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Quebec students demand
new policies in march

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in pecan nearly half a mile
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a. ee free education and a
lal policy.

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aa ug Minister L. B.
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aa Bes estimated that 2,000
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Canadian CP

The tone of the demonstration
was strongly working class. Pos-
ters and slogans revealed sharp
discontent with the Lesage gov-
ernment. Among other things
the premier was called a ‘“‘new
Duplessis.”’

A memoir presented by spon-
sors of the demonstration de-
manded free, democratic, state
education; economic _ planning;
and a new approach to govern-
ment so that it could serve the
needs of the farmers, workers
and fishermen of Quebec.

‘Under the present system,
foreign interests reap the great-
est benefits from the economic
development of Quebec,”’ said
the document. ‘‘It is scarcely
surprising that the lot of our
laborers isn’t very bright.’’

After burning their banners
under the tolerant eyes of police
the demonstrators finally left
Quebec City’s Parliament Hill
singing songs such as: **Les
bourgeois — c’est comme les
cochons,’’

Reforms students are demand-
ing from Lesage will remain the
same, said Student leader Pierre
Marois, whether or not Lesage’s
fiscal demands are met by the
federal government.

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ollowing press statement on April 9 dealing with a book re-

Communist Parties everywhere,
which is for the equality of all
peoples and opposition to all the
forms of racism, national in-
equities and religious dis-
crimination which were the pro-
ducts of societies dominated by
exploiting classes.

We also know that inthe march
to a new social order of human
liberty and justice, remnants of
the dark past persist in socialist
countries, and must constantly be
combatted by science, education,
culture anc the law.

We are confident that the So-
viet authorities will take all the
necessary measures to bring to
task those responsible for the
publication of- this booklet, and
draw the necessary lessons from
this episode to strengthen the
struggle against remnants of the
past. :

Those who try to make poli-
tical capital out of this incident
for their own purposes must be
told in emphatic terms that not
only does the Soviet Union cham-
pion the cause of the equality
of all peoples but that it acted
to condemn and destroy this book-
let, and by so doing set an ex-
ample to all states, including
Canada, of how to act against
racist literature.

RESERVE THIS DATE NOW!
Hear the AUUC.

UKRAINIAN FOLK ORCHESTRA
In Recital

SUNDAY, MAY 3, 8 P.M.

at THE MANHATTAN

1727 WEST BROADWAY

M ADMISSION: $1.25 available at — AUUC Hall
U 4-9720 or People’s Co-op Books, MU 5-5836

MORE ON COMMUNIST CONVENTION

Resolutions speak out on
Columbia, merchant fleet

Three areas of the economy and
resources affecting the welfare of
Canadians and future greatness of
Canada received special em-
phasis in resolutions adopted by
the 18th national convention of
the Communist Party.

. They were: the sellout of the
Columbia River to the United
States; the need to build a Cana-
dian merchant marine; and the
crisis in transportation.

The statement on the Columbia
River noted that ‘‘Canada needs
Columbia power for a national
power grid, and Columbia water
for prairie irrigation.”

It warned, however, that the
treaty would “forever surrender
control to the United States ofthe
greatest power and water re-
source on the continent.”

Many prominent Canadians, it
said, including engineers politi-
cal leaders and large sections of
the labor movement had already
denounced the treaty.

The Communist Party “calls on
the External Affairs Committee
of the House of Commons to
recommend rejection ofthis ser-
vile treaty.”

In addition, Parliament should
assert the sovereignty of Canada
and decide to finance and control
the development of this mighty
resource for the interests of the
Canadian people.”

Another Tesolution urged the
federal government to build 30
fast, modern, bulk carriers, thus
recreating a Canadian merchant
marine. It suggested the govern-

ment should use the $374 million
it saved by scrapping its armed
frigate building program.

A third statement, noting that
moves are now being made to
abandon rail lines and closecar-
shops, resolved that the Com-
munist Party demand“ federalin-
tervention to prevent the aban-
doning of rail lines, and closing
of CNR car-shops.”"

The resolution concluded: “We
urge the nationalization of the
CPR as a start toward amalga-
mation of all railway and trans-
portation companies under public
ownership.”

Pointing out that the, right to

vote at 18 has already been estab-
lished in British Columbia, Al-
berta and Saskatchewan, the
Communist Party convention
urged the federal government to
“immediately enact legislation
giving young people at 18 years
of age the right to vote.”

The convention supported the
demand “ that steps be taken to

"adopt, in time for the centennial

o f Confederation, a genuinely
Canadian flag whose design would
symbolize the equal federation of
a united French and English
speaking Canda and that further
*O Canada’ should be declared
our national anthem.”

Pledge aid in struggle
for Native Indian rights

Efforts of the Communist Party
have been pledged to help over-
come the flagrant denial of rights,
shameful deprivation, indignity,
and racist discrimination. to
which the Indian peoples are sub-
jected.

In a resolution at its convention,
the party called on the labor
movement and all democratic
Canadians to joininthis struggle.

The party declared its support
for “full rights” of the Indian
people, as against the ‘‘system-
atic pattern of racial oppression”
expressed in the Indian Act.

Full rights include: the right to
recognition of their identity as a
people; to preserve their lan-
guage and culture; to equal facili-

ties for health and education;
housing and economic develop-
ment; and the right to administer
the affairs of their own communi-
ties.

The resolution attacked any
proposition whereby Indians are
given equal rights and opportuni-
ties with other Canadians only by
surrendering their established
treaty rights.

“Proposals for ‘integration,’
which is the basis of government
policy, presupposes abandonment
of Indian identity; whereas at the
heart of the struggle for equal
rights is the insistence on
equality without loss of identity
as a people.” :

PRESS DRIVE AT $3600 MARK

Special May Day offer!

By JERRY SHACK
(PT Drive Manager)

In view of the importance of
our May Day edition, the Press
Committee is making a special
offer to all Press Clubs and
other interested groups and or-
ganizations. The offer is:

All bundle orders of 100 cop-
ies or more will be available at

. the extremely
low figure of
four cents a
copy. All ord-
ers below the
100 mark will
go at the usual
seven cents
per copy.

Reason for
‘this is simply
that we want to encourage clubs
to give this vital edition as much
circularizing as possible. In ad-
dition to a specially prepared
4-page supplement dealing with
automation it will contain fea-
tures on May Day and B.C,
labor, the widespread and im-
portant wage struggle in B.C,
and other articles of interest
to B.C. labor.

Because of the good labor mat-
erial this edition will contain
we want to have it printed in
thousands of copies which will
go out to the mills, camps, mines
and shops all over the province,

All bundle orders should be in
the PT office by Monday, April
27.

*

Our Press Drive now stands
at the $3,600 mark. While this
is an excellent start, we’d like
to point out that we need $2,-
400 A WEEK if we are to suc-
cessfully conclude the drive by
the June 1 closing date.

In other words, the start has
been good but the tempo of the
drive must still be stepped up.

When we first started the drive
Bob Towle and Caroline McFar-

lan, as representatives of the
‘paper, went to Eaton’s, Wood-
ward’s, Safeway and other mon-
opoly interests to try to get dona-
tions of $25 merchandise vouch-
ers.

Not surprisingly, these huge
concerns, reaping millions of
dollars in profits annually from
the people of B.C., refused to
support a genuine people’s paper.

So, it’s up to the workers of
our province — as it has been
for 30 years — to once again
provide the wherewithal to keep
the PT in fighting trim. And we
know you won’t disappoint us.

It’s up to people like Alfie
Campbell who, racked with ill
health, nevertheless. managed to
mount and frame a picture of
Lenin talking to a group of work-
ers and donate it ‘‘to help raise
some dough for the Trib.’’

This picture is available to
any Press Club ready to util-
ize it— first come, first served!

Island tour

PT Editor Tom McEwen
and long time press builder
Rita Tanche will tour Vancou-
ver Island from April 18 to 26
inclusive in conjunction with
the paper’s current Press
Drive for finances.

The tour will be kicked off
with a public banquet in Vic-
toria this coming Saturday
evening, following which they
will visit old and new friends
in Nanaimo, Cumberland —
Courtenay, Campbell River,
the Albernis and other Island
centres.

Besides collecting badly-
needed finances for the PT,
they will contact many old
readers with a view to once
again putting them on our
mailing list.

60th ANNIVERSARY OF L’HUMANITE. This year marks the 60th anniver-
sary of ‘‘l’Humanite,”’ published by the Communist Party of France. In
common with the Communist press all over the world, it is sold by volun-

teers to workers at every opportunity. Here, a pre
makes a sale on one of Paris’ busiest boulevards.

April 17, 1964—PACIFIC FRIBUNE—Page 7

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