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diversionists. By the wizardy
touch ‘of a button they pledge
to wishk us into the Jand of
plenty—just as soon as the
vested interests beg them to
take over. This reminds us of a
similar group known as the
Physiocrats of Feudal France. .
They also advocated a no strug-
gle policy prior to the great
revolution and just like our
Technocrats are still waiting to
be asked to please take over.
These and other diversionists
and revisionists consciously or
unconsciously are helping re-
action. Like the sensational
headlines of earthquakes, fires,
murders and other erimes they
draw people’s attention from
low wages, unemployment and
other ills and obviously are
a great asset to the economic
Royalists.
: JACK BOYD.

Young Canadians
Editor, P.A.:

There is a movement afoot
among the youth of our nation
‘to revise the franchise. Through
your columns I want to call
the attention of the public to
it. Young Canadians want the
voting age cut from 21 to 18,
in all. elections.

Some “democrats” frown on
the idea of giving such a pre-
ciows right as the vote to our
young people, which they vari-
ously describe as naive, ignor-

AGED.

_b and mine
city of work.

‘in motion.

-N URGENT

me

2 coalition and

i ions.

;
' for the LPP

:

| ghting Dollars
jre Needed Now !

> .less than three weeks away, the people of
@ will elect the government which must deal
problems of this province.

7 NUINE LABOR MEN AND WOMEN ARE
) im NEXT LEGISLATURE WILL AN EF-
> -— BE WAGED FOR JOBS, FOR HOMES,
7 YORKING CONDITIONS, FOR CARE TO

q ing literature, pushing our Press, telephon-
= acquaintances, inviting friends and neighbors
| ndidates or listen to the radio broadcasts with
‘plenty of technical assistance in the election
‘our suggestions, your ideas are needed, too,
a ing how the campaign can be speeded up and

ir election plans can be carried out without
; for radio speeches and flashes, money for
> ads, money to print and mail 200,000 pieces
erature, money to send out organizers and
i ey is the fuel needed to set our election ap-

E.lone advances
E/cople's needs.
lity which is the sole guarantee of victory over
of social progress before, during

sy demonstrates is the only path to progress.

st,
(HEN THE FIGHT FOR UNITY BY GIVING
J YOUR ENERGIES!

FEHEN THE FIGHT FOR UNITY AND POST
SESS WITH YOUR FIGHTING DOLLARS!

to elect them. But it can’t be
It means canvassing from door

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APPEAL TO ALL CLUBS OF
_ALL MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF THE
7INANCIAL ASSISTANCE AT ONCE.

the rounded-out program which
The LPP fearlessly battles for

is support for people’s unity

ant, irresponsible, and corrupt.

Westhe young people of B.C.
and of Canada, scorn such pre-
judice and demand our rights
as citizens of this nation.

There is no compunction on
the part of the governments
against our fighting fn uni-
form, though we be 20 and un-
der. There is no compunction
against our working, nor
against our observing the laws.
And that is good; we are glad
to accept these, our duties.

But if we are old enough to
be given these duties the
duties of those over 21; then
we are old enough to be grant-
ed our civil rights, including
the vote—the rights of those
over 21.

_ Naive? War has matured us
early. Ignorant? What remains
with us of our school studies on
civil rights and responsibilities
is not yet as poorly remembered
as it is after 21. Irresponsible?
Our interest is steady and con-
structive; it is on a par with
that of our elders. Corrupt?
What corruption exists among
us we beg leave to suggest is.
due only to what corruption and
poverty is forced upon us.

Youth are by nature a force
for good in this world. Give us
the right to demonstrate that
force, to show our interest in
government and our love for
our native land. Give us the 18-
year-old vote!

ROY LOWTHER.

Carin Labor

Editor, P.A.:

Fruit picking has -begun in
earnest in the Okanagan so let
us examine the wage scale of
the farm laborer.

‘The wage for apple picking
has been set at 7c a box, and
a fast picker can average $7
to $8 a day, that is, if the fruit
is not scattered. The fruit
picker has about 3 months of
work and must then look else-
where for a job, thus he or she
will probably have about $300
(three hundred dollars) to keep
themselves until they find an-
other job, which is usually hard
to find.

Now, let us examine the
farm worker’s wages who is
‘ducky” or “unlucky” enough
to have a steady job. The wages
run anywhere from $100 a
month to 55¢c or 65¢ an hour.
So there is no set wage.

If you work by the month,
+he farmer expects you to work
from dark. to dark and at
times, especially during “spray-
ing” you work 15 hours 2 day,
with no’time and a half over-
time pay. Also you must work

“rain” or “shine” as the farmer
thinks he is “gypped” if you
dot. :

That is why farm workers

to fight for “‘better wages,”
“better working conditions”
and “better living accommoda-
tions.”

makes the farmer rich.

MRS. TEATHER.

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must be organized and united

- The farmer must learn that
the worker with good wages
will buy farm produce and this

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Tested In The Crucible

yee answer of the CCF leaders to the B.C. Federation of Labor’s reso- ,
lution on electoral unity is also an answer to those deluded workers
who are content to believe that the LPP is responsible for splitting the
labor vote in the coming provincial elections.

That, answer shows that the leaders of the CCF, who are not above
indulging in pornography ‘in their slanderous propaganda, refuse to be
realistic in face of the vital. problems confronting the people of this
province. That makes it necessary to show to the electors the kind of
people these CCF leaders are.

It was no boastful claim they made ‘in their press when the present
Labor government was elected to’ power in Great Britain, that that
government was the replica in Britain of the CCF in Canada that the
policies, the Socialism, of the Labor government are the policies, the
Socialism, the CCF stand for in Canada. They spoke the truth vegarding
these policies and that Socialism, though there are many fundamental
differences beween these two bodies.

And what are these policies, that Socialism, of the CCF-Labor gov- —
ernment in Britain as they have been shown to the world since the July

election when they took office.

Insofar as the subject peoples are concerned, we are having demon-
strations daily. They are the same repressive policies of naked, un-
ashamed reactionary, Tory imperialism.

But since the true character of that imperialism has been exposed
and it can no longer carry on in its own name in the face of popular
opinion, the stinking corpse of Social Democratism has been rejuvenated
given a blood transfusion, for-the second time in history. It was done
after the last war to stem the flood tide of revolution which started in
Russia and swept westward until the Social Democrats were able to put
the damper on it.

Today, in Europe, in Britain, in Canada, the corpse is being made
to come alive so it may be used as a blind to do the dirty work from
which its imperialist masters profit. In Britain it is the Labor Party, in
Canada it is the CCF. :

In Indo-China, armed forces of the British CCF-Labor Party are
presently engaged in ‘saving’ that part of the shattered French Empire.
The French are unable to ‘save’ it for themselves, for Blim and the
Socialist allies of De Gaulle, Blum, who is also a replica of the CCF,
who, in spite of his own personal experiences,, Blum, who knows and
has admitted ‘the terrible consequences of continued refusal of unity” of

action with the Communists in the face of reaction.

For this CCF-Socialist France, the CCF-Socialist government of
Britain is sending its armed might into French Indo-China to destroy the
Annamite nationalist movement which represents the people of that
country and their just demands for national liberty. As a people, they
believed themselves to be included in the. Atlantic charter.

In the outposts of the Dutch Empire, the same process of ‘salvaging’
is being carried on by the CCF-Labor Party. In the Netherlands East
Indies, the people refuse to allow the Dutch to return to their country
as overlords. So the troops of the CCF-Labor Party government of
Britain are being landed in Java and Batavia.

No more cynical, barefaced story: could be imagined than that
of this ‘operation’ unless it might be that of the CCF-Secial Demo-
crat Burgermeister of Cologne, who, in 1924, appealed to the French
government. for military assistance to put down a Communist ‘“up-
rising,” in return for the help rendered to the French goyermment
in 1871 by Bismarck, to destroy the Paris Commune.

Says the British geneyal in command of this second invasion of the
Netherlands East Indies, “British and Indian troops will not be involved
in internal politics.” (Wonderful.) The Indonesian ‘republican govern-
ment’ will not be expelled but will be left to administer the civil areas
not covered by the British. Japanese troops will be used to maintain
law and order until the administration can be handed. over to the Dutch.

Further, he says, “I am stopping all Dutch troops coming, until we
are well established. We shall hand over all internal security to them
when they arrive and then dispense with the Japanese.”

But this CCF-Labor Party general makes one concession to the
Indonesian people-and their national government. With all the kindli-
hess of the Social Democrat he said that Indonesian armed forces would
not be disarmed and they would be allowed to fiy their national flag.

That is Social Democracy at work. If a Tory government in Britain
tried to pull off tricks of that kind they would be met with such a storm
of opposition as might shake the foundations of their empire. But CCrF-
Labor Party Social Democracy makes promises which act like chloro-
form and while the victims are still under the influence they get their
licks in. ; :

Nor is it an oceasional mis-step. It is a consistent policy. Ramsay
MacDonald sent British battleships into the Pearl River «at Canton
in 1926 when the Chinese people were engaged in a stern struggle with
imperialism. No, not to help the Chinese people. It is a consistent
policy and will remain so as long as workers can be misled.

Nor are the native peoples involved, the gee-string savages the
good Social Democrats, would have us believe. Some years ago wher

a leading big-wig_of the AFL sneered at the membership of the Red
International of Labor Unions and spoke of them as a few naked
savages, he was confounded by figures which proved that there were
more members in the Indonesian unions than in the AFL and that the
Netherlands East Indies is highly industrialized.

SATURDAY, OCT. 6, 1945