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Manning lost 6,000

votes in Edmonton:

no sweep for Socred

By BEN SWANKEY

EDMONTON

The August 5 provincial elections in Alberta returned the Man-
ning Social Crédit government to office with a decisive majority.
But despite the decisiveness indicated by the majority in the new
legislature, the election was not the usual “landslide” victory for

the government.
perienced difficulties in sweeping
to power on election night. The
northern part of the province
showed a definite swing ‘away
from Social Credit,

While early returns from south-
ern constituencies were reminders
of previous returns, Edmonton
and.a half dozen northern consti-
tuencies voted against the Man-
ning government, In Edmonton,
Social Credit votes showed a min-
ority support for the government.
Premier Manning’s. personal vote

in the city fell by epproximately
6,000.

Significantly, the constituencies
where the rich oil fields lie are
the ones where the government
suffered its heaviest losses in
votes.

: (Swhhkey, running as LPP can-
didate in Edmonton, polled 809
first-choice votes. In Drumheller,

- Arthur Roberts, LPP, polled 305.

In Vermilion J. Hocaluk polled
575; in Redwater Frank Maricle
got 292; in Thabaska Sam No-
vakowsky got 293. They ran as in-
dependent-farme r candidates, In
Lac Ste. Anne the CCF candidate
_ Bronson, who took a stand for
peace, got 1,460 votes; in Vegre-
ville, S. Ruzycki of the CCF who
also stood for peace got 1,484. W.
Longridge, Calgary labor candi
date received 527 votes.)

_ The Social Credit victory was
won by the deceitful trading on
*the oil boom in the province.

There is no doubt that the ex-

For the first time in 17 years, Social Credit ex-

ploitation of the province's nat-
ural resources has created a
feeling of boom-time, and the
government has become identi-
fied with it in the minds of a
lot of voters. Manning’s pre-
election promises (made for the
first time in the last 17 years).
and the clever demagogic cam-
paign against the old-line par-
ties blu over the crassness
of the sell-dut of the province
to Yankee corporations,

CCF vote fell to a new low. It
polled only 14 percent of the prav-
ince’s total, whereas four years
ago it received 18 percent. In

Calgary, where labor unity around |

a fighting program could have re-
turned A. J. E. Leisemer, mémber
in the last house, this seat was
lost. The new seat won was in
Willingdon, where local coopera-
tion among progressives persuad-
ed Nick Dushenski to contest the
riding for the CCF. In other con-
stituencies, CCF appointees are
reported to have ‘been more anx-
ious to prove their prowess at red-
baiting than in offering an alter-
native to the government.

The Liberal party, led by Har-
per Prowse increased its vote
slightly over the whole province
and is now the official opposition.

The Tories, emerging into provin-

cial politics for the first time in
17 years, elected ofe member
each in Edmonton and Calgary.
They did not even contest ridings
in the countryside,

WIDF protests ‘U.«S. barring
of Rae Luckock to attend UN

BERLIN

A strong protest against U.S.
action in barring attendance of
- Canada’s Mrs. Rae Luckock to
_ the UN session as an official ob-
server, was issued here August 6
_ by the Women’s International De-

In Moscow

Chou En-lai, China’s premier
and minister of foreign affairs, .
is in Moscow as leader of a

delegation from People’s China
to discuss the further develop-
ment of economic cooperation
between his country and the
USSR. ‘The Chinese people,”
said Chou En-lai on his arrival,
“are grateful for the help the
Soviet Union aca already given
them.”

“meeting

Pnoneatte Federation. The state-
ment reads: -
- In July, Mrs. Rae Luckock,
president of the Congress of Can-
adian Women, was refused entry
to the-U.S. by the U.S. State De-
partment. She was travelling to
New York in order to represent
the WIDF at the session of the

7 Economic and Social Council of

UN which has been taking place
there.

This represents an intolerable
infringement of the right of the
WIDF to be present, as a non-
governmental Category “B” org-
anization, at sessions of the Eco-
nomic and Social Council of UN.
It is also an unwarranted inter-
ference by the U.S. government in
the internal affairs of UN.

This deliberate attempt to ex-

clude the WIDF from the delibera-

tions of the council must be’ met

| With the determined resistance by

the WIDF and its national organi-
zations, Our executive committee
in Bucharest (18-22
July), where the news of the ex-

clusion of Mrs. Luckock was re-

‘ceived, sent a telegram to Trygve
Lie, Secretary-General of UN, New
York, urging his immediate inter-
cession with the U.S. government
to admit our representative.

We ask our national organiza-
tions to protest strongly, so that
this hypocritical measure of the
U.S. government is exposed to all

and so that we can take our right-

ful place at all sessions of the
Economic and Social Council and
on the Commission of the Status
of Women of the UN, when these
bodies meet in New York.

Bulgaria protests p rovocations

The Bulgarian government. has protested ‘most emphatic-
ally" to the United Nations against provocations by Greek fascist

troops in the Evros River area recently.

Among the instances

cited were the killing of a Bulgarian frontier guard and the shell-
_ ing of the island of Gamma in the middle of the Evros River.
(Map shows the area where the caenenaeis took place.)

Signs of economic
slump seen in U.S.

WASHINGTON ;

Signs of a critical economic
slump have been cropping up all
over the capitalist world recently.
Despite the rearmament program
foisted on various nations by the
United States, the twin evils of in-
flation and unemployment emerg-
ed in a score of countries around
the globe. The developing world
crisis could be seen in the follow-
ing:

@ Capitalist production began
to fall in 1951, according to Unit-
ed Nations sources,, which revealed
that the rate of increase in indus-
trial production dropped in every
capitalist country with the excep-
tion of India,

@ The output of United States
industry did not rise in 1951, but
stood still, and by March of this
year was actually one percent be-
low the level of March 1951.

@ Economic tensions have built
up between Western Germany and
Japan and the lesser satellites of
the United States, the latter strug-
gling for world markets against
the favored position of the former
war enemies.

@ The militarization of capital-
ist economies has been reflected in
a declining standard of living
shown in the drop in retail sales in
Europe, particularly in Britain,

where the economic atebibnn has
already reached the crisis stage
precipitating new parliamentary
clashes, In France, the franc skid-
ded to a new low this week while
the price index soared. Demands
increased to abandon the catas-
trophic war in Viet Nam and stop
U.S.-sponosred rearmament.

@ U.S. government officials ad-
mitted this week that the shipping
industry is in a ‘‘world wide
slump.”’ U.S. ‘‘cold war” policy has
erected barriers against the Soviet
Union, China and the New De-
mocracies in Eastern Europe, cut-
ting half the world off from trade.
In New York, shipping industry
representatives said the slump
was the worst since just before
the outbreak of the Korean war
two years ago.

@ “Runaway -Auhation® was
deemed so serious by President
Truman that he was considering
calling a special session of Con-
gress.

® Price officials announced
they expect a huge inflationary up-
surge, close on the heels of the
price boost the Truman adminis-
tration handed the steel industry
as a reward for settling with the
steelworkers.

Mine - Mill backs rubber,

oil strikers in Ontario

SUDBURY
.  Mine-Minl local 598, Sudbury,
will take “immediate action for
direct contribution as well as bank
collections’”’ to the 1,400 strikers
at Firestone Rubber Co. in Ham-
ilton and 600 strikers, members
of the Oil Workers International
Union, at Canada Copper Refiners
Ltd. in Montreal. ‘This was a re-
commendation from the floor of
the Local 598 meeting to the ex-
ecutive board after Rubber Work-
ers Union president Harry Yeo-
mans addressed the members. The
recommendation was unanimous-

ly endorsed by the meeting,

Yeomans said that his union
had always fought for labor unity
and was ready to assist any group
of workers no matter what their
union affiliation. They had been
one of the first unions, he said, to
assist the textile workers of Mon-
treal and Valleyfield in their re-
cent strike.

Local 598 has previously con-
tributed $200 to the rubber work-
ers and the executive board, in
considering the membership’s re-
commendation, decided to send
$200 more immediately and start
bank collections tq assist both shah
ber and oil workers.

| Bonn,

Army head
admits use
germ war

é PEKING

The American use of bacterio-:
logical weapons on the territory
of Korea and China was admitted
by U.S. 8th Army Commander Van
Fleet to Major General Gui Defrin.
de la Chevaliery, head of the
Belgian mission in Tokyo, reports:
an ADN dispatch of July 16 from |
This was revealed by two
European journalists recently ar-
rived in Bonn from Brussels who
disclosed an extract from a letter
which de la.Chevaliery wrote on
March 5 to the Belgian Foreign
Minister. The two journalists
asked that their names not be re~
vealed.

De la Chevaliery stated in the
letter: :

“On March 2 I had a talk with —
General Van Fleet who arrived in
Tokyo,

“When asked about the asser-
tions of the North Koreans and
Chinese that American planes
drop bacteria over North Korean
and Chinese territory, General
Van Fleet answered, ‘It is not sul-
prising that the American troops
in order to achieve success, report
to methods of nrass extermination
not previously used.’’

Van Fleet also admitted to d@
la Chevaliery the U.S, plot to drags

out the armistice talks by meaDS

of the impossible principle of s0-
called ‘‘voluntary, repatriation.” In
this connection, de la Chevaliery
stated in the letter: ‘“‘General Va
Fleet confidentially informed me
that the U:§. government, which
is delaying the truce negotiations

‘in order to gain time for creatins

a ‘situation of strength’ will insist
on their demand for ‘voluntary’
repatriation of prisoners of war:

De la Chevaliery added: “Accord=
ing to Van Fleet’s words, the aill-
of the allies in Korea is now tO ©
achieve military sunerionay on .

the front.”

Canadians to
attend Asian!
peace parley

TORONTO

How to.end the wars in Asia, #
direct threat to the peace of the
world, will be the chief topic be
fore delegates attending th®
Asian-Pacific Peace Conference t0_
take place in Peking at the end of
September, Canadians will] atte?!
the conference.

This is what Finlay MacKenZe
secretary of the Canadian spons0!”
ing committee, told a Queen's
Park open-air rally attended PY
350 citizens on August 13. War®
now underway in Asia are in KO
rea, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia
and Malaya, fc

Importance of sending a Can@
dian delegation was unders¢o?
by MacKenzie when he declared:
“It is in Asia, itself that wat .
actually underway, and that th
threat to world peace is m0
dangerous, Wurthermore Canad
borders on the Pacific. wre
we like it or not, what happens
Asia does affect us.”

Mary Jennison, executive ee
retary of the Canadian Peace Cen
gress reported on ‘What I Sa aS
China,” while attending the re
paratory meeting for the co? ie
ence. Attending were 49 see
gates from 20 countries, amo
them a Buddhist monk:
deputy minister of ae
ternal ffairs departmen
ican halentalen professor; oni
minister of public health; # me ie
ber of the Japanese upper DO
of- parliament.

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