ae gee”

—Nationalize Canada’s banking and efedit
system, Te 9

—Bring all central power plants and their’™
transmission systems under public owner-
ship.

'—Nationalize the. basic steel industry and

expand it to meet all Canada’s needs,

—Maintain and expand Canada’s mer-
chant marine as part of Canada’s na-
tionally-owned and operated transporta-
tion system.

~—Cancel all cartel agreements which pro-
vide that certain products or types of
products produced in Canada shall not
be exported or shall be exported only to
specified and limited. markets.

—Abolition of the 25 percent special excise
tax imposed upon certain manufactured
goods produced in Canada to the ad-
vantage of U.S. manufacturers.

Amend the Statute of Westminster to
permit Canadians to amend our own
constitution,

—A national labor code.
—A national health plan.

—Equality of rights for women in every
sphere of Canada’s social, legal, econ-
omic and political life.

—A Canadian bill of rights.
—Amend the Canada Shipping Act.
—Abolish the Senate.

The warmongering imperialists can be -

‘defeated, of that there is now no room for

doubt. To defeat them requires the devel-

‘opment of a broadening front of demo-

cratic struggle against the North Atlantic
war pact and against the whole idea of
a third world war. That is the decisive
issue confronting Canada.

PART 6

[N the federal elections the LPP will con-
centrate its activities upon popularizing
its own platform, developing a powerful
national campaign around the issue of
peace and St. Laurent’s war policies and
electing the LPP candidates in selected
constituencies. At the centre of the fight
to elect candidates the party will put its
campaign to elect the national leader of
the party in the Toronto-Trinity riding.

The struggle against the war policies of
monopoly-capital and the St. Laurent gov-
ernment is primarily and inescapably a
struggle to develop labor unity and farm-
er-labor unity, on an ever-extending scale,
in consistent opposition to the imperialist
war program.

In January, 1948, the LPP National Com-
mittee adopted by majority vote the pro-
posal of the National Executive to at-
tempt to bring about electoral unity by
pledging our party in advance and un-
conditionally to fight under the slogan that
we adopted in that meeting, “Unite at the
Polls, Elect a CCF Government.” Today it
must be said that further study under the
pressure of our experience and the con-
tinued evolution of the policies of the CCF
leadership compels the National Executive
to acknowledge that its recommendation
10 the National Committee was erroneous
and that the slogan as adopted was wrong.
We made that opportunistic mistake be-
cause we were so absorbed in study of
short-term tactical questions that we nes-
lected ‘the broad long-term factors which
will be decisive ...

The leaders of the CCF have moved
raore definitely into the camp of reaction
during the past year...

They are fully committed to support of
Wall Street’s anti-Soviet, anti-democratic
war alliance of capitalist states as well as
the Marshall plan. Their actions in the
trade union movement wherever the CCF
is in control are consistently of the char-
acter of assistance to the red-baiting cam-
paign of disruption being pressed by big
business. ;

But the struggle for the unity of demo-
cratic forces, for labor unity and for farm-
er-labor unity must go on. For the Labor —
Progressive party the question of labor
unity is not a’ question of electoral advan-
tage, it is the basic and continuing need
of the working class in its struggle for
democratic social progress, for socialism. :

In the fight to develop and broaden un-
ity, the development of united action be-
tween the members and supporters of the —
LPP and the CCF is a vital task. It is an
indispensable feature of the historical
struggle to building working class unity
against monopoly-capitalism, and its drive
to war...

‘

‘In the forthcoming federal election cam-
paign, the centre and characteristic feat-
ure of the electoral campaign of the LPP
must be the party’s independent activity
directed to winning the widest possible
support for the party’s program, including
the development of broad united front
actions bringing together forces represent-
ing the trade unions, the CCF, and other
democratic organizations ... In all con-
stituencies where no LPP candidate is
nominated our party will emphasize its
readiness to support the CCF or labor can-
didate who is contesting that constituency
provided that candidate will commit him-
self or herself to the fight’ against St.
Laurent’s war policies and for the unity of
democratic forces...

The LPP appeals to members and sup-
porters of the CCF, trade unionists, to all
democratic men and women and young
people, French and English, to join hands
in united democratic action to keep Can-
ada out of war. The LPP strives with all
its energy to arouse peace-loving Canad-
ians to fight for the following program:

1 An independent Canadian peace
policy!

2. That \Canadajs representatives fin
the United Nations support the So-
viet proposal for an immediate one-
third reduction of all great power
armaments, the outlawing of the
atomic bomb, with international in-
spection and control!

3. Restore friendly relations and nor-
mal trade between Canada and the
USSR and the New Democracies!

4. Help rebuild the war-devastated
areas of the USSR and the New
Democracies, by. mutual aid.

5. Not a mgn, not a gun for Wail
Street’s war! ;

6. No conscription or militarization of
our youth! \ 4

7. The withdrawal of U.S. troops from
Canada! ~

8. Stop the shipment of Canadian uran-
jum except for peaceful purposes,

9. Stop the shipment of arms and
planes to the enemies of democracy
in China, Greece, Indonesia and
Malaya. Support the peoples’ strug-
gles for liberation!

10. Save Canada from War by United
Action for Peace!

The LPP believes that through a) fight.
for unity at the polls around these issues,
progress will be achieved towards the win-
ning of a new government of labor and
the people, a farmer-labor government
based on progressive national policies for
Canada. a

PART 7

French Canada will fight
for peace and the rights
to nationhood ;

T° keep Canada out of war. to unite

workers and progressive middle class
people in mass democratic action for
peace and social security, are each in the
highest national interest of the people of
French Canada and corresponds with
their proudest traditions. The people of
French Canada, united by their profound
national hatred of imperialist war and in-
spired by their proud tradition of anti-war

- struggle, are a powerful and potent force

in “the will to peace”...

The struggle to establish full trade union
rights in Quebec, to wipe out the remain-
ing elements of economic discrimination
still imposed upon wage and salary earn-
ers in that province—dramatized by the
strike of school teachers in Montreal—the
struggle to restore civil rights, to abolish
the Padlock Law, to raise the level of
public education and social ‘services, all
these are indispensable parts of the strug-
gle to win full national equality for French

Canada and to keep Canada out of war...

\

- PART 8

“The battle for progressive

trade union policies
will be won —
THE historic struggle of the Canadian

trade union movement to organize the
unorganized workers, to extend industrial
4

/

unionism, to develop direct trade union
participation in and control of united labor
political action, to develop the factors
making for eventual unity of all the unions
in one powerful national centre—has mov-
ed into a new and difficult stage as a re-
sult of CCF support of the Marshall plan,
St. Laurent’s plan te commit Canada to

_ the North Atlantic war pact, and Wall

Street’s drive to unite all the capitalist
states against the USSR and the People’s
Democracies.

The leadership of the CCL, the national
center of the CIO unions in Canada, has
turned that organization away from the
policies of a generally progressive charac-
ter which distinguished the CIO during the
war, to policies aimed to again subordin-

ate its affiliated unions to the decisive in-
terests and policies of Canadian and U.S.
imperialism. Instead of the CIO’s wartime
policies calculated to encourage and de-
velop cooperation, mutual respect and un-
ity of action between the various unions
affiliated to it, the Mosher-Conroy leader-
ship of the CCL now encourages and sup-
ports policies and action calculated to
undermine militancy and solidarity ...

Contrary to the CCL, the older and
somewhat larger national centre of the
AFL unions in Canada has not changed its
basic policies in any essential ... The
TLC unions defeated and condemned the
attempt of the Hall faction to disrupt their
national center under the bosses’ slogan:
“Clean Out the Reds.” They reaffirmed
the right of Canadian unions to determine
the policies of their national center—
including the right. of any bona-fide union
to affiliate to that center and receive its
protection. They stood by the fighting
seamen and their-union, the CSU, in the
face of the most violent red-baiting and
denunciation from the employers and
from servants of the bosses within the
AFL. Their resolution for condemning
warmongering was the best declaration
for peace of any national trade union
center in the English-speaking countries.

The aims of the LPP in the sphere of
trade union activity are today, as they
have always been, solely to strengthen
the trade union movement. That is the
sole cause of the hostility of the right-
wingers towards us. Almost a _ million
workers are now organized. The right-
wing social democrats and the right-
wing officialdom of the AFL want to
mark time, the LPP insists that a further
half million can be organized if energetic
and united efforts are made. .. .

Monopoly-capital and its kept press and
propagandists, aided and abetted by the
right-wing social democrats, are develop-
ing a campaign of vicious misrepresen-
tation against the great World Federation
of Trade Unions. The LPP condemns
that scheme as a crass attempt to com-

mit treachery against the world working -

class. Solidarity of the workers in cap-
italist countries with the workers of the
Soviet Union and the New Democracies
is the very essence of the struggle to
maintain peace. .

The LPP will continue to fight for
progressive trade union policies based
upon the fundamental working class con-
cept of national and international labor

idarity, aimed towards

We fight for trade union unity against
war, for peace, against the profit system,
for a social order in which there shall
be no exploitation of man by man. In
this struggle we are confident of vic-
LOLs air

~ PART 9

Build the party of struggle
for peace and socialism ~<

Labor-Progressive party is the
party of the Canadian working class
—dedicated to the struggle for peace and
for socialism. Our party defends the
true. national interests of Canada, against
the attempts of the reactionary, war-
mongering monopolists and their political
servants to betray those interests, pre-
cisely because our party fights to strength-
en all that is progressive in our national
life, all the democratic political and cul-
tural traditions of Canada’s peoples,
French and English, and of those vitally
important groups of Canadians who
stemmed .from other lands.

We ‘repudiate and condemn the at-
tempts . .. to misrepresent our party as

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY li, 1949 — PAGE 5

eventual
achievement of the great ideal of trade
union unity in Canada and the world.

Against Wall Street war, fascism

a conspiracy, as an advocate of violence,
as a defender of interests which are not
Canadian interests. That is a lie. The
LPP has no interests apart from the

interests of the great mass of the Can- ©

adian people—the men and women who
do the productive work of our country.

/ The fight to strengthen and to extend
the LPP and the broad democratic camp
it leads, is the fight to defeat that scheme
of the monopolists—To Keep Canada In-
dependent, to Keep Canada Out of War.
It is the fight to determine and fulfil our
destiny as a people in a democratic
sovereign state.

Our fight to build our party is primarily
a fight, in every phase of the party’s
activities and at every level of party
organization, to improve the quality and
extend "the scope of our party’s political
work. For each of us this is a continu-
ing personal obligation: to study, to think,
to act. At every stage and concerning
every. problem we have to search out
and grasp the key issues and decisive
tasks in tthe vast panorama of the histori-
cal sweep of the struggle for socialism
and the great worldwide advance of the
forces fighting for peace and people's
democracy. And we have to explain that
task and win support for carrying it
through in every sphere of Canada’s
social life) ..27

This convention, which is taking place
during a crucial hour in world history,
must mark a turn to improvement in all
fields of party work. Our methods of
campaigning must be further improved.
The first test of a campaign in every
locality is going to be: “To what extent
were new circles of people reached and
attracted during the campaign?” “To
what extent were the youth attracted
during the campaign?” “To what extent
were the women and the youth involved
in the campaign?” Simultaneously we
shall press for systematic work to streng-
then and extend the ideological unity of
the party and the grasp of theory which
is essential to the effective extension, of
the party’s mass political agitation.

We are going to strengthen and extend
further the labor press, we are going to
fight more systematically to extend the
distribution of Marxist literature, we are
going to develop among the members of
the party, and among workers who sup-
port the party, a -hunger for deeper
knowledge and understanding of the
fundamental laws of social development
upon which our Marxist science is based.
We are going to stimulate that desire,
not only by organized classes and study
courses, but by the development of self-

‘ study in the process of finding the correct
answer, to the questions of the day.

Our party, locally and nationally, is go-
ing to improve and extend its activities
on the cultural front, Against the cap-
italist efforts to submerge the cultural
traditions of bourgeois democracy in a
new, imperialist warmongering “Kultur,”
the LPP must seek to encourage every
activity and every trend towards the
development of a democratic Canadian
people’s culture.

Above all, this convention must mark
a turn in the method of extending the
‘party membership. In this period of
rapid change, advancing democracy and
reckless frenzied imperialist schemes, it
‘is absolutely essential that our Marxist
party be extended to the greatest extent
possible, to protect the working class
against both the pitfall of dependence
upon political spontaneity and the treach-
ery of right-wing social democracy.

Our party campaign in the. federal
elections to be held this year must be
made a triumphant demonstration of the
LPP in action. Our campaign will be a
fight to bring before all the people of
Canada, and particularly before the work-
-mg class, the truth about our stand on
the great issues confronting our people
and the sinister motives and implications
of the policies of monopoly-capital and its
parties. Our struggle is to Keep Canada
Independent.

In Canada, as in all countries, the work-
ing class is going to win this struggle.
The worldwide victory of the working
class and its democratic allies is now
sure. Our campaign to Keep Canada
- Out of War, is the Canadian sector of
the great worldwide struggle in which
we are proud to march shoulder to
shoulder with the democratic forces of
peace and progress in all lands... .
Through international cooperation we
shall march forward, shoulder to shoulder
with the workers of all lands, to security
for world peace and through peace to
socialism.