FEDERAL ELECTIONS

BY LESLIE MORRIS

LPP launches great campaign
on people’s unity, peace issues

HEN Prime Minister St. Laur-

ent thinks it will help the
Liberal party and the bosses, he
will call a general election. All
we know at the moment is, that
the present government can sit
in office until the summer of
1954. Any time up to then, an
election can be called.

The ruling class always has

the electoral advantage in cap-"

ita] democracy.

It controls the state.

It can wangle election dates
at will,

It is up to
sociali-s t-
minded and
progressiv &
workers to be
on the alert.
There can be
an election at
eany time.

And it will
be the most
important el-
ection in
many years, At stake will be the
very life of Canada as a nation.
It is not always that this can be
said about elections. It can, this
time, because the present policy
of the St. Laurent government
is headed to war, disaster. fasc-
ism and economic crisis.

The St. Laurent government
is a government of national be-

trayal.
And every other party in par-
liament — Liberal, Tory. CCF

and Social Credit, bears its share
of guilt for this policy of na-
tional betrayal.

Only one political party fights
this - betrayal and _ strives to
arouse patriotic Canadians to
stop it, and that is the Labor-
Progressive party.

Against the policy of war via
NATO. fascism, via the new
Criminal Code (Bill H-8) and
the prostitution of our country
to Uncle Sam. the LPP has put
forward a New National Policy

“for Canada.

The New National Policy is
plain and clear, understandable
to every thinking Canadian
democrat. It is'to stop the drive
to war and to declare for peace
through disarmament and a
five-power peace pact; to seize

back the independence of Can-
ada from the bloody paws of
Wall Street and to pursue a
Canadian policy—economically,
diplomatically and government-
ally; to trade with the world
and build up our industries in-
stead of obeying Uncle Sam in
world trade and shipping our

raw materials’ to his factories; -

to build homes instead of bat-
tleships, grain terminals instead
of arsenals, playgrounds instead
of germ warfare experimental
stations.

In short — to stop the cold

war, win the peace, and to the
devil with the war-mad gang in
Washington and their hirelings
in Ottawa.
e Q
The: Labor-Progressive party
will nominate at least 70 to 80
candidates out of the 265 fed-
eral constituencies, on such a
program. . Already at least 70
are assured of nomination with-
in the next three months,

These are the substance of the
big decisions made by the LPP
national committee meeting a
few weeks ago.

Tim Buck’s keynote speech
(to be published in. National Af-
fairs Monthly for October) was
a fighting speech of high pat-
riotism, sound practicality, and
political wisdom.

What other political party but
the LPP at this time is telling
the flat truth about where St.
Laurent — “the Yankee party”
—is leading ot country? None!
In order to get the workers
thinking and acting. to arouse
the farm people. and the city
middle classes—all of whom are
worried sick about the future—
the LPP candidates will gtart
the campaign right away.

Tim Buck is the first LPP
eandidate to be nominated, in
Toronto Trinity.

Other Greater Toronto seats
will be contested. In Montreal,
Quebec City, Hamilton. Windsor,
Winnipeg. London, Head of the
Lakes, Northern Ontario, the
Maritimes. Winnipeg, Regina,
Saskatoon. Calgary, Edmonton.
Vancouver — all the centres of
industry and of the labor and
farm movement, LPP candidates

will be on the hustings in short
order—and will be helping at
the same time in municipal elec-
tions.

In a score of rural seats the
LPP will tell the farmers,
through its candidates, the grim

story of decline of the farm un-.
‘Laurent (over 100,000 -

der St.
less farms now than 10 years
ago, for example.) ‘
®

Back home from the LPP na-
tiona] committe meeting. com-
mittee members are calling
special meetings of their execu-
tives, arranging membership
meetings, and planning lively
public nominating meetings, to
launch the biggest campaign the
Communists have held in their
30 years.

And surely times are urgent |

enough for that. The rejection
of peace offers and the determ-
ination to wage war against the
peoples of the world for imper-
jalist profits, has brought the
war camp very close to unleash-
ing world war on our people.
Canada, as well as all the west-
ern countries, has been sold out
by its rulers to the firebugs of
the U.S. Army.

But there is another story to
tell, also. ‘The determination of
the world’s people that there
shall be peace, is stronger than
at any other time in history. The
patriotic fight for national sov-
ereignty, is at a higher level
than at any time before. The
awful contrast between hasdship
and poverty. and tke squander-
ing of money for jet planes and
battleships, was never so present
in people’s minds,

Sure, many have been deceiv-
ed by the cold war propaganda.
But their eyes can be opened —
but only by political struggle,

only by the sort of campaign the
LPP is starting this month.

-2@ )Leslie Morris has been named

federal election campaign
manager by the Labor-Pro-
gressive party.

BIOGRAPHY SHOWS STAND ON FOREIGN POLICY

A. A. MacLEOD

A. MacLEOD, leader of
the Labor-Progressive par-

ty in Ontario, is a native of
the province of Nova Scotia.
He maintains that his prov-
ince is not.to be outdone in
anything by anybody — not
even by the countries of so-
cialism. Commenting on a
recent speech made by Stan-
ley -Ryerson, LPP national
organizer, dealing extensively
with the construction of the
Volga-Don ‘Canal, MacLeod
too relates the story of a can-
al—a projected canal, that is.
It is the story of the Chig-
necto Canal, down in Nova
Scotia, to be built at the nar-
row isthmus connecting the
provinces of Nova Scotia and
New Brunswick which, if con-

ping to come directly from
the Gulf of St. Lawrence to
the ‘Bay of Fundy and would

people of both provinces.
Here is the story of the
canal — as quoted from a
pamphlet issued by the Chig-
necto Canal Committee of
, Sackville,

one of the superiority of “‘our

countries of socialism.
Believe it or not, the first

of the canal 'was recommend-

hasn’t started yet.
Here is the record:
1686—Jacques de Meulles
Intendant of Canada (New
France)... Reported to the
King of France recommend-
ing construction of the canal.
1822—Robert C. Minnitte
Commission, Report favor-
able. core
1825—Francis Hall Com-
mission. Report- favorable,

1826 — Thomas Telford
‘ Commission. Report  favor-
able. .

1845—Captain H. O. Craw-
ley Commission, Report fav-
orable, but critical of fresh
water supply.

Maritimes canal still not
built - after 226 years

structed, would permit ship-

be of great benefit to the.

New Brunswick, ,
which should convince any-'

way of life’’ over that of the |

project for the construction |

ed not Jess than 266 years
ago —— and the construction ©

1850—Francis Hall Com-
mission. Report favorable.

1864—Canal discussed at
Quebec Conference. Construc-
tion agreed to.

1866—Canal discussed ‘ats

London Conference. Con-
struction agreed to.

1871 — Sir Hugh Allan
Commission, Report favor-

able. Immediate construction
recommended as essential to
welfare and development of
whole country.

_ 1872 — Order-in-comncil _
‘adopts recommendation for
construction,

A. A, MacLEOD .

1873 —— Tenders for con-

struction of canal called.
1874 — Canal construction
included in speech from the —
throne. - i
1866 — Hon. John
Commission, Report critical.
1886—Senators Dickie and —
Botsford confirm Confedera-
tion promise, a
1933 — Arthur Surveyor
Commission. Report recom-
mended further examination
in the light of future devel-
opment in Canada’s economi¢
situation.
1950—Now is the time to
build the canal. (Construc-
tion, of course, has not yet
begun.)

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~ Wall Street knew its man when it chose

HEN the big pbankiig in-
terests who control the Demo-
eratic party picked Governor
.. Adlai Stevenson to run for the

presidency they knew what they
were doing.

They had before them a num-
per of his statements on home
and foreign policy, and they
knew his record as a ‘“‘safe’’ one.

No single pronouncement of
Stevenson did more to win him
the support of the men who

“could deliver the nomination.
than an article he wrote in No-
vember of last year.

It was published in April,
1952, in the influential but
small-circulation magazine For-
eign Affairs,

It indicated that Stevenson
should he “be elected president,
would carry on the foreign poli-
ey of President Truman.

A biography of the_governor
—Adlai Stevenson by Noel F.
Busch—has -just been publish-
ed.

By far the most interesting
thing in this hastily assembled

fumbis of information about
him is the reproduction in full
of that. article,

It is called ¥‘Korea, in Per-
spective,’ and in it. Stevenson
sets out his views on the Ko-
rean war. :

He defends American inter-
vention and he has no harsh
words for General MacArthur’s ©
conduct of it.

Stevenson lists seven reasons ~

why he thinks the Korean war
is a fine thing.

V “It put the American re-.
armament effort into high
gear.”’

V “It sparked the rapid

build-up in Western Europe of
physical. defenses.”’

V It allegedly warned the
Soviet Union that aggression.
does not pay (though the ag-
gression was in fact American).

Vv “It demonstrated that
the United Nations is adaptable
to the role of enforcement, as
well as that of conciliation.’’ In
fact. the UN decision to inter-
vene was not legally taken and

‘tiation of a Treaty of

was not based on acne in. |
formation..

V “The Korean experience
has ‘hastened the development
of the United Nations as an
agency of enforcement, free
from the Soviet veto.” ‘Steven-
son means by this that he wants
_a& UN where the essential rule
".6f Uianinhity among the Great,

(Powers does not apply.

V The war
greatly to the successful nego-
‘Peace
with Japan, as well as arrange-
ments satisfactory to us regard-
ing the future security of that
country.’”’ In other words. the

U.S. used the Korean war scare —

to foist her treaty on to the
Japanese and perpetuate the

military occupation of their
country.
Vv “We have learned vital

military lessons in Korea.”

It can be seen from this
that Governor Stevenson
thinks like a latter}day Bis-
marck—in terms of hard advan-

“contributed

tage, brute power and expan-
sion. 7eX

His remarks on the United Na+
tions are equally revealing.

“The United Nations is indis-
pensable as an agency for con-
_certing policies among the free
states,” he writes,

This sort of attitude, of
course. can wreck UN which was
designed as a world forum of
all states. and not merely of
those that a reactionary Ameri-
can politician chooses to des-
cribe as “‘free.”’

' Stevenson’s view of the role
of the UN is the view of Tru-
man and Hisenhower and Dulles.

They see the UN.as a weapon
to. be wielded against the social-
ist countries and the colonial
people.

And that is how the Ameri-

can delegation has been behav- -

ing in the United Nations for
years,
Finally. from the same article.

’ here is Stevenson, the jingo im-

perialist:

» however,

Young «|

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BY DEREK KARTUN

Stevenson

“The reality of the matte
is that American power is 80
ing to be preponderant on ou!
side of the Iron Curtain £0?
many years to come, and that
without this concentration °
power there would be no POF
sibility of pulling the {re
world together. ...”

Stevenson is trying thar
pick public quarrels on forei8?
affairs with General
hower. The election has got
have the appearance of bei2é
about something.

The general, less: axperiene

d to

Bisel : ;

in politics, is crude and incl

ed to be stupid. Stevenson find®
no difficulty in making circle
round him and giving at Hes.

same time the impression that

the Democrats have a fair 4”
peaceable foreign policy.

It is clear from his writing*
that his policy d

not differ from that of the Tres
man administration to any WV
ible degree, 2

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