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tig of which wall be to
NG] GGE with a bill for
tpurposes in. the next
Loti :tion..

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e of the main agri-
Jvinees, with a very
htrial population, (Gn
ovinee there are but
jers of trade unions)
of trade union Jegis-

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fery Province and

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WE ction the CCF is
Zanizing its sup-
Wend collecting cam-

Himployed by privi-
fs an appeal in the
id is misrepresenta-
Dow in face of her

“i about the ‘perseeu-
S rmany and the tra-

an@eat loss of life among
(i forces, is stirring up
linge German war suilt
sat & many people to the
# the situation’ (May
; Lhe people of the
is have their own
t German war guilt
talities of the situa-

Steeves is in British
representing the peo-
th Vancouver in the
and using the in-
= her position to dis-

of the Soviet Union
onists. :
Stakes advantage of
s#@sion spread by the
ime books published dur-
mst decade variously
et to analyse MHitler-
S@ = reasons for its rise
1 omits the bald lie
sm Communists helped
lower in order.to de-
icial-Democratic ¢ov-
The entire tragic
zerman Social-Demo-
2 its initial betrayal
2rman revolution in
final capitulation in
missed in such state-
his:
supreme mistake
the cautious German
mocrats in 1918 and _
it years, was that.
Swed the army ~ and -
r-class to subdue all
lary elements.
y. the Social-Demo-
e themselves swal-
the reactionaries,
the Communists,
akenly expected to
0 turn the situation:
benefit.” (August,

sig) MIE iit

id
u)

ender against the Ger-—

munists, framed~ by
@f the truth about
ocracy to make the
: resentable,
ie basis for Mrs.
‘denunciation of the
vernment’s role in
affairs, her constant
a the British and
governments and her
assertions that the
iS of the various
= countries are ‘be-

‘Labo

Gerils

“imminent approach =
hour, and the likeli=

@calities of both the.
,i the past, so deep is’

then be-~-

lation in relation to the rest of
Canada is very light.

The province of Saskatche-
wan under a CCF government,
by taking such action, sets the
principle’ of each province
adopting separate legislation,
and its effect will be to create
national controversy.

It is clear too, that reaction-
ary overnments like those
headed by Drew in Ontario and
Duplessis in Quebec, the main
industrial provinces, will have

_ an excuse to bring in provin-
cial bills, following the example

of Saskatchewan, which will be
much worse than P.C. 1003
could be with the worst inter-
pretation.

traying the revolution’ into the
hands of the capitalists. Typical
Statements like the following,
piaced in juxtaposition, reveal
her insidious campaign to un-
dermine confidence alike in the
War and the coming peace: -
.. Working people through-
out the world will have to de-
Mand a practical definition
of what their rulers mean by
‘democracy. li it means a
suppression of spontaneous
revolutionary elements, a sus-
taining of the former friends
ot Hitler and Mussolini with
the injunction to the radicals
and the undergrounds that
they must support these peo-
ple in the interests of capita-
list law and order, then it
becomes clear that the people
and the governments have -
not been fighting for the
Same thing at all. Some of us
fiave had a suspicion of that

right along.’ (Qctober 7,
1943.)
“Apparently the Soviet.

strategy is to produce a re-
yolutionary situation by sup-
porting the reactionaries;
this accounts for the support
ef tie Italian fascists by
Stalin. -The theory failed to
work when the German Com-
munists helped to bring Hit-
ler to power in 1933, but
probably the situation is now
held to be more favorable.”
(March 23, 1944.)

“We predict that in Haly
it will not be the fascists who
will be ousted from the cabi-
net, but that liberals and so-
eialists, like Count Sforza,
will be the first to go as they
haye very little in common
with the men they are now

associated with.’ (June 1,”
1944.)
Unfortunately for Mrs.

Steeves’ reputation as a politi-
cal soothsayer, Badcglio has al-
ready gone from the govern-
ment and the correct policy fol-
lowed by the Italian Communist
and Socialist parties in enter-

‘ing the coalition government

has now been crowned by the
formal alliance recently con-
cluded between these two work-
ing class parties to spur “the
revival and democratization of
Italy.”

[s Mrs. Steeves now prepared
to withdraw her insinuation,
placed in the form of a query,
“Will young British, Canadian
and American soldiers die in
order to aid the ruling class to
liquidate working class lead-
ers?” (June 8, 1944). Does
she still deny that the interests
of the Italian people have been
advanced by the unity of all
antifascist elements to secure
the participation of the Italian
people in the war against fas-
cism and start Italy along the

Sr a A ae

i

ains

Instead of condemning the
act by pointing to its negative
features and obscuring: its posi-
tive features, we should. adopt
the attitude taken by. organized
labor in Canada, welcoming the
lesislation, making it work in
the interests of organized labor,
and uniting our strength to get
the amendments still’ needed.

® Harvey Murpoby is pro-
“wincial. chairman of the
Industrial Committee of
the labor - Progressive
Party.

is Gives the ‘Truth’

road to democracy from which
she was forced 20! years azo?

‘Mrs. Steevyes may well hesi-
tate over her answer to. this
question. More than once in
her column she has likened
wihat she preferred to call: the
‘Communists’ betrayal of the
people’s interests in Italy by
entering the coalition govern-
ment to what she imsists is the
Labor-Progressive Party’s simi-
lar betrayal of the Ganadian
people’s interests by ‘holding
out the perspective of a Liberail=
Labor coalition as the realiz-
able form for Canada’s next
government.

To admit that a coalition
government of all parties, ir-
respective of what classes they
represent, pledged to realize
the objectives of the Teheran
Declaration is succeeding in
one country is to admit the
possibility that it can succeed
in another. To admit that such
a coalition government, despite
inner difficulties, is advancing
the people towards greater se-
curity and democracy is to seal
the argument.

In this lies the motive for
the distortions, the lies, the
Slanders, with which Mrs.
Steeves fills her column in the
CCE News. In vain the CCE
strives to offset the living re-
futation of its own anti-unity,
anti-Communist, anti-Teheran
policies offered by the united
people’s movements and the
governments to which they are
~iving rise in Europe. In ‘vain
M. J. Coldwell, CCF national

leader, claims that “the Euro-

pean underground considers the
CCF a bright spot in efforts
towards social democracy.”?

There is nothing in common
between those socialist: parties
of Hurope that have sunk their
partisan interests in the strugle
to destroy fascism and recon-
struct their devastated coun-
tries, and the CCF, whose ef-
forts to promote its partisan
interests have already con-
tributed to the strengthening
of fascism in Quebec and whose
refusal to accept the Teheran
Declaration Jeads it towards
doing the tasks of fascism by
underminine the confidence of
the Canadian people in the
aims of the war.

Far from being the bright
hope of the liberation move-
ments, the ©CE, by its attacks
on| Teheran, is actually ob-
structing, their struggle to
build -a new democracy in Bur
ope—a struggle that depends
for its success upon fulfilment
of the Teheran pledge that they
“may live free lives untouched
by tyranny and according to
their varying desires and their
Own consciences.”

NEXT WEEK:
News on Teheran.

The CCF

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SHORT JABS |

by OF Bill

Propaganda on the CBC : =
(eee cause of unity of the forces allied against fascism is not very well

served by some of the news distributors and commentators, es-
pecially on the CBC. One of these commentators is a Spouter named
Wilson Woodside who gets his hay and oats out of the two-and-a-half
bucks we pay for our radio licenses in Ganada.

This ‘authority’ comments daily on the course of the war. A few
days ago he waxed wrath at the failure of the Red army to storm
Warsaw as they. had done with all the other towns occupied by and
captured from the Germans. He interpreted the Red army tactics in’
this instance as a deliberate move to sacrifice the Polish underground
movement alleged to be fighting the Germans in that city.

In the first place, the statement is not true. The same manoeuver
has been followed by the Red army on a number of occasions, always
successfully. fe

The Red army generals or the general staff need no lessons from
Wilson Woodside. The strategy and tactics of the Red army are not
formulated and executed “on the consideration of what the Polish un-
derground might do. F ;

If there is any failure to exploit every possibility for the defeat of
the Nazis, the responsibility for that failure must rest on the shoulders
of those who direct the Polish underground, the so-called Polish goOv—
ernment in exile, the friends of Wilson Woodside, the CBG commenta-
tor, for they consistently refuse to coordinate their actions with those
of the Red Army, the only force that can liberate Poland.

As I write, broadeasts inform us that the people of Paris are
taking up arms and are calling to the Yanks) for help. But the Ameri-
can forces have an objective to accomplish, the destruction of the Ger
man 7th army, so the underground fighters of Paris will have to do
the best they can until that army has been destroyed,

If this estimate of the objective of the American columns is the
, correct one, will Wilson Woodside criticize them for not deviating: from
the’ strategic task they have been set by the Allied command?) Will
he accuse them of sarificing the Paris underground as he accuses the
‘Red DEY when ‘they have also the job of destroying. other German
armies ? :

We are told continually that no propaganda is allowed on the CBG.
But this kind of broadcast is propaganda of the rottenest sort, propa-
ganda for the most reactionary elements. It is propaganda of a char-
acter which may, if allowed to develop, destroy the absolutely necessary
unity of anti--fascist forces. : ;

i Hasy-going people may look upon it as a mere pin-prick, but a pin-
prick in the parchment is.sufficient to let in the microbe laden air that
destroys the housewife’s jam.

And if the CBC means “
Woodside off the air?

The Fighting French

{ES reception General De Gaulle is getting since his arrival in France
is setting at rest doubts in, some quarters as to who had the inside
track with the French people. :

Political advisers like Murphy and Admiral Leahy seem to have had
the wrong idea on the matter, unless it was that they had a special
Purpose in blacking; out De Gaulle with President Roosevelt.

The time and energy spent in securing the release of another gen-
eral, (Girard) from a prisoner-of-war camp in Germany, wafting him
across the blue Mediterranean in a submarine and going through- the

no propaganda,” why not bounce Wilson

motions of setting him up as ‘a man on a white horse’ were wasted:

efforts as far as the French people are concerned.

The obscurantist stooges in the U.S. State department at Washin,r-
ton and their friends in the field did their best (or worst) to side-track
the Free Hrench committee headed by De Gaulle. :

__Hyery sort ofi diplomatic trickery (and don’t they know some
tricks), was resorted to for that purpose.

But the spirit of the French people could not be cheated this time.
They knew that their interests were being looked after by tHe Pightine
Prench committee.

That is why the greatest gathering of Frenchmen on French soil
since the Nazis and their French traitor assistants destroyed the Third

Republic, gave the biggest ovation to a Frenchman in that same period,
at Cherbourg last Sunday.

Pigs Is Pigs—Maybe!

A ‘RECENT advertisement of the Consolidated was headed, ‘This little

pig went to market.” This little pig that went to market, however,
was not made into sausages, spare ribs or sowbelly, for it was not that
kind of a pig. It was a pig of lead.

Influenced by the Quiz Kids or desirous of testing our IQ the Gon-
‘Solidated ask us the following question: “How could Consolidated pay
more and more to raise little pigs which would sell for less and less ?”

Quite simple, my dear Watson! A question, undoubtedly for the
most elementary class in political economy.

: It is an axiom in the ABC. class in Marxian economies that the
values of commodities varies directly as the labor-time employed and
inversely as the productivity of that labor. And price is only value ex-
pressed approximately in terms of money.

It follows, therefore, that the Consolidated, by devising methods
for increasing the productivity of labor reduce the price in line with
the lessened value. So there you are Watson. Nothing to it, my dear
fellow! ; fee:

In simpler terms for those whose education does not quite come
up to the Consolidated IQ standards, that means that the miners, mill-
men and smelter-workers who create the profits for the CPR and other
owners of the Consolidated are made to produce greater quantities of
pig lead in an eight hour shift than they did before. i

Better organization of prospecting, greater application of the
sciences of geology, chemistry and physics, improved mechanical de-
vices, these are the means by which the more intense exploitation of labor
is accomplished.

More and more is produced and each pig is sold for less. The work. —

ers get a few cents more per day and the Consolidated profits go up by
millions per year.

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