ny a rally of some 300 people in Se ceon school auditorium Nday night the Communist Clad candidate in the provin- pane of Vancouver East, tea Morgan, predicted the he Nice was heading for one of lab Worst confrontations in the aor history of B.C. rire detailed some of the oh he we legislation brought in cats . Recal Credit. government ewe as brought the situation whic €ad: Bill 37, and Bill 3 135, 00 well see as many as ifter orking people placed ane has taken away from Wea €d officials the right to oie their own welfare Dolic €s, as well as Bennett’s tar euch through the sales year pes up to $379 million a While Ae of people’s pockets grant ey make drastic cuts in to education. €aways to bi i 5 g companies Droynequalled by any other ve Tn 1933 there were 1200 T Companies in B.C. inde, 90 percent of the forest mono a IS controlled by six oe les. MacMillan-Bloedel forest enol 42 percent of Which ae in the province, from Boes ee cent per acre per year ae ® government coffers. flevas &an claimed there has has si @ government which Section agonized such a wide reason “ the people. The only hey remain in office is eCaus disunited "© People have been or bats Obvi9 8an said it has proved alone and nit the trade unions Temove th € NDP alone cannot leader pa; SOVernment. NDP teachers Barrett who told the and vot ‘o get off their butts little a) his party has done People Organize and unite the at ig or to arouse them to Sass mae te on. The lack of Sectio S organizing amongst result of of the population is a Next arrett’s “wait for the Said, €ction”” psychology, he here: ——1t is a need to come to Wage controls; Bill 49, ~ Veterans honored a Valley banquet WwW Class pyvcterans of the working 4 bangy vement were honored at Sur : et in the Fleetwood Hall, about ig saturday night when brate th Suests gathered to cele- Stewart © 80th birthday of Annie Harry ae the 71st birthday of telegr- Sent to “stam of greetings was tie eva © happy and enthusias- &Xeo, 2 from the central - Sho f the Communist 0 the * Tt speeches in tribute Tunist ° Veterans of the Com- by Drovevement were made Morgan cial leader Nigel Kashta, oY Garneau, William ational | Communist Party Maur; €ader, and PT edito: Ce Rush “ad e Mbe , NUnist ee of the Young Com- Roaue took an active Sueces ' "ganizing the highly theip au €vent, and one of Honore Mbers presented both Rifts 8uests with birthday beautis fautiful corsages. Two ae decorated birthday Singing A © brought out to the Both H appy Birthday.’ Stewar arry Ball and Annie a q thanks, Made short speeches of | Morgan nominated in Vancouver East NIGEL MORGAN, B.C. leader of - the Communist Party, was last week nominated to contest the provincial riding of Vancouver East. In a statement at a rally in Templeton High School, audi- torium Sunday, attended by about 300 citizens, he outlined his party’s policy and announced that additional provincial candidates will be named in the near future. grips with those forces amongst us-trade unionists, professional groups, democratic and citizens organizations — to solidify their opposition to the Bennett govern- ment in a common front. It is the only answer. Bennett’s call to Prime Minister Trudeau to impose wage controls on a national scale is the last straw, the provincial leader said. Now that the Socred premier has given the big com- panies in B.C. everything they want in terms of repressive legislation, the companies will grow more truculent in their refusal to bargain. . Because the Communist Party is the only party which advo- cates the common front neces- sary to rid the province of such legislation and such a govern- ment, they will go out to put their program forward in as many constituencies as possible, he said. Spanish women to speak May 4 Two women from the Spanish Resistance Movement will arrive in Vancouver Wednes- day, May 2nd and spend several days here. Both are wives of jailed Spanish political prisoners and are coming here seeking support for amnesty of all political prisoners now detained in Franco’s jails. They come directly from inside Spain to talk about the role of women in the resistance movement, the conditions of political prisoners in jails, and problems which face their families. A broad, representative com- mittee of support met April 19 to organize the itinerary for the visit. Highlighting the tour will be a public meeting which will take place on May 4, at the John Oliver High School auditorium at 8 p.m. Other opportunities for Vancouver residents, especially women, to meet these brave Spanish women are being organized. The local support committee can be reached by contacting Len Norris, Room 608, 193 East Hastings St., Vancouver 4. Phone 536-6065. Tell Nixon Ganada not for sale says Kashtan By MABEL RICHARDS “Tel] Nixon that Canada is not for sale!”’ This is the message the Cana- dian people must urge Prime Minister Trudeau to give the U.S. president when he visits Canada this week, said William Kashtan, general-secretary of the Communist Party during an address to a Vancouver audi- ence of some 300 Sunday night. He said Nixon’s visit epitomizes the two elements of U.S. imperialism: domination through military and economic. aggression. It is the military aggression in Vietnam which has brought on the crisis in the American economy and which in turn is reflected in the change of relationship between Canada and the U.S. We no longer enjoy a ‘special’ relationship with the U-S., Kashtan said, — it is now a crisis’ relationship in which the American imperialists, through the Nixon government, are trying to lay the burden of their costly aggressions on other nations of the world, parti- cularly Canada. The Communist leader during his Vancouver visit launched the party’s campaign for the federal election. Four candi- dates have been nominated in B.C. — Maurice Rush, Van- couver East; Rod Doran, New Westminster, Bill Turner, Van- couver-Kingsway, and Mark Mosher in Comox-Alberni. Eventually, Kashtan said, the party hopes to nominate at least thirty candidates to carry the - party’s message to the people. Speaking of the military phase of American aggression, Kashtan urged his audience to inundate the prime minister’s office with telegrams demanding U.S. withdrawal from Indo- china, which he hoped Trudeau would pass on to the president during the visit. z He said the dollar crisis in the U.S. which has been exported to Canada is reflected in the dissatisfaction with the Trudeau government in Ottawa on the part of Canadians. Trudeau- mania has petered out because government policies are completely bankrupt in some areas. He detailed federal legis- lation, some of it progressive, which has been withdrawn, or emasculated because _ of pressures of big business. This includes the proposed Labor Code, the Tax Reform Bill, the Competition Bill which preceded the ministers in charge being transferred to other posts. Mass unemployment created by Trudeau’s austerity program is now so serious the government thinks it can resist a crisis of catastrophic proportions only by pouring billions of dollars — through tax incentives and outright grants — into busi- nesses, most of it U.S.-owned. But the theory that such dollar incentives would create a. prosperity that would ‘‘trickle down’? to the working people has proved a myth, because auto- mation and uncontrolled profit- taking has succeeded in creat- ing more wnemployment and more pressures on those who are working. “You and I are paying taxes to keep this country going for the benefit of monopoly capitalism,” he charged. The Tory party under Stanfield, in alignment with reactionary French-Canadian elements, and Hellyer’s Action Canada advocate the same incentive programs to big business, with the addition they would curtail social service expenditures in the name of economy. PARTY PROGRAM The Communist Party in putting forward its program and its candidates poses an alter- native. It is the only policy that can lead to true independence for the Canadian people: Our country should separate itself from NATO and NORAD, and open up a new path of peace and co-operation with .all countries. Our country must demand withdrawal of U.S. forces in Indochina. The CP will work towards building of a democratic. coal- ition of all people who are opposed to the reactionary policies of the old-line parties and monopoly capitalism. We press for the absolute rejection of Nixon’s-policies which tries to force us to agree to trade and resource advantages for Ameri- can monopolies, he said. We fight for the strengthening of progressive forces to gain a new majority in parliament — a majority of working people to reflect the needs of working people. In introductory remarks to the audience chairman Maurice Rush, candidate in Vancouver East federal constituency, reminded his listeners the last time an American president - portions, visited Canada it marked the shameful sell-out of the Columbia River. He warned the same type of sell-out could be in the wind during Nixon’s visit, for there is every danger more giveaways of our natural resources is a price the Ameri- can monopolists are attempting to extract from the Trudeau government. Kashtan said in B.C., where giveaways by the Bennett govern- ment are of gigantic pro- the fight for new policies would be particularly important. Bennett’s call on the weekend for the imposition of wage and price controls is a mark of just how far the premier is prepared to go in his subjuga- tion to big business interests. “Tf Bennett tries to go it alone and impose such controls, the working class will smash it just as the working class in Great Britain, led by the miners, smashed it,’’ Kashtan said. During the question period Kashtan was asked why, if the Communist Party believes in a common front, it is running a candidate in Vancouver East ‘against Paddy Neale.” Kashtan replied that the. Communist Party is not running a candidate against Paddy Neale but is entering the campaign across Canada to put forward a program which differs fundamentally from _ other parties, including the NDP. “Our party puts forward a program which would elect a majority not just to tinker with capitalism but one which would make a beginning on restruc- turing society in a way which would eventually lead us to __socialism,’’ he concluded. WILLIAM KASHTAN, leader Communist Party of Canada, addressing last Sunday’s rally at Templeton High School auditorium. Unemployment up again = Normally March marks an upward swing in employment figures. This year March unemployment figures are up. Particularly so in B.C. (Little wonder Bennett and Trudeau are waffling on election dates! ) Jobless figures in Canada, even after the usual shuffling, show 642,000 unemployed. In B.C., 82,000 are unemployed in March and that is 8.6 percent of the work force. More people in this province are looking for work, with the main increase being women and youth. But this does not tell the whole story. There are thousands of people, women, youth and older people who have withdrawn their names from the labor picture because there are no jobs. There are thousands more presently taking courses and training of one kind of another who will soon enter the labor market. ‘All the drive about “‘seasonal adjustments,”’ ‘‘improved employment situation which began in 1971,” etc., cannot hide the bald harsh truth.