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the support of any progressive

who is honestly willing to=face

the facts — even unpleasant
ones. Unity is the issue. Unity
first and foremost and you can
say it again! When the CCF is
for unity Pll be for the CCF.
Until they do this is a public
announcement to my fellow
workers that I’d sooner smoke
marihuana if all I want to do
is dream.
HARRY WEST

Nursery Schools
Sir:

During the course of the war,
nursery schools proved a boon
to the mothers of pre-school
age children, where those moth-
ers were employed in war in-
dustry. It was possible for
young mothers, many of whose
husbands were in the armed
services to participate actively
in the, production front with
every assurance that their chil-

dren would be cared for during :

their working hours.

Now that hostilities are con-
cluded, and the nation is mov-
ing toward a. reconversion of
war industry and large numbers
of working mothers are -being
let out of wartime employment,

there is being created the im-

== pression that nursery schools

_and child care centers are no
“longer required and can there-

fore be closed down.

To state that such is the case
is to overlook many important
factors that have made the es-
tablishment of child care cen-
ters a must for postwar. Many
young mothers, who during the
war left their children in nur-
sery schools while they worked
jin war industries, have lost
their husbands overseas and
will be compelled to continue in
employment. If nursery schools
are closed down young mothers
in this category will be faced

- with a hardship.

Even if this were not the case,
child care centers and nursery
schools represent a forward
“step. Every means should be
utilized to maintain present
child care facilities so that
mothers of young children may
participate more fully in the life
of the community, and actively
engage in gainful employment
for which wartime ‘experience
in industry has so well equipped
‘them.
MARGARET PARKER

support of the Party.

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ment, are lifted.

the ranks of the Party

tasks of the postwar.

ground.

CCF Speculation

It has been brought to my attention that in the cur-
rent issue of “CCF News” an article appears which fal-
sifies the results of the recently held meeting of the Na-
tional Committee of the Labor-Progressive Party and
leaves the implication that the leadership has not the

I wish to take this opportunity as Executive Secre-
tary of the Labor-Progressive Party to state the follow-

@ The meeting of. the National Committee un-
animously adopted all resolutions, statements and
reports of its officers, including a Call to Canadians,
which was issued to the press.

@ The National Committee unanimously agreed
to arrange for an intensive two months’ discussion
in the Party on the basis of the Report and Reso-
lution presented by Tim Buck, National Leader of
the Labor-Progressive Party.
following such discussion, both in the Clubs and
Party press, Provincial or Regional Conferences take
place. to be followed up by a National Convention,
once restrictions on travel imposed by the Govern-

@ It unanimously co-opted nine members to its
ranks, among them being 3 veterans of this war; 3
outstanding trade unionists and two women.

@ It unanimously re-elected Tim Buck the Na-
tional Leader and the present Party leadership.

@ It unanimously agreed to the publication of
the reports and resolutions of the meeting in printed
form, so that all members and the public would have

_an opportunity to study, consider and act upon them.

@ It unanimously expelled Fergus McKean from
a decision which has since

met With the whole-hearted approval and agreement
* of the Party in British Columbia.

The Party has come out of the discussions stronger,
more united and better fitted to meet the complicated new

To put it mildly, CCF speculation falls on barren

It further agreed that

WILLIAM KASHTAN,

Executive Secretary,
Labor-Progressive Party.

IC ADVOCATE — PAGE 5

Short Jabs by Ol’ Bill

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By H. W. (Pinchhitting for Ol Bill)

OU’VE had OI’ Bill in this corner for a long time, and last week Young
Bill, whoever he is. stood in for him and very sturdily indeed. Now
you’ve got Wild Bill, foaming and frothing at your service.
But first, before dementia lays its thought-dissolving hand upon
my head, a tribute to OI Bill, a friend and mentor of long-standing.

That he is “standing” is one of the reasons he is a good friend, and
is universally respected wherever Karl Marx is honored, and in many
unsuspected places, too. Bill is always standing, or else moving steadily,
and directly, to another standing-point; he is never -side-stepping or
sitting on the fence. That there are not more like Bill is one of the
reasons I go wild.

Wildness is something you can be born with, can acquire, or have
thrust upon you. Wild Bill Hickcok was born that way, Wild Buffalo
Bill Cody acquired his as a paying asset, but I had my wildness thrust
upon me.

The thrusters are on every side. Among the chief at present are
those hypocrites and knaves who go to churches and service clubs, and
call all men brothers and sons of God, and then prove themselves sons
of something else and quite different, although its male gender is spelled
with the same letters, when they bar-Jews, Negros, or Orientals from
their places of business. They are special sources of wildness.

Among the lesser but more chronic causes are those people without
any backbone, who cannot even think for themselves, for whom leaders
must think as wel as act, and rightly or wrongly, these make me quite
frenzied at times. ra

Mad-making also are those leaders who when they make mistakes
are too small to say “I dood it,” and so perpetuate their errors for fear
of losing face; those politicians who become governors of states and
mayors of great cities simply because a machine judges them stupid
enough to do what they’re told when they’re told and nothing the rest
of the time; the machines that make these morons great, and the stupid-
ity that suffers the machines; these things all make me wild.

Peddlers of Cliches ,

GF special promoters of-rabidity are those peddlers of cliches such as

“faith in the working-class” who would sooner eat any sort of
begged, borrowed, or stolen bread rather than sweat, fear, and struggle
with the working-classs; the schooi-teachers, parsons, lawyers, and other
“radical intellectuals” who think they become by some mysterious meta-
physical force “born again” into leadership of the working class by
adopting revolutionary phrases as a substitute for action and who in
secret have a contempt for real workers—these can make me wild
enough to be tied in at least two straight-jackets.

There are, of course, the greater causes of my lunacy, such as Hitler
and Franco, but these after all are simply the culmination of the lesser
sources; the lick-spittling hotelkeeper who refuses a bed to a negro, the
ignorant. sub-human who applauds him and eggs him on, the worker
become careless and indifferent through misleadership, and the intel-
lectual who. prefers mouthing phrases to picking up a pike. They all
made Hitler and Franco, and they are all responsible for a soil that stinks
of the dead who will manure it for many harvestings to come.

I faney Ol’ Bill gets wild at times, too, although I have never found
him foaming at the mouth. He is too fundamentally sane for that. But
I like to think, rightly or wrongly, that he has his moments of indigna-
tion and near-despair as well as I.

A Spectre Is Haunting...

TF he does; I fancy that at these times to save his sanity he goes back
to an earth-shaking document penned years ago,
which commences:

a document

“A spectre is haunting Europe—the spectre of Communism” and
concludes like this;

“Workers of the world, unite!
chains.”

When Marx said “Communism” he meant Communism, the spectre
that is haunting the ruling-class today; ‘“‘Chains” are still chains, whe-
ther the keys are in the hand of Palmerston or of Attlee, and, most im-
portant of all, “unite” means in 1945 just what it did in 1847.

Wildness ceases to be wildness, but becomes directed will and fer-
vor when the Communist Manifesto is understood and followed. I
think that’s what keeps Ol’ Bill on the rails and very human. If I, and
some of the rest of us, would read it as often over the months and years,
it might help us considerably in uniting the working-class.

For they want to be united, right now. They are fearful and dis-
trustful of the future, but they are not cowardly about it or themselves.
They believe the postwar can be conquered, and even the least politicized
believes that unity is essential, and that it must be established.

Most important of all, to us, is that those who are not connected
with any party, and they are the vast majority, believe with most sin-
cerely that this unity must be one of parties as well as of trade union
or of class. The have not read the Communist Manifesto, but time and
history has revealed its substance to them.

You have nothing to lose but your

One last word, and then those who disagree with me can go wild
in their turn; these workers, who believe in unity and crave unity, don’t
care one boss’s damn whose toés get trampled or who loses face in the

_ process of achieving unity. They are not concerned with the cost of

unity to individuals or parties.
That is worth thinking about.

SATURDAY, SEPT. 1, 1945