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the name of socialism to oppose
lines

This then is the purpose of
the CPC (ML) entering this elec-
tion.

All their childish rhetoric
against “imperialism” against
“fascist,” ‘capitalists,’ etc. is
stripped away and their main
target is exposed. The main
enemy is not imperialism and
capitalism at all, it is the NDP
and the Communist Party.

From their own mouths comes
proof of what the Communist
Party has said since it first be-
came apparent that the CP (ML)
intended to nominate its entire
membership to contest the elec-
tions.

This action is an attack from
the ultra left, joining with that
from the right against the pro-
gressive and democratic forces

in Canada. It joins with the

parties of monopoly against the
only meaningful alternative be-
fore the people on October 30—
to elect a large progressive block
of NDP and Communists to
Parliament.

Their role is simply one of
confusion, attempting to pres-
ent a grotesque caricature of
communism to the people to.
turn them away from commun-
ism and at the same time add
their ‘voice to the anti-Soviet,
anti-communist clamor from the
right, to disorient the working
class and democratic forces.

That they will not succeed in
their evil intentions is obvious
but it is necessary nonetheless

-to root out totally any credence

they may have amongst left vot-
ers disillusioned with the capi-
talist system, and to see that
not a single vote is deflected
from Communist candidates
where they are running, or the
NDP in other ridings.

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They're after blood

The Conservative candidates are now
openly out to destroy the Unemploy-
ment Insurance. The Liberals talk of
“cleaning out” those who they think
shouldn’t be getting it, but the Tories

~ want to change it in such a way as to

destroy it. The Social Credit jackals to
the lions of big monopoly call for im-
prisonment of those unemployed who
they think shouldn’t be getting insur-
ance benefits,

These sawdust Caesars talk as though
unemployment insurance was some-
thing the rich granted out of the good-
ness of their heart. They get indignant
that “their” generosity is “abused” by
people who won’t work for scab wages!

Know then, that Canada was without

unemployment insurance during the
Hungry 1930s, that the Communist
Party headed the battle for non-
contributory unemployment insurance,
that there were a thousand battles
fought, thousands of people suffered
police brutality, imprisonment, etc., in
the fight to put an end to Tory R. B.
Bennett’s “pogey” and “slave camps.”

Wily Willy King later brought in
contributory unemployment insurance
as a “cushion” for future economic
crises. The funds that are now being
used for unemployment insurance come
out of the workers’ pay envelopes over
the years. The rest, whether contribut-
ed directly by industry or via taxes by
the state, also come from the workers’
labor.=3 =

The Tories of the 1970s are back with
Bennett of the 1930s. They’re out to
“get” the workers, employed and un-
employed, and for the same aim—Ben-
nett called it “blasting our way into
foreign markets.”

Blast them instead on Oct. 30.

Ethics of ‘work ethic’

It is nauseating to listen to two mil-
lionaires, the leaders of the Conser-
vative and Liberal parties, bewail the
“unwillingness of Canadians to work”!

They are motivated purely by moral
considerations (the Simon Legree
type), they say. Stanfield moans that
because of unemployment insurance
Canadian workers are forgetting how
to work. Both he and Trudeau weep
that our moral fibre is being eroded and
we are loosing the “work ethic.”

Here are two men who never worked
in their lives, all hot and bothered that
Canadians might not have a proper
reverence for the nobility of labor if
they and their families aren’t starved
into it...

Here are representatives of a social
system where the economy is run by the
monopolies, which own and operate the
country’s industries and which alone
decide whether there is work or not,
blaming the evils of that system on its
victims! |

Who is unwilling to labor?

What work ethic?

Who built this country up out of the
wilderness anyway? The Stanfields and
Trudeaus, or the working people?

- Who is producing all those goods that
“are choking. the warehouses? The Stan-
fields and Trudeaus, or the workers of __ .

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hand and brain, the farmers, the com-
mon people?

Whose fault is it that a young gen-
eration is growing up which since leay-
ing school has not been given employ-
ment? Is it the youth? Or the Stan-
fields and Trudeaus and their bosses?

Surely it must have taken all of Stan-
field’s “guts” and Trudeau’s “gall” to
blame the people for what they and
their system are doing to Canada and
Canadians.

Guts and fists

John Diefenbaker thirsts for blood.
He says the Conservatives must take
off the gloves and “show the fist.” Rob-
ert Stanfield shouts that he has the
“guts” to impose a wage freeze. The
language is strictly out of the worst
type of Hollywood chiller-diller and
recalls another Tory leader, Prime Min-
ister R. B, Bennett, who in the Great
Depression declared he would impose
“the iron heel of ruthlessness” in sup-
pressing opposition and forcing the un-
employed to accept starvation and the
employed to sweat at sub-standard
wages.

Oh yes, Bennett actually did bring
down the iron. heel, his lieutenants out-
lawed the Communist Party in Ontario,
his police arrested thousands, his courts
deported hundreds. Police clubs banged
on people’s heads from coast to coast.
But Bennett was beaten by the people,
first in their great solidarity with the
unemployed struggles, farmers’ battles
and workers’ strikes, and eventually at
the polls. At the last he had a change
of heart, came forward with promises
of reform, but that didn’t help him. He
was sent packing.

_Like a true Canadian Tory, he imme-
diately repaired to England, was given
a title (some wag suggested he should
be called Count Breadlines of Canada),
sat in the House of Lords—and died in
his bath.

Stanfield and Diefenbaker, like Ben-
nett before them and still other Tory
chiefs before him aren’t kidding. They

really do want to demonstrate their

“guts,” to “take off the gloves,” to
“show the fist” and bring down “the
iron heel of ruthlessness.”

They would be beaten in the long run
by the Canadian people as Bennett
was, but there would be really tough
years first. So it’s better to beat them
at the polls now than later.

Whom does it help?..

Leaders of the Parti Quebecois and
the Confederation of National Trade
Unions in Quebec have told workers to
spoil their ballots in the coming elec-
tion. Why? In the case of Chartrand
and other CNTU chiefs, who are suffer-
ing from anarcho-syndicalism, that
would seem to be the logical conclusion

from anarchist “principles’—but it is.

extremely bad politics for Quebec
workers, especially since there are
workers’ candidates in the field. As for
the Parti Quebecois, how much is it a
demonstration of separatism and how
much a move that leaves the field

_ open to the Conservatives and ultra-

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