\ dig ‘ ~ Mo “Of: the cr Ushin zg dished in 1924—until Monday. “On Monday it elected a’ candidate Who because of sickness did not Make one campaign spee¢h ex- cept the one at his nomination Meeting some months ago. There is no doubt whatever that this psychological landslide was the ultimately decisive factor in the Liberal victory in Toronto- Trinity constituency. During the last week of the campaign the Pressure of the idea of sweeping the Tories out and replacing them With Liberals completely reversed! the situation in some subdivisions during the final weekend. In Trinity, the ‘effect upon our. Own vote of this wave of unthink- ™g impulsion to vote Liberal was accentuated by the systematic Campaign of unbridled red-baiting and slander in which the Tories, the Liberals and the CCF had co- *perated all through the cam- Paign, The fact that we received 5,980 votes in the face of that “ombination was in itself testi- mony to the wonderful cam- Y §n carried through by hun- Teds of devoted campaign Workers, That ‘vote. and the Votes in Cartier and Winnipeg North, provides significant evi- ce that there is basic, un- Shakable Support in those con- Stituencies for policies of a gen- uine Struggle for peace, the Unitea Nations, and world co- eration, We failed to win either one of a S€ats, but, in the circum- ances, the results were them- s Be shite ‘ves a guarantee of victories ahead, secre is no doubt but that the fac ton results re-emphasize the x t that the masses of the people fe oe trust the Tories, scorn lett; promises and are against the ng the avowed Tories get con- fol of the government. tones to the overwhelming vic- 7. Y Of the Liberals under St. 2urent, the most striking feature election results is the h defeat administered to € Progressive-Conservative par- ty under its new leader, George Tew, str The vote confirms and is, uSthens the trend towards the ppetion of the avowed Tories their decline of power as 2 nal party. This defeat and weakening of a3 Most brazen advocates of ire talist reaction at home and Perialist adventure on a world Natio Stale is very definitely a posi- ve fea i re- sults. ture of the election a It will be welcomed by all “Mocratie Canadians, ig Shoula be added that there Sub ~ 2° doubt but that the jective considerations which med voters to vote Liberal were Go, largely anti-Tory. Many Uusands of people voted as they to help ensure the defeat of * 8 aeons under Drew. That also the efinitely a positive feature of results of this election. * * * a without minimizing the im- “nce of their positive features, LPP election fund NOW up to $8600. fuelgin Rudden, LPP election d manager, reported this week that ~~ Mor been Taiseg, e than $8,600 had ther’ €lections are over but © are still pills to be paid,” Ruddell, “Therefore I ask 8’oups of supporters to fulfil all the} pland immediately.” Tovincial LPP leader Nigel Sivan thanking election work- ; “The their efforts, said: tora) € LPP is not just an elec- 365 Machine, Our work goes on cere 5,2 year. We extend a sin- Mvitation to all who support- US on election day to join our ithe gain take an active part in for ” aily fight for a better future all Canadians,” t pledges and turn in moneys’ the negative features of the elec- thon results must be emphasized. The desire to “keep the Tories out” was not by any means the only factor. Although ithe sub- jective motivation of hundreds of thousands of voters was €vi- dently against Tory reaction, the vote does not reveal evidence of any strengthening of popular desire for progressive change. Indeed, its most obvious indica- tions are just the opposite. Half of all the people who voted de- clared themselves satisfied with the present policies of- si hawed ent and with his vague “assur- ances” about the future. More than a million and a half electors voted for Progressive- Conservative candidates, which makes a total of 3,988,431 voters who either endorsed St. Laurent’s policies or voted for more open reaction—out of a _ total popular vote of 5,078,906. Progressive Canadians cannot find cause for satisfaction in those figures. M. J. Coldwell certainly did not speak for progressive Ca- nadians when: he literally gave his blessing to the defeat of the majority of the sitting CCF mem- bers by declaring thet the people “voted as they did to keep Drew out of. power... . In their desire to keep him and the Tories out of office they swept everything before them. That is the story of this election.” That is not “the story of this election” at all. Coldwell’s words may be true of certain areas in Ontario, but they certainly are not true of Saskatchewan. The constituencies in Saskat- chewan who changed their rep- resentatives did not turn away from tke Tories, they turned away from the CCF to the Lib- erals. The same thing happened in B.C. The Liberals took 14 seats away from the CCF in Saskatchewan, and for Coldwell to say that it was primarily because the voters there were afraid that if they voted CCF there would be a Tory government is nonsense. The truth is that the element of satis- faction with St. Laurent’s policies and acceptance of his vague “as- surances” was a very strong fac- tor in securing the Liberal gains. * * * But the policies of the St. Laur- ent government are the policies of the biggest and most powerful circles of finance—capital in Can- ada—the circles which are most closely associated with Wall Street and Washington. The vote constituted an electoral endorsement of S‘g Laurent’s sac- rifice of basic national interests tq Wall Street, his commitment of Canada to join in a predatory im- perialist war in Europe if Wash- ington starts one, and the role of the St. Laurent government as the active link between finance-capital and clerical reaction. The fact that Anthony Hlynka and Adrian Arcand were defeated by Liberals as well as left-wing candidates does not change the fact that the vote endorsing those policies, and that role is definitely a negative feature of the election. The debacle of the CCF mir- rors the need created by the stead \rors the need created by the steady regrouping of Canadian voters. The fifty percent of the voters who voted for Liberal can- didates hold some different opin- ions from those of the electors who voted Progressive-Conserva- tive, and no doubt some of them hold opinions different from hun- dreds of thousands of those who voted CCF. But so far as the declared Meet our ball players ! Are you 42a_ baseball More specifically, a point going to see bune junior in action. make “Bp” place in the baseball league Commerce. league, are shown 2! to right): Lem Pye, captain; Jim ke Hillworth, coach; 2 ers; Gerry Gurry, recorder; third base. fan? are you a follower of sandlot ball? If so, some night of- the Pacific Tri- league team Made up of lads ranging in age from 15 to 18, the PT gang is currently holding down third seven-team minor sponsored by ‘Vancouver Junior Chamber of Most of the players are stu- dents at John Oliver High|July 5, Collingwood vs. N. Van School and are “working dur- Crusaders—Colling wood. a ing the summer months. All July 6, Boshards vs. Colling- games are held in the evenings, wood—Connaught. starting at 6:30 p.m. sharp, ex- cept games played at North PT team in third place Vancouver, which get underJ way at 7 p.m. League standing at press time is: 1, Collingwood; 2, Ac- me Machinery; 3, Pacific Tri- bune; 4, Boshards; 5, Central Park Cardinals; 6, North Van Crusaders; 7, North Van Hey- woods. Here’s the schedule of games for the coming week: July 4, Central Park vs. Acme Machinery—Powell St. July 5, Pacific Tribune vs. Bos- hards—Powel] St. ~ July 7, C.P. Cardinals vs. Pa- cific Tribune—Central Park. embers Pacific Tribune baseball club, now in third place in the Junior “B” te oF eras. Batboy Nor Hillworth is seated in the foreground. Front row (left catcher; Wally Pohatynsky, shortstop; John Mallard, first baseman and Wilson and Mike Dutkevich, fielders; Bob Gilbert, pitcher. “Jackie” Robson, manager; Gordie Nughent, Roy Griffin, Ron Burton, field- Roy Hiilworth, second base; Doug Sparks, fielder; and Rem Jones, uly 7, Acme Machinery vs. Collingwood—Kerrisdale. July 8, Pacific Tribune vs. Bos- hards—Clinton. There’s an old saw. which claims that man’s best frien? is his dog. With the racing sea- son now on, many a two-buck punter is claiming that man's best friend is that noble ani- mal, the horse. (Before the sea- son ends. most of the horses will .be eating a lot better than the bettors.) Here at the Pa- ific Tribune, we believe that man’s best friend is a growing boy. That’s why we're glad to have been able to help outfit a team of youngsters and as- sist them on the ball diamond. Second row: Jack —- Elections revealed Tory decline aims of those three parties were concerned there was no sharp dividing line between them upon any issue that is of fundamental significance to Canada. Because of their agreement with Liberals and Tories on the issues which determine the main lines of na- tional policy, the CCF leaders have now discarded most of the domestic demands which had previously been their main av- enues of appeal to the. masses. Committed to over-all policies which are based upon the idea that there must be a war, the United States must start it and Canada wants to be in it, the CCF discarded its proposal to na- tionalize banking and credit, dis- carded its proposal to nationalize the monopolies, discarded its pro- posal to abolish the Senate, ete. In the new House of Commons there will be no real parliamentary opposition to the St. Laurent gov- ernment on the issues which are going to determin® the future of Canada. Coldwell’s reaction to the ter- rific defeat suffered by the CCF is characteristic of right-wing so- cial democrats everywhere. He blames it all upon those who dis- agree with his repudiation of the CCF pledge given in the Regina Manifesto that the CCF will not support war for the protection of the capitalist system. The idea that CCFers_ should want to defend certain principles and that those of the CCF who really believe in.the ideal of So- cialism may consider adherence to principle as being of at least equal importance as “getting along with the Liberals,” is not even reflected in his statement. What is suggested there is Coldwell’s determination to purge the CCF of all those who want to Oppose monopoly cap- italism. : * * * The results of the election brings forward big and important tasks for the LPP. The Liberals were elected on the crest of the Postwar boom, but Canada is now headed for economic crisis. St. Laurent and his ministers were lavish in their promises ‘to the electors, but all signs point, even now, to a repetition of 1945 when they put their promises away in mothballs the day after the elec- tions. Most of those who voted Lib- eral did so believing that the Liberal party is a peace party, but the truth is that the Liberal government unites and heads the in Canada. Thie organize effective struggle to defend the true in- terests of Canada and our people goes on, r ‘movement will have to demand a special session of the House of Commons to deal with, the problem of growing unem- ployment now, City council elected - by Peace Assembly At the annual meeting of Van- couver Peace Assembly this week, delegates elected a local council of 40, responsible to the assembly, to direct work during the coming year. A motion to affiliate to the Ca- nadian Peace Congress was Ppass- ed, and the Vancouver council pledged financial support to the national body. Vancouver Peace Council is working to set up peace chapters in various communities. Al] indi- viduals or groups interested in Joining the peace movement or in receiving the monthly bulletin of the council are asked to write to Vancouver Peace Council, 1856 West 15th Avenue. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 1, 1949 — PAGE 7