TOM MORRIS, 30, managing editor
of the youth magazine Scan, has been
nominated by the Communist Party
in London, Ont., to contest the London
riding.

WILLIAM C. BEECHING, 52, Saskatche-
wan leader of the Communist Party,

‘who will contest the Regina con-

stituency. He served overseas during
World War Il.

MORRISON ASKS:

"Where is voice of Victoria's
Liberal candidate on peace.”

W. S. E. Morrison, Communist Party candidate

for Victoria, said last week that in the 1963 election
campaign Liberal Leader Pearson said that if elected

he would re-negotiate the question of nuclear arms on

Canadian soil.

asked Morrison.

cans in Vietnam.

“He has defaulted on this statement. How many
promises being made by him now will he renege on?”

Morrison said that this “me too” diplomat went
along with the Americans in April of this year when
he stated that he supported the aims of the Ameri-

“Hearing the voice of Pope Paul VI for peace
and the voice of the majority of Canadians demanding
withdrawal of American troops, where is the voice of
the Liberal candidate in Victoria?” asked Morr'son.

Trail union adopts
election program

Trail Local 480 of the Mine
Mill and Smelterworkers Union
is swinging into the federal elec-
tion campaign in a big way. A
recent membership meeting of
the local adopted an official
political program and decided on
an all-Party political forum in
the Trail Junior High School,
Nov. 4.

The 15-point program covers
a number of major questions af-
fecting the members ofthe union,
It urges that Canada be kept out
of the Vietnam war and that we
work towards a peaceful settle-
ment of the war, It also urges
that nuclear weapons be removed
from Canadian soil and declares
that Canada should stay out of
the Organization of American
States,

The program alsotakes a stand
against training of German troops
in Shilo and hits out against any
foreign country interfering with
Canada’s trade practise by in-

fluencing companies operating in
Canada,

Local 480 members urge that
legislation be enacted by the
government to fully protect em-
ployee benefits in private pension
plans; and calls for adoption of
a national Medicare plan as pro=
posed by the Hall Commission,

It urges full bargaining rights
for civil servants and opposes
compulsory arbitration legisla-
tion, The program also calls for
instituting the Fowler report on
broadcasting and television and
asks for strong legislation aimed
at eliminating water and air pole
lution,

In a number of sections on
natural resources the program
opposes the unnecessary export
of primary raw materials, and
urges establishment of secondary
industry for the processing of
raw products in Canada,

An extensive federal program
to wipe out the injustices and in-
equalities practised against Na-
tive Indian people was urged
Friday night by Charles Caron,
Communist candidate for Coast-
Capilano, at a meeting of election
workers in North Vancouver,
“It?s time the people of Canada
demanded action to end the
shameful treatment of Canada’s
original people,” said Caron,

He charged that successive
Liberal and Conservative gov-
ernments over the years have
been responsible for the plight
that many of B.C.’s 40,000 Indian
people face. Some small steps
have been taken to improve the
situation, he said, but inthe main
the federal authorities continue
their discriminatory and unjust
policies,

Drawing attention to the Indian
Claims Bill (Bill C-128) intro-
duced last June in Parliament by
the Liberal government, Caron
said some provisions of this Bill
continue the long-standing in-
justices against the Indian people,

Caron said the Bill, action on
which has been delayed by the
federal election, should have a
provision acknowledging and

guaranteeing the aboriginal title

of the Indian tribes to their land,
He said the onus should be on
the federal government to estab-
lish in every case that the land
concerned was obtained fairly
and honestly and that sufficient

Native Indians’— Caron

and fair compensation was paid.

“The place to begin to wage the
war on poverty,” said Caron, “is
by starting with that part of our
community which has suffered
the most and whose conditions of
life need immediate and drastic
improvement.” OM

Caron said that among the
measures needed are broader de=
development programs toinclude
improved housing and employ-

ment possibilities as well as pro-
vision of capital to help com= —
munity expansion and creation of
local industries,

He said it was essential that
discrimination in employment
cease and that aid be given t0
the Indian people to diversify
their economic activities. This
must include a widely expande?
education as well as:job-traininé
program,

intendent, Bill Grant.

have Grant reinstated,

‘Laing must act’—Stewart

Arthur Laing, Minister of Northern Affairs has been asked
to intercede in the celebrated case of ex- Yukon Indian Super

William Stewart, Communist candidate in Vancouver South,
has asked the Northern Affairs Minister to use his influence to

Stewart drew Laing’s attention to evidence shown on the | —

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T.V. Show “This Hour Has Seven Days” that there are hundreds —
of abandoned Department of National Defense Houses situated -

in the precise area where Indians are forced to live in hovels. q

It was Grant’s admirable and courageous efforts to help «;
the Indians solve this problem that led to his dismissal and a

criminal conviction,

“Laing should act immediately to have these houses made
available to the Indians in the area while at the same time
seeking the reinstatement of Robin Hood Grant,”

Stewart also suggested that if Laing needed any further |

insight into the problems of Canadian Indians he could well
investigate the plight of the people on the Musqueam Indian
Reserve in his own riding.

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‘Defeat drive by old parties
to win a majority in House’ —

«The aim of big business in
this election is to re-establish
the monopoly of the old parties

and to put into power a majority E

government able to carry through
policies directed against the
people,” said a statement issued
from a meeting of the national
executive of the Communist Party
with provincial leaders held in
Toronto, October 2 and 3,

The statement said: “Monopoly _
capital desires such a majority
government in order to weaken
the progressive movement, and to
slow down the reform program,
adopt deflationary policies, cur-
tail government expenditures,

T. C. DOUGLAS, who is to be honored
at a banquet and dance at the PNE
Showmart this coming Saturday, said
last week ‘‘we would be making a
great mistake if we joined the OAS.”’
He said the U.S. was “pulling the
strings” and that Canado must pursue
an independent foreign policy.

and to have a free hand to carry
through tough legislative action
against the workers and far-
mers,”

It also charged that “import-
ant sections of Canadian and U.S,
monopoly capital seek a majority
government in order to meet the
demands of the Johnson adminis-
tration for Canadian participation
in the Vietnam.war and the Organ-
ization of American States for
control over Canadian water re-
sources, and for a trade policy

of greater integration with the
GS.”

The Communist Party state:
ment said that “to defeat this
drive to majority government
the interests of monopoly, } ;
essential that the labor and dem”
cratic movements of this count”)
bend every effort to the electio?
of a large bloc of progressi¥
M.Ps, In putting forward the ©
for the election of such a PY”
gressive bloc, our party ma
clear that this includes the NP
and Communist Party.”

“WHAT'S AT STAKE
NOVEMBER 8?”

COMMUNIST PARTY NATIONAL LEADER

William Kashtan|

Et clam trims ES
With Candidates Charles Caron
and William Stewat

Mon., Oct. 25, 8 p.m

PENDER AUDITORIUM

COME AND HEAR THE COMMUNIST VIEWPOINT —

October 15, 1965—PACIFIC T

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