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August 4, 1939

THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE

Page Five

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FORUM OF THE PEOPLE

‘Let's Get
On With
The Job’

To the Editor: I was much
impressed by the hard-hitting
common sense in the article by
Tim Buck you printed in your
jast issue. I agree every bit
when he says that it is up to us
to build Canada and make it a
country worth living in<

it is ordinary workers like my-
Self who have helped te build this
country, and what have we got
out of it except the privilere of
Standing in line to receive relief?
i is ordinary workers like my-
self who will have to fight to de-
fend this country if the Japanese
attack us.

The big shots did not build this”

country and they won’t do it now.
All they do is rob it and us too.
They are turning over our natural
resources to Japan so tha: Japan

_* can carry on her war in China and

then send us a yote of thanks at-
tached to a few bombs. It burns
me up when I think about it all.
What we need is work, and if
the big shots won’t part with the
cash they sweated out of our hides
te give us work, then I say let’s
tax them plenty and provide the
work that’s waiting to be done.
Let's stop talking about building
and get on with the job. Some of
This highway and that highway
these old-line politicians have pbeen
talking about roads for years and
if we let them stay where they
are now after the federal election
we have only ourselves to blame
if they talk for another five years,
i am ali for unity among the
“workers at this time. Whai’s the
sense of fighting over something
you have not got before you get it
when a couple of other fellows are
getting together to take it out of
your reach altogether? it does
net make sense to me. I say, let’s
get together and agree on what
We can agree on, and that is fight
ing fascism and giving work to
our people. Maybe later we will
settle our differences when the
couple of other guys have been put
in their places. Maybe we will find
that we had not so many differ-
ences at all.
if ever we had a chance to get
something done we have it in
these elections. Don’t let’s muff it
J. SMITHE,
Victoria, BC.

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Advocate.

Make Democracy Work,
Declares This Reader

To the Editor,— Considerable criticism is levelled at the New
Democracy movement because its leader, Hon. W. D. Herridge,
was a member of the Conservative party and a man of wealth

and affluence.

These critics have decided teoS

choose the man for the butt of
their objections rather than see the
possibilities offered in the New De-
mocracy movement to bring unity
of the progressive forces into real-
ity.

fn their attacks on Herridgse they
seek to justify their “pure social-
ist” action of non-cooperation with
the movement because it seems
Strange that the brother-in-law of
R. B. Bennett, ore of the most re-
actionary figures in Canadian his-—
tory, Should interest himself in the
people immediately after R. B.
leaves for England.

What they fail to see is the
means which if taken advantage
of will give Canadian reaction a
beating to remember,

There is very little time left for
us to experiment with one or the
ether political party which, after
elected, does no more than its pre-
decessor.

Let us, who are not prepared to
vote for Seciai Credit, Socialism or
Communism, but who are prepared }
to vote for a new deal for’all Can-
adians, express our will for unity
of democratic forces and once
having accomplished that goal pro-
ceed to make democracy work for
the people.

RR. Macdonald.
Vancouver, BC.

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Forums Draw
Farmers In
Fraser Valley

To the Editor: I am sure your
readers will be interested in the
successful open forums we are
holding out here.

A capacity audience in Hjorth
Road Hall recently heard several
speakers of different political
Shades at an open forum sponsor-
ed by the Surrey Workers and
Farmers Association.

Dealing with “the immediate
needs of the people” as their sub-—
ject, three of the speakers stressed
the need for unity to dfeat re—
action.

Asked if he would assist in win-
ning the CCE to unite with other
®roups toelect a progressive goy-
ernment of the people, Len Shep-
herd, MILA, said he would do all
in his power to find out the popu-
lar wish of the people and convey:
his findings to the CCF executive
in an earnest attempt to gain full
unity.

Ered Carr, Communist party or-
Sanizer for the Fraser Valley, gave
several recommendations contain-
ed in his party's brief to the Rowell
Commission which, he said. could
be instituted immediately to re-
lieve the urgent need of the people.

The federal government should
take over costs of education, he
said, costs of social services, such
as relief, health security, crop in-
surance, debt release for farmers
and institute a real housing pro-
gram,

Funds for all this could be ob-
tained at once by relieving taxa~
tion on people’s homes and placing
it on excess profit and idle capital

Judging by the applause, this
program was highly acceptable to
the audience,

Frank Skipper, of “Skipper
Scans the News,” spoke of the New
Democracy movement as a welding
together of all progressive people
to defeat reaction. He showed that
if unity was not achieved fascism
in Canada, already a danger, woud
become a certainty.

Representing the Conservative
party, Mr. Woods declared that the
cause of all trouble in Canada to-
day was lack of confidence of the
people. Too much money was “hid-
ing” in bank accounts where the
government cannot use it.

Although invited, no representa-
tive was present from the Libera!
party.

Following speeches, a lively ques-
tion period continued till 11:45 pm.
All present agreed that more meet-
ings of this nature should be held.

MRS. THOMAS BINNIE.
secretary, Hjorth Roal Local SWA.

Dollarton
Wants New
Bridge Built

To the Editor: In February this
year residents of Lynmour, Dollar-
ton, Worthlands and Deep Cove
sent petitions to Hon. FR. M. Mac-
Pherson, minister of public works,
asking completion of the arterial
highway, known as the Dollarton
highway, bridsed directly across
Seymour Creek, which has been
“surveyed, planned and financially
provided for by a previous appro-
priation.”

The petition pointed out that
“the important industrial and resi-
dential area of the North Shore,
east of the Second Narrows, is
served by only one Seymour Creek
bridge, constructed over 20 years
age and condemned as unsafe in
1932 by reason of rivet erystalliza-
tion.’’

Ratepayers’ Association in this
area became solidly united on this
issue but received only evasive re—
plies and excuses of “no money
available” from the minister.

Mrs. D. G. Steeves, the hard-
working CCF member for this con-
stituency, reports that she has re—
peatedly interviewed Hon. FE. M.
MacPherson and has brought the
matter up on the floor of the
Hfouse on several occasions. The
answer was always that the gov-
ernment had not sufficient money.
The money provided for Worth
Vancouver constituency is barely
enough for ordinary road mainten-
ance and does not cover any new
work.

Local residents on the Worth
Shore are very hurt at the way
their pressing primary needs are
ignored and many are becoming
embittered at such a flagrant re=
fusal by the government to earry
out the democratic wishes of the
people.

The trend towards abrogation of
the rights of the people to self
government, started in this muni-
cipality when local government by
elected reeve and council was re
Placed by an appointed commis-
sioner, if allowed te continue un-
checked by the people will soon:
reduce Canada, to a sorry position.

Qur experience has shown that
it is imperative for progress to
elect a majority of real representa-
tives of the people in the next elec-
tion.

To de this we must ensure the
majority vote for progress is not
split between two or three contest-
ants thereby allowing candidates
of big business back into power on
2 minority vote.

iGet’s get together everywhere
and secure that majority which will
mean so much in the coming elec-
tions.

R. S. STEWART.
Dollarton, BC.

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THIS
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By Leslie Morris

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Ht tok= fives the people of a country a chance to make history on

sundry occasions. If the people seize these opportunities then rich
pages are written in the story of society. If the people lose their oppor-
tunities, then oft-times the story is written in blood.

The people of Great Britain did not make full use of the great op-—
portunity afforded them by the march of eyents in 1926, when the age—
old institutions of British bourgeois domination were challenged by
the general strike. That was because of the hidebound conservatism
of the British trade union bureaucracy which is tied by a thousand
threads to the British ruling class.

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Misleaders of History
LT THIS time, too, the British workings class, the oldest and most ex—
perienced in Western Europe, is finding great difficulty in sivine
voice and purpose to the task of ousting the Chamberlain government.
That again is because, at the Southport conference of the British iabor
party the other week, the historically true demand of the rank and file
could not break through the policy of Bevin and Morrison.

Always you will-find that, once history makes demands and the

masses are becoming aware of their tasks, the opportunity is muffed

only because the leadership of the masses is unable, for one reason or
another, to actively assist the development of history. Thus it was with
European Social-Democracy, which betrayed the cause of Socialism
during and after the Great War, and thus laid the foundations for the
horrible victories fascism was able to achieve in later years.

At bottom, the historical struggle of the people of the present-day
world for release from oppression is a question of leadership. The
masses of the people move always in a forward direction. Their daily
experience, their instincts, their whole life-fabric lead them in the
direction of emancipation. But without leadership these fundamental
qualities can be, temporarily, stunted and misled, and emancipation is
achieved only at the cost of further struggle and longer years of suf

fering.
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The Fight For Leadership

Cones for a moment what would have been the plight of the
people of the USSR today had they not possessed the leadership
of the Bolshevik party in the crucial days of 1917! Undoubtedly, Russia
today would have again been the home of Black Hundreds, would have
been the gendarme of Furope along with the fascist dictatorships in
other countries, instead of the sturdy, uncompromising beacon and
fortress of world peace and popular well-being which it now is.
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The History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, which has
been arbitrarily banned by the Canadian customs, tells this story of the
fight for leadership. It is a difficult and involving struggle. Tt is in-
timately tied in with the history of the country, the development of
people, the experience of the masses in struggle, and a thousand other
things. This book must become the property of every socialist—aye,
of everyone who is fighting for a better Canada. Its ban must be pro-
tested. It must be permitted on sale in bookstores, and allowed on every

library. shelf.

The New Canadianism

Ci. at this time is in a process of change which may well move
with seven-leagsue boots, and that in a very short space of time.
Every former political value is under the microscope. Every institution
which Canadian capitalists threw up in its heyday, is under the dissect-
ing scalpel of ruthless eriticism. The process of the decline of Canadian
capitalism, the years of its period of crisis, have taught gfreat lessons
to the masses. They are on the move, in a thousand directions.
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“Only a fool would predict the exact course this Twentieth Century
Canadianism will take. Only a person who knows nothing of history
and politics would dare to chart the route with any degree of exacti-
tude. The point we must remember is that the masses, in the course of
their search for leadership, will steadily move in the general direction
of a reorganization of Canadian society as we now know it, and that
this search is taking place in the conditions of the fight for greater

political and economic democracy.
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Learning From the People
4 [besos are a few ressons why the CCE’s official opposition to eco-
operation and the present varied course of the struggle is so dis—
astrous. Mr. Coldwell says, in effect: Hither you support the CGE or
you will go to perdition! Such “leadership,” which rejects co-operation
and the facts of political life, which pretends to be wiser than the
masses, is doomed to failure. Unless the CCF leaders begin to learn
from the masses, as true socialists always must, they will not change
their ways. The masses want unity to defeat the threat of fascism in
Canada, to get national recovery, to get jobs and social security. They
will do that, come what may. If the CCF leaders are wise men, they
will quickly see this cardinal point. If not, they will render a service to
fascism.

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