The following article was sent to ‘the PT by ROLLY LINDGREN, a PT reader who sells a bundle of papers every week. He is an active member of the New Westminster press club. We hope other readers will follow his example and send in their views as wel! as items on local events arly this month a Social Welfare worker, Wallace du Temple, sent a letter of resig- nation to Premier Bennett -explaining that his conscience had forced him to quit his job. In addition to being respons- ible for 5,100 people in a total area of1,100 square miles around Ft. St. John and northward, du Temple was also required to service every child welfare case on all Indian reserves inthe area north of Ft. St. John. All this on a measly salary of $339 per month. As if this weren’t bad enough, du Temple stated in his letter that he had had no previous social welfare training except for a government retraining course which took four weeks to com- plete and which every welfare worker takes before he or she is considered to be an ‘‘expert’’ on social welfare. In other words, he had virtu- ally no qualifications for hand- ling such an immense task. The course to which du Tem- ple referred consisted of; (1) Reading from the welfare policy manual, and (2) A 10-part movie about the life of a child from birth to 10 years of age. This almost seems amusing but when you consider the disastrous results to the people who place themselves and the care of their children in the hands of such *texperts’’ it?s not only not am- using, but damn well disgrace- ful. In my opinion, however, you can’t blame a person who takes this job and tries to do his best CUBA Cont'd from pg. 6 fying the program to have more girls study medicine. 275 doctors graduated last year. As of now, there is one doc- tor to every 1200 inhabitants of Cuba, and at the end of five. years they hope to have one for every 700 inhabitants. A big cam- paign for sanitation goes on. We saw billboards saying, Castro Enteritis enters by the Mouth. The infant mortality rate due to this sickness has been drastic- ally reduced, but remains very high in the rest of Latin Am- erica. I have never seen so many en- thusiastic people. They have lift- ed themselves, as no other coun- try in the Americas, from pov- erty, insecurity, sickness and il- literacy, in the short span of five years, to win the right to edu- cation, to work, to a decent life for themselves and their children, When they look ahead, what is the dream they see? What will future generations do? What will the descendants of the . Cubans of today do? Fidel expressed their feelings in his speech on January 2nd when he said, ‘‘This is the real Cuba, the Cuba whose enthusiasm never decreases; the Cuba thatis confident in her future; the Cuba that wishes a future of peace, and the Cuba that has the right to be respected in peace.’’ That is why it is important for us Canadian women to work for Cuba to be left alone in peace so that they may continue to build a life of dignity and hope for their people, and hold out the hope of a new life for the peoples of the Americas. Thy BIER A reader comments on welfare scandal WALLACE DU TEMPLE at it with the resouces available, You can only put the blame where it belongs—on the provincial gov- ernment. Why? Because the social wel- fare workers inthe province have been trying for 10 years to rem- edy the drastic situation which still exists in the welfare field. On February 12 the Vancou- ver Suninterviewed Welfare Min- ister Wesley Black who blamed the rise in the number of welfare recipients in the province on the building of bridges, roads and industrial plants, **New demands for skilled labor has left untrained workers with- out jobs,’”? he said, and ‘‘this period of unprecedented devel- opment in B.C. has brought re- quests for increased services rather than a reduction.”’ In reference to these ‘‘new demands for skilled labor,’’ it so happens that the majority of workers in the province, as well as in the rest of Canada, are still unskilled laborers, So where are all the jobs that Bennett has been giving us? And what good is’ industrial expan- sion if the majority of the people aren’t enjoying the fruits of it? On February 13 du Temple went personally to see Premier Ben- nett to protest the welfare condi- tions in northern B.C. Hecouldn’t get to see the Premier but pro- vincial welfare director J. A. Saddler, who earlier had referred to du Temple as being ‘‘misin- formed, young and green,’’ gave him his walking papers. Sure he’s young and green, du Temple admitted this himself. But misinformed? A lot of other welfare workers must be mis- informed too then, because they have since come out and pro- tested these same deficiencies. What is Saddler trying to do— get himself off the hook? He could just as easily have said that he would look into it. But no, instead he made a remark which had the effect of slander- ing duTemple’s character, = Ce wecececcececceccoesenorece Workers Benevolent Assn. Of Canada Progressive Fraternal Society Caters to all your needs in the Life Insurance field LIFE INSURANCE ENDOWMENTS PENSION PLANS WEEKLY BENEFITS Apply to: B.C. office at 805 East Pender St. or National Office at 595 Pritchard Ave. Winipeg 4, Manitoba PPUTTTTITE LE SPHSSSSHSSSHSHSSHSHSHSSHHSSHOHSHSHSHSSHHSOSSOOSEHSEHSHEEESOSE THCSCSESEEESOHSSHOHOHSHSHSHHOSEHSHSOSOHSOSOEHOOOOEOS By TIM BUCK he leaders of the commu- nist Party of China have taken a step now which, unless they recognize their mistake in time, will be seen everywhere as evidence that their decisive aim is to disrupt the world Com- munist movement. Disdainful of the appeals ofthe majority of the Communist par- ties of the world to halt public polemics, at least until there can be a collective examination of all contentious questions, the central committee of the Chin- ese party has demonstrated now _ that its defamatory 25-point plat- form of opposition published dur- ing June of last year, is not by any means the limit to which it is prepared tocarry its campaign of slanderous provocation, In its 25-point platform of op- position to the policy that has been endorsed repeatedly in in- ternational conferences, the cen- tral committee of the Chinese party included a very thinly veil- ed suggestion that those who were prepared to accept its leadership should organize factions andoust the present leadership of their parties, The authors of the 25-point platform hinted also that, in coun- tries where it is impossible for their supporters to overthrow the present leadership, opposition parties should be set up. Such ‘*parties’’ were assured, obli- quely, of active Chinese support. The Chinese party distributed that platform of opposition very widely all over the world in all languages. Instead of suspending public polemics, they intensified their campaign, Because of this, and because their propaganda was being read and discussed by young militant workers, students, and others who had little personal esperi- ence of the events referred to by the Chinese comrades the na- tional executive committee of. the Communist Party of Canada decided to republish its main doc- uments and commentaries on the dispute between the Chinese com- rades and the majority of the other parties of the world. Questions for Today The book has been published under the title, ‘Questions for Today’. Its 24 chapters or re- prints deal with the whole de- velopment of the differneces up to the present attempt to divide the world movement. It is of special interest to Canadians on Buck exposes splitting tactics of China leaders each of the following counts: * It refutes completely the scurrilous insinuation that the parties which disagree with the Chinese leaders are acting under directions fr@ém the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. * Tt shows that the Canadian party developed its position quite independently. In fact, we took issue with the Chinese comrades long before the leadership of the CPSU spoke out on the question. * It deals with the errors of the Chinese comrades in terms of the application of Marxism- Leninism in this country and the program of the Canadian party. * From the first item reprint- ed, to the last one, the book shows how the propaganda of the Chinese party has deterior- ated from argumentation about differences of interpretation to crude irresponsible misrep- resentation and name-calling. Insults as a policy If there had been any questions as to the necessity to republish the materials in ‘‘Questions for Today’’, all such have been an- swered now by the most recent attack launched by the Chinese leadership, in the name of the editorial departments of Renmin Ribao and Honggi. This latest article is even more reckless and irresponsible than was the 25-point platform of op- position published last June. Itis an open and flagrant attempt to establish an organized inter- national opposition movement under the leadership of the cen- tral committee of the Commun- ist Party of China. The authors of the article sink to a level of propaganda which enables them to write that ‘‘the leaders of the CPSU have taken the road of complete betrayal of proletarian internationalism’’. They assert that the leaders of the CPSU are ‘‘the greatest of all sectarians and splitters in history’’. They describe the first secretary of the CPSU, N, S. Khrushchev, as having a ‘‘feu- dal psychology’*. These are only three of many such ireespons- ible and provocative slanders in which the article abounds. ~ The character oftheir article is revealed in its opening para- graph. It starts out with the blatant falsehood that ‘‘both in- ternationally and inside the indi- visual parties, fierce struggles are going on between Marxism- Leninism and revisionism. The international Communist move- ment is confronted with an un- @ CHINAWARE @ LINENS LOOKING FOR UNUSUAL BUYS AT POPULAR PRICES? We have an interesting choice of goods from the U.S.S.R., Czechoslovakia, China and Poland TEA AND CONFECTIONERY FROM U.S.S.R. @ EMBROIDERED GOODS > @ SOVIET WRIST WATCHES @ CERAMIC FIGURINES @ GLASSWARE @ TEXTILES We specialize in arranging tourist visits to the Soviet Union ‘2643 East Hastings Street 4 Open 9-5:30 Daily UKRAINSKA KNYHA Telephone ALpine 3-8642 Vancouver 6, B.C. Closed Wednesday - March 6, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pag “by turning the meaning of their precedented serious danger of split.’’ : These words express the wish ful thinking of the authors. I their wish were not so reckless one could even describe it 4 naive, They have suchconfidenc® ~ in their own command of words” that they open their attack with a proclamation that their purpose | has been achieved. It is neces sary to warn them, that they suffer from a deplorable unde?- estimation of the intelligence ° the working class. immature or e er irresponsible? ? They proceed to a studied at- tempt to make it appear that splits are the law of growth if the working - class movement mechanically applying the laws of nature to social organization specifically to Communist pat ties, they write: ‘ss Like everything els@ the international working-clas® movement tends to divide itself in two.” “, . . It is inevitable that opportunism of one kind oF another should arise in the cours® of the development of the Com- munist movement . . . and that Marxists-Leninists should wage struggles against opportunism and splittism. It is precise ly through this struggle of OP7 posites that Marxism-Leninism and the international working~— class movement have developed . . . Unity, struggle or even splits, and a new unity on 4 new basis — such is the dialec- tics of the development of the in- ternational working-class move- ment.’ (Peking Review, 1964, | No. 6, page 8). This is a completely anti- Marxist-Leninist ‘statement. TO set disunity, splits, as a goal to aim at, is to strike a blow at the working class, at the nat- ional liberation movement, atthe — struggle for peace, at the soc~ ialist world system, It cannot bé excused, not even by ignorance. The law of growth of the work~ ing-class movement is the law of the tireless struggle for unity, against those who would split. The struggle for socialism, in- cluding the history of our move~ ment in Canada, shows that the idea of splits and disruption has been the stock in trade of every — anti-working-class group for generations, Chinese leaders vs Lenin The authors of the article lard their anti-Leninist agitation with numerous quotations. Tearing statements out of context they quote Lenin Marx profusely. What they ignore and hopé their readers will not notice iS the contrast between what they , are trying to do and the purposé for which the statements they quote were written. Marx, Eng- els and Lenin all fought for tle unity of the working-class move~ ment. When they combatted ide- ological error they combatted it to maintain the unity of the move- ment of which they were an in- separable part. The Chinese leaders, on the contrary, are try- ing almost hysterically, to pro- voke splits, The authors of this article re- veal contempt for their readers Own arguments inside out, They assert that the CPSU in attempts to broaden unity is splitting the workingclass movement. On that threadbare pretense they put for- ward the claim that their sup- See BUCK, pg. 11 Se ati and Engels and