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J. FRED WILSON, active
in community affairs, staff
writer for the weekly labor
paper, Pacific Tribune,
candidate in Vancouver
East.

HOMER STEVENS, for-
mer president of the
United Fisherman and Al-
lied Workers Union and
presently a UFAWU trus-
tee, candidate in Rich-
mond-South Delta.

JACK PHILLIPS, veteran
trade unionist and pre-
sently the British Colom-

bia organizer of the

Communist Party, candi-
date in Vancouver-
Kingsway.

JIM BEYNON, 31 year-old

shipyard worker, active
member of the Marine
Workers and Boilermak-
ers’ Union, candidate in
Mission-Port Moody.

VIOLA SWANN, commun-
ity and peace activist, a
founding member of the
Surrey Memorial Hospi-
tal, candidate in Frazer
Valley West.

- ERIC WAUGH, shipyards

worker, active member of
Marine Workers and
Boilermakers’ Union,
Local 1, candidate in
North Vancouver-
Saitewt

ERNIE KNOTT, wood- ”

worker, member of the In-
ternational Woodworkers
of America and IWA dele-
gate to Nanaimo Labor
Council, ‘candidate in
Cowichan-Malahat-The
islands.

FRED BIANCO, shipyards
welder-fitter, long-stand-
ing member of the Marine
Workers and Boilermak-
ers’ Union, candidate th
Surrey-White Rock-North
Delta.

‘MARK MOSHER, trade -

unionists and active
community worker,
served 10 years on the

Alberni Board of School .

Trustees, candidate in
Nanaimo-Alberni.

SY PEDERSON, a faller,
active member of the .
International Woodwork-
ers of America, delegate
to Campbell River Labor

Council, candidate in
Comox-Powell River.

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ROD DORAN, longshore- -

man, delegate to the New
Westminster Labor
Council and chairman of
the Legislative Commit

tee, delegate in New ©
- Westminster-Coquitlam.

active:
trade unionist, presently
Welfare and Safety Direc- —
tor for United Fishermen
and Allied Workers’
Union, candidate in Van-
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Until Communists are elected, nothing will change for the better

Communist leader nominated in Trinity

TORONTO — ‘‘Trudeau is a
danger to the country’’, William
Kashtan said April 10, announc-
ing his nomination as the Com-
munist Party candidate in the fed-
eral riding of Trinity.

Kashtan, the general secretary
of the Communist Party of
Canada came out swinging, say-
ing his nomination meant there
are now four serious candidates in
the running for the Trinity seat
presently held by the Liberals.

A solid working-class riding,
Trinity is a logical place for the
party to run, Kashtan told a press
conference. ‘‘We intend to focus
on the essential questions which
are close to the interests of the
working people in this riding,’” he
said, and numbered jobs, a
guaranteed income, policies to
end the inflationary spiral and
guaranteed job security among
the questions concerning his
prospective constituents.

He decried as ‘‘shameful’’ the
15% jobless rate in the riding, —
twice the hational average. He
said the family income of the
people of Trinity is 30% lower
than the average in Metro To-
ronto and some 25% of the con-
stituents are because of govern-
ment cutbacks in English classes,
unable to use English for all prac-
tical purposes.

“It’s obvious’’, Kashtan told
reporters, ‘‘that Aideen Nichol-
son, (the incumbent MP), the
Liberal federal government and
the Tories in Queen’s Park have
done nothing to answer these
problems.”’

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Communists in parliament, he
said, would fight to dump the so-
called ‘‘restraints’’ program of
cutbacks on the people’s living
standards and replace them with

programs to expend, the
economy.
These programs would include:

-e government construction of
300,000 new housing units a year,
or sale to low income families at
affordable prices with low interest
rates;

e the building of new all-

Canadian cross-country oil and -

gas pipelines, as an alternative to
the way the Canadian Govern-
ment was sucked into building the
north-south pipeline for the U.S.;

e cutting income taxes for in-
come earners under $20,000 a

year and the complete elimination.

of income taxes for those earning
less than $15,000. This would be
accompanied by increased taxes
on Canada’s corporate wealth
and the fantastic profits it gener-
ates;

e the introduction of the $4.50
minimum wage and the 32-hour
work week with no loss in pay in
all government-sponsored con-
struction projects and services to
act as an exmple for the private
sector; :

’@ unemployment insurance for
the entire unemployed period at
90% of previous earnings;

e the re-introduction of federal
government subsidies on’ essen-
tial food such as bread and milk;

e and, pension increases for
senior citizens, reducing pension-

able age to 55 for women and 60
for men.

“Tt was wrong and harmful for
the Trudeau government to drop
the subsidies on bread and milk’,
Kashtan said. Noting the drop
came at the same time as the fed-
eral government gave millions to
the forest industry, he charged the
Trudeau Liberals with ‘‘literally
taking food from the mouths of
children to give it to the cor-
porations.”’

So far in the federal campaign
Communist leader said, the elec-

‘torate has been treated to a three-

ring circus without any serious at-
tack by the parties of big business

‘on the issues and problems facing

the country. ‘‘Trudeau has no-
thing better to say than to tell the
unemployed ‘to get off their ass
and look for work, or tell farmers
to stop complaining. Joe Clark
can offer nothing more than the
promise to fire 60,000 civil service
workers and preach zero-growth
economic philosophy,” Kashtan
said.

Kashtan also said the Com-

' munists were the only party in the

campaign with a truly “‘sane, ra-
tional, and democratic”’ approach
to achieving a united Canada. the

Trudeau government proved in 11

years it couldn’t solve the crisis,
and Clark’s policies of decen-
tralizing the federal authority will
also lead the country nowhere,
the Communist leader said.

He called for ‘‘an equal and
voluntary partnership of the two

state and codified in a new made-
in-Canada Constitution.”

‘‘We need Communists elected
to parliament to raise hell and
bring the real issues before the
people.”

Acknowledging the aseful
work in parliament accomplished
by the New Democratic Party,
Kashtan however pointed out,
“until the. election of a large -
progressive majority to parlia-

William Kashthii.,
English-speaking and French- give people what they want, but voting for the Liberals and Tories willl 9°
Canadian nations in a bi-national the people exactly what they don’t want.

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a a ERR Be We ee

ment, including Communists, I
achieved, nothing substantial c!
change for the better.”’

Declaring his chances in Tit
ity as good as any other can@ i
dates’ in the running, Kasht
said, ‘‘a vote for the Communist

and their election, will give t

people what they want, but votitt
for the Liberals and Tories W
get the people exactly what the)
don’t want.’

. “a RR oe Comininntk aid their election, wi