December 16, 1938 THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE Page Five Labor - Progressives Many Cities Roll Up Impressive Gains For Forces Of Progress TORONTO, Ont—A honest administration throughout Ontario last carried the field in almost every smashing victory for progressive and was achieved in municipal elections week when laborifés and progressives case where seats were contested. In Hamilton, great industrial centre of Southern Ontario, laborite Sam Lawrence led the polls for controller with a vote of 17,648. President of the Hamilton Trades and Labor Council, Lawrence’s vote was interpreted as a mandate to organized labor to fulfill its task of unionizinge the city’s steel and other basie industries. Ontario CCF Ousts Wreckers Trotskyites Are Expelled By Executive TORONDO, Ont—Nine Trot Skists were expelled by the pro- wincial executive of the CCF last week for their disruptive work Within that organization. Similar action against & number of others * is pending. Organized into a so-called ‘‘So- Gialist Policy Group,” the dis- rupters had carried .on a pro- fascist campaign through a bui- jetin sent Gut regularly to CCE members wherein they advocated policies which did not conform to the principles, policy, constitu- tion and laws of the CCF. Typical of the reactionary and protascist policies advocated by these Trotskists was that of Sir Edward Beatty—the amalzsama- tion of the railroads. They de- manded that CCH members of the federal house come out at the mext session of parliament for amaigamation. This proposition was cloaked with such “revolu- tionary” phrases as amalfama- tion should take place under “workers control.” Mass action, mass meetings and unity of the people as a means of exposing and fighting fascism were decried by the Trot- Skists. Fhey proposed that the CCF should organize “storm troops’ to combat fascism. 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Election of David Croll, former tninister of welfare in the Hepburn cabinet, as new mayor of Windsor with a six thousand majority, was seen as the citizens’ reply to the Strikebreakinge role of Premier Hepburn and his yes-man, Mayor Waigie, Tory reactionary. Veteran labor fighter Tom MRaycraft was elected alderman of East Windsor with the largest vote ever cast. Alderman Frank Besley, support- €d by all labor and progressive or- Banizations, was elected to Windsor beard of control. Other labor- progressives elected included W. E. Atkinson and Robert Turner for city council and CG. Daynes for board of education. Im the mining areas of the morth progressive candidates made a splendid sweep, electing 2 progressive majority in Tim- mins and candidates in Hirkland Lake and Tisdale Township. Tommy Church, organizer of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union, was elected councillor of iirkiangd Lake, topping the poll with a 500 vote majority. R. J. Gar- ter, progressivel was elected reeve. Tabor enthusiasm ran high in Timmins when final returns Showed Tabor Representation As- sociation candidates A. B. McCabe, fom McWeil and W. Armstrong elected to council, McNeil is pre- Sident of the Mine, Mill and Smelt er VWYorkers’ Union. McCabe is pre- Sident of the Porcupine District Trades and Labor Council. Emile Heino was elected council- jor in Tisdale Township with a 800d Majority. in Stamford, progressive Donald Glintz defeated a reactionary for tke council seat. Simeon Corfield is the new progressive deputy reeve and J. ©. Morden, progressive, led the polis for councillor Wiagara Falls recorded splendid §2ins with the election of Thomas Grimster, who led the polls for councillor. Four other labor alder- men were reelected. Mayor W. G. Taylor, endorsed by the labor movement, was re- elected with an increased majority in Guelph and C. E. Fulton, Trades Council president, was elected as alderman. Stratford also rang the bell with election of two labor aldermen, P. 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On December 9, 1938, the Pan-American conference with the United States represented by a large delegation met at Lima under the threat of a greater danger than the American re- publicans had ever faced during of fascism. Wiunich and all its their whole history—the threat dire forebodings hang heavily over North and South America. The heritage of the great Boli-, var and San Martin was for con- tinental unity, but it was caught up and lost in the swirl for power of the nineteenth century. This tra- dition was ignored by the American in the twentieth cen- tury. Even Monroe’s Doctrine of protection of the young American republics against the reconquest of the Holy Alliance became a pawn in the hands of the growing mono- polies of the “Colussus of the Worth.”’ Then came the depression and with it a sharp drop in exports to the Latin American nations. Wall Street’s six-billion dollar invest- ment in the plantations, mines, pub- lic utilities and government bonds of Latin America was endangered. Clearly a new era of relations be- tween the Americas had to be in- stituted. “GOOD NEIGHBOR” POLICY President Roosevelt's good neigh-— bor policy was first clarified to our Southern neighbors at the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Mon- tevideo. But already Roosevelt's differ- erces with America’s sixty families Was discernible. For Secretary full the proposals were a definite break with the past. Instead of a Pan-American conference with the Wnited States in the chair sup- pressing all matters which might appear as criticism of its policies, Efull permitted full and frank dis- cussion on all subjects. The United States pledged: (1) no further association with attempts of international bankers in the col- lection of debts; (@) that it would mot intervene in other states, with the reservation: only during Roose— velt’s regime; (3) support of all pre— vious inter-American peace pacts; (4) lowering of tariffs- (5) reversal of policy on mon-recognition of Soevernments created by revolution, and (6) no interference with Latin American participation in the League of INations. These pledges proceeded to be— come deeds. The Platt amendment with Cuba was abrogated. A new treaty with Panama was signed. The marines and all fiscal inter- vention was withdrawn from Haiti. Reciprocity treaties were signed with Cuba, Brazil, Colombia, Haiti, Guatemala and Wicaragua. But these measures only benefited the Latin American republics to the ex tent that the policies of Roosevelt ceased to remain the policies of Wall Street. ALLIANCES SOUGHT Then Italy attacked Ethiopia and all America looked to its alliances. Roosevelt stepped forward to call the Extraordinary Inter-American Peace Conference, to meet in Bue-— mos Aires. He announced that he was prompted by the ‘desire to supplement and reinforce the ef forts of the League of Nations and all other existine or future peace agencies in seeking to avert war.’ Bolivar’s destiny began to be ful- filled. Just as in the United States, the Situation within Latin America has changed since 1936. And strangely enough in Latin America also the issue has become: for or against Roosevelt, for or against the “Good Weighbor Policy.” The invasion of Ethiopia was but an opening insinuation of the pol- icy of the fascist powers. Ger- many intensified its drive for the markets of America and succeeded in winning first place in the larg- Merry est country of the Continent, Bra- zil, in 1936. German trade methods were something new. After crowding out all competitors, by a simple shift of their purchasing opera- tions, the Nazi importers could Smash the whole structure of Brazilian economy. German fascist imperialism therefore was of a new type. Without the mecessary cre— dits to invest in the development of raw material resources, the only perspective Goering’s policy could have was to capture his victim outright, as was done in Austria and Sudetenland, as was attempted in Brazil and Chile. The Reciprocity Treaties of the “Good Neighbor’ have an opposite orientation. They base themselves first on the purchasing power of the people in each importing coun-— try. That means higher wages, a tearket for the agricultural pro- duce. Jt means the weakening of the “oligarchic” cliques which pre— vented the independent develop— ment of the American nations in alliance with the imperialists and therefore means wider popular de— mocracy. RESULTS OF MUNICH BMunich made it all the more de- cisive that all those things which stand as an obstacle to inter— American neighborly relations be removed. The United States, there— fore, comes to this Eighth Pan- American Conference with almost clean hands. Mexico tool back her oil industry. Roosevelt respected is pledges not to intervene. Co_ lombia has passed laws restricting the ruthless waste and exploitation eo: the banana plantations by the United Fruit Company. America has respected Colombian sover— eignty. It is clear that the past has gone and Bolivar’s ideals can come true. After Munich the whole contin— ent is in arms against the fascist penetration. Roosevelt’s eall, there— fore, for continental unity, for con- tinental defense met with the warmest possible response. Only Argentine, followings Chamberlain’s subtle advice, stated that perhaps it would be better to wait for things to happen before preparine against them. AMERICAN LEAGUE OF NATIONS Almost all Latin America, how— ever, came to the conference with the still undiscussed project for an American League of Wations, which will Support all the policies Cf collective security of Geneva. Such a project would put teeth into all the aspirations for continental defense, would raise it from a half hearted attempt into a full-fledged mature plan of action, by helping to make the American continent a factor for world peace. The whole success of the Lima conference depends on this — the recognition that this is the way America will answer Munich. The only answer is the consistent appli- cation of the good neighbor policy on the basis of the principle that Latin American nations are friends and allies in the common task of developing peace in the Americas and in the world in collaboration with the people of the democracies, including the strong peace policies of the Soviet Union, and thereby cnecking the aggressors. 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