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Whis latest picture of Tim Buck on his

._ weeent trip to China shows him being

Tim Buck

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preeted by Liu Shao-chi, vice-chairman of

Shao-Chi

the central committee, Communist Party
of China.

Slavic Canadian call

warns of H-war danger

A warning of “a world nuclear holocaust unless dis-
armament is begun, atomic weapons are banned and
destroyed, the cold war is ended” is contained in a call
issued by the Canadian Slay Committee last week. :

Buck honoured
al banquels

The 70th birthday of Tim
Buck, national leader of the
Communist Party of Cana-
da, is being celebrated in
Canada during January and
a series of banquets, meet-
ings and concerts are being
staged from coast to coast.

Heading off the celebra-
tions in B.C. is a gala ban-
quet and concert in Van-
couver Saturday, January
14, .7 p.m. at the Russian
People’s Home (600 Camp-
bell Ave.)

Other affairs planned are:
Nanaimo—banquet at Plaza
Hotel ballroom, January 15,
6 p.m.; Delta—Monday, Jan-
uary 16, 6 p.m., Kennedy
Hall; Vernon—January AY;
Elks Hall.

Each of these occasions
will feature a short address
by Tim Buck and specially
arranged musical program.
Tickets are at a premium in
most cases and people are
advised to act quickly if
they wish to avoid disap-
pointment. ;

The call was issued on the
occasion of Slav _ solidarity
month, which has keen ob-
served by progressive Slavic-
Canadians every January for
the past 12 years.

The call states further that:

“We, Canadians of Slavic
birth or origin, have the duty
to issue this warning. Not only
because both Canada, our
country, and our Slavic moth-
erlands are in peril of destruc-
tion, but also because sup-
posed. ‘liberation’ of our coun-
tries of origin, advocated by
small groups of desperate emi-
gres, is’ unscrupulously being
used as a reason for the reck-
less Western brink-of-war pol-
icy and to befog and poison the
atmosphere here in Canada.

It also calls for an end “‘to.

the cold war discrimination
against the Slavic people in
Canada, especially flagrant on
the part of the Department of
Citizenship and Immigration.

The call asks ‘why Hitler
troopers and war criminals
are welcomed with open arms
and granted citizenship while
anti-nazi immigrants who have
lived in Canada many years
are denied citizenship.

C* behalf of the member- |
ship of the Communist
Party of Canada and the many |
its friends and

supporters, the national exec-

thousands of

utive committee of the party
greetings
you, Comrade Tim Buck, on
your 70th birthday this Jan.
6. and pays tribute to your 30
years of leadership as the gen-
eral secretary of our party.
You have given 50 years of}
devoted outstanding service}
to the Canadian working class, |
Comrade Buck. You helped to}
found our party and have been |
part of its national leadership |
from the beginning. Your |
work as a Communist has |
been exemplary at all times,
and you have fully vindicated |
the trust which the party plac-
ed in you by electing you to
its highest office in 1930.
Your life and the ‘record of
your contribution to the cause
of eur country, the working}
class and ‘the communist fut-

extends warm to

i system

“te of mankind stand asa mo-

(ue

del and a challenge to all of
us.

You are a worker, Comrade
Buck, who from early youth

combined active work in the |

labor movement with diligent

study and dissemination of the |

teachings of scientific social-
ism. Marxism-Leninism has il-

luminated the world for you |

and you have devoted your
life to lighting the road ahead
for Canadian working class.

You early, grasped the hist-
oric essence of the epoch in
which we live and joined the
ranks of the fighters for soc-
ialism. You greeted the first
workers’ state immediately it
was established in Russia in
1917. You have fought for the
victory of socialism all your
life to this day when the new
is. triumphant. over
one-third of the earth and the
world victory of socialism is
inexorably drawing near. -

ducted public agitation against
| the imperialist war, through
|the four decades of the Com-
i'munist Party’s courageous
struggle against war and. fac-
|eism to the decisive battle at
the present time when the su-
periority of the forces of peace
-over the forces of war in the
| world make it possible to win

| complete and general disarm-
ament and remove the scourge
of war forever from the
earth. P

You helped to chart the
course of struggle for Canad-
ian independence from U.S.
imperialist domination which
today is being recognized by
the majority of the Canadian
people. You combine in, your
work the principle of working

highest patriotism, devotior to
the national interests of our
| people.

{ You ‘have fought. with -the

You have always fought for | workers all the way, Comrad¢

the cause of peace; Comrade
Buck, from ithe days during

| Buck,

|for the unity of the »working:
World War 1-when you -con- |

consistently - werking

class and for independent la-

class internationalism with the}

por political action, and hold-
ing up the banner of auton-
omy for the Canadian trade
unions.

You have always fought for
the preservation and exten-
sion of democracy, for the
workers’ right to organize and
strike, for freedom of speech

and the press, against every

reactionary measure. You
have -supported the struggles’
of the colonial and oppressed
peoples for their freedom, and
you have also consistently’
combatted every manifestation
of ehauvinism and discrimin-

ation in our own country. En--

tering the arena of parliamen-
tary action from its early.
years — with you as one of its
standard-bearers in many elec-
tions—the party strives to win:
a peaceful transitien to social-
ism which ‘will. bring the wid-
est and highest possible dem-
ocracy to Canada.

You have helped to fashion
our party . along. these ~linés)
Comrade Tim, and our \party
chas helped to make» you the
great-Communist that you are,

January 13, 1961—PACIFIC .TRIBUNE—Page 2

RIBUTE TO TIM BUCK ON HIS 70th BIRTHDAY

Greetings from National Executive, CPofC

Paying our tribute to you on
your 70th birthday and the
30th anniversary of your work
as our general secretary, we
call on the members of the:
Communs!, Party and the
Young Communist League to
learn from your example. We
call on new thousands of
workers to join and build our
party, to read and disseminate
its press and literature and to
take part in the greatest en-
deavor in Canadian and world
history — the winning of last-
ing peace, the triumph of de-
mocracy, and the achievement
of communism, when exploit-
ation of man by man, Oppres-
sion, war, poverty and ignor-
ance will be swept away and
a life worthy of human bhe-
ings will be built in our coun-
try and on the earth.
ae ae

We wish you good health,
Comrade Tim Buck, and many
more years of life and work,

‘so that in the struggles ahead

we shall continue to enjoy
your wise counsel -and:comrad-
ely helping hand.