ee. wg oF Said: aS =e t PACIFIC ADVOCATE PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS Vol. 1, No. 31 SS 5 Cents VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 1945 ’ Ontario Will ‘Test Labor | Strength TORONTO, Ont. —.On- tatio’s = provincial elections, scheduled for next Monday, June 4, will sée both a pre- -view of the national elections and a test of organized labor’s policy of \defeating the Tories and putting labor into part- ership im government. _24 jz alrhost a cliche to speak yee tion as “decisive.” Yet In the jo election campaign, safety, ¢ffiiq up this weekend, and ponunness that. : poe commer 2 are sharply drawn looking citizei, : Ae : we desire to 7.0n® JoP Is the de- es Drew government, _repiace the py seaeae « short life of less “equipment at | a rs chalked up per- ; sible moment, 4— is Sites should be reactionary record ‘workers and o FOVINCE's history. 4 haw -as-you-leayan® is the job of Wh z number of labor The support o d did fates came dy“ sete i wae is now taking = a : apie an pic Uti UCR Incouver, spect for success on iT decid? ts is good. Many obser- lw P@elieve the Tories under will finish up with less than they held in the last inecial parliament. The Lib- Js are expected to add greatly ‘o-the 16 seats they held, and the Labor-Progressives are expected te gain some seats, while the CCF which had 32 members at the a }. , time the House was dissolved, 7 having lost two members who re- signed protesting the party’s iso- lationist line, are expected to lose seats as a result of their non- cooperative policy. But the principal feature of the new legislative asembly is ex- pected to be the presence of a number of trade unionists who ran on a straight Labor or In- dependent Labor ticket. Among these are the candidates nominated and backed by the powerful United Automobile Workers of America, Mayor Ar- thur J. Reaume of Windsor, Alex Parent. and George Burt, Cana- Continued on Page 8 See ONTARIO. ELECTIONS WE ASKED FOR $50,000.00 The Tories are spending $25,000 alone on one item— postage for the 2,500,000 copies of a poison-pen pamph- let they intend to put into every house in Canada. The pamphlet will cost at least another $175,000. This anti-Socialist, anti-labor, anti-Semitic pamphlet makes Socialism the issue in this election with the express purpose of confusing the electors. In this it agrees with the CCF leaders whose program is “Socialism Now,’ the same leaders who, in their spleen call upon the Canadian government “‘to make representations to the Soviet gov- ernment to have the Communist or Labor-Progressive Party banned in Canada.” (H. A. Voaden, CCF candidate in Toronto Trinity, broadcasting over CKEY, ‘Toronto, May 19.) The selfish interests who supply the Tories with the money to spread their confusion will not help us nor can we look for any goodwill from the people who would have us banned in our own country. Only the people who are satisfied that ours is the party that fights for peace, for jobs, for security .as the immediate issues, will help provide the funds necessary to defeat Toryism. We need more:and more and more and more MONEY! We Must Have More Broadcasts — More Literature, and the Time Is Short Have You Done Your Share? Are You Doing Your Share? TORYISM MUST BE DEFEATED! LABOR MUST BE SECURE IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD! Send donations in cash, cheques or money orders NOW! Labor Progressive Party Election Committee 209 Shelly Building, 119 Pender West 3UCK STATES ALTERNATI a S Stable Prosperity Possible Only With International Cooperation-LPP Leader In-an address over the national network of the CBC, Tim Buck, Nation- al Leader of the Labor-Progressive Party, in a clear statement of LPP policy, confronted the Canadian people with the potentialities of the peace and the alternative of chaos facing them if the Tories are able to carry out their plan- ned coup in the coming Federal elections. “Stable prosperity will be possi ble only if international co-operation— particularly between the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union-—becomes the keynote of world policy. That is the only basis upon which we can have stable prosperity because it is the only basis upon which we can have lasting peace,’ Tim Buck stated. “There are ominous signs that this ideal may be in danger. Sinister interests which are opposed to such continu- ed cooperation are gaining ground. It is only two weeks since we celebrated the magnificent victory of our soldiers over thes Nazis in Europe, but already there is a growing tendency to use the strength and influence of the Western powers to support reactionary, in the ease of Argentina outright fas- cists, interests, against the anti- fascist forces who were promised that the United Nations will aid them ‘to destroy the last vestiges of nazism and fascism’.” Stating that difficulties are bound to arise in the settling of the problems of the world, Buck pointed out that only a basic re- lationship of friendly coopera- tion between nations would make possible the final’ solution of these problems. An indication of the strength of reaction was pointed out as being plain in the admission:of the fascist Farrel- Peron Government of Argentina ta the World Security Confer- ence. “T deplore the fact that Can- ada opposed the proposal to al- low the delegation from the World Labor Conference to par- ticipate,” the LPP leader said, “in the work of-the commission upon the Economie and. Social Council. The way Canada voted at San Francisco is a warning to every Canadian who will vote in the coming elections.” Turning to the need for repre- sentatives of the people who favor international cooperation, Tim Buck stated: “In the next House of Commons, members who advocate continued interna- tional cooperation‘ and mutual aid will support the idea of a coalition of progress. Our next Government must be the instru- ment through which we unite all sections of the people in support of policies to keep everybody at work. To do that, our next gov- ernment must adopt measures that the national income is not permitted to fall below the level of nine to ten billion dollars per year. The King government has declared its recognition of the need for this, but its proposals’ are utterly inadequate.” Tim Buck then pointed out that in order to maintain the national income at a high level it would be necessary for the government in power to main- tain our export level at least 60 percent as high as they have been in the years of the war. He stated that it would be necessary to stabilize the rate of new capi- tal investment at the full em- ployment level without regard to fluctuations in private invest- ments. The need for adequate social security measures was in- dicated as necessary to stabilize purchasing power. Pensions, full rehabilitation of service men and women, health insurance and un- employment benefits: were stress- ed as further means of stabiliz- ing the national income. “A new type of budget, bas- ed upon our wartime experi- ence, and radically different from the traditional peace- time budgets,” was stated as a basic requirement. in a new economy. “Canada’s economy,” Tim Buck continued, “including. large sec- tions of both industry and agri- culture, has been built up on the basis of export trade. Can- ada has prospered when our ex- ports have been high. If we are to maintain a high level of em-: ployment and prosperity on the farms, we shall have to main- tain’ our exports at two billion dollars per year.” He criticized the proposal -of the Progressive Conservatives for export-subsidies as. “Wrong and dangerous”: - é “World trade cannot be ex- panded by subsidizing compe- tition for diminishing mar- kets,” he said. “That is the path to new rivalries, conflict and war. If we fail to main- tain our exports, we shall have mass- unemployment, bank- Continued on Page 8 See TIM BUCK KEEP THE TORIES OUT - VOTE LAB OR