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2 central problem of Dominion goy- jit policy after the war will be to in the national income and public simg power at a prosperity level. n be done! The war has proved that ion, through its elected government, ect its economy so as to maintain sired level of production within our fl capacity. To accomplish that in ee, the Doininion government has fi responsibilities and 7 previously, were considered to be & the field of government action. The will the fment must continue to accept re- Qility for carrying through that iz of economic activity and purchas- Nver by which private capital fails to

functions

terest which

The Labor-Progressive Party bases its proposals for postwar economic action en- tirely upon the above-stated need. Our attitude towards the question of “ pri- vate Ownership” in the period following the war will be determined ini every case by that .

_ basic aim. Only in cases where “private en- terprise’ fails to maintain a high level of employment, production, or service, or in which the immediate public interest de- mands it (as, for example, the B.C. Flec- tric, the Montreal Light, Heat and Power)

Labor - Progressive

urge public ownership. In the public in- demands a National Coal

Policy, the coal mining industry should be

taken-under public ownership through the

joint actions of the Dominion and Pro. vincial governments.

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etter on Feb. 8, Mr.

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2 missed the point, in on Social Gredit. On i@ point was seen and 30 Sharp f claimed it reration.

ays are used to main- srresent unjust set-up dan society. Various movements centre me of the wrongs— ost of the other as- lamate goals of these perhaps of their fcl- ieide with many of jate demands. These oint out in order to mocratie coalition of The platform of the ‘in one part: Our na- must be careful but & revision of the and extension of the sf the Bank of Gan- to break the credit i0w held by the char- S. This is a recog- very unhealthy fin- ip around which the edit movement is

wdmit that it is a lot find common ground With rank and file of ut, CCF, or Technoc- tis with such leaders mter of Social Credit peated in a debate at ing against you, Mr. dme of these leaders are more concerned position in the party skinge an understand- 1e rest of Canadians. the Social CGrediters ch Ma. F. Anderson ,2rp point to pin them

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*, Rose and his engine 'run efficiently at 60 sure—someone should i to keep far away lengine when 60,000 “essure is released because in no time < and everything Tould be blown away- i Meed all the people better world. A. GRINKUS.

Skepticism

Dear Sir:

When the guiding principles of the Atlantic Charter were

publicized the people accepted —

them and in good faith expect- ed this democratic policy would be adopted. They also confid- ently endorsed the Teheran agreement by which the Allies pledged ‘to make a peace which

will command the goodwill of

the overwhelming masses of the peoples of the world and banish the scourge and terror of war for many generations!” Now, however, they are asking why

these promises are not being’

fulfilled in Greece, Belgium and Italy. Further cause for their skepticism .is the reflex of

these denials and betrayals of

the Atlantic Charter and Te-

heran agreement right here in Canada. For instance, Mr. Ar- thur: Meighen, ideological lead- er of the Tories, said the work- ing people of Canada need to

“relearn the lessons of hard work, honesty and thrift.” One need not pause to compare the average worker’s honesty and thrift with that of Mr. Meig— hen’s. And surely he knows through government statistics that Canadian workers have bought a large share of war bonds and have exceeded the per capita production of Brit- ish workers! Then we find tod- dling along in Tory footsteps Mr. Angus MacInnis, CCF MP, for he takes the same position as Mr. Meighen when he says “We (the CCF leaders) do not glorify Teheran and all that bunk!?”. Needless to say, Hitler would bestow iron crosses on all who endorse such opinions and in view of the coming fed- eral election it is fortunate we know the real sentiments’of ali the Tories and CCF leaders who ignore the war effort and cla- mor for general strikes and “Socialism Now.”

J. BE. BOYD.

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Red Army Anniversary at Paradise Theater

OMEONE, in a restaurant, passed me a copy of an alleged Socialist

paper a few days ago, the Weekly People, official organ of the Social-

ist Labor Party, one of these sects that exists by exploiting: the fanaticism of its small membership.

I have known the paper for many years back, in facet to the time when it was a daily, so naturally, I looked through it to see if it was any better than it was at that time—and it was not much then.

I discovered, without surprise, that it was even worse than in the

haleyon days of Dan De Leon. I discovered, fully a generation after the passing: of their adored leader, the Socialist Labor Party still “stands like a rock, alert and watchful.” e

The Weekly Socialist stands in direct line of descent from the Social- ist, edited by Joseph Dietzgen for the same party, which was at the time, (in the eighties of last century), a conglomerate of German im migrants of whom Engels wrote to Sorge. “The Germans have not understood how to use their theory as a lever which could set the Amer- ican masses in motion; they don’t understand the theory themselves for the most part and treat it in a doctrinaire and dogmatic way, aS Ssome- thing that has to be learnt off by heart but which will then supply all needs without more ado. To them it is a eredo not a guide to action.”

They have not changed much, these SLP’ers and such change as has taken place has been for the worse. This is apparent from the paper today—sixty years after Dietzgen edited it. } : 7

In this issue under my notice, in a column titled “Hammer Blows,” iS a paragraph with a sub-head, “‘Fuehreritis—Two Examples,” are two quotations about leaders. One is from Goebbels “Das Reich” in which Hitler is lauded as a mystic with a sixth Sense, “the mystery and myth of our people.” The second is an extract from an editorial in Pravda in which Stalin is deseribed as “the creative, fruitful and joyous inspira- tion of our people,” as “part of the heroism of Soviet patriots, the bravery of our yictorious Red Army, the courage and vigor of our people.”

Both of these quotations are correct. They properly describe the two men. But to the SLP the fact that they are leaders is a great crime against the Weekly People and the SLP. The columnist, who is undoubt- edly one of those whom Roosevelt had in mind when he said “columnists are an excrescence on our journalism,” makes no effort to show whether there is any difference in the leadership of these two figures, the out- standing figures in political life today, Hitler, the greatest force for evil and destruction and Stalin, the embodiment of everything progres- Sive and humanist. 2

It is strange too, that this comment should come from an SLP mem- ber, for the SLP over a great part of its existence was made up of a membership whose wholé political stock-in-trade was hero worship, adoration of Dan De Leon, the mouthpiece and front of their party, on whose narrow shoulders they placed all their burdens, who issued all their pronunciamentos, wrote all their pamphlets and met all their opponents in debate; whom they looked upon as a tin-god and whose

“words of wisdom” still make mouthy phrases for their self-styled’

Marxian platform orators and color every column of their malignant press.

It is not strange that in such a party are to be found men like Myron Kuzych who helped the bosses to maintain an open shop in the ship- buliding industry and sues a labor union for damages and still figures himself to be a revolutionist, and like the soldier, Weber, in the States who put into practice some of these ideas by refusing duty in an army engaged in a life and death struggle with reaction and to whose defense Burton K. Wheeler hurries post haste.

Progressing Backwards

(ES Paradise Theatre should be a busy place this coming week. The management is to be commended for its initiative in takine note of the 27th anniversary of the Red Army. Six Soviet films will be shown during the, week as part of the celebration of that event. There are many people in Vancouver who have seen most of these pictures, people who have enjoyed the whimsicalities of the courageous, fighting. Chapeyev, the consummate artistry of the actors in Peter the

Great, the heroism of the women of Leningrad in Three Women, in the early days im the defense of their town against the White hireling:

armies, which was but a foretaste of what they were to do in the present.

War against a more. ferocious enemy. And one can remember the won- derment and pleasure of the gipsy who had been a trader all his life, when he first handled a seythe and the simple story of the modest Baltic Deputy.

But the Red Army in the past three years has made an impression

' on thousands of people who never before gave a thought to what life

was like in the Soviet Union. To these the half dozen pictures will bring a new world just as surely as the Red Aimy brought a new world to the Itlian Catholic priest, Don Angelo Savelli who was 4 chaplin with Mussolini’s fascist army in Soviet Russia.

But the pleasure need not be confined to those who have been con- verted by the Red Army. Those of us who have seen these pictures before can derive more pleasure from another visit to the theatre. Revivals do not all have to be connected with Billy Sunday and this revival will give us an opportunity to see something we missed the last time. cd

Which picture is the best, you ask me? I don’t know. _Chepeyev was the most popular. Peter the Great was the most artistic. Three Women was the most inspiring. Baltic Deputy was the most simple. Gypsies wts the most interesting. Country Bride I neyer saw. But go and see them for yourself. Don’t take my word for it. See the ad- vertisement on another page for full particulars about times for each picture. But see the pictures and remember what the Red Army has. done for civilization.