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What Soviet Citizens Get
Besides Wages — By A. G.
Zverev, D.Sc. (Economics)
Minister of Finance of the
U.S.S.R. 28 pp. Price 10 cents.

How many discussions have
you heard or participated in
on the subject of wages in the
Soviet Union? .. . their rela-
tionship in comparison to the

_ Wage-rates of Canadian work-

ers?

Are not some of these dis-
cussions rather over-simplified,
generalized or superficial?

Is the Soviet worker’s in-
come solely made up of wages?

Tf not, what are the sources

_ of all the additional benefits

received. by him

To provide us with factual
and detailed information on
this question, the booklet
What Soviet Citizens Get Be-
sides Wages, is an indispen-
sible document for all who are
interested in socialism as it
affects the working class in
practice,

Arseny Zverev, the author
of this most interesting work
Says, “In the Soviet Union con-
cern for the human welfare
has ceased to be one’s own
private affair; it is a collective
concern, aided by the state

- which has made it the corner-

stone of its policy. No longer
1s it “each man for himself’,
as it was in tsarist Russia when
Selfishness, envy and greed
corroded social life.” ~ :

All additional benefits ob-
tained by Soviet workers be-
Sides wages are fully docu-
mented. This booklet will
soon be out of print and un-
available at any price. Make

sure you obtain yours now.

Just arrived and selling fast
are five booklets in the ser-
ies The Fifteen Soviet Social-

ist Republics Today and To-
morrow, selling at only 10
cents each.

Those in stock are: Russian
Federation, Lithuania, Latvia,
Estonia, . Azerbaijan, Tajiki-
stan.

Each contains brief but con-
cise information on ‘the history
geography, economy, culture
and national aspects of each
separate republic. They are
well illustrated, providing the
reader with a pictorial view of
each republic as well.

As an example of the inter-
esting way the booklets. have
been prepared we quote one
paragraph dealing with the
past history of Tajikistan un-
der the tsarist regime: “. . . it
was not only the harvests that
were taxed: there were taxes
for weeds, for ploughing, for
water, for produce brought to
the market and for cattle, for
goods transported from one
province to another, for mar-
riage and for birth, for the
right to use roads and for the
right to live on earth... In
fact, the.only thing for which
the Tajiks paid no tax was
the air they breathed.” ~

The Socialist Revolution
smashed the fetters of this ec-
onomic yoke and today, the
Tajik people, together with ali
the other peoples of the USSR
are energetically building the
life they had dreamed of.

High school students are
well advised to obtain the
complete set of these booklets
for future school assignments
on the USSR. The whole set
is, in fact, a popular history
of the peoples of the USSR.
Only a limited supply is avail-
able. Get yours now at the
Peoples Co-operative Book-

store, 307 W. Pender St.

Photo shows West German

police arresting youth who
Dace against the Bonn government’s renrmament
policy.

Poor Winch

ADOLPH POTHORN, North
Vancouver: “Hold - the - line-
Winch” says an MP ought to
get $15,000 a year and a bit
for expenses, of course, instead
of the measly $10,000 as at pre-
sent. Why, any B.C. electrician
can make $15,000 a year if he
is willing to slave along like
us poor run-down MP’s in and
away from Ottawa...

And to think about all the
dust that was kicked up when
upon returning from a world
journey he told labor to “hold
the line.” Why, all he wanted
for himself and his parliament-
ary: colleagues was a chance to
catch up with these B.C. elec-
tricians.

Some say that in socialist
countries MP’s as much as get
no salaries at all. That is true,
but why hold this against Har-
old Winch? He never wanted
anything to do with this com-
munistic kind of socialism in
the first place.

No. people are unreasonable.
As an MLA even with his bit
of “extra” as leader of “His
Majesty‘s Loyal Opposition,”
year after year he went into
the hole. When he finally got
fed up with it and quit, the
electors pestered him to be-
come their MP. Again he goes
in the hole. One can only hope
that in the next election the
people will be more reasonable
and give the man a break so he
finally may live the lucrative
life of a B.C. electrician.

Alas, then the Tory or
Liberal government will come
along and appoint him a sen-
ator. There you have it, no
end of it—only more sacrifices.

Weir weird

H. J., Langley: Harold Weir,
the Sun’s columnist says
“Wrong Disarmament,” and in
a recent article he says he
wouldn’t trust the communists.

“Frankly,” says he, “I can-
not see the use of abolishing
themonuclear weapons,  dis-
mantling guns, scrapping sub-
marines, and disbanding arm-
ies so long as rancor, hate and
envy are not wiped out of

men’s hearts.” Amen.

The purification of men’s
hearts must be accomplished
through wars, according to
him. He doesn’t even know
that capitalism is the cause of
war. Weir’s way to progress is
to blow one another to: hell.
His views on war-mongering
and capital punishment don’t
coincide. If war preparations is

the only way to keep the peace,

OPEN FORUM

then the retention of capital
punishment which he so strong-
ly objects to, is the only way
to deter murderers.

The man of words gets all
tied up in trying to elucidate
the many contradictions of his
own making in the interest of
capitalism. To pyoduce more
food and goods is like ‘“being
slowly starved to death,” ‘far

fragments.” This is the logic
of a man who has been caught
in his own diatribe. And in con-
clusion: Weir is trying to emu-
late the proverbial dame who
tried to sweep back the ocean
waves with a broom.

Unity needed

H.V., Parksville: I think the
time has come now for more
unity of action in the working
class and especially among the
rank and file who are the back-
bone of the labor movement,
and not to be led too much
from the top brass as some of
them are more interested in
the job and what they can get
out of it.

There are too many revis-
ionists at the helm who lead
the workers down a_ blind
alley. The rank and file know
what they want but are led
astray by these people with too
many issues. The time is oppor-
tune right now not only for
the immediate aims.

United action is very much
needed now for the road to
socialism by forcing the issue
with the government for total

better being suddenly blown to,

ee a ee

and a
treaty with both West and East
Germany.

disarmament peace

In manner of
Samuel Pepys

Up and to school this morn-
ing where I did enter the his-
tory class. I did to question my
professor on ‘Economic Cris-
es” and also did to begin to ex-
plain “The Socialist Theory”
whereupon he did to change
the subject rather abruptly at
which I was somewhat troubl-
ed.

To Assembly where did list-
en to’ students that did visit
the Legislature: and they did
tell to me of the behaviour of
M.L.A.’s. It doth seem that
when Mr. Spracken did to be-
gin to praise the ‘Speech from
the Throne” his colleagues did
rise and chant ‘Stricken
Spracken needs a wackin’”
and also did to quote exerpts
from ‘‘To A Louse” which be-
haviour I thought most odd.

Did to regard the sorry
plight of the Prefects which
do to keep order in the insti-
tution. It doth seem that one
did to spay a pretty young
miss who did to trip merrily
along the halls. but which were
not open. Thereupon the Pre-
fect did to accost the vretty
young thing and did to demand.
to her to leave the halls.
Whereupon she did smile and
say “Sorry I am a teacher.”

by D.C.—(high school student)

Pritchett.

CP city convention to
protest Sahara tests

Delegates to the forthcoming Greater Vancouver
convention of the Communist Party will protest the Sahara
nuclear tests by picketing the French Consulate at 789
W. Pender St., Saturday, Feb. 27.

The convention meets in the Pender Auditorium on
Saturday and Sunday, Feb. 27, 28, and is expected to give
major attention to the fight for total disarmament,

Keynote report will be delivered by secretary Harold

nuclear weapons was stressed

don last week.

peace.

to the success of the Summit.

difficulties in detection.

February 26, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

British rally fer peace

LONDON—The criminal folly of arming Germany with

at the National Disarmament

Conference organized by the British Péace Committee in Lon-

The 600 representatives of 290 organizations from all over
Britain heard repeated pleas for unity in defence of world

A resolution,-passed unanimously, called for a great cam-
paign to ensure that the policy of the Government contributed

' It called on all Governments to: halt and ban nuclear tests
for all time, including underground tests, despite supposed