NIGEL MORGAN
- Comox-Alberni

Speak to any trade unionist in

the big Comox-Alberni federal
riding and he’ll tell you with
plenty of conviction that after
June 11 he’ll have a- labor man
representing him at Ottawa. The
labor man who will represent the
ecnstituency is Nigel Morgan,
Independent Labor candidate who
is conceded much better than an
even chance of victory over Jack
Gibson, Independent backed by
the Progressive - Conservatives
and Liberals, and Tom Barnet,
CCF party hack.

That’s as it should be. For
there are very few ridings in
Canada where the potential labor
vote runs as high as in Comox-
Alberni. And Nigel Morgan, one
of the best known labor leaders
in British Columbia, is at the
same time closely identified with
organized labor in the entire dis-
trict, where he has done more
than perhaps any other man in
the constituency to improve the
living and working standards of
the people.

It was, in fact, his position as
one of the key organizers of the
leggers and sawmill workers of
Comox-Alberni which brought
him the nomination as Independ-
ent Labor candidate. -Chosen by
the trade unions of the riding,
his candidacy has been officially
endorsed by some 13 local unions,
in¢eluding the International
Woodworkers of America, the
United Fishermen and Allied
Workers Union and the Courten-
ay local of the United Brother-
hood of Carpenters and Joiners.

As a point of comparison, the
CCF candidate has been endorsed
by none of -the trade unions,
while logging operator Jack
Gibson, a confessed Tory, finds
his Liberal support halfhearted
and divided.

Nigel Morgan has been an act-

tive member of the labor move-
ment for some nine years, for a
short time as a member of the
CCF which he soon left because
of its anti-unity policies, then in
1937 as an active member of
IWA Local 1-118 in Victoria.
Elected in 1939, as IWA district
secretary, he held this key posi-
tion during the period when the
union grew from a membership
of a few hundred to where it
now holds contracts covering 20,-
000 loggers and sawmill workers.

Now Canadian director of the
TWA, and an executive council
member of the Canadian ‘Con-
gress of Labor, which he repre-
sented as a delegate at the Lon-
don World Trade Union Confer-
ence, Nigel Morgan is one of the
top labor men in Canada. ' His
election on June 11 will give the
people of Comox-Alberni one of
the ablest of the younger men
in the new parliament.

A United Labor Vote Can
yefeat ‘Tories By C. A. Saunders

! | ‘HE decision made by the Canadian people on June 11 will determine the course of

Canadian history for years to come.
The united blows of the Allies

continent of Europe.

knees. This.election is around the issues of peace.

What kind of Canada are we
to have as a result of the vic-
tory?

Will we go forward With the
stream of progress unleashed
by the unity achieved in the de-
feat of Hitler? Or will we re-
vert to the lean days of de-
pression and
which characterized ‘the prewar
years?

unemployment

These are the’ questions the
Canadian electorate will answer
at the polls.

The overwhelming majority
of the Canadian people are
agreed on the ‘fundamental
questions at stake. They realize
that we must have a govern
ment prepared to embark on a

- policy that will ensure jobs for

all at decent wages. They want
adequate provision for our re-
turning servicemen and women.
with assurance and aid in.re-
establishment in civilian life.
They want measures to ensure
markets for the produce of our

.farms and fishermen and _ to
guarantee adequate. returns.

They want expansion of social
services; adequate old age pen-
sions; provision for hospitaliza-
tion and medical care for every
citizen; extension and expan-
sion of child welfare centres
They realize that to attain these
ends it will be necessary to
have a government prepared to
embark on a policy of building
industry,. expansion of trade,
construction of homes,’ building
highways, improving and. open-
ing up power facilities. They
will need a government pre-
pared to cooperate with the
other nations to rebuild the de-
vastated areas of Europe, to

help develop the colonial coun-

tries and raise living standards
in the backward areas of Asia
and Africa. This is the kind of
government and the problems
that must concern. us in the
postwar years.

Bur the people are being sub-

jected to a terrific campaign
of confusion and false propa-
ganda. The Progressive Conser-
vatives are striving to divide
and confuse the great majority

of progressive voters by raising
false issues, by beclouding the

whole scene with a campaign of

red-baiting and flag-waving.
Tory hypocrisy over the con-
question and_ their

general attitude towards the
war was fully revealed recently

scription

when Paul E. Lafontaine, 6of--

ficial spokesman for the Pro-
gressive Conservatives in Que-
bec, revealed’ that they were
backing such outspoken, anti-
conscription, pro-fascist ele-
ments as Camillien Houde,
leader of the Bloc Populaire;
the avowed fascists Liguori La-
combe, Sasseville Roy; and
Frederic Dorion and P. J. Car-
din. who bolted the King» gov-
ernment when the conscription
bill was introduced.

Thus the two faces of the
Tories are exposed to full view>
Super-patriotism, conscription,
the “Empiah,” and so forth for
the Anti-conscription,
pro-fascist nationalism for
Quebec. And above it all a red
baiting campaign of confusion
around the false issue of “‘So-
cialism vs. Free Enterprise”;
an issue which was decided up-
on over a year ago as the best

west.

‘Instrument to divide -and con-

fuse the people and obscure the
real problems.

In the face of this dangerous
attack by the arch enemies of
the Canadian people it is all the
more regrettable that the lead-
ership of. the CCF persist in
their policy of isolationism, of
no cooperation with anybody.
By their actions they play the
Tory game of keeping the pro-
gressive vote divided. By their
talk of “Socialism Now’ they
help the vicious vred-baiting
campaign of the Tories. It is
even more regrettable to see
their spokesmen adopt the tac-
ties.of the Tories and stoop to
the same smear campaigning.

A. H. Voaden, CCF candidate
opposing Tim Buck in Toronto,
made the following statements

in a radio broadcast recently:

“cc

.. The Canadian government
should make representations to

ticians.

Fascism has been decisively defeated on the
will soon bring Japan to her

the Soviet Union to have the
Communist or Labor-Progres-
sive Party disbanded in Canada.
It-is not in the interest of good
relations between our two coun-
tries that Russia should allow

it to continue here. ..” Such
slanderous and provocative
statements can only emanate

from the lips of bankrupt poli-

HE. CCF tactic is to drive the
’ Liberals and Tories together,
on the theory that after another
period gf- unemployment and
depression the people will be
ready to elect a CCF govern-
ment to power. But Labor is re-
jecting- the. CCF line and com-
ing out more strongly for the
unity position. The powerful
United Automobile Workers
Council has made this plain in
an election statement. They say
in part: “We regard the Tory
Party as the worst enemy of
labor. The return .of the Tories
to power in Ontario would be
disastrous to labor. The reac-
tionary Tory party must be de-
feated in the coming provincial
campaign: and the best and only

* practical way this ¢an be guar-

anteed is by all labor and pro-s

_gressive people getting togeth-
‘er to win a majority of the

seats. Any party standoffishness
on the part of the progressive
camp will only assist the Tor-
jes.”

The people of Canada want
progress now. They will not be
satisfied with the negative op-
position position offered by the
CCF.

The opportunity is here. The
Labor-Progressive Party be-
lyeves that by..uniting the labor
movement with all other pro-
gressive people and organiza-
tions the Tories can be defeat-
ed. Labor’s’ contribution to the

war has earned recognition.
Labor representation in the
next government will be ‘the

assurance that the peace will
fulfill the promise of victory.
Vote Labor-Progressive and en-
sure a future of prosperity and
increasing reforms.

“THE w RKER"
JOHN BRACKEN

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“THE FARMER”
JOHN GBRACKEN

THE REAL

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TOM McEWEN
Yukon Territory

Until just over a year |
“mention: of the Yukon Territ
‘was usually confined to its —

mate, its apparent remoten:
and memories of its gold w
days. - :
Now when you hear of the ©
kon, you learn of something °}
-—the existence of a young
growing labor movement wi
has already won some signific
improvements in ‘wages
working conditions. And muel’
the credit for the initial gro}
of the trade unions in WE
horse and other centers goes}
Tom McEwen, Independent
bor candidate for Yukon and
of the*real veterans of Cana
labor. e {

Nominated by the trade un’
ists of the Teritory as the lz
standard bearer in the June
federal elections, McEwen re
sents that important section
organized labor which holds +
democratic progress in’ the p
war will depend greatly on’
extent of labor participation
the next government. His ¢!
paign, which many observers |
lieve will lead to his electiox
the next representative of
Territory at Ottawa, is based
the policy of a democratic
alition of all progressive fo:
Labor, CCF and reform- Li
al—as the only kind of a gov
ment which -can handle the ti
sition from war to -peace
rrovide jobs, homes and secu |

for the Canadian people.
believes it is time the 750.
members of organized labor

Canada were properly -repres:
ed in the House of ‘Comm:
And the people of Yukon, rej |
sented for years by the old T
reactionary, George Black, ¢ |
spokesman for the White E.,
and Yukon Railway, are wi
than ready to agree -with
position. :

Certainly no man is better
teo to represent. both the ini:
ests of organized labor and |
needs of Yukoners gener }
than Tom McEwen. A # tr:
unionist for 30 years, and a le
ing labor figure since early |
the nineteen-twenties, the la.
candidate has twice been* imp:
oned for his loyalty to the wo
ing people, once by the TT
governnent of “Tron Heel” Bg
nett of which George Black +
a member. i

McEwen’s qualities as a fig

at Ottawa. For that’s what:
Yukon wants—a member of E
liament who will fight to put:
Territory on the map, work
its . industrial expansion, ©
proved transportation | faciliti
development of its almost 1
teuched vesources,’ and final
for self-government, for
status as a province of the De
inion’, i

“SATURDAY, JUNE 2, 19)