Messages have been re-
ceived from Communist and
Workers’ Parties throughout
the world, paying tribute to
the tireless political work of
Tim Buck.

GERMAN DEMOCRATIC
REPUBLIC

The Central Committee of the
Socialist Unity Party of Germany
extends to its brother Canadian
Party deepest sympathy in the
death of the Chairman ‘of the
Communist Party of Canada,
Comrade Tim Buck, outstanding
Marxist-Leninist and a fervent
proletarian internationalist, who
devoted all his life to the strug-
gle for the interests of the Cana-
dian working class and to the
lofty ideals of socialism.

Socialist Unity Party
of Germany

“YUGOSLAVIA

We received with great regret
the news of the passing away of
Comrade Tim Buck, the Chairman
of the Central Committee of the
Communist Party of Canada, who
has invested all his lifelong work
in the struggle for the affirmation
of the Communist and workers’
movements of Canada and for
the interests of the working class
of Canada.

League of Communists

of Yugoslavia _

ROMANIA

Learned with sorrow the news
of passing away of Comrade Tim
Buck, Chairman of the Commun-
ist Party of Canada, outstanding
militant of the Canadian and
international Communist move-
ment, untiring fighter in the de-
fence of the vital interests of the
Canadian working class and
people, for the triumph of the
ideals of democracy, national in-
dependence, socialism and
peace.

Romanian Communist Party

ITALY

The death of Comrade Tim
Buck, Chairman of your Party and
courageous Communist leader
who devoted his whole life to the
cause of the proletarian demo-
cracy and socialism in his coun-
try and the world, leaves us
deeply saddened. Please accept
our most sincere and heartfelt

condolences. :
Italian Communist Party

The
‘Abbott Plan.

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and this typifies the essentially
anti-Canadian character of the
Abbott Plan, it increases prices
solely to reduce the purchasing
power of Canadians — not as a
consequence of efforts to encour-
age production of those goods in
Canada. The Plan rejects the idea
of developing Canadian produc-
tion of goods hitherto imported
from the U.S. and now restricted
— because U.S. authorities ob-
ject to that. The over-riding aim
of the Abbott Plan is to satisfy
the Dominion government’s new
bosses in the U.S.A.

What we have here is a plan
to hinge Canada’s economy in-
creasingly upon the production
of raw materials and specialties,

. such as newsprint, for U.S. in-

dustry. It is a plan to reduce
the weight of finished goods in-
dustries in our national economy.
Even worse, it is a plan to wipe
out Canadian sovereignty by
giving the U.S. government a di-
rect voice in deciding the direc-

_ tion and level of, Canada’s eco-..
nomic. development. 44.40)

NEW POLICIES FOR CANADA —

(Canada the Communist
Viewpoint, 1948)

In Canada, as in all capitalist
countries, monopoly - capitalism
is forcing the Labor movement
more and more sharply up
against the question: “What is
to be the political content and
aim of Canada’s national poli-
cies?” Shall they be based upon
the interests and hopes of the
great mass of the people, or shall
they reflect mainly the parasiti-
cal interests of finance-capital?

All the influence of monopoly
capital’ is now concentrated
upon the drive for policies of
calculated reaction and a third
world war. The monopolists are
literally selling Canada to the
United States. Having secured
control of our country’s vast re-
sources of forest and mineral
wealth and- water-power, the
avid “geniuses of finance” in
Canada are seeking now to use
that control as the price of part-
nerships for themselves in one
or other of the giant American
monopolies. They are peddling
Canada’s independence for U.S.
dollars. Their influence in the top
councils of both Liberal and Tory
parties was spotlighted, vividly,
by the alacrity with which Do-

a

minion government policies and
attitudes were reversed during
1946-47, simultaneously with the
emergence of the reactionary
and bellicose anti-Canadian post-
war aims of the clique of adven-
turers who now direct the vast
influence of finance-capital in
Canada.

Whether the monopolists will
succeed depends upon the Labor
movement.

They will be defeated if the
working class and its allies
among the masses of democratic
Canadians organize wide and
active popular support for poli-
cies aimed at democratic nation-
al development — with far-
reaching integrated social reform
at home, replacement of the Ab-
bott Plan by a trade policy based
upon the new, emergent, eco-
nomic developments in the coun-
tries of the Commonwealth and
the New Democracies, and the
proclaimed aim of Canadian co-
operation with all nations of the
socialist as well as of the capi-
talist sector of the world. If the
working class does not, through
its economic, cultural and poli-
tical organizations, develop ac-
tive popular support for a dy-
namic program of democratic

INFLATION

(Written in 1946, reprinted in Our
Fight for Canada-— Selected
Writings — 1923-1959)

The monopolies and the gov-.

ernment are masking their pol-
icy of raising prices by a highly-
organized propaganda campaign
to delude the masses of the peo-
ple with the fallacious idea that
the trade union movement is to
blame for price increases. The
fundamental facts about prices
and inflation, and the causes of
inflation, are being recklessly
misrepresented. Mr. Donald Gor-
don declares that wage increases
of more than 10 cents an hour
are liable to bring on inflation.
Mr. Gordon’s arguments being
more threatening than convinc-
ing, Mr, Abbott, Minister of Na-
tional Defence ‘and Acting Min-
ister of Finance, is put forward
to commit the Dominion Depart-
ment of Finance to a completely
false presentation of the rela-
tionship between wages and in-
flation. (Mr. Gordon was then
Chairman of the Wartime Prices
and Trade Board.—Ed.) =

The government’s propaganda
misrepresents the sources of in-
fiation and thereby obscures the
real danger. The danger of in-
flation does not start with wages,

This can be illustrated by the
situation in Canada today. In
our country there are inflation-
ary factors at work, and they are
well known to every economist
who understands his business.
They are, basically, the tremend-

ous governmental borrowings ~

from the banks, the expansion
of commercial bank credit and
the long term trend towards in-
creasing velocity of circulation.
These are the decisive inflation-
ary factors, not wages. These
factors each emphasize the in-
flationary trend in Canadian
economy but they do not at the
present time constitute a seri-
ous immediate threat of inflation
unless, as a result of some
catastrophe, national production

is allowed to decline instead of -

being expanded tremendously as
is now possible. Certainly the
Chairman of the Wartime Prices
and Trade Board should know
these things and explain them
clearly to the people.

Our national production has
doubled; we must consume more
if full employment is to be main-
tained. But, the majority of our
people do not yet receive in-
comes big enough to enable
them to buy an adequate supply
of even the necessities of life.

(Written in 1947, reprinted in Our
Fight for Canada-—Selected
Writings 1923-1959)

The supreme task of our party
today is to help the people of
Canada to choose which shall
be Canada’s path in the postwar
world. We are the land in be-
tween the Soviet Union and the
main centre of world imperial-
ism. We are the land that can
become either a base for policies
of peace, or the base of opera-
tions for imperialism against the
land of socialism. We are the
land that can be rich and pros-
perous and become in a meas-

‘ure great, if we are willing to

throw in our lot with the people
of. the, old world in rebuilding
their economy’ and a: new, -way

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1973—PAGE 8

of life, by placing our credit and
our resources at the disposal of
those countries ready to trade
with us on equal terms. Canada
can become a bigger factor than
she has ever been before, or an
appendage of American imperial-
ism, completely subservient to
American policy and the first
victim in any war in which
America is engaged.

We can help people to under-
stand this, and in helping people
to understand this, by drawing
on all the rich heritage of Marx-
ist teaching and what Lenin
called the “accumulated wisdom
of mankind,” we can show the
people of Canada that Marxism
is the only science that points

. the road to..peace, to progress,
and to-socialism.. >. . ; :

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action, the monopolists will win
—by default.

The working class will have to
meet this test. No other class
will or can prevent subordination
of the intersets of the nation
to the ever-increasing demands
of predatory and insatiable mon-
opoly capital. Only the working
class can prevent emergence of
a neo-fascist regime at home as
part of the preparation for a war
of aggression abroad, in an in-
sane attempt to destroy the New
Cemocracy and re-establish the
world sway of finance-capital.
The fundamental need of the
working class is unity in politi-
cal action to strengthen democ-

racy and maintain peace.

Control, 1964)

The crisis of Confederation is
a crisis of Canadian democracy.
A democratic solution must be
completely just to each of the
two nations; this is a necessary
condition of their voluntary
union. The solution must also
establish a firm basis for the in-
dependence of Canada; this is a
necessary condition for our con-
tinued existence as a sovereign
two-nation state. The solution of
this problem would lay the
foundation of solving many eco-
nomic problems; its non-solu-
tion will cause plenty of addi-
tional economic headaches.

For our two peoples to each

enjoy the right to national self-
determination in a_ sovereign
federal state requires that we
Ourselves exercise sovereign
authority over the economy of
the country and over the course
of development. This is not the
case today.
The capitulation to U.S. imper-
ialism in 1947 has resulted in
the commanding heights of
Canadian economy passing into
foreign hands. To provide a firm
basis for our country’s inde-
pendence, the solution of the
censtitutional crisis through a
new constitution must include a
new, genuinely Canadian eco-
nomic policy based on the recog-
nition of French-Canadian na-
tional rights.

In fact, it demands that we
make up our minds. Do we want
Canada to be more and more

A party for —
the working class

(Written in 1958, reprinted in Our
Fight for Canada—Selected
Writings 1923-1959)

The working class needs its
party of Marxism-Leninism to
protect it against the insidious
danger of uncharted dependence
upon the pressure of current
events. Varying trends of popu-
lar opinion arising from transi-
tory conditions generate moods
of radicalism, depression, econ-
Omism and, at times, passivity
and even complacency, among
the masses. It is absolutely es-
sential that political conscious-
ness be developed which will
make the working class indepen-
dent of such mocds—politically
Superior to them.

The workers of Canada need
their party of Marxism-Lenin-
ism because it is only by the
work of such a party. that. the

) Working \ class, will free itself.

ae al

Workers’ gatherings from”
end of Canada to the other he
drawn inspiration and P?
direction from the astute analy"
given by Tim Buck.

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