These statements were
didates in the final week of

Bill Stewart,
North Vancouver

“In a radio
Jack Webster:
bert Strachan

a cheap

interview with
‘CCF leader Ro-
; resorted
rds in his
ly press line
are ‘infiltrat-
movement.
who are
have
the

use of wo
<

dail

echoing of the
that Communists
ing’ the new party
Many communists
trade unionists
participated in
within the Canadian
Congress on the
the

my

debate |
Labor
of
party Representing
I have — fought
a broad all-inclusive party,

both at the Montre 3 and Win-
nipeg conventions of the Cana-}
dian Labor Congress.”

structure
new
union

for

| Irving

to |}

openly |

Communist can-|
campaign:

made by
the election

Mortenson,
Nanaimo and the Islands
“The staggering arms race
has seen Canada waste twenty-
one billion dollars on useless
arms, enriching the war mon-|
opolies, speeding up the unem-}|
ployed crisis and preventing |
normal trade-relations

dustrial development. | to
“a SES aaeet j lent statements about mem-! forum in Pender Auditorium,|spent on armaments if
Communists elected to the 3 | >| a d
legislature,” he said, speaking |bers of the Communist Party | last Wednesday, he was high-| roads, schools, hoSpitals 3!
= Se in the trade unionmovement, I| ly critical of the Bennett gov-| for provincial and munici
to an all candidate meeting at| ne
S | pvoutd point out that members | er rnment on the issue of polit-| uses, without increasing !
the Kiwanis Club, “will de- | at
Zee ease = ;of the Communist Party are jcal morality. But in the:| tax burden. And I believe th
mand action to press Ottawa 2 | | M | + af
S fighting for policies they be-} course of his address, he ex-|a_ declaration of Canadialy

for a change in our country’s
foreign policies to regain mili-|
tary control
move all American military}
bases from Canadian soil, with-|
draw from NATO and NORAD,

| declare Canada’s neutrality and,

Nigel Morgan and Jack
Phillips, Vancouver East

A leaflet issued by Morgan |
and Phillips in Vancouver East |
éntitled “Leéet’s Put The Facts
Straight, Mr. Strachan” says:

“Robert Str
leader of t

graced that

r te 2n, provincial
“CF has  dis-
ee with lying, |
Slanderous statements about
the Communist Party. Strachan
Ras” accused the ‘Communist|
Party of working for the Soc-
reds in this election. This kind |
of gutter politics does little to
recommend Mr. Strachan to!
the people of province.

}
“Mr. Buck
communists in
are fighting for
believe in, including the struc-|
ture of the new -party. -And|
what’s- wrong with. that Mr.
Strachan? Communists have |
been._.amongst the pioneer |
builders and staunchest mem-|
bers trade unions for the |
past forty years, and unlike|
Mr. Strachan, we have not|
repudiated our |
ultimate goal.” |
The leaflet goes on to dis-|
@uss the matter of labor unity
and points out that the .Com-
munists have consistently ad-
wocated and fought for the|
broadest unity of the
Sommunist Party, farm
gather organizations.

4
tr
he

this

did state that
trade union |
policies they}

of

socialism as

CCF,}|
and |

*Tt is the leadership of the}
CF, not the Communist party,}

@hat is responsible for the}
@ivision in the ranks of those |
opposed

eather parties of big-business.”

'-work for

| broadcast
| platform includes: Guaranteed |

| surpluses;

total disarmament.”
Pointing. out what public)
power could mean to the}
Island Mr. Mortenson stated,
“Tf the Provincial Government

would take over the abandon- |
ed Dunsmuir coal interests and |
use this coal to develop thermo |
| electric power it would open
| the way for a chemical indus- |
Island and |
| provide thousands of jobs for

try on Vancouver

our: youth.”
Al Warrington,

Rossland-Trail
“The Communist Party

|the only party that is raising

the key issue of this election,”
Warrington told on all candi-
date meeting sponsored by the
Rotarians.
| free education, the sales tax
unemployment, all the main
problems worrying the people
of British (Columbia, can only
be solved if we break our
economic, political and mili-
tary suborbination to the U.S.’

Nick Klim, North Okanagan |f
Morgan, speaking on}

Nigel
behalf of Nick Klim in a radio
said, “Our

|farm prices that will cover the |

cost of production and main-

| tain the family type farm; Es-
tablishment of new markets;

Stop the dumping of U.S. farm)
Trade with all coun-|
vies, including
people in the socialist world;

‘ping price fixing.

and in-|

of our country, re-|

is |

“The problem . of

|
Farm}

‘vicious attack on party

Tim Buck, national leader of the Communist Party, last week issued a statemell)
replying to the vicious attack on the Communist Party by CCF leader Robert Strachal

In his statement Buck said:

“T would remind Mr. Strach-

“| an that the integrity of a politi-

members is
consistency

and its
in the

1 cal party
| expressed

| with which they fight for what!

| their party stands for.

“In contrast to (Mr. Strachan,
I have fought to replace the
| capitalist profit system by so-
/cialism in Canada continuously
| for the past 40 years and the
Communist Party has never re-

|
{
|
|
|

laxed its fight for socialism in}

jany respect. It
| the same cannot be said of Mr.
| Strachan.

“As for Mr. Strachan’s vio-|

lieve in, including questions of
| the structure of the new politi-
|eal party. This is their right as
|members of their unions. More
| than that, it is their duty to
their fellow members. For Mr.
| Strachan or anybody else to

| describe this as infiltration is :

deliberately deceitiul.”

| Meanwhile this.week, Burn-
| aby Communist candidate Har-
}0ld Pritchett, lashed out at a
| statement by B.C. Federation

secretary Pat O’-
| Neal. Said Pritchett:

“Pat O’Neal has set himself
up in a new role of policeman
in the trade union movement
when he said, ‘Give us the
names and they (the commun-
ists) won’t be with us long’.”

Pritchett, who was former
secretary of the B/C. Federa-
tion of Labor, added: “Evi-
| dently O’Neal is not aware
that Communists grew up in
the trade unions and out of the

lof Labor

is regrettable |

——"

| struggles of the working class. | bosses, their courts and polié
In fact long before O’Neal was| “The Communists of 8B:
ever heard of, Communists| have a proud record in orga,
were organizing workers in. the| izing the basic industries ?

basic industries such as wood,| B.C. Neither Mr. O’Neal
mining, fishing, steel and oth-|anyone else can _ rewrite tht
|ers. This was done in the face| history of B.C.’s labor mov

\ . ee
| of race Pepe on by the| ment and our proud role =

‘Edwards exposes ‘deceit
of Burrard Liberal speakel

When Vaughan Lyon, Lib- , funds could sp solved by th)
ral candidate for Vancouver | Federal government re- direc!
Burrard, spoke at an all-party | ing some of the money peind ,

neutrality as outlined by Mt
Minnifie in his recent book
would automatically releas?
sufficient funds to immed"
ately implement the pla”
which you have produced.’
Commenting Greave
letter, Burrard Communi
candidate Lionel _ Edwards)
“Tam sorry Mr,. Greav®
had not thad the opportunill)
of reading the platform °
the Communist Party bef!
he sent his letters to the leade!
of Liberal Party. The Com
munist Party is the only party
in this election which plac®
the issue of peace or war, ?
the central and  overidi?
issue. . |
“Of all the parties, ours By
the only one to point out #7
a policy of neutrality and ais
armament would release ?
cessary funds ‘to meet
needs and requirements of 9
province and country.”

posed: himself as a deceitful
campaigner.

Speaking on the Liberal
plan to combat unemploy-
ment, he read from a letter
addressed to Ray Perrault,
his provincial leader and sign-
ed by Richard Greaves, Pres-
ident of Local 425, Marine
Engineers Union. Here is
what Mr. Vaughan Lyon read:

on

“May I congratulate you on
producing a plan, which I
think is a valuable one, of
many merits and the only one
I have seen in written form
from any political party” Now
read qualifying paragraphs of
the Greaves letter, that Mr.
Vaughan Lyon did not read:

“However in goIng over the
plan, there is one question
which presents itself and that
is, where will the money be
found for such a plan? I be-

lieve that the question of

|

|

one - billion} Delegates of the National Maritime Union WiG visited the Soviet Gaion are cau nev? is)
having a chat with Premier Khrushchev. President of the union, Joseph Currey sit
to the Socreds and| Curb food profiteering by stop-| second from the left. This was one of the first groups of U.S. trade unionists to V

ithe USSR in many years.

: Bal
September 9, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pas®