APPEAL TO NEW VOTERS

Those of us between 18 and 24 will on Oct. 30 be voting
federally for the first time. We are 3,000,000 strong. Our
whole future lies ahead. How will we cast our ballots?

Our choice will be decisive.

Will we opt for the continued unpatriotic sell out of Can-
ada; for the continued oppression of the French-Canadian
nation; for continued mass unemployment; for deepening
insecurity when we are just starting out in life; for deepen-
ing implication in the brutal U.S. war machine; for worsen-
ing educational opportunities; for continuing inequality of
women?

Will we vote for the right-wing anti-people line of the
Conservatives or for the “Canadian integrity” of the Liber-
als? Can we eat, spend, save, live-in, learn or enjoy ‘‘integ-
rity’?

Or will we vote for a new direction for Canada; for a life
with a future?

Only the Communist Party advances a program that can
produce the future we need and deserve.

A vote for the Communist Party is a vote for a new direc-
tion for Canada, a vote for a life with a future.

Young voters can help change the course of history in
Canada!

Communists fight for a Canada free of monopoly control,
both U.S. and Canadian. For a Canada that unites the
French- and English-speaking nations in full equality. For
full employment. For free universally accessible education as
a right. For a full life of security in every way. For the full
equality of women.

Communists are for world peace—for the dissociation of
Canada from NATO and NORAD and from all military pacts
designed to sow tension and aggression. Communists de-
mand an immediate end to the war in Vietnam, on the basis
of the withdrawal of all U.S. troops and military support.

Your vote, if cast to elect a large bloc of progressives, in-
cluding NDPers and Communists, will help. change the fu-
ture of Canada. Communists see this bloc as the prelude to
a new majority in parliament which, by curbing monopoly,
would open the door to socialism.

THINK CAREFULLY, VOTE WISELY!!!

Remember, the most powerful vote you can cast is a vote
for a Communist candidate.

A Communist voice in Ottawa will be a voice for you,
speaking for the aspiration of the youth and all Canadian

people for a better future.

—Resolution adopted Sept. 2 by the Central Committee
of the Young Communist League of Canada.:

Young Canucks describe
volunteer work in Cuba

A part of Cuba’s new econ-
omic plan is to build work-study
schools for all the youth. Re-
cently Prime Minister Fidel Cas-
tro made an inauguration speech
at the newly completed Georgi
Dimitrov Junior High School
just outside Havana. The work
on the school had been complet-
ed 25 days ahead of schedule
and Castro congratulated the
Cuban workers and the 85 young
people from 27 different coun-
tries of the Julio Antonio Mella
International Brigade who work-
ed on the construction.

This high school was the first
to be constructed with the help
of the brigade sponsored by the
World Federation of Democra-
tic Youth (WFDY), in whose
ranks there were three Cana-
dians who were justifibly proud
as they listened to the praise
Castro had for them and their
workmates.

Chris Hansen, a Young Com-
unist League member and a con-
struction worker from Edmon-
tion, Donalda Greenwell, a YCL
member and a student from
Vancouver, and Ken Rouble, a
lithographer from Toronto, on
their return to Canada _ last
week related some of their ex-
periences at a press conference.
They talked enthusiastically
about their work on the school
and what it was like to be part
of such an international brigade.

- Ken Rouble told the “before
and after” feeling they had.
“When we first got to the site,
there was nothing there, just a
big cleared area,” he said. “Five
and a half months later, as we
were flying out of the area we
looked at the site and there
were five dormitories, class-
room buildings and a cafeteria.
I guess the feeling was pretty
much the.same for all .ofus_be-

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cause we could say, ‘We helped
build that!”

Donalda, like most of the
members of the International
Brigade had no experience in
construction and was a little ap-
prehensive about the tasks she
would be assigned. “But,” she
said, “as soon as we got there
we found that the women were
expected to be on the construc-
tion and I was relieved to find
out that I wouldn’t just be
washing dishes or cooking. My
unit was assigned to the con-
struction of the playing fields.
We cleared the land, laid out
the soccer field, shoveled dirt,
and poured concrete. All things
I didn’t know I could do.”

Chris told of what it was like
to be part of brigade with mem-
bers from 27 different coun-
tries. “The work was made
easier because we were united
from the start with a common
purpose of building a school
which was needed and helping
the revolution in Cuba. At first,
because sO many languages
were spoken, we needed trans-
lators, but as time progressed
we all began to learn Spanish
and eventually the translators
were not needed. Then we could
all talk to one another, swap
tales and tell about our own
countries. But even before the
languages difficulties were beat-
en, we all had a better under-
standing of what international
solidariy is all about.” ;

They were especially proud
because the work on the school
had progressed so quickly that
some of the workers took part
in building 25 new homes in a
nearby village.

When asked if they would go
again to build another school
their answer was a unanimous

Ree Bt be

Hypocrisy is the tribute which
vice pays to virtue,” wrote La
Rochefoucauld. This phrase fits
quite well in describing George
Meany’s Labor Day Message to

American Labor. His preten-
sions as a defender of demo-
cracy and the rights of labor do
not jibe with his support of U.S.
imperialist policy, and as a ca-
pitalist investor in the Domini-
can Republic where armed sol-
diers patrol the streets with sub-
machine guns ready to suppress
working people fighting colonial-
ism and exploitation.

Likewise Mr. Meany’s trans-
parent political “neutrality” in
this year’s presidential election
campaign is a desperate attempt

to divide labor and secure Presi- .

dent Nixon’s re-election. But as
Meany himself is forced to ad-
mit: “The American worker is
not a dingbat. He will not be
taken for granted.” It may even
turn out that this time a major-
ity of the American working
class will draw the long over-
due conclusion that the aging
president of the AFL-CIO has
bats in his bellfry.

* % *

The fact that a growing labor
political consciousness is not to
be trifled with in this year of
1972, was emphatically demon-
strated on Aug. 30 for all Cana-
dians in the outcome of the
British Columbia elections. After
more than 20 years in power, the
anti-labor Social Credit adminis-
tration of W. A. C. (Wacky)
Bennett came tumbling down in
defeat. The role that labor play-
ed in electing a New Democratic
Party administration with a de-
cisive majority was unmistake-
ably clear.

The greatest development of
a political awareness that the
Socreds must go, took place in
the course of bitter struggles
this spring and summer in the
building trades, the timber in-
dustry and among teachers and
other public employees. While
united on the aim of defeating
the government which had long
been a thorn in the side of or-
ganized labor, there was less
clarity on the alternative. Had
there been such clarity on the
need to also defeat the other
parties of monopoly capital (the
Liberals and Tories) there could
have emerged a coalition of
forces; with more representa-
tives of labor elected, perhaps
even including one or two Com-
munists. Such an outcome would
have been a guarantee of con-
tinued progress in the interests
of the trade union movement
and all working people, and
against any opportunist back-
sliding by the new government
when the monopolies apply their
pressure tactics, as they are
sure to do.

& % *

On Sept. 1, two days after the
B.C. election, Premier Trudeau
received Royal assent to disolve
Canada’s 28th Parliament and
set election Gate as Oct. 30. Im-
mediately prior to disolution,
Parliament was recalled to pass
strikebreaking legislation order-
ing West Coast longshoremen
back to work, Less than two
months previous (July 7) when
the spring session adjourned for
the summer, its last act was to
press similar legislation ordering
striking dock workers in Quebec
ports back to work.

The spring session opened last
February ‘17. After 89 sitting

BY BRUCE MAGNUSON

days it passed 16 out of 29 bills
submitted with the Throne
Speech. The May 8 budget per-
mitted monopoly corporations in
manufacturing and _ processing
to write off .costs of new ma-
chinery over two years and
slashed the corporate tax rate
on profits to 40 percent from
January 1, 1973. But tax rates on
business profits in retailing and
trucking stays at 49%. At the
same time federal income tax
on working people will increase

. 3% in the new year.

Last year Ottawa gave indus-
try $920 million in outright
grants — most of it to U.S. cor-
porations. The accelerated de-
preciation granted this year will
amount to another $500 million,
plus the cut in taxes for mono-
polies. The outcome of all this
will be a further squeeze on
labor, more layoffs and increas-
ed unemployment.

At the same time moves are
already under way to amend the
Labor Code to remove overtime
provisions for work over 8 hours
per day or 40 hours per week.
This would be to accommodate
adoption of the so-called com-
pressed work week of 4 days,
without reducing weekly hours.
The alternative would be to pay
overtime at time-and-a-half, or
cut weekly hours to a maximum

LABOR SCENE Workers have own role}

to play in the election}

of 32, something which mf

the federal government nor P

vate companies want to do

Whatever way we choost
look at the present political
ternatives it is clear that nel
the Liberals and Tories —
traditional parties of mon0

— nor Social Credit offer a 5°
tion to the problems of work

people.

To challenge the present
mination of monopoly ©
requires a high level of p®

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activity by organized labor ®

all working people to ele

large progressive bloc on
30, including both NDP’e™
Communists.

While big business and l™@

tion will seek to push poliliG

the right, primarily through
Tory party in this election,
answer of labor must
move politics of this coun
a left direction. This mus
clude a struggle to roll uP
largest possible support of
30 Communist candidates —
will be in the running acro®

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country in key working)
areas. A number of Comm

MP’s in Canada’s 29th Pat

ment would add a new 4 ti
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a new dimension to

debate as well as outside P

ment, which is sorely la¢
the present time.

COMMUNIST PARTY CANDIDATES

The Communist Party has already nominated }

the following candidates. Other nominations 3!
pending. «ya
BRITISH COLUMBIA

Maurice Rush Vancouver-East
Bill Turner Vancouver-Kingswoy
Erick Waugh Burnaby-Seymour
Rod Doran New Westminster _
Mark Mosher Comox-Alberni
ALBERTA ie
Wm. Tuomi Edmonton-East ss
Neil Stenberg Vegreville al
Elizabeth Rowley Edmonton-Strathco™, |
SASKATCHEWAN
Wm. C. Beeching  Regina-East
MANITOBA :
Wm. Ross Winnipeg-North
Don Currie Winnipeg-N. Centr?
ONTARIO |
Wm. Kashtan Toronto-Davenport |
Gordon Massie Toronto-Lakeshore
Alfred Dewhurst Toronto-Broadview |
John Weir Toronto-High Park |
Maggie Bizzell Toronto-Spadina
Norman Freed Toronto-Trinity i

John Bizzell Toronto-York Wes!

Jim Bridgewood Hamilton-East

Bob Jaggard Hamilton-West

John Clout St. Catharines

Clifford Wahl Port Arthur

Gareth Blythe Wellington ;

Russ Rak Oshawa-Whitby we

Ed. McDonald =  Windsor-Walkerv |
QUEBEC

Jeannette Walsh Montreal-Laurier yes

Claire Demers —- Montreal-St. Jac

Claude Demers, Labelle i,