members who laid down their
lives in the armed struggle
against fascism shall be forever
lonored in the labor movement.

2 In accord with its basic esti-

°* mation, the LPP put forward
a earefully worked out program
of measures for postwar recon-
struction as its Election Pro-
gram in the federal election this
year. The 67 candidates nomin-
ated by LPP organizations ail
over the country campaigned on
a program of Jobs, Complete
Re-establishment for Canada’s
Fighting Men, Protection for
Farmers, Equality of Cpportun-
ity for Women, Radically
Extended Opportunities for Ed-
ucation and Careers for the
Youth, Social Security and Int-
-ernational Cooperation, which
would have ensured a high level
of employment and well-being in
Canada after the war.

The correctness of the objec-
tives and the legislative propos-
als of our Dominion Election
Program is testified to by the
facts. It was a program of jobs
and social security. No other
party put forward a rounded out
program to meet these needs.
-The King government gave ex-
travagant assurances to the
electorate but it has no plan or
worked out policy to maintain
employment and the national in-
come during the reconversion
period. The nation is now faced
with mass lay-offs and system-
atic efforts to reduce the wage
level. ;
The proposal for unity of all
democratic forces around a Lib-
eral-Labor coalition correspond-
ed with the conditions and rela-
tion of forces which existed in
the situation created by the war.
The basic interest of Canadian
democracy required that the re-
actionary monopolist interests,
‘breeding ground of fascism and
appeasement of fascism, should
be prevented from securing gov-
ernmental power or a dominant
position in the government. The
aims of the LPP in the election
were (a) to defeat the Tory
drive for power, (b) to strength-
en independent labor political ac-
tion and labor’s role in the shap-
ing of national policies, and (c)
te develop and Strengthen its
own role as a national parlia-
mentary force.

It is incontrovertible that the
broad publie campaign carried on
by the LPP throughout the year
and a half before the election and
during the campaign was an im-
portant factor in defeating the
frenzied Tory drive for power.

Only one LPP candidate was
elected. Only two representa-
tives of labor were elected east
of Manitoba while the Tories,
though receiving a smaller pop-
ular vote in the country as a
whole, greatly strengthened their
position in the House of Com-
mons. This outcome was the di-
rect result of the absence of
labor and democratic unity—due
to the persistent rejection of such

Was our failure to combine the
running of a large number of
candidates with effective con-
centration upon the strategic
constituencies. The National Ex-
ecutive was guilty of that fail-
ure equally with other Party or-
ganizations as was exemplified
by the failure to concentrate suf-
ficiently to elect comrade Tim
Buck in Trinity Riding, Toronto.

The result of the Dominion
Election, in the new situation
arising from United Nations’
victory, with demobilization of
hundreds of thousands of men
and women from the armed
forces and the shutting down of
war industries, brings sharp
and pressing changes in the
problems facing labor in Canada.

The Canadian people defeated
the Tories on June 11, but be-
cause the camp of labor and de-
mocracy was disunited, the
People have not got the govern-
ment at Ottawe that they need.
Labor failed to win a place in
government because of the ab-
Sence of lJabor and people’s
unity. The King government
cannot be relied upon by itself
to defend the economic and po-
litical needs of the people. It is
dependent upon right-wing Liber-
al support for its existence, which
means that the Tories possess in
greater measure the power to
influence the King government
to enact reactionary measures,
especially when it is remember-
ed that in the two main prov-
inces, Ontario and Quebec, the
Tories are in power.

Objective consideration shows
that the policies,
Proposals and the slogans adop-
ted by the Labor-Progvressive
Party during the federal elec-
tion campaign were generally
correct. The LPP wil] continue
to be guided in shaping its par-
liamentary Proposals and slo-
Sans by the need to maintain
democratic unity for the com-
plete defeat of Toryism in Can-
ada.

PART III

For Postwar Progress
In Canada

Wits victory over Germany

and Japan and the sharpen-
ing problems of postwar read-
jJustment the domestic and ex-
ternal factors which influence
the policies of Canadian finance-
capital are becoming defined.
The reactionary monopolies in
Ganada are seeking in the con-
Gitions arising from victory the
means. of an offensive against
the Canadian people’s economic
standards and democratic gains.
This development gives stern
emphasis to the need for united
peoples’ struggle to win the
peace. We call upon the veter-
ans, the labor movement, the

the legislative’

For Jobs -- Peace an

and unify the organized work-
ing class movement, and a con-
sistent and tireless struggle to
maintain national unity around
postwar policies in accord with
the world perspective indicated
in the Teheran declaration.

There is a sound basis for the
fight to maintain National Unity
after the war! There is imper-
ative need to prevent a third
cataclysmie world war; and it
is .only through growing inter.
national cooperation and _exten-
sion of the forms of cooperation
2lready developed Bretton
Woods, San Francisco, the Coun-
ci] of Foreign Ministers ete
can a third world war be pre-
vented. Such cooperation is
possible and can be achieved
provided that the united demo-
cratic forces of the people, and
Particularly the labor movement
become the driving force for its
extension.

The keystone of world cooper-
ation is the continuing friend-
ship of Britain and America with
the Soviet Union. Anglo-Soviet-
American unity is as decisive
for peace as it was for vietory in
war. The attempts at. revival
of anti-Sovietism by the pro-
fascist camp must be met with
a stern rebuff from the labor
and people’s movement! The
saboteurs of Canadian-Soviet
friendship must be unmasked—
@s men who are undermining
our national security and the
sacred cause of peace.

The fight to maintain the na-
tional front around postwar
policies in accord with the per-
spective raised at Teheran is
the only course by which, in
the existing conditions, the
working class can strengthen
itself, extend its organizations,
raise its standard of life and ad-
vance its political role and in-
fluence in Canada.

The fight to aid and strengthen
people’s governments in the lib-
erated countries is part of the
fight for postwar jobs and sge-
curity in Canada. A eardinal
issue here is that of large-scale
leans and credits to those coun-
tries. As against all proposals
for utilizing such loans as a
means of reactionary interven-
tion and domination by inter-
ational finance-capital, the la-
bor movement and all progres-
Sive forces must press unitedly
for loans by the Canadian Gov-
ernment to the governments of
the liberated lands. Only on this
basis will their independence be

safeguarded; and only the
broadest unity in this- country
will ensure the granting of

large-scale governmental credits
of a democratic character. It is
cbvious that if labor’s fight for
such credits is to be successful,
it will involve a measure of co-
operation—at least to the ex-
tent of joint support for such
measures—with sections of big

d Progress

cooperation with the Soviet
Union and the liberated coun-
tries. Other sections look to poli-
cies based upon the aim of
“fighting it out” by wage-cuts
and worsening of the conditions
of the masses of the people at
home and_ ruthless economic
competition and struggle for
imperialist advantage abroad.

The extent to which one or the
other of these viewpoints will
predominate in the shaping of
Canada’s postwar policies de-
pends very largely upon the ex-
tent to which the nation’s demo-
cratic forces unite their efforts
to secure progressive policies.
The progressive forces are num-
erous and, potentially, very
strong. There has been a marked
growth of the labor movement.
There has been a striking growth
of friendship with and admira-
tion of the Soviet Union. There
is a mass vocal fear of a re-
turn to conditions such as exist-
ed before the war, there is d
spirit of militant desire to pre-
vent such a return and hundreds
of thousands of people are de-
serting the two old capitalist
parties.

There are ominous signs that
the King government will evade
the new  vresponsibilities and

if Canada’s postwar problems
are to be met in a progressive
way. The government assures
Canadians that 50,000 new
homes will be built this year; it
is announced in the press and
over the radio that the Govern-
ment is giving home building top
priority, but the Government re-
fuses to adopt the one policy by
which large-size construction of
low rental homes would be
assured—namely that, as pro-
posed in the LPP election pro-
gram, “the Dominion Govern-
ment will actually initiate large-
scale housing schemes.”

A similar attitude was ex-
pressed in the recent Dominion-
Provincial conference. Several
of the Dominion government’s
Proposals to that conference
represented a marked advance
over the national policies which

Prevailed before the war. Such
Proposals will be welcomed and
Supported by the labor move-
ment. The erucial Dominion
proposals for re-allocation of

taxing Powers, with the elimin-
ation of double taxation and the
reimbursements of provinces by
Dominion subsidies on the basis
of population, coincides in prin-
ciple with the policy that the
Labor-Progressive Party has
advocated consistently. We pre-
Posed a carefully worked out ar-
rangement based upon that prin-

ciple in our brief to the Rowel-

Sirois ‘Royal Commission _ in
1987. It will eliminate double
taxation. It will centralize rey-

enues from taxation along with

functions which it must accept

vance. Reactionary |
and their spokesme:
larly the Drew Du?
ernments in Ontaric®
bee will strain ever’
prevent such change:
position will be OVE!
if united democratic x
mobilized to press id
the proposals chirmug.,

However, in the n-
of employment, labo.~
and social security,
ion ‘government pr
far short of what is —
the conditions exist
There is not even ae
of amending labor le;
meet the urgent neec.

Pension of $30.00 per
able after the contrif: {|
the age of 70 will ij!
and condemned by 45)
gressive Canadian. j

In the final analys:
of Dominion-Provine: -
ment upon re-allocati |
ing powers and re
for social services wil] :
sult in terms of jobs ca
security. To provide
tion is needed now!

Because the need fo
urgent now, the Labe~
sive Party protests 2
ally against the adjou —
the Dominion-Provinei ©
ence until the Fall Gas
the Spring of next ye: =
long adjournment will i
into the hands of T,”
drew and Duplessis ary
actionary monopoly ir
whom they speak. Ty |
Pressing need now at
time for delay. Right |
are on the defensive. ' |
infdequate as the Dom: +
ernment’s social seq 4
posals are, they are i
as a beginning by G4
whelming mass of the |
The time ‘to secure ¢ |
action to overcome the: =
tional difficulties whielk |)
set the country in re)

is now! ‘The long adj
of the Dominion-Provij’ €
ference must be qs

Early reconvening of 1:
ference must be com ¥
the pressure of an are
lie opinion. Pro-fascist -
must be defeated if {

people are to achieve |;
cratic program of pe 4
construction. ;

PART IV |
The Immediate |
Of The Labor. |

People’s Move: }\

], 1 the continuing siz F

* labor unity of all i
Sive forces as the core a if
tional front the LPP 4g
tinue and strengthen i

to achieve unity in aet
the CCF. The fight for si

unity b i . : : : t i i i i i
CCE y the leadership of the farmers, housewives, profes. business, incly ding sections cf Cd will go far to eg eres ae a eseente ae
; : eee : wi : me the|/strugsle for correct.
Several w. -a. | Sional people, the CCF and the | finance-capital. The same is | ey; : oe : uggs
vealed in the conn Gar len trade unions, to unite their|true of the struggle for aid to|—= sting inequalities of provin- policies. It is equally a

forces to Win the Peace, by
fighting unitedly for the satis-
faction of the just economic and
democratic demands of tHe
people. Labor must win to its
Side the democratic, anti-fascist
elements .in the population.
Democratic coalition of all these
forces is still the true path to
Security and democratic pro-
gress.

the liberation forces in China, Of per:
to’ free India, of the fight for
adequate lay-off pay in Canada,
of the fight for planned recon-
version in Canada, and of the
fight for more adequate social
security legislation,

In Canada as on a world scale
there are marked differences of
interest between different sec-
tions of the capitalist class con_

tion - campaign. The most gen-
eral weakness was in. the fail-
ure of campaign committees to
take up and develop local is-
sues and identify their candi-
dates with the immediate and
Specific interests of the elector-
ate. There was a tendency in
many constituencies to run the
election as an impersonal cam-
paign to win votes for a repres-

people, of all those vp
truly dedicated to the ~ iy
for socialism, |

We re-affirm our de Gi
united action with the C _ i
National Committee u &
members and organiza
the Labor-Progressive Be

taxable
province. [¢

the establishment of national
standards

ing

- This pro-
interest of all
The Labor-Progressive
Party urges all democratic men

i i isti iti i i i he EP
entative of the Party instead of In the existing conditions and | Cerning certain features of post- | ang women to sy : _|¢ontinue and strengt P
a campaign to elect a flesh and | With the inter-relation of classes | War policy. Certain groups, in- getically. SERPORE. 30. ener efforts to devel oP ee
blood candidate known and res.|now prevailing, the main line of |Cluding sections of finance. . “Neree ag [Doth local organizations <
pected by thousands of workers,|the struggle for Socialism in| C@Pital, estimate that the best Establishment of policies in

bers of the CCF in all #
accord with those proposals | of progressive activity. ~
would constitute 9 marked ad-| efforts must be made to

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER

course for Canadian capitalism
18 one of economic and political

One of the most serious weaknes-

Canada must include both sys-
ses in the entire Party campaign

tematic struggle to strengthen
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