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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

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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

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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.

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(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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