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The 13th anniversary of the
founding of the People’s Re-
public of China was observed
by the Vancouver Chinese
community with a gala supper
and cultural program on the
evening of Sat., Sept. 29, at
the Marco Polo retaurant.

Main speaker of the eve-
ning was Dr. James Endicott,
who spent over 20 years in
China and was present when
the Chinese people drove the

Chiang Kai Shek clique out of
the country.

Endicott, who is now the
president of the Canadian
Peace Congress and a vice-
president of the World Coun-
cil of Peace, told the packed
crowd that, despite a series
of unprecedented natural cal-
amities, People’s China was
rapidly becoming one of the
industrial giants of the world,
and no amount of slander
could change this basic fact.

Kennedy trade plan

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The sum total of Lewis’ posi-
tion was that although Britain’s
entry into ECM on_ present
terms was unacceptable to so-
cialists, in principle they were
not opposed to the extension of
ECM.

Lewis performed no favors for
Canada by his apparent dismissal
of the economic problems Can-
ada would face if Britain joins
ECM. At stake is some $900 mil-
lion in trade annually with Bri-
tain.

Now did Lewis make any at-
tempt to analyze what role Can-
ada would really play in the plans
of the U.S. and European mono-
polists?

What does the enlargement of
ECM and the formation of an
Atlantic community along the
lines visualized by Kennedy mean
for Canada?

To anyone even slightly ac-
quainted with the physical shape
of the Canadian economy, the an-
swer must be obvious.

In the first place, our economy
is geared to the supply of raw
materials to U.S. industry. This
has been the result of economic
integration with the U.S., a policy
begun by the Liberals and con-
tinued by the Tories.

In the second place, Canadian
industry is branch-plant industry.
Both our raw-materials and man-
ufacturing industries are largely
owned and controlled by foreign
investment, and especially by the
United States.

- CANADA’S PROSPECTS

Is anyone really foolish enough
to believe that the,more than 50
percent of Canadian manufactur-
ing controlled by the U.S. and
other foreign sources can hope
to compete for markets with their
parent firms, either in. the U.S.
or in Europe, under tariff agree-
ments made in the interests of
the United States?

It is obvious that just as -U.S.
markets ge now closed to
branch-plant manufacturing in-
dustries in Canada at the present
time, so will European markets
be closed to these plants with

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the formation of Kennedy’s At-
lantic community.

Our resources industries are al-
ready subordinated to the needs
of U.S. industry. If it is in the
interests of the U.S. monopolists
who control our resources indus-
try, then this industry may find
some expansion of the role they
play now, Canadians can, perhaps
become the ‘‘hewers of wood and
drawers of water” for the whole.
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This is the prospect for Can-
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ALTERNATIVE NEEDED

What Canada needs as an al-
ternative to this is a campaign
for genuine freedom of trade
with all countries in the world.

Neither the lop-sided trade we
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nor the lop-sided trade we may
carry on with Europe in the
future hold out any hope for the
development of our country, and
the solving of its present econ-
omic problems.

But our industry and economy
can grow through establishment
of mutually beneficial trade re-
lations with the underdeveloped
countries of Asia, Africa, Latin _
America, and with the socialist
countries.

This is the concept the NDP
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straddling the fence. By support-
ing the idea of freedom of trade
with all countries, and encourag-
ing that trade, the NDP would
be speaking out in the interests
of Canadian independence..

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A panel of economists has
reported to President Ken-
nedy that unemployment per
capita in the US. is the high-
est in the entire capitalist
world — with the sole excep-
tion of Canada.

The presidential committee,
named 10 months ago to es-
tablish the reliability of the
U.S. government’s monthly
statistics on .unemployment,
stated that the composite un-
employment rate of seven
major countries in 1960 av-
eraged only 2.1% of the labor
force, while the U.S. rate was
5.6%.

The report said the rates
were 7% for Canada, 1.9%
for France, 1% for W. Ger-
many, 2.4% for Britain, 4.3%
for Italy, 1.1% for Japan and
1.5% for Sweden.

At the same time that this
grim picture was being paint-
ed, (prompting some observ-
ers to ask: “Who won the
war?’’), a Canadian-born vro-
fessor of economics at Har-
vard University told the Por-
ter Royal Commission on
Banking and Finance that un-
employment nearing 4% for
more than a few months is
“intolerable.”

Professor Jacob Viner said
unemployment above the 4%
level presents a serious threat
to the economy as a whole and
every effort should be made
to reduce the number of job-
less below this level.

Prof. Viner asserted the
sluggish growth rate “in the

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United States in recent years
produced an _ unacceptable
rate of unemployment indi-
cating the failure of the eco-
nomic system to function pro-
perly.

On a_ seasonally-adjusted
basis, the Dominien Bureau of
Statistics reported unemploy-

ment in Canada was 5.9%
the labor force in August

For the last two years ©
ada’s unemployment rate Bi
far exceeded 4%, reachine
level of 11% in the winter
1961. Unofficial figure>—
that time listed the B.C: ™
at close to 14%.

Brezhnev in Belgra

Tens of thousands of people
lined the streets of Belgrade
last week to greet President
Brezhnev of the Soviet Union
when he arrived for a ten-day
state visit to Yugoslavia.

President Brezhnev was
welcomed on his arrival at
Belgrade airport by President
Tito of Yugoslavia who said
that the friendship of the
Yugoslav people of the Soviet
Union had been sealed by
their tremendous sufferings in
their joint struggle against the
fascist invaders.

Proposing a toast to the
Soviet President, President
Tito said that “certain differ-
erences” between their coun-
tries need not be an obstacle
to lasting co-operation.

He considered such differ-

ences “normal events Wi
in the present world ®
result from the fact that
concrete ways of economié
social advance of indivi 38
countries are different be
cause of different historic an
other conditions.” rae
Brezhnev said in reply th?
in the present historic peri? a
Soviet-Yugoslav co-operait,
was of “essential impor
because friendship bé t
the peoples should serve 0
great aims of the struggle
peace and socialism.”
The powerful community
socialist states, in uaa
with peace-loving forces —
the whole world, wer a
ducting a persistent strug 5,
to prevent the danger 9 eee
lear war.

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