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by MARK MOSHER
| fre at the crossroads
fntative ey Will the repre-
Fg one we elect on June
+ of ee outs to the adoption
! Peace ee policies of
| ity “ Tade, jobs and. secur-

®%Stros Carry us down the dis-
to War Toad we’re travelling
Unemp, destruction, and mass
big Poyment? That is the
A) pp Sion we in Comox-
this ‘i will help to decide in

lection.

tivigins hing We want is in-
Sion p> linked to that deci-
igys € only “defence pol-
that lat makes sense is one
Ang Ml keep us out of war.
kee, “© Only way we can
is 4, U7 Country out of war
te rar seneaging her from
7 Us tion in the provocative
Policy of brinkmanship.
| lan “Urvive disaster — mili-
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Ses Need new national poli-
tlaration On Peace; the de-
trait ®n’ of Canadian neu-
my. 4nd the replacement
Yoligi » Cold war policies by
Dten, S that put Canada’s
*sts first.
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tet the policy of U.S.
‘tthe on commenced by
- the €rals and continued by
Contes tremendous
Sa Of bleached pulp,
ate bee and kraft fibre
Nd oy, Shipped out of this
Werg = Island ports. If it
Steag of tfactured here, in-
‘ the U being shipped off to
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Stings . Provide many thou-

at Additional jobs.

MARK MOSHER

Comox-Alberni

MOSHER, age 46. Married with three daughters
iN of them foster children). Connected for 15 years
- the logging industry, including three years as Secre-
y of Local 1-85 of the I1.W.A. Four years engaged as
ate dairy farmer; Secretary of Sub-Local Dairy-
Ae Association. At present, full-time longshoreman ;
Vice-President and Canadian Board Member for

ral 503 of the International Longshoremen & Ware-
eusemen’s Union. President of the Cherry Creek Com-

Tomox-Alberni much to. gain
Mn policy of peace, trade’

Our iron ore is being ship-
oed out to Japan as well —
sold for a dime and bought
back for a dollar.

Island farmers are up
against the same _ problem.
There used to be a good liv-
ing in farming, but now U.S.
dumping is putting our farm-
ers out of business.

A new foreign policy could
change all this.

Canadian neutrality would
create many new opportuni-
ties to raise the standard of
living. It would reverse the
dangerous trends involved in
dollar devaluation and would
head off the hazard that
European Common Market
tariffs hold for our lumber
and fishing industries.

Policies of peace, Canadian
independence, bringing our
natural resources under Can-
adian control and nationaliz-
ing U.S.owned industries,
trading with the whole world
and standing on our own
feet is what will serve
Comox-Alberni best.

CANADA SHOULD NATIONALIZE
U.S.-CONTROLLED MONOPOLIES

By STANLEY RYERSON
hat the Communist Par-
tv is proposing, with
its call for nationalization of
U.S. - controlled monopolies
is a radical structural reform
of Canadian society. It is a
key component in the “new
national policy” the _ party
has been advocating through-
out the postwar period.

.It is the economic measure
that would make possible the
achievement of the slogan
“Let’s be masters in our-own
house’’—a declaration of in-
dependence from domination
by the military - industrial
complex of U.S. imperialism.

Taking over by the govern-
ment of Canada (and by that
of the provinces, in some in-
stances) of U.S.- controlled
monopoly corporations would
drastically alter our entire
economic set-up. It would in-
itiate a new relationship in
whole sectors of the economy,
including:

—69 percent of the oil and
natural gas production;

—53 percent of all min-
ing;

—44 percent in the case of
electrical goods, 66 percent
of smelting and refining, 55
percent of farm machinery,
90 percent of rubber, 96 per-

cent of auto production.
* * *

The nationalization pro-
prosal is a blow in behalf
of peace, of national inde-
pendence and equality, of
people’s living standards and
social progress. ;

It is a blow for peace be-
cause it strikes at the heart
of the U.S. military-monopo-
list_intervention in Canadian
affairs.

The great American trusts
operating in Canada dictate
to the government of Canada
the insane policy of pouring
out billions of the taxpayers’
cash to promote the profits of
U.S. big business. But na-
tionalization of the U.S. mas-
ter-monopolists concerns
would also break (or irrepar-
ably bend!) the back of the
home-grown monopolist crew.

At the same time national-
ization would open the door
to a new course, a new di-
rection of independent Cana-
dian development. Some of
the features of this new
course:

—All - round industrial
growth instead of the warp-
ed and lopsided pattern now
imposed by our raw and
semi-finished production set-
up. :

—Development of machine
tools industry, shipbuilding
(recreating a Canadian mer-
chant fleet to trade with the
world), steel and petro-chemi-

~eals industries in now under-

developed areas richly en-
dowed with coal and iron
ores.

—Overcoming economic
stagnancy and chronic mass
unemployment occasioned by
the wilful distortion of our
economy to suit the whims
of U.S. billionaire corpora-
tions.

—Initiating a new, inde-
pendent trade policy free of
U.S.-imposed fetters.

—Replacement of the mili-
tarization of the economy by
a program of peace-time in-
vestment and social progress.

* * *

Nationalization measures
are a lever with which to
attain national equality.
Along with the basic con-
stitutional reform the Com-
munist Party advocates — a
new confederation on a foot-
ing of complete equality as
between French and English
Canada—the taking over of
the U.S. trusts by the gov-
ernment of French Canada
would mark the __ turning-
point in the historic struggle
of their people for control of
their own affairs:

Finally, nationalization is
the key to advance in the
people’s contest with the
suffocating power of monop-
oly.

Public ownership is some-

McEwen

Continued from Page 6
and thence to the brink of
nuclear disaster.

And what of the NDP on
this vital issue of No Nucelar
Arms for Canada? I can only
welcome and _ approve its
forthright stand when _ its
leaders say “no nuclear arms
on Canadian soil’, but this
highly desirable aim is dissi-
pated and destroyed by the
NDP’s continued support of
NATO.

This membership already
commits Canada’s armed
forces in NATO, together
with the armed forces of neo-
fascist West Germany to be
armed with nuclear weapons,
a decision made at the recent
Athens conference of NATO
ministers.

In essence this means that
Canada’s armed. forces in
NATO will be equipped with
nuclear arms via the NATO
backdoor, just as sections of
Canada’s armed forces at
home are now being trained
in the techniques and use of
nuclear weapons.

Only the most naive would
believe that Dief and com-
pany spent billions on Bo-
marc launching sites, Voodoo
fighter planes, and other U.S.
engines of nuclear delivery
to shoot peanuts with. My
earnest hope is that the NDP
leadership will grasp the real
significance of NATO as a
war conspiracy against hu-
man progress before it is too
late.

In the face of chairman
Buck’s warning, the fight to
keep nuclear weapons out of
Canada and out of the hands
of Canada’s armed _ forces
must be waged with greater
intensity on the hustings.

The old-line Tory and Lib-
eral smugglers of nuclear
weapons must be exposed and
routed. The NDP, freed from
its illusions on NATO, can
still become a powerful in-
strument of the people’s unity
to attain this objective.

thing Canadians are familiar
with; it is not the bogey the
“free enterprise” fanatics
have made it seem in the
United States.

At the same time it is im-
portant to note that what the
Communists propose today is
not a mere repetition of what
has gone before. The bailing-
out of stockholders of the
old bankrupt Canadian
Northern Railway, the profit-
able servicing of private
(often foreign-owned) con-
cerns with utility-services, the
furthering of war-state-mon-
opoly measures of militariza-
tion — all these have been
the occasion of past interven-
tion by the big business state
in the economy.

Radically different is the
proposal for nationalization
of U.S.-controlled monopolies
in Canada — because its
fundamental purpose is radic-
ally different. It is a measure
in the national interest, di-
rected against foreign mon-
opoly domination. ,

That too is why it can only
be achieved by a vast move-
ment of struggle. The terms
on which it is carried through,
the ways whereby and the
extent to which it becomes
the leverage for a tremen-
dous raising of living. stand-
ards — economic, social, cul-
tural — will depend on the
scope and militancy and
unity of the all-in people’s
movement to achieve it.

They are the only ones to
do it.

Stewart

Continued from Page 6&

whole of B.C. into a mighty
industrial complex.

Coupled with the cheap
power of the Columbia de-
veloped in Canada, BC.
would become one of the most
attractive areas for invest-
ment and construction of in-
dustries anywhere in_ the
world.

e

Old-line party politicians
don’t put forward this kind
of a program because they are
committed to. the Made-in-
USA _ policy which views
Canada as a supplier of raw
materials for Uncle Sam’s
war machine. :

They have committed our
trade policies to the cold war,
in which ‘the U.S.A. tells us
who and who not to trade
with.

It is worth noting that the
one break in this policy, the
shipment of large amounts of
wheat to China, has resulted
in relative prosperity for the
wheat farmers on the prair-
ies. It has also brought about
the one bright spot in the
lower mainland economy. A
hustling bustling port taxed
beyond its facilities to handle
the grain cargo.

It has meant approximately
$35,000,000 in the pockets of
Vancouver.

Have you noticed the ships
carrying our wheat?

None of them are Can-
adian.

Just think what it would
mean if built-in-Canada ships
and Canadian crews were
transporting this wheat, thou-
sands and thousands of jobs
and a live shipbuilding indus-
try in the place of the de-
pressed almost non - existent
industry of today.

June 8, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7