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1945

Tim Buck

teople who sneer at the World
Security Organization being
formed at San Francisco by com-
paring it with the League of Na-
tions. He pointed to the vastly
aifferent circumstances - under
which the present conference was
being held. “Im 1919, when the
League of Nations was formed,
most of the capitalist nations had

armies of intervention fighting.

against the newly formed social-
ist Soviet Union; in- fact the
League was formed against the
Soviet Union. To-day the Soviet
Union is taking oy leading and
prominent part in the formation
of the peace organization.”

THE FEDERAL ELECTIONS

Turnine to the coming Domin-
ion election, the LPP leader em-
phasized that as world policy can
only be the sum total of Nation-
al policies, so Canada can only
lave prosperity after the war
through National policies based
on the concept of world wide re-
construction through mutual aid.

_ Pointing out that the major con-

cern of the majority of the
people in the postwar period was
jobs, Buck went on to say that
the best plans for civil reestab-
lishment of demobilized men and
women will be of little value un-
less there are jobs.

MAINTAIN WARTIME PEAK
_ Buck pointed out that if we
utilize our wartime experience
intelligently it would be possible

TIM BUCK
National Leader LPP

to. maintain employment at the
peak of wartime. We would be
able to provide jobs and oppor-
tunities for every man and wo-
man released from the armed
forces, to guarantee adequate
markets at present prices for all
agricultural produce that our
farmers can produce and switch
nearly half of our labor machines
and materials from war to
peacetime goods.

Scoring the attitude of the
CCE as stated by its leaders
. that it would be impossible to
maintain full employment
without abolishing the profit
‘and free enterprise system. as
ridiculous, the LPP leader
pointed out that during the
war the government has or-
ganized the economy of our
country on the basis of the
labor power, the machinery
and the raw materials avail-
able, and that on this basis
everybody had been kept at
work. The CCF attitude was
one of accepting the inevita-
bility of postwar unemploy-
ment and of disarming and
preaching capitulation to the
workers.

FIRST DANGER
The first and most sinister
danger to the prospect of secur-

ing a gav7ernment willing and
2ble to accept the responsibility
of maintaining full employment
and raising the living standards
of our people is obyiously the
Tories, said Bucls.

“The interests represented by

the Tories all over the country
are Striving. to secure a _com-
manding position in the next
government iso that they can
prevent the introduction of poli-
cies based upon the idea of co-

eperation and mutual aid abroad |

with full employment and social
reform: at. home.” He continued:
“Ty world policy they still favor
the idea of an empire bloc, and a
struggle to maintain privileges
in the colonial countries. Their

policy could only lead to fierce

competition and rivalry in the
field of foreign trade, delay and
conflict in postwar reconstruc-
tion and all the friction and in-
ternational contradictions that
make for war. Instead of pros-
perity through cooperation they
would bring back bread lines
through fighting for privilege.
The Tories must not be allowed
te come baek into power in Can-
ada.

Pointing out that all Tories
are not found in the ranks of the
Progressive Conservative party,
Tim Buck drew attention to the
Tory ideas put forward -by par-
ties purporting to represent sec-
tional] or special local interests
as in the case of Quebec, where
the ideas put forward by Duples-
sis, Dorion, ete. were essentially
Tory in content though clothed
in the most rabid national dema-
Logy-

There is a peculiar develop-
ment in Alberta of a similar kind
stated Buck where the speeches
of Solon Low led to the conclus-
ion that the Scecial Credit label is
no more than a disguise for the
rabid Tory reaction and opposi-
tion to social reform that he
preaches.

SECOND GREAT DANGER

“The second great danger,”

he stated, “is the attitude of the
CCF. The CCF is pursuing a
tactic which can only help the
Tories get into power. The North
Grey by-election is a classical
example in which the CCE were
directly responsible for the Tor-
les getting into power.”
_ Quoting from statements by
M. J. Coldwell and other na-
tional leaders of the CCF, Buck
shewed that official CCF pol-
icy is to welcome a period of
unemployment and suffering
for the people under a Tory
dominated cealition of reaction
as “the CCE would be bound
to get a majority after an-
other five years.’ Buck con-
demned this attitude as sacri-
ficing the true interests of
labor and the real interests of
the nation im a gambler’s
hope of securing party advan-
tage.

ATTITUDE TO LIBERALS ©

Drawing attention to misrep-
resentation by people who object-
ed to the proposal of the LPP
that labor should be willing to
join a coalition with the Liberals,
he stated, “They protest they
don’t trust the Liberals. Those
people overlook the following
facts. A new House of Commons
will be elected on June 11. If the
number of Labor members who
are ready to cooperate with the
hiberals is large enough to form
a coalition government for jobs,
prosperity and progressive re-
form, we shall have a better gov-

‘ernment than the last one.

Labor play ed am important part in supplying oolsethar: ‘meant victory.

from the production front in

ri

the vital steel industry. -

e

Here is a se

If
thére are not enough such Labor

|members the probability is that

we shall get a Tory-Liberal co-
alition.

“J differ sharply with Mac-
Kenzie King on many ques-
tions. If I did not I would not
be fighting to win a place for
Labor in the next government.
I would be urging you to re-
turn a straight Liberal gov-
ernment. I do not believe that
a straight Liberal government,
such as the present King goy-
ernment, would maintain full
employment after the war.”

“But which do you prefer —
that Labor should step aside,
allow the Tories. to dominate the
next government or that Labor
should seize this opportunity to

cooperate with all forward look |
ing members in the next House |

of Commons in leadmg Canada
through the postwar years?”

REALISTIC APPROACH

Appealing for support for the |
LPP candidates, Tim Buck point-
ed out that his party is the only
party which fights for this real-
istic approach to our postwar

|; problems and our country’s fu-

ture. “Our Candidates are fight-

ing for a Dominion government | izer,

support of postwar policies pased
upon the great aims jointly.
adopted by the late President
Roosevelt Churchill and Stalin,
as policies upon which all demo-
cratic peoples can cooperate to
ensure lasting peace,
level of prosperity and demo-
cratic progress,’ he concluded:
The National Leader of the

Labor-Progressive Party spoke
at New Westminster in support
| of the candidature of Jack Green-
} all, LPP nominee in the provin-
cial byelection. Speaking on the
same platform were Fergus Mc-

a rising

Kean, Provincial leader, the
candidate, and , Harold Griffin,
| federal candidate in the New

| Westminster riding.

Wednesday evening Tim Buck
addressed two meetings in Yan-
couyer. At Templeton Junior
| High School the meeting was
| chaired by Harvey Murphy, LPP
| federal candidate in Hast Koot-
|enay, and was also addressed by
Harold Pritchett, LPP nominee
|for the Hastings East riding. At
| the Vancouver Hotel a capacity
|meeting, chaired by Minerva
| Cooper, LPP candidate for Bur-
|rard and Provincial Organ-
heard the candidate for

which will express the unity of | Vancouver, Centre, leading Sea-

progressive Canadians; of difter-
ent parties, of different faiths,
and different points of view, in

man James Thompson, as well as
|the address by the National
| Leader. a

General Hisenhower today:
final Victory over Hitlerism.
leying peoples boundless pride

from fiendish Nazi tyranny...

The following cable was

ship has helped free the world
sive Party pledges unremitting

LPP Cables Allied Leaders

The followimg cable was sent to Marshal) Joseph Stalin and

Warmest greetings and heartfelt congratulations to you
and to the heroic armies you command on this glorious day of
Canadians share with all freedom

cent leadership which has made possible liberation of mankind ,
We pledge amceasing effort to up-
hold United Nations comradeship-in-arms for lasting Peace and
reconstruction of a better, happier world. -
é Labor-Progressive Party.
: TIM BUCK, *
National Leader,

Naughton and. Lt. General Crerar:
Heartfelt greetings and congratulations on Victory in Europe
to the heroic Canadian Army which under your brilliant leader-

Japan and safeguard unity at home to build a Prosperous Canada
in a-world at Peace worthy of the effort and sacrifice of our
glorious armed forces overseas. E

TIM BUCK,

National Leader,

Labor-Proegressive Party.

May 7th, 1945

and gratitude for your magnifi-

sent to General A. G. L: Me-

of Nazism STOP Labor-Progres-
effort to back final effort against

levis Cites
Htalian Unit:

“Ttaly. hhas shown the =
striking example of unity”
progress,” Terry levis, hie |
ant in the Armoured Corps %
active prior to the war in
gressive circles, told P-A. “T
Catholics, Socialists, Commu
and all other forces have v7
te form a stable governmen
Lieut. Levis returned to
couver this week after two |
crerseas. Prior to entering
services, he was Montreal FE |
of New Advance youth i
zine, Chairman of the Af
Young Communist Learn,
leading figure in the 3
Council movement in Alberi
many years, and was a ca }
ent fighter for progressivé
ciples in the youth move
Levis fought with the B.C. |
goons in the Italian cam)
and fought through the E
of the lower mainland an
assault of the Gothic Line

“T never fully realize
negative nature of fascism:
I saw the Germans face toa >}
It impressed on me the ne i
people in this country to, |
to preserve our democratic:
doms. The German soldice:
people have become com; }
warped by years of fasci
doctrination.”

-“Time and again we ca |
German soldiers in our -di ~
Italy, who believed that t
nadians were fleeing fron |
man forces landed behi
lines.”’ : :

With regard to the f£
election,. Lieut. Levis said,
really impressed by the §
ofthe LPP... It has. come ©
the only party that truly
sents the needs of the. peoj
the servicemen. . Unfortu
sufficient news of the par
the elections is not sent
men overseas. As much m

as -possible about the
should be sent to
overseas by first class

The soldiers are badly in
about the fairly prog
stand of some Liberals, a
initely do not anderstai
dangerous and adventuroi
cies of the CCF. More i
tion: is badly needed abi
LPP overseas, and as ¢

possible.”