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PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS

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A Salutory Lesson

= HE Tory victory in the Ontario provincial elections,

one week before the Canadian electorate go to the polls

to decide the issue in the federal field, should serve as a grave

warning to the progressive anti-fascist majority of the -Can-
adian people.

With 45 percent of the popular vote the Tories have
captured 70 percent of the seats. The CCF lost 28 seats while
the Labor-Progressive Party increased its vote and retained
its seats. :

The result fully bears out the contention of the LPP
that only a coalition of progressives could ensure the defeat

of the Tories. The leadership of the CCF have a great responsi-
bility to the people of Ontario, for it is borne out—both in
the result and the election figures—that the Tory victory was
a direct result of the reckless, opportunistic policies which
prompted their isolationist non-cooperative stand. The organ-
ized labor movement in Ontario has received an object lesson
of the consequences of the selfish policies of the so-called
‘political arm of Labor.’ They have seen their own ‘candi-
dates defeated by the Tories on a minority vote, precisely be-
cause the CCF insisted on entering candidates against labor’s
choice. This was the case in Windsor-Walkerville, where
George Burt, Canadian Director of the United Automobile
Workers, was the union’s choice for candidate. In these con-
stituencies both the LPP and the Liberals refrained from
'running, and supported the union candidate.

This the CCF refused to do although requested by the
union. This flouting of the wishes of organized labor brought
disastrous results as the following figures show: George Burt,
UAW-Labor, 5591; W. C. Riggs, CCF, 4847; M. C. Davies,
Prog.-Cons., 7428.

Here it is obvious that the splitting of the labor vote by
the CCF put the Tory in. The same result is shown in the
returns for Windsor-Sandwich as follows: Arthur Reaume,
UAW-Labor, 6286; George Bennet, CCF, 4949; Lt.-Col.
W. Griesinger, Prog. Cons., 7991. The result in Essex North,
where Alex Parent, UAW nominee, carried the seat was simi-
larly jeopardized by the CCF as the following figures demon-
strate: Alex Parent 6049, CCF 5112, Prog. Cons. 5544.

A study of the election returns reveals the same story
throughout.

After the defeat of the Drew government, by a coalition
vote, the LPP pointed out that the only way to ensure the
defeat of the Tories was by the cooperation of the left-wing
forces and the Liberals. They appealed to the CCF for cooper-
ation so that electoral agreements could ensure a solid pro-
gressive vote against the Tories in every constituency. How-
ever, the CCF leadership turned a deaf ear. They insisted on
following their own reckless path, stirring up false issues on
the basis of a “Socialism Now” program and preempting to
themselves the sole right to represent labor in spite of the
wishes of labor itself, as demonstrated in Windsor.

And now they sit among the wreckage, congratulating
themselves that Hepburn was beaten (Angus MacGinnis),
blaming all and sundry for their catastrophic losses, and de-
clining still to recognize the obvicus lessons of the election.

Organized labor must immediately take heed. This must
not be repeated in the federal elections. Wherever a trade
union candidate, a real representative of the working class, is
running, that candidate should receive the solid vote of labor.
The isolationist position taken by the CCF leadership must
be repudiated and the vote of the progressives must line up to
defeat the Tories by backing those candidates who recognize
them as the main danger to the Canadian people.

We must not repeat a situation where, by vote-splitting
tactics, the industrial workers of the great automobile centre
of Windsor are represented by two: Tories on a minority vote.

The victory of reaction in Ontario increases the need for
a solid bloc of genuine labor men in the next federal govern-
ment. : , :

Record your vote for men with a labor record, the candi-
dates of the Labor-Progressive Party.

PAGE 4 — PACIFIC ADVOCATE

’ your party, for you ghad a

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‘minds you of an old movie

In Passing 2 4. sounder

(An open letter to E. B. Jolliffe,

CCF leader in Ontario)
I HAVE just read your comment following the
unprecedented debacle suffered by your party
in the province of Ontario, and J am amazed
that apparently you have learned nothing from
such a salutory lesson. -
You say the voting result is one for which
the people of the province
‘will pay heavily” in the

next “few years.

You are right, Mx Jolliffe
—the pecple will suffer —
and the onus is directly on
the shoulders of you and

chanée to lead a progressive
government in Ontario. In-
stead, you chose to pursue
your own reckless selfish
way; you spumed all offers
and appeals for cooperation
and wilfully by your actions,
handed over the reigns of
power to the Tories.

Your party has_ claimed
to be the “political arm of labor’; you have
abrogated to yourselves the sole right to speak
for labor; you have refused to recognize the
need to cooperate to beat the Tory menace, and
yet all you have to say is “the people will pay.”

What of your own party and the thousands
of sincere followers whom your policy is be-
traying?  ~*

The CCF have béen decisively rebuked by
organized labor. The result of the Ontario vote
amounted to outright repudiation. It gave the
lie to your claim to the sole right to represent
labor; note the greatly increased vote for the
LPP MPPs Salsbere and McLeod; note the
election of Alex Parent as the UAW candidate;
note too the fact that your nominees were direct-
ly responsible for the defeat of the trade union
candidates Burt and Reaume.

The vote ridiculed the advertisement, pub-

Around Town By Cynthia Carter Se

N a two-room flat there isn’t much room. for

filing cabinets and desks—particularly when
one of the occupants of the two rooms is a six-
months old baby—so every once in a while I find
I must clean up the wierd pile of copy-paper,
haif-finished articles, newspaper clippings and
old correspondence which I and the man of the

house, whois also a type-
writer puncher, laughingly
eall our “files.” :

On top, of course, is a pile
of election literature with
which various political par-
ties have been bombarding
us for the past couple of
weeks.

Quite impressive, at first
glance, is the CCF literature.
Upon examination it re-

set, where you. see before
you a magnificent building
and open the door to find

that the whole thing is made of cardboard, and
has nothing to back it up. Then there is a pamph-
let from the Progressive-Conservatives. - About
the only good thing you can say about P-C liter-

‘ature is that it’s plentiful, and burns well, and

is very handy these damp mornings. Ian Mac-
kenzie’s visage confronts me next, and I read
that our Ian is the boy who is fighting the elgc-
tion only to get rid of the Japanese... (Which
reminds me of ‘the candidate who tookt he air
this week to announce that “when two races
intermix, it. brings out the worst in both. . .”
‘Too bad Hitler’s dead. He’d have liked that,

Under the pile of election literature is a
eryptic note from me to me which reads, “see
that J. gets D.N.’s book.” I figure out. that this
refers to Dorise Neilsen’s book, “New Worlds
For Women,’ and I remember. Jimmie is a
husky truckdriver who lives_in Vancouver-Bur-
rard. Talked to him the other day, and suggested
that he should vote for Minerva Cooper.

“Yeah, guess you’re, right,” he said. “About
time we gave you women equality.”

That touched a sore point. Women don’t have
to be ‘“‘given” equality. What we want is recog-
nition of our equality. You don’t have to look to
the Mme. Curie’s or Rosa Bonheur’s to prove
that women are equal mentally. Women have
fought arid worked beside their men since the

beginning of the human race,- And sometime,”

mister, you should spend a day at home looking

i by the CCF dominated CCL-PAG
ee favor of CCF candidates. |
And this is another erime your party
sponsible for, Mr. Jolliffe; you have sub»
the political action committee of the Co
your own partisan interests,. and by doi
you have made it a sterile thing, useful o1
4 sounding board for CCF policies and abs}
ly incapable of reflecting the desires and a
tions of organized labor. By so doing you
alienated all of the major unzens Ts
Mr. Jolliffe, it is exactly in those:

as 1)
ing their own independent non-partisan; 7
that political action has been effective.
UAW is sufficient evidence. aed
These are things you and your party:
take note of if you are to continue as the.
of the common people you claim to be. :
The victory of reaction in Ontario ~
direct exposure that the whole strategy o:f
party disarms the working class and surr.
power to the pro-fascists. :
The victory of reaction in Ontario sou
further warning. A warning already heec
members who have left your party, expel
retired, because they could no longer tc
the disastrous course of your partisan p
that the CCF cannot survive as a majon pé
foree in this country if they continue to;
the adventurist policies of the present 1]
ship. . 2 ae
"The federal election: will be on us. by th
this appears in print. The result of the Cf
elections exposes very clearly that your
alone poses ne threat to the Tories. You 5
longer deceive people by claiming a cha;
form the next government of Canada.
the result shows plainly that only a dem;
coalition can keep the Tories out. i"
Are you and your party going to c
the course that led to shipwreck and dis§
The people will pay, Mr. Jolliffe, and |
what you must remember. :
Will you say following the federal e
“The people will pay—and I am respons |

after Junior, washing diapers;-mixing f-
planning meals, cooking, ironing, s¢
floors, and shopping, if you want to find «f
beiongs to the ‘weaker’? sex! No, nobody |
“cive’ women equality. Women are ec
they deserve equal rights. That’s just one
women are hoping that Minerva Cooper, c.
woman candidate in British Columbia, .
sent to Ottawa by the voters of Burrard. |

Funny the things you can accumulate.
pile are pamphlets from the British Israe j
Federation, clever propaganda directed tc -
balls, gathered for an article I once wrot
are scraps of paper bearing statistics on
and unemployment insurance, one of Litt!
shoes (so that’s where he kicked it), =
trade union papers, and—might as well
—a picture of Frank Sinatra. :

“The Voice” has given comedians <«,
gag material as Mrs. Roosevelt’s trave §
actionary movie columnists like Jimmi) €
and Hedda Hopper never miss a chance
a slap at the slim Italian-American boy *j
bow tie. But Frankie is all too big fc#
During the United States presidential ele }
gave his time and talents in support of 1§
Roosevelt. Hedda Hopper sneered: ‘Why ¢
he start reforming his own audiences bf
sticks his nose into politics?” Wond |}
Hedda and her friends are saying now? #4
Frankie has been visiting American higtk#
talking to the bobby-soxers and their bo:
waging war against juvenile delinqueng
a few nights ago the Voice stood before :#
lecture hall across the border and sp¥
courageously against intolerance anc}
prejudice. There’s something darned |f
about that kind of a guy. Altogether}
Oooohhhh, Frankie! : W

On the bottom of the pile is a Pacif }
eate subscription book, symbol of th #
successful press drive just concluded. }
reminds me of a story—a true one. ;

A schoolteacher I know kept a pupil
four o’clock recently. Time passed, and
the boy pulled a P.A. subscription boo
his pocket and began to high-pressure t.
er. The teacher explained that he alread:
the paper regularly. The boy was no
He whipped a donation card from anothe
and suggested that maybe the teacher W
to kick in with a dollar or two. -AT
wonder what the younger generation
o!

SATURDAY, JUNE 9,