tigi long as the C in Inge tt Ng » Mule. 2 re (left to right): Angus Maclnnis, 5 ‘i M, J. Coldwell and F. LaRoche. : Sup, 5 ltanen “ston of struggle, for the behead- Y has *8ainst capitalism, for the virtual Policy 2 the capitalist class on Can- “Tome 2% on the main lines of crisis- © affairs, » Use a ik ee style of work of the CCF, tia °st complete oneness with the be oma Policy, that St. Laurent could RocCR the charge which so embitters “P ite “Liberals in a hurry”. That brea, merging with capitalist liberalism. tetemnin ©n the main issues, whose out- id ie en the side of monopoly capi- Malis» Vet up this treachery by plas- . abels on it, or to speak more the while helping to break the of “left socialism” which is st of opportunism. Yo a n policy, Colin Cameron? es ae the Atlantic pact, on the Win °® the ay U.S... state department, on h '~SU strike, on the splitting of ( hanbes ey to ‘handing the unions Notation, merce? , se sons given at the head of this eer in the heart of any. real i “rene ang atatulate the government of lists . Wish it well’? Mealy lcome the outlawing of the “? ©an be cleared of the “stigma” Premier Dougl i Noy tt » Douglas, be permitted (CH a, in Marshall plan won't work, Ne ADS on] Ichards are expelled from the ihe the ES ~ for thinking the same thing | hee reat length of demanding that |e Pro-Marshall, pro-Forrestal “alist ‘ NW ove, Premier “‘bury” differences inj the and offer cooperation to the | s Par 80vernment of Canadian im- €r of Wall Street? dy . Nae about th h tal Silent 6. Sc! things, Colin Cam- Sh can ion it again proves that ma thar ne be the last refuge of a "€ is an opportunist all the € events of tomorrow, the €nt on the phony issue of “Com- - CF blindly follows the foreign policy of the Liberal government and the ty Be ees of the United States, it is harm'ng the interests of Canadian workers and farm-\ ing Richards and Wilbert Doneleyko, Manitoba MLAs expelled by the CCF for op- ah llantic ‘pact, commented on their expulsion. And _ here, lining the platform at the *helleg ane Convention in Winnipeg last year, are some of the CCF’s top leaders who, the 8 charged, have decided that the “progressive section of the CCF’ musi be elim- David Lewis, Stanley Knowles, Cuy No one is asking for a united front on the basis of Communist philosophy, or the acceptance of Marxism- Leninism. _ There will come a time in this country when scien- tific socialism, Marxism-Leninism, will be fused with the labor movement. Educational work and _propa- ganda for the theories of scientific socialism (not middle-class confusionism a la the CCF leaders) must be increased; and it is quite clear that on this, you and the LPP part company, for the CCF never had a scientific socialist program, ~ There is the time and place to fight this out; such a struggle faces the Canadian labor movement. But it will gam an understanding of socialism not by spit- toon philosophizing, but in the course of struggle; of experience gained in the struggle being enlightened by theory; and by theory enlightening the course of the battle. The main thing at this moment is that the CCF supporters and membership takes up a fight for a working class policy against the “‘left’’ liberalism of Coldwell and Company; on the specific issues in which the CCF leaders are betraying the left-progressive workers and farmers—the Atlantic pact and the dan- ger of anti-socialist war; the Marshall plan and the Canadian ,economic crisis which was directly spawned by the plan; the rights of the unions and the wages struggle; the unity of the trade unions against the right-wing splitters; a united front against the St. Laurent government and its clerical-fascist backers; the battle for houses, jobs, $2 wheat, and for the young people and womenfolk. This is the obvious program of a genuine left CCFer, who will not put up with such disgusting utter- ‘ances as those quoted here from Douglas and Fines. These are the matters which have to be discussed in every CCF club, LPP club, union local, shop and factory and mine, and on a hundred public plat- forms. The Dominion election result, as the LPP state- ment observed, was a warning to the labor move- ment; it constituted a defeat for labor, a defeat which was made possible not because of the “failure” to talk about socialism, but because of the disarming of the masses of workers on the issues of the day by the CCF leaders, and the as yet weak exposure of right- wing social democracy. An economic crisis is already breaking out. The fight against the effects of that crisis is the real foundation of the working class united front—a policy which found not a single mention in Colin Cameron’s article! é Fascinating story of Soviet biology TEN years ago, a group of Soviet biologists led by Trofim D. Lysenko began to dig the grave for the philosophy of idealism in biology. It is apparent from The Situation in Biological Science (International Publishers), a complete stenographic report of the recent session of the Lenin Academy of Sciences, that the funeral is over. What is meant by idealism in biology? It is that system of thinking which says there is a separation between heredity and environ- ment. The Mendelian-Morganists (the term is derived from Gregor Mendel, the Austrian priest whose work gave rise to modern classical genetics) claim living things have two clearly different kinds of ‘sub- stances. The unit of living matter is the cell, and this contains a’ nucleus or germ-plasm and a surrounding liquid mass or cytoplasm. The Mendelian-Morganists suggested that the germ-plasm (which contains the hereditary units or genes) alone possesses the property of trans- mitting hereditary characters of the species. One of the philosophic founders of this school, August Weismann, calls the rest of the body ‘a cradle for the genes”. Weismannism has come to mean that the living body is divided into two substances which are different in prin- ciple—the ordinary living body, which possesses no heredity and is subject to alteration and transformation; that is to say, development: and a specific hereditary substance—genes—completely independent of the rest of the body. Thus, the Mendelian-Morganists have placed the hereditary sub- stance in a world apart. _Lysenko denies ‘such a theoretical concept. He does not reject the experimental proof of chromosomes, but he points out that the entire history of biology confirms the Darwin con- cept of constant change and development. If there were few laments at the funeral in the USSR, there were many mourners in the United States and Canada. They call Lysenko a charlatan. But how can they explain the fact that winter wheat vernalized by the latter’s methods gives three to four times the amount per acre than do standard varieties? It was the Soviet scientists led by Lysenko who advanced the research into the problems of dormancy and thus made it possible to produce maturing potatoes, which when grown in southern areas yield two harvests in one summer. The great strength of the Michurinists at the scientific gathering lay in the presentation of concrete scientific achievements. The nega- tive contribution of the Morganists to the important work of improving live stock were sharply criticized. They were “scientific advisors” to the collective stock farms. But their theory was based on the ideal- istic notion that postulated an immortal, hereditary substance. In accordance with this theory, every state and collective stock farm was required to repeat only “superior breeds”, to «accumulate ‘‘pure bloods” and “pure lines” from the superior breed, without regard to the pro- ductivity of. the animals thus obtained. The active role of environ- ment in animal breeding was denied. : -The Soviet Morganists, therefore, discarded even the most pro- ductive animals on the ground that their lines were not pure. Work with half-breeds was forbidden. The Michurinists blasted the Mendelian-Morganists for their failures. They cited the 15-year experiments of the Morganist Sere- brovsky on the State Sheep Breeding Farm. The average fleece in 1947 weighed 3,2 kilograms as against 3.1 kilograms in 1933. They contrasted such results with those obtained at the Michurinist-led Bol- shevik State Farm. Here a highly productive flock was produced with an average fleece of 6 kilograms. : Soviet scientists have rejected the false notion that living nature is a medley of fortuitous, isolated phenomena, withoy any necessary connections and subject to no laws. They prove through their work that chance does not reign supreme—that man is master of his fate. They have buried Mendelian-Morganist theory with the concrete fact that “one cannot wait for favors from nature, he must wrest them from her”.—PETER STONE, CURRENT MOVIES There is always Hope ****Highly Recommended “*** Recciiincndda * * Acceptable *Not Acceptable **Sorrowful Jones: This is a typical Damon Runyon yarn (“‘Little Miss Marker’) with typical Bob Hope handling. It’s very funny when Hope has good lines, rather painful when he hasn’t. Hope is a tightfisted, flinthearted bookie who “fell in love with money at the age of six, and has been going steady ever since.” Mary Jane Saunders, who plays the flintheart- melting role made famous by Shirley Temple in the earlier ver- sion, is pretty much standard juvenile. ** *Champion, | ohnny Belinda. * * Sorrowful Jones, Bond Street, The Red Shoes, The Naked City, The Rope. *Joknny Stool Pigeon, Flamingo Road, Mother Is a Freshman, Angel in Exile. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 29, “199—PAGE 7