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"have based their program on
cism.” We have signed that

dorsed it with our sacrifices. We must now lay the basis and

provide the means to transform
the wartime efforts of the youth
into the fight for a secure and
‘lasting peace,” with these words
Austin Delany set the tone for
a conference of young members
of tthe Labor-Progressive party
gathered in conference at the
Grandview hall last Sunday.
The purpose of the conference
was to lay the basis for a youth
program and the organizational
forms by which ‘such a program
could become a living reality in
the lives of the Canadian people.

Over a hundred young party
members participated in the
eonference which was initiated
by the Ginger Goodwin Club of
the LPP. Following the opening
discussion the conference divided
into panels to deal with pro-
gram and organization. ~

The afternoon session opened
with an address by Sam Carr,
LPP National: Organizer. Stress-
ing the need for a farmer-labor
organization to serve the broad
masses of progressive youth and
lead in the struggles for the
day to day needs of the young
people of our country, Carr
pointed out that the Canadian
Youth Commission had failed to
provide leadership, was now
practically defunct, and was in
fact a stumbling block in the
way of releasing the energies of
youth.

Speaking of some of the spe-
cific problems facing tthe youth
of Canada, Carr laid dspecial
stress on the need for modern-
izing the educational system.

“The educational system of
today is mediaeval,’ Carr
stated. “It is based on an ab-
Stract, academic extolling of

the slogan ‘Victory over Fas-
program with bullets and en-

learning isolated from the
economic circumstances under
which we live.” “The purpose
of education in modern soci-
ety,” he continued, “should be
te equip young people to be-
come useful members: of
society.”’ ‘ ‘

Advancing the need for voca-
tional training, Carr went on to
say thait aptitude tests and sel-
ective training could be started
at an early age so that young
people would enter life equipped
for their chosen field. In con-
clusion Carr pointed out that
socialism was no longer a re-
mote question. To-day one sixth
of the world is firmly establish-
ed as socialist and has proven
to the world the tremendous
superiority of tthe socialist sys-
tem. “You are no longer called
upon to be martyrs, working for
something in a distant future
that you will never see, as the
first socialists were,” he said.
“You are witnessing the opera-
tion of socialism in one sixth of
the world; imperialism was
never weaker. You are living in
a time of tremendous develop-

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the world; the materials and
tools are there. We will do the
job together.’

Setting as its first objective
the organization of young
LPP clubs, to fight for the
special needs of the younger
generation and concentrating
on Marxist-Leninist education
and youthful methods or
work, the conference drew up
a comprehensive program for
immediate action.

As one of the first actions a
McEwen-Rush Youth Commit-
tee will be established in Van-
couver center to work for the
election of these candidates and
to acquaint the youth with the
issues and problems facing B.C.

youth.

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OPENING ELECTION RALLY

— Hear —..

AUSTIN DELANY

LPP Provincial Candidate
for North Vancouver.

“My primary consideration
in accepting the nomination
for North Vancouver is the
thorough conviction that the

program of the Labor-Progres-
sive Party will best serve the
‘interests of the people of this
constituency.

“Not one progressive-mind-
ed individual will deny that
labor and_ progressive unity is
a primary interest of B.C. and
Canada. I add my voice to the
call of my party for unity in
the coming elections. I shall
fight throughout the cam-
Ppaign on a program for such
unity as the only alternative
to the election of reactionary
coalition candidates. The pro-
gram of my party is for the
election of a progressive co-
alition as the only force which
can defeat reaction in B.C.”

“In extending my apprecia-
tion to North Vancouver LPP-
ers for this nomination, I
would like to make it clear
that we of the LPP are as
always preparej] to ‘discuss
in this and other constituen-
cies Our program in the light
of the need for unity.

- - - Compliments

Dr. R. Llewellyn Douglas

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LPP Youth

important
young

deals with many

points which face the y
people and the people of this na-
tion, and is aimed at the institu-
tion of a broad change in the
position of youth in national af-
fairs.

Covering five main headings,
under which are grouped reso-
lutions dealing with many phas-
es of the national economy, the
program calls for broad reforms
‘to raise the general standards of
the people and to assure a fu-
ture of security for Canada’s
youth.

The findings of the conference
are drawn up under five general
headings, which ‘include: Jobs,
Housing, Education, Veterans,
and the Provincial elections.

Under the heading of jobs,
the program recommends that
full employment at a living
wage be provided for veterans
and war workers not only aimed
at bettering living standards
but of combatting juvenile de-
linquency among the unemploy-
ed.

The program recognizes
the need to draw young people
into the trade union movement
as firm protection against any
new economic crisis, and de-
mands new openings in indus-
try for women in accordace
with their abilities.

The conference further called
for the assurance of a job for
every young Canadian at trade
union rates, planned reconversion
to peacetime production, large-
scale government-financed pub-
lic works, full rights for labor,
labor-veteran unity, trade union

rights for apprentices, and a
living wage for all apprentice
workers.

A demand was made for the
40-hour work week’with no re-
duction in take-home pay, the
combatting of anti-labor propa-
gandan directed at returning ve-
terans, a 50c national minimum
wage, health and uemployment
insurance, and the maintenance
of selective service.

Sam Carr

National Organizer LPP

DEFEAT THE cCOALI-
TION OF REACTION BY
A COALITION OF PROG-
RESS.

Added Speakers
TOM McEWEN

Provincial Chairman LPP

MAURICE RUSH

Veteran, ex-prisoner of war

Candidates for Vancouver
Centre Constituency

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Under the heading of Hous-
ing, the program emphasizes the
need for a continued fight
against evictions and specula-
tion in the sale of houses, asks
that empty houses be command-

eered by the government to
shelter returned veterans. It
strongly recommends  govern-

ment-finance,

low-rental hous-

Program Of Actioi

A comprehensive program for youth emerge.
youth conference last weekend, held by the Ging:
Club of the Labor-Progressive Party to’ discuss a
a program to meet the problems of youth. Tj*

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of the average incg
mand is raised fo
Elanning, playgroun
ity centers, school b
slum clearance as
combatting youthful]
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ket in house rentals.

EDUCATIONAL PR
Under Education, {
proposes a two hunc
dollar extension pla;
tional scale, to ing
salaries for school te
school buildings ang
present buildings, 4
and dental clinics for :
rural and urban.

A further propos;
ed: for national Ste
to assure every wo
ent the opportunity —
ing a university
the full use of univ
Vice in social and ec)
construction, and
ment sponsored Prt
up on a national seq

VETERAN TRAINDT
Regarding the Ve
conference demanded
steps to house and ep
ada’s 80,000 veterans
to B.C. Full pay and
for unemployed vet 4
clusive of gratuities —
ed in employment w: _
manded. It urged a.
increase in educatio)
to servicemen taking :
al training, and a ful J
plete statement of ea

repatriation for 3
Overseas. It further |
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groups in the fight fe |
mands. :

The conference de: {
full voice for labor i: |
and called for an a
fensive against the -
partisan, anti-Soviet —
unity policies of the
demanded a fight |
measures and the H
year old vote, full e& |
opportunities and
training.

Resolutions will be-
the Youth Conference
sideration by the Provi |
vention of the Labor-P ©
Party.

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