Loyal City Candidat

. ‘A rlew spirit is abroad in Europe, the~demoeratic. spirit
people-who have shared the terrible years of fascist op-
‘ssion and who are determined in.a way we have yet to
m-that the postwar “years
Ibe very different,” “C= A.
mders, Hditor of PA ‘stated
apolitical broadcast this week.
aking in ‘support’ 6f Harold
} fin, LPP candidate for New
stminster, the editor drew
\n-the 6xample’ of ‘the years
_ appeasement and  depres-
ls as an indication of the
izers that faced the Canadian
Sle if the world -is permitted
slide back into a period in-
nced by the most reactionary
tions of capital and imperial-

and. these problems are shared
with the people of. all countries
of the world.

‘Stating that it is the task of
the Canadian people to keep out
of office all those who stand for
policies that may again lead the

country and world into turmoil
and destruction, Saunders stated

“A government which pro-
poses, asthe Conservative
Party proposes .to pit, the
strength of the British Com-
monwealth against the United |
States on the one hand and
the Soviet Union on the other
cannot secure our future. Such
a policy must lead to a new
pattern of power politics, to
nhew antagonisms and eventu-
ally. to a new drive to war.”

“Having learned the tragic
Fasequence of disunity and
vision, the people of Europe
‘e not. following will-o-the-
sps of false issues into the
ms of reaction. All are united
rainst reaction for the real-
jation. of common policies that
jl bring them a new and
1er democracy.” :
tating that men of the type
the CCE leaders are not to
found among the new force
progress in Europe, Saund-
pointed out that these so-
ed leaders..of the people. used
weapens open or covert. hat-
| of the Soviet:.Union, the
ust weapon, of; anti-commun-
..and complete refusal to con-
x any form of unity.
In the new democracies of
cope,” he continued, “‘the true
ialists -whotare>willing to put
‘people’ssinterests above their
is‘hold theit «seats “In gov-
ment--with meén* who ‘are not
lalists but “<who“ate agreed
h them on a @¢emmion policy.
*y are not raising the false
1e Of SOGialism to split their
/ <pspeoples and so make it easy
“discredited reactionaries to
ab back into <power.”’ =
Y¥ou could not ‘tell “a ‘citizen
the new Yugoslavia that Tito
i280ld out to the liberals in|
‘gabinet just because he‘shares
2e°with them and is agreed
policies for giving the people
Yugoslavia the things they ex-
't.from the peace.”
‘aunders then stated that Ca-
lians expect -the same, things
m the peace-as the. peoples of
reconstituted democracies of
cope. ie
sanadians also want jobs and
jal security and the opportun-

“At home,” Saunders continu-
ed, “such a policy must lead to
measures against the people’s
interests because you and I will
increasingly come. into opposi-
tion to it.”

Pointing out that the election
of a Liberal government will not
necessarily ensure a future of
peace and prosperity, Saunders
quoted from the New York Times
which stated emphatically that
it was Mr. King’s strong argu-
ments against the admission of
a non-governmental body as a
consultant to the Committee on
Economic and Social Council that
had a_ considerable part in ~per-
suading the steering committee
to decide against admitting the
World Trade Union Congress to
the San Francisco Conference on
World Security.

In conclusion, Saunders said,
“Neither Prime Minister King
nor M. J. Coldwell, and certainly
not John Bracken, was willing
to fight for representation of the
world’s ‘sixty million trade union-
ists in the San.Francisco con-
ference. Canada’s next govern-
ment must have. strong labor
representation, men who will
fight for the policy of interna-
tional unity and national pro-
gress. These aims can be real-
ized. And they are more likely
to be won if labor representa-
tives are elected to our next fed-
eral government.”

YA. Editor Supports!

Vice-Pres. Richard T. Franken-
steen, United Auto Workers

(CIO), is -the candidate for
mayor in a community-wide drive
led by the CIO, to oust Mayor
Edward J. Jeffries of Detroit.

Workers Form
Trade Unions
In Vienna

MOSCOW — An
committee consisting of repre-
sentatives of those trade unions
which have already been restored
has been formed in Vienna to
establish a united trade union
movement. The organizing com-
mittee includes three representa-
tives of the Social Democratic
party, one Communist and one
representative of the Peoples
(former Christian Socialist)
Party.

The
among

organizing

Jeather workers were

the first to reestablish
their union, starting with the
election of factory committees
immediately after the liberation
of Vienna. Delegates from the;
factory committees formed a
provisional executive board. A
similar committee, consisting of
trade unionists known before
1938 when Hitler seized Austria,
was formed by building workers.
The railwaymen have also elect-
ed a provisional executive board,
headed by a leader of the union
from 1918 to 1935.

Labor Arts Guild

ARTISTS AND THE ELECTIONS

“AT this time’ Canada’s creative artists must prove conscious
and active citizens of a true democracy. We must elect a

democratic: government which will express the needs, struggles

and aspirations of. Canada’s social and political life and strive

towards.their fulfilment. - Only in that way will the arts play

their part completely in ushering in.the century of the common

-man and become the product of its condition and. social circum-

stance.” Alexander Brott,. distinguished Canadian composer,
concert. master of Les Concerts Symphoniques. : ‘

sf AS I believe that the welfare of the arts is inseparably con-

nected with the fortunes of labor and the latter are so
deeply concerned in the election, it is immensely important to
me. It will determine the extent of artists’ opportunities to
contribuat to Canadian life during the next five years, its out-
come will decide the importance given to the cultural aspects of
reconstruction and the scope of cultural forces ‘in that crucial
period, and it will determine the comparative economic welfare
of artists and all other workers for many ‘years to come: Artists
have learned,that they can not expect anything but increasingly
restricted opportunities for creative expression and increasing
economic servitude under Tory-Big Business government; where-
as, the Liberal government is committed by the statements of

its leaders to a program of cultural and economic progress: in

which the arts and artists will play an imereasingly important
part. Progressive labor forces are avowedly anxious to realize
more fully the potential of the arts.” — Frederick B. Taylor,
leading Canadian labor artist, Regional Chairman, Quebec Feder-
ation of Canadian Artists. ;

“rHE, most important single fact about the 1945 election seems

to me to be this:. Canadians are going to elect a government
for a nation which has finally been compelled to admit that it
really is one. If the last war cut the umbilical cord, the present
one has cut the apron strings. How the Progressive Conserva-
tives can survive this fact I don’t know.’?— Hugh McLennan,
novelist, author of the best-seller, “Two Solitudes.”

@ leoes 11th is Election Day. On that day we will be faced
with: an absolutely crucial choice. We believe that many in-
tellectuals and cultural workers realize that it is only through
their taking sides with the working class that theizx qwn interests
will be preserved and richly expanded.'This is not a. matter of
sentiment or more theory.”—Editorial, May issue “En Masse.”

‘OU country faces a period of chaos and reaction, unless we

can get unity of all left-wing and Liberal forces.
Stanier, scientist, Guggenheim Fellow-

elections.”—-Dr. Roger
J

ship -winner.

“THE June elections take on a significance and importance for
everyone, artists as well a& other citizens. None of us can
ever again be divorced. from the realities of our world which
will shape our art of the future. The fact that artists see that
their lives and their creative efforts are linked with the destiny
of their fellows, and that they no longer care to dwell in ivory
towers, is a promise for all of us. This promise can be fulfilled
only through the ceaseless efforts of every Canadian in the
building of a new world om the ruins of the old.”—Excerpt from’
“Prelude to Progressive Art,” by Ethel Hughes.
“OUR country faces a new era in the postwar. Domestic prob-
lems, which history tenrporarily put aside, will face us again
and in a much more emphatic way. We must devise a new
political answer to these problems. We must have a coalition of
all our progressive and_constructive elements.”—-Alan Harrison,
painter and art director, Montreal.

“(ANSDA has the talent and the facilities to develop: radio

into a major art form and a force for god. It remains for
Canadians in all walks of life to give the direction that future
programs will take by electing a true people’s government to
‘Ottawa on June lith.”—Ralph Novek, drama critic, radio script
writer, New Theatre Group.

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‘to plan their future in a
te ful world, he pointed out,

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