The new program of the Labor- Progressive part} : free world’s biggest diplomats are calling the . Lisbon NATO meeting the dawn of a new day. They refer 'to the 14-country. rubber-stamping of the Western big three plan to re-arm the Germans.” .. This was an Associated Press despatch from Lis- bon, dated February 25. Im the name of Canada, ‘Lester B. Pearson rubber-stamped U.S. imperialist ‘plans to hasten war. : From Ottawa on thatsame day. came these des- patches: bat ‘ “The day of freedom for Kurt Meyer, convicted of responsibility for the killing of Canadian soldiers, is rapidly approaching.” _ “Tt is likely the next fiscal year, starting April 1, will see Canada’s military expenditures so great that current taxes will not be able to cover them, and the federal government will be operating at a deficit.” Here is the deadly consequence of U.S. imperialist “domination over Canada. is a ghastly threat of death, mounting taxes and the arms race, savage cuts in living standards and bank- ruptcy for the Canadian people. e . / Tim Buck passionately spoke against the great betrayal at Toronto’s Massey Hall last month. He outlined the new LPP program which points the way. to the salvation of Canada — to peace, democracy, to national independence. He said what is in the minds of hosts of his ‘fellow Canadians: “We will never ‘be rubber-stamps for U.S. imperialism!” He pointed to fact after fact to prove that Can- adians are not willing to be rubber-stamps for trucu- Jent, profiteering U.S. monopolists. And, on the same night that Tim Buck was speaking, over a national CBC network,. Stage °52 presented to Canadians a Len Peterson play which ripped U.S. Congressman Sheehan’s plan to annex Canada to shreds. A veritable tide of resentment and opposition to e ; This is*no “new day.” It~ U.S. interference in, and domination over Canada’s affairs is welling up. This is not limited to one prov- ince, or to one class. Its currents stir every province, affect every class. Canada is a Jand abounding with priceless tréas- ures, a land of proud democratic tradition, a land of great’ destiny. Her people are her mightiest treasure. For, as Tim Buck said at Massey Hall: “Canadians can produce anything, they are second to none in making things, in getting things done!” 4 The. labor, the genius of’ ‘her people, applied to the vast natural resources of Canada’ made our coun- try famous the world over. Tim Buck aroused his audience to enthusiasm when ‘he painted the future that patriotic Canadians aspire to: a land in which a torrent of useful goods will pour from her great ‘industries and ‘bountiful farms; when a'tomic. power “ is harnessed to serve humanity; when the St. Law- rence, the Fraser, the South Saskatchewan, the Red “andthe Mackenzie rivers are ‘tamed ‘and turn the wheels of hydro turbines and irrigate millions of acres; when the iron ore, the oil, 'the metals, the _forests will be used to make Canada richer, stronger! { | © 5 Every patriotic Canadian heart swells) when the inspiring ‘words of our national anthem ring out: The True North — Strong and Free!_ | O Canada, We Stand On Guard For Thee! What road ahead leads to the guarding of Can- ada’s security, the assuring of her advance to greater strength and prosperity? ; The road that was pointed to by Tim Buck when he outlined ‘his party’s:new program and appealed to every Canadian patriot to join hands |to restore Canada’s independence, to free her sae ‘bondage to U.S. imperialism. | for a new political alignment — a People’s Coalition The view LPP program declares: “The He. works around the great democratic tasks of peace and 4 | tional independence and the vital interests % | masses of the people. i “This People’s Coalition will include many ™ groups — the working class, the farmers, the ™ middle classes, the intellectuals and professional® 4 anti-imperialists of Quebec. Tt will include thos tions of CCF voters and supporters who break | right-wing policies, and the masses of trade unlo™ | “The aim of this coalition,” the new progray Hy | clares, “will be to elect a majority to partial That majority would set up a ‘People’s gove representative of the will of the majority of th adian people and carry out a genuine national P for peace, Canadian independence, democracy “prosperity! Fg ; This shining goal, graphically drawn by Ca 4 great artist Avrom, will be won in struggle age afl the venal, treacherous ruling monopoly class of ~ ada, against the foreign imperialists of the US : dominate our land.) And, as Tim Buck emphay it must be the working class that will arouse, Tig ] and lead forward the entire people in the sacred © | of restoring ‘Canada’s independence and liberty | § -; His inspiring call to the labor movement, ae i a LPP, to the CCF, to the trade unions to shoulde responsibilities ‘before them, to weld farmer unity in this great battle for Canada will aro ‘thusiasm and action. The working class will Canada down. It will lead the struggle to a ada down. It will lead the struggle to save ~ | from war, fascism and national servitude. __ ow The yoke of shame that the Liberal, TO if CCF leaders at Ottawa have thelped the Yan! perialists fix upon ;Canada will be broken am aside by an aroused}Canadian people. y She Will be a power for peace, for 2 Canada can and |yyill, be: The True North fa and Free! tek eee: BOT, ER ie a a | ‘The Saskatchewan CCF has taken its stand for retention of the Regina Manifesto and against any new statement ef CCF principles‘at this time. This significant decision follows upon several months of intensive discussion within the Saskat- chewan CCF of the proposed Statement of Aims and Principles drafted by the CCF national council. (At the Vancouver national convention of the CCF in 1950, a resolution adopted after bitter dis- cussion formally reaffirmed the party’s faith in the Regina Manifesto, founding document of the CCF, } C4 / Becca coy | i { \ Saskatchewan CCF rejects nationa but prepared for its revision by instructing the na-— _ tional council to “prepare a statement of the applica- . tion of democratic socialist principles to Canada and _ the world today.” Grand McNeil, then B,C. presi- dent, hopefully observed that revision of the Mani: festo would “extricate us from the dilemma we have found ourselves in for the last few years.7) The new proposed statement was sharply criti- -. cized in a flood of letters to the Saskatchewan Com- monwealth for its failure to take a clearjcut posi- __ | ied tion on questions of peace, and socialist perspectY for Canada, __ ye t ti The CCF provincial executive, in reviewin? aif _ discussion, has announced its position as rep? the Saskatchewan Commonwealth. ; ‘ates # “It was felt that in the main the principles iat ready accepted by the party are adequate, 2” oul ¢ a preamble to a federal election manifesto ye | he sufficient to correct any details which havS, | come outdated due to changing circumstances MTA PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 7, 1952 — 2?