BUCK ON ONTARIO ELECTIONS

New point in unity fight

—TORONTO.

Tim Suck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive
Party, regafds the Ontario elections as signifying a new
Starting point in the LPP’s struggle to develop unity with
the rank-and-file supporters of the CCF. The struggle for
such unity, he said was an integral part of the battle for
continued democratic progress, peace, and a socialist Canada.

“Considered in the light of 1943 and 1945,” said Buck,
“the results of the Ontario elections show a strengthening of
the trend towards a radical change in political alignments.
The names ‘Liberal’ and ‘Conservative’ no longer express
any genuine political division to thinking Canadians.”

The election results, Buck said, illustrated that the real
division today is between those who want far reaching social
reform and effective action against the monopolies and those

Drew red-baiting campaign fails,
repudiated by Ontario workers

—TORONTO

In a dramatic demonstration of unity at the polls, Ontario labor last week unmis-
takeably repudiated Tory anti-communism and red-baiting and in the main industrial
centers kicked out the Drew gang in more than a score of CCF and LPP victories.

The Tory stronghold of Toronto fell before labor’s surging drive. In Toronto High
Park, CCF candidate Bill Temple administered a humiliating defeat to the Tory premier.
The Tories won only three of the 17 Toronto area seats. Drew’s plot to seize national
Tory leadership from John Bracken at the Winnipeg convention, blew up in his face. His
prestige and glamor have been tarnished; his ability to lead challenged, his insufferable
ego punctured. . But the ignomy of defeat taught Drew nothing: his post-election state-
ments were even more hysterically anti-communist than before—a'forewarning to labor

of his future course.

in Toronto-Bellwoods is told by
& comparison of 1945 and 1948
votes. In 1945 the vote was:
LPP, 6,799; PC, 5,983; CCF, 4,142;
Liberal, 3,301. In 1948 the vote
was: LPP, 7,764 (up 965) ; PC, 6,647

Pet) opposed him with an “pfficial” can-

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veyed the following statement to
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Labor-Progressive Party: Unite at
the Polts—-Elect a CCF government
in Ontario.

But for the failure of the leader-
ship of the CCF, that objective
could have been brought into life
and today, E. B. Joliffe could have
been premier of the province, not
opposition leader, heading a group
of 22 CCF members.

In the ridings of Bellwoods and
St. Andrew, where the main fire of
the Tories (aided by CCF candid-
ates) was concentrated in an all-
out effort to defeat Ontario LPP
leader A. A. MacLeod, and J. B.
Salsberg, the voters turned out in
a magnificent display of contempt
for the arrogance of Renison and
Philips, the Tory candidates, and
re-elected the two foremost anti-
reaction fightets in the province.

The Tories poured close to $90,-
000 into the two ridings in an
effort to bamboozle and  brow-
beat their way into office. But the
almost superhuman efforts of the
LPP election workers who can-
vassed the area tirelessly for
weeks, won the honest voters—in-

cluding hundreds of CCFers—be-
hind MacLeod and Salsberg.

In Toronto and the Yorks, the
CCF won 11 out of the 17 seats.
Two were taken by. the LPP and
the Tories managed only four,
three in Toronto and one in the
Yorks, In 1943, the CCF took 7 of
the total, losing them again in
1945.

This year, with the LPP fighting
for the election of CCF candidates
in every riding except LPP-held
Beliwoods and St. Andrew, the
Tories were practically wiped out.
That the CCF could have won
many more seats is shown by de-
feat of R. H. Carlin in Sudbury.
Here, after Carlin had been official-

for his support of Reid Robinson,
Mine-Mill organizer deported by
Ottawa, he ran as an independent
CCF candidate. The CCF candidate

didate. Carlin was defeated by the
narrow margin of 292 votes. He
polled 3,000 more votes than “offi-
cial” CCF candidate A. V. Whalen,
but the split caused by the Joliffe-
Millard leadership elected Tory W.
S. Gemmell who has absolutely no
qualification to represent an area
made up of so many mine workers
and small farmers. In 1945 Carlin
had over 15,000 votes.

A study of the election results

In Algoma-Manitoulin, it was
only 900-odd votes short of victory.
In Brantford, a vigorous campaign
could have picked up the 1,000-odd
votes needed, and the same is true
of Cochrane North where the vote
was close. ;

In. the communities,

_ In face of an unprecedented campaign of red-baiting waged by the Tories—aided by
several right-wing CCF leaders—the workers in Toronto and Yorks, in Hamilton, Welland,
Oshawa, Port Arthur and elsewhere rallied around the slogan initiated months ago by the

largely ignored by the CCF which
still lacks a forthright farm policy,

Overall majority

Despite the vicious red-baiting
campaign waged against him by
both the Tories and the CCF,
J. B. Salsberg retained his To-
ronto-Spadina seat with a vote
that fell only 162 votes short of
an overall majority. Final vote
was: LPP, 9,851; PC, 4,903; CCF,
3,340; Liberal, 1,770. “My party’s
policy of unity at the polls has
borne fruit, not only because of
the work of the LPP, but be-
cause it is close to the heart of
the labor movement of this pro-
vince. Red-baiting has been
given a check, not least in Spa-
dina where the Tory candidate’s
only platform was ‘anti-com-

munism’,” Salsberg declared.

the vote was heavily Tory. Actually
the farm vote gave Drew another
term in office.

In Fort William, where Garfield
Anderson for the CCF was defeated
bly a few hundred votes, hundreds
of bushworkers were disfranchised.
Jack Quinn, president of the Lum-
ber and Sawmill Workers’ Union,
protested the leaving off of hund-
reds of lumber workers in the
Thunder Bay area and this was ad-
mitted by the returning officer, The
CCF won the Port Arthur seat, but
Liberal mayor Charles Cox was able
to squeeze through in Fort William.

In Niagara Falls, Gordon Bates,
CCF, lost by a few hundred votes;
in Wind@sor-Walkerville, auto cen-
ter, William Riggs, CCF, was 1,500
short, but Gordon Ellis held Essex
Nortn for labor.

Tens of thousands more _ votes
could have béen won to the CCF
had they taken up the unity slogan
and waged an all-out war against
the Tory red-baiting as did the LPP
in Bellwoods, St. Andrew and other
ridings where LPP members cam-
paigned for CCF candidates.

As it is, the CCF gained some
45,000 more votes than they did
in 1948, the year 34 CCF members
were elected on a wave of pro-Sov-
iet feeling as a result of the war.
The Tories lost about 75,000. This
year, with anti-Soviet scares being
whipped up around practically
every issue, working people of On-
tario have shown they know who
is the main enemy.

To thousands of CC¥Fers this
lesson is now plain. Labor unity |
in Ontario is no longer a slogan

is taking on flesh and blood.

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Drew’s vicious
him in 1945.

war.”

who support the policies of monopolistic big business,

He stressed the fact that the vote showed
attempt to stir up an anti-Communist hysteria
had been rejected by thousands of voters who had Sdmoented
“Their refusal to vote for him was a rebuff to
his campaign for policies looking to. fascism, reaction and

“On the other hand the election results suggest that the
Drew government could have been completely defeated if
the CCF leadership had joined in the campaign for “Unity at
the Polls’ instead of joining with Drew in his red-baiting.

“For the LPP the Ontario election is a new starting
point in the struggle to develop unity with the rank-and-file
supporters of the CCF for continued democratic progress,
peace, and.a socialist Canada.”

Colonel George

about the strike made in the
Minister Humphrey Mitchell.

Canada Steamship Lines, Mise-
ner, Northwest and Transit Tank-
ers have been struck by the séa-
men who charge that the com-
panies broke federal labor laws
by refusing to bargain with the
OSU which is the certified bar-
gaining agent. The companies re-
plied to recommendations favor-
ing the union brought down by
the federally-appointed Brocking-
ton commission by importing a
horde of Pat Sullivan’s scabs and
goons and locking out the regu-
lar crews.

Mitchell claimed the dispute to
be a “jurisdictional scrap” be-
tween unions, ignoring the fact
Sullivan’s outfit is a professional
scab-herding agency with no
standing in any section of the
Canadian trade union movement.
Replying to MacInnis’ request
for a report on the dispute, Mit-
chell said the dispute was caused
by employer refusal to deal with
a “Communist-led” organization.
One of the organizations, he as-
serted, was led by Pat Sullivan,
who used to be a Communist and
“might sti be one.’ The other
was “admittedly” led by Commun-
ists.

MacInnis immediately charg-
ed his request has been “brush-_
ed away in a most frivolous
manner” and maintained the
dispute stems from refusal of
shipping companies to recog
nize duly-chosen representatives
of the seamen,

James Thompson, Pacific Coast
vice-president of the CSU, wired
Mitchell as follows:

“West Coast seamen are amazed
at your stand in the House on
the Great Lakes strike. You, more
than any other, are aware of the
facts as stated by your own boards

MacInnis raps Mitchell -
for ship strike stand

While the Canadian Seamen’s Union held its picket line
on the Great Lakes’ against armed goons and federal and
provincial police, Angus McInnis (CCF, Vancouver East)
this week rapped a series of cynical and false statements

House of Commons by Labor

and commissioners. Your own de- |
partment does not recognize the
CLSU as a bona-fide union, We
expect the government to force
the companies to live up to your
labor act and suggest.your office
be used to assist in settlement ra-
ther than cynically confuse the
issue,”

Coast labor has contributed
more than $8,500 to the solid-
arity fund, Thompson reports,
and thousands of B.C. unionists
are wearing the “Defend labor
—aid the seamen” buttons.

“More money is urgently need-

ed,” he emphasized. “Mass ar-
rests are continuing and our
pickets are maintaining their

‘camps at Lake ports in face of

every provocation.”

Struck companies are endan-
gering hundreds of lives by sailing

'ships with skeleton crews in viola-

tion of all navigation and safety
regulations, but many boats re-
main tied up, including 12 at
Cornwall where violence flared
tast week, leading to an urgent
plea from Cornwall City Council
for federal imtervention to end
the strike.

AFL and CCL locals all along
the Lakes are lining up in support
of the seamen and vehemently
protesting use of federal and pro-
vincial police to protect goons
and arrest unionists. Some are
discusing sympathy action.

In American ports members of
the National Maritime Union are
checking the ports for “hot”
ships, and both Canadian and
American longshoremen are sup-

porting the CSU.

Several other companies have
signed contracts with the CSU
while the lockout and strike have
been in progyéss.

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