NDP AND SOCIALISM .

Ted Bardal, Vancouver,
writes: I would like to comment
briefly on the ‘“‘Clear the Air’
editorial reprinted in part,
from the Western Canadian
Lumber Worker.

; The question that first comes
0 mind relates to what the
future holds for labor in parti-
cular or the ordinary people in
Capitalist society. Does it
Pecnise security and participa-
1on in the better life which
Modern technological progress
a Production promises? Does
€ intensification of monopoly,
Control, the threat of war, the
Constant battle for a living wage,
oa waste in resources and
en material; does this type
Social order hold any hope for
€ common man? The answer is
of course NO!
Then the question arises does
Sclal Democracy as pro-
Pounded by the NDP hold

: peeise of a social order for the

' fe oited and oppressed. Let us
L 5 look to England where the

abor Party (a party which the
a emulates) is in power and
milat een on other occasions, and
ike do we find; it becomes the
ae of the status quo and
on in general. It is able to
ay P labor in chains. more
lig meelvely than the estab-
aa due to loyalty and false
mises and leaders who are
urgeois orientated and steeped
one traditions of the Empire.

Ee Democracy has a

Shc that is far from enviable

ta €ver you look. Sweden is

a €d, particularly by the NDP

“s an example to be followed,

ptekci New millionaires are
is, by the dozen every year,
pila € royalty and wealth are the
lett Ts of worship, where as the
oe wing Social Democratic

n ee Goran Palm puts it,

i apitalism can not be
Sarmed by reformist means;
mie ose means it is the labor
ecement itself that is
cn, med. Democratic Social-
Deri Of the Swedish Social

a Ca eae turns out to be
daly be of the purest water,
ee faint pink by the
a. only solution to labor’s
of coated and that of the whole

aa ed if a social order in

ae everything, the earth and

3 Tuits thereof, belong to all

aig cele. Socialism! The

capi ar 1S quite simple, either

sn 1sm or socialism. There

© third way as prophesied by
escial Democrats.

eee democrats mouth

alist phrases on the hustings,
OR same time they voice
sats of the Socialist world.

Sone ose is a corner-

ey share in common with

A A RNA ALL

reaction. Experience, history
and realities should have taught
labor that to continue pinning
their hopes to shams and
demagogues only prolongs the
misery.

In the lands of Socialism,
which the S. D. demean and
villify the power of money and
profits have been completely
eradicated, the people are
masters in their own house and
man has attained equality and
human dignity as never before in
history.

WORK TOGETHER

Mike Freylinger, Mission City,
B.C. writes: In the August 29th

-issue of the Pacific Tribune the

article on Alexander Szakal
makes reference to ‘“‘Munkas”’
as a Slavic-language paper. A
Hungarian friend advises me
that Hungarian is not a Slavic
language. He wanted you to
know.

In reference to the recent
election debacle, the the results
once again indicate the utter
bankruptcy of the “‘go-it-alone”’
policies of the New Democrats.
While there are no doubt
exceptions, the right wing Social
Democrats once again fulfilled
their historic role of betraying
the working people.

It is pure demagogy for anyone
to expect workers to vote for a
political leadership that has
failed to develop consistent and
militant action against such anti-
labor legislation as Bill 33.
Also, it is quite obvious that
many of the NDP trade union
leaders are no more in the
political battle than they have

been in the economic struggle ~

for better wages and working
conditions.

Well the elections are over,
and now we need to look to the
future. Bennett and company
will not solve our problems. The
giveaways of our resources and
the exploitation of labor will
grow apace. The trade union
movement under its present
leadership will find itself
consistently more and more
inaffectual in the fight against
the monopolies of big business.
So who will suffer? The vast
majority of workers of course.

The ideas projected by the
Social Credit party — that the
people had to ‘‘choose”’ between
free enterprise Social Credit or
suffer the consequences of a
socialist takeover, was totally
false. It is well known that the
Social Democrats never have or
never will establish Socialism
anywhere. So it follows that anti-

communism whether
practiced in the deceitful way of
Social Credit, or the more subtle
way of the rightwing Social

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