~ tinued from Page One j that we shall have to play mg the democratic people th forward towards a more and happier Canada in the convention is assembled gind is at the climax of the and most terrible military eyer waged. We are as- { aS it becomes clear that Nations victory in Europe dle this year, if every effort | to achieve that victory mg out that “the mighty 2 of the Red Army is clear SAAT ._ MeEwen bc ATU TTT ET hat the Nazis can be de- fhis year, if the available * power of the United Na- 3; brought to bear against ue continent of Europe, aid: this climactic ‘situation, it fuse of grave concern that S as yet no second front ‘ern Europe. What is even is the mounting signs of feney—and even of calcu- elay.” = stated that the “demand ais convention merges with mand that is rising again Aout the democratic world. 4p a second front in wes- surope! Develop mighty =d offensive operations se Red Army! Smash the #ar machine this year in ¥s of a two-front war!” omprehensive review of do- problems and needs, Buck sommunists have supported tion of the Dominion goy- t calculated to help win the e shall continue to support svernmental actions regard- Jess of what party is in power. We are proud of the sreat. achieve- ments of our people beeause Can- ada’s contribution to the United Wations’ war effort has been im- mense. “But, immense as our contribu- tion has been, it is not—even at the end of this, the fourth year of the war—the full effort of which our people would have been cap- able if the government had placed its trust in the democratic deter- mination of the people and de- veloped policies to utilize to the full our national unity and our determination to win.” Declaring that the King sovern- ment must revise its policies to bring them into line with the peo- ples needs and demand for an invasion of Europe this year or ge down to overwhelming defeat, Buck said: “The majority of the people are dissatisfied with the Dominion goy-| ernments conduct of the war ef- fort. They are fed up with its studied evasion of fundamental is- sues—and sarcastic about iis half measures when such issues can no longer be ignored.” Turning to post-war issues, he stated: “During the next two years, mo- mentous issues will confront the people of Canada. We shall be faced with historic alternatives. The basie character of our nation- al policies in foreign affairs, in domestic affairs, in labor relation- ships, the role of government in the maintenance of national pros- perity or otherwise, and the issue of unity or deepening division be- tween the two great language groups of our country must all be faced and decided upon. “Our decisions as a nation on these issues will determine wheth- er Canada shall go forward or if we shall go back. “These historic issues will be fought, in the main, on the field of parliamentary activity. the next two years there will be half a dozen provincial elections and a Dominion election, and the governments chesen will be the governments that direct the poli- cies of Canada during the post-war years. ‘We declare that the aim and purpose of all governmental poli- cies in Ganada after the war must be the maintenance of national , prosperity and social security for all our people. ‘We declare that Canada’s great- est opportunity to help assure dem- ocratic peace and progress in the world coincide with her own pres- ent and future trade interests and security from aggression. “Tt lies in her independent hut intimate association with the Unit W. Z. Foster __ ichind the Soviet-Polish Break— Alter Brody — joviet Trade Unions and Allied Labor Unity 10c ‘rade Unions and the War —W. Z. Foster____10¢ rade Unions of Our Soviet Ally — Clifford McAvoy = z 10c ‘he Crisis in India — James T. Allen_.____— 10c Nage Policy in War Production — Earl Browder _ 5c nside Italy — M. Ercoli *he USSR at War — 50 Questions & Answers 10c ; @ . The People Bookshop 105 Shelly Building” MA 6929 ___10¢ Vancouver : ee West Pender Within | AACA Fergus McKean Chairman of the British Col urmbia section of the Labor- Progressive party who was elected to the national com- mittee at the party’s first national convention in Tor- onto last week. Other BC members of the national committee are: Tom McEw- en, Harvey Murphy, Charles Stewart and Minerva Coop- er. At its first meeting this week the committee elected the following executive: Tim Buck, national leader; Evar- iste Dube, national chairman; Sam Carr, national organizer; Stanley B. Ryerson, director of education and publicity; J. B. Salsberg, MPP, director of industrial work; T. Charles Sims, executive secretary; and A. A. Macleod, MPP, Ald. Stewart Smith, WNor- man Freed, Fred Rose, MP, Jean Bourquet, Mrs. Dorise Neilsen, MP, Leslie Morris, Ald. H. Hunter, Mars. Annie Buller and Mrs. Helen An- derson. Dr. William Corn- wall, of St. Catherines, Ont., was named national treas- urer. AITTOULLUQVOVOCOOUCTOUUTAEOGUUOOTULUESATAO OOOOH ed States, Great JBritain, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and China, on a basis of voluntary cooperation in the spirit of the Atlantic Charter, as part of an active independent role in the world-wide organization for col- lective security. “Such are the policies, domestic and foreign, for which we fight now—and for which we will con- tinue to fight in the post-war period.” A manifesto summarizing the mImany resolutions before them was presented to delegates by Tom McEwen, secretary of the British Columbia section of the party, and unanimously approved. It declared the Labor-Progressive Party to be a “party of socialist- minded Canadians pledged to vic- tory, democracy and progress,” and called on “all those who agree with our aims to enroll in our ranks.” It advanced as a program “to achieve speedy victory, prosperily in the peace and national demo- cratic progress: 1. The immediate Europe. 2. Labor and farm partnership invasion of Convention Calls For Invasion Now with the government, by means of a Labor Code, the right to collec- tive bargaining, the raising of sub- standard wages, labor-management cooperation in production and win- the-war production committees in every farm community. 3. Equal pay for equal work for women and young people above 18. 4. A publicly announced govern- ment guarantee to the men and women in the armed forces, pledg- ing to them: a job upon demobiliz- ation; generous discharge gratui- fies; training with pay in new trades and professions; adequate pensions for disabled veterans and bereayed families. 5. A post-war reconstruction pro- gram, based on these general prin- ciples: The conversion of peace-lime production. industry. to The nationalization of such mon- opolies as power; the sovernment ownership and operation of war plants built out of public funds and their conversion to the produc- tion of peace-time goods. Long-term, low-interest state eredits to farmiers; crop insurance; a National Agricultural Policy to protect the family farm. Wational non-centributory unem- ployment insurance; national health insurance; state maternity bene- fits. A billion-dollar national Housings Program to replace the developing slums; a public works construction scheme. A national minimum wage of $25 weelly for all workers. Tax exempt pensions -for all dis- abled citizens. A National Youth Administration for systematized state aid for youth. The extension of the fran- ehise to all citizens reaching the age of 18. Tax reform, based on ability lo pay; increased corporation taxes. TIOCCE TET Charles Stewart YUNVTOUAYVOOYUUULUOOEVOOTUDOUOUAUOOENEVELUOOUUVOOOYEUEFECTEUUOTEOELEOTLOPELUUEEEAOOUELETA LUT Constitutional reform, to give Parliament full power to amend Canada’s constitution, and the su- pervision and control of social leg- islation and education. Dominion action to bring the eco- nomic and social conditions of Que- bee up to general Canadian stan- dards, safeguarding all French- Canadian institutions and rights. International cooperation with all nations to outlaw aggression, pre- vent war, arbitrale disputes, estab- lish mutual trade agreements—all to be founded upon the principles of non-interference’ in the internal affairs of nations and the liberation of the colonial peoples. 3 As | Labor Looks At it iby C. A. Saunders RGANIZED labor today must be fully cognizant of the schemes of anti-labor and outright fascist influences lo wreck the trade union movement. MBasically the method is to provoke organized labor by every means so that it will eventually explode in-some action that will create a stoppage in war production and, thereby it. Fascists and reactionary indus- trialists will gain comfort from such provocative and malicious state- ments as those made this week by Arthur Turner, CCF MLA for Van- couver East, in a vicious attack upon the “no strike” policy of or- ganized labor during the war em- ergency. When a man, purporting to rep- resent the working people in the provincial house, takes it upon him- self to criticize a policy generally concurred in by organized labor throughout North America, it is an ample demonstration of his ignor- ance, both of the trade union move- ment and the working class in gen- eral. Turner stated that those unions which had not followed a “no strike” policy were the only unions to make any gains, while the unions following that policy had made no gains. This by itself is a provoca- tive statement; indeed it is an out- right invitation to strike action, and furthermore falls to pieces when examined in the light of fact. He referred to “an organization in this district which has followed a ‘no strike’ policy for the last two years. He left no doubt in the minds of his listeners as to the identity of the organization he referred to, al- though he either lacked the cour- age to mention it by name, or else he was so well aware of the falsity of his statements that he did not dare. Arthur Turner was chosen by this union to represent it on an arbitration board, so he should be well aware of the whole nature of the proceedings. He knows full well that these workers are en- gaged in the production of ene of the most yital materials of war, yet he condemns the policy that has kept them on the job, producing in the face of all provocations. ce loggers in the BC woods will take careful note of this ma- licious and unprovoked attack on the orficers and members of their organization. They know that there is not another union on the Pacific eoast which has made the gains, economically and organizationally, except perhaps the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, another CIO af- filiate with a “no strike” policy in vital war production industries. They will have confidence in the tried and trusted leadership of trade unionists with years of ex- perience in the field of organized labor. They will recognize the wis- dom of trying to settle disputes in every possible way before resorung to strike action in this critical period. They also deplore the federal governments labor policy, which prevents labor from becoming a full partmer in the nation’s war ef- fort, and despise the activities and utterances of those who are guided by political expediency and oppor- tunism into paths that will only play into the hands of the anti-labor industrialists, wreck the workers’ -organizations and weaken the Struggle for the destruction of fas- cism. discredit wt ‘ea