~ 12 Continued Canada Needs A Party Communists wing sentiment, to develop co- operation between all the parties of the left wing and. with the entire labor movement; and the reason why we say this must be done is because either we will get together and elect a majority of farmer labor candidates in the forthcoming elections and enough farmer. labor candidates to con- stituent positions in the Dominion Four Freedoms for Europe FETER this war is over the peo- ple of Europe are going to be given the opportunity, accord- ing to the pledges of Churchill and Roosevelt, to vote freely on what sort of a government they want. Now here is a very signifi- cant thing. The war against the Axis is a war which must ineyit- ably destroy not only the military machine of the Axis states, not only the Axis governments in Europe, but it must also gradu- ally destroy the great monopolies upon whom the Axis states base their power. In this war, which is very largely 2 political war, an ideological war, the United Nations are appealing to the peo- Of election, or those people who want to get back to 1939 will be able to do so after the war is over. It is on the basis of this general situation, with its tre- mendous dangers, that we pro- pose to unify all the supporters of the Communist Party in Can- nda into a new mass party of the left. ple to revolt against their op- pressors. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill appealed to the people of Italy to throw off Mussolini and assert their own nationhood. if the people did these things they would be revolting not only against Hitler and Mussolini, but against those great monopolist interests. In fact, the people of France are much more conscious of Laval as an enemy than they are conscious of Hitler as an en- emy. When these people have be- come free to vote for the sort of government they want it is safe to say they won't elect fascist governments even if they don’t elect socialist governments. To A World Brotherhood —E want Canada to support the people in such action. We want our government to sup- port them. In supporting them we want our government to accept a policy when the war is fin- ished of no return to 1939. it has got to be a world in which there is a job for every man able to work. It has got to be a world in which the national income and purchasing power is maintained in peace as well as in war. It has got to be a world in which the peeple have realized during the war that this Canada of ours can produce more than enough for a high standard of living based on social security for all of us. And finally we will reach ihe stage in this path of social Farming By JANET WEAVER MOSCOW. One cannot but admire the zeal and energy with which the Soviet farmers, deep in the rear, are working these jays as they fight the battle of the harvest. With the constantly increasing demand for more grain, more vegetables, sugarbeet and cotton, more wheat, dairy products, and wood, millions of peasants from children to old folks are work- ing in the fields from dawn to sunset, for wartime tasks must be tackled with fewer men, ma- chines and draft animals than in peacetime. Teven farmers near the very front line refuse to let the war interrupt their daily tasks. We heard a story of one front-line village where the farmers don't need alarm clocks to wake them in the morning. Every day regu- Jarly at sunrise the Germans start shelling the railway station nearby, and soon afterwards the cowherd’s horn pipes up readily progress and social development where the land and all on it is owned by ¢he people as a whole and used to provide the people as a whole with the fruits of life. This is the policy we advocate and we insist that that policy can be carried through in the period before us. Not drastically, may- be even slowly, but steadily and surely if we have an organized party to carry the message of unity to all people in the fight for progress now and in making every step of progress 2 step towards national common good. Then surely we may build a world, free from fear, free from want, in which every man will be a brother to his neighbor. nder Fire to the grim accompaniment of the guns. The cowherd is a 1> year-old boy, Vanya, who carries a German rifle slung across his shoulder and a German dageer thrust into his belt. The “For Meritorious Service in Action” medal which was awarded to Van- ya for catching two spies dangles from tbe: front of his shirt. The war has invaded every as- pect of life in this village. In the spring the women wore German helmets as they worked in the fields. They have become so ac- customed tot the war that they know how to meet any emergency. For instance, when a shell pierced the roof of Maria Movoselova's cottage and got stuck there, she removed the deadly missile her- self and carried it out side into the gully. “T hadn't time to bother,” she said, When asked how she could possibly have taken such a risk and why she didn’t call for help. “Y had some Red Army snipers coming for dinner and I couldn't get the stove started with that darn shell sticking right in the stovepipe.” CHARLES SAUNDERS President, Dock and Shipyard Workers’ Union “The problems and tasks con- fronting the people of Canada in the decisive months ahead of us and in the post-war period calls for a party with a program and constitution based on the needs and aspirations of the working people and the nation. During the last two years the left-wing DARSHAN SINGH SANGHA Trustee, BC District Council, IWA Speaking on behalf of my coun- trymen who share the progres- sive view of the Communists, and for all other minority groups, | believe one of the tasks of the new party will be to see that one half of the world Is not forced back as the other half forges ahead... -” of the labor movement has been the most clear and consistent force fighting for total war poli- cies.” ommunist Initiative A representative group of British Columbia labor lead- ers were among those elected to the initiative committee which will make plans for setting up BC sections of the new party of Canadian Com- munists. The names of the forty members elected at the Georgia Hotel conference last Saturday appear below. Tom McEwen, chairman; Fer- gus McKean, secretary; members, William Stewart, president Boiler- makers’ and Shipbuilders’ Union, Local No. 1; Lawrence Anderson, business agent, Amalgamated Shipwrights; ~ Corey Campbell, vice-president Vancouver Labor ALFRED C. CAMPBELL “) regard myself as an old-timer in the Communist movement; the Communists raised me and reared me since | came to Canada... the left-wing of the labor move- ment must have its own political party; Canada has _ suffered through the absence of a Com- munist voice on a public plat- form = = Council; Minerva Cooper, business manager, The People; Hal Grifi- fin, editor, The People; Charles Saunder, president Dock and Shipyard Workers’ Union. Chas. Stewart, president Street Railwaymen’s Union; John Stan- ton; Margaret Black: William Rig- by, editor The Fisherman, SE Chitenky, Ukrainian Canadian Associaton; Alfred 'C. Campbell; Mrs. Nellie McKean; ~. E. Leary, president Vancouver Labor Coun- cil: Shelly Rogers; Effie Jones, B.C. Housewives League, Bill Burgess, secretary United Fisher- men’s Union. Ruth Turner; Ed Simpson. busi- ness agent Boilermakers’ Union; Harvey Murphy, internatonal LAWRENCE ANDERSON Business Agent, Amalgamated Shipwrights’ Union “The tide is turning—democracy is winning out. The outcome of the war will be decided by the ~ people. Fascism is on the down- ward trend... A party of Com- munists is a necessity in the job of winning the war and planning the peace.” ‘mares of social chai HAL GR Editor, The “Canada is emergin nation. The future of is being shaped fo and the Canadian worki must have a decisive vo termining that future. want to return to th of gray old men wit ommit representative Internat of Mine, Mill and Smei- ers: Bruce Micklebur Teachers’ Federation. F & pert; Darshan 5 ah, member, B.C. District International Woodwe America. a Bob Kerr, G. A. Hap River: Roy Lavigne, minster; Mrs. Novas minster: W. Chachi Belanzier; Bow! Parker, Surrey; Mts: John Larsen, Whot Montellier; A. Walim, pert; Walter Stockhant lond: Les Buckley. é Harry Bird, Vancouve Bennet, Vancouver; B inion Soo ae “The new party useful, function, — the present time—2 the people must win Canada is greatly the Communists © fast loyalty.”