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Progress Can Only Be Won
By United Efforts Of People

By NELSON CLARKE
Leader, Saskatchewan LPP

“[\ HE draft resolution of the National Executive states,
tion and unity between the CCF and the LPP, and patient work to achieve it, is the

key to the development of labor unity, and progressive collaboration on many fronts.~
The effort which must be put forward to establish cooperation between our party

and the CCF, places particular responsibilities

Saskatchewan.

A careful study of the draft
resolution aS a whole will indi-
cate how these responsibilities
may be effectively discharged.

The main enemy of the people
‘of Saskatchewan, as of all other
parts of Canada, is CGanadian
monopoly capitalism, whose pol-
icies not only threaten to
plunge Canada into war, but
aiso lead directly to the under-

mining of Canadian trade rela—

tionships with the countries of
Europe and Asia, striving for
their freedom from monopoly
and imperialist oppression, and
consequently to the destruction
of great potential markets for
the products of Saskatchewan
apriculture, Monopoly capitalism
as represented by the CPR, the
mortgage companies, and the
great packing and farm wumra-
chinery trusts is the most no-
terious plunderer of our proyv-
ince. It was the spokesmen of
monopoly ‘eapitalism who smash-
ed the Dominion-Provincial Con-
ference (for the present, at
least), and thus rendered im-
measurably more difficult the
task of the government of this

province in seeking to provide
that adequate level of social
services sought by Saskatche-

wan's people. :

Our Party's first task in Sas-
katchewan then is to direct at-
tention to this main enemy, and
to urge the fullest unity in the
fight against that enemy.

Two years ago Saskatchewan
drove from office the Gardiner-
Patterson Liberal machine which
had faithfully carried out the
dictates of the monopolies, and
elected in its place a CCH gov-
ernment. What is the record of

NELSON CLARKE

this government to date in the
light of the fundamental need
for determined struggle against
monopoly capitalism?

in response to the wishés and
demands of the people, the gov-

ernment has to a great extent .

carried out pre-election prom-
ises to provide greater security

Canadian Imperialism

By JACK SPIVAK

(Continued from liast week)

This government must bear
the full responsibility for its
Sanctimonious but effective be-
trayal of the Canadian people
at the general elections of June,
1945.

I would agree, however, that
the policies of Drew and Du-
plessis represent an even more

rabid opposition to social re—
form combining in addition
many immediate apparent DEE

fascist tendéncies.

ce) Canada — A bi-national
state: The unity of the French-
and English-speaking people is
possible today as never before.
Statistics from the Department
of Mabor clearly show that the
number of unemployed in Que-
bec is greater than in Ontario,
although the labor force in that
province is about 25 percent
Breater than in Quebec. At all
times crisis has hit Quebec most
severely, exploitation and  livy-
ing conditions have been the
worst. That is why French-
Canadians have traditions of

anti-trust and anti-imperialist
struggle. These struggles can
only achieve success however

wen they become coordinated
and fuse with the fight of all
Canadians for a better Canada.

— therefore regret that so
important a Canadian problem
has not received adequate rec-
ognition in the draft resolution.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 12

MONTREAL.

3. The Peopie’s
Coalition

i agree with the maim con-
clusions developed -in this sec-
tion about maintaining the unity
of the trade union movement;
fostering, unity in action be
tween the CCF and LPP and

those concerning the building
ef a iabor-farmer coalition in-
dependent in the main of the

influences of the capitalist par-
ties.

This section, however, does
not establish the connection be-
tween the present fight for the
needs of the Canadian people
and the ultimate attainment of
Socialism. To this extent we
cannot fully appreciate the tole
of the party as the conscious
instrument of the working peo-
ple for a new social order in
Canada, a Socialist Canada.

These criticism are criticisms
of formulation of policy and not
of style. As such f{ think they
merit discussion. This coming
national convention can do much
to point out a path of progress
and peace to all Canadians who,
losing their illusions of the post-
war world, need a positive pro-
gram of action for the people’s
needs if they are to avoid
the pitfalis of despair and
the confusion. Let us pool our
ideas and experiences that the
convention may perform this
vital job for our country.

upon the

“The establishment of coopera-

Labor-Progressive Party in
of tenure to the farmer; to en-
act legislation to encourage Ia-
bor organization; and to im-
prove Minimum wage and work-
men’s compensation legislation.
Modest upward adjustments
Lave been made in certain so-
cial services, including old
age pensions and mother’s al-
lowances; important reforms
have been carried through in
the administration of education,
notably the establishment of the
larger school units.” Free text
books are being provided in
public schools, and teachers’ sal-
aries have been raised. The gov-

ernment has established or na-
tionalized a number of indus-
tries in Saskatchewan which
will make possible the more

efficient processing and market-
ing of the produce of the, prov-
ince. The entry of the govern-
ment into the insurance busi-
ness begins to open the way to
weakening the grip of the large
insurance monopolies. In gener-
al, the measures taken by the
government have been of a pro-
gressive character.

These measures have helped
better the conditions of the peo-
ple of the province and have
Strengthened the position of or-
ganized labor in particular.
They naturally have met with
Gpposition from monopoly inter-
ests and from their spokesmen
inv Saskatchewan, the Liberal
and Tory parties. x

©Qur Party therefore welcomes
and fully supperts these actions
of the Saskatchewan govern-
ment, at the same time warn-
ing against the illusion that the
enactment of such legislation
constitutes socialism.

The government is,
exhibiting the following weak-
nesses, all of which flow out
of the fact that it has.not yet
seriously taken up the struggle
which must be waged by the
people of this province against

however,

the monopolies. This, in turn,
iS a consequence of its social
democratic character which

leads it to seek to merely re-
form capitalism rather than em-
bark on a fight to end capital-
ism.
eo.

The government has followed
the line of least resistance in
respect to the

cial position in which it
finds itself as a result of pres-
ent Dominion-Provincial finan-
cial relations. Instead of fight-

ing miilitantly for the success
of the Dominion-Provincial con-
ference, the government has
tended to accept the limitations
of its present position and try
to make the best of them. It
has continued the infamous Lib-
eral-imposed Eiduecation Tax, and
has itself imposed regressive
head taxes, i.e., the Automobile
Imsurance Tax, and ‘the pro-
posed Hospitalization Services
Tax, under which rich and poor
alike pay the same amount. So-
cial Services must provide as-
sistance to the low income
workers and farmers at the ex-
pense of the great monopolies.

Premier Douglas and his col-
leagues have not used their in-

difficult finan-—

pen Forum

Discussion Page On LPP Draft Resolution

fluence to combat the dangerous
line pursued, by the national
leadership of the CCE in re-
spect to foreign policy which
Slavishly follows in the wake of
British imperialism as now rep-—
resented by Bevin and similar

elements in the Labor govern-
ment.
The government has retained

within its administration a large
number of MLiberal heelers in
key positions who now faun
on their new employers but are
secretly determined to under-
mine every progressive measure
enacted by the government, by
the dead weight of bureaucratic

methods. To make matters
worse, progressive employees
such as Watson Thomson are
dropped from the government
service.

S

Realizing that many of their
most sincere and active sup-
porters are pecoming  disillu-
Sioned with such trends in gov-
ernment policy, the CCF iis
seeking to build up a political
machine fashioned after the old-
party machine upon ‘which it
will place its hopes for re-elec-
tion—this instead of mobilizing
their supporters for an active
struggle against the monopolies
and for the carrying out of the
full program to which they are
pledged. i

These tendencies if uncheck-
ed could lead to. the degenera-
tion of the government and CCF
organization into a replica of
the old parties, and thus pave
the way for a return to power
of the Liberals and Gonserva-
tives, the direct representatives

A Bill Minus Rights

of monopoly capitalism in™~ Sas-
katchewan. Such a development
in turn would strengthen the
position of monopoly capitalism
throughout Canada and in-
erease the danger of Canadian
fascism.

We must convince the honest,
forward-looking CCE members
and supporters that the govern-
ment of Saskatchewan has no
sturdier supporter than: our
Party when it enacts progres-
Sive measures that serve even
partially to meet the needs of
the people. Only when we have
done this will our necessary eri-
ticism of the CCH and the goy-
ernment carry weight. :

We must patiently explain to
the people that better conditions
can only be won by determined
struggle against the monopolist
plunderers of our province; that
unless the government and the
CCE organization take up this
Struggle in unity with labor,
farm and veteran organiza-
tions, and our Party, the road
to democratic advance will be
blocked, and economic condi-
tions will become worse, and
the position of the provincial
government itself will deterior-
ate.

.

We must, much more actively
than in the past, explain to wide
masses of the people that So
cialism alone will solve the
deep-going problems
of the workers and farmers of
Saskatchewan, and that Soctal-
ism will be won only through
the united struggles of the peo

ple as advocated by our Party.

econemic

BEATRICE FERNEYHOUGH

Woe piece of legisla-

tion to pass the Al-
berta house this spring was
the Alberta “Bill of Rights.”
Heralded and trumpeted by
government leaders as an
attempt to bring Alberta’s peo-
ple freedom in defiance of the
moguls of finance, it trots out
the Alberta “credit certificates”
again, only this time the guar-
antee is for $600 a year mini-
mum income for all Albertans
over 19 years of age, instead
Gf a miserly $25 a month. This
remarkable bill slid through the
house like greased lightning.
Part I of the act deals with
the rights cf Alberta citizens.
This section is revealed as a
wordy announcement that the
Manning government will en-

foree existing laws and prop-
erty velations in the province.
@his should be reassuring to

the bondholders and monopolists,
but is not so exciting to peo-
ple who are asking for some
thing more than they have at
present in the form of rights
and possessions.

The people of Alberta this ses-
Sion asked for homes! They got
a resolution to Ottawa. They
asked for the 40-hour week, and
60 cents an hour minimum

wage. They got a flat refusal.
The farmers asked for roads.
They got a $3,000,000 program

for highways for tourists and
roads into the areas of exploita-

tion for oil, lumber and mining
monopolists. Then the people
got a bill of “rights.”

Part II .elaborates the credit
Set-up that is going to guaran-
tee the $600 to all. Reading this
one understands the
loud emphasis laid on the fact

section,

that the bill will be submitted
to the courts before becoming
law.

In actuality, all the bill pro-
poses is that the Board of Credit
Commissioners will be . busy
handing out nothing but their
own license. No, the Manning
government never has, and ney-

er will do anything but shadow ~

box with any and ail capitalist
institutions, including the bogey-
men banks; and, further,
institute, no laws in the inter-
ests of workers and farmers
that, to the remotest degree
threaten the status quo of big

business domination.

However, having no control
of the major productive forces
in Alberta (they are solidly
guaranteed to their private
owners) the Social Credit gov-
ernment will, nevertheless, in-
clude these capital assets in
their list of collateral for the
issuance of Alberta ‘credit cer
tificates.” A parallel would be
if I were to offer my grocer
a note in payment.of my bill,
this note being based on the
fact that my neighbor owned
his own home. The grocer, of
course, would accept my note,
because I had listed my neigh-
bor’s house as part of my assets;

and after all, the house exists,
is right next door to me in
fact; and so on the basis of

this I justifably expect my note-

te be honored, and further groc-
eries delivered to me!

Such, in brief, is the Alberta
Bill of Rights. The only forces
it serves are Mr. Manning, his
cohorts, and big business.
for the people of Alberta, they
are defrauded, cynically and de
liberately.

will ”

NSS

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