Page 2 — May 19, 1945 — | bei ea Home From Battle Front terms of 30,000 dead young Can- adians. “We must think in terms of 100,000 wounded Canadians; must think im terms of a war production which relative to the number of people is un- equalled in the world. The war has provided the key to the promise of an era of prosper- ity and security based on unity of the nation and cooperation of the forces within the na- He stated that the decocaans 5 and will of the people of world hastened the- “opening “the second front. Heowill spend a short ti by the financial tory interests and a return to those years of helpless poverty. destitution and degradation which we have come te know as the ‘Hungry Phir ties’.” “visiting his wife : Delany paid a glowing ae te | baby. girl, before returni to the members of the. vario | Waneouver +0 continue his armies of the United eve “pe 3 : Eliason Denounces CC Policy At LPP Rally At an election rally’ eld: jn conjunction with the q- paign of Harvey Murphy, Labor Progressive Candidate — ‘Kootenay East, Oscar Eliason, prominent CCF member , tion.” What do Canadians want?” Delany stated further; ~The Z Canadian people, soldiers and civilians want jobs, homes, civil liberties, full freedom for their labor organizations, the right for their children. to have educa- tion. You and I as Canadians must, as realists, ask ourselves whether we can achieve this to- day In terms of the promise of Pledging that they, would not strike, workers at R. H. Macy &% Co. in took their fight ditions: directly. to Store Employees New York, world’s largest department store, for higher wages and improved working con- the customers for support—and won. They are members of Local 1-S, United Retail, Wholesale © €(C1IO). Above, a union official and a few Dept. of the Macy girls pose with the leaflets they distributed to the public LPP Shows Royal City Strength In Byelection Growing sentiment for the policies of the Labor-Pro- gressive Party was displayed in the results of the New West- minster by-election on May 10. fifty percent of those eligible ex- ercised their franchise, Jack Greenall, contesting the provin- cial seat for the first time, regis- tered 992 votes. This represents approximately double the vote registered by the Gommunist candidate in 1937. In contrast, the CCF candi- date, Robert Gormack, dropped over 700 votes from the 2386 registered by the CCF eandidate Stanley Blake in the 1941 elec- tion, to 1669 in the by-election. The drop in the CCF vote is generally attributed to the iso- lationist, anti-Soviet policies dis- played by their leaders in the past months. DISFRANCHISED -Just over a week before the - election, LPP tanvassers discoy- ered that over ninety-five per- ~ cent of the people canvassed were not on the voters list. Con- siderable confusion was caused by the fact that enumeration for the federal election was being conducted at the same time, some people getting the impression that they were registering for the provincial contest as well. The most noteworthy result of the election, as noted in the Vic- toria Colonist, is the substantial PITT MEADOWS Patricia Mostrenko, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. Mostrenko, tas been chosen the Meadows May Queen. She will be crowned Sea SS See ee eee eee ees Despite a small vote, only LPP vote in the face of the above difficulties, auguring well for the federal campaign. where the lessons learned in this fight will serve to forearm the campaign workers. Although last-minute efforts. following protest by the LPP to the provincial government on the inadequacy of the apparatus established by the registrar of voters, mostly centered in the mills where the labor vote pre- dominates, were disfranchised. the next five years, I say we ean.” “T say we can because I am a member of the LPP. because I believe that the platform of this party can bring prosperity to Canada, happiness to the-people, and a maximum contribution to the relief of distressed and de- graded Europe. “JT believe that we must have in Ottawa during the next five years a strong, vocal and cour- ageous labor element, and with labor representatives there we can form a democratic coali- tion. This is the only realistic answer to the flux and flow of the present Canadian political scene.” CCF FALLACY “The CCF will be satisfied if they can form the opposition for the next five: years. Perhaps some think that is a good thing. But if the CCF is the opposition, who will be the government im power? Answer that question and the whole fallacy and falsity of the CCF program becomes ap- parent, beeause we shall either have a tory government, or a ecvernment of tories and right- wing liberals.” “The choice for Canadians is clear,” concluded Delany, “it is between prosperity, the devolop- ment of Canada, a future of stable government and economy; several times provincial candidate for the CCF, publ broke with the CCF and pledged support, to the campaign of the LPP candidate. Speaking on behalf of Harvey Murphy, Eliason charged that the present policies of the feder- al and provincial CCF leadership would lead to the destruction of the aims of labor, and that the expulsion of Herridge from the party for accepting nomination of members of the party in that area “cinched” his personal de- cision. Murphy spoke on the issues of East Kootenay, and urged that all labor and progressive people carry into” the peace the unity that had brought about defeat of fascism. Harold Pritchett, LPP candi- date for Vancouver East, speak- ing on behalf of Murphy, out- lined the LPP mational program and urged the electorate to fight to achieve labor partmershy | government. chaired Otto Anderson meeting. Both candidates are condut — a tour of the area which & included Kimberley, Fernie, — Michel. : Committee rooms of the vey Murphy Election Comm have been opened in Grank | Fernie and Michel. WEBSTERS CORNERS Websters Corners LPP i cGperation with the Finnisi | ganization held a Successful | tory dance in the F.O. H: | Saturday evening. The pr will go towards the “Co quota for election expense and 55 to 58. or economic anarchy. domination Campaign Manager's Brother Returns Home FO. Harold Zlotnik, DFG, a brother of Sid Zlotnik, and veter- an of 38 operations over Ger- many with RAF Bomber Com- mand. has recently returned from overseas. Zlotnik, who was a member of the LYF, received his Distin- euished Flying Cross for “having completed numerous operations against the enemy in the course of which he invariably displayed the utmost courage and devotion te duty.’ “By the time that we got into everation, the Luftwaffe had al- most ceased to exist as a day- time threat to our bomber forces. In night flights, however, we en- countered moderate opposition.” “T can testiff,” said Zlotnik, “that the oil plants and produc- tive potential of Germany were completely pasted by our flying fopeec and bombin®= undoubtedly collapse of the Wehrmacht.” “Qur bombing flights carried us to within 70 miles of where the Red Army was in operation. although in action we didn’t ac- tually see any of the Red Army forces. The Russian air forces were concentrating mainly on tactical bombing.” “T don’t feel,” Zlotnik contin- ued, “that the returning service- men are going to relax their ef- forts now that the war is over. They want homes and jobs, and security. And although men overseas suffer from lack of in- formation about the political parties, we are determined that there shall be more ‘tolerance, vision and planning, in our na- tional life. The lessons of the war, of fighting with men of all races and nationalities, have im- dicated that co-operation is the 74 to 76 101 to 105 and and 131 to 138. DExter 1922. Legion Hall, inel. Gilbert Swain, MA. 9558. Court Of Revisior Courts of Revisionn for Vancouver Hast Constituency be held on May 28, 29 and 30, at the following places: 2477 Bast Hastings for Polling Divisions 1 to 26, 30 and 2504 Kitchener St. for Poling Divisions 27 to 29, 31, 33 to | 2720 Bast 2nd Ave. for Poling Divisions 52 to 54 59 te | 4732 Bruce St- for Poling Division 90 to 100: 106. 113 to eM 6525 Victoria Drive for Poling Divisions 68 to 73, 77 t& For further information or for assitance in checking wi you are on the preliminary voters’ list. phone HAstings 5! - Courts of Revision for Burrard Constituency will be hi May 28, 29 and 30 at the following places: 1652 E. 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