like a dark cloud over the ld. Whether we'll be alive to- orrow hangs in the balance. ©ntinued subservience to Ge-in-USA’’ policies is a dis- ous course dragging us dan- ane close to a war of ex- mation; extending USS. oo of every facet of our —» and robbing us of our es Standard and security. ~tking people of British Co- bia want, and CAN HAVE, Yernment responsive to their *: For the first time since Credit came to power in _ 4 realizable alternative is ming to emerge. Everything S to be directed to achieve vu Possibility. Nemployment has reached Ree proportions. Employer Up, mechanization, and Mation all take their toll © corporation profits soar. et and Diefenbaker have inbia hands to force the Co- Re River treaty upon us, _Monopolists are moving to oi door to our lumber ‘. — upon which the econ- of B.C. depends. Smmon Market threatens tain’s entry into the Euro. 000 Condemn US. Blockade stug Meeting of over 5000 i €nts last Wednesday ard five university pro- oo condemn, in vary- degrees, the U.S. block- aa Cuba and agreed to Cularize a petition to Time Minister Diefen- er, came Petition calls on the adian government to € its influence to “insist” ue international problems Tesolved by negotiations Not by threats of war 8ctions that could lead War. to shut off the traditional markets for many of our products. Farm incomes have fallen sharply. Pensioners and those on fixed incomes face acute hardships, as living costs jump. Big business, aided by the Bennett govern- ment’s passage of Bills 42 and 43, has launched a fierce attack on the trade unions. Faced as they are, by maturing economic crisis, the monopolists are resort- ing to every means to cripple the trade unions to pave the way for another cutback in the peo- ple’s living standards. ELECT NDP GOVT. In these critical days, great responsibility rests upon the labor movement of B.C. to ensure that this assault on the peoples wel- fare by U.S.-Canadian monopoly capital and their Bennett govern- ment is defeated. The Communist Party’s answer to big business’s challenge is an appeal for unity of the people to replace the Socreds by a gov- ernment responsive to the peo- ple’s needs — that will speak out sharply from B.C. for new poli- cies, peace and Canadian inde- pendence. Last Monday NDP national leader T. C. Douglas won an overall majority in Burnaby-Co- quitlam as a. result of his out- spoken challenge of the Columbia betrayal, the bringing of nuclear weapons to Canada and austerity. And, while Federal votes don’t necessarily reflect provincial political trends, it should be re- * proposed: called that ‘the Socreds_ only polled six percent more votes than the CCF-NDP in the last provincial election. Neither should it be forgotten that the CCF had been the official opposi- tion in B.C. for a quarter century. To ignore the fact that nothing short of the broadest possible unity of all labor, farm and pro- gressive forces will be required to oust Social Credit, would con- stitute an unforgivable betrayal of the working people. That is why the Communist Party has to dedicate its ener- gies to achieve genuine, ALL-IN, labor-farmer unity to elect an NDP government to the next Legislature; to limit the nomina- tion of Communist candidates to the minimum necessary to make known and fight for the program and policy of our Party; and in other constituencies to work to achieve the broadest possible unity to help ensure election of the candidates of the NDP. NEED UNITED ACTION The starting point is united action around our immediate needs. In this the fight for peace and a decisive break with U.S.- Canadian monopoly domination of our domestic and foreign affairs is indivisable from the fight to win urgent economic, social and other needs. The struggle for ALL-IN unity in action will be decisive, for it is obvious that an_ effective, realizable alternative will not be realized so long as large, influ- ential unions like the Fishermen, Mine Mill, Civic Workers, and others, including the Commuist Party, who agree with and want to work for labor’s program are arbitrarily excluded. While the Communist Party has its own program — projecting ~ the parliamentary road_ to establishment of a socialist state in Canada — this should not pre- vent our tackling together cur immediate common problems and achieving the aims we _ share about peace, jobs, anti-labor leg- islation, municipal taxes, auster- ity, medicare, housing, pensions, social and labor legislation. Anti-unity, anti-Communist pol- icies only play into the hands of the big business enemies of the NDP, and undermines the fighting capacity of the labor movement. The Communist Party extends warm greetings to the delegates to the NDP Provincial Convention and wishes every success in its efforts to make possible the elec- tion of an NDP government in this monopoly-ridden _ province. Let’s unite to put an end to war, to oppression and exploitation at home and abroad. With such a policy and deter- mination to reach out and win the united backing of all those look- ig for an effective alternative to the policies of big business and their Socred, Liberal and Tory agents, the NDP cculd well be- come the next government of British Columbia. B.C. Executive, Communist Party of Canada Expect 1,000 at huge Ottawa peace rally A mass peace lobby of all members of Parliament in Ottawa is being planned iby the Canadian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament as S. author to speak n ‘Cuba from within Cuba from Within”, is the title of the speech to be de- Te Ay ety Prof. J. P. Moray on Friday, Nov. 9, at the Pen- Itorium, 339 West Pender St., 8:00 p.m. ae POnsored © in the » Spain. ita ete by the Canadian-Cuban Friendship Com- mittee, Prof, Moray is well equip- ped to speak on Cuba. He has just returned after a two-year stay in Cuba. where he did research on Cuba on a founda-. tion grant from 1960-61. During 1961-62 he taught political science at the University of Havana. His published early in works of his include, “Pride of State’ and “From Yalta to Dis- armament.” i A. graduate of States Naval Academy in 1960, Prof. Moray then attended Har- dy vard Law School from which he ed in 1948. For five years he was an assistant N U.S. Embassy on Cuba will be 1963. Other book the United aval in Asuncion, Paraguay, and ia Was ‘a visiting professor of Law and Speech at the Boy ot California at Berkley from 1957-1960, follow: ‘ch he spent the next two years in Cuba. Sena ge eag oe RS wo : v highlight of a peace week organized by the CCND from Nov. 5-11, preceding Remem- berance Day. Aim of the Ottawa lobby is to get at least 1,000 peace supporters to visit every MP to seek their support for the CCND’s program of no nu- clear arms for Canada. Pre- sent plans call for the lobby to take place Nov. 8, 9 and 10. The lobby is expected to assume even greater imvort- ance in view of the serious world ‘crisis and the danger that the Diefenbaker govern- ment may use the crisis as a pretext to announce a decision to acquire nuclear weapons The groups want an inter- view with Diefenbaker in an effort to persuade him to in- struct the Canadian delega- tion at the U.N. to present a three-part program for peace. The CCND aims to contact churches, community groups and other organizations for support of its peace week campaign, All those interested in the Ottawa lobby or other aspects of the peace week are urged to contact the CCND at 329 Bloor St. West, Toronto. 'U.S. in act of war’-Tory MP Tory member of Parlia- ment, Terry Nugent of Ed- SSUES Peace March on Saturday A march to save peace will be held in downtown Vancouver this coming Sat- urday starting at 1:30 p.m. Marchers will assemble at the Shelly Bldg.. 119 West Pender St., and is spon- sored by the B.C. Peace Council. taf tye Pah 1 ER ge LE? monton, declared in the House of Commons Tuesday that if the United States car- ries out its threat to fire on Cuba-bound freighters it will be committing unprovoked aggression and an act of war. He said Canada must not associate itself with such an act and urged that Canada tell President Kennedy this and urge him to hold his fire. Tory cabinet ministers, shaken by Nugent’s statement, rushed to silence him in the House. b===es === Oct.26,.1962—PACIFIC TRI et’s act for peace, to break monopoly grip, and elect the NDP in B.C.’ In this open letter to the New Democratic Party Conven- ‘on, meeting this weekend in New Westminster, the B.C. Com- Unist Party urges united action of all those who want to end ted domination and elect an NDP government. Condemn U.S. threat fo peace NDP LEADER TOMMY DOU- GLAS, fresh from his over- whelming victory in Burnaby- Coquitlam, this week con- demned “Yankee Imperial- ism.” He said the U.S. block- ade was a violation of inter- national law and that “this could lead to an incident that in turn could lead to a nu- clear war.” He said it should not be for- gotten that for the last 15 years the West has been ring- ing the Soviet Union with nu- clear bases and airports from which any part of the couniry could be bombed. ' DR. LINUS PAULING, noted U.S. Scientist and 1954 Nobel Prize winner, wired President Kennedy immediately follow- ing his speech, strenously ob- jecting to his ‘‘war-like act.” He said the president's policy “can only be described as an act of the utmost irrespon- sibility.” BERTRAND RUSSELL, said this week anyone who loves life should “get on his feet and demonstrate our demand to live and let live.” UNE—Page 3 = Seas