Mest 4 “My kid brother says back home they’re closing schools for lack of money.” ROC ins eae 4290 Sun-Times iy OPEN FORUM Bob Towle, Vancouver PT Press director, writes: How Much more must we do to achieve some of the things the PT is fighting for? Do you know that the average old age Pensioner, after paying rent has about $45 to pay for food, - Clothing and incidentals. _ Another. major. battle is for adequate medical care. In Van- j Couver alone we are short 14,000 ~ hospital beds. I know because I had to go to the hospital in Sept. and it took weeks to get a bed. The housing question is - appalling. In Vancouver we are about 25,000 units short and the Shortage is increasing. In regard to education, 69,000 a Woke Workers Benevolent Assn. 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In introducing Perlo, who is a well known author and lecturer, trade union economist Emil Bjarnson said that the Russian revolution of 1917 is the most significant event of the 20th century. Perlo, who was in the city as the guest speaker at the gathering, made it clear -that indeed world ‘shaking changes have been wrought since the day the Russian workers took their future into their own hands. In 1940 he said, Russia was 39 years behind the United States in manhour production; today, despite the ravages .of World War Two, she is but 6 years behind. The gap is closing, and the U.S.A. is much aware of the U.S. capitalists have had to make some conces- sions to the just demands of working people, and have made efforts to keep recurring recessions less drastic. Neverthe- less, increasing tensions, class conflicts and long-range insta- bility of the capitalist system continues to increase. He foresaw little change because the U.S. economy is geared to the benefit of Pentagon bosses, oil trusts, and reac- tionary political interests. Perlo urged Canadians to increase pressure on their government to build two-way trade with socialist nations. It would give Canada an essential leverage in dealing with the United States, he maintained. The American economist pointed out that the giant strides made by the Soviet Union in the field of education and science has been a great boon in forcing American authorities to open Peocervevecccsccceceeeceesssok POVALTINE : e CAFE t 3 251 EASTHASTINGS 3 3 Vancouver, B.C. : QUALITY SERVICE § doors to a growing number of students. Yet scientific knowl- edge in his country is misused, he said, while in the socialist nations a network of universi- ties, laboratories, and research institutions built in the past few decades are searching for new ways to benefit mankind. Perlo dealt sharply with those critics of the Soviet Union who maintain that her aid to National Liberation movements has been inadequate. Half of the industry in China since Mao became president was supplied by the U.S.S.R., he said. The aid ceased at the behest of the Chinese govern- ment. Every industrial and military installation in Cuba is supplied by socialist nations. Eighty-five percent of the military and other needs of the beleaguered Vietnamese people originated in the — socialist nations. Technicians and military personnel from newly _ inde- pendent countries are given training in the Soviet Union. Peruvians, he said, sent a trade mission ‘to Moscow before nationalizing the U.S. owned oil industry in their country. The progressive forces of Bolivia, Chile, Egypt and Algeria know they can rely for assistance from the Soviet Union when the need arises. Thus the imperialists are losing more and more battles as- times goes on. Twenty-four years have passed without a major world war, Perlo said, and the chance of avoiding it now are better than at any time in the past ten years. Victor Perlo In the last 50 years the govern- ment of the Soviet Union has fought consistently for world disarmament. They have year after year made disarmament proposals in the United Nations, advocating concrete measures for armament control. Now a new round of disaramament talks are underway, with possi- bilities of success greater than ever before. He foresaw a slower growth rate in the U.S.A: in the future. The war in Vietnam had caused widespread inflation to the point where food prices had increased 27 percent. Interest rates have been hiked so that today 22 - percent of every paycheck goes out to pay various forms of interest. There has been a rapid strengthening of monopolies in the U.S. economy, and mergers - are several times greater than at any comparable period of time. These conditions will lead inevitably to a breakdown of the system, he said, and socialism will take its place. In answer to a question from the floor, as to the social dif- ferences between the capitalist and socialist nations, Perlo answered that in his visits to socialist countries he had never seen poor people, while the capitalist nations were a paradox of very rich and very poor. He told of visiting a factory in East Germany where modern nursery facilities cared for 400 children of working mothers, and a camp. maintained by the same factory workers which provided holiday facilities for some 700 children. “Where in America would you find a factory which provided such amenities ffor its employees?’’, he asked. Special guests at the anni- versary celebration were members of the crew of a Soviet ship now in port of Vancouver, and the splendid mass choir of the Federation of Russian- Canadians who sang three songs for the appreciative audience. 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