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| Lieut. Austin E. Delany
,) tne crossing of the Rhine

: it Austin Delany Home
from Battle Front To
}-onduct Campaign

JL. vetctan of the Allied ai
and Jabor-Progressive candi-

te for the federal riding of Vancouver North, has returned
=@ Vancouver after a year’s active service with. the Allied

‘ces. The popular young can-
ate is well remembered by
“de unionists and progressives
= 0ughout the city for his sin-
'2 Struggles against fascism
| the progressive movement
/ing the past ten years.
vielany was wounded in action
© the Yorkshire Paratroop
‘talion in the crossing of the
)ne. While involved in heavy
» et fighting, an enemy soldier
(aed up with a sub-machine
-, and a bullet passed through
|, ny s shoulder, coming out in
middle of his back.
-lose contact with the.German
Jiers and fascism has giyen
“my a keen hatred of reac-
|, and he is determined that
, Ganadian people be made
}re of the threat that reaction
'titutes to our future develop-
t. :
_-Jsing the .lessons- of this
)B ” Delany told P.A, “We can
= lop a Canada unparalleled in
)) Promise for the people, and
»he same time we must deter-
to give every aid to the de-
pated nations of Europe.”
(Ne must work with all ele-
Fts to expand our economy to
“Maximum potential. This
Us full rehabilitation for
picemen, complete and uncon-
‘nal rights for organized la-
the fll development of edu-
Hal facilities to their highest
[and the guarantee of a
© d peace organization.”
thé tories, in their unserupu-
Search for power, have
~ °d many false issues before
eople Canada is faced with
relection which shall decide
id issues concerning not only
Canadian people, but the fu-
of the world. We must cry
‘ALSEH” to all who say this is
“another election. This next

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five years can see developments
in Canada unparalleled in her
entire history. We face a year in
which Canada as a nation can
fulfil the promise of complete
nationhood.”

“No one who is a sincere
socialist,” Delany continued.
“can say that we must or can
have socialism tomorrow. The
struggle for socialism has been
- going on in yarious forms since
the eighteen hundreds. It is up
to us to decide just what form
the struggle will take in the
coming years of decision.”

CANADA RECONFEDERATED

Canada has become reconfeder-
ated in five years of toil and war
and death. When we think of our
country we must think in terms
of 5% years of bloody and uncon-
ditional effort; we must think in

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See HOME from BATTLEFRONT

ORY-BLOC AXIS FORMED

The story,
Sefvatives are aligned with
the Bloc Populaire, pro-fascist
elements in Quebec, states in
part: “In making his nomin-

ation- announcement, Paul
Lafontaine said. ‘The Pro-
gressive Conservative Party will
support 60 candidates in the
Province of Quebec. - Twenty
seven will be straight party can-
didates CARRYING THE PAR-
TY NAME, and the rest will be
independent. In five counties we
wall not oppose certain candi-
dates who are running there.

For several weeks we have
received delegations from all -
counties and have discovered
that popular opinion is for the
election of Camillien Houde,
Cardin, Lacombe, Roy and
Dorion. The Conservative party
will respect ~ this popular
epinion and will not oppose
these gentlemen.”

This link up with the anti-war
forces in Quebec stands in sharp
contrast to the present cam-
paign carried on by General
Pearkes and other representa-
tives of the Progressive GConser-
vative Party in this area, re-
vealing the insincerity and dema-
gogie character of the propa-
ganda, calculated to play on the
patriotic sentiment of the elec-
torate- c

This open admission of the tie-
up between the tories and the
right-wing pro-fascist forces
comes as the campaign, which it.
is already becoming evident, will
be one of the most bitterly
fought in the history of Canada

which verifies the LPP contention

Double Dealing By Tories
Exposed In Alliance With
Pro-Fascist BlocPopulaire

Duplicity and insincerity of the
on the basis of “equality of service and sacri
port in the Montreal Gazette this week, which reveals the alliance of the
Progressive Conservatives
war, Gnti-conscription elements

present election campaign of the Tories,
Tice” is fully exposed in a re-

in the Province of Quebec with the worst anti-
in the country.
that the Progressive Con-

Two casualties of Iwo Jima look hopefully at meeting place
of San Francisco Conference. With their comrades they look
to the conference to achieve a world security organization.

Military Disaster Faces

swings into its final weeks:

It is becoming increasingly ob-
vious to labor and the progres-
Sive forces that the main task
facing the electorate on June 11
is to defeat the tories. This is
evident in the stepped up poli-
tical activity in the labor move-
ment, and the determined effort
of the trade union PACs to get

out the labor vote.

Japanese Fascist Invader

Fourteen years after her invasion of Manchuria, three
and a half years after her sneak attack on Pearl Harbor,
Japan is at last facing complete military disaster. The
Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere’ has taken some
severe jolts. The Japanese fascist-militarists, nurtured and
encouraged up until December 7, 1941, witha special kind
of appeasement labelled “‘business as usual in the Pacific, ’
now face the same kind of extinction as befell their German
2 Continued on Page 8 See JAPS FACE DISASTER

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