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by P. Rajaratnam

A. P. Kanapathipillai, P. A. candidate for the Nuwara Eliya district, addressing meetings at Great Western, Tangakelle, and in Agarapathana appealed the workers to analyse and assess the country's situation and the global trends at large and exercise their votes in the correct perspectives. He said the Communist party of Sri Lanka has fielded a candidate under the P.A. since 1968, when the C.P. candidate Jinendrasena had contested.

He said it was the Left Forces in the country which spearheaded the struggles of the plantation workers including the Mooloya Govindan and several other related issues against the British Raj and the brown sahibs. He said the plantation workers had been used as pawns during the elections and thereafter dropped as a rotten potato.

A vote, for the U.N.P. is similar to a jump from frying pan to fire.

Therefore, in the interest of the estate workers and the working class in general, it was the bounden duty of every worker in the country to vote for the P.A. and ensure its victory, Kanapathillai said.

He said the country faced an acute economic plight, and even countries like America and the rest of the western countries had the same problem.

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