COMMUNIST PARTY REPLY TO NDP CANDIDATE ‘NDP cannot win if it supports McCarthyism Bee Morris, national leader of the Commun- ist Party of Canada, last week issued a press release in reply to certain allega- tions made by Val Scott, NDP federal candidate in York Centre. In making his allegations, Scott repudiated Communist support for the following “reasons’’: (1) ‘‘When it appeared that the CCF had a good chance to form an Ontario govern- ment, the Communist Party ran 19 candidates in the rid- ings where the CCF was strongest (in .1945).” (2) “During the Grey North federal by-election in 1945, the Communists openly sup- ported Gen. A. L. McNaugh- ton of the Liberal Party.” (3) “In the Ontario Provin- cial election in Sudbury the LPP supported the Conserva- tive candidate against the CCF”... (There was) “wide- spread suspicion (1949-1960) that the LPP was in collusion with the B.C. Liberal-Conser- vative Coalitionists and later the B.C. Social Credit Party against the CCF.” (4) “Now the Canadian Communist Party has come out in support of the Quebec Separatist Movement.” Morris pointed out that Scott’s name had never arisen and his candidature never been endorsed by the York Centre. Communist Club, and took the occasion to correct Scott’s faulty presentation of labor history. In doing this, Morris stated: e “The Ontario CCF in 1945 refused to take the op- portunity of forming a gov- ernment when Premier George Drew was defeated in the Legislature. The two Com- munist members of the legis- lature urged E. B. Jolliffe, then the Ontario CCF leader, to form a government, and offered their support. Jolliffe could have formed a govern- ment and then. gone to the province on a fighting pro- gram. Because the CCF lead- ers were paralyzed with fright at the thought of Com- munist support they actually gave the government of On- tario to the Tories, who have held it ever since.’ e “Our party has no apo- logy to make for advocating the election of Gen. Mc- Naughton in the 1945 by- election in Grey North. He was Minister of National De- fence and the paramount thing was national unity to defeat the Hitlerites.” e “Our party did not sup- port the Conservative candi- date in Sudbury; in B.C. it never has been in collusion with Liberals, Conservatives LESLIE MORRIS, Communist Party leader, who answered red-baiting charges of York Centre NDP candidate Val: Scott. or Social Crediters against the CCF; there, as elsewhere it advocates independent la- bor-farmer political action to bring about a _ labor-farmer government. This has been our position since our first convention in 1922, ten years before the CCF was born.” e “The Communist party specifically has declared its disagreement with the French-Canadian Separatist movement. Communists are not Separatists. They advo- cate full national rights for the French-Canadian nation.” PRESENT SITUATION ORPHEUM BARBERS 611 Smithe St. (Near Seymour) { May Day Greetings to B.C. Labor from PENDER AUDITORIUM (MARINE WORKERS) 339 West Pender Large and Small Halls for Rental PHONE MU 1-9481 In an yt of the pre- sent political situation, Mor- ris said: “Our party believes that all organizations who challenge capitalist monopoly rule should be welcome in the NDP, including the Commun- ist Party. “« | |. If the NDP fails to become such a movement be- cause its leaders repeat the right-wing mistakes of the old CCF leadership, then the Can- adian people will find other ways of expressing their vital interests. In this sense, the NDP is not the property of its leaders or candidates but of ‘the masses of Canadian people who, for half a cen- tury, have been seeking the way to the formation of a third party in Canada — a labor-farmer party.” “Unfortunately, capitula- tion to anti-ccommunism has ~ weakened the NDP. If it is not abandoned it can disarm it, put it on the defensive and ultimately destroy it. This danger already is to be seen in the wavering position taken by the NDP on NATO at its founding convention, in the failure to take up the cause of Canadian indepen- dence from U.S. domination and in the exclusion of labor organizations because of ‘anti-ccommunist’ prejudices.” “We submit that capitula- tion to McCarthyism can bring only defeat and disas- ter to Canadian labor and to Canada.” “The Communist party has no intention of capitulating before anti-communism. Our record is one of fighting it; and continue to fight it we shall.” Greetings to the PT on May Day, 1962 from FEDERATION OF RUSSIAN - CANADIANS . 600 Campbell Ave. Vancouver 4, B.C. SS