ELECTION AFTERMATH ppeal to Swedish labor: unite on action program The Swedish Communist Party’s executive has published an action program directed to the Swedish labor movement, along with comments on the re- cent municipal elections - in which the party gained over 150 new seats on local governments. The meeting of the executive, held Sept. 22, took note of the formidable gains made by the party, but also noted the simul- taneous setback for the labor movement as a whole, since those who turned away from tae Social Democrats did not all move to the left, but some turn- ed back to support capitalist parties. The Communist Party register- ed the largest gains of any party when compared to elections of 1962 and 1964. At the same time the Social Democrats lost more votes than were gained by the Communists, with the result that the total vote for the two work- ing-class parties dropped. The Communist Party has called for a deep-going appraisal of the politics of the respective parties of the working class. The basic point for the Social Demo- cratic Party of Sweden has been its collusion with- the private sector of the economy in terms of government policies. It is im- possible, however, says the Com- _ munist Party, to build a society that corresponds to the socialist ideals and aims of the working class, if the monopolies and big business is at the same time per- ‘Bring our sons home’ U.S. women deman Morally and spiritually — as well as in terms of its mounting dollar cost on the home front— the women in the auxiliary of the International Longshore- mens’ and Warehousemen’s Union (ILWU) in the United States are fed up with the war in Vietnam. This was underscored in re- ports of officers, individual board - members, and the major policy _ statement adopted at that union’s _ Auxiliaries Executive Board meeting held in Longview, Wash- ington, recently. The statement said in part: “If we pursued peace as vigor- ously as we have pursued wage increases, American labor today would not share in the guilt of a rich, powerful and predomin- atly white nation using its over- whelming military might to op- the non-white people of - Vietnam . . mitted to retain its power and control of the commanding heights within the economic life of the country. The Swedish Communist Party consider that several current problems—such as housing and land speculation, regional poli- tics and democracy within the enterprises and factories — de- pend for their solution on deci- sive intervention by the govern- ment on the side of democratic solutions now, and within cur- rent power and ownership rela- tions. The Communist Party has called on the labor movement to work out a socialist strategy which clearly projects the need and possibilities of fundamental change in the social structure and framework of Swedish so- ciety. To show the working-class movement its power to act, in order to speedily regain lost positions and lay the basis for victory in the 1968 parliamen- - tary elections, it is necessary and essential that the present parliamentary majority — Social Democrats and Communist—im- mediately proceed to work out and carry forward a minimum program of action. Such a pro- gram, says the Swedish Com- munist Party, must above all be directed toward action on those questions where the elec- tors are critical of the govern- ment’s policy and which there- fore play a vital role in the out- come of the pending elections. ~ UNION AUXILIARY ACTS FOR PEACE As its contribution towards such a program, the Swedish Communist Party has submitted - a 10-point program’ which, among other things, calls for in- creased housing construction in big urban centres, a stop to the rapid rise in prices and rents, economic betterment for the low income groups and the under- privileged, a more equitable dis- tribution of income and wealth accumulation, and much more attention to foreign policy and - international working-class soli- darity in the battle for indepen- dence, democracy and world peace. On the latter point, the Swe- dish Communist Party demands a declaration by the Tage Er- lander administration against the war in Vietnam and for United States withdrawal. It also wants recognition for the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the establishment of an offi- cial contact with the National Liberation Front in South Viet- nam. The party says the working- class movement is the greatest power in the land and that, given unity between the Social Demo- cratic and Communist parties, with a majority in the two chambers of the Swedish Riks- dag, every possibility exists for a great forward thrust in Swe- dish politics in favor of the two working-class parties in the 1968 elections. around the world | A SO-CALLED “White power rally” called by U.S. nazi leadet — George Lincoln Rockwell in San Francisco fizzled out when thou sands of counter-demonstrators turned out and prevented the fas cists from speaking. Rockwell and his 21 “storm troopers” wefé finally escorted from the area by police . . . The number of jobless — in Japan during the first months of 1966 was 500,000 an increas? of 80,000 over the same period last year. x Ke x AS A RESULT of the widespread protests the I Three (three U.S. soldiers imprisoned for their refusal to ..sht i Vietnam) are no longer in solitary confinement. However, they ate still subject to harsher rules than the other prisoners; they are still forced to stand all day and are allowed no reading material except the Bible. : 3 * * tata GUS HALL, general secretary of the Communist Party of United States, at a press conference in London, England, challeged the popular usage of the phrase ‘‘American war” in Vietnam. ‘00d | Ny atria majority. of Americans are against this war, he said. He describes : it-as the ‘“‘most unpopular and unwanted war in history”... Jewish writers, Joseph Agnon, of Israel, and Nelly Sachs, a Get man-born authoress were awarded the Nobel prize for literature. * * * DURING the one week of Oct. 3-9, more than two million workers in Italy took part in strikes. Taking part in the strikes aly three trade union centers acting unitedly ... The Red Cross Society : of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam has sent a letter to Red Cross and Red Crescent and Red Lion and Sun societies #” over the world asking them to condemn U.S. aggression in viel nam. : IN THE BIGGEST political strike in Japan since the war, neat ly a million Japanese workers stopped work on Oct. 21 to protes the U.S. aggression in Vietnam. The strike, called by two trac union centres, was preceded by a series of mass meetings and de * * * aN monstrations all over the country ... Two delegations of Cuban doctors are attending two scientific conferences in Washington: # pan-American conference on sanitation. and an international CO™ ference on nephrology. : “oo * * A MAJOR DEAL that may amount to more than $1 billion ove a 20-year period may be signed soon between Italy and the Sovié Union. Under the agreement. the two countries would build # 300-mile pipeline from the Soviet Union to Trieste, in Northeasté Italy, through which Italy would import 100 billion cubic feet ? Soviet natural gas . . . A strike of miners in South Africa ha entered its second week. They have been joined by miners of Tran® | vaal. The strike is against a proposed government bill aimed at oul: lawing strikes. — ‘The great moral question of our time is one of responsibility as citizens and voters for acts committed in our name.” Norma Wyatt, secretary of the board, in reviewing the ac- tivities of the ILWU auxiliaries for the past year, noted that “our main task has been to sup- port a movement for world peace, to bring our sons and grandsons home from Asia.” “We cannot meet the chal- lenge of Watts, Chicago — or Vietnam by sitting comfortably at home listening to television ... The ‘fire next time’ could be On our own doorstep.” President Valerie Taylor scor- ed war costs, and said at home these have meant “rapidly ris- ing prices for consumer goods and services ... War orders or the lack of them determine the local economy. November. 4, 1 966—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 8 “In Oregon, the high cost of money has virtually demolished the housing market. Nationally, the war has meant cutbacks in aid to education and the anti- poverty program... It has also created a climate in which some Congressmen are asking people to. give up their right to dissent.” She listed costs of the war as “about $2 billion a month. Mul- tiply this by one year, two years or even ten . . . General Max- well Taylor sees no limit to U.S. troop commitments.” The auxiliary leader charged that in Vietnam “the art of kill- ing has been automated to the point where it is now. possible to practice genocide ... a term with which we became familiar when Hitler was burning people in gas ovens. Our use of napalm on human beings is the same thing in the eyes of the world.” On the issue of civil rights the policy statement declared: : : tral nation.” “We can — if we give more than lip service to democracy — petition our government to send conscripts to Mississippi rather than Saigon. In our own South, even as we sit here in this safe hall, people are risking their lives to guarantee the simple right to vote.” against napalm, f boycott of all products manu factured by its maker, the D0 Chemical Co. j ce @ Voted to return the AUS tralian ‘peace apron,” sent the auxiliaries by watersid The policy statement pledged the auxiliaries — as first steps in their interim peace program — to contribute toward the res- cue of Vietnamese children burned by napalm. Pictures and newspapers clip’ pings depicting the garment? Canada will ‘accompany parcel. ; The meeting also: e@ Bestowed honorary men- bership. on Mrs. Linus Pauling, wife of the noted physicist and Nobel peace prize winner. factory in the USSR. © Urged auxiliary particiP® tion in peace committees, 4" called on auxiliary leaders arrange public forums for peae speakers.” ® Applauded Canadian affili- ates for their “noble efforts to keep that great country a nev’ e Backed the petition driv? and urged * workers’ wives in Australi@ — peace travels in this country an | * Voted to send a friendshi? — gift to the Red Banner text ?