GANG - UP DEFEATED. KARDASH

Manitoba Tories form minority govt

By. WILLIAM ROSS

WINNIPEG —
Manitoba. provincial . election
has brought the Conservatives
under their leader, Duff
Roblin, to power after 43 years
in opposition, but without a
clear majority. The Liberals,
under Premier Campbell, hav-
win a. clear
got only 19
seats — this week
decided to resign the govern-
ment, leaving the way clear
for the Conservatives to form
a minority government.

In this situation, the CCF,
which increased its represen-
tation from 5 to 11, holds the
balance of power. Social Credit
lost the two seats it held in the
last House, and. William Kar-
dash, LPP member for the
past 17 was de-
feated.

The popular vote went 40
percent to the Tories, 34 per-
cent to the Liberals, 21 percent
to the CCF and 5 percent to
others—mainly Social Credit.

It is recognized by most peo-
ple that the unstable political
situation cannot continue for
very long and that another
provincial election will have
to be held, perhaps within a
year.

As the Manitoba LPP execu-
tive declared in its post-elec-
tion statement, “The LPP calls

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However, this could only be
achieved if the CCF, under
Lloyd Stinson, would abandon
its opposition to united farm-
er-labor political action. The
next few months will un-
doubtedly sharpen the debate
in the labor and farm move-
ments on this question.

In the Burrows constituency
of Winnipeg North, W. A. Kar-
dash, LPP candidate, ran sec-
ond in a field of four contes-
tants. He lost to John Hawry-
luk of the CCF, also a member
of the last legislature, and his
defeat is recognized by many
in the labor movement as de-
priving the working people of
Winnipeg of an able labor
champion in the House.

While the defeat of the only
Communist member of a pro-
vincial legislature has been
played up by the daily press
across the country, it came
about not because of de-
ereased support, but because
of the gerrymander of the
Winnipeg constituencies car-
ried through by the Campbell
government combined with the
Liberal-Tory-CCF gang-up in
Burrows. Here are the facts:

In the 1953 provincial elec-
tion the constituency of Win-
nipeg North elected four mem-
bers to the legislature. In that
election W. A. Kardash
ceived 3,998 votes, the second
highest in a field of 11. Last
the Campbell govern-
carried through its re-

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ment

distribution plan of the Greater
Winnipeg constituencies. Win-
nipeg North was carved up
into four separate constituen-
cies, each electing one mem-
ber. This was an attempt to
increase Liberal representa-
tion from the urban constituen-
cies as well as being speci-
fically designed to squeeze
out Communist representation
from Winnipeg North.

In this election, therefore,
the LPP could only muster the
votes of approximately one-
quarter of its supporters in
Winnipeg North. Nevertheless,
the LPP vote increased in that
section of Winnipeg North
which Kardash contested—the
new. constituency of Burrows.

In last October’s civic elec-
tion,. Ald. Jacob Penner and
School Trustee Joseph Zuken
received 899 and 1,010 votes
respectively from Burrows sec-
tion. In this provincial election,
Kardash received 1,207 votes.

Burrows is a constituency
with a predominant Slavic
population, many of them new
Canadians voting for the first
time in a provincial election.
All four candidates were of
Ukrainian origin.

Hawryluk distinguished him-
self.in the last legislature by
being absent from the sessions
most of the time and by the
fact that he made only one
speech on the floor of the
House — ridiculing the idea
of peaceful co-existence and
congratulating Premier Diefen-
baker on his Winnipeg speech

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