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Women’s Future
To The Hditor:

Now that the war is over in
Europe, and the Soldiers will
return from overseas, the wo-
men of this country are econ-
fronted with a serious decision.
We must decide whether we
will go back into our homes as
housewives, or jf Wwe will re-

tain the place that we have-

Won through our participation
in this nation’s war effort.

Our returning husbands will
find us much different to the
women he left behind. The war
and all of the attendant
changes in our Way of living
has made us very different to
what women were before this
War. Women have worked as
welders, rivetters. street .car
conductors, and have filed in
everywhere that men could be
released for heavier work and
the armed services. In doing
this we have opened new door-
ways to womanhood.

Mrs. Dorise Neilsen, who is a
shining example of a woman
and a national figure, in her
booklet “New Worlds For Wo-
men,” has treated with this
subject with admirable vision
and foresight. In her book she
lays down patterns for women
that offer a lead as to the broad
future that war-time necessity
has opened for women.

The old adage that the wo-
man’s place is in the home has

gone into the waste basket
along with many other preju-
dices. Women now must fight

for recognition as an import-
ant part of our national life.
We must fight for measures
that will release women from
the bondage of housework; for
day nurseries; for communal
kitchens, for a better recogni-
tion in the affairs of community
and nation.

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life.
JENNY SINCLAIR.

Criticizes CCF
To The Bditor:

I am one of those people who
chooses to call himself a pol-
itical non-partisan, and as part
of my set objective to see all
sides of any question, I am a
regular reader of both your
Paper and the CCF News. I
might say that I was one of
those people who chose to call
himself politically non-partisan,
because during the course of
the last six months I have no-
ticed a profound difference be-
tween the views expressed in
P-A and those expressed in the
so-called socialist CCF News.

The fate of the working class
is inseparably bound up with
the fate of the rest of man-
kind, and yet to be guided by
the editorial policy of the GCF
paper, one would believe that
the whole stream of human his-
tory has no importance to the
Canadian people. In the course
of the last six months I have
not tead one report of any sig-
nificant happening in ‘world
affairs in the CCF paper; 1
have not read anything but
carping criticism of all of the
‘world’s attempts to solve the
important questions that con-
front mankind. Odiferous state-
ments and sly destructive criti-
cism, coupled with a fanatical
hatred of all progressive forces

-not firmly esconced in the CGF

Ivory Tower seem to be the
only content of their various
departments. In short, the CCF,
if their paper is any eriterion,
are pursuing a policy that
would have us believe that the
world is mad, and the only rea-
son left in the world is that
embodied in the adventurist iso-
lationist policies advocated in
their rag.

Lately the .CCF seem em-
barked on a campaign of slan-
derous red-baiting designed to
create the same type of bogey
in the minds of the Canadian
workers as Hitler created in
the minds of the German work-

‘ers. Their yellow journalism, at-

tacking recognized leaders of
the trade union movement, slur-
ring other labor forces, solemn-
ly predicting chaos and calam-
ity out of which, like the Phoe-
nix, the CCF will rise trium-
phant, serve only to split the
forces of labor and might well
result in precipitating the
people of Canada into a morass
of poverty and destitution from
which it might never arise.

As one who feels he views
the present situation with un-
prejudiced eyes, may I com-
mend the P-A and Labor Pro-
gressive Party which it repre-
sents, on the marvellous job
that they both are doing to put
the feet of the Canadian people
on the path to prosperity and
security. I well’ remember the
days of hunger and the pogey,
when my family were on relief
and my two sons who are at
present overseas were held in
Bennett's slave camps.

J. McGREGOR.

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Victory

FT WOULD not be fitting to send this column to press wi

ing the feelings of the writer at the victorious ending of the agon
the European people have suffered during the last Six years. ee

Without the unity of purpose to destroy fascism, the victory would
__ Forgetting the differences which kept them
apart, the fundamental differences, economic and political, the United

and all others, thought only of the in-
terest they held in common enemy. 2 sae ef

thout express-

The military victory iS'a mile post in Social progress, but the
sacrifices, the sufferinss, “the blood, the Sweat, the tears,” will
have been endured in vain if a full measure of that unity is not

maintained, for fascism Is not yet destroyed. The seeds must be
destroyed as well as the fruit.

Giving the ie to Themselves

(Ee Canadian Forum is an unofficial organ of the CCF...
theoretical analysis
the inner circle of the

i J Insofar as
is concerned, its pronouncements are those of
CCF, strategists and tacticians.

In the, May issue, the latest, dealing with the coming. Donrinion
elections in Canada, the editorial columns point to an entirely differ
understanding of the possible outcome of this election than that being
voiced by the common or cabbage patch variety of CCF spokesmen. In
fact. they confirm our viewpoint. that the claims of the small fry
tacticians of that party. that the CCF can elect a “socialist” government
at the next election, is so much balderdash.

Here are some excerpts from one of the Forum’s editorials of
the May issue. “All the Signs. except the professionally optimistic

_ fhus, from their own brain-trusters, comes the answer to the futile
claims, the arrogant promises, the CGF are using to confuse the Cana_

dian people in what is undoubtedly the most crucial election since Con_
federation. 2

people to overcome the impassable barriers they see in the excerpts
quoted above. ;

In spite of the recognized facts admitted in the editorial, the CCF
program-makers still promise “socialism,” to be introduced if a CGF
overnment is elected in June, as the only means of dealing: successfully
with the gravest questions that any Canadian Government has ever had
to face, questions of life and death, not for individuals but for our
country as a  ywhole, 0)

In spite of the political truths recognized by their own theoretical
mouthpiece the CCE attempts to carry on by expelling every one of
its members who makes any overtures toward any other organization
which might possibly result in the return of a progressive government
by which the rights of labor would be at least partially ensured. Her-
ridge in the West Kootenays is the latest victim of this dog-in-the-man-
ger policy of “no compromise, no political trading.”

What they are doing actually is to sell out to Tory reaction. By
refusing to enter into agreements on common objectives, they keep to:
the front the essential differences between themselves and all other
labor and progressive forces.
forces split up into small sections. The Roman imperialists used to say
“Divide and rule.” Today the CCF divides that Toryism may rule. But
Toryism is not divided; the Tories know the value of unity.

Deathbed Repentances

WHEN a prominent atheist dies, one who is more or less. celebrated for

his disbelief, stories are soon in cireulation telling how he “recanted”
on his deathbed. It has been one of the stock arguments of the clergy
in refuting atheism that the atheist always comes back to the fold on
his deathbed.

R. G. Ingersoll, who was nhot_an atheist but an agnostic is one
good example of this in America. Ingersoll died peacably from a heart
attack, sitting in a chair in his home. A few minutes before he ws
found dead, his wife had spoken to him. No one else Was near him
between that and the time she found him dead.

Nonetheless, before he had been dead many days, the story was
widely circulated that he had recanted of his anti-religious opinions on
his deathbed. I¢ still circulates and is believed by people who know no
better. Almost every other well-known atheist has had the same story
told about him.

A recantation from Mussolini would not be much of a build up for
the church but if he had been a man of the same type as Ingersoll, the
story would have been entirely different,