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‘THE LPP IS CAMPAIGNING TO ELECT’

—TORONTO

The chances are splendid that
the Labor-Progressive party will
break through in this federal el-
ection to provide a people’s par-
liamentary opposition to the
government, LPP national leader
Tim_ Buck told a packed rally
of Toronto election workers last
week. (Earlier this month, the
Financial Post practically con-
ceded Buck’s victory in Toronto-
Tninity. )

“We are not carrying on a
desperate campaign just to win
Tnmnity,” said Buck, “We are
carrying on a_ national campaign |
to elect a real parliamentary op-

the real parliamentary opposition
in Ontario. (And W. A. Kar-
dash in the Manitoba legislature).
There is a very good chance we
will elect at least three mem-
bers.”

The LPP national leader re-
ported on Harry Binder’s Mon-
treal - Cartier campaign and of
the swing to Joe Zuken in Win-
mpeg North. A full mobiliza-
tion of all supporters in the final
weeks before June 27 would
send both to join him in the
House of Commons.

“The general progressive trend
is expressed at one end in dwind-
ling support for the Tories and

position just us A. A. McLeod |

at the other end in growing back-

Buck expects win in at least 3 seats

“Foreign ‘trade is ‘dwindling
and unemployment rising due to
the St. Laurent government’s cal-
culated hostility to over half the
people of the world (including
China.) This restricts our mar-
kets to less than half the globe.

“This issue has never been
fought by the CCF, nor have
they fought for peace. Only the
LPP will revive’ the fight for
peace in the House.

“By our work we will help to
convince the labor movement
that we are the party of the
working class, the party of the
nation. We will then be able to
go back to the Commons a much
stronger group and we will have |

SEAMEN

A benefit dance for the CG
strike fund will be held in Pen
Auditorium on Friday, June 1%
8:30 p.m., and tickets are sell
like hot cakes. A floor show, @
prizes and an auction of souve
from all parts of the world will
added features at the dance. ~

The Canadian labor movem!
has realized that the suspension
the CSU by Congress was done
orders of William Green and Le
top AFL brasshats, and represen

/a serious threat to the auton

of the Canadian trade union mov
ment. A nation-wide fight to nave
the CSU reinstated has begun.
Typical of the reaction of Vi
See unions to the Congres?
suspension order was the ac
of the United Fishermen and
lied Workers’ Union, which
week sent a letter from the ge”
eral executive board to TLC pres
ident Percy Bengough, “stron
protesting the action of the 7
in suspending the CSU while ™
organization is fighting for
life.”

and J. B. Salsberg have becomeing for the LPP,” he added. |a greatly strengthened [LPP.”’ TIM BUCK British crew members of tW?

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ELECTIONS

outright support for the Atlantic
pact declared by CCF leader Har-
old Winch.

The conelusion is inescapable

that had the CCF leadership car-
ried out the majority wishes of its
membership and supporters in
campaigning for peace and against
the Atlantic pact, as demanded . by
its provincial convention, and had
it maintained its original stand for
repeal of the sales tax and taken
a fighting position on other issues
instead of retreating before the
Coalition’s ‘smear campaign, it
could have carried the election. It
could have given progressive or-
Sanized labor and all voters the
leadership for which they looked
in vain.

The straits to which the policies
of the dominant right-wing leader-
Ship have reduced the CCF is the
most urgent problem facing CCF
members and _ supporters today,
substantiated by the outcome of an
lection which was already lost be-
fore election day.

East European orders
rejected, layoffs begin

The crisis in Canada’s export
workers in Toronto in the next few w
time, a well-informed source told the
—which are based on Marshall plan
countries—a large order for Massey-

The order (from New Democ- |

racies of eastern Europe which do
not subscribe to the Marshall plan)
was reportedly big enough to keep
Massey-Harris operating at full
capacity for a year

Reports from Montreal and
Winnipeg indicate that big lay-
offs of rail workers in both CNR
and CPR shops are scheduled to
take place after the federal elec.
tion.

A United Automobile Workers’!

trade will bring: about a mass layoff of hundreds of Massey-Harris
eeks, it was lewned authoritatively this week.
Canadian Tribune here that because of Ottawa export regulations
policies and which prevent freen flow “of trade to eastern European
Harris farm equipment was lost.

—TORONTO.

Yet, at the same

official told the Canadian Tribune
that the union was expecting “se_
rious” layoffs at Massey-Harris be-
fore August, with about 50 em-
Pployees scheduled to go this week.
A 2,500 figure was the estimation
of another member of the UAW.
This is about half the working force
of the Toronto plant which lies in
Trinity riding where Tim Buck
is expected to be elected June 27,
. So serious is the farm equipment
situation as a result of the Marsh-
all Plan that the Massey-Harris

company is expected to completely
shut down its Woodstock tractor
Plant with the resultant loss of
employment for approximately 600.

Heavy layoffs in the farm equip-
ment industry have already, and
still are, taking place in the U. Ss.
Now that the backlog of Canadian
orders is exhausted and the com-
pany is protected by a stockpile
whose size has been considerably
increased through speed-up meth-

British freighters in port here &
pressed desire to stage a sympatt
tie-up for the CSU, but local un®
officials advised them against SU
action, pointing out that be
would be liable to jail sentences ¥
der the British Shipping Act.

In Britain, striking stevedore®
returned to work, on the under —
standing that they would refl
to touch cargoes on aay a , 8
dian ship unless mann
OST cones Sone 28 Canada
ships remain strike-bound in U.
ports. Two more Canadian snipe
the Brazilian Prince and
Cabano, joined the _ strike ;
week. Southampton Trades com
cil and all affiliated unions hav”
pledged 100 percent support
the CSU. x
At Brisbane, Australian sear ig
and shore workers are threaten’
a boycott of all Canadian vo d
unless a striking CSU crew is -
patriated to Canada or paid
tenance,

. € the

CSU national leaders placed ‘ae
blame for the Congress suspen’
order on the shoulders of the pe)
ecutive of the American ret
tion of Labor; the U.S. state eat
partment; the Liberal govern™

ods, the industry faces an ava-
lanche of layoffs.

CMA

By BRUCE MICKLEBURGH

—TORONTO

Most significant question to be
decided at the polls June 27 is not

whether the Liberals will go back

or whether the CCF will be the
official opposition. It’s whether
progressive Canadians will suc-
ceed in sending to the Commons a
real people’s opposition. At moment
of writing there’s every prospect
that LPP national leader Tim
Buck will head such a group at
Ottawa. The repercussions, when
Canadians are still moving left in
their political thinking, and when
Canada is heading into crisis, will
be big.

Most observers predict the Lib-
erals will be returned June 27, but
they also report the Liberal-Tory
contest has stirred up little excite-
ment. The apathy results partly
from Liberal-Tory-CCF agreement
on U.S. war policies that are
bringing crisis to our economy,

As the crisis breaks wide open
Sweeping mass movements can re-
place indecision.

As it is, the stand of the LPP
against the 3-party war line-up
has already produced consider-
able repercussions in the CCF
camp. The force of public critic-

warning of slump
rips Liberal claims

ism has now been backed by the
LPP call to mark ballots for
peace in all ridings where there
is no LPP or other peace candi-
date in the field. Naturally, bal-
lot-box criticism hits the vote-
hungry with telling force. Pres-
Sure from sections of the labor
and farm movements is fortify-
ing the inner CCF revolt against
top brass CCF espousal of Liber-
al policies,

British Columbia: and the Mari-
times have already had severe un-
employment and_ shrinkage of
farm markets. Now come layoffs in
Canada’s industrial heartland like
gulls flying inland before the
storm: Massey Harris, textile, Inco,
Westinghouse at Hamilton, Ply-
mouth Cordage and Atlas Steel
are a few.

Trade Minister Howe is leading
the Liberals’ prosperity chorus,
but the bosses of the old-line par-
ties are singing a different tune.
The Globe and Mail financial edi-
tor reports from the convention of
the Canadian Manufacturers’ As-
sociation that, “Very early... dis-
cussion passed over to the practi-
cal problems which will face all in-
dustry after next September if
falling demand from abroad and

at home causes decreased employ-
ment.” ~

The progressive trend in popu-
lar thinking can be seen in the
dwindling of Tory support. Anti-
Drew sentiment is dominant among
the voters, most of whom see the
Tory leader as a symbol of the
naked reaction they fear most.
Drew’s desperation has led him
again to the type of potentially
dangerous demagogy in which he
makes sensational exposures of
Liberal deals with big business.

Much of St. Laurent’s present
support is based more on anti-
Drew feeling than pro-Liberal feel-
ing. The Liberals have assiduously
Promoted the theory that of the
two old-line parties they are .the
‘lesser evil’ and that the only
way to keep out Drew is to re-elect
the Liberals. Where ears have
been closed to straight Liberal
serenades the CCF has appeared
to reiterate that Drew is the main
enemy.

The treachery of the “lesser
evil” hoax is that it cloaks the
nature of the Liberal government
as itself the instrument through
which Canadian big business car-
ries through its surrender of

on jobs

Canada to the war-crisis policies
of Wall Street.

The other variety of the ‘Jesser.
evil” theory is being used by CCF
right-wing politicians among people
disgusted with old-line policies but
not enamored of the Coldwell-
Lewis-Mosher line. It’s likewise
treacherous because it’s designed
to chain people in fundamental
disagreement with old-line policies
to party leaders who are in fun-
damental agreement with them.

Hlevation of the “lesser evil” tac-
tic to priority by Liberal and CCF
politicians in itself reveals that
most voters are consciously seek-
ing for good things, such as se-
curity. housing, jobs, freedom and
peace. These aspirations are rec-
ognized in the propaganda of all
parties, :

Most crystallized expression of
the progressive trend is the sup-
port LPP candidates are getting,
highlighted by the very real pros-
pects of electing at least Tim Buck,
Harry Binder and Joe Zuken. Their
opposition to Liberal- Tory, CCF
policies in the House will be for-
tified, in the critical months ahead,
by the fact that the LPP is already
on record across the nation with
the peace policies that alone offer
a road out of crisis, Their stand in
the House will help millions of
Canadians to remember that and
act accordingly.

PACIFIC TRIB

at Ottawa and the powerful ship?”
ing companies. Supporting
combination in its efforts to amie
the militant seamen’s union are OF
Tories, the right wing of the hin
and employer hatchetmen rank
the labor movement, and Rail
Hall of the eae nae of ‘
nd Steamship Clerks. :
phe CSU revealed that
AFL executive had threatens on
withhold per capita paymen® aid
110,000 Canadian members jon
establish another trade vu” ae
center unless id CSU was
elled by the TLC. :
rOsuU simailient Harry Davis, cy
pealing to all TLC affiliate’ rn
resist the foreign dictation, :
ed that it was not only the which
ence of the seamen’s union cedom
was at stake, but also the fr or
and independence of the CoP nat
and every union affiliated tO 71.
organization. If the Canadian de-
ernment and the U.S. he ‘ents
partment could interfere wit tion?!
and autonomy of a ne
trade union center such oe was
TLC, then no Canadian unio tnat
safe. He emphasized the eee
the existence, freedom, ae
and independence of the T
at stake. >

Surrey LPP will
hold election picnic —

Summer is here and outdoor der
nics and lawn parties are te g0-
of the day. Right now ee ithe
cials head the agenda. cee piace
the best is scheduled to tak’ ¢ 269.
Friday, June 24, at 3 p.m.
Johnson Road.

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