( S ao views Bzens of Vancouver, elds. Rergus: Mcitean, — Provincial ss of the Labor-Pregressive “Phe presidential election ithe United States on Novem- in-7 will be the most impor- nt election in the history of fat country. But the election is posevelt or Governor Dewey ids office in the crucial post- Bir years, when the vital ques- ms of a durable peace and jrid reconstruction will be de- Jed, can and will affect the i10le course of world history. “The election of Governor swey, who is backed by all of @ pro-fascist, isolationist and in Big Business would be a tastrophe of major signifi- nee. His election would un- jubtedly mean the scrapping of e historic agreements of Mos- Aw, VLeheran and Cairo which ‘ovided for international co- jieration and - friendship be- jreen Britain, the USSR and the SA in order to secure a lasting ace, reconstruction of the de- Stated countries and expand- & world trade. “The overwhelming majority the organizations of labor in mada wholeheartedly agree th the policies and activities American labor in working sosevelt.._ The political action mmmittees organized by the © are forging a coalition of i democratic forces in the SA to secure the reelection of yosevelt. “The overwhelming majority “American labor has resolute- rejected all proposals for the rmation of third party move- ents designed to split the dem- Tatic yote and thus give a etory to reaction. The only im- Grtant labor body in Canada aich does not wholeheartedly wee with American labor and 3 policies of supporting pro- oosevelt candidates is the CCF. ais group, in line with its anti- uty. splitting tactics in Can- la, supports third party move- ents in'=the USA, condemns tesident Roosevelt -and obpec- vely aids American reaction in s endeayor to: gain the control mment.” “Dorethy Steeves, CCF : “J: wish ~the Americans id a~ socialist party. I would ste for Norman Thomas, how- rer, if I were an American.” Harold Pritchett, B-C. District resident, International Wood- 1e United States on November |The results of this election iil have profound effects upon ie world and especially upon Roosevelt, ; of Hoover reaction, hampion 3 z Their choice thomas BE. Dewey- perialistic elements of Amer-} r the reelection of President | P.A. herewith on the election from leading AD.COUY in the business, political and labor elds We feel sure that the remarks will be found interest- g, enlightening and in many cases quite significant. will decide the future progress of the United States and Canada and in this Ganadian labor is vitally interested. 2 “The question is whether th USA will continue to play an impertant part in the family of United Nations for the destruc- tion of fascism and the establish- ment of a just and lasting peace under the leadership of the most outstanding President of the United States, FDR, or whether under the Presidency of Dewey the United States will become an isolated state with a program of negotiated peace with the fas- cists abroad and the destruction of the labor movement at home. | “The result of the Presidential ‘election will have terrific reper- |eussions in Canada. The re-elec- |tion of Roosevelt will assist pro- |eressive forces of democracy in |\Canada, discourage the Tory |bloe and defeat the so-called | ‘leftists’ who destroy the nation- al unity of our country against |fascism by posing the question of ‘Socialism Now’ | “Canadian labor anxiously |/awaits the outeome of the elec- |tion of our great neighbor with |the hope that President Franklin |/D. Roosevelt will be returned as | Commander -in- Chief, with a | Congress that will support a pro- eressive policy.” Leon Ladner, K.€., President lef the Vancouver Canadian-So- Viet Friendship Council: “I think |that in the interest of a solution lof a permanent peace and world lsecurity setup that President |Roosevelt is invaluable. His |statesmanship and conception of \international affairs is clear and |supported by deeds of the past, | while the Republican Party’s | policy toward international at- \fairs is clearly opposed to the |established policy of Mr. Roose- | velt.”? x : | Miss Kathleen Gorrie, Direc- ‘ter of Gordon Neighborhood |Wouse: “If I were in the United | States I would work for the re- election of President Roosevelt, not only because his attitude to sound social welfare is good, but also because of his attitude and work during the war and his fu- ture plans in the postwar.” Fion. H. H. Stevens, prominent: Progressive - Gonservative: “Tf think Rooseyelt will and should be elected. His foreign relations: policy has been the most enlight- ened of any President for many years, including ' Wilson. I would not like to endorse all of his do- mestic policies, but I think in the main his administration has been a.” eUvianerva Cooper. LPP federal candidate for Vancouver-Bur- rard: “This year for the first time in the history of the Uni- ted States there are more women eligible to vote than men. T am eonfident that the great ma- jority of women who have sent husbands, sons and brothers to the battle fronts, and the women on the production lines who have helped to arm them will join _|forces with the forward-looking y- Saturday, November 4, 1944 — Page, 2 5. Election Vital To Postwar FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT “Many Canadian women are watching the progress of the election campaign with the keen- est interest. The victory of de- mocratie forces will strengthen the enlightened policies which have placed the -United ‘States first among the capitalist demo- eracies in the status accorded ta women and will serve as a powerful stimulus to similar ad. vancement in our own country. Above all the triumph of the democratic front= behind Roose- velt will provide the greatest guarantee that this continent shall.not become a base of opera- tion for the forces of isolation and appeasement, but-a bulwark of lasting peace and social pro- gress within the framework of United Nations’? unity.” - Dick Bibbs, President of Stu- dent's Council, UBC: “TI believe most Canadians are in fayor of Roosevelt. I have been in favor of Roosevelt for the last three terms, especially as our relation- ship with the universities in the States will be affected by the election results.” : Darshan Singh Sangha, prom- inent B. ©. Indian Youth leader and writer: “The reelection “of {-President ‘Roosevelt will= mean the continuation of that policy of unity and cooperation among: the United Nations which has brought victory over —-fascism within our grasp and has al- ready laid the foundation of a Jastinge peace. It further> means the liberation of the colonial peoples, the pattern of which has already been laid in the recog- nition of the independence of Ethiopia, Iran, Syria, China, Korea and the Phillipines. This liberation policy cannot but lead to the inevitable liberation of In- dia and all other colonies. “On the other hand, the elec- tion of Governor Dewey means the victory of the worst imper- jalist forces in the United States, that are out to establish “The American Century,” in other words to dominate the world. Such a policy would lead to a disastrous third world war. ‘Mankind cannot afford.to put the clock back. Our path is the sections of labor and business fighting for the election of Presi- dent Roosevelt. road ahead toward progress with | President Roosevelt.” American Progressives Organized To Elect FDR November 7, 71,000,000 potential voters in the United States will make a decisive contribution to the development of international relations, and thereby affect the affairs of the peoples of all nations.. The course of world events, the tremendous role of the USA in United Nations’ councils, the powerful and decisive position which that country occupies in the relationships between the major nations of the earth, all these have combined to place this power for good or fer evil in the hands of the American people. As the campaign has pro-, gressed the issue has become in- creasingly clear. On the one hand there is Franklin D. Roose- velt; architect of national unity and the great American war ef- fort, friendly collaborator of Churchill and Stalin; leader to- ward an enduring peace’ and in- ternational harmony; on the other, Thomas HE. Dewey, un- tried in statesmanship, prota- |gonist of old-time “Big Stick” diplomacy, a bull in the china shop of international relations. Such are the candidates and the significance of their policies as they will affect the rest of the world. The issue is made clearer by the character of the forces which support them. Backing Roosevelt stands a coalition of the progressive lib- eral and labor elements, cuttmeg across class ‘and party lines. Readers of the labor press know of the tremendous campaign car- ried on by the CLO Political Ac- tion Committee and other labor groups. The overwhelming ma- jority of labor has come out in statements and organized action for the reelection of the Presi- dent, joining in the efforts of the Democratic Party and of many ‘progressive Republicans. The gang behind Dewey is chiefly characterized by their defeatism. * First there is the Hoover-Lan- don crowd. Their record is :de- featist to the core. Five months before Pearl Harbor—on June 80, 1941——Herbert Hoover, De- wey’s big boss, took to the air from Chicago to fight aid to our powerful ally; the Soviet Union. Then he stated that Japan -was 6,000 miles away and would never attack the USA. Then he expressed the hope that Hitler would “dispose of the Soviet Union,” and said it would be a “vargantuan jest’ to help that country which has now helped save America. That is only one instance of the whole wretched record of the Hoover-Landon crowd. : _ Second, there is the defeatist press—Hearst, McCormick, Pat- terson, Seripps-Howard, Gan- nett—solidly lined up for Dewey just as they were solidly lined up for appeasement. Third, there are the open and loud pro-Axis adherents, from Gerald L. K. Smith to Mrs. Dill- ing and Lawrence Dennis. They are 100 percent for the GOP candidate. And a man is al- ways known by the company he keeps. Fourth, there are the fascist- minded “Democrats”—men like John J. ©’Gonnor of New York, the unspeakable Eugene “‘Tal- madge of Georgia, “Cotton Hd’ Smith and E.' B. Germany of Texas, with pro-fascist records. Pifth, there are the writers who have gathered around Dewey—men like Poison Pen Pegler, Rupert Hughes the Hearstline who devotes himself to striving for disunity among the United Nations, Kenneth Roberts, the defender of Bene- dict Arnold—-symbol of treason in American history. Backed by such elements, is it any wonder that the Republican campaign has become a morale- breaking force in the USA. Grant McNeil, CCF MLA: Tf would vote for Roosevelt. I re- gard a Roosevelt victory as of vital importance for future peace in the world.”. John McPeake, the Vaneouver housing ~ cam- paign and candidate for City Council: “The forces who sup- ported Hoover and his breadline policies (that found their paral- lel in the R. B. Bennett regime of reaction in Canada) are today fighting hard to elect Dewey. These are the elements the American people have to defeat by electing F. D. Roosevelt. “KK victory for Roosevelt guar- antees to the American people a program of continued reform— it means jobs and payrolls—it means housing and all the im- provements that will make life more full. Dewey stands for un- employment and soupkitchen prominent in government and that is not the democratic American way of life.” Garry Culhane, secretary of the Shipyard General Workers’ Federation: “I am confident that the American people will re- affirm their faith in President Rosevyelt on November 7, thereby dealing the world political forces _ of reaction and fascism a mortal blow similar to that dealt the military forces of world reaction at Stalingrad.” Don Barbour, manager, [WA Hiring Hall: “President Roose- velt will be reelected because the voters of the U.S. are as fully aware as I am that under his period of leadership the well- being of the American people made the greatest gains. No other President since Abraham Tuinecoln ean show such a. re- cord. “His leadership in wartime on an international scale compares very closely to the role’ that Lin- coln played in national events during the Civil War. The hu- manitarian, good neighbor pol- icy of President Roosevelt due in the main to his own diplo- matic ability has been one of the greatest factors in solidifying the’ common bonds of the United Nations” joint struggle.”