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tated far

presented the farmers’ demands
to Premier Jean Lesage and now
the marchers awaited an answer.
They waited in vain for Jean
Lesage,

Instead, Agriculture Minister
Alcide Courcy and Education
Minister Paul Gerin-Lejoie met
the discontented farmers who
plainly showed their resentment
at what they considered miserly
concessions - a 25 percent red-
uction in property taxes devoted

to education and a 20 percent -

increase in the price paid to the
farmer for raw milk,

Quebec farmers have been
strenously appealing against the
tax burden since 1954, They say
a survey of 44 parishes showed

that the farmer pays $209 to$211
in municipal and school taxes for

every $100 paid by urban proprie-
tors,

Manitoba sales fax rapped

In a letter to the press he said,
in part;

“The report fails to provide a
basic solution because it has eva-
ded the central issue of shifting
the tax burden from the shoulders

_of those least able to pay.

“The entire report is hitched
to a sales tax - the most iniqui-
tous and abnoxious form of taxa-
tion,

*¢4 sales tax would mean that
the wealthy would pay the same
sales tax as the person on wel-
fare or the old age pensioner and
the other people in the lower in-
come brackets...

“There is an alternative solu-’
tion to the tax crisis, Taxes on
nomes. can be reduced without
the imposition of a sales tax,
This could be done by taxing
large commercial and industrial
corporations more andthe people
less, Tax exemptions should be
granted to non-revenue bearing”
residences,”’

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a | ns

By TIM BUCK

The Congress of the Commun-
ist Pary of Australia, which met
from June 12 to 15, marked a
graphic political advance by the
Australian working class, A
hundred and sixty-four delegates
with voice and vote represented
active party organizations in each
of the six states of the country
and in the vast Northern Terri-

tories,

The Congress was held in the
Party’s own splendid new hall,
the entire ground floor of the
three storied ‘Jim Healy Build-
ing’’ that the membership is buy-
ing with additional monthly con-
tributions to honor the name of
their great and revered Jim,

The composition of the dele-
gates was itself a demonstration
of the high degree to which the
party is integrated with the work-
ing class as well as of its unity
Of the 164 delegates, 36 were
prominent trade union officers,
29 were professional men and
women, 115 of them were under
the age of 50 and no less than 105
of them have been members of
the party for 20 years or more,

The keynote of the National
Committee’s report, delivered
by the General Secretary Lance
Sharkey, was ‘‘The People versus
the Monopolies’’, The mass of
documented facts presented in
the report show clearly that, in
Australia as in Canada, United
States monopolies are moving in
and seizing control of strategic
positions in the economy, while
the War Department of the US,
government is exercising in-
creasing influence in the shaping
of the policies of the Australian

government,

Thus Australian patriots are
confronted now with the threat
of nuclear weapons in their
country. The United States is
establishing a base in Western
Australia, The excuse given to
the public is that it is ‘neces-
sary’’ for the guidance and in-
formation of United States nu-
clear submarines,

The Congress adopted the slo-
gan: ‘‘No Foreign Bases On Aus-
tralian Soil!’’

The Congress called upon Aus-
tralian democrats to compel the
Menzies government to stop in
its reckless commitment of Aus-
tralia to war in Malaysia and
Indonesia if the British imperial-
ists continue on their present
course, The report quoted ex-
ample after example in support!
of the Party’s warning that Bri-
tish imperialism cannot win such
a war, and Australian partici-
pation can only set this country
against the historic national ad-
vance of the peoples of South-
East Asia, The Congress adopt-
ed the slogan: **Bring Australian
Forces Home From Malaya.”

The Congress demanded also,
‘¢Fyll National Independence For
the People of New Guniea!’’

As in Canada, the economy of
Australia had undergone amark-
ed upswing during the past year
and a half, Indeed, contrary to
Canada, Australia’s economy has
expanded almost continuously
since the war, In Canada, the
Senate Committee on Manpower
and Unemployment pointed out
that, after each recession, un-
employment remained greater
than it had‘been after the pre-

vious one.

In Australia the opposite has

monopolies, as does its cot

poly fight

The Communist Party of Australia is leading the people’s struggle against the
terpart in C

Australian CP’s Congress
charts anti-mono

da. Above, a group of Australian

workers at a “‘stop work” meeting to back up their demands for a wage in-

creose.

been true, The economy has suf-
fered recessions, as all capital-
ist economy must, but every
recovery has carried production
to new high levels and has ab-
sorbed all workers into jobs, At
the present time there is relat-
ively little unemployment, On
May 29 only 1.1 percent of the
labor force of 4,400,000 were
unemployed,
: (2)

The difference between the
structure of the Australian eco-
nomy and that of Canada shows
clearly that the difference be-
tween our unemployment prob-
lems is a reflection of the dif-
ference between an economy
which, in the main, is stillowned
and controlled by Australian cap-
italists and an economy such as
Canada’s, of whichthe command-
ing heights are owned in the
United States, The Congress
focussed attention upon this and
called upon all who- love Aus-
tralia to act to keep her inde-
pendent by keeping her economy
under Australian control.

The Congress demonstrated
firm and unanimous unity against
‘the propaganda ofthe small group
gathered around Hill, who is
trying to win some support for
the splitting policy of the leaders
of the Chinese party, Every dele-
gate who spoke reported action
in his or her locality to expose
the falsity of the irresponsible

—Australian Tribune photo

adventurism of the Hill group.
A noticeable feature of this part
of the debate was the firm grasp
displayed by the delegates of the
theoretical question involved,
Thus, there was no name calling
and relatively little subjective
resentment, even on the part of
the comrades who have been per-
sonally slandered by Hill, There
was, however, example after ex-
ample of the contradiction be-
tween the Chinese leaders pro-
paganda and Australian realities,

The Menzies government re-
fused to grant visas to all fra-
ternal delegates from foreign
countries, As a result of this,
the only fraternal guests at the
Congress were from Canada,
Great Britain and New Zealand,
Like the government of Canada,
the Australian government is evi-
dently afraid to allow the people
to hear what the representatives
of the Communist parties of the
world have to say,

Seven new young members
were elected on the new Natio-
nal Committee, Lance Sharkey
was re-elected General Secre-
tary, R, Dixon, National Chair-
man and Lawrie Aarons, Vice-
Chairman, Altogether the Con-
gress marked an important ad-
vance by the Communist Party
on its path of tireless, democra-
tic struggle for peace, democ racy
and the highest interests of the
nation,

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