ea bold, { th large-scale public and private = at trade-union wages will take up ack of “re-conversion’ unemploy- build up urban and rural commun- f= and improve the homes and the / nic efficiency of our country. fese works must include community ing, slum clearance, local improve- f hospitals, schools, and community i). For our rural areas. highways and P Federal Election Platform 4, Build For A Better Life Ine Labor-Progressive Party pro- comprehensive micial-Municipal program of large construction to answer Canada’s sieglected needs in housing, school, jal and town-planning, recreational, fay and other construction. market Dominion- control, between roads, hospitals, schools, flood electric rural electrification, and, pafticularly in the western provinces, water conservation and irrigation works. The St. Lawrence Waterway, modern facilities for civil aviation, and similar great developmental works must be car- 1ied through on a basis of co-operation Dominion, Municipal governments. The Yukon, the North and the North- west Werritories must be opened up, their immense natural wealth developed and settlement encouraged by the establishment of efficient transporta- tion and community facilities. power development, Provincial and systematically : ent jecent patriotic Can- B|- welcome the cour- vatement of Genera! fon on John Brack- fieful Ties about sol- r osedly throwing their }rboard on their way uister of Defense cor- Is this as a lie that © enemies, both in ) and among the pro- F2ross the line.-It un- _ did tarnish our re- mone our allies after uilt up a great deal will on the basis of ificent Canadian war * eourse, too much to eople of Bracken’s attempt to undo the ‘public apology. Their partisan aims, based at any price, suggest 'will maintain a dis- ce and look for more punition. = ise of the ~shipboard as a symptom of the methods of the Tory 2 emerging of the it the reinforcements as it really was last as it is now, is 2 idictment of their iSition. shoutine about their 3, their “worry about pute jads overseas. © son and mine,” was i ation and yiciousness. 2 shrewd front men n are appalled by the of the mareh of md they understand 3: HAT DO | rank demagogy born THINK? They foresaw the strength- ening of the unity of progres- sive forees throughout the world and understood that this march of progress would have its repereussions in Canada. They understood quite well that, despite lthesitations and obstructions, a trend existed which was powerful enough to ' evercome the still remaining divisions and hesitancies in the progressive camp—unless ex- traordinary measures were taken as rapidly as possible to utilize the still existing con- fusions and obstructions and reverse. the trend. The fact that they did not Se See a aS & succeed at first, egged them on to the reckless tactics of Grey North. But, in winning this engagement, they sacri- ficed reserves that cannot be replaced. Grey North is prov- ing to be the Tories’ equivalent of the von Rundstedt Decem- ber counter-offensive of the Nazis. : Canada can still march for-- ward with the rest of the de- mocratie world. That is the hopeful sign which appears to be emerging from the welter of confusion and doubts which we were facing only recently. ; UNITY. A FISHING TRIP? Sogn? REFORMS ele a Y MLL BEAT ‘EM TO \T AFTER I MAKE A FEW — Sse Ee — Sa . Latvia, EXsthonia and Lithuania. Saturday,. March 10, 1945 — Page 5 MutesDaResodenzeuaureesassssnesDarsaeupuoxeprsvassstuxstssr1i3ssst900eesasansaryraraisissdiearsvanarasye drasey Short Jabs . Ol’ Bill “EEPRUARNERSSSCCEEERESNEYEDDoTEerEecreEreesseo seers ssterdsseserieety Frerrerstreser *Terrarccunverszrsicrsessiysgyy Obstacles to Peace and Security qq eke may be greater orators using the English language today few rivals in this, the most crucial period in the history of our race. It was not a diplomatic speech. In the language of diplomacy, every word has two, or more, meanings. This was 4 forthright speech. I am going to quote one part of it as an introduction to what comes ‘ He said, “The impression I brought back from the Crimea and from all my other contacts, is that Marshal Stalin and the other Soviet leaders wish to live in honorable friendship and equality with the Western Democracices. “T feel also that their word is their bond. : “T know of no government which stands on its obligations more solidly than the Russian Soviet Government. “I decline absolutely to embark here upon a discussion about Rus- sian good faith. It is quite evident that these matters touch the whole futurée- of the world. “Sombre indeed would be. the fortunes of mankind if some awful schism arose between the Western Democracies and the Russian people —if all future organization were rent asunder. . . . .” (Wancouver Province, February 27). : Churehill draws no distinction here as between “Soviet leaders,” “the ‘Russian Soviet Government” and “the Russian people.” He has been convineed by deeds, seen in close co-operation with the Soviet peoples in the life and death struggle against fascism, that a previous estimate he made of them was wrong, when he spoke of them as “cos- mopolitan conspirators from the underworld.” But there are people who refuse to be convineed, either by oratory or deeds. I received two papers in the mail this week from places far from the People’s Bookstore; one from the Lillooett country and the _ other one from Toronto. The one from Toronto was sent to me by an old friend who has been doing his share in,the battle line and is now recuperating at the Christie Street Hospital there. The magazine so disgusted him that he wanted some one to share his disgust—whiech IT do and make no apologies for so doing. It is called the Ganadian Motorist. In 20 pages of this Canadian Motorist, five and a quarter are taken up with the cover and advertisements: ten and a quarter with war stories and pictures; three and a half with anti-Soviet propaganda and one page with news and comment about motors. The bigot who writes the lead article, entitled, “Communism As- cendent Over There?, lumps Communism and Fascism together and musters all the threadbare and disproved assertions about the Soviet Union, of people like the so-called Lady Aster, the clown of the House of Commons. The other paper, a four-page throw-away, is named. “The Plain Truth,” although the truth is not in it.- It is given away free and is dear at that price. It is written and published at Hugene, Oregon, by some blasphemic fanatic who labels himself the Radio Ghurch of God, a sort of evangelistic edition of Father Coughlin, the radio priest who - worked harder than any other single individual in America to make the country fascist. If a schism may be made, with all the dire consequences to “the fortunes of mankind” that Churchill foresees, these papers are in the hands of the schismaties, the splitters, sold emtirely to reaction and disaster, no matter by what name it calls itself. 7 In both eases they make an issue of the fate of the Baltic republics, They do not tell the readers they hope to dupe, that these countries were, before the last war, part of the Tsarist Russian Hmpire; that they took part in the 1917 revolution and were a part of the Soviet Union until the British Navy and the German Army cut them off from their brothers in the rest of the Soviet Union. They did not tell their readers either that when the Red Army. came to these three countries in 1940 it was not as a conquering army but as a liberating force to save them from German Naziism, Nor do they tell their readers either, that in all three countries, in the most democratic elections that had been held ther for 20 years, Peoples Governments were elected and that later, all three, by plebiscite with over 95 per cent majorities, asked the priviloge of joining the Soviet Union—and were granted that privilege. When the Red Army. which is described in one part of the Ca- nadian Motorist as “the Russian hordes,” came back and drove the Nazis out of Latvia, Esthonia and Lithuania last year, they were only freeing a part of their own land as much so as in the reoccupation of Stalingrad, the Crimea or Odessa. ; These friends of fascism lie when they say “the decision was made for them (the Baltic republics) and announced in Moscow”, as this vadio preacher does. : They attempt also to confuse the people of the democracies about the tactics of the Red Army, to make capital out of the fact that the Red Army does not drive straight for and occupy particular cities, Berlin today, Warsaw, a few days ago! Writing in January this “Plain Truther” says the Red Army stopped on the border of Ger- many having occupied the countries the Soviet intends to rule after the war. : Stalin and other Red Army leaders have announced often enough what the objective of the Red Army is—the destruction of the German army. Since that radio prophet made his all-wise crack about the Red Army stopping on the borders of Germany, the Red Army has lopped off East Prussia, Silesia, almost all of Pomerania and a large part of Saxony, destroying the German armies as they advance, execut- ing the strategy of their general staff. ~ Ghurehill does well to draw the attention of all progressive people to the danger that confronts them through the presence in their midst of the producers of the Canadian Motorist and The Plain Truth.