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Victory P ledge

TS historic moment for which the democratic

peoples of the world have worked and fought

and died, has arrived at last. The Canadian people
greet this day with joy and pride in the splendid part
our armed forces have played in bringing victory—
tempered by Grief for those who have given their life
on the world’s battlefronts.

We must see to it that they shall not have died
in vain.

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Unitedly we have won the first round of the
battle for decency and progress. German fascism
is no more. The second round of the battle has now
to be won.

We have to deal with Hitler’s partner in crime
—Hirohito and Japanese militarism. | am confi-
dent that the labor movement which stood firm on
the production line in order to defeat Hitlerism, will
stand equally united behind the nation’s effort so
that Japanese militarism can also be defeated and
destroyed.

The same co-operation of the United Nations
which achieved victory-over fascism must be con-
tinued in the postwar, to win a durable and lasting
peace. The same degree of national unity which
made it possible for Canada to play so important a
role in the worldwide battle over fascism, must now
be exerted to ensure jobs and Prosperity for the
Canadian people.

This day of victory is a time for every man and
woman in the labor movement to make a solemn
pledge to their comrades in the fighting lines, to
their fellow workers on the production line and all
Canadians—a pledge to strengthen the unity of all
democratic forces in our nation, to start building

now a Canada that will provide, in a world at peace,

full security and happiness for every Canadian
family.

TIM BUCK,
National Leader,

Labor-Progessive Party.

Hitler’s Boast

age rather than fear, and give lie to Der Fuhrer’s claims.

Hitler’s gloomy boasts are echoed in spirit by CCF pronounce-
ments that the working people of Canada may look forward with

dread to a peace of privation and poverty where plenty has prevailed
in time of war.

The surest means by which this can be accomplished is for labor,
representing the advanced section of the people, to achieve represent-
ation in the next government. :

In the LPP program is embodied those principles which will
achieve a recognition of labor as a powerful voice in the planning of
our nation’s welfare. The LPP slogan, “Labour Partnership in Gov-
ernment” means that Canada can be assured a future based on planned
economy, planning in which labour will participate as an equal part-
ner, and our nation will take its place in the forefront of advancing
humanity. : :

In Passing By C. A. Saunders

HE uneonditioral surrender of Germany was

greeted with rejoicing and demonstrations by
all the peoples of the United Nations.

There were wild scenes of joy and happiness
in Vancouver: Vancouyer —
so far from the actual
battlefronts, where the hor.
ror and destruction of total
Wwartare had not been ma-
terially felt.

Imagine how the peoples
of the liberated countries of
Europe must have felt when
they heard the news that the
oppressor, the brutal author
of their suffering, had been
finally and totally defeated.

In the ruins of their de-
Vvastated cities; in the know-
ledge that much hard work
and suffering still confronts
them before the ravages of

Nazi destruction and brutality will be removed:
they still rejoice and demonstrate their happiness
<in their hard-won freedom, assert their determin-
ation to preserve and extend it.

UT of the blood, sweat and tears of this global
conflict a new epoch has opened to the peoples
of Europe and-the world. They are electing to

govern them people who proved themselves dur-
ing the dark and dreadful days of occupation.
Placing their trust in jthose who: led the resist-
ance movements and kept the fires of freedom
and progress burning when despair engulfed a
continent. They are turning their backs on the
exile fovernments, the old oppressors, and

Around Town

WE had been awakened by sirens and horns of
automobiles, and had listened to the news
that swept all scheduled radio shows off the air.
We heard the usual phrases, “still unconfirmed,”
“no official word as yet,” “usually reliable
sources,” and, somehow, we
Imew this was not a false
alarm. It was the news we’d
been waiting for since the
first Red Army man swap-
ped regimental crests with
the first G.I. Joe, and when
it came we listened, quietly,
considering the details.
Later, kids began to fill
the street in our neighbor-
hood, banging on pots and
pans, tearing around shout-
ing, not quite knowing why,
like kids do, and their par-
ents sat on the verandahs,
on the steps, talking quietly, and wondering:
whether or not they should go to work. In the
corner store the women stood at the counter
waiting efor the icecream man to come. Funny,
everybody for weeks had been saying that as
soon as the news came through they’d go out
and get drunk. Now everybody was waiting: to
buy icecream, so the kids could know this was
really a big day. That’s the Way you want kids
to feel about victory. No need for them to think
about blood, and death, or about the millions of
people who ean start building new lives after re-
lease from a living death. Give the kids icecream,

and let them be happy. Maybe, if we plan things

right, they can always be happy—now.

“Funny thing,” said a dark woman in a
shawl, “I don’t feel things is over. Not by a
long shot. I feel sorta like when I bake a mess
of pies. First thing I do, I clean up my kitchen,
get the pans all shining, get the ingredients out,
make sure things are ready. Then I get to work
on the baking. That’s where we are in this war.
Were getting things cleaned up, sO we ean
start in\on the real job of building the world so
people can live in it decent. We got the biggest
job of cleaning up done, but we’re not through
yet. Now comes the big job where we’re gonna
need all our brains and skill and patience.”’

On downtown streets servicemen joined in the
fun, but here and there a soldier or sailor stood

- apart, a serious look in his eyes, thinking per-

haps, of an enemy across the Pacific whose
might is still much of an unknown quantity,
wondering whether so many of us will sit back
now and take it easy, wondering whether he
will be fighting a forgotten war.

wreaking just vengeance on quislir
traitors. : :

They need ne telling of the value |
Workers groups are cooperating and —
they are joining unreservedly with all oO.
ments who proved their loyalty during
of occupation. The future regimes of By |
include representatives of labor, not on s_
but in most cases as a dominant factc,
many countries will know a freedom w)
never theirs before. -

5 = oe x Sai
There is no place in the new eon:

petty differences, for narrow partisan (dene
tion. This was swept away in the fire . |
buried in the concentration camps. The.
of Europe must unite to rebuild their o |

to reestablish their industries. This is th

that has been learned through terrible Sa
and at such heavy cost. qi

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82 while we rejoice here that the enc
been conquered, that the menace Of 34
has been defeated, are we prepared to Je
lessons that have been brought home so |
to them ? a

The victory is ours. It has been boug:
ly. Thousands of our sons lie on the batt
of Europe. For Canada has sent many
finest to fight the fascist menace. Thousan
are maimed and wounded. :

If we are to reap the fruits of victor:
are to make sure that the debteso dearly -
is paid in full, then we must learn the
Reaction. must be forced to the wall by thi
will of the democratic masses of the peo

By Cynthia Carter

After the last war we went a little m;
flasks, cromium furniture, ultra-modernis;
rered our state of mind. This time things
different, because this is a different kind
I am as sure of this as I am sure that th, |
who have won this war, the men and w!
uniform, the war workers, the realistic, f’}
looking statesmen, the women who- have

nations’ homes together, will want a beth
for their children than the world the —
known. Perhaps “I believe this because |
faith in my generation. We were born
or immediately after the last war, dimly }
ber the boom period, went hungry. after tk 1,
got our schooling with the depression, '
fascism grow and went out to defeat
we have been considering, thinking, pi
figuring out the future. Most of us ! 4
illusions. We know that signing a piece ¢ *
won't make the whole world one big |
family over night. We know a lot of pea :
don’t know there’s a war on. Listen |
from a fashion magazine: “This year the '
women of Paris outdo themselves. T
hats made from yards of cloth, spun gle }
pers studded with jewels, billowing ski _
appearing on the streets . . 2” or this,
recent New Yorker: “Groups of rich you |
on the Riviera, not far from the battle ;
Swarm through the streets wearing sl

trousers, the soles of their shoes an inc!
and over their heads they wave vari_colore
sols. They erowd into hotel bars and at —
‘we have nothing to do with the war, not |
all... Wives of blackmarket tycoons € #
Florida beaches by appearing in “chinchill i.
ing suits, carying parasols trimmed with

tips.” And then there was ithe comfortabl
ing businessman on the corner of Granvi H
Hastings who puffed his cigarette fu
and said, “Well I’m glad it’s over. Vve ¢ |
I intend to. Why, my last income tax... |

But people such as these don’t count §
overall scheme of things. The people—t &
people who matter—are not letting up |
fight. Our men in uniform will fight t
against Japan as relentiessly as they fou {
one in Europe. Our war workers will go @
ducing the tools of War, our statesmen Wi |
to the voice of the people, and fight te}
tain United Nation unity. And when
of total victory comes, the people wi
won the right to really celebrate that
Then they will get to work on the job w.
take, as my neighbor says “all our
skill and patience”—the job of buildin