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- Dewhurst.

Calls For

Agreement
Evidence that the
campaign for electoral unity of
the forces of labor was bearing
fruit was plain this week in Al-
berni, where a group of CCF
Supporters signified their will-
ingness to call a joint nominat-
ing convention with the Labor-
Progressive Party to select a
Single labor unity candidate for
that riding. The Labor-Progres-
sive candidate in Alberni, Alf
Dewhurst, carrying out LPP
policy of fighting for electoral
unity of labor against the Lib-
eral-Tory machine, issued a full
page advertisement in the local
daily press, and the action of
the CCF supporters is taken as
evidence that all in the ranks
of the CCF are not willing to
support the isolationist anti-
unity position of that party.

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While placing the independent
position of the LPP forward,
Dewhurst made it plain to the
electorate that his party is pre-
pared to enter into electoral,
agreemens on the basis of labor
unity candidates with the CCF,
and quoted statistics from pre-
vious elections to prove that the
CCF is not in a position to pur-
sue an independent policy of “all
or nothing.”

On October 7, Dewhurst will
leave Alberni to tour the west
coast of. Vancouver Island and
will conduct meetings in fishing
and logging towns up the coast.
On October 15; Minerva Cooper,
Provincial Educational Director
of the LPP, will address a meet-
ing at Port Alberni, and on Oct-
ober 16, will speak to a meeting
at Great. Central. Harvey Mur-
phy will speak to a public meet-
ing in Port Alberni on October
21.

“MOVING-TRANSFER’”’

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A. A. MacLEOD

MacLeod Leaves
On Election Tour

A. A. MacLeod, visiting On-
tario LPP member cf parliament,
will tour lower mainland island,
and interior points, as part of the

LPP provincial election cam-
paign. MacLeod, who swept to
victory in the Ontario elections
last June 4, will speak in sup-
port of LPP candidates.

MacLeod’s tour will include the
following points:

Monday, Oct. 8, Point Grey;
Tuesday, Oct. 9, Vancouver-Cen-
tre; Wednesday, Oct. 10, Cour-
tenay; Thursday, Oct. 11, Boil-
ermakers’ Hall; Friday, Oct. 12,
entrain for Kamloops; Saturday,
Oct. 183, Kamloops; Sunday, Oct.

14, entrain for Grand Forks;
Monday, Oct. 15, Grand Forks;
Tuesday, Oct. 16. Trail or Nel-

son; Wednesday, Oct. 17, Cran-
brook or Kimberley; Thursday,
Oct. 18, entrain for Lethbridge,
Alta.

The Civilian Pensioned Moth-
ers Association. extend a very
cordial invitation to all mothers
who are in receipt of the Mothers’
Allowances, to attend our meet-
ings which are held on the first
Friday of each month in the
Province Auditorium at 8 p.m.

which has followed so closely
on the heels of victory.

The Toronto rally correctly
interprets the grave situation
confronting the nation as a ‘‘na-
tional emergency.” Organized re-
action has tossed its hat into
the ring, and organized labor is
faced with no other alternative
but to take up the challenge. The
speed with which the giant Ford
company opened its attacks on the
UAW is clear indication of the
determination of employers to
open an all-out offensive against
labor.

The pattern of the offensive
makes its objective clear. The rob-
ber. barons of industry are pre-
pared to thrust Canada back
into the dark days of depression,
and in order to do this they must
begin their attacks on the organ-
ized labor movement. The ini-
tial provocative action of the Ca-
nadian Manufacturers’ Associa-
tion expressed determination to
oppose union security and check-
off clauses in collective bargain-
ing contracts, indicated that- the
gloves were off. Flagrant oppo-
sition to the rulings of zovern-
ment boards of arbitration and
conciliation granting union se-
curity have forced drastic action
on unions. Organized labor has
been faced with no alternative
but to fight for its existence.

Increasing rumblings of unrest.
on the labor front indicate that
decisive government action must
be taken—at once. A country-
wide emergency faces the peo-
ple of Canada. The opening shots
of the battle for, postwar security
and prosperity for the people of
Canada have already been fired.
For its own welfare, Canada can
no longer tolerate the anti-labor
attitude of big. industry, and if
reaction is permitted to con-
tinue its attacks without restric-

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National Emergency

tion by government action, the
people -of Canada will suffer
heavily.

The planned wage -cutting
drive of anti-union employers,
based on expectations of a large
army of unemployed cannot con-
tinue. Organized labor has al=-
ready realized the dangers it
faces and is preparing to carry
the fight to the enemy. ,

A meeting of ten thousand |

citizens, militantly expressing
their support of the demands ‘of
crganized fellow workers and
urging upon their government
the need for action to avert a
national crisis, is a powerful por-
tent of the support of which
labor is assured in its battle for
a prosperous and secure post-
war. Delegations of labor are
meeting with. federal authorities
weekly to press for a decent la-
bor code, assurance of decent
wages, and proper social security
measures. The fight that is
shaping up is the fight of all
Canadians. ;

The voices of ten thousand Ca-
nadians in Toronto have been
raised, and the government
must take note. The days of the
open shop and of employers rid-
ing rough-shod over workers de-
mands are numbered. Organized

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