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communism

By STAN LYNN
HEN Harry Hunter arrived

But the Canadians also disco-either absent from or had been

vered that the opinions of Soviet

solved in Soviet cities.

“| was quite impressed by the modesty of these people,

ack in Hamilt people on how to achieve the Civic authorities had “licked”
Sovier ve; Week a pene new moral outlook needed for ine urban’ sprawl problem which seems to be a characteristic of Soviet people. It is not a
one nion, his neighbors on the advance to communism are through planning, he said. “They posture. It goes quite deep, is quite refreshing compared to
tates t. smoked Russian cig- not unanimous. limit the size of cities. Moscow our life...a quick willingness to pay tribute to where ideas
. . ”
th #nd queried him about They discussed the question will be no larger than the seven come from, including from the West...

e
ey People live over there.
5 tattview in the Hamilton
Sion in T provoked lively discus-
tria] 1 any of the city’s indus-
h eee Some of these —
and Sastry such as Dofasco
blocks aye — are just.a few
Modecy ©) from Hunter’s own

“st bungalow,

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this Woevident that he likes it in
7 City and ing-class section of the
When he likes his neighbors.

ton, «© Came back to Hamil-
Year aa years ago, after a 15-
here Pec” he settled down

"Tete he had lived before.

ecutive moet of the national ex-
Harry ae the Communist Party,
Unter headed a 10-mem-

i Pe uaist delegation from
brat; : ‘O view May Day cele-
® Citie In Moscow and to visit
nd Le S of Riga, Kiev, Minsk

otingrad,

Viteq ,@°leBation had been in-
Of the © the central committee
Part es Union’s Communist
Btess 5, Wvestigate the pro-
uilding communism.

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tig Viewed about the delega-
Tiby Ndings by the Canadian
What ne Hunter pin-pointed
toy © called the “moral fac-
Im an element of decisive

Porta: e
vance * in the Soviet Union’s

vas Ea cceqs avenr: Re ee Se visited a primary school that versary of the end of World War II in Europe, May 9, was im-

tn e, beginning Stet nie s eetcdial Hite bore the sign: “Only English pressive, but not overdone . . . relatively short. There was a j

amo TON foun Biyein! Moscow: » . aes spoken here.” Pupils came from note of great sadnes, of bringing back some memories for :

Wore Monet: miners. aid steels “Occasionally there is indif- the surrounding neighborhood. almost everyone there...” :

BEd an tractor textile -t0zences useauenecy, and even ll classes, including maths and ; 4
W ractor, textile 4 tions which run counter tothe history, were conducted in Eng- ‘ 3

hn factories in Minsk.

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ticige t_described the moral
10 Wore It involves an attitude
Dein * the expression of it as
Quins SOcial necessity which
fy ° Cheerfulnc.s and care-
a Ods so that products
heap), . SWiftly produced as
~Y 88 possible.”

1s
Noe op VAS & new, communist
Dlaog earality needed to re-
Ding hire and fire” disci-

It j
Dera Peres your level of co-
illin tk With fellow workers,
‘ Onsibin to assume personal
ort mane for a product and
Ve Rtinngc pment of a. collec-

i
Ndeg Volves off-the-job atti-

itildren your attitude to your
lie, S education, to home

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of wy YOUr own education, all-

with a chairman of a Commu-
nist labor brigade at the Elec-
trosila plant in Leningrad. The
brigades are voluntary groups
of workers dedicated to increas-
ing production. “He was about
40, fast-moving, alert, used to
using his ‘hands,’ Hunter re-
called.

The. Canadians described a
previous meeting with a Com-
munist labor team of four or five
women in a textile mill in Minsk.
The women had decided to
equalize their wages instead of
accepting individual piece-work
rates. They decided their skill,
social relationships and atti-
tudes. to production justified
this. d

“We discussed that,” the
labor brigade chairman in Len-
ingrad said. “But we think it
would be idealistic here. Ours
is a much bigger labor team.”

Then he added: “Our party
and government do not view
this process in any rigid man-
ner. There are no blueprints for
the Communist brigade move-
ment or for the development of
proper moral concepts.”

There is progress in creating
a new moral outlook. “But the
Soviet people would be the first
to assure you it would be ideal-

welfare of society.”

Another significant factor in
the advance to communism not-
ed by the Canadians was the de-
velopment of the “state of all
the people.” The delegation. had
understood the historic impor-
tance of the dictatorship of the
proletariat. Now they were im-
pressed by the importance of
the state of all the people. As
Hunter put it: “the people mov-
ing in the direction of becoming
part of the state, where the
party is the party of the people,
and not, as before, of the work-
ing class.”

Hunter was surprised to see
that a number of key problems
for cities in the West were

“l suppose

there’s nothing
like the Kremlin on earth; it’s

million people it is now.”

In all cities he saw cleanli-
ness, greenery and no air pollu-
tion. “In Hamilton we are con-
stantly fighting air pollution.
One of my first impressions of
Moscow was that it is a city
which is clean.”

This is achieved by pollution
laws, central gas heating and a
long-range plan to move indus-
try outside the city.

Moscow’s deputy mayor was
keenly interested in Toronto’s
traffic. control system and in the
railway hump to the north of the
city. “He said they were inter-
ested in anything happening on
these questions.”

Moscow authorities: planned
to ease their transit problem by
increasing the number of taxis,
which have fares which are
“quite cheap.’ High priority is
given to public transit on busses
and subways.

Canadians found widespread
evidence of the introduction of
automation in industry, includ-
ing computer control, but no job
problem. “There is such an enor-
mous amount of work to be done
to raise the living standards of
the people.”

In Moscow, the delegation

lish.

“They were discussing Byron,
his life and times. The children
thought he made a contribution
to society and mankind. The in-
structor presented Byron as a
product of a particular social
period, who sought to do some-

“The military demonstration in Moscow on the 20th anni-

- thing about the evils of the day

not only in his own country but
in other countries as well.”

The study of Byron and
Shakespeare in elementary school
reflected an attitude in the
Soviet Union, Hunter suggested.
“People I spoke to did not look

down their noses on Western
traditions and Western demo-
cracy.

“One chap said: ‘We owe a
great deal to the West.’ But he
didn’t mean Lester Pearson.
He meant the Western tradi-

tion.”

Aachen snares

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sat atts toes

jj Ic ; : ;
NG ae_.'S Associated with your
Hi ; ss Social human being,
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UCtive process.”

peculiarly Moscow. 1 get the im-
pression that Moscow, compared
to North America, and particu-

Caddea- «;: larly the Kremlin, is reeking with
wien a Life does not stop history that goes back for an
ae," uel awful long time—more than 800

the factory
. years. wa

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