[Canadian CP repudiates | Buck corrects distortions

China’s splitting action

The following statement was
issued by the National Executive
Committee of the Communist
Party of Canada on Feb. 17,
1964; ;

“We are greatly concerned
with a recent editorial article
Published by the editorial de-
Partments of People’s Daily and
Red Flag, entitled ‘“The Leaders
of the CPSU are the greatest
Splitters of our times.’

“The sole essential content
of this article is a call for
Splits, for disuniting the world
Communist movement, and for
the establishment of an inter-
National centre headed by the
Communist Party of China, whose
Purpose is to impose its own
dangerous and non-Marxist line
against the line of the world
communist movement.

The Communist Party of China

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ence, Sunday, March 8, 10 a.m.

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is striving recklessly to split
the countries of the world socia-
list system. By this action it is
weakening the world front of
peace, democracy, national lib-
eration and socialism.

“Our Party repudiates this
splitting activity of the Com-
munist Party of China. This most
recent reckless attempt by the
leaders of the Chinese Party to
force splits, compels us to point
out that it is necessary at every
level of Party organization to
oppose this unscrupulous attempt
to divide the world communist
movement. We stand firmly on the
positions which we have re-
peatedly taken in rejecting the
totally wrong and un—Marxist
line of the Chinese leaders.

«For some time now, our Party
has called for a World Conference
of Communist and Workers’ Par-
ties. We believe the developing
situation makes such a Confer-
ence more necessary than ever
so as to unite all the forces of
the world communist movement
in defense of the principles of
Marxism-Leninism and the doc-
uments of the world movement.’’

CUBA

Cont'd from pg. 8

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average’ and now he receives an
day, 51 of $8.80 for an 8-hour
» 92 day week,

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revision since there are
Sent Stalanntmles in the pre-
of Work €s in many categories
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adian aa as the average Can-
Variety Br as the amount and
concerneg 800ds he can buy is
Securit as yet. He has a basic
the a though insofar as all
his on heeds of himself and
8Vernment are concerned; the
Needs, Pays all medical
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and ad 10 percent of the wage,
belongs a & few years the home
xs Matically to the wor-

- Penses seein and living ex-
~ Ment fore Paid for by the govern-
ahi; ‘scholarship students.
_otsity the text books are

still bought by the student. Any-
one can apply for a scholarship
and the numerous school cities
are built to accommodate 20,000
scholarship students each, and
the new educational system
provides one ofthe keys to Cuba’s
future.

More emphasis is being put
upon production of more and
more goods of every kind pos-
sible, rather than higher wages.
And the reason for this is, as
one young Negro in charge of
a state farm told us, ‘‘We want
a dollar to be worth a dollar.
When a person goes into a store
with ten dollars, we want it to
be possible to exchange it for
ten dollars worth of goods. It
is no use to raise wages unless
there are the products to buy.”’

Almost everything in Cuba is
rationed, or controlled. There is
plenty of food for everyone,
though not the variety they are
looking for. ‘‘Itis different now,”’
this same young man told us,
‘¢When there was plenty of var-
iety in the stores before the
revolution, children died for want
of rice. When there was plenty
of medicine, children died for
want of it. Now what we have is

rationed, no one can buy more:

than his share, and everyone
has money to buy.”’

During the month we were in
Cuba the news came of U.S.
government aggression in Pana-
ma, and the day before we left
we attended an enormous rally
and demonstration of ten thous-
and people in Havana, for the
independence of the people of
Panama, and against U.S, bru-
tality there.

It was late afternoon when the
great crowd began to gather and
the sun sank quickly in a flood
of purple and orange, and as
the full Caribbean moon came out
and the floodlights went on, thou-
sands and thousands more wor-
kers marched in, in separate
parades with bands playing and
banners flying, and the cheering
crowd would part to let them in.
We were proud to hear the name

-of Canada as we were introduced,

proud to be associated with the
great independence movement of
our brothers and sisters.

What U.S. imperialism is
afraid of is not ‘*Cuban spies’’
put the fact that Cuba is the
beacon of America. For to see
one of these seas of people and
their mighty demonstrations for
liberty and dignity is to know
that there is no power on earth
that can stop the march of the
peoples of Latin America toward

this goal.

on CBC ‘Horizons’

Tim Buck, national chairman of
the Communist Party, writes:
I hope you will find space in
your valuable paper for the fol-

’ lowing correction of a gross dis-

tortion of history that was pub-
licized by the Canadian Broad-
casting Corporation in its pro-
gram ‘‘Horizons’’ on Feb. 2.

The program consisted ofcom-
mentaries on the history of the
Communist Party of Canada with
appropriate shots to illustrate a
few of them. It was introduced
by some remarks to the effect
that: ‘*Tim Buck says that the
party was founded by a conven-
tion a barn near Guelph. .
well, we have a different wit-
MeSSe cae

Said witness was M. Spector,
one of the founders of the party,
who is now an anti-Communist,
employed by aquasi-governmen-

Hits fee hike

BRUCE MAGNUSON, Ontario lead-
er of the Communist Party, has
protested the recent 55 percent in-
crease in hospital insurance prem-
iums in that province. The Ontario
CP pointed out that the increase
hits hardest at those least able to
pay... low income groups.

Seek improved
Can.-Cuba ties

At a meeting sponsored by the
White Rock Canadian - Cuban

Friendship Group last Sunday,.

close to 50 people forwarded two
requests to External Affairs Min-
ister Paul Martin and another to
Trade and Commerce Minister
Mitchell Sharp.

Demands put to the ministers.
were:

* The External Affairs depart-
ment should protest to the Mexi-
can government long delays in
clearing Canadian citizens en
route to and from Cuba.

* The government should give
‘¢serious and sympathetic re-
sponse’’ to the current shortage
of medical supplies and school
books in Cauba.

* Canada should barter its
surplus butter in exchange for
Cuban sugar, as Italy, Spain and
the USSR are doing. This would
benefit both Cuban and Canadian
housewives.

Come to the

DELL HOTEL HALL
in Whalley

Tues., Feb. 25, 8 p.m.

Hear

MYRTLE BERGREN

Report on her recent trip to

CUBA and show slides on
the

Cuban Hurricane Disaster

Everyone Welcome

_tal organization of the State of

Israel, His contribution gave an
impression that the Communist
Party of Canada was organized
by an American comrade named’
Charlie Scott, who was at that
time a member of the Pan-
American Secretariat of the
Communist International.

In closing the program Frank
Willis referred to Spector’s
statements as evidence that the
party was not a native product of
Canada. Apparently it was con-
sidered necessary to add those
words to what Spector had said.

Many readers of the Tribune,
as well as others who viewed the
program, were not in a position
to discern the distortion, because
it consisted solely of a change in
the sequence of events.

* * *

By making it appear that com-
rade Scott‘ pulled various groups
together’’ before the convention
at Guelph and insinuating that this
contradicts the statement that
our party grew out of Canadian
conditions and was founded on
the initiative of Canadian work-
ers, the program made it appear
that the party was established
only when somebody from the
U.S. came here and“ pulled vari-
ous groups together’. This falsi-
fies entirely the manner in which
our party did come into being.

The first attempt to organize
a Communist Party in Canada
was in February, 1919. That at-
tempt was crushed by the Moun-
ties. Five of the participants
were arrested. Two of them serv-

ed prison terms, two were de- :

ported and one, Mrs. Florence
Custance, was held for several
days in the Don jail.

On July 4 of the same year,
1919, the Communist Party of
America was founded in Chicago
and soon afterwards we started
to organize Canadian clubs ofthe
CPA. Later, when the party in the
United States split over questions
of tactics, Canadian clubs were
organized in affiliation with the
opposition party also, the United
Communist Party of America.

During the fall of 1920 there
were intermittent exchanges of
opinion concerning the possibility
of uniting the Canadian organiza-
tions of the two U.S. parties into’
one independent Canadian party.
Several local organizations which
did not in a formal way declare.

themselves Communist took part”

in these discussions.

In February, 1920, a joint com-
mittee was set up to work aut a
plan for unification. The eventual

program

outcome of the discussions of
that committee’s report was the
unity convention in FredFarley’s
barn at Guelph.

* * *

Incidentally, the location was
proposed and arrangements were
made by a comrade who was a
member of the Guelph city coun-
cil, Alderman Lorne Cunning-
ham,

The Communist Party of Can-
ada was founded in June, 1921.
It was more than two months
after the founding convention that
Comrade Charles Scott came, to
urge upon the leadership of the
Canadian party the idea of refus-
ing to be suppressed, the neces-
sity for public activity around all
the issues of the day. Itwasthen,
after the party had been estab-
lished, that Comrade Scott made
his tour across the country.

He did make a tremendous
contribution to our party. He
overcame doubts among many of
the outstanding stalwarts of the
Socialist Party of Canada andthe
One Big Union. Until then, some
of them had doubted that the
new underground party made up
of what seemed to them diverse
groups and centred in Tory Tor-
onto, was really a Communist
Party. They didn’t believe that it
would be recognized by the Com-
munist International.

* * +

At the Guelph convention there
were no delegates from any place
west of Winnipeg because we had
no organizations beyond that, But
after Charlie’s tour this was
changed. Archie Henderson in
Winnipeg, the Forkin brothers in
Brandon, Malcolm Bruce in Re-
gina, Bob Moggeridge, Jack Lake-
man and Alec Maguire in Edmon-
ton, Phil Christophers in Blair-
more, Joe Stubbs in Hillcrest,
Bill Bennett, Jack Kavanagh, J.
M. Clarke, Albert Wells and
others in British Columbia,

Yes, Charlie ‘‘pulled them to-
gether’’ but it was after the party
was established, not preparatory
to it. Any person who suggests
that their recruitment justified
the capitalist slander that our
party did not grow out of Cana-
dian conditions should have his
head examined.

These men personified the bat-.
tle for socialism in Canada dur-
ing the first quarter of this
century. If the CBC had been in-
terested mainly inthe correct an-
swer to its question: ‘*‘Where
did the Communist Party come
from?’’ it would have seen its
answer there, in the roots of our
party.

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