mation of a new
‘es and supported
5s a possibility as

Prime Ministers
yshington meeting

id the obvious fact
aR had never asked
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Fie maintenance of
“iity and strict ad-.
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> jtsdam. Yet these
F questions were pre-
F ruman, Attlee and
® to face up to at

= ents by progressive
| the outcome of the
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= ; and no less omin-
= 1 the breakdown of
Ministers’ Confer-
on two months ago,:
teting should have
= .Truman,-Attlee and
= han between the Big

, interpreted as the

possible next Anglo-
“pve——the creation of

*. atomic bomb tot

big power coalition centered
by a group of lesser powers
the results of the Washington
Attlee and Mackenzie King
‘was supposedly called to

began to
discuss the handing over of the

t Of Western Bloc Fades
| Left Victory in France

around Great Britain and
led by Canada—loomed more
conference between President
be assessed.

he Soviet Union. But all the press comment on the discus-

tion to the Soviet Union and
the new. democracies of East-
earn Europe will have _to be
discarded by the imperialists
for some time to come, at least.
As LPP. national leader, Tim
Buck declared only last week in
a speech on the international sit-
uation: Atomic bomb® diplomacy:
will not succeed in’ turning back:
the clock of history to the days
of feudal reaction. :
“If they imagine that Hungary:
is coming back into their arms

they are badly mistaken,” «Buck
declared... “Do you think - the
peasants, who now own their

farms for the first time, “will give
the land back to the hereditary

landlords? Similarly .in: Czecho-

taking decisive steps toward so-
cialism. Do you think they are
going to invite foreign finance
capital to step in and take over
the national. economy? Even the
atom bomb can’t do that!’
These are only a few of the
sharp contradictions now facing
Anglo American imperialism and
its would-be junior partner, the
imperialist group in Canada. And

Prime Minister Mackenzie King,
avho. hopes: to become’ the third

member of the Truman-Attlee,

-axis,. and who finds the .same
contradictions present on “the
Canadian -domestic...scene, will

find it equally difficult to re-
solve those contradictions in fa-
vor of Tory réaction. is

slovakia and ~ ‘Yugoslavia, now

_ AL PARKIN.

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| of the Anglo Soviet-

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_ atomic bomb secret
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! frightened.
’ thing, the atomic.
® aacy failed dismally
F xpt. to create a Wes-.
= .an bloc of nations
- .e Soviet Union and
' ce. The French elec-
that scheme badly—
dly became apparent
' then General Charles
ter several days of

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' ais mew cabinet five
- members, granting
= m the key portfolios
- its, national economy,
| yroduction and labor.
'., French Communist
irice Thorez was in-
' a minister of state

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USSR Ambassador S peaks

To Sovict-Friendship Meet

The B.C. Regional Congress for Canadian-Soviet Friend-

ship will be held in the Hotel
and 25, under
Canadian-Soviet Friendship.
will be G. N. Zaroubin,

Socialist Soviet Republics,
the American Soviet Friendship
Council, who will speak to a lun-

1cheon meeting and. will address

a public rally, to be held in the

Orpheum-Theater at 8 p-m. Sun-
day, November 25.

The call issued by the Coun-
ci] states: “The end of the war

has centered everyone’s inter-
ests on the maintenance of em-
ployment, trade, purchasing
power and living standards of
the population.. Everyone is anx-
jous that the extensive gains that
were made in industry, science,
education and general economic
development should not be lost.
Canada’s progress depends on the
maintenance and extension of her
position in the world as a trad-

ing nation. The USSR offers,

{ONOPOLIES

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adian Unity
STANLEY RYERSON

National Educational Director

LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY

Eminent Young Canadian Author

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the auspices of the
Main guests at the Congress
Ambassador
and Edwin Smith, Director of

Vancouver, November 23, 24,
Vancouver Council for

from the Union of

probably the largest of the
world’s markets for the absorp-
tio of Canadian products. The
development of Canada’s cultur-
al life, as well as her economic
and social institutions will de-
pend in a large measure on her
success in maintaining a strong
economic lever. The promotion
of Canadian Soviet Friendship,
therefore is a highly practical
and not a sentimental project.”

Representatives from many
trade union and progressive or-
anizations will be present at the
Congress, to discuss various top-
ies relating to maintenance of
friendship with the USSR. Panel
discussions will include:

e@ The Arts, Medicine and Re-
ligion,

@ Trade and Industry, Labor
and Trade Unions.

The theme of the congress will
be “Benefits to Canada’s Re-
conversion Program of Good Re-
lations with the USSR,” and it
is expected that labor will take
an active part in leading dis-
cussions in the trade and indus-
try panel.

The Congress will be held un-
der the patronage of Hon. John
Hart, W. C. Woodward, Chief
Justice W. B. Farris, Sir Fran-
cis Heathcote, and Mayor Cor-
nett. -

The holding of the conference
will give added interest to the
campaign to secure signatures
for the national book of signa-
tures campaign, pledging friend-
ship to the Soviet Union, be-
ing conducted by the National
Council for Soviet Friendship.
Every organization and com-
munity group, according to in-
formation released by the Na-
tional Council, will be sent
pages of the book which. are to
be filled with signatures of per-
sons wishing to indicate a de-
sire for friendship with the
USSR.

Protesting the delay

in holding. national elections, 100,-

000 people, members of all political. parties, parade in Rome.

Rush-McEwen

To Make

Organizational Tours

As part of the recruiting,

educational and organiza-

tonal_.drive-.of the party, two provincial executive ,.mem-
bers of the Labor-Progressive Party leave for extended tours

of the province this week.

iD i i j : :
Tom McEwen, Provincial; Trail on the sam

Chairman of the B.C.-Yukon La-
bor-Progressive Party will ad-
dress a numberof public meet-
ings in the Kootenays and ‘Cari-
boo areas of the province during
the coming month. His publie
meeting itinerary is as follows:

Rossland, Sunday, Nov. 25 (af-
ternoon), with a public meeting

Protest Attack On
Wage Standards

The meeting of the Vancouver,
New Westminster and District
Trades and Labor Council on
Tuesday this week, went on re-
cord as. protesting conditions
existing on the Provincial Gov-
ernment road-working project on
the Hope-Princeton Highway.
Delegates condemned the M. L.
Anderson Company for following
practices which it is alleged
undermine working and wage
conditions in B.C.

Resolution was passed author-
izing the sending of a telegram
of protest to the provincial gov-
ernment, and drawing: the matter
to the attention -of local  Selec-
tive Service and Labor officials.

“The Hope-Princeton Road
business has been going on for 30
years”, stated a delegate from
the Building ‘Trades Council.
“Whenever the contract is let it
is let to eastern contractors who
bring cheap. labor into the prov-
ince and who by. their actions
undermine conditions in British
Columbia’.

Alex Gordon, United Fisher-
men delegate, pointed out ‘that
the Trades Council should oppose
any company which by its prac-
tices threatens the maintenance
of working standards in this pro-
vinee. He harshly eriticized the
Provincial Government for its
policy of granting contracts and
urged that regardless of which
contracts carry out government
projects, wages and. conditions
should measure up to provincial
standards.

-Thurs.,

e “evening.
Cranbrook, “Saturday, “Dee: 1;
Kimberley, Sunday, Deeio2;-Fer-
nie, Sunday,*Dec.: 9; Michel,.Mon-
day, Dec. 10; Pioneer, Wednesday,
Dec. 12; Bralorne, Thursday,
Dec. 10; Wells, Saturday,:.Dec.
15; Prince George, Dec. 17.

In the intervening periods the
provincial chairman will conduct
a series of workers’ study classes
on Marxist-Leninist theory and
practice in Trail, Kimberley,
Fernie and: Prince George.

These classes are being organ-
ized by the LPP Clubs at the
above points, and all students
interested in the study of scien-
tific socialism and the building
of a Marxist-Leninist Party, are
urged to attend. Details on the
classes can be secured by writ-
ing the following LPP Club sec-
retaries:

Edna Henne, Trail, B.C.; H.
Romer, Box 98, Kimberley, B.C.;
Sam English, Michele, B.C., and
Art Brown, Prince George, B.C.

At the completion of the B.C.
tour, the LPP chairman will pro-
ceed via CP Airlines to White-
horse, Dawson City, and other
Yukon points for a series of or-
ganizational and public meet-
ings. :

Maurice Rush, LPP’ provincial
organizer, is leaving this week
for an extended tour of many
interior points. His tour will
combine public meetings ‘with
Party conferences in numerous
important centers.

The subject Rush will speak on
will be “Labor and the Coali-
tion.” He is expected to outline
the Labor-Progressive .Party’s
position. on . many important
questions facing B.C. His tour
will considerably aid toward or-
ganizing and rallying progres-
sive forces in the interior to
meet the reactionary policies of
the Hart-Maitland coalition.

During his tour Rush will
speak at the following places:

Copper. Mountain, Sat., Nov.
25; Princeton, Mon., Nov. 26;
Hedley, Tues., Nov. 27; Pentic-
ton, Wed. Nov. 28; Kelowna,
Nov. 29; Vernon, Fri.,
Nov. 30; Salmon Arm, Sun.,
Dec. 2; Revelstoke, Mon., Dec. 8;
and finally at Kamloops, at a
date to be announced.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23. 1945

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