Or Bill HE menagerie known as the CCF leadership would be an inspiring thing if it did not carry with it the seeds of tragedy for the mass of the Canadian people, the Canadian working class par- ticularly. From Coldwell ‘at the top, who wants the Soviet work- ers to get rid of Stalin, right down the scale “ to the picayune big-wigs in Van- couver, each has his own idea of a program but they are all unit- ed on one pur- pose, their only ¢common de- nominator— the slander of Com- munism and its naeeates: Two of these menaces to the Canadian workers have spread themselves in the past few days, Alsbury. who aspires to the may- or’s chair in Vancouver city. hall and the has-been, self-proclaimed “Marxian Socialist”, George Wea- ver, whose latest frothings in the CCF News show hjm to be, at best, an anarchist in politics and an imperialist in hopes. Alsbury sits up nights worrying himself sick about where Effie Jones gets the money the Civic Reform Association is spending on her campaign. Last year Alsbury couldn’t be coaxed ‘into the field. This year he ORB in without a ee to be nominated. Last year there was an issue involving BCElectric — 20-year franchise and the trans- portation steal in the increased car fares. If he had run then, he would have had to fight the BCElectric, in the temper the Vancouver people were then in. He did not run and he did not fight! This year Alsbury thinks this is a dead issue, so he runs. So the paper behind him, the CCF News, will not be in any danger of losing its share of BCElectric “goodwill” advertising and the money that goes with it. That BCElectric money is actu- ally part of the sinews of war for Alsbury’s campaign. Our paper, which supports Effie Jones gets none of that kind of money, nor does Effie Jones. Remember that on election day! Alsbury may be likened to the crocodile weeping the kind of tears that reptile is famous for, but Weaver can only be compared to the jackal, trying to snatch some of the glory of the great— of Marx—for he poses, without warranty, as a Marxist. In the CCF News of November 18, he attempts to criticize an ar ticle by the noted Soviet journal- ist, Izakov, which appeared in the Vancouver Sun, appealing to the Canadian people not to allow themselves to be drawn into the aggression plans of the Wall Street war lords. One would think that such an appeal would be welcomed ‘by a "THINGS were hot in Harrison Hot Springs last weekend. British Columbia’s Young Liberal Association, reviewing the record of the Coalition government and its unholy offspring decided that the time had come to “bust it wide open.” Meantime, the star principals in this Tory- _ Liberal shotgun . alliance which § has produced § the largest fam- ily of political ‘monstrosities in © the shortest time on record, were billing and cooing in the ‘Trail-Rossland and South Okana- gan byelections, pledging each _ther’s troth to hang together— the only way left of averting the Political yeas of hanging ‘Separately. In the opinion of the Young Lib- erals, not only have legislative “monstrosities sired by Tory Ans- comb, like Bills 39 and 87, the Sales Tax and “other illegitimate offspring of this unholy alliance —driven labor to the CCF” but they have had the overall effect -of bringing Liberalism per se in- to common disrepute. ‘ Equally disturbing to the young Liberals in the knowledge that the Coalition doesn’t mean a co- operative union of the old-line _ parties on matters of politica] ex- Sri HAN Dd) | lt ‘ ri A wd TRS -euphimistically pediency, but rather the political domination of the Liberals by the Tories, thus placing the former in the unhappy position of having to masquerade~- as “damn _ fool Coalitionists’—or face political extinction. Tory strategy in any coalition is primarily designed to secure the power the party can never again hope to attain in any elec- tion mandate from the people; to use such coalition ‘as a vehicle for smuggling in reactionary policies. Hence the flow of legislation favy- orable to big business and against the interests of labor and the peo- ple. Suported by opportunist moss- back Liberals, this strategy is labelled “‘saving the province from CCF socialism - Or worse’. “Let’s bust it wide open.” is an objective B.C. labor has already set itself. A like determination by the Young Liberal Association is a highly welcome decision, despite differences of opinion on its suc- cessor. Disposing of the Coalition is not a matter of partisan algeb- ra summed up as, “... If two guys are going to ride on one horse, one has to ride in front,” but of de- horsing both and electing a gov- ernment which does not. consider itself a political jockey, or aS People a dray horse. 6 This story from the Washington “Merry-Go-Round” should im- press the top layers of the legal profession on the sanctity of their “oaths”, by which they rejected ih | if TE, . 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