a line with > failure. Federal Election PI 7. A National Farm-Policy aida needs a national farm policy f and bring into harmony the Dominion and Provincial depart- f agriculture and legislation re- agriculture and farm welfare. gpolicy must be directed to pre- he family farm as the basic unit dian agriculture, and must pro- measures to ensure security of © the farm family and to estab- eble income from production. The | principles must be observed: frmanent legislation to establish oder prices of all farm products iment price setting; such a floor Rintained by democratically con- @-armers marketing boards and Gut purchasing boards; state pur- nd distribution of surplus pro- anned farm production in co- with farmers production csm- demiestic and lnarket requirements. pnuinion-Provincial action to pro- Farmer from eviction, foreclosure latform @ State aid for producer and imple- ment cO-Operatives, and exemption of all cooperatives from income or corporation taxes. @ Measures to reduce freight rates for farm products and farm supplies, par- ticularly for Western Canada and the Maritimes. : @ Increased utilization of the Hud- son's Bay Railway and the Bay ports. @ Establishment of a Dominion- wide Farm Rehabilitatioh Administration of the character of the Prairie Farm Re- habilitation Administration. @ Establishment of experimental plants, with Dominion-Provincial co- operation, to develop and ‘extend the use of Canadian farm products as industrial raw materials. @ Measures to reduce the cost and re- pair of farm implements and machinery; by tariff reduction, and encouragement to aS farm implement co-operatives. is CCF Vancouver, B.C. Turner, MLA, in to the daily press Bismiss my charges ‘sion of “emotion” Gon.’ This is in- ss coming from a » That Tower of e‘(CE, has always fa confusion of ixbor’s unity, pur- stiny. That the as been able to tion is not a nega- eact. The suspen- [LA’s in Manitoba eitive’s dictatorship PWest are but two Sr and all CCF mo are acquainted i7 that I have con- = msistently striven Fthe working class [dn such a policy F to the provincial = CCF in 1943 by | referendum in entire. Efforts of er Council mem- the labor move- thwarted by the Opportunistic and adership, causing e party. queries, “On what repudiated the Turner doesn’t nail tell him. the newspapers ure 100 per cent in W-partisan political ame a few others, General Workers’ ae Mine, Mill and kers, Fishermen’s all have adopted licy. CCE mem- en singularly un- recent bids for H AT DO YOU T . ganizations. Sa aa ‘that leading CCF bureaucrat Angus MacInnis seoffs at the Big Three Concords and there- by at the policies of the World Trade Union Congress, but states that MacInnis is capable leadership in these same or — These unions alone constitute ‘the over- whelming majority” of organ- ized labor in British Columbia. It would appear that Mx. Tur- ner is ‘emotionally confused” of speaking: for himself. TI if he needs a referendum to see doubt it. One year ago Mac- the light. Innis and his followers broke Space does not permit rebut- up the CCF provincial conven- tal of all the other nonsense tion rather than “face the mu-= that Mr. Turner builds upon sic” for his malicious slander. this first and false hallucina- When Mr. Turner and his tion of CCF power, but in clos- colleagues have something bet- ing I must refer to one more ter to offer they will not be point. eriticized by labor. Mr. Turner does not deny —FRASER WILSON. (THE CCF SEES NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN CAPITALIST PARTIES AND WILL COOPERATE: WITH MONE! COMMUNIST —— SS : a ue | = ‘KEEP OUT TEMPLE GF ACC = = = SOcIALIST el ipa Museum ? Zoe = B LEARNING MY OWN COMRADES ! CAPITALIST COLLABORATION ISTS! ALL Z BL, J RESERVED FOR WERVERITES Getting down to earth Saturday, March 31, 1945 — Page 5 SESEENSERSUESEAESSASRUERESEOOSSERSOEEGASRENEELSUINDELVETATLVESURECLAULLDULLEFALINEDATTALEESDSSrDsENEraessrersyEs Shor t Jabs by Ol’ Bill CESPUSERECUOUESERECEEAEROODESCUCESESRUCECORARATSEDATSFELIOURS SPREE ERAT SESS TS TEUFULSSATARTEVASROROESESEDESIIIZIIDY Apologist For Hitler (fee latest apologist for Hitler is George Weaver, weekly conimenta- tor in the CCE News. The righteous demand for the punishment of the war criminals, he deseribes as “the howl for blood” and those who make that demand he refers to as ‘‘witeh doctors.” This may be the considered juigment of Weaver, or. it may be that he is seizing on an opportunity to indulge in one of his favorite ceeupations, slandering the Soviet Union—“a country,” he writes, “whose history is full of blood purges, Nihilism, terrorism, assassina- tions and a'l that goes with those things.” He is indignant that a. Russian professor should write in Pravda. that, “The noose has for a long time been erying for Hitler’s neck.” Apparently, he recoenizes the implication of this twaddle for he hasten: to inform his readers that, “This is no defense of Hitler or of war cr:minals.” But it is a defense of Hitler in spite of Weavers denial. And it is just such an attitude as one should expect from the Trotskyite rabble who are one with George Weaver in their aims. He thinks Pravda should have learned by now, that there is no solution to ‘any problem along that road—the shooting of Nazi and fascist-war criminals. Tf Soviet justice had not dealt expeditiously and mereilessly with Puchacheysky, who sold Soviet and Czechoslovak war secrets to the Nazis, and a few other high-ranking officers of the Red Army, there wou'd be no Red Army victories to celebrate today. Hitler would be well on the way to establishing his dream of world domination as his plans ~ ealled for. If the Yrotskyite political degenerates who were blood brothers ideologically to George Weaver, had not been summarily dealt with and their plans allowed to come to maturity, Hitler would not even have had to fight for “a place in the sun.” The Soviet Union, and the rest of the world with her, would have been handed to him on a platter. It was a great calamity for the Weavers throughout the world, when the traitorous generals of the Red Army and the Judas politicians in the internal administration of the Soviet Union, were exposed to the people and dealt with as their conduct merited. That is wny Weaver and his ilk bleet about ‘blood purges.’ He writes that he is defending “a sense of historical balance.” That is a nieely turned phrase which means “betrayal of the democratic peoples of the world.” For my part, I agree with Ilya Erenberg when he says he would hang some of them twice. Press Drive Again ERE is a little historical note which may encourage some hesi- tant reader of this column to become aggressively enthusiastic in the present press drive. In the early days of the Western Federation of Miners, some of the mine-owners in the Cripple Creek district of Colorado were counted amongst the most reactionary elements in the whole of the United States. For over 10 years these mining molochs fought to prevent the organization of the small mine local unions into the WEM. In that struggle they employed every trick and manoeuver that their reactionary minds could devise to defeat the miners in their efforts to better their living conditiens. One of these tricks was to flood the district with, “deputy sheriffs’ and state militiamen. In 1903, a strike broke out, one of the historic strikes of the mining industry in the United States. At Victor, the second largest camp in the district, a newspaper, called the Record, was being published. It was raided by the “deputies” and the entire staff on deck at the time were thrown inte the bull-pen. i Next morning early, Emma Langdon, who wrote the history of the W.F.M. in Colorado, visited the bull-pen to see her husband who was a linotype operator on the Record and was one of those arrested. Waiting to get into the bull-pen, she overheard two of the “generals” discussing the latest news of the strike. Said one, “There’s one good thing; that damned Record won’t come cut this morning.” She stepped up to him with a copv of the paper for that morning and said, “Allow me to present you with a copy of this morning’s Record for yourself and your men.” He took it and shouted at her, “Who got out this damned ———.” Before he could finish, she said, “I did.” Emma Langdon had gone to work after the crew was arrested, got a pressman and another helper and had the paper out at its usual time. Another paper which was produced under great difficulties, was the Butte Bulletin, in the Montana mining area. Towards the end of the Jast war it was edited by Bill Dunne. He wrote his editorials with his Winchester across his knees and when he slept on a cot in the print shop, his wife staved awake with the rifle in her hands. But times have changed. Tory reaction has been curbed. We do not expect that Grace Greenwood or Margaret Black will have to get out the ‘P.A. or flourish an oid “blunderbuss.” but they have other ob- stacles to overcome than “‘deputies” and state militia. Obstacles like circulation and maintenance to deal with. ‘These are handicaps that are liable to put the P.A. among the thines of the past, just as surely as “deputy” hirelings of reactionary mining corporations. I write this because I want help to raise our quota for this column: 60 subs. and $100 cash. How about you helping? If I was a superman, which some people seem to think, I would not need to appeal for any assistance on this task, but I am not. Besides this is your column as well as mine, although I have the tough end of it. The honor that will come from success will be yours more than mine. So, get busy. Ill send you sub. books and dona- tion cards. You must do the rest. Don’t let anybody fool you on April ist, but get a sub. and you won’t be fooling anybody.