Vit and discussion in the find electoral'agreements lan a year. 2 om ta 2 ee eee » and exX-Service Me! i) The People’s: Advocate: : une 20 I sent the follow- ser to the Vancouver Sun 'the federal election fig- lL) four additional ridings ould have been won by a in, cooperation or friendly font between the CCF and ip in B.C. and which co- Gon had been sought times @: number by the LPP. gently the Sun did not rel- @ facts shown, to wit, that mwiting the laboring class #ave had nine federal mem- ‘stead of five, and one ad- fl from the Yukon. So far s not published my letter. you may find space for Pollows: ¥ r, The Sun: : fe CCF is really a working | arty, as it claims, with a ‘ylicy designed to help that Rn bettering its position, 't merely an office-seeking it made a major mistake Stish Columbia in: the re- aderal elections. ?- B.C. election returns pub- son. Page 8 of your issue of 8 9 proves conclusively that “CF might have had nine federal members and one , if it had been willing to = xr cooperate with the LPP, r section of the working addition to the five mem- ¢it elected, it might have ‘i~Nanaimo by 1047 votes, “Westminster by 338, Co- -iberni by 2039, Vancouver = by 2361 votes and the Yu- ‘+; 407 votes, if it had been s to join with the LPP. ,entire working class move- suffers through the selfish, B@ onist policy of the CCF as wganized. as ‘e members from B.C. were i.PP movement. As it is we only five, and none from the Re, 99 Bert Huffman. e Sir: Sine years ago the writer was in a newspaper office a young German democrat, G:ad covered a political meet- hat night, came in, wring- Pus hands and crying ‘‘Ger- i) over again.” He had lived e-Hitler Germany, seen the Aons-in-the German working returned to cover the Ol- 2-games and there. experi- , the results of that division. experience was seared into onsciousness and the grow- left between working class es here haunted him, an al nightmare. ting by my radio on election at, listening to the returns, cry of that young German 2 back to me as vivid as his ish on that night. We had ee gains, healthy gains in the = particularly, but froti To- % to Alberni the divi$iéns in 4 = = ot view on this vatal subject. os sm fade unionists#CCFers and members of the LPP. 6n this question.—Editor. } toria. bag for the combined CCF | Ve results of the Federal elections have caused deep ranks of labor. The obvious iat many seats were lost to labor because of the split yote has brought home sharply the need fer=labor if this is not io be repeated: “B-C. we are faced, with a “provincial election within The tetters reprinted below express two We invite further let- the forces of labor was evident and labor had suffered. In the new house, labor, collec- tively, will have 28 members, on the basis of the civilian returns. Simple arthmetic shows that this could have been 38 at least. Five Conservatives, four Liberals and one Independent were elected by split labor votes. Nigel Morgan, Tom Alsbury, Tim. Buck, Colin Johnston, Tom McEwen, FO. Bryce, F. J. McKenzie, J. M. Thomas, George Isherwood and W. Doneleyko are not in the house because of opposing labor candidates. g These facts are of particular importance to B.C. people as no less than seven of these instances oceurred in this province. The cold figures of this election show that a CCF government for B.C. can ‘be achieved at the next provincial election—but they are also a por- tent of possible defeat. It is not the intention of the writer to indulge in recrimina- tions as-to who defeated who. That would merely increase the division and accentuate the glee with which the defeat of certain labor candidates and the chagrin with which the election of one, at least, was greeted by the oppos- ing faction. The purpose here is to draw attention to the plain facts and to the warning which they shout: that a divided labor vote at the next provincial elec- tion may mean the continuation ef the capitalist coalition at Vic- The time to do something about that is now. The writer does not consider organizational unity between the CCF and the LPP either as pos- sible or desirable. Neither does he envisage an alliance. But he does believe that some sort of loose. understanding regarding candidates is both possible and Gesirable, even essential. Such an understanding would leave to both parties their own organiza- tions, the freedom to criticize each other (an essential condition to. any understanding) and the freedom to popularize their in- dividual platforms. Conditions practically the same as now ex- cept they would not be stealing ene anothers votes. Such an understanding would give a good chance of establish- ing a CCF government at Vic- toria, To all CCF ers this is a con- summation devoutly to be wished for. It will enable B.C., along with Saskatchewan, to set the pace in social progress for the rest of Canada, by efficient and intelligent government to demon- strate to the people of this coun- try what a socialist governmént can do and to lead the way to- ward national planning and the establishment of the Cooperative Commonwealth. Sueh an understanding would be to the advantage of the LPP also. They would be assured of a parliamentary rostrum for one or two members of their party, paid organizers whose upkeep : 7 — PACIFIC ‘ADVOCATE between the two parties would be } Readers Discuss Labor nity would be no drain on the party funds. But before other advan- tages can be brought up, funda- mentals of the LPP policy musi be dealt. with, even at the cost of being lengthy. If the Teheran agreement means the ushering in of-an era of’ class peace, then the LPP is nothing more or less than a re- formist party with a leftish edu- cational policy and the prime aim of electing benign capitalist gov- ernments who, from imperialist super-profits. ‘will increase the crumbs allowed the workers. The CCF isa rival reformist party whose cry for socialism scares the capitalist class into becom- ing reactionaries and thus rein- troduce the class struggle. The CCF must therefore. be defeated at all costs in order to assure so- cial harmony and the carrying out of “Teheranism.’ If, however ,it is remembered that the Teheran agreement was a diplomatic declaration and not a political platform of class peace for America in the postwar pe- riod, then the opportunity, to place the CCF in office becomes a step toward Socialism. On an absolute minimum of achieve- ment a GCF government at Vic- toria would abolish company towns, incorporate in law the gains made by trade unions in the war period, assist in the develop- ment of the cooperative move- ment (which gives training to hundreds in social administration and to the value of which Lenin testified) and make some limited extensions in government owner- ship. At the same time the CCF, since they are an “evolutionary party,” would be forced to admin- ister capitalism with all that that entails, The masses would grad- ually become alienated ~: from them, and the LPP, not: having stood in the way of the experi- ment, nor allowed a chasm to grow between them and the CCF followers would win the leader- ship of the masses. In fact, from the basic Marxist position, the LPP has everything to gain and nothing to lose from an election understanding -which would put the CCF into power. The election has revealed both the strength and the weakness of the labor movement here in B.C. Fortunately we still have formal democracy in Canada and it is up tc us to face the issue and to take steps to advance our movement as rapidly as possible. Let us therefore really discuss this question, without bitterness nor recrimination if possible, so that the labor movement in B.C. can continue to show the way to the rest of Canada. C. A. HARDING, . Woodfibre, B.C. 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