Ontario

the holding of the election. Such ;

a coalition was not only possible
but practical at the time of dis-
solution.

By raising the phoney issue of
Socialism and ignoring the basic
problems of the people, the CCF
laid itself wide open to the vici-
ous anti-Socialist, red-baiting
campaign staged by Drew which
confused thousands of voters and
actually drove Liberal voters
into the Tory camp.

By refusing the offers of both
the Liberals and LPP for elec-
toral agreements in specific con-
stituencies directed toward the
defeat of the Tories, the CCF
actually guaranteed the division
of the labor and reform vote. In
most cases, CCF cCandidates di-
rected their main _ criticism
against the Liberal Party.

The CCF lost heavily in the
trade union vote by rejecting the
request of the United Automo-
bile Workers to withdraw GCF
eandidates in three Windsor rid-
ings where the UAW had nom-
inated straight UAW-Labor can-
didates. The result was that two
of the Labor candidates—Mayor
Arthur J. Reaume and George
Burt—were actually beaten by
the vote of CCF candidates, al-
though the combined progressive
vote far outstripped the Tory
candidate’s winning total.

Finally, Jolliffe’s charges of a
‘police “Gestapo” under Colonel
Drew were received by the voters
as a mere election trick, since
the CCF leader had admitted
knowledge of the “Gestapo” as
early as 1943 and yet had sat
htrough two legislative sessions,
during which time the CCF group
had voted with Drew on a num-
ber of issues, without bringing
the matter on the floor of the
House..

POSES TORY MENACE

Responsibility of the CCF for
the Ontario debacle seems pretty
generally accepted, and was even
emphasized by the authoritative
liberal newspaper, the Toronto
Star. But the résult in Ontario
is to be regretted since it poses
sharply the menace of a Tory
victory nationally on-June 11.

The labor movement generally
is going to have to draw the cor-
rect conclusion however, from
the Ontario situation. It is now
more han ever necessary to
stress the need of a Tory defeat
next Monday. Ontario indicates
that the CCF has lost heavily in
labor support because of its
anti-unity policies. But organized
labor can make up for the On-
tario defeat by voting solidly for
Labor candidates and putting in-
_-to effect the slogan—“‘Make La-
bor a Partner in Government.”

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LPP Candidate, Vancouver East

Ask Truman

Restore FDR
Foreign Policy
NEW YORK—American labor
cannot tolerate a departure from
the late President Roosevelt’s
foreign policy because “to con-
sent is to abandon, in reality, a
future of peace in the world and
full employment and prosperity
at home,” the Greater New York
CIO Council stated on behalf of
its 600,000 members in a mes-

sage to President Truman this
week.

The San Francisco conference,
the message warned, has been
“permitted to serve the destruct-
ive purpose of setting up a world
forum for reactionary interests.
In the firm belief that prosperity
and lasting peace can be won
only on the basis of unity of the
Big Three,” the statement called
upon President Truman “‘to re-
assert the guiding. policies of
Franklin D. Roosevelt that won,
through the Big Three coalition,
the complete military destruction
of German fascism.”

CCE Denounced |

operate or enter into any elec-
toral agreements-in order to de-
feat the Tories. with either the
Labor-Progressive Party, the
Liberal Party, or with the major
trade unions of Ontario For
over a year and a half the CCF
refused and when the Drew gov-
ernment was finally defeated
again the CCF refused to co-
operate and form a coalition
government, thus forcing a pro-
vinecial election with disastrous
results for the people of Ontario
generally, and for the CCF in
particular.”

“When the election was called
the Labor-Progressive party and
the major trade unions of Ontar-
io appealed to the CCF to come
to electoral agreements, to
achieve lahor unity against re-
actionary Toryism. The CCF re-
fused and ran candidates in op-
position to all other labor candi-
dates. Not only that, but the
CCF leaders directed their main
fire not against the Tories, but
against the Labor-Progressive
candidates, against the trade
union candidates, and against
the Liberals.”

McKean then pointed out that
the result was that the LPP
elected its candidates with even
greater majorities than before,
while the CCI went down to
erushing defeat, with the loss of
23 seats. He then pointed out
that instead of soberly analyzing
their suicidal policies, the CCF
leadership refuses to learn and
simply blames the -LPP for the
defeat which they brought upon
themselves.

Seoring the CCF for making
“socialism” an issue in the pro-
vincial election, McKean stated:
“Socialism wes not an issue in
the clection. Yet the CCF leader-
ship deliberately made i
issue thus providing the

main weapon for the Tories,
a weapon which the Tories took
and conducted a vicious cam-
paign against labor generally,
stampeding thousands of voters
into voting for what they
thought was the only way of
avoiding “a socialist dictator-
ship,” as the Tories termed the
CCF program.”

“The real issues of the elec-
tion, jobs, homes and social se-
curity, were not raised by the
CCF. Instead the CCF obscured
them further by raising the fan-
tastie and unproven charge that
Premier Drew had organized a
Gestapo to spy om the CCF. This
lurid sensationalism demonstrat-
ed the political bankruptcy of
the CCF leadership and made
their defeat certain.”

McKean then stated that four
days before the election he had
made the public statement that
“when the ballots are counted in
the Ontario election the extent
of the withdrawal of labor sup-
port to the CCF' will be reflected
in one of the greatest losses of
seats ever suffered by a Can-
adian political party.” And he
made the further prediction that
the Ontario defeat marks the be-
ginning of the end of the CCF as
a major party in Canada.

Analyzing CCF policy, Me-
Kean pointed out that in many
important respects the. political
aims of the CCF are identical to
those of the Tories. ‘‘They have
as their strategic aim the bring-
ing about of a .Tory-Liberal Co-
alition,” charged the LPP lead-

| sive Party,” McKean conelt

32> bf

er. “So have the Tories.
CCF is opposed to labor-manz}
ment cooperation. So are’
Tories. The CCF advocates |
foments strikes in order to)
eredit the government and

votes. So do the Tories. The (
openly denounces ‘the Sc
Union as a dictatorship. Sc
the Tories. The CCF claim
is impossible for  democt
countries to cooperate with
Soviet Union. So do the To:
The CCF claims it is impos:
to have full employment a:
the war. So do the Tories.” |

He then pointed out that,
CCF have denounced their r:
to eall themselves either a>
cialist party or a labor pe:
“In the first place it does |
work to achieve socialism -
merely -shouts about ‘socia:
or chaos,’ Secondly, its prog
of public ownership of cen
utilties is not socialism _
state capitalism. Lastly

CCF is among the most vic
opponents of the world’s §
socialist state, which it ‘te
‘ved imperialism.” !

The only candidates who |
resent labor and fight realist
ly for social progress are
candidates of the Labor-Prog

“A vote for the CCF in

election is not a vote for!
gress. but is objectively a\
for Tory reaction where the |
cy in many major issues is id’
cal with that of the Tories:
feat Tory -reaction. Make L

a Partner in -Government.”

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