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MAURICE RUSH Va ~8neouver East

eer veteran Maurice Rush, et several months in a in i945, Prisoner-of-war camp Keg Since his return to Can- he has held several leading

she in the LPP and is now part paver secretary of the men, Active in the labor move- Bud, for more than 20 years, yar 'S well known in Vancou- ast, having contested that

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MONA MORGAN

Van-Kingsway

Mother of an_ eight-year-old ' son, Mrs. Mona Morgan will make the housewife’s voice heard in Ottawa if she is elected to represent Vancouver-Kings- way. A leader in the “Roll Back Prices” campaign of 1948, Mrs. Morgan has been active for many years in women’s organiz- ations and has always been an outspoken champion of women’s

. rights.

Vancouver Centre

‘ERNEST LAWRIE

Ernest Lawrie’s name is wide- ly known to many “first voters” in this election because of his activities as provincial secre- tary of the National Federation. of Labor Youth. Prior to being elected to this post, Lawrie was an active member of Vancouver Civic Employees Union, Outside

Workers. During the war he served in the army and RCAF.

SIDNEY ZLOTNIK

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Sid Zlotnik, a Commerce grad- uate of UBC, is a familiar figure at BCElectric, BCTelephone and Milk Board hearings, where he battles skilfully and vigorously “for the interests of the con-

sumers. An overseas veteran of the Second World War, Zlotnik, at 39, has a record of 20 years’ activity in the labor movement of Vancouver.

GORDON ELDER

Vancouver South

A plant committeeman at B.C. Plywoods, where he has worked for the past six years, Gordon Elder is known to IWA members and to many other trade union- ists as a consistent fighter on behalf of the labor movement. Born and educated in New West- minster, Elder is an able speak- er and has conducted a_ vigor- ous campaign for peace, trade and jobs.

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con cetion day is just around the

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ibe. Laurent government Staty, Teducing Canada to the States. 1, 8 colony of the United Mment 28 allowed the U.S. gov- Tilitary to establish a network of troops bases across Canada. U.S. Xe yo, © Stationed in Canada and 8 Stat opumiect to Canada’s laws, NESS re affairs which exists only tina, Jal countries. The reac- “f the Policies of the government ri dominate Canada.

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Laurent government North Atlantic military Commits Canada to au- volvement in wars start- Patliame, United States, without

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On peace, national independence and “other f undament S esentially the same as that.of the Liberal, Conserva Lpp candidate for Vancouver East, in an open letter address Text of the letter follows:

was drawn up in Washington, has been rightly condemned as a “sui- cide pact” for Canada. Under the policy of committing Canada to American wars, our boys were sent to Korea, and we very nearly got ‘involved in a war with China.

Where has the CCF stood on this issue? M. J. Coldwell, CCF national leader, was the first in parliament fo demand the send- ing of Canadian boys to Korea. Other CCF leaders endorsed the North Atlantic Pact. In April, 1949, the B.C. convention of the CCF rejected the North Atlantic Pact but CCF leaders repudi- ated the convention. Harold Winch rushed to the press with a statement that he would sup- port the North Atlantic Pact and rejected the democratic decision

‘Under the Liberal government, arms spending was increased 10 times since 1947. We now spend $2 billion a year for guns, tanks, planes, etc. Since half of the na- tional budget is spent for war equipment, Canadians have to pay huge taxes, and the money which could be used for a national health plan, to give our senior citizens higher pensions, to launch a hous- ing program and raise family al- lowances, is spent on weapons of war.

Where has the CCF stood on this issue? The CCF leaders support the armaments program. Coldwell said recently that no matter which party was elected, the present heavy war expenditures would be continued — meaning that if the CCF were elected, it would do the same the Liberals have been do- ing.

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Harold Winch, CCF candidate for Vancouver East, recently de- nied my charge that the CCF co- operated with the other major parties in support of a pro-war, made-in-U.S. policy, which was leading Canada to disaster.

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al questions of national policy,” the ccF tive and Social Credit parties, says Maurice ed to Vancouver East voters this

Harold Winch himself recently gave us a striking example of how CCF leaders’ have entered into al- liance with the other big parties on important matters of policy.

A few short months ago he of- fered to become the premier of B.C. and form a government sup- ported by the Liberals and. Con- servatives. He said that if he were allowed to form such a govern- ment, he would give a commit- ment not to introduce any “con- troversial legislation” — in other words, he would introduce only legislation the Liberals and Tories

would support.

The only party which puts for- ward a new national policy for Canada and which opposes the present cold war made-in-U.S. pol- icies is the Labor-Progressive

party.

The LPP. demands an end to U.S. domination. We place peo- ple’s needs before warfaree We fight to uphold the independence of Canada. We stand for interna- tional agreement on disarmament. We stand for trade with the Brit- ish Commonwealth and People’s China and an end to dependence on the U.S. “market. We stand against the growing control _by U.S. trusts of Canadian industries. The Labor-Progressive party says: “Develop our own raw materials and provide jobs and higher living standards for our people.

~A vote for the CCF candidate in Vancouver East is a vote in support of the warfare before wel- fare policies Canada is following at the present time. !

You can only vote for the pol- icies you really want by voting for the Labor-Progressive party.

I urge you to Put Canada First when you vote on Monday, Aug- ust 10, by putting your “X” op- posite my name on your ballot.

B.C. Peace Council planning campaign ‘to end cold war’

A new, world-wide campaign for great-powér negotiations to end the cold war has been launched by the World Council of Peace and is about to get underway in Canada, it is announced in a press state- ment issued this week by B.C. Peace Council.

“This campaign, launched . by the Budapest meeting of the World Peace Council in June, can be decisive in bringing about ne- gotiations to ease international

tension,” the statement declares. . The. Budapest meeting left it. to

national peace councils to decide the form the campaign would take in each country. The national council of the Canadian Peace Congress will meet in Toronto in mid-August to decide upon a Canadian campaign for negotia- tions.

B.C. Peace Council will dis- cuss the Budapest and Toronto proposals at a two-day session to be held in Pender Auditor- ium, August 29-30, to launch the campaign in this province. Bruce Mickleburgh, public re- lations director, Canadian Peace Congress, who attended the Buda- pest meeting and who will also be present at the Toronto meet-

ing, will bring a first-hand report

to peace workers in B.C.

The B.C. Peace Council meet- ing is open not only to suppori- ers of the peace movement, but to anyone interested in the cause of peace.

“The restoration of peace in

Korea is a tremendous victory for the cause of world peace and opens the way to great-power ne- gotiations to end the cold war,” the council states.

“What is needed now is a vig- orous, mass campaign that will take the question of negotiations to hundreds of thousands of peo- ple throughout Canada, just as was done at the time of the Appeal for a Five-Power Peace Pact.

“The confident appeal of the World Peace Council, issued from the Budapest meeting, is an in- spiration to all who wish to see an end to the hateful cold: war.”

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