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@iole political cam- ted to a higher level Bre Set as our goal in jal drive. If this taken advantage of Saembership, if the hemselyes grasp the fae> of a campaign for 3, it will result not big confident appeal for donations, but it used as a key to the evictions of the com- which we work, and @ vide a sure test of =~ of support, which "ses. might otherwise empty words.

OLGA TURPLE.

Behavior

sition of support for rmed forces urgently ¢@ethe consideration of jadian. As to the * people of under- talize that human be- is conditioned. A re- Hur propaganda will i clear understanding sent behavourism of uth who now hesi- ‘olunteer for general

Hance in many schools tion was given of the ‘ils of fascism! In- > reactionary school made favorable com- out the fascist re- das though this was h to confuse youth ding citizens even aneo the butcher of smocracy.

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war slogans contain no moral

urge because they have no anti- fascist pro-freedom meaning.

A consideration of these facts may make us realize that those who exerted reactionary in- fluences have caused the tem- porary stoppage of reinforce- ments; they are the real “Zom- bies” who conditioned the be- havourism of some of our youth!

Even now, at this critical hour, these reactionaries are ereating national disunity.

Tm. view of this it is our duty to be even more patient and tolerant with those who have not as yet vclunteered. Above all we must change the reac- tionary propaganda and tell our youth the truth about fascism, the sole obstacle that bars their way to a better life.

Their basic instincts will then prompt them to fight for their own well-being as youth has always striven:to do through-

out the ages. JACK BOYD.

Equality Dear Sir: : It appears to me that one of the most important issues aris- ing out of our war economy will be the equality of women in the industrial life of our country. :

Ts this correct, and what are the possibilities of women at- taining industrial equality in the postwar years?

I think it is correct and ne- cessary if working people are

~to enjoy the fruits of further

progress in the future.

I look at it in this way— women have found a place in wartime industry in numbers unbelievable in the war period. They have become skilled work- ers in many trades and com- pare favorably with men. They are earning a wage that _en- ables them “to enjoy a personal and economic freedom they only dreamed of before. These gains have enhanced their lives and made it possible for them

“to prove they can make a great-

er contribution to society.

Now, can men wisely and truthfully say that after the war is won, women should go back to the low wages paid to domestics, waitresses, etc. ff they do, many surprises await them in the postwar world. If they are wise, men will realize nothing can stop women from exploiting their newly won gains.

Trade Unions should take special note of this and organ- ize and protect women in an equal manner. If they don’t they will find a body of work- ers who will threaten their very foundations.

Is equality for women pos- sible in a postwar industrial economy? I think it is. Canada

has geared its war production to unheard-of heights and spent

‘billions of dollars for war ma-

echinery. In doing so Canadians haye given-up and rightly so, many essentials such as homes, wearing apparrel, electrical ap- plianees, cars, radios, washing machines, ete. Now, when the war is won the demand for these necessities will be enorm- ous. We will need every last one of us men and women to produce them. Not only for our- selves but for millions of people in the devastated areas of the world.

Women have won the struggle for the right to vote. Working men and women must elect pro- gressive people who will pledge themselves to govern in the best interests of the working class. This is the key to the whole problem. Women -and men must unite in the common cause. Equality for women, prosperity and social progress for all Canadians.

ELMER BAXTRHR.

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Shor t Jabs by Ol” Bill

Achieve Fame

WHEN the question? of Trotskyism was being discussed in the Gom- munist Party of the Soviet WWnion and the Communist Interna-

‘tional, I followed every development of it. I read all the material pub-

lished in the party, press and the articles i She i L published later by Trotsky and ace Eee ed peadied ple cvidente tendered at the inal of the "peor € other wreckers influenced by th: I row the ‘Soviet soyernment. ; eee ae ers 2 : these convinced me that the Communist Part took the right line when they expelled Trotsky from their ranks. They proved £6 ae oe ey es oe ad eves had been, a communist. He did not clong in the party that Lenin built and led, th workers of Russia to victory. : en ee - oe So, when I find a paper alleging itself to be a labor paper, the

pages of which teem ‘with the anti-communist and anti-Leninist ideas and slanders that Trotsky tried to inject into the movement and which brought about his downfall, I.don’t waste any more time on that paper. Such a paper is the CGF News. :

A Personal Tinge

()CCASIONALLY, however, someone who is less choosey than I am

or who buys it to find out if it is getting any rottener. draws my attention to some news item or other contribution in its pages and wants to know what I think of it. ’

That happened this week. The item my friend asked me to look at had a personal tinge. It was partly about myself. It was part of a column allegedly “prepared by the Trade Union Committee.” The Section in which TI was dedicated to fame was headed “Left Hooks.”

__ Advertising men used to write in their blurbs, “Imitation is the sincerest form. of flattery” Left Hooks is probably as close to Short Jabs as the Trade Union Committee could come without being labelled plagiarists. I don’t offer them any thanks for the compliment. I will quote the paragraph in full so that no loyal CCF’er may accuse me of distorting or falsifying it. Here it is:

“No, wonders will never cease. Could anyone who knows both men and their records have ever believed that Bill Ben- nett, one-time revolutionary, and Ieon Ladner, K.G., follower of R. B. Bennett and former Tory member of the House Of. Commons, would appear on the same platform? Old-timers in the labor movement’ in Vancouver rubbed their eyes and wondered what Liquor Board Kennedy had been selling them when they saw posters advertising a meeting at which Bill Bennett would be the speaker and Leon Ladner the chairman.

a “Ladner must like the Bennetts, and we hope he will be as

faithful to “Bill” as he has, been to “R.B.” There was some- thing lacking at the meeting, however, just as if one of the Marx brothers were absent. The doings would have been complete had “Father” Boyle made the collection speech.”

{EE is really nothing to wonder at, not even the amazement of

the writer of that paragraph. Travellers from highly industrial- ized countries tell us of how savages in out of the way corners of the world are struck with amazement and awe at every new thing they

‘see and the more ignorant they are the less contact they have had with

the civilized world; the more amazement they show. ‘The writer of that paragraph belongs in that category. politically.

If I were to tell him that Bill Bennett was on the same platform with Angus MacInnis, his eyes might pop out of his head. But it would be true, and that would be a greater source of wonderment than that Bill Bennett was on -the same platform with Leon MLadner, for the purpose for which this particular meeting was held. ;

‘This Left Hooker does not tell his readers why Bill Bennett’s name was coupled with Leon Ladner’s. [I will. It was to raise funds for the reconstruction of Odessa, the city for which Vancouver has undertaken to act as patron, a city, among many, whoSe citizens have added a chapter of heroism in the struggle against fascism that will be an inspiration for generations to come:

For this purpose I would be willing to be on the same plat- form with Beelzebub or Angus MacInnis or even the writer of that paragraph, who may be one of those egotistic souls whe ratted from the Communist Party, whose frayed dignity could not stand communist discipline. He does not sign his name

- for which I de not blame him. If I wrote crap like that I too would be ashamed to put my name to it.

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VN THE 1930 Federal elections there were three; candidates in South Vancouver. Ieon Ladner was the Tory. Angus MacInnis was the

candidate of the Federated Labor Party or ILP, the 1980 edition of the.

CCE (with Liberal support). date.

In that campaign all the candidates were invited to speak on the Canadian Legion platform. And we did. Bill Bennett, “the one-time revolutionary”, is still communist. Leon Ladner has come to recognize the need for friendly political and cultural relations with the Soviet Union, our neighbor across the Pole. And Angus Macinnis writes “Bombs over Finland.”

Great changes have taken place in these fourteen years. Much water has flown under the bridge. But water does not flow under bridges for the CCF. The Social Democrats then in power in Germany isaw their Karl Marx House in Vienna battered to pieces by the fascists whom their policies helped to power. But the CCF does not learn anything from history. So Vienna, and all the other German events, are no concern of theirs.

In all their paper there is not one word of the issue of the day in this province. Nothing about shut-down plants and lay-offs. Not a whisper about the housing shortage. And as to the hydro-electric question, only on one page is there any sign that there is a BCHlectric question in this province—an almost ful page ad., which must have cost

Bill Bennett was the Communist candi-

the B@Electric as much as would pay the printers bill for the whole.

issue of the paper, a baloney ad. claiming there will be lots of power after the war. : :

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