Our White CRITICIZES LPP POLICY, TACTICS us. Deparment What ise Vieaie. Burton lists three “errors: but errs badly on all counts. A. BURTON, Trail: You have asked for instances wherein the EPP has committed “errors”. First I shall quote a sentence from a section of the Communist Manifesto, page 59 of the Hand- book of Marxism: “In short, the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and po- litical order of things.” _ Now I agree that tactics are variable, but surely not principles, the switches I referred to in my first letter were three distinct changes in policy, not in tactics. . The first instance I shall refer to occurred in the 1945 general election, when the LPP ran under the slogan of Liberal-Labor unity. This of course being a fundamental deviation’ from the above quotation of Marxist tac- tics, that of not, supporting a revolutionary movement against the existing social order, but ra- ther attempting to split the work- ing class and prevent the CCF from attaining power; .whether they would have “done so is be- side the point. That this stand was the direct result of American Browderism I have no _ doubt, but this makes the incorrect an- alysis of Canadian politics all the-more glaring, for Canada is more advanced politically than America, for there is no move- in the States comparable to- the CCF, even the communist move- ment is stronger in Canada than it is in the, States. To quote once more, “The his- toric conditions of a nation de- termine the methods by which it achieves the socialist society.” Thus your party not only de-_ viated along the lines of Browder- ism but also from the original Marxian tactic, this being in keeping with the Stalinist line of Marxism; now call me a Trotsky- ist. The second instance was the deliberate splitting of the IWA. This was a deplorably bad tac- tic, in that it divided a’ labor union for the sake of your own selfish ends of the movement and not the long range interests of labor. Your action has served. only the interests of the bour- geoisie, not: even your own. This is evident now during the pres- ent negotiations between the log- ging operators and the union. . The third instance was during’ the recent general election in Bur- maby - Richmond — constituency. Contrary to the LPP’s assertions that they would run no candi- dotes against any CCF candidates providing that the CCF candidate had or would oppose the North Atlantic Pact, you ran a candi- date against Dorothy Steves, who played a leading role in the CCF convention this spring in rallying CLASSIFIED A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be accepted later than Monday noon of the. week of publication. Oldtime Dancing To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra Every Wednesday and Saturday Hastings Auditorium Phone HAstings 1248 Moderate Rental Rates _ For socials, weddings, meetings Russian People’s Home— available for meetings, weddings and banquets at reasonable rates. 600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087. CRYSTAL STEAM BATHS— Open every day. New Modern Beauty Salon—1763 E. Hastings. 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Everybody welcome. | historic conditions. Proceeds for the Fairview Mt. the delegates that were opposed to the pact in voting down the convention’s support of the na- tional executive’s stand in favor of the nefarious war pact. Yet your candidate’s votes would have been more than enough to have given the seat to the CCF. Was this done for spite, be- cause the CCF ran a candidate against Tim Buck in Trinity, where he didn’t even obtain as many votes as the CCF?” EDITOR’S NOTE: Brother Burton of Trail writes us again ... this time a long let- ter supplementing his previous one appearing in the August 12 Pacific Tribune. Due to lack of space we omit his opening para- graphs which cynically refer to our publishing of Ernie Weed’s letter in the same issue as “the brave unyielding martyr,” and re- produce only those sections of Brother Burton’s letter’ in which he lists the “errors” of the LPP. These include: (1) the LPP 1945 election slogan “Elect a Liberal- Labor government”; (2) the IWA- WIUC split; (3) the 1949 Burna- by-Richmond federal election and the CCF candidate’s position on the, North Atlantic war pact. Had Brother Burton applied his second quotation from the Communist Manifesto to the “his- toric conditions” in 1945, he would have found that a “Liberal- Labor” government, consisting in the main of CCF, LPP, trade un- ion and farmer MP’s was the only possible realistic election tactic, as against the CCF’s “socialism-or- nothing, go-it-alone” policy. With the LPP in 1945 it was an election tactic based on objective No question of the surrender of socialist prin- ‘ciples was involved. Quite the reverse of the CCF in 1949, with its unqualified sup- port of the Marshall plan and its consequent North Atlantic war pact—which commits the CCF to the support of imperialist war and intervention against the countries and peoples of socialism. While we agree with Brother Burton that the IWA-WIUC split is bad business for the workers; _ we must remind him that despite “errors” which may have been committed by LPP’ers, the union was faced with an organized split on the “cold war” bogey of “com-_ munism”, engineered by ‘one- cent” Fadling and his bosses’ blocks in the IWA. They were out | to rule or ruin—a fact now be- coming painfully obvious to .thou- sands of lumberworkers — who will eventually find the road to a united autonomous lumberwork- ers’ union in B.C. under militant ° COMMENT AND CRITICISM support of this Pen’s novel Temptation criticized by Hungarians By STEVE SZOKE = Editor of the Hungarian weekly Munkas AS PROGRESSIVES of Hungarian origin, we must express SharP criticism of John Pen’s recent book Temptation. We believe it should not have been selected by the Book Unidn whose selections are always of such high quality. Our ‘three categories, 1. The hero of the novel, Bela, who undecidedly duifts between the role of a working class fight- er and that of a stoolpigeon, at the end escapes to the “promised land”—the U.S.A.! He dreams about the U.S.A. as the land of © limitless opportunity and last word in, democracy, after he meets a travelling superintendent of the Standard Oil Co. and falls in love with the 13-year-old daughter of the gentleman. Not a word of doubt, not the slightest hint that his dream may be not so true! Of course, we know differently, and history proved differently in connection with Hungary too. 2. The book condemns the Hor- thyists, shows the arrogant and “undermining work of the Ger- man agents, shows a couple of fighters of the Communist un- derground. ’ But it carefully escapes even mentioning the Soviet Union! Yet, a few years after the cur- tain’ goes down.in the novel, the Soviet Union liberates Hungary, gives the opportunity and mate-\| rial aid and protection to the Hun- communist leadership. Finally, the LPP did not run a candidate in Burnaby-Richmond as a “spite” candidate — as the CCF did in Toronto - Trinity against Tim Buck. And here Bro-- ther Burton’s arithmetic’ is con- fused. The vote in Toronto- Trinity was Buck (LPP) 5,930, Voaden (CCF) 3,748. ‘Brother Burton is equally wrong in his estimate of CCF candidate Dorothy Steeves’ posi- tion on the Atlantic war pact. She at least Made her position of infamous pact quite clear to the constituents of Burnaby-Richmond, if not to Bro- ther Burton. It may be a pecu- liarity of top CCF politicians in convention to “move” an oppos- ing motion to a policy they are in agreement with, just to “sound out sentiment”, or to leave thein followers not knowing just where they stand. That is their business —if they like it that way. For LPP’ers, we prefer to say no when when we mean no or vice versa. Had Dorothy Steeves taken a * clear uncompromising position in opposition to the Atlantic. war pact on the hustings, she could have been MP for Burnaby-Rich- mond. We agree with Brother Burton that we had enough votes to have “given the Seat to the CCF,” but we did not see the top leadership of the CCF, in- cluding Dorothy Steeves, as con- stituting a “revolutionary move- ment against the existing social and political order of things.” Revolutionary socialists, neither tactically nor on principle, sup- port imperialist war pacts. criticism of Temptation falls into garian people to fulfill the dreams of 1848 and 1919! : Is this not “Titoism”’—even be — fore Tito became exposed? * * * 3. The book deals en gross with the sexual side of life. It is full of sexual actions to the last d& tails. But there ig nothing heal thy and clean in it; not only the — ruling class but the common Pe “ple, even the working class itself sinks into \a sexual morass: — Everything is rotten, sickening and hopeless. There is only on@ exception—the American girl! This is disgusting and hateful. This is a free-for-all “love’—this is a lie! (Lenin’s conversation with Clara Zetkin on sexual morals ‘should serve as an excellent ant dote against the sickening and damaging sexual trend represent ed in Temptation, and growing 2 the Western life). * * * In the age of civilization there never has been a period or coun try which would fit in to this picture. It is true that the moral rottenness and sexual perversity of the wuling class and the despe! ate economic situation, always effect badly the moral and sexual life of the oppressed. It was true of the old, semi-feudal and fascist _ Hungary. It is true today—eve? worse in western countries, eSP& — cially the U.S.A, But in the old’ Hungary (as i? every other country before the — socialist revolution) there is 4° ways a very conscious strivin® an actual struggle—as against the ruling classes and lumpenprole-— tariat—for a new standard ° ; morals, for a healthy, clean love and sexual life. And this struggle : in the old Hungary was, just 4s is today in every country before and after ‘the transition to social- ism, in the ranks and families the working class, as part of the whole struggle against the de- generated rulers and their aecad- ent morals. The book shows 20 “thing of this struggle. ‘ We think the three points abov? © are sufficient to support our dis e agreement with this book. i We do not deny nor discuss th® “merits”, the “good” sides 32? sections of the novel, because W® think that against our three points they are “relative.” 1G think that the “merits” of tb° book) make it that much more 42 genous! We know little about Joh? — Pen (Janos Szekely is his Te” name), but the faults and “weak nesses” of this—as we see it — Trojan horse, are ‘sufficient iD put every | progressive on guard. : Ny. oe ~ re ' Provincial Committee, Association of United Ukrainian Canadians Annual Lahor Day Picnic Monday, Sept. Sth, at 1 p.m. AT THE ORCHARD, CORNER OF MAPLE AND NO. 2 STEVESTON | Special Buses Will Be Leaving from Ukrainian Labor: Temple, 805 First Bus 12:30 UKRAINIAN DISHES—CORN ON THE COB—DANCING—GAMES ROADS / af \ East Pender Street pA pp Y PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 2, 1949 — PAGE .