COMMUNISM IN CANADA

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 123, 20 November 1931, Page 9

COMMUNISM IN CANADA

PRAIRIE FARMERS TOO*

SOCIALIST PROGRAMME;

(Deceived 20th November, 10 a.m.); ]>

VANCOUVER, 19th ■ November. ' A message*, from Brandon, Manitoba* states that social ownership and thai abolition of production' for profit re* ceived the approval of tho' United} Farmers of Manitoba on Thursday.

"In the opinion of the United Farm* era of Manitoba, the present" oeonomioj crisis is due to the. inherent unsound* ness of tho capitalistic system, based oul . private ownership of resources and thai capitalistic control of production andj distribution. That involves the pay-! ment of rent, interest, and profit," thaj last clause of a sweeping twenty-point) future policy programme stated., This action places the Manitoba, body] beside the United Farmers of Canada* Saskatchewan section, in support off Socialism. ■ The amortisation of all) farm mortgages and purchase agrees ments retroactively as 7 per cent. wai| , backed by the meeting,' and decision! • I was reached to have-the executive anil local committees to niako an' extensive) study of the approved principle of the( nationalisation •of land to ■ provide | security of tenure. • , .

A ban on political affiliations' in fhaf Manitoba Legislature was urged, ' thai convention voting in favour of tho de« velopment of the idea of a provincial* isation of the Legislature to tho effectj that it be a superior municipal council without political affiliations. ' .