ie ul | LPP stands for policies which Eenethen the friendship of the that live side by side in Canada. and for the full national equality eh and English-speaking Canada; equal partnership of our peoples Pn fully equitable representation rment, and equality of oppor- m economic, social and cultural » party is pledged to fight for the fut of the conditions of extreme @ which weigh upon French Can- *, heritage of the dark past. We edged to work for the outlawing Semitism and all forms of dis- jon based om pretexts of national iolor or creed. fable Canada to solve her post- ‘blems, Dominion-Provincial rela- ast be brought into accord with ple’s needs. For this the LPP sat a Domuinion-Provincial Con- ‘e Called as soon as possible after © to thoroughly review and pro- ):ndments to our Constitution, the *North America Act. PP proposes that these amend- ' clude the followine: F-adjust the division of authority = en the Mominion and the Proyv- }acing ~responsibility upon the in government for social legisla- 61 labor standards, legislation [ corporations and trade and (: re-adjustine also, in accord "+h changes, the distribution of = uthority and Dominion ne provinces: subsi- © intain the rights-of the provinces Irs pertaining to religion, educa- o > = P Federal Election Platform 10. Unite Our Country tion, control of natural resources, super- vision of municipal affairs and civil rights, while granting the Dominion govern- ment extended jurisdiction in matters per- taining to social legislation, restriction of monopolies and national action re- quired to maintain production. @ Grant self-government to the people of the Yukon by establishing an elective representative governing body for the district. @ An amendment to authorize provin- cial governments to delegate their pow- ers and authority in any given field to the Dominion government without pre- judice to their authority as a whole. The foregoing measures are urgently needed now. Our full aim, howev€r, must be to provide Canada with a National Constitution which will bring Confeder- ation fully inte accord with present day conditions, a Constitution which can be amended when necessary by Canada’s Parliament and by no other authority, under conditions and by procedure estab- lished to protect provincial rights. By adoption of our own Constitution we should: : @ Abolish appeals to the Privy Coun- cil. @ Include in the Constitution a spe- cific Bill of Rights, containing guaran- tees of civil liberty, freedom of con- science, and recognition of the equality of rights of the national communities of French and English Canada. @ Make our Parliament fully elective. @ Adopt an official Canadian flag, and proclaim “Oh Canada” the national an- them of our country. blessings to Mx. Chaloult. We ask that the Premier de- Chaloult that he retract his words and thereby Montreal, Que. mand of Mr. B ineous protest that safeguard the reputation of our province and the honor of our women workers. DR. DANIEL LONGPRE, BLES arisen everywhere Finsult of Mr. Rene @ Quebec women war Poroof of the. resent- } people of our proy- = the attitude of Mr. his Supportexs. ne Chaloult and his F: and elsewhere in Me nad not constantly Pe otage the war ef- | "tuggle for the de- ‘r institutions as a might have been » 2 clese sooner. © constantly tried the morale of our . 0 disrupt the unity { Siry with the Allied = ty whieh will gua- | uture prosperity of —Mr. Chaloult, at the decisive victory to attack the rising nent of our prov- haloult did not get House to ask for ~*~ wages for women € did not ask for legislation to im- ang condition. He mself with insult- or of our working #lessis—who claims efender of our pro- —has given his (a NY ga FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Ji! =-- JANYAR ¥ sae 1929 ij iH ara VL iy Tet EL eee riiit iil | HS CUTIE da iirerresateayspt ppt hein CEB ee : Z QA ‘AG @) \\ AW '6 \ OFA | Vi THA \\ : ¢ Q : P Ny vA, EE \ KN Lifl ey \\ A. ANS Zilggpere Nw eS He Sot (\ te ma Ri ‘| we AN May that destiny be fasting peace. cf Apna i; 1945 Page 5 SUAS SaAAUUMSPARENNLONSEUCERSDURELEREESLESISEPAVATALSUISUSTEPELERAETEG SSAC LITZNTTLIVAYERELIRUETLIVATEUATYITIEE Short Jabs i, 0 OREXAAANRGRNARGESSASEAESESEEESUGHSCEsropadeCanodRsLaeoTUSU0SEOTETANASEYISUYATELYINI2I2920229 2POBERPEELIISINYETED Bombs, Plots and Such-like [ES professional psychologist must get many thrills in the pursuit of his calling, the vagaries of the human mind being so multitudinous and embracing such A wide variety of unreasonable (to the rational individual) actions. This is particularly so if the psychologist is not possessed of the economic key, the materialist key which is “the open See to the thought and actions of most individuals in modern society. The histcry of the labor movement in the West is replete with many instances, both of the group mind and of the individual mind, that will stand the psychologist on his heels if he does not have the economic key to explain their meaning. In the nineties of last century, Cripple Creek, Colorado, was a three-dollar-a-day town. But the cost of iving was rising, so the min- ers struck for an increase in wages. The mine-owners were not all of the sdme stripe. A few were fairly liberal and were willing’ to make advances. There were others, however, backed by the State governor, Peabody, as reactionary as any gang of Tories who ever wielded the big stick; regular 1896 edition of “Pick-handle” Johnson; Olsen’s pre- decessor as governor of Galifornia. 3 One of these outfits secured a force of strike-breakers to partially operate their mine. One morning, while the strike-brealkers were at work in the lower levels an explosion occurred and that was the end of the strike-breakers. Hxamination and investigation proved nothing as to how the explosion had occurred, but everybody in Cripple Creek were satisfied that the mine was dynamited by the owners. This was an expression of the working of the group mind of one section of the community. The psychologist’ would say, in this case, if he had the key, that the dynamiting would provide the owners with grounds for appealing to the State governor for military aid to maintain law and order. ... And that is precisely what happened. 7 : It. is easy to understand that the minds of a group of greedy, srasp- Ing mine-owners, whose profits were made through grinding the faces of a whole community, would not be phazed by the wiping out of a few scabs. Other instances could be quoted in the labor history of the West. And the economic factor will explain all of them. When we have to deal with individuals, however, the problem be- comes.a little more complex., The economic factor is not always the key to the explanation of the things the mind of the individual makes him do. The man in the street, rational beyond the psychologist, has his own explanation for some of these phenomena, “just plain loony.” A few months ago a section hand in the Hast, reported to the police that he had been held up and shot from ambush. He was shot all right and had to have a bullet dug out of his shoulder. Police investigations preved that the man had shot himself and made up the cock-an-bull story about being ambushed. He admitted that to be the truth and fot a prison term for creating a-nuisance. Why he shot himself, whether it was to get sympathy or publicity or what, was never divulged. Tools of Reaction But there are people who have done the same kind of thing for economic reasons, who for some gainful purpose have pulled off the most peculiar actions. There are people:-who hire out to the reaction- aries for what they can get but of it. They are willing to commit murder to bring discredit on the leaders of the labor movement. One such was the notorious Harry Orchard, as scoundrelly a figure as ever appeared in American history, who planted the bomb that killed ex-Governor Stuennenberg and brought about the trial for murder of Bill Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone, leaders of the Western Federation of Miners. They were linked with Orchard in the trial but were proved to be innocent. Orchard, tool of the reactionary mine-owners was found guilty and sent to prison for the murder. This same Orchard had previeusly made a phoney attempt on his own life. Naturally it. failed and so did his objective, which was to fasten the blame for his “attempted murder” on Bill Haywood and the other union officials. Orchard was “on the payroll” of the mine-owners and had to justify his job. He had to deliver the goods in some form or other—even if it meant maiming himself. He was in the same box as these private dicks who spy on the trade unions. They have to provide harassing intrigues, that makes the boss who pays the piper, tremble with fright at the tune. They might discover bomb plots that some trade union leader is ‘back of, and since there are no such plots, they have to stage the actions that would follow such plots. The Tom Mooney case is the best known of this frame. 5 They are also like the stool pigeons who write threatening letters to themselves to make the public tremble for their safety. Marx came up against one of them in Herr Vogt, whe sued him for slander. Vogt wrote in a German paper about the threats made against him during the time the case was at law. Marx immediately labelled these as hav= ing been written by Vogt himself. : When the Paris Commune was set up,: documents: found in the French Government archives proved that Vogt was in the pay of the upstart Louis Buonaparte as a police agent at the time he was supposed to have been slandered by Marx, who had smelt him out for what he was, a police spy on the movement of that day. No matter what type of mind these rats have—just plain crazy or erazy like a fox——the fascist-minded elements in all capitalist countries will hunt them out and use them to disrupt the trade union movement. It behooves the loyal unionist, then, to be on guard against such elements. Give them the horse laugh if they are just plain crazy, but give them nothing else. Treat them like rattlers, if they are crazy like a fox, (and they are mostly like that), for they are deadlier than any reptile.