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HengS David Lewis as telling
Sy ee over CBC radio last
igh je, 3t_the NDP “is a
i s €mocratic party and in
! thigh» is aligned with com-
lig, and that “the Commu-
petties are weakest in
“oe where social-democra-
Th. €s are strong.”

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1 his he no denying that Mr.
| di &Ss moved the NDP far in
Ng rection of a right-wing
tite; €mocratic party, although
ws, ,NCeption it was envisaged
ify €deration of labor, farmer,
Pht a and socialist groups.
| Levi Toronto Star report, Mr.
Xeon a quoted a saying, “I have
Sugh not only on Commu-
oe. anything resembling
“llin Ism” (the writer, Eric
[ere 8, adds that this was a
| Theroe, £0 the Waffle) .
‘be ee * also no denying that
Yd Mr. Lewises lowered
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| ei, ®m on the Waffle group in
| hich ©wn party in Ontario,
tnadignt more emphasis on
J dist, N independence and so-
4, 0n
ho “ Mr. Lewis has injected
oy a electioneering a ques-
No) °4 While evading discus-
ti Policies, still has some-
do with the road ahead,
is neresent election and later,
Mit Cessary to take him up

te cjommunist Party has nev-
- such » It deplores the absence
Mheade alignment due to the
Ro €d right-wing leader-
{ie me NDP. The Commu-
‘4 “4 never supported the
Or a 1s election, never call-
aw NDP government, has
Nn,” blanket endorsation
J, tise pr andidates. The Com-

t,t arty calls for the high-

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an alignment with ©

What Mr. Lewis forgot

would include both Communists
and NDP members. (The Com-
munist vote is especially impor-
tant because it is a vote for
unity, for progress.)

That result of the election

would be most favorable for the
Canadian working people. It’s
also the inevitable road ahead,
the road of Left unity and anti-
monopoly coalition that will lead
us out of the persent morass
onto the highway of independent
Canadian development.
_ Mr. Lewis should have taken
a minute to think before he as-
sured the big business interests
and reactionaries in Canada that
wherever social-democracy (he
means the right-wing variety) is
strong, the Communist parties
are weak. What is he boasting
about?

In Germany in the 1930s So-
cial-Democracy was_ strong, it
spurned a united front with the
Communists — and Hitler took
over. In Spain the Socialists and
Communists cooperated, formed
the government, until France,

under right-wing Socialist Prem- -

ier Leon Blum, together with
the British Tory goverment,
clamped down the “non-interven-
tion” blockade and let Franco,
Hitler and Mussolini take over.
The same in country after coun-
try. Successive Labor (social-
democrat) governments in Brit-
ain have given way to the Tories.

On the other hand, where So-
cialists and Communists joined
forces, as in the GDR, Poland,
Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc.,
after the war, we now have a
socialist society. Similar unity
in Chile has established a popu-

lar front government. Unity of.
Socialists and Communists spells ~

victory — such unity has now
been formed in France. Anti-
unity right-wing social-democ-
racy has always brought car :

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Editorial Comment...

Only 18 days left

The Communist Party set out to field
thirty candidates in the 1972 federal
election — and thirty have been nomi-

nated.

The Communist Party started the
campaign by outlining the main issues
and presenting a 10-year plan to build
Canada and strengthen its indepen-
dence through curbing the monopolies,
establishing public ownership of the
energy and natural resources, and
building secondary industries in Can-
ada to provide the two-and-a-half mil-
lion jobs we will need by.1980. The Lib-
erals opened with a stand-pat position,
the Tories with the hope that discon-
tent would drive votes their way. They
refused to recognize that there were
real issues, while David Lewis concen-
trated on plugging holes in the tax
structure. Today all party spokesmen
have been forced, by the pressure of
of the actual situation, by the pressure
of the electors, and by the pressure of
the Communist campaign to begin deal-
ing with the basi¢ issues to one degree
or another — at least, to acknowledge
them. But only the Communist Party
has a clear-cut program of building
Canada for the people and how to do it.

The press, radio and television, ex-
cept for several localities, ignored the
Communist candidates and their cam-
paign during the first weeks. The Com-
munist country-wide campaign was

‘blacked out. But this, too, has changed

to a great extent. Today the Communist
candidates and the party’s campaign
are getting at least a measure of pub-
licity.

There are only two-and-a-half weeks
left until voting day.

These are 18 days in which those who
believe that the Communist Party pre-
sents the most meaningful platform and
that its proposals are of the greatest
importance in facing up to and solving
the grave problems that confront us in
the years ahead, will give their time,
effort and money to bring that program
and the candidates who are fighting for
it to the attention of the broadest sec-
tions of the electorate.

And during this period many thou-

sands of people will be making up their.

minds. The staunch working men and
women of the labor movement, the small
farmers, the young people, all who be-
lieve in Canada’s ability to build in
peace and independence a life fit for
humans, all who aspire to a better so-
ciety where “all for one, and one for
all” is the rule, instead of “dog eat dog”
and “everybody for himself and the
devil take the hindmost” — all should
weigh the worth of their ballots.

Elections aren’t a horse race where
you bet on the winning nag. Elections
aren’t a question of changing “Tweede-
dum” for “Tweedledee.” Elections are a
moment of truth, when each should face
his conscience and decide to vote in a
mature, principled manner for the pro-
gram and candidate that express the
people’s interests. Any other vote is a

lost vote. |
Don’t waste your vote. Vote Com-
munist. i oe

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2 acy PACIFIC TRIBUNE —FRI DAY, OCTOBER 13, 1972—PAGE =

 Greasing the skids

At this stage in the election campai
the stops are pulled out and fee old
party politicians are spouting promises
right and left. Even Mr. Stanfield has
discovered the “family farm” and wants
to “save” it, although we didn’t hear
any dissent from the Tories in the
House of Commons on the cynical plan
to squeeze half the farmers off the land
— in fact the Conservative government
in Ontario even upped the Liberal fed-
eral ante in greasing the skids for the
small farmers.

There has never been a death sen-
tence so sympathetically worded as the
Canada Department of Agriculture’s
circular on this question. It’s even called
the “Small Farms Development Pro-
gram.”

How are the small farms to be “de-
veloped”? Why, the government has at
aside $150 million dollars “helping
farmers who own small farms to devel-
op larger and more profitable opera-
tions.” How? Well, a farmer with land
appraised at up to $20,000 would get
listed on the Farm Credit Corporation
which will help him to sell and maybe
even pay him up to $3,500 in cash as a
get-the-hell-out gift. Then a farmer or
somebody (priority supposedly to be
given to those whose assets are $60,000
or less — but only priority, mind you)
will be helped to buy the small farm
and will be eligible for special credits
to be “granted on the basis of the farm-
er’s ability to repay the loan.” In fact
the FCC “will purchase the small farm
and resell to the buyer” who will enjoy

‘the advantage of a low down payment
as well as low interest rates...”

And they call that “small deyelop-
ment” and “saving the family farm”!
It’s like the shark saving the herring.
- There is more sugar to the bitter pill:

A farmer will be able to keep his farm
home ‘and an Soe piece of the
for as long as he or
his spouse lives”—and before you know
it, the family is gone as well as the
farm.

How about greasing the skid
ine eallhy and their panticrais in

Beware the swindle

Maoists have nominated candi
under the name of the cece
Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) ,”
which will doubtless confuse some peo-
ple. There is only one Communist Part
of Canada, the same that has ete
here for 50 years, but it seems that the
By 5 ge enol group to pirate the

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Sie ae to it. os abe

uite apart from the fact i
group has no more right to the mee
Leninist designation than it has th
right. to call itself Communist (it *
conducting an anti-Communist ar
paign and its views have nothing in
common with Marxism-Leninism) the
more immediate problem is that’ this
Bley creates confusion, people will at
aun see the Maoist visage behind the

The mask should be removed for all