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terests is our watchword.

"THE coming federal elections give the Canadian people
Since the end

sSovernment in power for even the most meager ful-
In vain have the people
demanded that the major parties heed the people’s
needs and stop serving the profiteers. During the
present “cold war” the people have loéked in vain to
the three major Parties for willingness to work for
world peace. i

And now in the elections the people can speak.
They can answer the politicians in the language they
understand—the pressure of the people’s will.

High prices mean high profits. The big money boys
are richer than ever before. But our living standards,
our homes, the people's health, are sacrificed.

Giant’ Wall Street Monopolies of industry and

a nd their Canadian partners—know no limit
‘to their greed for profit.- They are the gluttons of
privilege.
home their profiteering is leading to. an economic crisis

war-that Wall Street is planning. Never have Canada’s
true national interests been so shamefully betrayed!
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We Canadians must regain complete control of oure

country’s course in world affairs. We must never con-
sent to the servile status of a puppet-satellite of the
United States, to which the present disloyal, unCanadian
politicians degrade us. Big business wants Canadians
to be fear-struck by. their witch-hunting, red-baiting
hysteria. They want us“to put up. with. mounting profits
and sinking living standards, .and, in-fear, await the
doomsday of a new depression. They want us to
Watch our national heritage being sold to Wall Street,
and wait, in fear, for the outbreak of World War III.
They want to take us down this path of crisis and
war—but we reject this path! °

We believe in speaking up fearlessly for peace, truth
and justice. Canadian democracy must FIGHT NOW—
or be destroyed by fascism and war. With all true
Canadian patriots, : we Communists take our Place in
the forefront of this struggle. :

Unswerving loyalty to Canada's true national in-
Our candidates represent
Canadian Democracy in Action. By electing them to
Parliament you can make sure that a real fight will
be waged in parliament—as Well as outside of parlia-

_ment—in defense of peace and the people’s interests.

_ We fight in defense of Canadian peace and security.
Canadian labor, Canadian homes, Canadian democracy,
Canadian national sovereignty. We fight for Peace,
Democracy, Jobs and Homes!

Here is the Labor-Progressive Party Platform:

Halt the Drive to war!
Save the peace!

—Unswerving loyalty to a free and independent Can-

ada. A Canadian flag and a Canadian democratic
constitution. : ;

Rejeet the Atlantic suicide pact and all other
commitments to Yankee imperialism. Remove US.
troops from Canadian soil! Restore Canadian sovereign-

_ ty and control over the Canadian northlana!

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of the Labor-Progressive Party |

—Not a man, not a gun for Wall Street’s war. No
conscription of Canada’s. youth to die for Yankee
money-bags! 4
4—End one-sided economic dependence on the U.S.
Canada should make trade pacts and arrange for
a comprehensive plan of direct barter of goods with
Britain, the Soviet Union and other countries to end
Wall Street’s “American Dollar” domination and save
our foreign trade from bankruptcy.

5 Stop the export of Canadian uranium to make

U.S. atom bombs. Preserve this metal as a price-
less national asset to be used for the peaceful ad-
vancement of mankind.

Return to a policy of friendship and cooperation

with our wartime ally, the Soviet Union, with the
New Domecracies in Europe, with the new China.

“Stop aiding Greek fascism, Franco, Chiang Kai-shek .

and the fascist scum of Europe. Stop giving santuary
to Nazi war criminals. ! E ne

—Make the United Nations an instrument for peace |

by supporting the proposals to outlaw the atom
bomb under international] inspection and control and
to reduce all armaments by one-third.

Promote a peaceful settlement with the Soviet
Union for a united democratic Germany. Protest
the restoration of Nazis to power in Western Germany.

—Full recognition to Israel and establishment of
normal trade relations.

1 —A- democratic immigration policy, as proposed

by labor, in’ relation to peoples of other lands
seeking admission to Canada, opening the doors to
victims of fascism and barring fascists. Complete
prohibition of contract labor!

Defend your family’s

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living standards!
1] Sp profiteering attacks on living standards.
Increase purchasing ‘power and protect health
by a 25 percent reduction in the price of ‘meat, bread
and milk through controls’ and subsidies. Federal
control of imports of coal and domestic fuel oil to
bring about 2 reduction of at least $5 per ton to the
householder for coal and 5 cents per gallon on oil,
1 —Raise workers’ wages and white collar salaries
out of swollen profits. Set a national mi imum
wage of 75¢ per hour, establish ia 40-hour, five-day
maximum working week and two. weeks’ annual holi-
day with pay.
LB Build 800,000 homes in the next five years,
priced for families to rent, or buy on average
incomes. e
National construction instead of war and de-

struction. A full’ program of public works, such

as the Trans-Canada highway, electrification and flood
control, and development of new areas, including the
néw province of Newfoundland, to give full employment
to all Canadians. Federal assistance to municipalities
to help construct subway trarfsit systems, hospitals,
community centers and municipal improvements of

direct benefit to the people.

Social security for
every Canadian!

5 Increase Family Allowances to $10 for every
child under 16. :
16-04 agen pensions of $60 per month at 60 years
of age with no means test and no pocket-robbing
contributory plan.

As adopted at third national convention, February 1949

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1 7 —Yational Health Insurance providing full medi-

cal and dental care for all with accident, sick-
ness and disability benefits. Good health is the birth-
right of every Canadian.

LS Raise Unemployment Insurance benefits from

the present inadequate minimum of $10.60 per
week to $16 per week and up to $27 per week for
married persons, Plus $2 for each dependent.
to cover full period of unemployment.

Tax the greedy, not the reed

19-> income tax exemptions to $2,500 for married

undistributed profits, also profits exported to the U.S.

and income from capita} gain. Relieve municipal costs .

and thus lift the tax burden off the people’s homes.

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Abolish the 8 percent sales tax.” Stop robbing the
workers’ dinner tables, Abolish the $2.50 radio license.
Cut down the high, excise taxes.

We fight for veterans’ rights!

Increase veterans’ Pensions by 50 percent to

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meet the increased: cost of living. Increased °

allowances for student-veterans. Raise the: basic
“burnt-out” monthly pension to $75. Enact laws to
guarantee jobs at union wages, and low-rental homes,
to all veterans, é A

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Break the grip of monopoly !
2y-Put teeth in the Combines Investigation Act.

Enact real monopoly-curbing legislation and start
prosecuting the profiteers and price-fixers,

—WNationalize the banking and credit. system, the
steel, electric power and the packing trusts and
the coal mining and merchant marine “industries,

Real help to agriculture!

2 —Farmers must be compensated for losses sus-

tained through the United Kingdom-Canadian
Wheat Agreement by a federal guaranteed price ' of
$2.00 for export wheat. Abolish the Winnipeg Grain
Exchange. All coarse grains to be handled by the

» Canadian Wheat Board.

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2 —A Dominion farm program including govern-

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ment protected income on all farm products ©

through guaranteed floor prices based on a satisfactory
relationship between farm income and the costs of
production on the farm; more generous credit assistance,
security of tenure, reduced freight rates, supplementary
employment projects, crop insurance, electrification,
bonuses for soil conservation and irrigation projects.
End taxation of cooperatives and ensure financial aid
to farm and consumer cooperatives to fight the mono-

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polies. ‘
Young People

the nations best asset

4 ——A Dominion youth program to provide free

trades training and academic education, includ-
ing a scholarship system for university education, and
sponsoring nationwide recreational, sports and cultural
activities. Equality of educational opportunity and

equal educational standards by federal education grants.
The right to vote at eighteen. i ee

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