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Dear Comrades:

In the name of the National Committee
and of all the members of our party we thank
the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

for its invitation to us to send a fraternal
delegation to your epoch-making 22nd Con-
ress, The attendance of 80 delegates from
raternal parties including our own at your
historic congress was a powerful demonstra-
_tion of the international solidarity of the

great assistance in developing friendship and
understanding between the Canadian and
| Soviet peoples in the common cause of world
Peace,

| of Canada and the organs of the press, radio
| 8nd television, to misrepresent your great
| Congress to the people of our country. The
Presence of a Canadian delegation at the
Congress will help our party to counteract
'the reactionary propaganda which is a part
| Of the cold war, and of the preparations for
War, now being made by the NATO powers.

WILL STUDY RESULTS
The National Executive Committee of the
| Communist Party of Canada will do every-
| thing in its power to bring the work and the
lessons of the 22nd Congress to our member-
Ship and to the working people generally. It
| has called upon party members to read and
Study the reports to the 22nd Congress by
Comrade Khrushchev, the final text of the
CPSU Program, and the new rules of the
| CPSU. It will lead our party in making theor-
tical studies of the work of the 22nd Con-
| 8ress, such as the problems of the ‘develop-
Ment towards a. communist society and the
transition from the lower, to the higher stages
' Of communism, the features of communist
| Society, ‘the role ot the working-class state
ad people’s self-government in this transi-
tion, the primary role of the people in making
history, inner-party democracy and socialist
democracy, on all of which key problems the
| 22nd Congress made new creative contribu-
tions to the world science of Marxsim-Lenin-

\
The unanimous adoption by the 22nd

Congress of the new program of the CPSU
Was its outstanding: and historic achievement.
It will resound throughout the world and
inspire peoples, livmg under capitalism and
Colonialism to even more consistent struggle
to free humanity everywhere and forever
from the brutal system of imperialist ex-
DPloitation — the cause of war, national op-
Pression, economic crisis and the degradation
of Man.

Communist ‘society will be built by the
Peoples of the USSR under the leadership
of their Marxist-Leninist party. Such a free
Association of citizens in a Communist society
Will be the supreme achievement of Mankind.
It will encourage the aspirations of all peoples
€verywhere, to take the path to socialism
and communism. We congratulate and thank
the people of the USSR and their Communist
arty on the adoption of this magnificent
Program for the building of the material and
technical basis for communism in the next
| 20 years. sah Ns

/

IN COMMON CAUSE
OF WORLD. PEACE’

The national executive committee of the Communist Party of Canada last week
sent a letter to the central committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
in which it outlined some of its views and conclusions on the Soviet party’s recent
22nd Congress. Following is the text of the letter:

“world Communist movement and will be of ~

This is so especially because extraordin-
ary efforts are being made by the government

PRIDE OF VICTORIES

The great exertions, sufferings and strug-
gles of the Soviet peoples are bearing the
fruits which Lenin long ago foresaw. We
are filled with pride at their victories es-
pecially because they have been and are
guided always by the liberating science of
Marxism-Leninism — the same science of
human activity which charts the road to
socialism, and eventually communism, in our
own country. ;

The 22nd Congress could not have accom-
plished what it did without the work of the
20th Congress, which exposed and condemned
the cult of the individual around Stalin and
its consequneces, restored Leninist methods
of state and party democracy and made far-
reaching democratic changes in the methods
of leadership and in the structure of the
Soviet Union. The 22nd Congress carried these
decisions to an even higher level by ex-
posing and ideologically defeating the at-
tempts of the anti-party group led by Molotov
to return to the policies which produced the
errors of the past. In its Leninist emphasis
on the role of the Soviet péople and their
socialist democracy in the building of com-
munism your congress warned not only the
Communists of the Soviet Union, but Com-
munist parties and peoples everywhere against
any and all tendencies to elevate leaders
above the party and above the people. The
enforcement of these Leninist principles is an
indispensable part of the further creative
development of socialist ideology and democ-
racy in order to build the new communist
society. They found expression in the party
rules which the 22nd Congress adopted.

We greet the principled approach to these
questions and the fearless exposure of mis-
takes.

DANGEROUS PATH
We fully share the opinions of the CPSU
regarding the harmful actions of the leader-
ship of the Party of Labor of Albania, which
has turned its back on its former endorsa-
tion of the political line of the 20th Congress
of the CPSU, and by its vendetta against the

CPSU has brought comfort to the enemies of!

communism. The policies adopted in the 1957
Declaration and the 1961 Statement of the
Communist and Workers’ Parties, which the
Communist Party of Canada fully endorsed,
are the foundations of the unity of the world

communist movement. By repudiating them}

the leaders of the Albanian Party of Labor
have taken a dangerous path. We express
the hope that the members of the Albanian
Party of Labor will bring about a correction
of the present policies and uphold the solid-
arity of the world communist movement.

'We assure you, dear comrades, that our
party will fight ever harder for peace and
peaceful coexistence and the building of last-
ing friendship between the peoples of our
two countries. :

Long live the solidarity of the world Com-
munist movement!

Long live communism! :

National Executive Commiitee,
COMMUNIST PARTY OF CANADA.

| ter’s

Socred drive for civic

election is the develop-

control

schools. The Socred candi-

| —_- By ERNIE KNOTT

_ VICTORIA—Although there
re four municipalities, ‘Oak
Bay, Esquimalt, Saanich and

‘ictoria area, the main politics
°f the municipal elections are
to be found in the latter two.
__ These municipalities to a
8reater or lesser degree all
ave the same problems as the
Test of B.C. such as_ school
Costs, civic debt and general
Municipal service problems. —

The big thing in this win-

Victoria City in the greater)

ment of a determined Social
Credit drive to capture control
of Saanich and Victoria oun
cils. Soered MLA Tisdale \is
running for reeve in Saanich
and Socred MLA Smith is run-
ning for mayor in Victoria.

In Victoria City we have the
spectacle of two Socreds, Smith
and McEwan, opposing each
other for the mayorality.

Besides the problems listed
above, the situation has be-

come worse with the introduc-

tion of survival drills in the,

dates, instead of facing these
issues squarely, are campaign-
ing on side issue, such as amal-
gamation and municipal own-
erhip of the BCE buses.

There is a lack of progres-
sive and labor candidates sand
the official labor movement, as
represented by the Victoria
Labor Council, seems to be in-
fluenced by the right wing
campaign against politics in
the trade union movement to

the extent that they are not)

running candidates.

people of Maple

By CARL HILLAND

Municipal elections are again|
just around the corner. An-
other year has gone by but
the main problems facing Ma-
ple Ridge are still unsolved:
How to provide all the needed
services such as roads, sewers,
water, hospitals and_ schools
and playgrounds in a growing
municipality without increas-
ing the tax burden on the
homeowner.

We need to build at least.
five classrooms every year to
keep up to the increased enroll-
ment in our schools. Half of
our 150 miles of roads are still |
gravel. In 1959 we had only
4.2 miles of storm sewers, 6.4
miles of sanitary sewers and
63.2 miles of water lines. The
need to extend and improve
these services is quite obvious.

The only answer is that we

!must make a change in our

whole federal, provincial and
municipal tax structure so that
the senior governments will
pay for a larger share of our
services. In 1933 municipalities
received 41.7% of the federal
tax dollar. The provincial
share was 18.9% and federal
share 39.4%. In 1960 munici-
pal share was only 16.9%
while federal was 61.8%. Pop-
ulation has tended to become
more concentrated in urban
areas.

Since the B.N.A. Act was

formed, the ratio has changed
from 20% urban and 80% ru-

ELECT
A
Fighting Candidate

-
Selmar Bean

1. Public Utility to be
established for water
and sewer.

2. Public inquiry into the
B.C. Real Estate Act.

3. Federal and Provincial
aid to education.

VOTE
BEAN

COUNCILLOR

SURREY
DECEMBER 7

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ral, to 70% urban and 30%
rural today. So while munici-
palities have been receiving
less and less from the federal
tax dollar they have had to
provide services for more and
more people. A change in des-
ignation of responsibility for
services under the B.N.A. Act
is needed.

In Maple Ridge, in 1959, the
taxpayer paid $712,000 in tax-
es or $44.00 per head for its
16,000 population. In 1960 the
federal government took from
each of us $188 for armaments
or approximately $1,888,000
from Maple Ridge. It is quite
obvious from these figures that
if our arms spending could be
cut in half the federal govern-
ment could pay for all our
municipal services and munici-
pal taxes could be wiped out.
Even a small reduction in arms
spending could be very benefi-
cial.

Ridge

Where do we start? Raise
the demand for per capita
grants from the federal gov-
ernment to cover the cost of
primary education and thus
cut down our school tax which
is the largest portion. Get your
candidate to take a stand on
these issues.

Whyte

Coni’d from pg. 8

(2) Fertilizer—manuring and
opening up new sources;

(3) Water—conservancy and
irrigation;

(4) Seeds—selection, breed-
ing, popularization of good
strains;

(5) Rational close planting;

(6) Plant protection — pre-
vention of diseases, insect pests
and natural calamities;

(7) Field management—pro-
per attention to growing crops;

(8) Reform of tools.

’ Three-level collective owner-
ship with the production bri-
gade as the basis is the basis
system of the rural people’s
communes at the present stage.
(The brigade is roughly the
equivalent of the former agri-
cultural cooperative.

Early ‘“communizing winds,”
which did harm to the com-
mune setup in some areas in
the experimental period and
led to egalitarianism and pool-
ing, blow no more today.

MISTAKES CORRECTED

The road traversed by agri- .
culture since liberation has
been: (1) land reform; (2) mu-
tual aid teams; (3 elementary
cooperatives; (4) advanced co-
operatives; (5) communes.

The rectification movement
has corrected mistakes of the
early period of the communes
and today the morale of the
peasants is high. Although it
may take several years to re-
cover ground lost during the
three years of unprecedented
natural calamities, neverthe-
less the peasants know they
are on the right road and are
confident that their living
standards will steadily rise.

The “aid to agriculture”
drive in industry means that
more farm implements and
machinery, chemical fertilizer,
insecticide and consumer goods
will reach the countryside in a
steady stream during the com-

ing months.

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