PREMIER DUPLESSIS
Rights used as camouflage

PREMIER FROST
His proposals meant nothing

PREMIER DOUGLAS
No fighting program

HUB HUMOR

15.

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was loaded!"
For over 50 years THE HUB
has sold good clothes and furn-
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made, quality garments with
no “gimmick” to .mislead and
confuse.

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PARLEY LEAVES ISSUES UNSOLVED

only to be swept aside by reac-
tionary opposition to this pres-
sure.

So, action on health insurance,
housing action and municipal
relief from the educational bur-
den, is still postponed—perhaps
not as far as the 1917 “khaki

election” when health insurance
was first promised, but still far
enough.

It is not the constitutional
question of federal-provincial
relationships or the question
of Quebee’s autonomous rights
as laid down by Confederation
that are the obstacles to ac-
tion. It is the arrogant re-
fusal of Canadian monopoly
capital and its government
spokesmen, the federal cabinet,
to give way on these reforms.

It is the contention of the LPP
that, pending the time when a
fully democratic Made-in-Can-
ada Constitution is written as a
result of popular action, Con-
federation can be made to work
to produce democratic social leg-
islation, if there is a will to do
so.

Proof is, that when mass un-
employment in the thirties pro-
duced nation-wide struggles, and
the workers became organized
in mass production unions in the
late thirties and forties, unem-
ployment insurance was made a
federal matter. Up to that time
both Mackenzie King, the Lib-

eral, and R. B. Bennett, the
Tory, had rejected the whole

-idea as outside the bounds of

Confederation. The same with
old age pensions.

Now the big reform issues
are: education,» health insur-
ance, housing.

Ottawa says, “Nothing doing,”
and uses the constitution as an
alibi. Quebec’s reactionary Pre-
mier Maurice Duplessis uses
French-Canadian rights as cam-
ouflage for his opposition to these

reforms. ;

Tory Premier Leslie Frost of
Ontario gains the headlines as
a “reformer,” but his proposals
(mainly an anemic “hospital in-
surance” scheme) actually mean
nothing, for plainly to be seen
behind his words is the opposi-
tion of the rich monopolies of
Ontario to do anything to raise
national social standards.

Premier T. C. Douglas of Sas-
katchewan, who made not a bad
speech on the wheat question
before he left Regina, failed to
stir the premiers’ conference or

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the country with a fighting pro-
gram. He seems to have capi-
tulated to the federal govern-
ment on the main questions.

As the background to all of

this, of course, lies the question
of Canada’s economic prospects.

The maintenance oi high pro-
duction levels depends on the
abandonment of the arms race

and an expanding peacetime

. €conomy—new policies of world

trade which will put a stop to
the foolish. and harmful block-
ade of trade with. the Socialist
states and develop sterling trade
with the British Commonwealth.

It depends on new national
policies of developing industry
and public utilities (like the na-
tural gas pipeline, which the
premiers did not discuss) to build
industry in Canada and cutting
down on the shipment of the
bulk of our raw materials to
the U.S. industries; a new nation-
al policy to Put Canada First
and to end the domination of
this country’s economy by the
rapacious U.S. trusts.

The fight for a peacetime econ-
omy, in a world at peace, and
the fight for national reforms
such as health insurance, pay-
ment of elementary education
from federal income and corpor-
ation profits tax collections, low-
rental state-subsidized housing,
and a more equitable and just
distribution of revenues to en-
able the poorer provinces and
the municipalities to expand so-
cial services—that is the demo-
cratic way out of the growing
crisis in federal- -provincial af-

fairs—which reflects the grow- :

ing crisis of national develop-|

ment. |

It: 1s* an ate -monopoly apt

talist program, against economic }
crisis, and for the people’s needs. !
It is part of the fight for lasting |
peace, because its success hinges |
to a large extent on public pres-
sure to compel the reduction of
arms expeditures and the ban-
ning of the atomic weapons.

It is the fight for the Gen-_
eva prospect and to put Geneva
into practice.

J. B. Salsberg, the LPP candi-
date, is campaigning on this line
in the Spadina federal byelec-
tion.

It is to be hoped that hund-
reds of municipal candidates this
fall will take up these issues,
especially as they relate to edu-
cation, and so follow the examples
of labor Alderman Jacob Pen-
ner and Trustee .Joseph Zuken
in Winnipeg.

In the provincial elections
which are in the offing, these
issues are at the heart of the new
democratic provincial program
which is growing up against the
Ottawa ‘centralizers who deny
provincial and municipal reform
because they stick.to their cold
war line in domestic and trade
affairs.

And there is no doubt that
the issues of the 1957 federal
election are also shaping up
around the questions here touch-
ed upon. It is not too early for
labor and democratic forces in!
the country to begin to think |
about that political struggle, for

forward in its program. aid in
its 1953 federal election platform
| goes to the heart of the immedi
i ate and long-term prospects } si :

| this country.

The St. Laurent government
hopes to let the matter die away —
and will likely try to make
patchwork and_ piecem
“agreements” with the ae
inces. It is therefore of
highest importance that public
opinion be aroused in the pro
vinces and nationally cane
the collapse of the conferenc
and for joint federal-prov™
cial action on the people's
needs. RES

Joins in peace call

Two clergymen, Rev. D- C.
Candy and Rev. L. G. rer
both of Toronto, and a pacifis!
Mrs. Mildred McLeod of Nan#
mo (above) have joined
issuing a call to Christians.
take part in the Cana

it is becoming clearer to many

people that what the LPP put

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