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PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS

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Labor's Fight

The result of the provincial elections confirms the
estimate of ther Labor-Progressive party regarding
the relative strength of the political parties in the
Province.

The LPP pointed out that the CCF could not defeat
the coalition alone. The LPP pointed out that only
unity of all progressive forces, including the CCF,
the LPP and the Trade Unions, could offer that al-
ternative which would rally the Progressive vote and
defeat the Hart-Maitland coalition.

Reaction is in the saddle in British Columbia as
a direct result of the failure to achieve electoral
unity. The CCF have lost representation, four seats
in Vancouver alone. This constitutes a repudiation,
by the industrial workers of this province of the policy
of disunity followed by the CCF.

The return of the coalition confronts the people
of this province with the immediate task of unifying
in a popular movement to resist the encroachment
of Tory reaction. ,

There is no doubt that the pressure of added Tory
strength will force the coalition to the right. But
there are many stresses and strains within the coa-
lition.

There are obvious differences, for instance, be-
tween the ideas of Pearson and Maitland and there
is no doubt that with problems ahead the contra-
dictions within the coalition, between the liberal
and arch-Tory elements will be sharper.

The coalition victory in B.C. strengthens the hand
of the Tories right across the country. It constitutes
a direct challenge to labor to rally and unify its ranks.

Only a solid front can win the battles for union
security, for jobs at adequate wages, for a low ren-
tal housing program—the things which represent
the immediate aims of our people.

Sectional and partisan differences must be forgot-
ten. The tasks ahead are grave. The lesson of this
election is clear. Disunity in labor's ranks brings vic-
tories for reaction. .

It is obvious that unless the CCF unite with the
Progressive section of the people, they will be in-
creasingly condemned. The people of this province
must build a popular united movement to combat
the coalition of reaction. This is the burning need
emphasized by the Hart-Maitland victory:

PAGE 4 — PACIFIC ADVOCATE

In P assing By C. A. Saunders :

(An Open Letter to Harold Winch) :

FOLLOWING the Ontario elections, I wrote an

open letter to E. B. Jolliffe, CCF leader of
that province, deploring his attitude following
the victory of Tory reaction in the provincial
elections. Z

After listening to your
remarks on the radio to-
night, following the return
of a Tory dominated Coali-
tion in British Columbia, I
believe it is necessary to ad-
dress a few remarks to you,
Harold .Winch. For if your
remarks demonstrate the,
general reaction of the CCF
leadership of this province,
it is evident that even the

sledge hammer blows of
practical results, and the
tremendous problems’ con-

fronting the workers of this
province mean nothing to
you.

You said, I quote verbatim, “I take a real
pride in the results of this election.”

Labor has suffered a defeat; a Tory domin-
ated coalition has been returned to power and
you take pride‘in the result.

Do you take a pride in the fact that the at-

titude of your associates and yourself resulted in
the return of reaction to power? Do you take

a pride in the fact that as a consequence of
your isolationist, partisan stand the struggles of
the workers for jobs, for homes, for labor and
social legislation have received a major setback?

Ar ound Town ip Cinthia Carter

pAvoine, the little girl who comes to ‘sit with

the baby, is a great reader of everything
from Whodunits to movie fan magazines and
Popular Mechanics, and being a thrifty soul
with an allowance she con- . sinenectncsrosnoncaneaane
siders woefully inadequate, =
she buys her mags at a little
secondhand book shop near
here.

“The savings,” she ex-
plains somewhat obscurely,
“are beneficent.”

Anyway, I know what she
means. My budget has no
two-way stretch either. So
last week I went along with
Pauline on a book-buying
forage, and while she look- i
ed for four-color pictures of Van Johnson, I be-
became utterly fascinated with a pile of old
Times, Lifes and Esquires. (The Esquires are
really a bargain: Half price, and nothing gone
but the Petty girl!)

Reading the old copies of these magazines
is really an education into the unreliability of
prophets, past and present. Read through Time,
Life, and other similar publications for 1920,
and you will be informed by “name” writers that
women will never really enjoy smoking, that the
world was definitely made safe for Democracy
by the war of 1914-18, that skirts can’t possibly
get any shorter, and that the Soviet experiment
is doomed to early failure. Take a look at the
same publication for ten years later, and you
will be told in equally serious vein that no

depression will ever overtake America, that over
in Italy some chap nafned Mussolini has a sys-
tem that really works, that jazz is a passing
fancy, and that the Soviet experiment will never
really succeed. In 1985 the same learned writers
were maintaining that Hitler would never make
war on a neighboring nation, that short hair for
women was here to stay, and that the Soviet
experiment would be abandoned by the end of
the year or, at the very latest, in the early
spring. And in 1940 we were informed that Bri-
tain would never.elect a labor government, that
women wouldn’t wear upswept hairdos, and that
the Soviet system was finally bankrupt.

Actually, this type of literature arouses the
sceptic in you. You end up by answering this
year’s “expert” declaration that labor will never
get together with a hearty “Oh, yeah?”

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Does the triumph of reaction :
joy to you? ee

Instead of being proud, 4
should be. making a very sobe
your party and its policies.

You have received major ;
industrial center in the county |
to B.C. The workers have rej
their votes for disunity. This is!
Harold, and you must take note
disasters face your party. a

EIN you stated, “tomorrow uf
forces and start the fish
elections” —- That might soy
phrase, but what about the mm
you are content to sit back for
hope that a CCF government - 4

~ the next elections, the workey

workers and all progressive peop :
tion of submitting to the rule oO
hope that another election will —
You have been telling your sup
the past ten years. For the pa
‘you ‘have been running arom
bragging that you would be #
instead you will lead a great] _
position. : :

If you will learn the lesse
peated; if you and your collea
the growing cry for unity aga’
threat of. reaction, we can ach

action which is even more necess ©

If not, Harold Winch,. you |
on your island of isolation We
tide of fighting progressive hur “4

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HALFWAY down the pile of hi

an Esquire dated January, ?
an article called How to Save Bu
the virtues of Social Credit. Be
ardent Social Gredit fan, admit
as Henry Ford, Benito Mussel |
Douglas of Alberta. He states”
“Mussolini started by cleaning
the mess, day by day, as he ste
least one company with 20 milli¢ a
that Social Credit will save then {

not loony.” =
With Social Crediters asking! ¢

our provincial elections, I found
esting to learn that a man
subject should lump Mussolini,
tal, and Social Gredit together :
good. :

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the fascist who deserted Americ 7
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THE other night we invited a
to dinner, a young Japan
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British Columbia, Joe was pre

ticularly since his mother was:

most inaccessible camp in the
was dispatched to thé east. That

is studying intensively the Jap: :
Japanese geography, history, an §
He figures he’ll be part of the
pation, and mostly he’s interest
out of Japan the last remnants 3
_ But as he thinks of the long: §
he gets a bit sad. : a e
“It’s important to go and hel
he says, “but I’ll miss B.C. ale

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