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_ February 26, 1937

TROTSKYISM ~
- AND THE
CCF

By BECKIE EWEN

At a time when there is danger
of growing reaction in Canada—
witness present Mederal government
defense estimates, the ban on Span-
ish volunteers, consolidation of Con-
Servative and reactionary forces of
BC for the comings election—and
therefore, when the widest unity of
progressive forces is a burning ne-
eessity, there is a small group of
individuals in this province, fever-
ishly at work to disrupt unity,
divide labor’s ranks, sowing seeds
of poison and distrust in workers’
organizations.

This group, the Trotskyists, have
no real haven of their own, but have
wormed themselves into workers’
oresanizations, particularly the CCF,

to carry out their destructive pur—

!

pose.

Will our CCE friends not take
heed of this terrible danger? Are
they content to allow this small
group to discredit The Federationist,
and to discredit the CGF among the
masses? Tolerance of this agency
ef disruption can only bring untold
damage to the entire labor move-
ment.

Fenner Grockway, one of the
outstanding Jeaders of the Brit-
ish ILP, learned to his sorrow
What it meant when Trotslxyists
were taken into the bosom of the

He stated recently: “The Trot-
Skyists are everywhere a source
of mischief in the working class
movement. They destroy and do
not build. They remain conspira-
torial cliques in whateyer party
they attach themselves to, dis
integrating it, making it less ef-
fective in the class struggle,
antagonizine other sections of the
Working class. Even in the midst
of the crisis in Spain, that is the
effect of their influence there at
this moment.” :

We have time and again warned
our CCIlF comrades against this dis-
Tuptive group, but without effect.
What has been the result? Instead
of sreater unity in wiew of the
Seriousness of events facing us, in
the last month particularly the CCE
leadership has taken a decided step
away from unity, widening the rift
in the workers’ ranks.

is it then an accident that anti-
unity policy seems to go hand in
hand with the rise of Trotskyist in-

fhience in the CCH?

The Pederationist

I have before me a number of is-
sues of The Federationist of Janu-
ary and Mehrvary. Ever since Janu-
ary % When the CCF provincial
executive issued its statement on
the popular front controversy,
which was supposedly at an end,
there have been in almost every is-
Sue, articles, editorials, letters and
comments openly or covertly de-
fending the Trotskyists. Im some
Gases there have been savage at-
tacks upon the Soviet Union. And
always this is accompanied by at-
tacks upon unity.

We took issue with The Federa-
tienist on its editorial resarding the
Trotskyists’ trials, under the head-
ing of “An Amazing Affair,” in The
FPederationist of January 28.

When we presented the Com-
munist party point of view and
urged the editor to print an article
exposing Spector's conversation
With Trotsky in Norway, where it
Was definitely established that he
Was orsanizine open counter-revo-
Jutionary and terrarism against the
USSR, the editor replied that he
had to print both sides of the ques-
tion in the name of ‘‘fair play,’
and refused to print this article
Which exposed the true Trotsky.

In February 4 issue, howover, was
carried a short digest of ‘‘opinions,”’
most prominence being given to the
Trotskyist Workers Voice, Toronto.
im the same issue appeared a vyici-
ous letter attacking the Soviet
Union written by Harry Archibald,
Statine that: “If Russia is a Social-
ist State, then Germany is also. It
has now reached the point where
the purges in both countries are so
Similar that the victims even come

from the same race—the Jews.”
Printing such vile slander, the
éditor of The Wederationist calls

“fair play?’

In the February § issue, we again
find a combination of views favor-
able to Trotskyism and attacks on
the Popular Front. Also a letter by
James Coffey on the Russian con-
stitution that only an anti-Soviet
Sheet would print. e

in another column of The BC
Workers’ News there will be an
article dealing with the out and out
Trotskyist statement that appeared
with the approval of the editor of
The Wederationist entitled, “‘Co-
Operative Youth Clubs Stand on
Youth and War,” which brands the
jJatter as nothing else but a Trot-
Skyist Organization.

Policy Control
Tt will be indeed a sad day for
the people of BC and the CCF if
the leadership of the CCF will per-
Mit The Federationist to become
what it is now virtually becoming,

the organ of the Trotskyist group.

How is it that, while all this
Trotskyist opinion is permitted,
those who talk of being “impartial
and fair’ have never printed such
quotations from Trotsky which
Show his real aims.

For imstance a quotation from
an article that Trotsky wrote in

the New York Amierican, Janu-
ary 26, 1937: “Imside the (Com-
munist) party, Stalin has put

himself above all criticism, above
the State. It is impossible to dis-
Place him except by assassination.

For Unit

is rieh in natural resources;

in the world.

among the finest, our

building, and pulp for

millions of people. Qur

district,
for their

are internationally
abundance.

¥et in spite of these enor-
miously rich natural resources,
which are our natural heritage, a
large section of the common peo-
ple of this province, in city, town
and farm hamlet are on relief.
Those who have employment are,
In many cases, forced to work
long hours at low wages.

Powerful corporations like the
Consolidated Mining and Smelting
deny their workers the right of

Jas. Litterick, MLA

organization and collective bar-

gaining, and maintain their pri-

yate and corporate police to in-
timidate and coerce.

Large sections of our farm pop-
wWation are burdened with a
mountain of debt from which they
can never free themselves. While
the manufacturer can secure pro-
tective tarifis to ensure his prot-
its, the farmer sells his product
at a loss and surrenders his in-
dependence at the relief station
for a minimum sustenance.

We, the Communist party of Brit-
ish Columbia, say this situation
should not prevail. We openly and
frankly declare that only Socialism
ean end forever Such poverty in the
midst of plenty——a Socialist sv-tem

contro] and administer the means
of production and exchange—a So-
cialist Canada where capitalism
would be forever abolished and the
exploitation of man by man ended.
x x * *

But we realize that the people
of Canada and of British Colum-
bia, even if not yet ready for a

facto a terrorist. This is the logic
of Bonapartism.”’

Why it it The Pederationist has
not seen fit to print any articles
Showing the fairness of the Moscow

Trials such as were written by
Pratt KC, Leon PFeuchtwanger
and others?

Why did they not take some

Space to print the actual testimony
of the trials?

I believe the answer can be
found in the fact that during the
last month or tyro the small Trot-
skyist group has virtually owned
and controlled The FWederationist
and its policy, and they and the
rabid Communist haters have
made common cause.

We understand, for instance, that
the meeting in the Moose Temple
on Sunday night was to be a meet-
ing in protest of the government's
defense program. It was organized
by the anti-unity, pro-Trotskyist
Sroup of the CCF, and by reports
its Main object seemed to be, not
to attack the government’s war
policy, but to use this platform for
attacks upon unity and the Com-
munists,

Where is all this leading to? We
feel confident that the membership
of the CGF does not condone this
anti-workine class policy. It will
Voice its indignation. Tf some
CCF leaders persist in this policy,
it will wreck the Cer and give aid
and.comfort to reaction in this
province. Nothing more serious than
this could happen to the working
class at this time to weaken its
ranks. And all possible must be
done by the Ccr members and the
leaders to prevent this.

Herbert Gargrave is quoted in
the Vancouver Sun as Stating that
Trotskyists cannot belong to the
CCE. Good. We hope, however, he
Will not look for ‘cards’ The Trot-
skyists in this province are too cun-
Ring to diyulge their membership.
It is by their disruptive deeds that
they are known, and the first thing
necessary is to clear them out of
The Federationist before they de-
Stroy that Paper as they are at-
temptine to destroy a number of
the clubs, and as they attempted,

through Sabotage, to destroy the
Industrial and Economic Confer-
ence.

Comrades of the CCF. you owe
this cleansing not only to the
CCF itself, but to the working
class as a whole. The workers,
your members and ours, the ereat
Progressive masses of this prov-
ince, do not want these agents of
assassination and counter-revolu-
tion in their midst—they want a
united progressive front of the
people of BC fighting in defense
of their daily needs, fighting
War and Fascism, fighting for a
better future for the people of

Every oppositionist becomes ipso

our province.

wthere the pSenle would own and

full Conumunist program, can and
must act upon a program which
would bring immediate alleviation
to their impoverishment.

Such a program would aim to
beat back the Fascist and reaction-
ary forces in our country and prov-
ince—those forces which are most
openly expressed by the Conserva-
tive party; the Shipping Federation:
the Ioggers’ Association the or-
§anizations of Finance capital such
as the “Industrial Council Inc.,”
“Citizens’ League” and their like.
Those forces responsible for brutal
attacks on longshoremen in 1935—
against the trekkers—agesinst the
unemployed.

Such a program can unite as an
alternative to the Pattullo govern-
ment, that has in many respects
Sueccumbed to reaction, all those
Strata of the population that stand
for progress... The Communist party
of BC, the CCF, the trade unions,
the farmers and middle class—small
business people—professionals, intel-
leectuals, who are also being driven
-to the wall and impoverished.

Such a movement for progress
and against reaction can and must
include Social Creditors, Social Con-
Structives, and even left-wingers in
the Liberal party.

Around such a program a Peoples’
blee can be formed in opposition to
open reaction—a Peoples’ bloc such
as in France and Spain—that would
halt the deadiy progress of Fascism
and war, and compel the millionaire

On this page is printed the
provincial program of the Com-
munist Party of Canada, re-
ceived this week from the BC
provincial executive. It is real-
istic and designed to meet wn-
mediate problems of every strata
of the people. We grve it
prominence in the belief that it
merits carnest consideration of
every indimdual who will bene-
fit from implementing of its
planes.

guaranteed 30-hour working week.

The right of workers to organize
and belong to unions of their own
choice and the recognized right of
collective bargaining. The outlawing
of all forms of company unions.

The amending of, and rigid en-
forcemeat of industrial safety, com-
pensation, and health regulations.
Workmen’s Compensation Act to
cover all industrial diseases and ac-
cidents of a minor or major char-
acter and e€qualization of all com-
pensation rates at 75 per cent, to be
paid for all time lost as a result of
accidents or industrial diseases,
and to cover all BC workers.

= * = e

Against all foreclosure of small
farm properties, evictions, or land
sales for taxes. Adequate relief for
all impoverished farmers.

A moratorium on ail farm debts
Where the assessed value of the

interests to contribute to provision

G

of employment for the people and
Proper social services througsh a re-
vised taxation scheme.

With this program, based upon
the burning needs of the people
of British Columbia, we, the Com-
munist party of BC address our-
selves to you—the workers, farm-
ers, professionals, small home
owners, to the youth and to the
women of our province—to all
Who stand for and cherish prog-
tess and democracy, to unite in
this critical time, for a govern-
mient of the people, and defeat
the open reactionaries and pre-
datory beasts of Finance capital,
who would again usher in the
iron-heel rule of a Conservative
sgarernment ana, failine in this,
would seelx a Conservativetiberal
‘coalition’ of Réaction. =e iF

* % = *

Drastically reduce the worling

Week without ahy reduction in
pay. This measure enforced by
law will provide jobs for thou-
Sands of additional men and |
women. sy
Two weeks holidays’ per year |
With pay for all people employed
in industry, commerce fd public
services. ;

A government housing program
to enable citizens to “build “homes
and pay for them o tae nonthly
rental basis over a period éf years,
cooperation

at a small rate of int
tained so that existing

Municipal

tricts can be removed 4 Maced
With new houses. This m™ asure wall
provide employment for the Sands

of buildings trades workérs.

An all inclusive minimuni Wage
n for.

and hours of labor legislati ae
all men, women and youth in
dustry. A Union scale of wages 0

A Program of

1 Sit Down! You ve got “em beat,

all public works based - ony a

Tand or holdings does not exceed

REATER
SOCIAL

Tim Buck

$6,000, and the enactment of a
Farm Debt Adjustment plan that
will safeguard against expropria-
tion of Small and middle farmers.
In natural catastrophies—drouth,
floods, insect or other plagues—the
government to make available to
all farmers, adequate food, seed,
fertilizer or other requirements
necessary for the preservation of
the farm. A democratically elected
Marketing Board that will ensure

SONG OF THE AUTO
WORKERS
When they tie the can
To @ union mai,

Sit Down! Sit Down!
When they give him the sack
They ll take him bach,

Sit Down! Sit Down!
Sit Down! Just take a seat,
Sit Down, men! Rest your feet,

Sit Down! Sit Down!

the farmer a reasonable return for
his produce. A Provincial Dyking
Plan in flood areas for the con-
servation of soil.

Governmental assistance for the
promotion of primary-producer-con-
sumer Co-operatives.

* = = *

Increased relief allowances for
people unable te obtain employ-
ment through disability, old age
or any other reason. At the same
time the provincial governnient to ~
initiate a Dominion wide cam-
paign for Federal Unemployment
and Social Insurance.

Present Health Insurance Act
to be amended to include: all sec-
tions and classifications of people
now excluded, and all people
whose present incomes are below.
a fixed minimum of $1500 per an-
num.

That the present Health Insur-
ance Act be amended to provide re-
muneration to the medical profes-
Sion in keeping with the dignity
and service of such a profession to
the community.

Old Age Pensions at 60 with a
25 per cent increase in present Act
allowance. Provincial pensions for
the blind and the provision of
proper educational facilities.

Increase in stipend and provisions
in the Mothers’ Pension Act, with
the institution of free mothers’ and
children’s clinics and nurseries.
Legislation aimed to curb the
manipulations of the trusts and to

drastically reduce present living
costs.
* m x
Guaranteed maintenance and

retention of the widest democratic
forms of the School Board system.
Extention of the school age to
18 years. A provincial school
grant to ensure free milk and
lunches for all needy children.
The introduction of a provincial
system of technical education and
vocational training with a mini-
mum remuneration.

Full restoration of salary cuts to
all BCG teachers’ in all grades; and

abolition of military training and |
corporal punishment in all BC
schools.

a Ls = %

Full treedom of speech, press,
assembly and religion. The right
to organize, strike or picket with-
out state molestation or interfer-
ence.

Extension of the franchise of
both sexes of the age of 18 and over.
Repeal of any and all forms of

y and Progress - to Defeat Reaction

Our Proyince of British Columbia
pos-
sibly richer than any similar area
Our fisheries rank
forests
supply vast quantities of lumber for
paper and
rayon. Enough to fill the needs of
mineral
wealth is unsurpassable in gold and
other valuable metal and ores. The
fertility of the Iraser and Okana-
San Walleys, the famed Peace River
known

of their ‘duties’ violate every
basie principle of law.
* * = =

Return of all natural resources
to the province. Provincial goy-
ernment to enact such legislation
as will preserve the natural re-
sources of the province for the
people of BC.

Administration of the Fraser Riv-
er System sockeye salmon and
other fisheries to be the sole prer-

ogative of the provincial fsovern-
ment.

Hydro-Blectrie power sites; tim-
ber limits; mineral areas, ete., to

be at the sole disposal of the peo-
ple of BC through its democratically
elected government.

A planned conservation program
of reforestation, river cleaning and
Soil preservation that will provide
employment and future Security.

% * me bs

For rapid promotion of legislation
to provide for enjoyment of full
democratic citizenship for Canadian_
Japanese and Chinese Citizens.

Abolition of every form of legis-
lation and administrative practices
which in the daily life of the proy-
ince indicate, openly or covertly,
racial discrimination.

Equal opportunity for all Oriental
workers in industrial, educational,
or professional vocations.

Full honoring of Treaty
tions and agreements to the Indian
tribes of BC. Land grants and ex-
tension of the Indian reservations,
with governmental assistance to
help the Indian people of BC be-
come self-sustaining. Special Indian
relief measures that will guarantee
economic security, bringing Indian
tribes of BC and their descendants
under the beneficiary provisions of
all provincial social legislation.

= * * =

A steeply graduated tax on
large personnel and corporate in-
comes, inheritances, and all forms
of unearned increment.

A capital levy on all corporations,
trusts and monopolies.

Annulment of all tax-exempted
properties, concessions, lands, ete.

Refunding of the provincial debt
through the Bank of Canada at a
maximum 3 per cent interest rate.

Heavy taxation on all leases of
unproductive timber, mining, (metal-
liferous and coal), fishing, wild-
lands, ete., held by speculators or
corporations.

Substantial
for.

reduction of taxation

small home-owners of $5,000.00

And Greater ;
ECONOMIC
SECURITY

existing legislation that curtail or
limit democratic powers of muni-
cipal government. Restoration of all
Civil and electoral rights to individ-
uals convicted for trade union or
labor activities. Against use of in-

junctions in labor and industrial
disputes.
Preventative legislation against

the growth of Fascist organizations
(“Citizens’ Leagues,’’ “Cross of
Wire,’ “Industrial Council MInc.,”’
ete). Against dissemination of Fas-
cist propaganda, radio broadcasts
and other appeals to violence and
racial hatreds.

Governmental promotion and sup-
port of all public movements for
peace- Repudiation of present Fed-
eral ‘‘defense’’ program by province
of BC. Abolition of the use of police

as strikebreakers. Liquidation of all
“Industrial” and “‘Red’’ squads of
police which are used against trade
unions and political movements of
the workers, and who in the course

Reduction of working wee
tion in pays.
Hatensive public works pi
wages. aoe
Moratorium on farm debts:

Ag

by floods, drought, insects or

INfirnr.

cluded.
Old age pensions at age of

pay

Relief to farmers where ero devasiated
qpidques.
Provincial dyking plan in flood. areas.
Increased relief to incapacitate

Ey
Amendment of present Healthy
clude all classifications of peop

mais

Ag Se

aeithout reduc-

in all grades.

oat
FES

age of eighteen.
TIonoring of
Indians.

d, ged and

(Ci Fs cent MaALtM UT

OWNETS,

m for the People

ftestoration of salary cuts to BC teachers

Frecdom of speech, press and assemblage.
Ttight to organize, strike and picket.
Batenston of franchise to both sexes at

treaty obligations made with

Steeply graduated tas: on large personal and
corporate incomes, inheritances and all forms
of unearned increment.

ficfunding of provincial debt at three per-

interest rate.

Substantial reduction of taxation for home-

Stati

5
Born in Ayr, Scotland, into a fam- P
ily of strong Conservative traditions,
Mrs. Elizabeth Kerr, elected last
week to represent women of British
Columbia on the Canadian delega-
tion to the Soviet Union” has
been a rebel since her childhood
days. At least, she is not hesitant
to admit it. Neither are those who
Know her best hesitant about the
matter.
As a rebel against tradition it
Was only natural that she should
find her way inte the suffragete
movement, in Britain and in this
country. Is a firm believer in wo-
men’s right to economic independ-
ence, €ven after marriage. In this
respect and others, has the cour-
age of her convictions.
Believes that legislation for wo-
men and children is inadequate and

lone overdue.

Mrs. Kerr -

- a Scottish Rebel

Tried: e troduce eight-hour day
for nurs Galeary in 1913.

That year helped start Consum-
ers’ Jzeaeue an Calgary to assist
buyers ina 5¢

foothillss = 2"

Tried to
Montreal. #ailur
Was one sot the early members of
“Aemen’s Press Club,
working ay 3 Sary Albertan,- Van-
couver Sun,.Menireal Herald, etc.

+ tg

Has contribiited. to Toronto Sat-

urday Night 2Aia@eiean’s, National
Home Monthiy ete

With John “Raeford, Jack Innes
and Bruce (PinkkejpMckKelyie helped
start VancouverssArt Gallery and
School. Wanted cirdinary people in
Wancouver to awe access to such
places without seins East or across
the line. ee

With Bruce MckKelvie and others
Was in at beginning of Institute of
Journalists, whieh jin these days
hoped to be a union.

Joined Socialist Party, then CCF,

Was in charge of Women’s eriey-
ance department of CCF.

Was active in first and subse-
quent camp strikes.

Helped form Unemployed Wo-
men’s Protective Association.
Helped form Voluntary WParent-

hood League.

Is now vice-president of CCF Wo-
men’s Lyceum Club, and president
of the CCE Women’s Central group.

Is keenly interested in all matters
pertaining to the blind, having been
threatened with blindness years ago.

Was for some years secretary to
the Pederation of the Blind.

Has three sons and one daughter.

. Sam Carr

Repeal of all consumers’

under.
tax sales.
Establishment of an Urban and

or

Rural Credit Plan, whereby small
home-owners and farmers can
Secure credits at low interest rates
to meet cost of depreciation of
homes and buildings. Legislative
action’ to prevent any and all forms
of eviction and foreclosure.

Ordjonikidze

MOSCOW. —(FP)—Gergory Ord-
jonikidze, Soviet commissar of heavy
industry, who died Feb. 18 of heart
disease, apparently brought on by
overwork, was chairman of the
Supreme Economic Council, which
guided the first 5-year plan to a
successful conclusion. He aided
largely in transformation of a back-
ward agrarian country into a strong
industrial power.

Born in 1886, the son of a poor
peasant, Ordjonikidze was a profes-
Sional revolutionary at 19. Arrest-
ed for the first time in 1906, he
was latter exiled many times, but
alWays managed either to escape or
to carry on revolutionary work at
his place of exile. He took an ac-
tive part in the civil war, and in
1920 was chairman of the bureau for
the re-establishment of Soviet power
in the North Caucasus. The city of
Ordjonikidze in the Caucasus is
named for him.

He was one of the prime organiz-
ers in furthering the Stakhanov
movement. His command of heayy
industry helped transform the Red
Army into a mighty military foree
and won for him in 1934 the Order
of Lenin.

“As a citizen of some other re-
public, I might have found it dif-
ficult to believe fully in the altruisni
of the richest American republic.’”’
—President Roosevelt, commenting

on Latin-American relations.

obliga- ~

Page Three

YOUTH, WAR
AND THE

CYC

t

By PETE LOWE.

The recent stand on war taken
by the provincial council of the Co-
operative Youth Clubs (CYG) as pub-
lished in the February 18 issue of
the Federationist comes as a keen
disappointment to many of us who
are anxious to see the organization
grow.

Opening with a eorreect Leninist
position — “War is an inevitable
stage of capitalism. It is a form of
capitalist life as natural as peace’—
the statement thenceforward takes
a left Seectarian Trotskyist position
which, if pursued, will brine isola-
tion and disaster to the Go-operative
Youth Club movement.

While many honest youne Social-
ists in Vancouver have at different
times taken a sectarian position of
“pure Socialism’ whieh retarded
Srowth in the youth movement, it
must be made clear that it was the
disruptive role played by the young
Trotskyists which has, in the main,
been responsible for complete dis-
integration of the Younes Socialist

League, the Co-operative Commion-
wealth youth movement, and for
disappearance of the Amoeba,

youth paper published by that or-
ganization.

It looks now as if they have
Wormed their way into the GYC to
prevent this from becoming a mass
movement of young people.

The ¥CL knows these individuals
and their methods of working. It
knows also that the line adopted by
the Wederationist article does not
represent opinion of GYC member-
ship as a whole or, for that matter,
even the opinion of the entire pro-
vineial council.

Statement Analyzed.

On such an important question as
youth and war the membership
Should be given some consideration.

The following is typical of In-
sinuations contained in the State-
ment.

Speaking of the League of Na-
tions, the Trotskyists term it ‘tA:
League of Capitalist Govermments.”
If this false statement is to be ae-
cepted, than it must he admitted
that the Soviet government (based
on working class democracy) is also
a Capitalistic’ government and that
there is no distinction between the

| democratic People’s Front Sovern-

ment of Spain and the Waseist soy-
ermments of Italy and Poland.

Neither is any distinetion drawn
between bourgeois democratic and
Fascist sSevernments. Complete ig-
norance of alignment of world
forces jis displayed and the fact that
many secondary powers — Czecho-
Slovakia, Finiand, Turkey, Switzer
land—are not desirous of war.

Without an organized working
class in every country it is admitted
that the League of Nations would
be of little benefit. There are, how~
ever, Many positive features in the
League.

The statement continues in un-
compromising manner to condemn
all non-ageression pacts and treaties
as “scraps of paper,’’ without taking:
into consideration existing Contra-
dictions among imperialists and dip-
lomatic pitting of one against the
other. This tactic becomes more

| successful with the growing realiza-

tion by many countries that the
Soviet Union really stands for peace.
Wiewed as a whole, the statement
is a confused document ignoring the
Canadian government and its role
in any future war; giving no lead
to youth in opposing the King Zov-
ernment’s $35,000,000 estimates. Tt
is typical of Trotskyist phrase-
mongering and is calculated to
create confusion and discord among
Socialist youth organizations.

Trotskyists Must Go.

In the concluding paragraph, in-
stead of Stressing the immediate
necessity of increased youth organ-
izational work, the participation.
of youth in trade unions and
other progressive organizations to
strengthen them against war, it is
stated: “Let the traitors in the ranks
of the working class who are show-
ing pacifist and patriotic confusion
quake in their shoes. We are wise
to them.’’

They fail to identify these “‘trait-
ors,”” but it is not difficult to see
they mean the Gommunist party,
the Young Communist League, the
League Against War and Fascism,
the Youth Congress movement, the
Trades Unions, the People’s Front
s0vernments of Spain and France.
the Soviet Union —in short, every
Dresressive force fishtine the twin
evils of war and Mascism. The state-
ment incidentally, did not consider
Pascism worth mentioning.

To top off this confused apology
for thinking, they speak of Lenin,
Liebknecht and Trotsky all in the
same breath. To ally the pro-
Wascist Trotsky with such leaders of
the workers as Lenin and Lieh-
knecht is either abyssmal ignorance
or deliberate insult.

The CYC can become a tremen-
dous force among young people in
BC. But before this position can be
realized there must be a change of
policy within the executive. ‘The
Trotskyists must go.

The CYC would do well to com-
mence work on a clean-cut program
to strengthen the organization and
rally young people around it. In
this, the YC offers its co-operation
in the belief that in this way un-
organized youth can best be in-
duced to face its problem.

The YCL appeals te the GYC to
eliminate the Trotskyists within its
Tanks in order that a healthy youth
movement may be built. The youth
of BC must be united in a common
eause.

“Spain is the front line trench of
the new world war.’—Prnst Toller,
German dramatist and refugee.

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