‘IFIC ADVOCATE \PEOPLE’S VOICE FOR PROGRESS 51. —~ 5 Cents DUV-ER, B.C., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1945 Soviet Government agent presents Jand deeds to farmer in rural district of Lat- | deeds entitle farmer to free possession of land. . THE LPP PROPOSES Jobs At Adequate Wages . rons arsaat lithe din Vi. | A Housing Bond Drive A Provincial Labor Code As the British Columbia Labor-Progressive Party sentation in Victoria. The onl intensified reaction, provincial election entered its final week, the its fight to secure united labor repre- y party entering the electoral fight dedicated to labor unity at the polls to defeat Tory-Liberal the LPP is at- tempting to assure that the fight for labor will not be lost. It became increasingly clear, as word of the return of Tory-Liberal re- action in the province of Manitoba reached this province, that labor and the progressive people will have to forge a strong unity to defeat the aims of big business interests operating through the Hart- . Will Nominate Candidates Coming Civic Elections ped labor signified its intention of making a bid for representation in the istration this week, as the Vancouver, New Westminster and District Trades ms. The resolution contested. by a small delegates, who de- ht of organized labor e€ electoral field and 45 one delegate put man who had run for year was a labor man set organized labor’s 2@ of candidates will % the next regular ‘the council and dele- structed to come pre- ake nominations. The ition stated that al- didates “will welcome ‘ of all citizens” they accept endorsation of organizations, politi- 1erwise,” and speci- le candidates will run ntatives of organized rvin, Trades Gouncil varned delegates “not x Council passed a resolution, introduced by its political action committee, pro- at two candidates representing organized labor enter the civic contest in the com- Maitland axis. The Coalition has presented the people with its forty-three point manifesto, but a study of that document has revealed that it is full of high- sounding promises, which the Coalition’s record gives no assurance of fulfilment. Many trade unions in the province, have indicated their desire to see a united front of labor and progressives at the polls. desire on the part of the workers and farmers of the province to assure the election of a progres- sive government for British Co- lumbia, placed its position be- fore the workers. The lLabor- Progressive - Party -has~consist= ently fought and campaigned for labor unity te defeat Tory- Liberal reaction. The CCF on the other hand, rebuffed all overtures that might have led to the welding of unity of pro- gressives, and has declared its intention to ride roughshod over the demands of. workers, |farmers and progressive people. With the near approach of el- ection day, it appeared that la- bor’s unity campaign would be seriously crippled by the narrow isolationist, partisan position of the CCF. THE FIGHT FOR JOBS Recognizing the need for broad reforms in legislation de- signed to meet the immediate needs of the people, the Labor- Progressive Party entered the final week of the election cam- paign, fighting on the basis of its independent program, to assure jobs, homes and security to the people of this province. To assure full employment, to start something you are not going to follow through,” and pointed out that undertaking of a political campaign will re- quire financial support from Trades Council locals. He drew attention to the City Council’s reluctance to support the de mands of organized labor, and stated that labor has had “noth- ing but trouble” with the civic administrators. Delegate Tom Parkin, Aero- nautical Lodge 756, stated that ‘the “people on the hill have not shown am attitude of helpfulness toward labor.’”? He stated that the Trades Council is entitled “as the largest labor body on the Coast” to consideration, and if labor wants better government running on a non-partisan basis (Continued on Page 8) & See TLC ‘ in Division Caused Defeat Manitoba -- Morgan The sweeping victory of the reactionary coalition gov- ernment in the province of Manitoba this week, was attribu- ted the divisive, go-it-alone policies of the CCF, by Nigel Morgan, Provincial Leader of the Labor-Progressive Party at a meeting of Labor-Progressive Party campaign workers e on Monday. “Reaction won an obvious vic- tory in the Manitoba elections, and the responsibility for the defeat of forces Tests squarely on the shoulders of the CCF, whose isolationist “go-it-alone” policies can never recent Federal election and the complete route of their forces in progressive win for labor,’ stated Morgan. “The satisfaction expressed in a statement of the B.C. leader- ship of the CCF on the Manitoba result is hard to understand. It. is to be hoped that the CCF will learn from the Manitoba (Continued on Page 6) See MANITOBA + The Labor-Progressive Party, recognizing the keen the LPP demanded that our warplants be kept in oper- ation producing peace-time products te meet the great market created by the wartime shortage of consumer goods- The Labor- Progressive Party | pointed to- the fact that the people of Europe, whose homes have been wiped out and whose productive machinery has been destroyed are in desperate need of the goods we ean produce. Our own province is faced with an acute shortage of housing, new schools and public build- ings, roads and other _ public works. What is needed in this situation is not money,- but the pressure of the people to un- lock the vast=funds available so that a start can be made to- ward building’ a new and pro- gressive province. The great shipyards of Brit- ish Columbia, which sent a con- stant stream of much-needed shipping to assure a steady flow of war materiais to our” armies in Europe must be con- tinued in production of ships to create a new Canadian mer- chant marine and to maintain those ships already in service under Canadian registry. The possibility of a steel mill must be realized for British Colum- bia, to provide a cheap and easy source of pig iron and. rolled metal for the new industries that could be based on the rela- tively cheaper cost of local pro- duction. The establishment of a steel mill in British Columbia would provide a further source of employment to a large num- ber of workers in this province. In the fight for decent homes and housing, the Labor-Pro- gressive Party demanded im- mediate construction of 20,- 000 new homes, as a start to- wards. planned low-cost, low- rental housing for -B.C. citizens. Realizing that present over- erowding in sub-standard and slum housing provides a breed- ing ground for ill health and (Continued on Page 2) See LPP PROPOSES