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The feature of this week’s Federal Election cam- paigning will be an address, “The Real Issues of This Elec- tion’ by William Kashtan, leader of. the Communist Party of Canada.

Kashtan, who will com- mence his third and final cross-country tour of this cam- paign on the Pacific coast, will speak in Vancouver and Port Alberni this weekend. He will speak with Van- couver and Westminster candidates Sunday, October 15 at 8 p.m. in Templeton High School Auditorium (727

Templeton Drive).

On Monday, October 16 he will speak at a public rally in the Greenwood _ Hotel (Beaver Creek and Heaslip Rds.) Alberni, with can- didate Mark Mosher.

Communist candidates will be heard on the following all- candidate broadcasts and forums: Vancouver Radio CKWX — Oct. 16 is Eric Waugh (Burnaby-Seymour) ; Oct. 23, Sean Griffin (Van. South); and Oct. 25, Maurice Rush (Van. East). All broad- cast from | p.m. to 3 p.m.

Kashtan to address

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On Wed. Oct. 18, at 7:30 p.m. Maurice Rush and Sean Griffin will address an all- candidate meeting in Temple-

ton High, and on Mon. Oct. 23, Maurice Rush will appear with other Vancouver East candidates at Brittania High in Grandview at a forum sponsored by the Grandview- Woodlands Area Council.

On Wed. Oct. 25th at 7:30 p.m. Eric Waugh will speak at an all-candidate meeting in Westlawn United Church in North Burnaby.

Jobs top priority says C.P.’s Mosher

“The main priority of the Com- munist Party is jobs — a job for every Canadian who wants to work,’’ Mark Mosher, the party’s candidate in Comox- Alberni told a Chamber of Com- merce meeting in Alberni last week. He was addressing the chamber’s monthly luncheon meeting, where candidates in the federal election had been invited to speak.

Mosher said many jobs and pro- jects could be conceived and financed to employ every employable Canadian, ~but because we are not masters in our own house, this is not being done.

“It’s a crying shame that Can- ada doesn’t produce its own cars and ships... . Our biggest goal is to produce what Canadian people need.”

Speaking of Canada’s foreign policy, he said it is ‘‘gutless.”’ “Tt gives lip service to peace but there is as much blood on our hands as on Americans, because we are selling arms and compo-

nents of arms for use in Vietnam. It’s a_ national dis- grace!”

Mosher, who is a longshore- man and a member of the school board, told Chamber members

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that he is a serious candidate for the Alberni riding. ‘‘Our party is far from being a frivolous party. We are a very Serious party.”’ Explaining why his name

would be on the ballot without -

party designation, (due to federal regulations that 50 candi- dates must be placed in the field by a party to ensure its name on the ballot), Mosher said he was not running under ~ false pretences. “‘I will be running for the Communist’ Party of Canada.”’

He said he doesn’t see social ownership of all means of production on the horizon yet, but it will come.

“It’s inevitable. It’s an econo- mic fact that will come in due courses, just as the system we now have followed feudalism, and as_ feudalism followed slavery.”’ :

He said ‘‘even though our friends in the NDP don’t like it, socialism in Canada will prob- ably come about through a coali- tion between Communist and socialistic parties similar to what has happened in Italy, France and Chile.”

He emphasized that he did not visualize a violent revolution, but revolution by the ballot box.

Need new policies to solve — problems of New Westminster

By ROD DORAN Communist Candidate, New Westminster

The problems facing the peo- ple in the New Westminster riding are symptomatic of those facing all of Canada. Only a new direction, and new policies as spelled out in our party’s elec- tion program can pull our country back from the brink of increasing unemployment, poverty, demoralization of our youth and the complete sur-

render of Canadian inde- pendence to U.S. monopoly capital.

Any one of the proposals con-

~ tained in our platform would, if

implemented, be a_ great advance to any of the ridings in the federal election.

For example, our proposal to provide 250,000 new housing units annually to make available to: every Canadian high standard, low-cost and low-rental homes has particular relevance to-the Burnaby-Westminster and Coquitlam areas.

There is a proposal that the B.C. Penitentiary be moved from New Westminster to the Fraser Valley. The real estate speculators are drooling over the prospect of snatching this 83 acres of choice land-overlooking the Fraser River and situated between Queen’s Park and the sports centres developed by the eity. What an ideal spot for the federal government to start on a program of making housing a public utility!

Our proposal to nationalize the CPR as part of a publicly- owned transportation system could also assist in making housing a public utility. Along with the payolla granted by successive big business federal and provincial governments in the form of right-of-ways, and outright land grants; are the large areas of real estate in the metropolitan areas acquired by the CPR and its subsidiary com panies.

The concept of a, publicly- owned transportation system is a proposal that directly affects the development of ports and dock facilities. Our port facili- ties in New Westminster and Vancouver are 50 years behind other major ports in the world, particularly where contain- erization is concerned.

As part of their election cam- paign the Trudeau government has now agreed to make funds available for port development in this area. We are all for the up- grading of our dock facilities but it must be done as part ot a publicly-owned and operated transportation system where the docks are nationalized. In other words, the people who are paying for these facilities should own and operate them. As it stands now, the National Harbors Board play the role of philanthropist; spends millions

of dollars building dock and freight handling facilities, then hands them over to private capital to operate.

Port development cannot be looked at in isolation from the need for a Canadian Merchant Marine. Who is going to benefit from the millions the federal government proposes to spend on container facilities? Mainly the large foreign-owned shipping lines who extract millions each year from Canada in the form of inflated freight

rates. Building dock facilities alone will provide very few joDS: the building of a merchant marine, owned by the people, would provide thousands of neW jobs to operate and supply the ships, but would mean as wel the rebirth of our shipbuilding and ship-repair industry.

The way to ensure that a new direction is taken and new

- policies are adopted now in Cal:

ada is to elect Communists t0 parliament on October 30.

‘*Convening of the Special Session of the B.C. Legislature- next week is a welcome devel- opment with unemployment reaching its highest level in over a decade, living costs rising sharply, and a long backlog of problems left behind by the previous Socred adminis- tration,’ Nigel Morgan, provin- cial leader of the Communist party said in a statement to the press.

“‘The Communist Party wel- comes the NDP’s initiative, and looks to the new Legislature to take decisive action on a number of pressing problems that cannot wait for the regular spring session in January.

Emergency grants to reem- ploy school staffs, reduce over- crowded class rooms and cope with School District deficits are urgently needed. Old age pen- sioners are in dire straits in many instances and no time should be lost in increasing pension allowances. The Socreds wage control regula- tions must be repealed immediately to restore free collective bargaining. All government employees should be given the right to bargain, and the Mediation Commission sacked.

Also, if the promise to remove the education tax from homes and the family farm are to have meaning for next year, action must be taken in this area as well before the year-end when school and municipal budgeting gets underway,’ Morgan de clared.

‘“‘The Communist Party will support the NDP in all such initiatives, while pressing for action on such questions as control of exports of raw and semi-processed resources, measures to bring the prov- ince’s natural resources back under public control and owner- ship to provide jobs, repeal of the Sales Tax, and adoption of a charter of Labor Rights at the regular Session,”’ he said.

‘Strong pressure is already

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being exerted by B.C. Tel, the powerful lumber, mining, and gas monopolies, and thé Employers Council and its Co™ tractors Association to ham string and scare the new N administration off,’ Morga® charged.

“The Communist Party urges the entire labor and democrat movement to unite in defending the new government against the attacks of these powerful monopoly interests, while at the same time mobilizing public opinion to insure that election promises are fulfilled, and that B.C. is pushed further left consolidate the August election victory.

A big job remains to be done rid British Columbia of the evils of twenty years of So big business policies,” he ©”

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“‘The massive unemployment insurance bill is the result? Trudeau’s policies. The work! people of Canada did not wa” unemployment. They want jobs at decent wages. But now tha

over half a million have bee?

forced out of work, right wilé elements want to cut the pay” ments and extend the waitie period.

“Rather than cut back on thé plan, Unemployment Insurance premiums should be increased 80 percent of wages for the full period of unemployment. that still doesn’t solve the ba problem — jobs. It should be th

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responsibility of the govel™

ment to provide jobs or 4” adequate income for every Can® dian as a right,” said Rush. Pointing to the latest U™ employment figures showing further jump to 7.1 percent of the labor force in Canada and 8.2 P& - cent in B.C., Rush said the CO™ munist Party’s solution is fof 10 year plan of balance economic development based ° public ownership of resources © provide 2 million new jobs.

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