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The United States may soon send swarms of secret
agents into Canada to carry on intensive espionage in-
side Canadian trade unions and at the same time seek
to recruit Canadian traitors into the U.S. spy ring.

This is one of the logical conclusions to be drawn
from the U.S. Senate’s passing of the “spy bill,” legal-
izing the Central Intelligence Agency, the international
SPY organization set up by the administrative branch of

U.S. spies to invade Canada unions

the U.S. government since the war.

One of the provisions of the bill permits the CIA
to bring 100 foreign spies into the U.S. each year;
citizens of other countries who spied for the Yankees
against their own nations, got found out and had to flee.

This means that if Canadian traitors who work
for the American spy ring are unmasked, they can
cross the border and live in the United States, free

from fear of extradition.
Of course, no senator mentioned Canada in the

U.S. House debate on the spy bill. When Senators
needed to use some country as an example, they men-
tioned European countries. But as the purpose of the
spy ring is to weaken the trade union movement in all

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Terms peace stand ‘ineptitude

Labor unity to compel —

action on layoffs needed

_—TIM BUCK

Following is the full text of
'e statement on the federal elec-

tion issued by Tim Buck, LPP

"ational leader :

The words ‘‘Liberal victory”
® Not describe the result of the

Vo .
kj tng in Monday’s general elec-
On,

, ne total of 262. election of
“ ‘berals and one Independ-
at Liberal against only 25 Con-

Reece :
ReneS in Ontario, the tradi-
‘onal stronghold of the Progres-
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ti ‘
"8 down of Tory representation

from 69 to 42 seats, the CCF

from 31 to 12 seats (13.if a re-
cr upholds the election of the

ish, candidate in Burnaby-

: ond) and the Social Cred-

th Party from 14 to 10 seats—
"se are the results of a swing

mos Popular vote that was al-
st elemental.

of the

a example of the effect of

Provided oonical landslide was
es a in the constituency of
of ho? figh Park. Like six
Lig seisht seats captured by the
lad in Toronto and the
‘a 8, this has always been a
hae Y stronghold until now. It
ay elected the Conservative pat-
sin Candidate in every election
fe the constituency was estab-
Continued on Page 7
See ELECTIONS

Capture of 192 seats out!

“Conservative party, the cut- |

Buck calls for

special session

ST. LAURENT PROMISED: ‘We are not
going to be satisfied until there is decent hous-
ing for all our people.” tree

ST. LAURENT PROMISED: “We intend
to be ready with useful development projects
when they are needed to provide employment
not otherwise available.”

ST. LAURENT PROMISED: “Our aim is
a system of contributory health insurance.

- §T. LAURENT PROMISED: “And I can
promise you that wherever there are markets
to be found for Canadian exports, a Liberal
government will find them.”

Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent sie

of the above promises in a nation-wide
mats address on June 24, just three days be-
fore the federal election. Now he has 192
Liberal members in the House of Commons,
only one Tory provincial government left in
the ten provinces. He has been given a man-
date by the people of Canada to carry out the
reforms he and his party leaders promised.

Continued on page 6
Ses SPECIAL SESSION

— COLDWELL BLAMES BC,
HINTS AT CCF PURGE

Blaming the CCF’s sévere defeat in the federal election, not upon
his» own failure “to provide a- fighting alternative to the Liberals and
Conservatives but upon the “imeptitude’” of the CCF in British Co-
lumbia, M. J. Coldwell this week hinted at a purge of those CCFers
who genuinely oppose the stand taken by the CCF national leadership
in support of the Atlantic pact and the Marshall plan.

The “‘ineptitude”” referred to by Coldwell was the majority ac-
tion of the CCF provincial convention here last April in refusing to
endorse a resolution supporting the Atlantic pact, which, Coldwell
asserted, had “set in motion a reaction against the CCF that had

‘repercussions from coast to coast.”” Although he fully supported David

Lewis, CCF national secretary, in his persistent but unsuccessful ef-
forts to force a motion endorsing the pact upon convention delegates,
Harold Winch, CCF provincial leader, was constrained to acknowl-
edge in the course of the election campaign that the convention’s ac-
tion expressed the feeling of CCF members that “‘peace cannot be
brought about by power politics and military alliances’”—in effect,
an admission that CCF support of the Atlantic pact was not in the
interests of peace.

Coldwell’s statement, “Whatever mistakes were made in this

campaign will be rectified in the next year or two,’” is being construed
in many political quarters as indicating the CCF top leadership’s de-
termination to remove or oust all those still in the CCF who base
their stand on the Regina Manifesto, the party’s founding document.

At Victoria this week, Coalition cabinet ministers were reported
to agree with M. J: Coldwell in believing that the CCF’s “‘two big
errors” in B.C. were in singing The Red Flag at a Vancouver rally
and refusing, at the B.C. convention, to endorse the Atlantic pact.
A large number of CCF members, however, are more likely to feel
that the CCF erred in its support of the Atlantic pact and its abject
repudiation of an honored working-class song.

Coalition spokesmen were quoted as believing Coldwell to be
concerned over the increasing strength of “‘extreme left-wingers” in
the B.C. section of the CCF, but to be hesitant about taking any
drastic action immediately for fear of bringing about a major split.

In a dispatch to the Pacific Tribune this week, Leslie Morris,
editor of the Canadian Tribune, Toronto, states:

The labor movement, in this election, paid dearly for the crimes
committed by the Coldwell-Lewis-Millard-Conroy group. Their ef-
forts to hamstring the genuine political feelings of the unions and to
hogtie them into a mere appendage of the CCF top leaders, not only
failed to improve the political fortunes of these opportunists but re-
duced their group in the House of Commons from 32 to 13, not long
after the clear warning of the Ontario, B.C., and Nova Scotia pro-
vincial elections.

Continued on page 6
See CCF PURGE

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