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The Issue in Quebec

HIS coming week, in two provinces, the peo-
ple will go to the polls, and their decisions
will have a profound influence on the shape of
things to come. Obviously, the weight of that
decision lies in Quebec where the Liberal gov-
ernment of Premzer Adelard Godbout stands
as the only alternative to Andre Laurendeau’s
Bloc Populaire and Maurice Duplessis’ Union
Nationale. And it will be a defeat, not alone
for the people of Quebec, but for all the Ca-
nadian people, should either of these two pro-
fascist parties or a combination of them win
the day. .

Canadian- labor. will-not be stronger but
weaker if a regime bent on destroying the gains
the French-Canadian workers have made since
1939 comes to power at Quebec. Nor will the
democratic perspective of the Canadian people
as a whole be clearer if Laurendeau or Duples-
sis, or both, succeed in denying it to the Prench-
Canadian people. English and French-Canad-
fans cannot march together under divided
banners. They can and must march together for
democracy.

A, victory for the Bloc or the Union Na-

tionale in Quebec will be a victory for fascism “
to be applauded only by the Nazis and by

those within our own country whose goal is
in the past and not in the future. Within our
own country there will have been created a
center of reaction which ultimately must seek
to destroy democracy everywhere in Canada
and ally itself with world reaction.

The significance of the alternatives in Que-
bec fer continued national unity should serve
as a sharp reminder to those here and elsewhere
in Canada who find their “socialist” attacks on
that unity strangely endorsed by Quebec fas-
cists.

An Irresponsible Statement

AROLD WINCH, leader of the CCF opposi-
‘tion in the legislature, has frequently made
headlines with his rash and ill-considered state-
ments, but his latest observation at Lethbridge
that “Hitler came to the rescue (of prewar
(Liberal and Social Credit governments). Yes,
Hitler came to the rescue with another war,”
is the most astounding of all. As after his
radical outburst at Calgary some months ago,
Harold Winch will probably be explaining what
he really meant for weeks to come.

Nevertheless, such remarks as these express
the blind partisan policies which make the CCF
the second choice of the Bloc Populaire in
Quebec. : ..

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Editor

How will this remark strike the thousands
of Canadians whose husbands, sons and broth-
ers have put on their country’s uniform in
order to destroy Hitlerism.

And how will it strike the peoples of eccu-
pied Europe who M. J. Coldwell not so long
ago claimed were looking to the CCF “as a bright
spot in efforts to achieve social democracy.’’
Harold Winch will not find anyone in the broad
united movements Of national liberation to
agree with his party's anti-unity stand, let
alone endorse his obscene picture of Hitler as a
Savior. : foe ane

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HE war has produced great changes in our na-
tional economy. Our industry has expanded
and our people have found ‘full employment

producing the materials with which we can win
not only the war but also the peace, for the.

destruction of Hitlerism in itself opens up op-
portunities for world advance that could not
exist so long as fascism was in the ascendancy.
Cooperation between the United States, the
Soviet Union and Britain, the foundation for

which was laid at the Teheran Conference,
offers the prospect of full industrial. operation -

and employment in the postwar period pro-
vided democracy, as represented by the national
unity of all sections of the people supporting
the Teheran perspective, can hold the ascend-
ancy over those powerful reactionary groups
who derive so much comfort from the CCP’s
divisive policies.

Regardless of what Harold Winch really
meant, the implication in his remark is that
Hitler played a dirty trick on the CCF by com-
ing to the rescue of -its opponents with a war
and so spoiling the lovely depression and pre-
sumably the CCF’s hopes of electing a national
government. So Harold Winch blithely 1g-
nores the major issues of national unity, of
victory and peace, and concentrates on his own
private war to the detriment of the people’s
interests, gloomily predicting that unless the
people accept his brand of “‘socialism’’ the
country will sink back into the depression from
which Hitler so inconsiderately lifted it.

By such remarks, and there have unfortun-
ately been many of them in the course of re-
cent and current election campaigns, the CCF
adds nothing to its claim to be a responsible
political party acting in the interests of the
working people, nor does it contribute anything
to the prosecution of the war or the construction
of the peace. On the contrary, Such remarks are
the stamp of political irresponsibility.

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By Tom Mic|

EFORE the war most Canadians in the moderate |
familiar with the stock phrase, “Where's: the m
leged statesmen found in it a ready subterfuge for
standards could not be raised. Unemployment relie
level. Public works could not be undertaken. Indust;
Agriculture faced ruinous times. All this was sung i
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The war has blown that swan-
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making the parliamentary wel-
kin ring for months past in a
House of Commons Banking.
Committee on monetary, “‘the-
ories” (at something of a cost
to the taxpayer) and how best
to stabilize finance and industry.

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Bretton Woods, N.H., rather”
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conference and its effect’ upon
postwar stabilization can -best be
understood against the backe«:
ground of the financial debacle —
of the nineteen-twenties with. its —

its Bank of Reparations... -The
financial structure then was bas=—

“vanquished must pay the vic- |
tor” reparations in. cash or in
kin. Hither way such an arrange-
ment could end only in economic
disaster and crisis for both.

The financial structure of the
peace must follow the pattern of
the end desired, and the objective
we seek, as indicated by the
Teheran coneord, can only be
attained by multilateral agree-
ments.

The Bretton Woods conference
adopted the multilateral plan of —
Stabilization. Two major plans
of international fiscal structure
came before the conference; the
British Keynes Plan, which in,
essence would have provided the
basis for a ‘sterling bloc” or
some such, which ‘would have
regulated the flow of interna-
tional commerce through the use
of a single designated’ currency,
but minus a stabilization fund to
meet the foreign exchange re-
quirements of its customers.

The American White Plan,
supported and supplemented by
Canadian opinion, proposed the
formation of an exchange stabil-
ization fund of $5 billions, con-

each of the participating na-
tions. The Canadian proposal was
for a fund of not less than $12
billions. The Bretton Wioods con=
ference adopted the tentative fund --
of $8%4 billions, with quotas of

Some 57,000 ¢
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