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4E — PAGE 5

“Should Repudiate

Dear Sir: =

The reproduction of the
smelly cartoon in the PA orig-
inally printed in the CCF TUC
bulletin, has had a tremendous
effect on those, who, wheher
in the CCF, or not, have some
respect-for the morals of the
common people, and the ethical
standards that have uniformly
characterized the literature and
propaganda of the working
elass. One can only assume
that this is the work of the
disruptive and depraved ele-
ments in the CCF, and not of
the rank and file.

The association of some of
the candidates in the provincial
election campaign with these
lumpen-proletarians is unfor-
tunate, and it would raise their
prestige if they were to com-
pletely repudiate these tactics;
with the full realization that in

the immediate future only unity
of action of all progressives of
any political affiliation can
avert a catastrophic period of

reaction and lowering of our
living standards.

All CCF candidates should
be cireularized with the view
of having their position in this
respect made clear, so that in
the constituencies where no
LPP candidate is running, we
can assess their right to our
vote and assistance.

HANS KROEGER.

RADIO BROADCAST
Monday, Oct. 15, CJVI, 6:30-

e6:45 p.m. Bob Kerr, LPP candi-
date for Victoria.

Monday, Oct. 22, CJVI, 6:30-
6:45 p.m. Councillor W. B. White,
LPP candidate for Saanich.

for the tests that lie ahead.

people.

LIBERAL COALITION.

HOMES AND SECURITY.

BETTER LIFE.

mail it to us today.

I WANT TO JOIN

Recruiting Drive

JGIN THE LABOR PROGRESSIVE PARTY NOW!
By MAURICE RUSH, Provincial Organizer LPP

The Labor-Progressive Party aims to enroll 1000 new mem-
bers by January ist! The recent B.C. convention set this
objective in order to strengthen the party of the working class

The end of the war has brought forward many new prob-
lems. The reactionary elements at home and abroad are not yet
all licked. Our boys did a good job overseas, but we still have
many fascist-minded individuals who are trying to provoke war
against the Soviet Union and who want to place the whole
burden of the post-war years on the shoulders of the working

There are many danger signs. Already the attack on
the workers’ standards of living and trade union organiza-
tions has begun, In Windsor we see the beginnings of this
attack. The failure of our governments to plan reconversion
of industry tc peacetime conditions is resulting in many
workers being forced to take work at reduced rates of pay-
The vested interests are looking forward to days of mass
unemployment so that they cam drive down living standards.

The plans of the reactionaries must be defeated. A stable
peace based on international co-operation and friendship with
the Soviet Union must be won. The fight for aid to the liberated
peoples and democratic governments in Europe must be carried
forward. The struggle for unity at home to achieve jobs, deceny
homes and security for the people must be vigorously ad-
vaneed. To achieve all this the working people must have a
strong political party which will lead the fight on every front
for a true people’s peace. The LPP is such a party.

e THE LPP LEADS THE FIGHT FOR PEOPLE’S
UNITY TO DEFEAT THE REACTIONARY TORY-

e THE LPP LEADS THE FIGHT FOR JOBS,

e THE LPP SHOWS THE CORRECT ROAD THE
WORKING PEOPLE MUST TAKE TO SOCIALISM.

THESE ARE THE REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD
NOT HESITATE ANY LONGER TO BECOME A MEM-
BER. JOIN NOW! THE LPP NEEDS YOU, JUST.AS
YOU NEED THE LPP IN YOUR FIGHT FOR A

This is your invitation to join. Fill out the form below and

I AM INTERESTED IN THE LPP

MY NAME IS ._

I WANT MORE INFORMATION

ADDRESS

_-. PHONE _.____

Send to Provincial Organizer, LPP, Room 209 Shelly Building,
Vancouver, B.C.

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Short Jabs by Ol’ Bill

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Farcical Trials

fe have been great trials in- history which have been nothing
more nor less than farces. That such is the case is one of the fail-
ings of democracy as .we know it, that is capitalist democracy. Those
trials of the past, however, in which the evidence submitted was an
unconsidered trifle, were trials of workers for attempting to better the
living conditions of the masses, the people, economic and political.

Although the courts, the lawyers who mouth phrases about the high
purpose of the legal profession to defend “liberty,” will deny it, many
of the men and women who fought for the liberties we have today were
press-ganged into the dock and railroaded to jail, in spite of the moun-
tains of evidence of their innocence of the charges laid against them,
This condition was well expressed by an old Seottish judge during the
cher oss agitation, when he said: “Bring me the prisoners, I’ll find the
aw! Z

In the latest farcical trial the case is different. The occupant in
the dock is a figure who represents the most reactionary section of the
capitalist class. The scene is in France and the figure is Laval, ‘who
represents reaction as surely as Richard Carlisle in Englemd and Sacco
and Vanzetti in the United States, represented progress. Thprir trials
were farces. So is Laval’s, but the similarity ends there.

The people of the United States and of the world, in fact, were con-
vineed of the innocence of Sacco: and Vanzetti and fought for seven
long years to save them from the lawyers who defend ‘liberty,’ but
without success. ;

The guilt of Laval as a traitor is sufficiently proven by the cruci-
fixion of France. A whole people, 40 millions of them, are witness
enough without the formalities of the past couple of weeks, the im-
dignant and childish protests, the thundered insults at the French peo-
ple indulged in by that cornered rat.

The outbursts of that craven scoundrel, side-kick of Sir Samuel
Hoare, disp'ay all the hall marks of the bully who is brave only when
his’ victims are weak. They differ so much as to be the exact opposiite
of the brave and dignified end of one of Laval’s victims, Gabriel Peri,
the Communist editor of L’Humanite, whose murder is sufficient alone
to justify the extermination of Laval without any trial whatever. .

Defense or Attack

A SOCIAL CREDIT member in, the House of Commons, the Rev. Han-

sell, M.P., from Macleod, Alta., a week ago unburdened himself of
the greatest collection of lies heard in that House where ilies have been
common fare. /

_ This Reverend Hansell must be the same type of spell-binder ‘thait
his leader, Aberhart, was. He indulged in the same-ranting and, where
he Sid not lie outright, distorted the truth unti] it became unrecogniz
able. :

Of course, the Soviet Union was the center of attack as it is of all
fascists and near fascists no matter by what high sounding names they
parade themselves.

On the debate on war expenditures and demobilization in, the House
he launched his tirade. In seven points, the first of which was that the
Soviet Union provoked civil war in Spain and the last of which main.
tained that “In all countries of eastern and southeastern Europe Soviet
authorities are behaving in a way which does not differ from that of
Nazi Germany.” He may have learned that from the foreign secretary
of the CCF Labor Party in Britain, Ernest Bevin.

: In, between these two downright lies are sandwiched five other vary-
ing kinds of mixtures of truth and falsity which make whole cloth lies.

When this slander of our most effective ally in the struggle against

fascism appeared in the press. as it did the following day, it was accom-

panied by an item about Angus MacInnis commenting om it, which

nade some people believe that MescInnis was defending the Soviet
nion.

Nothing was further from the truth. MacInnis does not lift the
cudgels for the Soviet Union any more today than he has ever done.
What did he say? According to Hansard (Oct. 2nd) this. is what he did
say—*I should like to refer to the statement made this afternoon by
the hon. member for Macleod (Mr. Hansell). I do not want the hom
member to feel that I am criticizing him, except to say that I think the
statement he made this afternoon was unwise, no matter how funda—
mentally true he may consider it to be.”

That is not a defense of the Soviet Union, and. don’t let anybody
fool you into believing it is. Itis a warning to the capitalist elements

of the dangér to them that lies in monkeying with the Soviet Union. It ©

is he function of MacInnis and all Social Democrats to perform that
job.

Atomic Bomb

DIPLOMATIC double-talk is still a crutch used by politicians. President

Truman slings it about freely in his confidences with the newshawks.
This is apparent in the recent conference when he dealt with the atomic
bomb and the Soviet Union.

A few kindly words to the boys about how the Soviet Union has

been badly misrepresented in the States and, of course, how the USS. .

has been bad'y misrepresented in the Soviet Union, and then—“‘*the
secret of the atomic bomb will not be shared with additional powers.”
That’s definite. +

The secret, he said, is “industrial know-how.” The- Soviet Union
has made as much progress in industrial development in 25 years as the
United States did in almost 250 years, so the “industrial know-how,”
as a secret, should be in the hands of the Soviet people in a matter
of weeks or months if they don’t a’ready. have it.

But before President Truman makes such unbelievably foolish
statements to the press, he should consult his chief of staff. General
Marshall, in his biennial report to the Secretary of War, asserts ‘that
“the British and Soviet peoples, coupled with the enemy’s stupidijty at
crucial moments” saved the U.S. from war-on its own: soth. :

In that report he foresees, unless the peace of the world is main-~
tained, the atomic bomb in the hands of everybody who wishes to use it.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1945

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