@ “Alongside a ‘boom’ in aluminum,
celanese, oil and gas, dictated and con-
trolled by U.S. war interests, we see a
‘boomerang’ in lumber, fishing. manu-
facturing, agriculture and retail trade,”’
says the LPP election manifesto. Pic-
ture above shows part of the $500 mil-
lion Alcan project in the Kitimat-Ke-
mano area. where, workers chargs,

Canadians have been fired from many’

key jobs and replaced by Americans.

RITISH Columbia needs a new gov-

ernment. ‘Liberal and Tory policies
have become so unpopular- that the
administration was compelled to re-
sign before more than half its normal,
legal term of office had expired. The
full force of the whirlwind sown by
the government has yet to strike.
That’s why Premier Johnson is at-

tempting to sneak another five-year’

term—to ‘be securely in power if un-
employment and general hardship
cause labor-and the farmers to rise
’ up against these terrible consequences
of the war program.

Both Johnson and Anscomb have
shown a contemptuous disregard for
‘the people’s needs. They have helped
a ‘handful of greedy profiteers to coin
mew millions. But for the majority of
the people—workers, farmers, pension-
ers and small ‘business people—they
have brought nothing ‘but increasing
insecurity, lowered living standards,
fear’ and uncertainty.

The profiteer and the warmaker are
one and the same. The anti-labor mon-
opolists—on whose behalf the Liberals
and Tories arrogantly refused needed
hospital reforms, “Taft-Hartleyized”
the unions, and engineered the most
fantastic boosts in B.C. Electric rates
and bus fares—are the little Hitlers
who ‘hate democracy at ‘home and are
driving for war and domination abroad.
They are the ones who gain out of
profiteering prices, union-busting and
the murderous armaments racket.

Liberal, Tory, Social Credit and ‘(CCF
leaders all try to make it appear that
the B.C. people can have prosperity
in a war economy. The Labor-Progres-

sive party says that B/C. can have
prosperity only if the drive to war is
ended and replaced *by a policy of
controlled universal disarmament and
trade with all nations.

The American invasion of Korea,

the rearming of Japan and Germany, .

the horrible threat of a Wall Street-
engineered atomic war cast their sha-
dow over every B.C. home. Liberal,
Tory, Social Credit and (CCF leaders,
by their support of the war program,
are responsible for increasing U.S.
domination of. the political and econ-
omic life of our province. During its
term of office the Johnson-Anscomb

government has alienated ownership -

and control of the natural resources
of B.C. by giving away mineral,

‘Jumber and hydro rights to American

interests. Alongside a “boom” in alum-
inum, celanese, oil and gas, dictated
and controlled by U.S. war interests,
we see a “boomerang” in lumber, fish-
ing, manufacturing, agriculture and
retail trade. American products and
goods from US.-controlled plants, in
Japan are being dumped in B/C. with
disastrous effects on our own industry
and agriculture.

An end must be put to a situation,
publicly admitted by Johnson and Ans-
comb, whereby Wall Street loans and
U.S. investments are conditional upon
the B.C. government agreeing not to
grant needed expansion of hospital,
school and social ‘services.

Lumber production, basic to British
Columbia’s wellbeing, is already facing
a serious production cut-back, which
is throwing thousands of lumber work-
ers out of employment and forcing
scores of small operators out of busi-
ness. This is so primarily because of
the loss of the traditional British mar-
ket and U.S. domination of Canadian
trade policies which prohibit Canadian
trade with other countries not “ap-
proved” by Wall Street. In our great
fishing industry the situation is equal-
ly grave. A U.S.-imposed “dollar crisis”

has compelled Britain to cancel its
$8 million imports of Canadian canned
fish. Our warehouses are filled with
unsold stocks, and the additional men-
ace of a US.-dictated Japanese, “Peace”
Treaty threatens the existence of our
great salmon, halibut and ‘herring fish-

eries. ‘Similarly, our apple and small

fruits industry, our poultry industry,
our shipbuilding and merchant marine
have been reduced to a mere skeleton
of their former level.

As one of the surest paths to peace
and people’s wellbeing, the Labor-Pro-
gressive party calls for an end to Ameri-
can domination in the economic and poli-
tical affairs of B.C. and the opening up
of trade relations with all countries willing

to trade with Canada. First and fore-
most, B.C. must reopen trade with Britain
and other sterling countries. The inex
haustabl: market of People’s China, the
People’s Democracies of Europe, the So-
viet Union are open to B.C. provided
American restrictive barriers ‘are removed
——and those Liberal and Tory politicians
who cided in erecting them, are swept
away.

Peaceful trade with all countries
means markets for our goods and jobs
for our workers. The Labor-Progres-
sive party calls upon the people to
support those candidates who place
peace, trade and jobs as~ the first
essentials of a prosperous British Co-
lumbia. ‘ :

This is our program

The LPP puts forward its own plat-
form in this election on which a num-

per of LPP candidates will seek your:
support.

Peace and Disarmament: The LPP

* stands for peace through a five-
power pact which will outlaw war
forever, leading to progressive and
general disarmament, to the lifting
of the arms burden from the people’s
living standards. It calls for unity of
all B.C. people, no matter what their

views may be as to the causes of the
present crisis, to demand the outlaw-

ing of atomic, germ and all mass
annihilation methods, the signing of
a peace pact between the five great
powers and action to re-establish

friendly relations with all nations.

ey Jobs through Peaceful Trade: The

UPP stands for an end to B.C.
dependence on U/S. markets and ‘the
restoration of normal world trade to
offset mounting unemployment and as-

sure the future. Let B.C. send its own
trade delegation to Asia and Europe
to make agreements with the people
who want our products.

3, Build Industry for Peace: The

- LPP advocates the development
of British Columbia’s resources, indus-
try and agriculture by ‘Canadians for
the benefit of Canadians; and for an
end to the virtual giving away ot
vast and rch resources to such Amev-
ican and Canadian monopolies as Co-
lumbia Celanese, which recently got
3,336,000 acres of forest land for an
annual rentat of one cent per acre
per year. Government encouragement
must ‘be given to the development of
B.C. industry; assistance instead of

penalties for small interests and help
for extending the manufacture of our
raw materiais into finished products—
a steel plant, aluminum fabrication,
etc. ‘Large scale public works projects
must ‘be initiated, such as establish-
ment of a Fraser Valley Authority for
flood control, irrigation, electrification
and conservation; completion of the
PGE; reforestation. A large-scale
construction program to provide need- .
ed hospitals, schools and low rental
homes must be launched. ,

ment to power.

e

This is what the Labor-Prog

So etoeomell three years ago, on June 15, 1949, the people of British Col-
umbia went to the polls and returned the Liberal-Tory Coalition govern-
Candidates of the Labor-Progressive party, campaigning for~
people’s unity at the polls, warned voters at that time of what a continuation of
Coalition policies would mean in terms of the people's standards. Indicting
Liberal and Conservative parties alike for their joint betrayal of the people’s
interests through the since dissolved Coalition, the LPP in its 1949 election
program accurately defined the path the Coalition would follow in surrendering
our natural resources to United States corporations and their Canadian big Biss
ness partners. Here, taken from the 1949 program, is what the LPP said:

NDER the pretext of “‘saving” the people of British Columbia from what
it calls ‘‘Socialism,”’ the Johnson-Anscomb Coalition seeks a new mandate
trom the electorate—in order to continue in its service to the big corporations, Us-

ing the slogans of “‘free enterprise”’ and anti-Communist propaganda, the Coalition
strives to confuse the people, cover up its shameless betrayal of election promises

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war camp of reaction.

__ By virtue of Coalition policies a small handful ‘of powerful monopolists have
reaped new millions. in profits, but the great majority of British Columbia’s people,
workers, farmers, small business men, professionals, and others, find only greater
insecurity, lowered standards of life, fear, and uncertainty. Behind its fantastic
promises of “‘industrial expansion,” the Coalition is trying to hide the real fact
that British Columbia’s basic industries are facing an increasingly acute market
crisis, about which the Coalition does and intends to do nothing.

ressive Party said in1949

and bankruptcy of administration in the affairs of the common people. The real
issue is the people’s needs vs. big business interdats.””

Behind the Johnson-Anscomb Coalition boast of ‘‘great industrial develop-
ment,”’ new pulp mills, celanese, aluminum plants, hydro-electric expansion, etc.,
lurk the war schemes of the armament and war profiteers of U.S. cartels. Coali-
tion support ofthe North Atlantic war pact, presenting it as an integral part of
the “defense’’ of free enterprise, places the Johnson-Anscomb alliance in ‘the

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