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ATLANTIC;
UNDER FIRE

Growing revolt in CCF
against Coldwell stand

While. the CCF national leadership, headed by

M. J. Coldwell, has committed the CCF to outright

support of the North Atlantic pact, thus identifying

~ CCF with Liberal and Tory policy for the essential

purpose of pushing the war pact through ‘parliament,

there are indications of a growing revolt against the
top leadership among CCF followers in BHC.

Even before the CCF national council announced
its stand last month, stating, “The CCF believes that
Canada should support and join a North Atlantic
Security. pact,” the CCF provincial council here had
refused to endorse the pact by a vote of 38 to 2.

“This decision’ was cited: by J. 2 O'Brien, one
of many CCF members who have written to the
CCF News protesting top CCF support of the pact,
in a letter published in that paper’s February 23

issue,

Terming the CCF News’ editorial defense of the
oficial CCF stand a ‘most. amazing collection of
half-truths, samples of confused thinking and naive
conceptions of things as they are it has ever been my
misfortune to contemplate since reading Chamberlain's
defense of the Munich pact,” O’Brien: states:

“On November 13, 1948, the supreme body

of the B.C. Section of the CCF between conventions,

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viz., the provincial council, refused to endorse

NA alliance by the overwhelming vote of 38 # 2.
Wilful flouting of the democratic expression © our
party will lead inevitably to its rum. -- -

Similarly, when F rank McKenzie and Cliff Greer,

among the most outspoken of right-wing CCF leaders
here, debated the Atlantic pact with Colin Cameron,
himself a bitter opponent of unity, before CCF mem-
bers at Boag House in January, the majority de-
cision, according to the CCF News, was that “‘any
such ‘pact was more likely to bring war than peace,
and any such agreement would be a flagrant betrayal

of the United Nations.”

Earlier this month, Neil P. Kelly, speaking for
the Cobble Hill CCF club on Vancouver Islaid,
stated: “Our loeal CCF club is almost solidly op-
posed to Canada being dragged into this business of
war and I would like to hear from others of the
rank and file in other clubs to find out how much
backing there is for the top brass in our movement
to support the NAP in its present form.’

Cameron this week said the pact would finally
divide the world into two camps—a division long ago
brought about by the Truman doctrine—and_ that
“such a division inevitably leads to conflict.” He
called for Canada to stay neutral and give leadership
to other nations that do not want to be involved.

The fact that such CCF leaders as Cameron,

who seldom misses an opportunity to denounce the
LPP (only party striving to mobilize Canadians to
block signing of the pact), are openly differing from
official CCF policy on the pact, is regarded as re-
flecting the spread of opposition to the pact among
CCF members and supporters.

On the other hand such official CCF stalwarts
as Grace MacInnis are exerting every effort to solidify
that party on common’ ground with George Drew
and St. Laurent behind Wall Street’s blueprint for

aggression.

What is significant about the differences in the
CCF is not that CCF has turned about on the pact
—which it certainly hasn’t—but that they show how
truly the LPP convention spoke when it said the
majority in Canada could be won against the pact.
They show that a tén-fold stepping up of the anti-
pact fight in its last crucial weeks can win scores of
thousands of CCF’ers and produce national. reper-
cussions.

Every reader of the Pacific Tribune has‘a job
to do in that fight. It’s more than time to get into
high gear.

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