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“Defeat the Big Business Conspiracy
Unite For Jobs, Security and Peace”

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‘4. A world food and credit
policy free from political dis-
crimination, to assist world trade
and the reconstruction of war-
ravaged lands.

5. A Canadian Gonstitution
designed to fit modern condi-
tions, which while fully main-
taining the constitutional guar-
antees of national rights to
French Canada, will meet the
meeds of Canada as a modern
industrial, sovereign state. A
Bill of Rights to guarantee to
the citizen freedom from arbi-

trary arrest, freedom of the
press, freedom of association
and of speech.

This program is one upon

which the overwhelming major-
ity of Canadians are already in
full agreement. To achieve it
requires: action—united action of
all sections of labor and the peo-
ple. The LPP will work with
all its Strength to bring this
unity into being. §

For Peoples’ Coalition

4 hoe political perspective in
Canada is one of sharpening
conflict between the monopolists
and the forces of labor and the
people. The struggle between
these two opposing camps—on
foreign policy, on wages, on so-
cial legislation — will determine
the direction of - all Canada’s
postwar policies,

The King government, profit-
ing by the absence of any strong
labor representation in parlia-
ment,
to carry through the program

of Big Business; it is More and -

more finding common ground
with the outspoken and aggres-
Sive advocates of the policies of
Toryism. This is most clearly
reflected in the Dominion-Pro-
wincial discussions, in which the
King government and the Tories
have found agreement in repeat-
ed delay. This trend is power-
fully reinformed by the strategic
positions held by Toryism in the
governments of Ontario and
Quebec.

The policies of Drew and Du-
plessis combine rabid opposition
to social reform, utilization of
“anti-Communist” hysteria and,
in the one case, reactionary im-
perialist warmongering, in the

is systematically moving ™

pee.

Big Business-to resort to fascist
repression against the people’s
camp.

Clearly, the offensive of mon-
Opoly can be checked and rout-
ed only by the united moye—
ment of labor, the veterans, far-
mers and urban middle-class
people. People’s unity against
pro-fascist reaction is the ur-
gent, imperative need; and bold
initiative and leadership by the
labor movement is the prime
condition for its achieyement.

Labor-democratic unity in the
last elections could
have established a new type of
government, a coalition of the
progressive forces. Such unity
would have secured far-reaching
fains- for the people. It would
have immeasurably enhanced
the role and status of labor. It
would have won important sec-
tions of reform-minded voters,
who have hitherto supported the
policies of the old-line parties,
for parliamentary cooperation
with labor and allied progres-
Sive forces. Such a development
would have isolated the forces
of Toryism. :

The leadership of the CCE
bears a heavy responsibility for
preventing the establishment of
Suche electoral unity. Failure to
win effective labor representa-
tien and the continued refusal
of the CCE leadership to recog-
nize the need for such a peo-
ple’s coalition opened the way

Dominion

for the MWLiberal-Tory alliance
which is now taking shape
around foreign and domestic
policies,

A deep-going realignment of
political forces to bring about
an independent labor-farmer
political movement is urgently
necessary. Such a realignment
can hait the reactionary trend
of the foreign and domestic po-
licies of the King government,
can rally the growing forces of
the trade unions, the farm
groups and the progressive ur-
ban middie classes for the win-
ning of substantial reforms. By
so doing the progressive forces
can not only change the present
disastrous course of Canadian
government policy but can build
a mighty people’s movement to
elect the next government of

‘The Organizing Core’

TL organizing core and most
consistently progressive of all
these forces is the Canadian
working class—in the AFL and
CCL unions, the railway brother-
hoods, among the newly indus-
trialized workers of Quebec,
among the unorganized masses.
This is so because the workers

united farmer-labor political ac-
tion, for a people’s coalition,
demands the achievement of
concerted action by the CCF and
LPP.

fm accord with the policy of
social-democracy in Europe and
Britain, the CCE leaders give
full support to the foreign pol-
icy of King,
lee,

Truman and Att-

which is that of Angio-

“The IPP supports a national reconstruction program
aimed to provide full employment and to protect Canad-
ians from the devastating effects of economic crisis.”

are the best organized of the
anti-monopolist forces, and be—
cause their conditions of exist-
ence as wage-earners bring.
them inte the sharpest opposi-
tion to the policies of the mon-
opolists—particularly now, when
the whole struggle to determine
the direction of Canada’s post-

American imperialism; and they
Give aid and comfort to the

‘camp of monopoly, by rejecting

labor-democratic unity in the
fight for progress.

The members and supporters
of the CCF in their great maj-
ority are in full agreement with
the whole democratic camp on

ici is i i
other, pro-fascist racism. They Canada—a people’s coalition to ~~ °° *5 : expressed in the the need for progressive eco-
reveal the ill-concealed ambition lead Canada forward on the W#8es struggle. nomie and social policies; yet
of the most reactionary group of path of peace and security: The fight for labor unity, for the securing of thes objectives—
TTT TRL QUST NT TTT TTT

North Winnipeg,
Leader of the LPP,
the “McKenzie-Papineau”

served

=armored corps’ lieutenant.

WM. A. KARDASH, MLA for
and Manitoba

Bat-
talion im Spain for two years as

Manitoba Leader Greets Pacific Tribune

AY DAY, 1946, faces the labor

movement of Canada, and
organized labor in particular
“with new and greater issues
which are paramount for the
nation as a whole. Labor has
made a great contribution dur-
ing the war years for victory
over the fascist axis. With the
victory achieved last year, our
country is faced with the prob-
lems of making that victory
secure in terms of jobs, higher
wages, higher standard of liv-
ing, and above all, making the

peace secure.

The reactionary forces of our
country have already exerted
sufficient pressure and influ-
ence upon the Dominion gov-
ernment and won concessions
in the form of reduced Excess
Profits Tax, removal of price

ceilings upon many articles en-
abling them to receive higher
profits than during the war,
and have stubbornly obstruct-
ed the efforts of labor to win
higher wages.

These same reactionary
forces of Big Business are be-
hind the policies of the King
Government wth regard to
sabotaging the efforts of the

United Nations for world
peace. The provocative anti-
Soviet campaign cloaked with
the Spy-scare, the support of
the atom-bomb diplomacy di-
rected against the peace of the
world, and the appeasement
policy towards fascist Franco
regime, are all part of the
campaign that would lead to
a third world war and spell

disaster for the people of Can-
ada.

Labor must play the leading
role in the fight for a sane
policy of world peace and se-
curity and prosperity at home.
In that fight, your paper, the
Pacific Tribune, has given val-
uable service and leadership.
We pay tribute to the role
your paper has played and ex-

press the confidence in its con-
tinued service in the interests
of the Canadian people. The
labor movement at the Coast
has set an example of unity
required to win jobs, better
wages, homes for the returned
servicemen and labor legisia-
tion. We are confident the
Pacific Tribune will continue
to serve the cause of labor.

0 RN z
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 11

of jobs, homes, higher wages, so-
Cial security—is being frustrated
by the persistent refusal of the
CCE teadership to join in a
united people’s movement to ob-
tain them. Fhe establishment of
cooperation and unity between
the CCF and LPP, and patient
development of labor unity and
progressive collaboration on
many fronts.

Always 2 champion of unity
in action to achieve the people's
needs and thereby to direct the

course of future history inte
truly progressive channels, the
LPP holds out the hand of

Cooperation to -all those who

-genuinely desire peace, progress

and a prosperous Canada.

The Labor-Progressiye Party,
the party of Marxism, dedicated
to the struggle for Socialism in
Canada, is inseparably part of
the labor and people’s movement
which will shape our country’s
destiny. The LPP is the party
of the working class, amone
whom the Socialist idea is srow-
ing and maturing, together with
en ever deeper appreciation of
Marxist policies, which are the
scientific guide in the struggle
for progress and for peace.

True to the great tradition of
our peoples, the LPP fights for.
the democratic unity of French
and English Canada. As a
stauneh defender and builder of
Canadian ~ democratic instiutions
the LPP has no higher loyalty
than the real interests of Can-
ada’s people. These interests co-
incide with those of all demo-
cratic peoples, in their common
striving for security and peace.

As an advocate of a Canada
at peace in a world of peace,
the LPP enters upon the new
Stage of’ the people’s movement
with full confidence in the abil-
ity of Canadians to solve ali
the problems of the nation. Gan-
ada will prove worthy of the
brilliant opportunities which vic2
tory over the Axis has given us,
to build a4 country that is unit-

ed, prosperous and free!

Save Canad2 from the disas-
ter of World War T!.

Defeat the Big Business con-
spiracy !

Build people’s unity for jobs,
security and peace! ~

VANCOUVER
LABOR COUNCIL
(CCL)

Extends
May Day
Greetings

To All Workers

and Veterans

and Pledges

Full Support

in the Struggles

fer ae >
SECURITY ~~ a

. FRIDAY, APR. 26, 1946