November 8th is not very far
off now, and as this is the last
time this column will have the
opportunity to speak to you about
the election before then, we are
hoping that our readers will not
be lulled into thinking “well, my
one vote isn’t going to make any
difference one way or another”
and decide to stay home,

The decision of the Canadian
people as to our government for
the next period of time, willhave
far-reaching repercussions not
only in our country, but on a
world scale,

By refusing to give either the
Liberals or the Tories a clear
cut majority, and by electing a
larger group of progressive can-
didates, Canadians will be offer-
ing a stinging rebuff to the old-
line parties who have in the past,
and will continue in the future,
to betray our future....

They betrayed us by bringing
nuclear weapons to our country,
and have shown no indication to
date of removing them—a ma-
jority would only make them
more arrogant in this respect.
They betray us when they moot
Canadian membership in the Or-
ganization of American States,
which will surely come about if
they receive aclear cut majority.

They betray us by their supine
compliance with United States in-
tent in Vietnam, They betray us
by the sell-out of our natural
resources—water, gas, forests,
minerals, etc.; by their disregard
of the desperate need for decent
housing at low cost, or rental;
of free higher education; of the
many and complex problems of
our Native Indians (of approxi-
mately 200,000 Indians in Canada,
the Federal Government spends
an average of $359 per iperson.
in the 1964-1965 budget,

The 1964-65 estimate of mili-
tary spending totalled $1,581 mil-
lions, or over 22 times the total
the federal gov’t spends on the

Mourn death of

The sudden death of Robert
G, Thompson, one of the na-
tional leaders of the Communist
Party, U.S,A., is being mourned
around the world, Only 50 years
of age, Thompson died of a heart
attack, A hero in two wars,
Thompson was wounded in Spain
where he fought with the Abra-
ham Lincoln Brigade andin World
War II he won the Distinguished
Cross for exemplary heroism in
the South Pacific,

In a letter to Gus Hall, lead-
ing U.S, Communist spokesman,
the national executive of the Com-
munist Party of Canada wrote:
«At this moment our party shares
the loss and grief of the Com-
munist and democratic people of
the U.S.A. and expresses its

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CUBA &

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Women’s news
and viewpoint

By P. CHUNN

original inhabitants of this coun-
try), Above all, they betray us
by their appalling lack of re-
sponsibility in helping to main-
tain world peace!

In many other ways they have

shown themselves unworthy of

the trust and confidence of the
Canadian people, but there isn’t
enough space in one small column
to deal with every facet of the
coming election, It has been put
very succinctly in the concluding
paragraph of the program of the
Communist Party of Canada,
which says: ~

“We call upon all democratic
Canadians to unite to win new
policies. Defeat the candidates
of the old Parties, Elect the
largest bloc of progressives ever
to sit in the House of Commons!”
« « « That means in Coast-Capi-
lano, elect Charles Caron; in
Vancouver South, William Stew-
art; in Victoria, W. S._E, Mor-
rison; in Okanagan-Revelstoke,
Alexander (Sandy) Mowers, and
in all other constituencies the
election of NDP candidates run-
ning there, I have every confi-
dence the women of B.C, will do

their part in this respect!
* * *

I was deeply shocked to read
in last week’s issue of the PT of

the death of one of the leading -

members ofthe Communist Party
of the USA, Bob Thompson, Dur-
ing my visit to the Soviet Union
last spring, our paths crossed
several times, as Bob was over
with the veterans’ delegation to
attend ceremonies observing the
20th anniversary of the defeat
of world fascism,

I was greatly impressed with
the big, quiet-spoken man and
his charming wife, when we had

‘the opportunity to chat on a

couple of occasions, His passing
is a tremendous loss to the
American Communist Party, and
to the American people, as well
as the world Communist move-
ment, On behalf of the readers
of this column, I offer sincerest
condolences to his wife and fa-
mily, and to his Party.

U.S. leader

fraternai solidarity with them,-.
It asked Hall to extend the Can-
adian Party’s condolences to
Thompson’s wife and family,

At the time of his death
Thompson was New York state
president ofthe party, He was one
of 11 Communist leaders charged
under the Smith Act in 1949 and
was sentenced to seven years in
prison. A vicious attack on him.
while in prison required two
delicate brain operations,

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FIRST TIME SINCE 1947

French Left unites behind
anti-de Gaulle candidate

By WILLIAM ALLAN
For the first time since 1947
all Left groups in France are
backing a presidential candidate,

_Francois Mitterand, who willrun

against incumbent . President

-de Gaulle,

Roger Garaudy, member ofthe
political bureau of the 420,000
strong French Communist Party,
stressed this point when I inter-
viewed him during his visit to
the International Teach-In in
Toronto,

Mitteran became a candidate
last September when he told the

- French press that the democratic

parties and organizations should
oppose De Gaulle with a single
candidate, capable of “mustering
the potential vote of the Left,
from the Radicals to the Com-
munists.”

He threw his hat in the ring
when Marseilles shipowner Gas-
ton Defferre, a previous candi-
date of the Socialist Party failed
in his attempt to establish a
Socialist-Centrist-Rightist uni-
ty, aimed at isolating the Com-
munist Party with its five mil-
lion votes,

In foreign policy, Mitterand
has urged peaceful coexistence,
French support for the Moscow
partial test ban treaty and op-
position to a French nuclear
striking force. He criticizes
France’s treaty with West Ger-
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settlement through a peace treaty
and revision of the NATO agree-
ment,

Asked about relations between
Socialists and Communists in
France, Garaudy said the situ-
ation is*“good basically.” In
strike struggles there is unity
against the bosses, In the uni-
versities the students work
unitedly. There is unity fighting
colonialism, *The main point on
which we differ is foreign pol-
icy. Socialist leaders support
the foreign policy of the United
States.”

Communist press circulation
“is not in proportion to our in-
fluence, due to financial and other
reasons,” said Garaudy.

Algeria, which he visited recently
Garaudy said:

represented the coming togethel
of forces that wanted to put all
end to Algeria going toward S0-
cialism,
want to become corrupted, DP
around him there are people wh0
are corrupt, particularly his br
ther, who is the representative
of Mercedes Benz, This means
the neo-colonial forces are
strong. Since Boumedienne cam
to power the land that had bee!
nationalized has been return
and those things that have bee
strongest in the development of
socialism have been stopped.”

!

Asked about the situation

*The coup of Boumedienne

Boumedienne may

“Nobody believes me, Mr. Johnson!”

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