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Communist youth leader
is named in York West

John Bizzell was nominated to
Contest the York West riding in
Sronto at a recent meeting of
Members and supporters of the
Ommunist Party of Canada.

Mr. Bizzell is the chairman of
a Young Communist League
F a4 member of the Central
xecutive Committee of the
Runist Party of Canada. He
ae degrees in Architecture
a Urban Design and was co-
or of the Central Mortgage
ee ousing Corporation _re-
ae document Housing: Dis-
whi ae Density and Costs
a Ch provides positive people-
lented alternatives to high rise
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Partheid rule.

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&, Joh

th: n Sweet in an interview
the Canadian Tribune said:

a ohn “Bizzell will be cam-
te for a new course for

ee People of this land leading
Ward a socialist Canada.

“

ea this reason he will be the
mls ‘3 Olce for the working peo-
anit York West riding, for the
bated Whose futures have been
in Jeopardy by the mono-
Policies of the old-line par-

ti
®s and for the students*of York

JOHN BIZZELL

University and Humber College.

John Bizzell will be fighting
for full employment, a decent
housing policy, for completely
free post-secondary education,
for a new direction in foreign
policy based on peaceful co-
existence between countries of
different social systems, for a
life with a future for the youth,
to mention but a few of his cam-
paign issues.

To win these important ad-
vances monopoly will have to be
curbed and an independent Cana-
dian economy established under
the control of the people of Can-
ada, by breaking the control of
our destinies held by U.S, owner-
ship of our economy.

*

ccamette Walsh
laire Demers
Gude Demers

| COMMUNIST PARTY CANDIDATES —

The Communist Party set out to nominate a—
‘Minimum of 30 candidates in the coming federal
election. We have reports of 21 already named
8nd nomination meetings are scheduled in a
lumber of other ridings. Judging by the enthus- —
| 1asm of the Communist Party members and of

the workers, the minimum will soon be passed.

As of April 10 the candidates are: ee

BRITISH COLUMBIA

Maurice Rush Vancouver-East
Bill Turner ’ Vancouver-Kingsway
Kod Doran New Westminster
Mark Mosher Comox-Alberni
ne ALBERTA
Wm. Tuomi Edmonton-East
‘olin Constant Calgary Centre
fe SASKATCHEWAN
f Wm. €. Beeching —Regina-East
: MANITOBA
Wm. Ross Winnipeg-North

ONTARIO
vim. Kashtan Toronto-Davenport
AR Massie Toronto-Lakeshore
fred Dewhurst Toronto-Broadview
M. n Weir Toronto-High Park
Jon oate Bizzell Toronto-Spadina
mh Bizzell Toronto-York West
'm Bridgewood Hamilton-East
Jor aagard Hamilton-West
ohn Clout St. Catharines

QUEBEC

Winnipeg-N. Centre

Montreal-Laurier
Montreal-St. Jacques
Labelle

In a spirit of unity and con-
fidence, the Ontario Convention

of the Communist Party, held

April 8 and 9 in Toronto, zeroed
in on the forthcoming federal
elections as the major battle-
ground for concentration of
their party’s political and organ-
izational work.

Attended by 72 delegates
from all major industrial and
population centres in Canada’s
largest province, the convention
completely supported the Com-
munist Party’s electoral tactic,
at uniting all patriotic, truly na-
tional and democratic forces
for the election of large pro-
gressive bloc including Com-
munists and NDP’ers.

Describing Ontario as “the
very centre of the betrayal of
Canada” and the “centerpiece
of United States domination,”
William Stewart, re-elected as
leader of the Communist Party
in Ontario, said, “We must in-
fuse the federal election with an
anti - monopoly consciousness,
driving home the reality that
the hold of the giant U.S. and
Canadian corporations over the

oo ® P wah a
William Stewart, Ontario lead-

er of the Communist Party ad-

dressing the convention.

economic and social lives of the
people of Ontarid must be
broken.”

Enthusiastically greeting the
announcement that nine Com-
munist federal election candid-
ates have already been nomin-

Scene from the convention.

Anti-apartheid fighter
nominated in Spadina

Maggie Bizzell has been nomi-
nated as the candidate of the
Communist Party in the Toronto
Spadina constituency for the
forthcoming federal election.

Mrs. Bizzell came to this coun-
try six years ago from South
Africa, and has taken an active

part in the movement against °

apartheid in Toronto. She is the
manager of Book World.
Speaking to the meeting of
Communist Party members and
supporters which nominated Mrs.
Bizzell, Nelson Clarke, secretary
of the party in Toronto said:
“Maggie Bizzell will be fight-
ing for a new direction for Can-
ada leading towards socialism.

That is why she will be the best

representative of Spadina wheth-
er they be people who have come
from other lands in search of a
better life, students around the
St. George campus of the Uni-
versity of Toronto, or any other
working man or woman In this
overwhelmingly working class
riding.”

Maggie Bizzell looks forward
to the strongest possible cam-
paign against the low wages,
prejudices and discrimination
which has been suffered by so
many of the immigrant workers

MAGGIE BIZZELL

in Spadina. She will stress the
fight for jobs or an adequate in-
come, for day care for every
child as a right, for thousands
of decent low-cost, low-rental
homes, and for free post-secon-
dary education. She will explain
that for these goals to be achiev-
ed monopoly must be curbed and
U.S. control over the Canadian
economy must be broken.

ated in Ontario, the convention
delegates expressed confidence
that the objective of 15, as the
Ontario part of the Communist
Party’s all-Canada target of 30
candidates, will be reached and
probably surpassed.

The convention condemned
the brutal bombings inflicted by
the U.S. on Vietnam, and de-
manded that Prime Minister
Trudeau dissociate Canada com-
pletely from the United States
aggression in Southeast Asia.
Marching in a body from the
convention hall, the delegates
and observers joined the Cana-
dian Peace Congress picket de-
monstration before the U.S.
consulate.

Noting in his keynote address
the developing fusion of the
struggle for genuine Canadian
independence with the anti-
monopoly battles of the people,
William Stewart stated that
“the Tories are making it quite
clear that they regard the ques-
tion of Ontario as decisive to
their fortunes at Ottawa.”

He stressed the importance
of the Communist Party’s posi-
tion that, while maintaining
sharp criticism of the pro-
monopoly policies of the Tru-
deau government, the main fire
must be directed against those
monopoly interests seeking to
form a right-wing coalition of
Conservatives, Social Credit,
right-wing Liberals and Action
Canada, aimed at pushing poli-
tics in Canada further to the
right.

Ontario has 800,000 organized

' trade unionists. The convention

report adopted by the delegates
notes that conditions “are mat-
uring for a united left in -the
trade unions, encompassing our
party, the left of the New
Democratic Party and _ other

. genuine left elements.”

In his keynote address, the
Ontario provincial Communist
leader declared that the test of
the left in the NDP must be its
willingness to unite with the
Communists in the struggle for
new policies and a new direc-
tion for Ontario.

‘Greetings to the convention
the the Central Executive of
the Communist Party were deli-
vered by Alf Dewhurst, the
party’s executive secretary,
while Elizabeth Hill greeted the
delegates on behalf of the
Young Communist League of
which she is secretary.

With significant gains in
Strength for the Communist
Party in Ontario in the last two
years, the Convention’s main
report, reinforced by the
speeches of a number of deleg-
ates, laid great stress on the
fight to build the party and its

. press, with concentration efforts

among industrial workers.

Communists who are active
trade union members made up
over one-third of the 72 total
delegates.

The Convention elected an
Ontario provincial committee of
30 members. It agreed to the
future appointment of a provin-
cial organizer. This will give
Ontario Communists a staff of
five full-time people: William
Stewart, the provincial leader;
Nelson Clarke; Metro-Toronto
secretary; Gordon Massie, Met-
ro-Toronto organizer; Donald
Stewart, Hamilton organizer;
and whoever is decided as pro-
vincial organizer.

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