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Alta., -855 p.m. EDT — some = inutes after Mr. Cold- ‘ted to speak — and “smifssion facilities were ‘ored until after the _ conclusion of his ad- j -ograms following his > also affected. ; faday, May 14, the CBC -heir Western network | an hour im order to -te Mr. Coldwell for ‘cuption to his original Due to a switching -at Winnipes. a wrongs (Mr Drew), simul- | in progress, was de- | the prairies for a few @® There was absolutely }atentional or premedi- sither of these unfor- F cidents. 3 -® first instance, the in- Ff, was beyond the con- *® ortal men; and in the »stance it was — in sect—an accident such from time to time, nm © complex and technical syice. But this cannot © or Ma. Lewis irrespon- SP nuations which would ‘aspertions upon the ' communication work- = nada ... particularly “So are directly and Fneerned with program @ ion His words were | to work mischief. aifty to the articulate um Mz. Lewis’ “persecu- ae ; : + plex.” no public ser- @ial in the land would ‘connive at bringing ® situation whereof Mr me S SO publicly and ve- @ complained. Further. lized AFI group of i= would become a party S fark and arbitrary pro- i SMP wrecks are not “en- # on the basis of wheth- }>t CCE “leaders” are usported; nor are the 3p works caused to fail “ | to whether or not oety CCH, Liberal, LPP (ee rvative voices. od filly. 1 knbw some of #@Se2S concerned — two si oCE’ers among them— #y think of their recent 7% IS presently unprint- ia {@LBERT DETTMAN. - aieh, 1945. ,ietario Street, ger, B.C. Sa Reconstruction Editor, PA. Sips The victory over Germany and Italy is a major defeat to world reaction won by the blood, sweat and tears of the people and we must see to it that the fruits of this victory are not lost through the elec- tion of reactionary ments. There is serious danger of this, however. unless the masses realize the immediate issue to be settled is not that of *socialism vs, capitalism, for no one can deny that the vast majority of Canadians oppose socialism at this time. Realists know the problem to be decided now is that of progress or re- action for unless this battle is won first, reaction can become So powerful as to ultimately smash trade unions and all organizations essential to the ~ people. Therefore. despite this, it is the time to make sure that the Tories should not be the major- ity party in the next govern- ment. There are CCF represent- atives who divert attention from the real enemy and persist in pretending it is possible to leap over all stages right into Utopia. Fortunately among the pro- gressive element in the CCF we see men like Herridge who refuse to endorse the “go it alone” policy of the central committee. They know it has ever been the historic role of the Tory party to unite with the vested interest generally termed economs¢e royalists. Therefore building steaction being the basic policy of Toryism, no wonder the youth of our land starved during the hungry thirties. So just who can visualize Progyres- Sive Conservatives aiding in the building of an expanding social order? To exert powerful influ- ence to prevent a third world War and to avoid chaos it is NO CONSCRIPTION ANYTIME } ma govern- _ essential that Canada’s affairs be administered by a Liberal- Labor coalition government. Then the influence of our trade union movement allied with the progressive forees of capitalism could lay the foundations for a secure life for the Canadian people. JACK BOYD. War and Peace White Rocls, May 14, 1945. B.C. Sir: “Qn reading through Ol Bill’s eolumn, I see that the Canadian Forum has completely let the Cat out of the baz. Of ‘course it was patent to everyone that the real immedi- ate objective of the CCF was to elect a reactionary right wing coalition government in Ottawa so that they can be the official Opposition. I am aware that the honest rank and file does not see it this way, but give him time and he will. The CCF is in a rather des- perate political situation inas- much as they declared that we eouldn’t win the war without socialism and we can’t win the peace without it. Well, we have won the war, or the major part of it, and we can win the peace if all pro- gressive people pull together. The events of the war have proven that a socialist nation ean work hand-in-hand with capitalist nations for a common purpose and there is every in- dication, as shown by the in- ternational conferences ending with San Francisco, that the process can go on. These same conferences have been condemned by the CCF because they bid fair to bring the prophecies of the latter to nought. “So what can the poor things do?” A. CHEVERTON THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD HAVE RAD CONSCRIPTION! May 26, .1945 — Page 5 TORU auCUUSAUNUENEAES Cua yaoayeeuesusaraerecvgryss22eos0¢0rur 5300200080709 101519 IC1PCTPREDSEEDILAIEDIESEREVERD Shor t Jabs by Ol ait OAUSSAXEREQEALSOSOSEENOTCUESEAUSREAREOESECG ESS A222 0 STLETLI SATS ATERREEINATIOASISSSURALEDSRIVERDBREDESESISIINLNNGS Tactical Changes Fe OM an Editorial, CCF News, February 1, 1945: “Communist party members have become so expert at tactical changes during the past 25 years, that they can now take diametrically opposed positions without realizing they are opposed.” One of the favorite sports of CCF writers and speakers, when dealing with the Labor-Progressive Party, is to make wisecracks about “changes in the party line.” They are unable to advance arguments against the proposals of the LPP, which are for the benefit of the Canadian people and of the workers particularly, so they, like clowns in a cireus, attempt to hide their confusion by their own laughter—‘the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind. But, “it isn’t funny. McGhee.” It is pathetic in the light of what that attitude means to the Canadian people today. The Tories and those they represent are the only ones to gain from such a policy at this time in the history of our country. One would think from the CCF’ers that only the Gommunists and the LPP) ever changed their “line.” The Communists have changed ~ their line, and rightly so, for it was always in a progressive direction. The same may be said of the victorious generals in the war against fascism in the last five years. When satisfied that the tactical line they were pursuing was not going to get the results they desired, they: made! tactical changes which-were crowned with success. Im polities, it becomes necessary at times to pursue the same meth- ods, for “polities is war carried on by other means” to reverse the dictum of the greatest military genius of the last century, Clausewitz. But there are others besides the Gommunists and the LPP, who change their line. There are changes which are made for opportunist reasons, to catch votes and so forth, reasons which cannot, by any stretch of the imagination be ascribed to the Communists, no matter by what name they are known. From the pages of the CCE News, from which the quotation at the head of this column was taken, we take another one, Whether a progressive change is indicated in Angus McInnis? “Tine”? or not, I leave the veader to decide. \ In “Our Ottawa Letter,” by Alexander MacDonald, parliament- ary correspondent of the CCF in the CCF News, July 27, 1944, is the following item: “In 1936 Ancus MacInnis, CCE member for Vancouver Bast, moved in the Federal House that orientals be prohibited from entering Canada.” That is not the line of the CCF on the Japanese question, being placed before the electors of Ganada today. Apart from the suggestion of white chauvinism indicated by the spelling of “Orientals” with a small “o,” it is a far ery from their program at this time. ; The admission in the first quotation, that’ the Communists Party—LPP, has ‘been in existence for 27 years is also a refuta- tion of the often heard claim, sedulously fostered by the CCF lead- ership, that the LPP was only organized to split the CCF yote. A party which has been carrying on for 27 years could not possibly have been. launched te split the vote of one which is only 13 years old. 3 Slanderers, like liars, should have long memories! A Fanatical Sect Te Socialist Labor Party is a fanaitical sect, the vestigal remains of what was once designed to become a party. In spite of, or because of the dogmatism of Dan De leon, its Moses, it grew downward from. almost nothing to less than that. Today it claims to be a revolutionary party, even more revolution- ary than Harold Winch, but the revolution it envisages is a nice, quiet, gentle, hush-hush affair in which not so much noise will be made as will waken Cynthia Carter’s baby. The SLP’ers have a blue print of that revolution in their mind’s eve (or should we Say pig’s eye), which shows them that the first shocks of the revolution will be felt in the most highly developed country, the United States. Much water has flowed under bridges since 1917, and over bridges too—but the SLP would not know about that. The SLP has no legitimate place in the scheme of things ion this, or any other continent, but by the bandying of a few De Leonist shib- boleths it manages to sustain a vegetative existence in the interstices of American and Canadian social, political and economic life. There it remains hidden from ribald and vulgar spectators to emerge only into the full flood tide of events at election time. Every four years, from the borderland between. the living and the dead, it pro- ducs a icandidate for the presidency of the United States and in elections of lesser order, it manages, to crawl out of the interstices into the limelight, for a few glorious“hours of life. 2 i In these elections it never scores very heavily. In the last Federal elections, its candidate in one of the Ontario ridings achieved a success unique in Canadian history, he polled the huge total of one vote. Even the ten sponsors necessary to second his nomination papers failed the SLP at the ballot box. Tt is not surprising then to learn that the SLP has dug up two candidates in Vancouver, as a conjurer produces rabbits from a hat. Nor is it surprising either to read in the press that a nit wit spokes- man for one of these candidates, speaking to an audience that occupied. all 13 chairs in the party headquarters, spitting venom and envy; through his teeth, make the following jaundiced and scurrilous state- ment about the greatest statesman of this generation, “I think Stalin is as big a rogue as ever cropped up in any, political field in the world today.” So did Hitler!