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unnamed German town. This photo i

Apparently depressed, Adolf. Hitler walks with bared
head and unhappy mien as he stumbles over ruins in an

s from a German

film captured on the western front.

McEwen Castigates CCF
Union Disruption Tactics

Charge that ©CF leaders

were attempting to foment a

general strike in Vancouver for partisan advantage and
against the interests of Canada and the street railwaymen
was made by LPP Chairman Tom McEwen in a broadcast

on the “B.C. Electric Railway-
over the regular
Monday /evening LPP broadcast

men’s Strike”

this week.

Placing the major responsibi-
- ly for precipitation and continu-
ance of the strike on the should-
ers of the BCER, the National
War Labor Board and the Fed-
eral Department of Labor, Me-
Ewen called for all parties to

enter negotiations to bring a
speedy settlement, urged the
street railwaymen t6 display

their statesmanship and patriot-
ism by ending the strike, and de-
manded that the workers’ just
deniands be granted.

The speaker attacked the
BCER advertising campaign in
the daily ‘press as “not designed
to end the strike; on the con-
trary. it is primarily designed to
contuse the public and turn pub-
lic sentiment against the street
railway workers,” and charged
the refusal of the company to
negotiate as making’ the situation
take on the nature of a lockout
of -the men.

McEwen vigorously denounced
thosé particularly in the top
leadership of the CCF, who at-
tack organized labor’s no-strike
pledge as a surrender of labor’s
rights. “Fortunately for North
American labor,’ he said, “this
‘ultva-leftist’ opinion is confined
to a small, and in the main, dis-
eredited minority. If it weren’t
for the tragedy of war, it would
be somewhat Judicrous to ima-
gine Messrs. Coldwell, Millard;
Winch, Cameron, et al, as the
champions of strike action as
labor’s main weapon for the
settlement of disputes.

| “Prior to the war when strike

action was often found to be

= to combat the assaults
of predatory employers in the
hungry thirties and earlier, if
any cf these present-day propo-
|nents of strike action came any-
where near a strike, it was gen-
erally in an effort to undermine
it

The LPP chairman accused
these CCF leaders, in their at-
tempt to get war workers to re-
fuse rides, of a “desire to com-
pletely paralyze our war indus-
try and extend the present strike,
by sympathetic action, into a
general strike. That might suit
the purpose of those who wish
to bring about the downfall of
the war government of Canada,
+o weaken Canadian unity and
eripple Canada’s war effort, in
order to gain some narrow parti-
san advantage, but it -does not
and would not serve Canada, nor
does it serve the interests of the
street railwaymen.”

He said that the strike did not
arise hecatse the members of the
Street Railwaymen’s Union do
not support the pledge, but that
it was “precipitated by certain
peovle in authority, who unfor-
tunately interpret labor’s no+
strike pledge as a signal of
weakness, and whose policies of
procrastination and evasion in
Settling issues become an -ob-
stacle in the way of extending
and perfeciine the democratic
machinery of negotiation and
conciliation, which labor regards
as an essential complement of
its no-sivike pledge.”

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Prominent CCFers Leave Party;
Deplore ‘Isolationist’ Policy

partisan isolationism was

West, Dr. D. A. Mackenzie, had
resigned. Announcement of Mac-
Kenzie’s resignation follows the
recent action of two Ontario
CCF MPP’s, A. N. Alles and Les-
lie Hancock, in leaving the GCF

because they could not represent
the desires of their electors while
they remained within its ranks.

Dr: ‘Mackenzie js reported to
have said, in releasing a state-
ment on his resignation, that his
Support would be given to the
Labor-Progressive Party,  ‘‘the
most consistent _of all groups in
Canada today.”

POLITICAL IMMATURITY

Mackenzie accused the CCF of
political immaturity and of ex-
pressing. the “ideological social-
istic beliefs of the Social Demo-
cratic movements. of the HEuro-
pean countries of the last cen-
tury.” He said their policy was
leading: to division and disunity
when the opposite is necessary
for solution of Canada’s present
and postwar problems.

His statement. concluded: “The
party is divorcing itself from all
other movements. It is isolation-
ist to an extreme.”

Wave of resignations in protest against CCF policy of
continued
Canadian Press report that CCF federal cand

Fbor political action through the

FAVORED UNITY

Hancock’s expulsion by the
riding executive of the CGF came
last week also on the grounds
that he was suspected of favor-
ing the unity of labor. While no
charges were laid against him,
it was inferred by the GCF that
ke was in favor of a democratic
coalition to unseat Premie=!
Drew. The MPP later announced]
that he would continue to sit in
the legislature as an Indepen-
dent Labor-Farmer.

Alles, who represents the con-
stifueney of Esex North which
includes the powerful United
Automobile Workers’ Union cen-
ter of Windsor, resigned; because
he was “unwilling to place party
interests before the interests of
labor as a whole.” His- state-
ment said that “under the pres-
ent CCF policy labor is deprived
of the right of exerting its full
influence to assure jobs and de-
cent working conditions for all.”

“His was an independent ac-
tion of an honest workingman
who could not coincide his duty
as a CCF member of the legis-
lature with the stated policy of
the organized labor movement
which elected him and who pre-
fers to sit as an independent
member,” commented Ontario
LPP Leader Leslie Morris on the
Alles resignation and on CCF
charges that Alles’ action was
governed by the LPP. “As such,
his action expresses a growing
differentiation within the CCP

benefit of labor as a whole.”

IN HARMONY WITH
WORKERS

Morris also declared that the
resignation from the CCF
“should cause many members of
that party to think seriously
over the reasons given by -him
for his action.” He continued:
“Mr. Alles is a member of the

Which can work only for the!’

legislature for a city which is
perhaps the firmest stronghold
of unionism in Canada, whose |

munity as a whole with wl
many thousands of GOF m
bers will sympathize. It i
warning to the CCF member
that their party policies are
those of the union.” |

last week with the

idate in Calgary

major unions, the UAW. locals,
are on record for a constructive

win the peace policy’ f la= s Ss
iy 2 y and for la Commenting on the Fesig

tion George Burt, UAW-GIO ©
gional Director, declared that,
belieyed he was voicing the ‘s
timents of the  constituen,
auto workers in urging Alles
continue to serve the wor!
“by retaining his seat and 5
porting all measures in the le
lature for national unity and
public welfare.” ;

‘LPP Financial Campaign’

Tim Buck Birthday Offensive _

Labor-Prog'ressive Party,
209 Shelly Building,
Vancouver, B.C.

MICHEI.- NATAL CLUB HAS ACCEPTED ay
QUOTA STOP BEST WISHES FOR A SUCCESSEU.
CAMPAIGN. TONY PODROSK”

Ae above telegram is typical of at least a score of ieee
which have reached the LPP office in response.to the call #

a Tim Buck Birthday Offensive and form part of a eollectr

pledge to raise $3,500 from January 16 to January 31- i

THE COALMINERS AGAIN!

The coal miners of Michel and Natal had just forward:
$200.00 on their quota, but responded promptly when the shor
term quota -was proposed. Among other clubs which have wire
or written their promise to come through by the end of the mont
are Dunean, Cumberland, Extension, Fernie, Ladysmith, Cra:
brook, Salmon Arm, Revelstoke, Kamloops, Powell River, Bri
tannia, Victoria and Silverton. :

Congratulations to Kelowna Rural, Prineeton, Campbe
River, Rossland, Cambie and Whitehorse who have already turne |
in 100 percent of their Tim Buck ‘Offensive quotas. Speci
praise is due Cambie, one of our smaller clubs which Sent in 7
quota close on the heels of $77.50 reported in last week’s colum
Also to Campbell River which had just turned in $130.00, than!)
partly to the untiring efforts of John Senkiw, and followed w
this handsome amount with the full short-term quota. Likeywa:)
we salute Fernie elub which has turned in $180.00 since the fir:
of the year but pledges to come through in the Tim Buck Offer
sive.

RECEIPTS FOR FIRST FOUR DAYS

Since January 12 amounts turned in to the Federal Electic |
Fund are as follows: :

Michel $200,00; Cambie $10.00; Whitehorse, Yukon, $25.0(
Kelowna $10.00; Lena Lipsey $7.00: Kitsilano $18.55; Hasting
Hast $10.33; Princeton $15.00: South Van (A. Lawson and 1}
Coffey) $26.50; Burrard Hast $5.48: Georgia $61.00; Campbe-
River $30.00; Rossland $10.00; Swine Shift (John de Wever de
nation $5.00; Brookswood $10.00; making a total of $448.81 y
to January 15 in the drive for $3,500 extending from January 1
to January 31. ; |

This Is Your Party

ye once in a while someone gets the idea that initiatio:

into the Labor-Progressive Party is a very difficult business’!
Recently we heard of some people who joined an organization 1
which there were active LPP workers in the hope that they migh |
be invited to join the party.

This is your invitation tp join the shipyard workers, clerks
plumbers, miners, carpenters, loggers, painters, housewives
business and professional people who form the membership 0)
the Labor-Progressive Party.

If you are willing to work toward speedy victory, social secu
rity, lasting peace and the ultimate achievement of socialism
-if you believe in the power of people to mould their own destiny;
you belong in our ranks.

You could do no better than join the LPP now in the perioc
of the Tim’ Buck Birthday Offensive when we have pledged: ar)
increase of 10 percent in our‘membership. Fill in the form whict
appears below, send it into our office, and you will be notified oi)
the next meeting of the LPP Club nearest your home.

I WISH TO JOIN THE LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY

Political Action Committee which
they will not permit to be con-
fined to CCF decisions.

“His action is completely in
harmony with the thoughts of
the majority of Windsor auto
workers and in taking his stand
he exhibits a loyalty to the work
ers’ interests and to the com-

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My Name is

My Address is

(Fill in and mail to the Labor-Proeressive Party, 209 Shelly —
Building, 119 West Pender, Vancouver, B.C.) ;

Inserted by the Labor-Progressive Party