British Elections

perialism over the subject people
of Asia. se
CLEAR MANDATE -

The decisive nature of the La-
bor victory is a cledr mandate
to break “with these policies.

Churchill and Eden did not re-
turn to Potsdam as had been ex-
pected if their margin of defeat
had been®narrow. The fact that
the British people did not count-
enance a return. of the Tory
spokesmen to the negotiations
with Stalin and Truman is a
elear indication of their deter-
-Inination to join in the building
of a new Europe.

Attlee, before embarking for
Potsdam, declared that Labor
stands for “cooperation with all
other nations, particularly our
great allies, the United States
and.the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics.”

While the new Foreign Minis-
ter, Ernest Bevin, hoodwinked
the Trade Union Congress last
December on the question of what
was happening in -Greece, thus
aiding the Tory Royalist plot in
that country, it is nevertheless
believed certain that with such
a clear expression of opinion
evident, the Tory practice of sup-
porting reaction abroad will be
reversed. At its annual conven.
tion last May, the Labor party
charged that the Churchill gov-
ernment “was more concerned
with the preservation of vested
interests than for the welfare,
liberty and equality of the lib-
erated peoples of Europe.”

Bevin, presenting Labor’s
world economic policy to the con-
vention, gave as its main de-
mands the universal orderly dis-
tribution of food, with monopo-
lies barred from exploiting the
people’s' needs; the elimination
of cartels, and international con-
trol of raw material areas.
HOME FRONT |

On the home front, with vast
slum areas existing long before
the war, and with one house in
three destroyed or damaged dur-
ing the war, the British people
are demanding immediate atten-
tion for the housing problem,
even before that of employment.
As in Vancouver, the big land-

lords have blocked a solution to
this problem, which had become
SO serious “vigilantes” through-
out Britain were taking direct
action

to move families into
empty houses being held for
speculation. Labor government

spokesmen have promised ful!
Priority to housing.
_Labor’s domestic program,
titled “a five year plan to re-
build Britain,” calls for itmmedi-
ate nationalization of the coal,
bower and transport industries,
public ownership of the Bank of
England; gradual nationaliza-
tion of other industries, such as
iron and steel, and public super-
vision of monopolies and cartels.
In essence this constitutes a
brogram to assume control over
the very basis of British econ-
omy. The blind greed of Brit-
ain’s coal operators resulted in
a shortage of miners and in in-
competent production methods
that brought Britain to the brink
of disaster on- the production
front in the crucial stages of the
War, and in moving to assume
control over the iron and steel
industry, labor will be wresting
power from such economic over-
lords as Earl Baldwin and the
late Neville Chamberlain, men
whose baleful influence was felt
in a generation of “appeasement”
2nd unemployment.

TORY BIG SHOTS DEFEATED

While Churchill and ex-
Foreign Minister Eden were both
returned, other leaders of Chur-
chil’s “caretaker” administra-
tion fell like ninepins. Among
the Tory election casualties were
Sir James Grigg, War Minister;
Brendan Bracken, First Lord of
the Admiralty and Churchill’s
right hand man; Col. Leopold S.
Amery, Secretary of State for
India, whose policies symbolize
famine and oppression for hun-
dreds of millions of our allies in
the East; Harold MacMillan, Air
Minister; Leslie Hore-Belisha,
Minister of Insurance who as
War ‘Minister under Chamberlain
armed British forces with the
intent of anti-Soviet action in
Finland and was primarily re-
sponsible for the unpreparedness
of British forcés to meet the
1940 “blitzkrieg”: Richard K.

7)

Provincial Elections

The air was thick. with
rumors of a provincial elec-
tion this fall as Liberal,
Conservative and CCF ex-
ecutive bodies met in Van-
couver last week-end. If
an election is actually to be
held in October, final reg-
istration day for voting
will be in September, or
earlier, as lists close 37
days before polling day.
Already citizens are ap-
pearing at the Courthouse
to register. .

Law, Education Minister; Sir
Walter Womersley, Minister of
Pensions; Georffrey Lloyd, Min-
ister of Information, and Duncan
Sandys, Minister of Works, and
Churchill’s son in-law.

Also defeated were Maj. Ran-
dolph Chiirchill, son of the Pre-
mier; Julian Amery, son of the
India secretary and brother of a
leading British fascist;. and
Ralph Asheton, Chairman of
the -Conservative party. Promin-
ent Liberals ‘who failed to be
elected were Sir Archibald Sin-
clair, party leader; Sir William
Beveridge, author of the Bever-
idge social security plan; and
Sir Basil Harris, chief party
whip. Failure of the Liberal
Party’s “come back” bid, based
cn hopes thé people would com-
promise between Tories and La-
Lor, indicated the clear-cut mood
ot the people for progress.

BITTER CAMPAIGN

The campaign was one of the
bitterest in British history. The
extreme right wing of the Tories,
the leading Municheers, estab-
lished firm control over the en-
tire Conservative party, includ-
ing Churchill, at the party con-
vention this spring, and Tory
election material was printed un-
der the supervision of Lord
Beaverbrook weeks before Chur-
chill destroyed the war coalition
government by breaking with la-
bor in an attempt to carry the
country on his still-recent war
record.

The vicious nature of the Tory
tactics drew a rebuke even from
the London Times. Churchill had

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set the tone by charging that the
Labor party, which had empha-
sized the need for close relations
with the Soviet Union, with
practically allowing a foreign
power to dictate the

color of the government.

on the results,
George Isaacs, chairman of the
British Trades Union Congress
and newly-elected M.P. for
Southwark, declared: ‘‘The great-
ly increased support obtained by
the Labor party shows that the
Tory trick of fooling the people
by introducing all sorts of mal-
icious, spectacular, and often un-
truthful rumours has- lost its
power.”’

COMMUNISTS IN
FOREFRONT
-The Communist Party was in
the forefront of the struggle, ad-
vancing the slogan, “Vote Com-
munist—and where there is no
Communist candidate, vote La-
bor!” Although many Communist
candidates were withdrawn in the
interests of not splitting the
anti-Tory vote; those who re-
mained in the field polled 74,540
votes, a figure which does not
take into account the scores of
thousands of Communist votes
cast for Labor candidates.
“Willie”
Communist

Commenting

Gallagher, beloved
leader in Glasgow,
was returned from West Fife,
while Mile End. elected Phil
Parating, bringing Communist
representation in the House to
two.

Main battle of the Communist
party, sparked by the influential
“Daily Worker,” was for elector-
al unity, which was achieved in
2 large number of constituencies.
Many Labor spokesmen frankl¥

political.

.| sacrifice have been er

paid tribute to the
mumnist energy anc
seability in the campai

Labor carried 48 wf
London seats and nin}
from Birmingham. Ot
industrial centres car
ed Manchester, Liver
eastle, Leeds, and tk
Plymouth and Southa
Tory strongholds like
and the cathedral crop
chester yoted Labor, |
most districts in Wal a

It was significant
earried not only co
where the majority ol
trade unionists, but al
middle-class ridings,
that the change of |
was a victory for a br
al front against the _
whose Tory spokesr
ened to lead Britair
disaster. i

It is ten years sin
election in Britain. Izy
years, five years of }
war-front casualties |

iruits of Tory appeai
the time of Dunkerg
ies, in sheer frigh
government by coalil
Churchill’s leadership
those Tory fears we
long parliament tes
press, to a notable

feelings of the na
But when the end of
Germany loomed in
Tories took up again
task of defeating t
aspirations of the Br

people have found tk:
years instructive inde

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