dil: national unity to de-
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eiiggunity of Canada.

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ia Four party will par-
Iigee OM an ever-increas-
lool im both municipal and
&Ug} politics, our main im-

feconcern is the coming

ections. —
Late

.@ist anniversary ban-
= ar party will mark the
Sift our federal election
= it wish to take this
[5y to announce that
majacial committee meet-
fun bas set an objective
fyeral election fund of
ilars for British Co-
is ‘his 50,000 dollar elec-
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it | federal election fund
Ti). dollars.

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a3 Moming federal election,

i @ will nominate a mini-
(5 candidates. :
"fat this table this eve-

tam the 10 Federal candi- —

vue 2h our party has nom-
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ni

One

aif British Columbia and

also one of the 30 or more pro-
vincial candidates we intend to

nominate in the next provincial
election:

Our party is enteringe—the
federal electoral contest with
the determination to elect
those we have nominated. To
further this aim, our provin-
cial committee has set an ob-
jective of two thousand new
members to be recruited into
the ranks of our Party dur-
ing the next four months.

One of the chief mediums
which we will utilize to further
our campaign will be the organ
of our party, The People. We
intend to increase the size of
our paper to 12 pages, introduce
several new features and secure
a minimum of 5,000 new read-
ers during the month of Octo-
ber. In order to give the at-
tention and direction necessary
to our election campaign, com-
rade John McPeake, who is well
known to nrost of you for the
good work he has done on the
housing issue in Vancouver, has
been appointed campaign man-
ager for British Columbia.

wry Reaction

With the cooperation of all
of our friends and supporters [
aim confident that the measures

“we have taken will enable our

party to make 4 real contribu_
tion- towards the achievement
of labor unity and unity of all
democratic forces to secure a
government that wall for the
first time include direct labor
representation. A government
that will carry our country for-
ward to the realization of the
lind of a postwar Canada that
Canadians have fought and sac-
rificed for: a Canada of pros-
perity, security and democratic
progress.

This is the text of the ed-

~ dress delivered by LPP Pro-
uimcal Leader Fergus Mc-
Kean at the first anniversary
banguet of the Laboc-Pro-
gressive Party at the Hotel
Vancouver. The address was
later broadcast over radio
Station CKWX.

| The Army Speaks |! :

ig’ DING to the weekend’s news, two Russian armies have resumed their record-

eg ing offensive after a short pause to regroup. In the north, Zakharov is attacking

lf Russian advance con-
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-@22 Berlin first, about
og to fight Russia
oe, about the Russians
CHE in alliance “with Ger-
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mhould be that some-
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, British; Americans,
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ODERN Russia is an his-

torical phenomenon. Twenty-
five years ago she was indus-
trially and Socially backward,
and more than 80 percent illi-
terate. Today, there is no more
powerful nation in the world,
few better industrialized, few
better educated.

And few more anxious to
live in peace.

Russia has never been an
aggressor nation, never given
indication ef wanting to be.
It is true that she attacked
Finland and occupied part of
Poland, but the reasons are
now apparent. The defensive
bulwarks she obtained may
just have been sufficient to

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‘Sea between Warsaw and East Prussia. In the south, Koniev’s army has burst
| #the German lines across the Vistula.

prevent the invading Ger-
mans from knocking her out
in the first year of war.

At the time of those invasions
the Russians knew that even-
tually the Germans would at-

tack her, and that advance de-

fence lines would be wneces-
Sary ....-. The Germans, after
all, said they were going to at-
tack her. ;

Without beine concerned at
the moment with the form the
international peace structure
will take after the war, and the
machinery for maintaining
peace, it is safe to say that no
system has a decent chance to
sueceed unless it is. supported
by close understanding and
friendship. and trust between
the great victorious powers—
Britain, the United States, and
Russia. Particularly important,
and the prerequisite for under-
standing and friendship, is
trust.

The present war might easily
have been. prevented if Russia,
France, England and the United
States had all trusted each
other. These nations couldn’t.
get together im the League.
They couldn’t act in unison
against Japan or Italy or Ger-
Many in the early days of
ageression—and mainly be-
eause each put its self-interest
first and distrusted the others’
motives.

@

Editor’s Nete — Under the
heading Shades of Teheran, this
editorial appeared in the Au-
gust 21 issue of the Maple Leaf,
a newspaper published for the
armed forees by the Canadian
Publie Relations group at Caen,
France. It was sent to us by
Sergeant Jack Phillips,’ Cana-
dian Youth leader, whose arti-
eles from overseas have ap-
peared from time to time in
The People.

@ur readers will be interested
to note how little effect anti-
Soviet propaganda has had on
our armed forces. It is evident
that the Canadian active forces
have admiration and sympathy
with the USSR, meluding an
understanding not only of the
causes of the present conflict,
but the need for cooperation be-
tween the great powers if fu-
ture wars are to be ayoided.

SHORT JABS

by OP Bill

——

“‘KAassacres”’

pra PEARSON of the Washington Merry-Go-Round reported re-

cently, that at the conference between Churchill and the Pope, the Pope

urged that the Allies get to Berlin first to prevent a massacre by the
ussians. ie

Everything which is reported over the ait, particularly by the sen-
sationalists, is not necessarily true. Much of it in fact is made out of
the whole cloth. But this Pearson story bears all the hallmarks of
truth. It is in line with the Vatican’s consistent policy where the Soviet
Union is concerned.

Why should anyone fear that the people of Berlin will be massacred
by the victorious Red army? Is there any record in the whole course
of the war that would warrant such an assumption? There is none 5 nor
will there be any. :

There haye been massacres since the war Started, many of them.

In China there has been one long massacre of the Chinese peasants by,

the Japanese aggressors. In Spain, Badajos and Guernica are only out-

Standing because they had a local name but the whole Franco rebellion

was a massacre of the Spanish people. It was a prelude to the massa_
cres of the war proper which was to follow.

Did the Pope fear massacres then? No. In fact, the Pope was
allied to and blessed the butcher Franco who was responsible for the
Gethsemane of the Spanish people. :

In the war itself we have a long list of massacres, atrocities com.
mitted by the fascists against the human race— Rotterdam, Coventry,
Belgrade, Odessa, the massacre of the Jewish population of Poland and
the effort to exterminate the whole Jewish people. E

Are not these massacres that should eall down the wrath of God
and the Church upon their perpetrators ?

Did the Pope express any fear of massacres-in these cases? None
that anybody ever heard of. If the Pope had uttered the same kind
of encyclical against Hitlerism and fascism as he did in 1937 against
communism, the world might have been spared the present blood bath
and the Vatican weuld have had no occasion to worry about massacres
in Berlin. :

Since the Pope did not worry about massacres on these other oc-
casions, we are justified in believing that neither he nor the Vatican is
really worried about imaginary massacres in Berlin at this time.

Qne zeal fear that may perturb the minds of all the forces in the
Vatican is that the criminals who brought this calamity on the world
may have a much better chance of being punished as they deserve if
they fall into the hands of the Red army. This will surely happen iff
Berlin falls to the Soviet forces.

But this is only one angle. There is a much more important one, the
ideological struggle, one side of which is represented by the Red army,
an army of liberation, and the other side by the Vatican, an army of
reaction. —~

While millions of Catholic people are fighting on the same side as
the Red army in this struggle, among the brave Frenchmen and women
who played a major part in driving Hitler’s gangsters out of France;
in the ranks of Marshal Tito’s unconquerable’ partizans; in the Polish
underground; in the freedom movements of all the occupied countries
and in’the ranks of all the Allied armies, the hierarchy of the Church
has been allied with the*fascist bandits from the beginning.

.When. the Italian aggressors attacked Abyssinia, Cardinal Hinsley
proclaimed: “If fascism goes under God’s cause goes under too.” The
hierarchy fought on the Same side as the Nazis and fascists in Spain.
The Papal encyclical of 1937 advocated the Corporate state as an alter.
native to Communism—the source undoubtedly of the Jesuit Father
‘Ryan’s' recommendation to the Hire government to copy the Portuguese
set-up as a new deal after the war. : :

They were pro-Vichy and anti-de Gaulle in France and the back-
bone of the isolationist movement in the U.S. and all the time they ap-
peased Hitler hoping to see him smash the Soviet Union. ~

But Hitler is about through. As I write this the Yanks are sur-
rounding Trier, the birthplace of Marx, and Britain is still an island.

Saskatchewan Socialism

(pe2 THE many brands of Socialism which have been offered the people
F of this and other industrialized lands must be added the newest,
Saskatchewan socialism. @

So far we have not had any very stimulating: demonstration. of
what it has to offer the oppressed and exploited section of the Saskat-
chewan people but it has already belied the exuberant Winch Junior.

The statement, reported in the press, of the leader of this new
type of socialism, that it is impossible to carry on in Saskatchewan
in opposition to the political and economic routine in the country, that
the provinee cannot be isolated from the Dominion, is an admission
that those who have been entrusted with power in Saskatchewan have
no. intention of making an onslaught on vested rights, pre-election
promises notwithstanding.

That does not mean that Saskatchewan socialism will hibernate
until all the other provinces of Canada fall in line. Oh dear, no! Saskat—
chewan socialism means to cut a swath in another direction. Accord-
ing to press reports, the government which operates this Saskatchewan
form of socialism, has cut the beer ration from three cases to one or
the thirst provoking total of twelve bottles per month.

This revolutionary and world-shaking move on the part of the
Saskatchewan socialist government may help the workers—of other
provinces. The poor Saskatchewan frothblower may have to get alone
without suds in his eye but there may be more beer left for us, at
least as long as we can keep the CGF from foisting Saskatchewan so-
cialism on us here in B.C. 4,

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