! uy | f North Vancouver | _AUSTIN DELANY- “- @ Outstanding youth leader, fought against’ shipment “o War materials to Japan. ; ~ “® Trade unionist, membér ‘of the -Boilermakers =. ‘and Shipbuilders Loeal “No: shop=steward in shipyard prior to enlistment. @ Wounded in action whilst , @ paratrooper attached to the British Army as tenant. e Federal _ candidate ~ “in North . Vancouver: Consistent fighter for labor unity. Burnaby ELIZABETH WILSON @ Elected member of Burn- aby’ School Board in recogni- tion of work on behalf of a progressive community. @ Active member-of Parent- Teachers’ Association, now a -leader in community youth work and in boys and girls clubs of Burnaby.‘ ®. Leading fighter for wel- fare of Burnaby’s mother and children. Well-known for strug- gles‘in thirties on behalf of un- employed workers: “of Iron’ 1 -and* platoon Lieu-_ Russia and the No more important statement on the fundamental question of labor unity has appeared during the British Columbia that writen by Elmore Phi had to say: ..- ‘A LESSON ON UNITY ~~) - @ Election of CCF govern-_ ments in Manitoba and B.C. could be a very good thing for the Canadian people at ‘this moment in history. Unfortun- ately, chances of outright CCF victory are diminished by the refusal of the two parties ‘of the Left to get together — at least to the extent, of not can- celling each oher out. It seems that the people of. no country will learn from the mistakes‘ made in others. Eur. ope went down under fascism for many reasons. Yet the chief _ reason. -—.;which overshadows everything “else—was that the parties of “Left refused to unite in time te forestall the ‘common threat. to:! them: “all. In the end they “formed: their common front. But is was only = when enough of them. had. been, * buried togeher, ‘as victims of. the fascist tyranny, ‘that they were willing to submerge their -differences, They died - togeth- ‘er because they would not live together. i The parties of the right are now completely united—as nev- er before in the history of Gan- ada. The parties of the -Left are disunited as never before. If Harold Winch and Nigel Morgan faced Messrs. Hart and Maitland even as half united as are the. latter, the people of B.C. could win the most em- phatic and significant victory ever won in Canada. That is what organized labor request- ed. That, in my judgment, is what the overwhelming major- ity of rank-and-file voters “want. i Elmore Philpott is right! At the second annual con- vention of the) B.C. Feder- _ation of Labor, CCL, rep- resenting “some 60,000 trade unionists jin: the pro- vince, a resolution was ap-- proved bya five to one wote calling. upon the CCF and- Labor-Progréssive®'Party 't6° achie we ‘'électoral’ unity.” Here“is ‘the essential ‘text of that =resolutiont , SEND LABOR TO VICTORIA @ jResolved: “That this con- vention go on récord as pro- posing that the trade union movement be utilized in’ such a manner that the support of labor will be centered upon: one candidate in each constituency. By this, we do not mean that the trade union movement should endorse any one politi- cal party, but rather the indi- vidual candidate meriting the support of labor. Be it further resolved: That the §8.C. Federation of Labor approach the two political par- D if ' er ences Continued the fight to unite the people around correct policies. The antagonistic attitude of CCF leaders and spokesmen toward the world’s first Socialist State, the USSR, is one that “Serves to divide and throw con- fusion into the progressive camp. There is a long history of these hostile actions in which CCF leaders have con- sistently lined up with reaction against the USSR. And now, when the whole basis for con- tinued world peace and pro- gress is dependent on unity with the Soviet Union, their spokesmen again line up with the forces of Imperialism. Writing in the CCF News, George Weaver, leading pro- vincial spokesman and journa- list for that party says: “The current policy appar- ently being pursued by Soviet ‘chip on the shoulder’ attitude of Molotov, are disturbing not only the Big Three relations, but are a mat- ter of concern to a number of smaller .countries. There is a growing belief that the old Policy of the Tsars is achiev- ing vigorous resurrection, -and a fear of a new ‘dominant race’ aiming at world control. It is now claimed by a ‘man in close touch with the peacemakers’ that Russia is ‘motivated by a conviction that a clash between east and west is inevitable, with the initiative coming from the west.’ That sounds child- ishly weak; it is hard to ac- cept the theory that any wes- tern nation or combination of nations would risk tackling Russia after her exhibition of military might.’ ‘This constitutes a dastardly attack on the very basis for continued United Nations unity for a just and stable peace. It constitutes an open incite- ment to war against the So- viet Union. Even the capital- ist press does not dare come forward with such open state- ments today. But the CCF News, under the cloak of “So- cialism” carries the attack for them. The CCF needs to seriously examine its policies. It cannot continue to masquerade as a workers’ party and continue its disruptive - course. The CCF leadership- does not express the aspirations of their follow- ing in this manner. The road to progress for -the workers and the peoples of the world lies through united action. Ipott in his column‘ of October 6 in the Vancouver Sun. lt was a Jesson in history that deserves to be studied. Here is what he aes election campaign than OS. ties speaking in the; name of labor, namely: the Cooperative -Gommonwealth Federation and. the lLabor-Progressive Party, and strongly urge them to to achieve electoral unity in the coming provincial elec- tions. But the CCF thought otherwise. After withhold- ing its answer for almost two.months, the CCF prot vincial executive, ember 30, released a state- ment to the press directly without having. the com-* mon courtesy to make a formal::reply. to the BiC. | Redétation of Labor. J CCF: statement: declared: ~in® part: EARS ae oo THE CCF SAYS--“NO” _ @ The adoption of the B.C. Federation proposal, if it were ‘to result in the formation’ of a _ government, could only lead to a CCF-LPP coalition govern- meént. Such a coalition of par- ties, divided by fundamental differences of policy, could only result in the chaos and be- trayal of the interests of the working people of this prov- ince, which the CCF avoided on Sept-. j ’ Iron Shipbuilders Ui | ' teur Sports Associa © } * CHARLES STEW e@ Former membi 3 1-217 Internati. workers of. Ameri | ‘Local, No. 1, Boiler ‘tary,