French Canada ~~
Is for peace

HERE is widespread and deep-
going opposition in French Can-
ada to the sending of Canadian
troops to Korea. The breadth of the
Sentiment for peace is shown by the
endorsement of the Stockholm Ap-
peal by the mayors and councillors
of no less than 74 Quebec municipal-
ities, in the stand of the St. Jean
Baptiste Society against the gov-
ernment’s war policy, and in. the
anti-war activity of such influential
groups as the Union des’ Electeurs
(Social Credit).

The only\ voices raised in the
House of Commons in opposition to
Canadian involvement in the war in
Korea ‘were those of three MP’s

‘from French Canada. Their. stand

Was an expression of the historic
tradition of the French Canadian
people, of struggle against partici-
pation in foreign wars, against 1m-
Perialism and conscription.

For generations the people of
French Canada have fought against

participation in the foreign wars of
British imperialism. (Rapidly widen-

‘ing circles of them are realizing

now that the policy of the St. Lau-
rent government is aimed at involv-
ing them in a foreign war for Yan-
kee imperialism; and to help Amer-
ican imperialists to fasten on Can-
ada the yoke that decrepit and stag-
gering British imperialism was not
strong enough to maintain. Thus, in
French Canada opposition: to the
war policy being pursued by the St.
Laurent government is part of the
people’s struggle to win the right to
determine their own national des-
tiny. The development and broad ex-
tension of the movement for peace
in French Canada is of crucial im-
portance to the struggle to take
Canada out of the war camp.

The people of French Canada
wantepeace. They demand the na-
tional right to decide through their
own elected representatives what
shall. be the stand of French Canada
on any question which involves the
issue of Peace or War; they de-
mand the right of French Canada
not to be coerced into war against
the will of its people.

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Tasks of the LPP in the
struggle for peace and
Canadian independence

Pee supieme need of Canada is
the defeat of the drive to take

b , an-
Our country into war, To keep Ca

ada out of war means to restore
and uphold our national SOveUSISD
ty. It means winning national, pol-
cies based squarely upon the inter-
ests of Canada’s people. It sce
replacing the government s utes
War program by a program ‘une
upon plans for peace: plans to a
gain our independence, take cana

out of the war camp. and strengthen
the world camp which 1s ne Rte
for the United Nations Charter an

a secure and lasting peace. To those
‘high and supremely Canadian aims
this convention pledges al! the en-
ergy of the Labor-Progressive Par-

ty, and directs its membership to_

the following tasks.
Build the united
front in action

| Wage As the coalition, at the ee
of the four parties of imperial
ism, the LPP calls for the building
of united front action from below.
Against the Yankee militarization
of our country, the LPP fights for
the broadest alliance of all patriotic
forces in French and English-speak-

Ing Canada — for peace and Cana-

Nan independence! _ :
_ The first condition for the build-

ing of unity from below 1s concrete-

ness: initiating specific action on
Specific issues. The place to start 1s

‘Wherever:a Communist meets with
his fellow workers. The issues to

Start on are those democratic issues

Upon which his fellow workers are

Willin to act. Sil
The benoue condition is flexibility.
ur job is to lead struggles. ayd to
do so we must guard against sec-
tarian narrowness which poses ac-

— feptance of the Communist program
a8 a “condition” of united action on

Immediate needs. At the same time

We combat all opportunist passivity,

all underestimation of the great oe
Sibilities of united action, and of the
Workers’ militancy and readiness to

steht.

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The central, urgent task that this

convention places ‘before the entire |

party is to develop united action

now — for peace, democracy, the

ecohomic needs of the people, and
Canadian independence! bias

Build, extend
fhe peace movement

HE LPP wholehearedly supports
the organized peace movement
headed by the Canadian Peace Con-
gress, and pledges to redouble its
efforts to draw ever-wider circles
of peace-loving Canadians into ac-
tion for peace. In every locality and
industry the LPP will strive to

build peace committees in thé plants”

and neighborhoods and camps. The
party will work in support of the
organization of public meetings, for-
ums, discussions in unions and peo-
ple’s organizations, cultural activ-
ities, and democratic public actions

~— to greet and make known to

Canadians the historic decisions of

the World Peace Congress in Shei-
field and Warsaw. —

Withdraw our

troops from Korea —

HE LPP has campaigned from the
T outset against the commitment
by St. Laurent of Canadian forces

to the U.S. invasion of Korea. The

LPP calls upon all democratic Cana-
dians, all friends of peace, ‘to de-
mand the withdrawal of our troops
and naval and air force units from
Korea! No Canadian lives for Wall

Street’s war of aggression against :

the peoples of Asia!

Recognize Chinese
People’s Republic

pe LPP condemns the reckless

‘adventurist policy of provocation

in Asia pursued by MacArthur and

Truman and backed by the St. Lau-

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rent government. The party will
strengthen its campaign for the
recognition by Canada of the Peo-
ple’s Republic of China, and the
seating o1 its representatives in the
security Council.

- Answer, expose
fhe warmongers

T IS the task of the LPP system-

atically to expose and combat the
Big Lie of the warmongers !—that
Canada is threatened with “aggres-
sion” by the socialist Soviet Union;
that it is the land of socialism that
wants war, while Wall Street’s Am-
erica is a dove of peace; that the
liberation movements of the work-
ing class and colonial peoples, and
the victorious USSR and People’s
Democracies represent “totalitarian-
ism,” while the gangster rule of the
Yankee Almighty Dollar is “demo-
cracy.. LPP members have the task
of patiently and systematically ex-
plaining the truth to the people —
that a new war is not inevitable,
that it can be prevented, and that
as Stalin has repeatédly made plain,
peaceful co-existence of the socialist
and capitalist system is fully pos-
sible — provided there is a will to
peace and provided the peoples act
to preserve peace.

No conscription -
Hands off youth

HE LPP condemns the shameful
deal whereby Canadian boys are
delivered as cannon fodder to the

' Yankee war machine. in exchange

for profitable war contracts to Cana-
dian corporations, The LPP op-
posés the militarization of the
schools, the ideological and physical
preparation of a whole generation
of young Canadians for war in the
service of Wall Street. The party
will give. leadership to the wide-
spread opposition to the looming
threat of conscription, and support
fully the fight of the youth for
opportunity and training to live in-
stead of training to kill!

Defend Canadian
independence

T IS the task of the LPP to

arouse patriotic Canadians to a
realization of the shameful fact that
our country is being reduced to the
status of a military, economic and
political dependency of the U.S. It
is our task to arouse the wrath of
Canadians against the pillage of our
country’s resources, the poisoning
of our cultural life, the trampling
of our sovereign independence and
popular liberties, by the Yankee
brasshats and billionaires. We must
arouse righteous anger and burning
contempt for Washington’s slavish
and subservient*yes-men in Ottawa,

who sell our country to a foreign -

power in return ‘for a share in
American imperialist war profits.

The LPP fights for the abrogation \

of the North Atlantic war pact, and
of the new measures to integrate

our -economy with Wall Street’s

war program, and iilitarize our
country for aggressive war. ‘Take
the Yankee military forces out of
Canada — stop the drive to war!

Welfare, nof warfare
- Slop profiteering

THE LPP leads the fight against.

the St. Laurent. billion-dollars-
a-year war budget — and demands
in its stead the things the Liberal
government falsely pledged itself to
introduce: a national health and hos-
pitalization plan, higher old_age pen-

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sions starting at 65 with no means
test, more adequate unemployment
insurance, higher pensions for the
blind and for veterans, financing ot
higher education for workers’ chil-
dren — and the building of homes
instead of bombs! i

In place of the government’s cyni-

- cal scheme to make the workers and

farmers pay the cost of the U.S.-
dictated war program, the LPP de-
mands that the government tax the
rich!

To stop the brazen profiteering
of the big monopolists, the LPP
fights for the imposing of a 100 per-
cent excess profits tax. To keep the
prices of essential foods within reach
of the purchasing power of wage
and small salary earners the LPP
advocates the re-institution of con-
sumer subsidies wherever necessary
to meet this need.

Full employment
and peace

THE LPP rejects and condemns the
argument that production for
war is the only alternative to econ-
omic crisis and mass unemployment,
It is criminal to deceive the people
into believing that full employment
can be maintained only by war. The
Canadian people can have full em-
ployment producing for peaceful
construction, raising our own living
standards as a result, whenever we
compel the government to change
its trade policy. A third of all man-
kind wants to trade with us. They .
could buy more Canadian products
every year for peaceful construction
and rising standards of life than all
that will be produced for destruc-
tion at Canadian taxpayers’ expense
under the St. Laurent government’s
war program, The Soviet Union
alone could buy half a billion dol-
lars’ worth of Canadian products
every year. People’s China wants
machine tools, machinery of all
sorts. locomotives, rolling stock,
steel rails, etc., in almost unlimited
quantities. Those markets will grow
every years for many years to come.
The LPP fights for Canadian par-
ticipation in those great and grow-
ing markets, for re-establishment of
Canada’s right and freedom of ac-
tion to direct her own trade policies.
We condemn the arrangement which
now binds Canada to supply raw
materials to the U.S. and sell to

other countries only with the con-
-sent of Washington.

Canada must sell-her products te
every, democratic country that
wants to buy them and we should
buy from any democratic country
which has products that we need.
The LPP will fight to re-establish
trade between Canada and the 300
million people of the new world of
people’s democracies and socialism.

Higher Wages - Now

EC LPP fully supports the wide-
spread and growing demands of
the workers for wage increases, to
meet the rising living costs brought
on by the government’s war pro--
gram. The LPP warns against the
deceptive propaganda spread “by
right-wing CCF leaders in favor of
price controls instead of wage in- —
creases. Big business and the gov-
ernment will only institute price
controls together with a wage
freeze — and as part of an overall
system of militarization of the —

economy. -

Build and defend

the unions =

TY? MEET the big business war of-_
fensive against labor’s rights and

living standards, the LPP calls upon |
Canadian workers to defend the ae