 4
ing in the reactionary traditi®™
of oppression and violent®
the Canadian people — on®
they had the facts — acted J
the real Canadian tradition ©
democYacy and fair play. B |

The government’s “if
heel” policy collapsed.
final attempt at this time—_
imprison A. E. Smith — We)
thrown out by the jury.
Communist: leaders were.
leased after having serv’
only part of their sentence.

R. B. Bennett was defeat@
at the polls soon after %
went to take a title and to ©
in England: Section 98 was
moved -from the statute bo?
of Canada. The Commu?
Party regained” its legality-

And 17,000. people jam™
the Maple’ Leaf Gardens ~—
Toronto to welcome back 7
Buck and his comrades whi «
fortitude and policies had ™ |
the admiration and support ™
masses of Canadians ff
coast to coast.

January 27, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pag?