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three B.C.

“The Labor - Progressive
party will concentrate its ef-
forts in the remaining five
weeks of the federal election
campaign on electing to par-
liament the largest possible
number of progressives, in-
cluding a limited number of
LPP candidates,’ Nigel Mor-
gan, LPP ‘provincial leader,
announced «after a Weekend
session here of the party’s pro-
vincial committee.

“We intend to throw all our
energy into the campaign to
replace the Liberal spokesmen
of monopoly in parliament,”
he said.

“We recognize the danger
of the Socreds in B.C. and the
Tories in the east cashing in
on the widespread discontent
with the Liberals and then
coming together after the elec-
tion to, form an every more re-
actionary alliance.

“Solon Low let the cat out
of the bag last Friday when he
projected the possibility of a
Tory - Socred coalition. And
despite Premier Bennett’s at-
temps to cover up Low’s poli-

_- tical bloomer, it is not with-

out significance that Low
Should repeat a proposition
which was projected at the
recent. national convention of

»..the Conservative party to
», Which many B.C. Socreds
formerly belonged,’ Morgan

charged,

“Low’s statement serves to
emphasize, the urgent need for
independent political action
and electoral unity by mem-
bers of the trade union and
farm organizations, co-ops
ratepayers, and democratic

and cultural fraternal organi-

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contest New Westminster

zations together with members
of the CCF and,LPP.

“As Canadians we need, and
should work and vote for the
candidate who will most ef-
fectively fight for new policies
of peace friendship and trade
between countries, and the
needs of the workers and
farmers and ordinary folk,”
the LPP leader declared.

Federal campaigning by the
LPP got under way. in this
province last weekend, when
the party’s provincial commit-
tee in its first meeting since
delegates returned from the
recent national convention in
Toronto completed campaign
plans.

The provincial committee
decided to recommend:

e Nomination of LPP candi-
dates in a minimum of three
constituencies, Vancouver
Centre, New Westminster
and Vancouver South..

e Action to stimulate and de-
velop independent united
political activity by all
people’s organizations.

e Work for election of the
most progressive candidate

in those constituencies
where the LPP is not.nom-
inating.

Morgan will direct the LPP’s
federal campaign in B.C. and
Tim Buck recently re-elected
LPP national leader is expect-
ed to address at least one ma-
jor rally in Vancouver toward
the end of the campaign.

Alf Dewhurst LPP provin-
cial organizer was unanimous
choice of a weekend nominat-
ing conference to contest New
Westminster riding. A strong
committee was set up to help
organize the campaign.

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LPP will contest ELECTION PLATFORM

Spend for people's

security, says LPP

TORONTO

One-quarter of a million copies of the Labor-Progressive party's election plat
form calling for unity of the laborfarm vote to “break the grip of the olddine
parties’’ will be circulated across the country.

Its preamble opens with special stress on the H-bomb menace.

“Deadly radioactive
the polls to elect MPs who
will demand a halt to all H-
bomb tests” is its call, add-
ing:

“Our country needs peace,
millions need homes, our senior
citizens and our fellows who
are blind or disabled, need
higher pensions for modest
comfort. We need national
health insurance. Let us elect
candidates who will resist
spending $1.7 billion each year
preparing for war, and spend
it to enrich our lives in peace

and help banish war from the
world.”

Major attention in the LPP
platform is given to the battle
for people’s reforms against
monopoly and the need to
mount the most energetic drive
to keep Canadian sovereign
power over its resources and
its political and military life,
free of U.S. domination. It
reads:

“Canada’s national produc-
tion is growing faster than is
the people’s consumption of
products. Unite at the polls
to elect MPs who will stop
the price spiral, stop increas-
ing taxes on small incomes,
increase the purchasing power
of the people, and tax further
the swollen profits of the mon-

opolies.

“Our country’s interests re-
quire a healthy agriculture
and farm prosperity. Unite
at the polls to elect candidates
who will establish parity
— an equitable relationship
between the prices of the pro-
ducts of farm and factory.
Elect candidates who stand for
the export of farm goods to
markets now embargoed by
U.S. interests.

“Our country has raw ma-
terials, sources of energy,
human skills equal to any in
the world and capital to de-
velop industries. Yet, the
national income is more and
more dependent on the export
of raw materials, and we de-
pend upon the USA for finish-
ed goods, because that is the
aim of Liberal policy... .

“The U.S. monopolists make
no secret of their ambition to
sirengthen their grip upon our
country. Their armed forces
occupy our strategic areas; our
foreign. trade is subordinated
to. U.S. policies. The arro-
gance with which the U.S.
tycoons treat our country is

dust from H-bomb tests threatens mankind . .

. Waite at

LPF standard bearers in the prairie provinces are Bill
Beeching (left), named to contest Regina, and W. C. Ross
(right), who will run in Winnipeg North.

shown by the way they hound-
ed Dr. Norman to suicide by
political presecution.

“The interests of Canada de-
mand this situation be chang-
ed. The Labor-Progressive
party urges patriotic Cana-
dians to unite at the polls to
elect MPs who will lead a
country-wide movement to
stop the sellout of our country
to the United States and in-
troduce a new, truly Cana-
dian national policy,”

In outlining its own role in
the elections the LPP says its
aim for united action will be
tied to a policy of contesting
only a limited number of seats.
The platform points out:

“The LPP will work hard
to elect its own candidates
where they are nominated.

“To help elect representa-
tives of the working people
and to roll up the biggest vote
against the political lieuten-
ants of monopoly capital, the
LPP will work to elect other
candidates who stand for pro-
gressive action in constituen-
cies where it does not nomin-
ate.

“Our party will work for
electoral unity with the mem-
bers of trade unions, farm or-

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ganizations, cooperatives, dem-
ocratic cultural and fraternal
organizations and members of
the CCF. LPP support will be
as energetic as we can make
it. Our only condition is that
the candidates stand for a
program of progressive action
to meet the people’s needs,
and in the defense of labor’s
rights. :

“Emphasizing the important
relationship between struggles
for social reform and the aim
of sociialism, members of the
LPP will especially seek to
develop cooperation in defense
of peace, and against monopoly
capitalism with members of
the CCF, with whose aspira-
tions we have much in com-
mon.

“The LPP is confident that
the working class and farm-
ers will in the future win a
people’s majority in parlia-
ment, and that through politi-
cal and economic struggles
against monopolies they will
find the path to socialism in
Canada. This election is a step
in that direction.”

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