i { i | } st Issue, August, 1961 WESTERN CANADIAN LUMBER WORKER From Page 6 “NEW PARTY'S PLEDGED PROGRAMME" A SOUND FISHING INDUSTRY The New Democratic Party policy will be directed towards the enlargement of domestic and foreign markets for Canadian fish products. To achieve this they will — Set up Regional boards to examine all aspects of the industry. Create a fisheries marketing board. Encourage marketing through co-operatives. Provide substantial government assistance. Establish a Canadian Coast Guard system in all maritime regions. SECURITY AND FREEDOM The New Democratic Party knowing there is no adequate social security protection for Canadians will — @ Establish a comprehensive systematic programme of social security. NATIONAL HEALTH PLAN The New Democratic Party believing that a country’s most precious possession is the health of its citizens will — @ Introduce a National Health Plan, providing benefits to all regardless of ability to pay. NATIONAL RETIREMENT PLAN A New Democratic Party government will introduce a realistic plan to provide for Canada’s older citizens by — @ Increasing the Old Age pension. @ Providing a basic pension at the age of 65. @ Eliminating the means test. SICKNESS, SURVIVOR AND OTHER BENEFITS A New Democratic Party government knowing the needs of a family must be looked after when the breadwinner is ill or dies, will — @ Introduce a programme that will provide income during illness or accident, @ Overhaul the Unemployment Insurance Act to provide more coverage. @ Increase Family Allowance payments. MAN AGAINST DISEASE A New Democratic Party government will see that Canada is in the vanguard of the world-wide offensive against disease by — @ Establishing a national centre for medical research. @ Working with such organizations as UNESCO and the World Health Organization. NATIONAL LABOUR STANDARDS The New Democratic Party will seek the co-operation of the provinces in achieving national minimum labour standards throughout the country. Its objective is a national labour code, enacted jointly by the federal parliament and provincial legisla- tures, to establish — An adequate minimum wage. A five-day, 40-hour work week. Two weeks of vacation with pay each year. Eight statutory holidays with pay each year. Occupational, health and safety codes. Improved and strengthened collective bargaining laws. Full protection of the right of association and union security. Amendment of the Criminal Code to institute clearly the right to picket. HOMES FOR OUR FAMILIES A New Democratic Party government knowing that thousands of Canadian families are without proper housing will — @ Establish a National Housing Authority. @ Create attractive neighbourhoods and communities. @ Extend the National Housing Act services. @ Increase the range of dwellings available for low down payments. THE CONSUMER The New Democratic Party policy will protect the consumer against unscrupulous promotion techniques, misleading adver- tising, poor quality and over-priced goods by — @ Instituting stricter regulations governing quality, content description, packaging, advertising and sales promotion. @ Preventing the drug industry from exploiting the public. @ Fixing limits on interest rates charged on consumer credit. EDUCATION AND THE ARTS The New Democratic Party believes that education is a matter of basic human rights. It plans— @ Free education at all levels to all those who can benefit from it. @ To encourage, assist and establish adult education agencies and pro- grammes. @ To defend the integrity and independence of the CBC against subver- sion whether by governments or by private interests. CO-OPERATIVE FEDERALISM The New Democratic Party is vitally concerned with relations between the federal and provincial governments. To improve relations they would — @ Create a department of Federal-Provincial relations. @ Establish a regular Prime Ministers’ Conference. @ Guarantee the identity of French Canadians. THE VANPORT HOTEL Xn 645 MAIN STREET \o? VANCOUVER 3, B.C. 4 (MU 2-9049) is under NEW MANAGEMENT Maurice St. Cyr and Vern Carter have weary up the whole og WA logers nl ie 2 ae ke the NEW VANPORT r home base next time you Seeead! e at Main: new look but same old spirit on both sides of the ba CANADA AS A NATION The New Democratic Party believes that true Canadian unity depends upon equal recognition and respect for both the original cultures of our country. To maintain this unity they will — @ Protect the traditions and cultures of Canadians of all ethnic back- grounds. @ Accord Indians and Eskimos full political and social rights as Cana- dian citizens. @ Seek a distinctive Canadian flag and anthem. BILL OF RIGHTS The New Democratic Party will maintain and protect the par- liamentary and political freedoms which are our inheritance by — @ Seeking the collaboration of the provinces to safeguard our fundamental freedoms by incorporating them in the Canadian constitution. STRENGTHENED PARLIAMENT A New Democratic Party government will seek to improve the democratic machinery of Parliament by — @ Setting up a more functional and more smoothly operating Parlia- mentary committee system. @ Abolishing the Senate. @ Limiting campaign expenditures. @ Passing legislation requiring full publicity for political contributions. INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS The New Democratic Party believes that Canada cannot ignore the struggle between democracy and totalitarianism. It must always stand squarely on the side of freedom and with the genuine forces of freedom. A New Democratic Party government will— @ Give leadership in this direction and will support every measure de- signed to enhance the prestige, authority and jurisdiction of the United Nations and its agencies. Base its votes in the United Nations on the merits of issues rather than on bloc alignments. @ Support the puercndence and growth of new nations to the councils of the United Natio @ Recognize Red ete and support its admission to the United Nations. COMMONWEALTH The New Democratic Party would support more effective con- sultation among the members of the Commonwealth, both within the United Nations and outside by— @ A greatly expanded programme of assistance to the South-East Asian nations at present participating in the Colombo Plan The immediate creation of a similar programme of Commonwealth economic aid to newly independent states in Africa and the West Indies. REGIONAL ASSOCIATION The New Democratic Party values the cultural and economic ties among the peoples of the North Atlantic community. It therefore— @ Welcomes the formation of the Organization for Economic Co-opera- tion and Development (OECD). @ Welcomes both the creation of the Common Market and its prospec- tive expansion. Would co-operate fully with these and similar associations. NATO The New Democratic Party recognizes that NATO has played its part in the maintenance of west European security but believes however, it has concentrated on a military role and has failed to adapt its policies to the growing importance of the economical ane social front in the present world struggle. It would there- ore— Seek a reappraisal and change of NATO’s policies and objectives. @ Oppose Canada’s troops being supplied with nuclear weapons at home or abroa @ Pull out of NATO if such weapons are supplied to NATO members. @ Press for a demilitarized zone in central Europe and disbandment of the Warsaw and NATO Pacts. DISARMAMENT AND DEFENCE The New Democratic Party knowing that there is no defence against nuclear annihilation would institute a defence policy that would include— @ A searching reappraisal of its defence role. @ Giving money now spent on defence to the United Nations for con- ventional troops and civilian personnel and in aiding underdeveloped countries, @ Terminating the NORAD agreements. @ Supporting the ban on nuclear tests. @ Proposing a treaty to establish a non-nuclear club of nations. ECONOMIC AID The New Democratic Party believing that Canada’s contribu- tion to economic aid must be generous and planned would— @ Establish a massive economic aid programme channelled through the UN, the Commonwealth and Canadian government agencies. Introduce a Joint Training and Technical Expert Programme with un- derdeveloped states. Establish a Voluntary Service Corps to staff co-operative aid schemes. Foster Joint Development enterprises. Extend substantial credits to developing states. Review Canada’s domestic policies with regard to immigration and racial discrimination INSTRUCTION IN INDUSTRIAL FIRST AID available through Correspondence Courses leading to Industrial First Aid Cer- tificates approved the Workmen‘s Compensation Board of B.C. For further information communicate with THE INDUSTRIAL FIRST AID ATTENDANTS ASSN. OF B.C. 152 West Hastings Street Vancouver 3, B.C. New Democratic Party emblem.| Labour's Position Stated The 1,100,000-member Cana- dian Labour Congress will not dominate the New Party nor will it interfere with or try to in- fluence the 's inte affairs, CLC President Claude Jodoin pledged here in his ad- dress to the New Party founding convention. Jodoin torpedoed the favourite theme of New Party detractors who are fond of picturing the party as a puppet of organized labour. Must Remain Free “If we are to have free trade unionism,” Jodoin declared, ‘then our labour organizations must re- main free of the domination of any group—government, political parties or employers. “As trade unionists, we do not want to dominate; neither do we want to be dominated.” Jodoin made it clear that this posi- tion of non-interference in the New Party was not incompatible with the CLC role in fostering the party’s creation and encouraging congress afhliates to support the New Party. The trade union movement, Jodoin reminded the delegates, had a long history of political action in Canada and elsewhere. “A labour movement that is with- out interest in political matters is a labour movement that is evading one of the most fundamental responsi- bilities,” Jodoin warned. olitical Decisions Labor’s objectives in the fields of employment, health care, pensions, taxation policies and housing re- quired political decisions. The old-line parties had balked at acting along the lines suggested by the labour congress in these fields, the CLC president said. And they had ignored the CLC’s 1956 invita- tion to discuss the congress legisla- tive program. Moreover in the past few years, provincial governments of Liberal, Conservative and Social Credit stripe had introduced and enacted legisla- tion aimed at weakening and restrict- ing organized labour. Jodoin said that those who attacked labour were undermining a force which had played a vital role in sup- porting acoane legislation. 958 Resolution The percloticn adopted at the 1958 Cue g the need for a new "political party was the logical development of labour’s con- cern for basic social reform and re- construction through a parliamen- tary system of government. Jodoin emphasized that the CLC was well aware that the labour move- ment was not a thing apart from Canadian society. 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