VE just finished
ing your issue of
i, and I want to con-
e you for the way
jo you dealt with the

= prope to many
qi ae of our servicemen
a tO return . - and
| g the temper of
en one does not have
ii astrologer to foresee
repercussions if this
not adequately met.

splendid
and
ive forces of the prov-
| unite their ranks and
Mer provincially. Such a
would place all the re-
and prestige of the
at the disposal of

ho could use them to
Yin a high rate of em-
abit and social security,
7 houses for British
Hans and improve feder-
Bncial relations. Such a
§ could cut through the
; tape of passing the
om the city hall to Vic-
‘om Victoria to Ottawa,
Bio versa, because there,
fisria, would be a demo-
# yrogressive government,
solid labor.core, using
S'2sources in the interests
eople, and using its high
2nd prestige to promote
6 policies that would
“rising standards of liv-
social security forall
ns.
7s net mince words! The
= the progressive camp—
=» mainly by the go-it-
8 olicy of the CCF—gave
i- government in Ontario
foak Liberal government
uwa.’ The majority of
“= voters who voted gave
aa “shoulder to the Tory
ses, but now they are
“With a weak Liberal
Faent in Ottawa, Tory
aaents in Qntario and
a CCF government in
hewan and a Social
rovernment in Alberta—
coalition government in

sill Canada find the
s the strength and the
to provide peacetime

ames and social security
© Canadians? Will there
@adequate flow of mater-
d reinforcements to the
=? Will there be a call-up
fag men for military ser-
-. relieve those serving in
Sny of occupation, or will
=@be more Tory inspired
giver crises, designed to
ivantage of the weakness
kenzie King, his tenden-
ompromise and appease?

#Y itthinking soldier who
sseriously concerned with
Eproblems cannot escape
Pct that the labor and
Zssive forces of the coun-
Eist bring every pressure
fr on the: Mackenzie .King
eiment, to counter-weight
-essure from the Tories
| leir friends in the Liberal
6 to prosecute the war
a apan to its end without

t and to make Canada
Sirous.

: cher, the Tories of Brit-
he U-S.A., France and

' Holland, July 3, 45.

a — PACIFIC ADVOCATE

A Soldier Appeals For Labor

nity.

e .
many other countries are rais-

ing their heads again, now that
the main enemy has been de-
feated in the field of battle and
the people of the world want to
march forward to political and
economic freedom. The record
of the Mackenzie King govern-
ment in the pre-war era of
appeasement is definitely not
an untarnished one. Canada’s
returning servicemen, Canada’s
fighters in the Pacific, Canada’s
army of occupation ... these
men do not want Canada to
adopt or agree to policies that
would jeopardize the peace and

make another war inevitable
within our lifetime. We_ sol-
diers, sailors and airmen who

will always cherish the memory
of our fallen comrades know
that the victory over Germany
and Japan will mean nothing
unless the term United Nations
is translated into action
uniting all the peace loving na-
tions of the world into a solid
front against aggression and
reaction, and for the peaceful,
democratic betterment of all
nations and colonial peoples.

It is precisely our own Tories
with their cave man economics,
imperialist am bitions and
anti-Soviet phobia who are the
most serious opponents of such
policies in Canada. A strength-
ened labor movement, unity of
the labor and progressive camp
and the constant political alert-
ness and aation of our people
can ensure that Canada will, in
the next critical phase, veer
towards democratic progress,
and not towards reaction.

sees Tories must have thought

he overseas voters they
were appealing to were an aw-
ful bunch of political dupes.
Their program was mainly de-
Signed to capture their votes,
and the votes of their depend-
ents. There was very little in
the line of concrete proposals
to put Canada to work after
the war, but glowing promises
of out-rehabilitating the Liber-

als, and, of course, a promise
to institute all-out conscription
of _man-power. For window
dressing they had scads of
high-priced officer candidates
and the claim to be the soldiers’
party. “~~

Demagogy is nothing new to
these gentlemen, and _ they

proved it in the two election
campaigns. Not only did they
tell the overseas voters (in
paid ads) that all talk of a
soldiers’ party vanished when
the Tories adopted the Legion
program, and went further; but
they plied the overseas voters
for months before the elections
with campaign literature, a
phoney independent veterans’
newspapers that carried Tory
ads, Tory write-ups and Tory
editorials, and with personal
letters from candidates.

Canada’s Weekly is a staid
weekly magazine published in
London, popular amongst the
troops ‘because it has always
carried casualty lists and news
photos of Canadian troops
abroad. Only one Canadian
party had an election ad in that
magazine: the Tory party.

Demagogy and deceit go hand
in hand. Hitler proved that; the
Tories: brought the axiom to
mind by a stunt they pulled in
London. Realizing that London
is a focal point for troops sta-
tioned in Britain, or on leave in
Britain, they opened an election
H®@ not far from CMHQ. Over
the door, in flaring letters, was
the following sign: ELECTION
HQ FOR CANADIAN FORC-
ES. Beneath this misleading
designation, and in much small-
er letters, was the- following:
Sponsored by The Progressive
Conservative Party. Inside was
nothing but Tory agents and
Tory literature.

It speaks well for the service-
men overseas that a minority of
those who voted marked X
for the Tories.

A united electoral front at
home, on a provincial and
federa] scale, would have won

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an even larger service major-
ity for the unity candidates,
and would haye won for unity
the votes of many thousands
of servicemen who did not
bother to vote, largely be-
cause they were profoundly
disturbed by the number of

parties, groups and candi-
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votes,

HE fact that 100,000 Can-
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definitely established as a na-
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do know that if the LPP, its
program and its candidates had
been better known to service-
men, the LPP service vote
would have been much heavier.

As the P.A. has pointed out,
the split in the ranks of labor
caused the loss of ten B.C.
seats to labor. Ten labor
spokesmen from B.C. would
have meant a powerful bloc in
the federal house, a’ bloc that
would have risen above partisan
interests and fought for a pros-
perous post-war B.C. and a

square deal for British Colum-
bias returning servicemen.

All returning servicemen
want to see full support going
to their comrades of the Pacific
and the army of occupation;
they want to see no efforts
spared in the supply of com-
forts and amenities to their
serving comrades in many far-
flung parts of the world. They
want jobs, homes and social
security. They want to _ see
Canada maintain a consistent
Teheran-Crimea line in the
United Nations Organization.

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will, after they return, gain a

full realization of the actual
social and political relations at
home and become a vital, con-
structive force for progress, in
their communities and in the
nation. The last generation won
the war and left the peace to
be handled by incompetents.

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their rifles, but not their faith
in a better Canada and a better
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