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’ TORONTO

The Labor-Progressive party
and ‘its 76 federal candidates last.
Week took the initiative in call-
ing for a coast-to-coast campaign,
to give expression to the wide
Popular support for Sir Winston
Churchill’s proposal for a_high-
€vel peace conference of the big
Powers. Tim Buck, LPP national
leader, set the campaign in mo-
tion with a radio broadcast here.

“The time has come,” he de-
Clared, “for Canadians of all politi-
Cal beliefs to demand of the St.
arent government that it pro-
tect Canada’s national interests
Y publicly supporting the pro-
Posal for a meeting of the heads
a the great states, including the
OVviet Union.

The annual convention of the
%ronto and Yorks LPP last week-
an Sent a cable to Prime Minister
Pe Laurent in London urging him
® “come out -in support of .the

Moros of Sir Winston Church-

A memorandum from national
election campaign manager Les-
‘© Morris urged all LPP candi-
ates and the entire LPP mem-
€rship to back the proposals
iv Churchill “for a speedy meet-
walt of all the Western powers
RD the Soviet Union.” Morris

'd in his letter: “We should
€mand that Churchill’s pro-
al Should be adopted by the
Vig meeting, and the ob-
6 Us Eisenhower tactic of us-
te the Bermuda meeting to de-
at the Proposal for high level

inks with the USSR should be
efeated.”

-agllottis said the LPP definitely

mp’ itself “with the mass
omnes for the idea advanced by
ul of settlement in Korea
als oo acceptance of the propos-
ble’ or a truce advanced by Peo-
S Korea and People’s China.”

| Candidates

GWYN WALTERS
Salmon Arm

NICK KLIM
North Okanagan

A 22-year-old logger, Gwyn
Thomas, is LPP candidate in
Salmon Arm, and an auto mech-
anic, Nick Klim, is contesting
the North Okanagan seat. .

in Okanagan

Liberal govt using RCMP

to influence election —
Buck protests to Castonguay

TORONTO

Sharp protest against the government’s use of the RCMPolice
to influence the forthcoming federal elections is made by Tim Buck,
national leader of the Labor-Progressive party, in a letter sent to
Nelson Castonguay, chief electoral officer, this week. Buck demands
that Castonguay “put a stop to such practices.”

Text of the letter reads:

“In the name of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party and in behalf of
each of its 76 candidates already
publicly nominated to contest seats
in the forthcoming federal elec-
tions, I’ protest the _manner in
which the St. Laurent government
is being allowed to use the Royal
Canadian Mounted Police force as
part of its electioneering machin-
ery.

“The use of public funds to
influence elections is to be con-
demned in any circumstances;
it is particularly to be condemn-
ed when it is used lavishly to
initiate a campaign of lying
slander against the candidates of
one party. The country-wide
campaign of RCMP _ publicity
concerning their “timely” re-
print of a publication that was
used to serve the interests of
the Liberal party in 1949, is a
brazen example of such use of
public funds. | protest strongly
agains® it and as a publicly-nom-
inated candidate | call upon
you, as chief electoral officer,
to put a stop to such practices.

“Quoted statements attributed to
the Royal Canadian Mounted Pol-
ice, and by direct inference given
the authority of Commissioner L.
H. Nicholson, are complete fabri-
cations, lies which could not be
printed, even in a police forgery,
only by ignoring completely the
program upon which the Labor-
Progressive party was founded no
less than the revised program bas-
ed upon the postwar conditions
and perspectives of Canadian de-
mocracy that our party is discuss-
ing publicly now.

“Ignoring those fundamental
documents, ignoring our party’s
program of action to Make Can-
ada Great, ignoring ever proposal
upon which we appeal to all pat-
riotic Canadians to unite, the
RCMP now, officially defames citi-
zens who accept nominations as
LPP candidates as being “on prin-
ciple traitors.” As though afraid
that some readers might not readi-
ly grasp the truly far-reaching
slander in that statement, the
RCMP repeats it-in a slightly dif
ferent form in the following para-
graph, declaring officially that we
are all “either fools or traitors.”
There is not a vestige of justifi-
cation in fact for either of those
irresponsible statements nor for
others quoted on the authority of
the RCMP.

“It is not a legally recognized
function of the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police to pass judgment
upon Canadian citizens before they
are tried, still less should the
RCMP be permitted to accuse Can-
adians in advance and declare
them guilty of a crime, for which
the penalty might be death, when
there is no justification whatever
for assuming that any one of the
persons against whom this police
provocation is directed will ever
be officially charged with any such
crime.

“The Labor-Progressive party of
Canada is a legal political party.
It advocates and campaigns on the
hustings to win electoral support
for a democratic Made-in-Canada
national policy against the Made-
in-U.S. policy pursued by the St.
Laurent government with Tory

support. I submit that it is for
the electors to judge the program
and election platform of the Labor-
Progressive party, through the
election campaign and on election
day. Candidates nominated by
supporters of the LPP to contest
elections should enjoy the same
status in the eyes of the law and
the same rights in election cam-
paigning as do the candidates of
other parties.

“This unscrupulous use of the
RCMP to misrepresent the Labor-
Progressive party to the electors
reveals deep and growing fear that
the people of Canada should learn
the truth about the un-Canadian
relationship of the dominant per-
sonalities in the St. Laurent gov-
ernment to the United States. The
Labor-Progressive party fights to
Put Canada First.

“As the chief electoral officer,
we look to you, sir, to see that
candidates of our party enjoy in
this election campaign all the
rights enumerated and implied in
the Federal Election Act and that,
as part of it, any further cireula-
tion of the RCMP’s lying defama-
tion of LPP candidates be prohib-
ited.”

Parley calls’ for
expanded trade

A joint trade union, cooperative
and farmer organization confer-
ence on the question of Canada’s
export trade was held atthe Fish-
erman’s Hall here May 16.

Delegates endorsed a statement
calling for an expansion of trade
between Canada and,all countries,
and urged barter trade in order
to overcome currency and other
barriers to trade.

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