Swankey | Alberta — Leader Convention of the Alberta Labor- Progressive Farty elected Ben Swankey well-known Alberta member and veteran of the Royal Canadian Artillery, to the lead- ership of the nprovinesl party. and drafted a fighting program for the immediate future, last weekend. The three-day conven- tion prepared to initiate a broad public campaign in the fight to win the peace as a counter to the barrage ganda carried on by the Social Credit movement in that pro- The conference further went on record as supporting the Party’s tional housing scheme, and: de- manding markets, parity prices for farm products and the equal- ization of freight rates to West- ern Canada. The party also de- manded a new labor code and la- bor minister for the province. Evidence of the growing in- fluence of the Labor-Progressive Party.in Alberta was clear in the recent municipal elections in that province In Calgary and Ed- monton unity slates _-supported by the Labor-Progressivé Party and including a united front against the old civic. machines, were elected. In Calgary, Mayor Andy Davidson, who has held down the mayor’s post in that eity for over two decades, was defeated by the unity candidate. In the organization of farmer organizations in Alberta, the LPP has carried on extensive work. The Alberta ~“Farmers’ Union held a convention last week and voted to send pro- visions to the Ford strikers. The party has also made its influen- ee felt in labor organization in the province. of anti-Soviet propa- vince. Labor-Progressive na- Stanley Ryerson, well-known. author and lecturer, who will ad- dress a mass meeting in Van- couver this week, spoke to the Alberta conference on the topic “The Building of the Party in the Strugele for Socialism’. Urging and it happened on Republic. agrarian reformers of Yenan. The British sailors. in wealth when they shouted, must be more than a heart sick. Worth Repeat “those in the seats of the mighty” to. take note of the refusal of the British sailors of the troop ship Moreton Bay to transport Dutch troops, ‘ New its editorial of Nov. 13, says: It was an insignificant incident the other side of the world. But those who sit in the seats of the mighty in Whitehall and Washing- ton had better take note of the refusal of the crew of the British troop ship Moreton Bay to sail from Sydney with 1,600 Dutch troops being sent to suppress the Indonesians It was only four years ago that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill proclaimed the Atlantic Charter with its Four Freedoms. It is no part of the duty of our great democracies to suppress a struggle for Javanese independence; nor are we commissioned to- lend our ships or soldiers to sustain the power hungry autocrats of Chungking against the Sydney Harbor spoke for the common man in America as well as the British Common- “Hands off Java!” no hand in teshackling colonial millions whose offense has been that they hoped we meant our wartime promises. Liberty word, and hope deferred maketh the — the Buffalo Evening News in We want 7 Saskatchewan Meet Warns SASKATOON, Sask. — Put- ting forward a program of con- structive proposals for. improv-’ ing the standards of [ving in Saskatchewan, the annual pro- vyincial convention of the Labor- Progressive- Party . concluded here recently declared it would support every measure brought forward by the CCF government in. Saskatchewan designed to better the lives of the people. At the same time the policy resolution adopted by the con- vention warned that “it is de- luding the people to claim, as the CCF does, that limited measures cf reform introduced under the existing system of capitalism constitute socialism.” The resolution further de- elared that “socialism will be won cnly by the complete expropria- tion of the capitalists without compensation thus entirely end- ing the exploitation of man by man,” and emphasized that “the LPP is the only party in this country which fights for social- ism—the only ‘final solution to the problems of the Canadian people.” ( UNITY MEANS PROGRESS “We restate our conviction that only the broadest unity in action of all the progressive forces in our province can make it possible to maintain the im- provement which has been made in the economic system of the people of Saskatchewan during the past few years, and only ORDER NOW !? Atomic Diplomacy Threat to World Peace, 5¢ _ By Tim Buck I NATIONAL AFFAIRS MONTHLY The Technology Myth — Dyson Carter Post-war Quebec — Gui Caron Peoples’ Battlefronts The Ford Strike — Washington Conference Crisis in Asia Malaton on Soviet Democracy The LPP and the Post War Dialectical Materialism David Guest’ 10% REDUCTION ON ALL ORDERS ABOVE $1.06 Order from LPP Headquarters, 209 Shelly Bldg. Against Coalition Bid such unity will open the way for continued progress. “We warn the thousands of honest CCF supporters of this province of the disastrous results which folow upon the anti-unity policies of their party as evi- denced in the recent federal and provincial elections in which, be- cause of these policies, the posi- tion of reaction has been strength- ened. The Tories and Liberals will not fail to learn the lessons of the British Columbia and Man- itoba elections and the continued rejection of unity in Saskatche- wan will create the gravest dan- ger of an old-party coalition which may win back power in the next provincial election. “We of the LPP are deter- mined that Saskatchewan must never go back to the old par- ties: that instead we must go forward in the direction of pro- gress. We extend again to the members and supporters of the CCF organization itself, an invi- tation to work along with us in a great movement to build up the province of Saskatchewan and make happier lives of our peo- ple. “The LPP will nominate = candidates in federal, provin- cial and municipal elections in this province and carry on an active campaign to place be- fore the people the construc- live proposals of our Party.” Attended by delegates repre- senting 18 constituencies the con- vention passed resolutions de- manding repeal of the Education Tax, and calling for provincial housing program pending a fed- eral program, support for the Ford strikers, support for the 40-hour week with no reduction in take-home pay, and a resolu- tion protesting against “the bru- tal intervention of British troops in Java and every other in- infringement against colonial peoples’ struggle for national li- beration.”’ 3% TRANSFER Courteous, Fast, Efficient @...Call... . 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Slocombe two years ago as “un- invited Communist support.” Without this organized support this year, because there was no Labor Election candidates in Ward One, and no labor unity in this municipal election, Con- way lost. : Under the leadership of Ald. Jacob Pennex, Labor Election Committee _ candidates fought the hardest campaign and raised the issue of lower carfares to first place in the election fight. Campaign workers for McNeil and Forkin circulated 2,000 pe- titions backing the Penner-For- kin demand for lower fares, with . pt 7 LPP Unity Candid; ; a sf a Top Winnipeg. WINNIPEG, Man.—Ald. M. J. Forkin and seph Zuken topped the polls for Ward Three city elections, with Forkin polling 4,561 and 7A and their. policies, who contested the seats as of the Labor Election Committee. : victory for both | thousands of signatuy the i paign weariness (t third election for jy this year), and the of a strike-bound both interest and t light. 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