a HE battle lines in the

‘fi Montreal-Cartier by-

‘election have _ been
drawn, The Labor-Progres-
Sive candidate, Councillor
Michael] Buhay, was nomin-
i at an enthusiastic pub-
ic nominating convention
attended by 1,500 citizens. ‘The
Candidacy of the Liberals gave
the back-room boys quite a little
trouble, for they announced
- Maurice Hartt as a candidate
without having any king of
Nominating convention whatso-
_ ever.

It is clear that the issue will
be between Buhay and Hartt,
even though some of the other
parties have nominated candi-
dates. For the Cartier byelection
is almost a general election in
Miniature. Great issues hang
upon its outcome. The results

_ will unquestionably influence
the whole course of Canadian
Policy in dealing with other
Countries, as well as the domes-
tie matters of vital concern to
the people.

It is inevitable that the Lib-
€rals should be made to answer
for _ the very means which
brought about the byelection in
the first place—the spy-scare
they engineered. For in the light
Of what has transpired since
last February, it is clear that

the whole spy scare is only the,

‘Rew technique’ that reaction
evolved against the progres-
_Sive forces at home and against
the Soviet Union and the new
democracies abroad.
__ What the Liberals in Canada
peared: the Republicans

Sok up with great gusto in the
Unitea States. What started
against Fred Rose in Montreal,
has now shifted to Washington

against the German anti-fascist,

Separt Hisler, a man who ne-
wanted to come to the
United states in the first place.
What the reactionaries couldn’t
rf. while Roosevelt was alive,
_ “ey Now feel free to carry out.

~The Roosevelt administration |

had no need of spy scares.
Roosevelt favored the path of
Cooperation with America’s war-
time allies, Britain and the
USSR. He sought a policy that
Would lead to world peace. Such
& policy could be based only
upon friendship ang mutual un-
derstanding among the great
cere, primarily between the
nited States and the Soviet
hion. For this policy, no spy
Scares are necessary.

However, when governments
8re not looking for avenues to-
Ward peace and friendly rela-
Say) but instead seek ways to
isagreement and ultimate war,
SPy scares can sometimes serve
2% useful purpose. They can be
USed for many things, including
& smokescreen behind which to
hide policies which the people
would otherwise oppose.

® a
LAT it is that the King
Sovernment is trying to hide.
from the people behind its ‘spy
SCare’ is now being brought to

the attention of Canadians in

€ course of the election cam-
Pe ‘in Cartier. The Liberals
She their own reasons for vio-
lating civil liberties, imprison-

ing people without recourse to

eir families or counsel, in-
_ ‘Stituting interrogations which

_ Tesemble the methods of the Ges- :

‘20, and whipping up a mass

hysteria so. that a fair trial be-
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came impossible. These reasons
are being recognized as the
main issues of the election cam-
paign by the progressive elec-
torate of Cartier, and their can-
didate Michael Buhay.) ;

The King government is try-
ing to hide from the people the
fact that it has become the
servant of powerful imperialist
interests who are preparing for
a new war, which would make
a battleground of our country.

Our government is supporting

monopoly control of the atom
bomb, rather than disarmament.
It is handing over Canadian
soil for military bases.

But it dares not tell the
people how many such bases
are being set up or for how
long our territory will be occu-
pied. It is making the Canadian
army a little offshoot of the
United States armed forces, so
that even our weapons .and
training are made in the USA.
It is hiding the fact that its
military agreements, its arms
standardization, its northern ex-

peditions, and the presence of

thousands of American troops
are all preparations for war, not
peace.

All these maneuvers are “ob-.

viously directed against the So-
viet Union. As part of its ‘every-
thing against the USSR’ policy,

the government has quietly gone —

about supporting reaction every-
where. Bee aig

Is Franco still ruling in Ma-
The King government

Greeks killing freedom fighters
daily? The government has
given them a helping hand. Are
Jewish men, women and chil-

dren being put into new con- — *t
; a victory over a kind of sec-

centration camps at Cyprus by
Bevin, as if they did not suffer
enough from Hitler? The gov-
ernment has no objections.

N THE contrary. our govern-
ment considers it much bet-
ter to keep Jews on Cyprus and
in the DP camps in Europe than
to let any of them into Canada.
The Polish fascists, 4,000 of

whom have been allowed into

this country, are welcomed by
the government. But the victims
of Hitlerism -are rigidly ex-
cluded.

This policy has its counter-
part at home. While the labor
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is under constant attack, fas-
cism is becoming resurgent. So-
lon Low and Norman Jaques
drool speeches over the air
waves similar in every respect
to those of the late, unlamented
Goebbels. Vers Demain in Que-
bec serializes the Protocols of
Zion, The notorious antisemitic
rag Le Goglu has appeared on
the newsstands.

Have the Liberals even lightly
reproved them? No. The King
government which had much
time for spy scares, has by its

silence encouraged the fascists
to become bold anq to strike
out quite openly.

These things the spy scare

was designed to hide from the
people. But the removal of the
former member of parliament
for Cartier does not hide them,
any more than it covers the
glaring failure of the govern-
ment to provide housing for the

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_A guide to good reading

tine played by the i G. Farben’

RMAN SCHENDEL’S Why
Work ‘tor Nothing represents

tarianiam, Here, in work-bench
dialogue from beginning to end,
is a study of political economy
covering value, price and profit
and wage, labor and capital that
digs the Marxist essentials from
a subject which too often has
been _ buried in formidable

phraseology or unfamiliar refer-

ences. Schendel talks as if he
were a ghop stewardt putting
a new man wise around the shop
--only in this book he is giving
him the score on capitalism and
how it works.

The versatility of the book is
its big asset. It is broad enough
for a study group in any trade
union and adequate in treatment
for a Marxist political economy
class. The language is so sim-
ple, the graphs and illustrations
so’ clear, that any working man
who gives it an evening’s atten-
tion will find his own unavoid-

able but somewhat hazy sus

picions about the true nature of
wages and profits taking con-
vincing shape as he reads. |

The appearance of this, book

and Ryerson’s A World To Win

are true and encouraging signs

of the maturing of the Marxist
movement

ae ‘on this continent.
They are putting the basic ideas

‘people, to keep down prices, to

provide adequately for our youth.
and veterans, the aged and the
sick. ee

Where are the promises of
full employment? Where are
the big housing projects to take
people out of overcrowded rooms
and cellars? What has happen-
ed to the dollar which today

can only buy about sixty per-
cent of what it purchased last
year? Why did Finance Minis-
ter Abbott tell a consumers’
delegation that rents would go
up, in order to be “fair to land~
lords?” ;

To silence these and many

other questions, the Liberal gov-
ernment started a spy scare.

“But it will avail it little. For

the people of Cartier recognize
these facts and know what the
Labor-Progressive Party and its
candidate stand for. ,

into our present day language
and in terms of our own experi-
ence and current class relation-
ships. This is the direct route
to the minds of our people.

“The author, Herman Schendel,

is the director of the trade union
department of the Abraham Lin-
coln School in Chicago. His
book, which is printed in the
large magazine format selling for
95c in Canada, is being widely
used as a textbook by study
groups in the U.S.

ae printed in this big mag-
azine form and selling for
around a dollar are an important
post-war trend that promises
cheaper progressive reading.
Pamphlet Press has just released
a new book in this format called
Out Of Your Pocket by Darel Mc-
Conkey This is one of those
‘read all about it’ books exposing
the operations of the cartels to
the public gaze. ee

Read, for instance, about those
tycoons who considered adulter-
ating their plastic powder prod-
uct with arsenic and lead to
compell dentists to use their pre-

pared denture blanks made of

the same material which only
cost 400 times as much! Read
about the Standard Oil patriots

who goose-stepped to Hitler's

+ ae

| Rov. Hutchinson. $3.00. _

They know that Michael Bu-
hay stands for a real peace —
policy for Canada, for friend-
ship with all our neighbors and
allies,

They know that he stands for
an end to racial discrimination,
both in our immigration poli-
cies and in all spheres of Canad-
ian life.

They know he stands for
higher wages, better old age
pensions, health and unemploy-
ment insurance.

They know he will fight for a
real housing program, against —
rent and price -increases which —
add to the swollen profits of —
the millionaires. ; :

Michael Buhay, candidate of s

ihe people, by the very fact of

his election as the member for
Cartier on March 31, will con- —

tribute a heartening victory to-
the cause of peace and the well-
being of the people. eo

band and put America on flat —
tires in war time. Their loyalty —

was to their German partners ~

with whom they reached ‘an ‘ad- |
justment’ on synthetic rubber.

Or perhaps you are interested
in General Electric, who make

light bulbs and whose biggest

technical headache is to make —
them so good they won’t last too

long. Or if you think you get —

fair value for the spectacles you
buy that is an optical illusion —
you haven't figured out yet, — ;

Out Of Your Pocket shows ‘free
enterprise’

den. :
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Two books that merit early
review are Underground to Pal-

-estine by I. F. Stone. the story —
of the greatest migration in the _

history of a wandering people,
and The Badgers by Leonid
Leonoy, the author of Road To
The Ocean. zi Be
RECOMMENDED BOOKS
Fight For Peace by Henry A.
Wallace, Pamphlet Press, 25c.
Peace Key by John Weather-
wax. Bryant Foundation, $1.35.
Underground To Palestine by
I. F, Stone, Boni & Gaer, $3.00.
: » Badgers by Leonid Leo-

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