PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS

Vol. 1, No. 32

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VANCOUVER, B.C., SATURDAY, JUNE 9, 1945

Truman Act
Supported
By Labor

The entire labor movement
— the United States is
taunchly supporting the
ocial security bill. recently
ntroduced into the Congress.

The President, ina message to
she U.S. Gongress on the present
amployment crisis, warned that
she lack of adequate unemploy-
ment benefits is a “major gap in
dur reconversion program” and
alled upon the House and Sen-
ite to act quickly “to prevent a
harp decline in consumer expen-
litures which might otherwise
sesult in a downward spiral of
‘onsumption and production.”

“The transition from war to

“peace is part and parcel of the
war,” he added, “and we can-
‘mot shirk our obligation to
those temporarily unemployed
through no fault of their own.”
. Truman pointed out that the
three ‘major flaws in present
state laws are the lack of pro-
ection for federal workers, em-
asloyees of small business, and
maritime workers; the inade-
quacy of ‘weekly benefit pay-
ments; and the short period of
sime for which benefits are paid.
fo correct these defects Truman
zalled for legislation providing
protection for those workers not
now covered, the raising of pay-
ments to a maximum of $25.00 a
week, and the extension of pay-
ments to at least 26 weeks.

The pending legislation, which
preceded the President’s message
by a few days, calls for for the
establishment of a national so-
cial insurance system covering
health, unemployment and tem-
porary disability; a 10-year fed-
eral program for’ the construc-
tion and expansion of hospitals
and other health services; feder-
al grants for broadening health
Services; extension of social se-
curity to include farm and dom-
estic workers, employees of non-

pao. organizations, profession-
als

and small businessmen;

1 coubiebient of a national
system of publi -
ee public employment

ONTARIO VOTE A WARNING»

Election Of Tories Shows

Need For Coalition To

Ensure Reaction’s Defeat

The Progressive-Conservatives under Col. George Drew, backed by all

the-power of reactionary big money

in Canada, were made a gift of the On-

tario Government on Monday by a combination of factors, all stemming from
the main cause—a split in the labor and reform vote.brought about by the
isolationist, anti-unity policy of the CGF.

As a result, the danger of a nationwide Tory sweep has become acute,

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LPP LeaderDenouncesCCF
For Ont. Anti-Unity Stand

In a ringing denunciation

of the narrow partisan policies

by means of which-the CCF aided in the defeat of progress
in Ontario and threatened the future of the nation in the com:
ing federal elections, Fergus McKean, LPP Provincial Leader,
outlined the dangerous consequences of CCF adventurism in

a radio broadcast over station

Pointing out that the vicious
high-pressure propaganda cam-
paign conducted by reactionary
vested interests, resulting from
the suicidal “socialism now’ pol-
icy of the CCF, had caused many
previous supporters of the CCF
to vote for other: parties, Mc-
Kean stated that it was the vote-

splitting tactics of the CCF that

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1|the 1943 election,

enabled a Tory government to
win 70 percent of the Ontario
seats with 55 percent of the
voters voting against them.
“Why was the anti-Tory vote
divided?” the LPP leader asked.
“Because the CCF refused to co-

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See CCF DENOUNCED

the CCF has been brought close to disaster as a national
party, and the labor and democratic- people of Canada have
been given clear warning of the need to vote labor and pre-
vent a national Tory victory on June 11.

Taking advantage of the situation created by the CCF’s
rupture of the progressive vote, the Drew Tories pushed
their campaign on two main issues—anti-Socialism and an

attack on.racial and national unity-
The Tories rode into power in 66 of the 90 provincial

ling.

The results were start-

seats on a minority of 45 percent of the total votes cast. The

CCF, which gained 34 seats in
ended up on
Monday with only six for a loss
of 28, one of the worst defeats
in Canadian political history.

Among the CCF... members
beaten were such figures as E. B.
Jolliffe, Ontario provincial lead-
er, C. H. Millard, Agnes Mac-
Phail and Arthur Williams. Even
the Liberals dropped from 16 to
10 seats, with Liberal leader
Mitchell Hepburn taking a. per-
sonal beating in the riding he
has represented for many years.

LPP INCREASE VOTE

The only labor. group to hold
its position in the Ontario House
was the Labor-Progressive Party
which actually increased its vote.
J. B. Salsberg. was re-elected
in Toronto-St. Davids, while A.
A. MacLeod retained his Tor-
onto Bellwoods seat by a big
majority. They will be supported
in the next provincial legisla-
ture by Alex Parent, Labor mem-
ber for one of the Windsor rid-
ings who was nominated by the
United Automobile Workers of
America.

The election outcome was con-
vineing proof of the LPP’s pre-
election appeal for electoral un-
ity of all progressives..This was
clearly emphasized in the state-
ment -issued this week by Fergus
McKean, B.C. provincial LPP
leader, who declared “the elec-
tion of a Tory government in
Ontario vindicates the position
of the LPP which called for elec-
teral agreements among the
anti-Tory forces to defeat the
Tory menace.”

“The victory of the Pro-
gressive-Conservatives in the
Ontario provincial election is
directly attributable to the
anti-unity policies and adven-
turist election tactics of the
CCF,” McKean declared.

“The sweeping defeat suffer-
ed by the CCF because of the
withdrawal of labor support
was foreseen long before the

election. The spectacular “‘ges-
tapo” charge by E. B. Jolliffe,
without adequate evidence,
served to obscure the real is-
sues of the election and played
into the hands of the Tories.
Such charges, together with
the attempt of the CCF to
make Socialism: the main. issue,
demonstrated the political
bankruptcy of the CCF leader-
ship in the elections and made
the CCF defeat certain. The
lack of electoral] agreements
in the ranks of the anti-Tory
voters enabled the Tories to
gain 70- percent of the seats
with a minority of only 45 per-
cent of the popular vote.
“The fact that the Labor-
Progressive Party re-elected
its members with larger ma-
jorities, while the CCF lest 28
out of 34 seats, proves con-
clusively that the adventurist
policies of the CCF have been
repudiated by Canadian labor.”
“The Labor - Progressive
Party is confident that the
people of B.C. will be even
more determined, as a result
of the Tory victory in Ontario,
to return bona fide labor rep-
resentatives from this province
on June 11.”
CCF RECORD

From the time they were elec-
ted in 1943 and up until June 4
of this year, the CCF top leaders
committed almost every political
error in the book besides com-
mitting every crime possible
against the interests of organ-
ized labor and labor unity. Here
is how their record stands:

By rejecting the offer of the
Liberals and Labor-Progressives
to form a progressive coalition
government at the time the
Drew government was defeated
by the CCF’s want of confidence
motion, CCF leader E. B. Jolliffe
became directly responsible for

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See ONTARIO ELECTIONS

KEEP THE TORIES OUT- VOTE LABOR

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