CP contests Manitoba election Canadians lay pla

The Communist Party has no-
minated two candidates in the
forthcoming Manitoba Provincial
elections.

A joint nominating meeting
selected W. C. Ross, Manitoba
provincial leader of the Com-
munist Party to contest St. Johns
‘constituency and Don Currie,
provincial organizer of the Cam-
munist Party to contest Inkster
constituency.

Ross told the meeting that the
key campaign issues were (1)
the need for a democratic plan of
resource development, through
use of crown corporations and
(2) public ownership and invest-
ment to create new industries to
provide jobs and rising living
standards for the people as op-
posed to present policies of sell-
out of resources to foreign,
mainly U.S., investors.

Ross greeted the tax reforms
in the recent Schreyer NDP bud-
get — tax cuts, slightly higher
educational grants and abolition
of medicare premiums, He warn-
ed that these gains can be wiped
out by inflation and must not be
allowed as an excuse for a
wage treeze. Fifty percent of
Wage earners in Manitoba earn

$4,000 per year or less, he point-
ed out and poverty, especially
among pensioners and Indian
and Metis people is growing.

Ross said the Communist Party
was calling for a program to
overcome poverty and low wages
paid for by increased taxes on
the profits of the big mining in-
terests. The Communist leader
called for a new tax deal from
the provincial government for
the homeowners of Winnipeg
through a provincial government
takeover of 85% of education
costs and by full taxation of
Canadian Pacific Railways prop-
erties. ae

Don Currie, Manitoba provin-
cial organizer of the Communist
Party, said that the Communist
Party chose Inkster Constitu-
ency, where Sidney Green, the
Minister of Mines, Energy and
Resources is the sitting member,
to campaign for changes in the
government’s hydro policies.
Currie criticized the Schreyer
government for remaining loyal
to the Roblin Tory government’s
original concept of hinging hy-
dro development to large scale
exports to the USA. By basing
Manitoba hydro development on

anticipated revenue from export
sales to the USA, hydro planning
had become distorted with bad
consequences for the people in
the form of higher hydro rates,
unnecessary damage to the en-
vironment and _ ignoring
rights and demands of the Indian
and Metis people.

The Communist Party called
for linking hydro development
to industrial growth in Manitoba
and as part of a Canada-wide
hydro and energy grid. It oppos-
ed linking a single hydro project
such as the Kettle Rapids pro-
ject to a Single urban centre or
industrial base in the USA. The
Party supported the export of
surpluses on short term leases
and drawn from overall hydro
output.

Currie said that the Communist
Party fully supported the strug-
gle of the Indian and Metis peo-
ple to be the direct beneficiaries
of hydzo developments and not
the victims of such develop-
ments. :

There is no firm date for the
election which is expected in
early summer or next fall; and
further CP nominations are being
considered.

TIM
BUCK

AUSTRIA

We extend our deep sympathy

in your Party's loss in the death

of the outstanding Marxist-Lenin-

ist and veteran of the internation-

al working-clas movement, Tim
Buck.

Communist Party of Austria

WORLD FEDERATION OF
DEMOCRATIC YOUTH

Deeply mourn the death of
Comrade Tim Buck, true fighter
for world peace and rights of the
working people. He was an ins-
piration to old and young alike.
Sincere condolences to all the
Young Communist League.

GREAT BRITAIN

Peter Kerrigan, representing
the Communist Party of Great

Britain at the Memorial Meeting:

for Tim Buck, held in Toronto on
March 18, 1973:

“On behalf of the Communist
Party of Great Britain, | wish to
associate our Party with the hom-
age being paid to our late Com-
rade Tim Buck, and to express
our condolences and deep sym-
pathy to the Communist Party of
Canada.” :

FEDERAL REPUBLIC
OF GERMANY

We mourn with you the loss
your Party and the international
Communist movement have suf-
fered in the death of the Chair-
man of your Party, Comrade Tim
Buck, an outstanding representa-
tive of the international Com-
munist and workers’ movement.
German Communist Party

URUGUAY

The Communist Party of Uru-
guay sends its condolences on
the death of Comrade Tim Buck.
Although separated by many
miles, we were joined by frater-
nal ties in the cause of the libera-
tion of our respective peoples,
and by sincere friendship with
this esteemed figure of the inter-
national Communist movement.

Communist Party of Uruguay

VENEZUELA

Please accept our condolences
on the death of Comrade Tim
Buck, chairman of your Party and
one of the most esteemed pion-

eers of the North American work-
ing class movement.

The life of Tim Buck, intim-
ately linked with the struggles of
the Canadian proletariat, was a
revolutionary example, and thus
his death is a grave loss, not
only for your Party, but also for

all workers of the world who.

found in Tim one of their most
farseeing leaders.

Communist Party of Venezuela

SOUTH AFRICA

The South African Communist
Party expresses deepest condol-
ences on the death of Comrade
Tim Buck. The international work-
ing class movement has lost a
veteran whose association for
over a half century with the world
struggle against imperialism and
for socialism and peace has
rightly earned him the affection
and respect of Communists and
progressives everywhere.

South African Communist Party

WORLD MARXIST REVIEW

The Editorial Board of World
Marxist Review offers condol-
ences to the Central Committee
and all Communists of Canada
on the death of Comrade Tim

Buck who was esteemed in the-

Canadian and international
movement for decades as an
eminent revolutionary. He will
live on forever in our hearts and
in the hearts of Communists
throughout the world.

On behalf of the Editorial
Board, Viadimir Shundeyev

GUYANA

Our deepest sympathy on the
loss of a beloved Comrade. Peo-
ple’s Progressive Party pays tri-
bute to outstanding and dedic-
ated leader.

Cheddi Jagan

BELGIUM

Deeply touched by death out-
standing working class leader,
Comrade Tim Buck. Be assured
of our profoundest sympathy with
Party leadership and all Cana-
dian Communists.

Communist Party of Belgium

NEW ZEALAND
The New Zealand Socialist
Unity Party deeply regrets pas-

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wowarnt ot

tant

Messages of condolences continue to arrive from fra-
ternal Communist Parties on the death of the Chair-

man of the Communist Party of Canada, Tim Buck.

sing of Tim Buck. Throughout his
long life he gave outstanding
leadership as a consistent Marx-
ist and internationalist.

Socialist Unity Party

SUDAN

The Central Committee of The
Communist Party of The Sudan
on behalf of all members of the
Party express their deep sympa-
thy and condolences to the Cen-
tral Committee of the Commun-
ist Party of Canada and to all
Canadian comrades on the death
of Comrade Tim Buck, Chairman
of the Canadian Communist
Party. The sad death of Comrade
Buck is a great loss to the whole
International Communist Move-
ment. We have followed with
great admiration his continuous
struggle for the cause of Marx-
ism-Leninism, for proletarian in-

ternationalism and for the cause ©

of the Canadian working class.
We share your loss. We express
our deepest sympathy to his
family and to all.
Communist Party of Sudan.
BRAZIL

On behalf of the Communists,
the working class, and all pro-
gressive forces of Brazil, we offer
to you and all members of the
Communist Party of Canada our
deepest condolences on the
death of Comrade Tim Buck,
chairman of the Central Commit-
tee of your Party.

Comrade Tim Buck dedicated
his entire life to the strengthen-
ing of the Communist Party, to
victory in the struggle for world
peace, for democracy and for
socialism. He was an unyielding
defender of Marxism-Leninism,
and always fought for utmost
unity and cohesion of the inter-
national working class and Com-
munist movement on the basis of
the principles of Marxism-Lenin-
ism and proletarian internationa-
lism.

Our Party knew well the revo-
lutionary activity of Comrade Tim
Buck, and always appreciated
and many times made use of his
works and writings: :

On the occasion of this great
loss suffered by your Party, we
transmit to you our solidarity and
fraternal sympathy.

the

for world peace meet

“Canadian independence is also
part of the struggle for peace,”
Stated the General Council of
the Canadian Peace Congress at
its meeting in Toronto, April 14-
155 .

The General Council, which
includes representatives of peace
bodies in six provinces, heard
Opening remarks by. Congress
President John Morgan, adopted
a report on organization by Or-
ganizational Secretary Jean Va-
tour, and discussed in detail,
Canadian participation in the
World Congress of Peace, Se-
Curity and National Indepen-
dence, to be held in Moscow,
Oct. 2-7.

The World Congress, it was
stressed, while initiated by the
World Peace Council, is to be
the vehicle of the 40 interna-
tional and 81 national organiza-
tions of 60 countries who, in
March, attended a consultative
meeting in Moscow. As many as
Possible additional organizations
concerned with the topics of the
Congress will be urged to fin-
ance delegates. ;

Five from Canada

UN representatives, people
from public and peace organiza-
tions, trade unions, youth and
women’s organizations, people
from the sciences, the cultural
field, the churches, were a part
of the consultative meeting.

Five attended from Canada;
and two of these, Jean Vatour
(Canadian Peace Congress) and
Fred Gudmundson (National
Farmers’ Union) reported to last
weekend’s meeting in Toronto.
Another of the five, Andre Le-
Clerc (Quebec Federation of
Labor) spoke in Moscow of
Quebec’s three imprisoned labor
leaders; and support for their
release was called for by Romesh
Chandra, general secretary of
the World Peace Council.

A Canadian initiating commit-
tee is to be éstablished in May,
with the aim of sending 100 to
110 Canadians of diverse repre-

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Communist Party of Brazil. is a teacher and a Hero of Socialist Labor.

.

sentation to the World Congress
for Peace, Security and Inde-
pendence,

War-Oriented

On the question of indepen-
dence, the Canadian Peace Con-
gress stated that we suffer in

Canada “from the effects of our _

close ties with the war-oriented

economy of the United States... |

For Canada to play an indepen-

dent role for peace, Wwe must —
campaign for Canada to get out —
of NORAD and NATO, to cancel
defence production agreements |

with the U.S., to speak up for

disarmament in the United Na- _

tions and European Security
Conference, to call for stopping

of all nuclear testing . . .”
Peace Congress president John

Morgan pointed out the need for —
action on both the pressing, im-—
mediate problems of stopping —
aggression in Indochina and the —
Middie East, and of Working for ~

the peace needs of large areas

of the world, where colonialism, j
economic domination and poyer- |
ty deny millions any Chance at —
a peaceful life in the full sense.

Condemn Repression

In’ resolutions, the two-day _

meeting criticized the bias of

Canada’s team on the Interna-

tional Commission Of Control

and Supervision, demanding the —
replacement of Michel Gauvin; —
condemned Israeli terrorist raids —

and the continued Israeli occu-
pation of Arab lands from which

they have taken millions of dol-

lars in oil resources; and urged
world-wide pressure tO effect the
release of political prisoners —
a quarter of a million in South

Vietnam, as well as in Greece,
Spain, South Africa, and other —

countries.

The meeting called for the re- :

lease of the jailed trade ynion

leaders in Quebec. And it salut-
ed the UN-initiated week of soli-

darity with the colonial peoples
of Africa, pledging Peace Con-
gress participation.

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