BY NIGEL MORGAN

Bold presentation of alternative

to Socred, CCF policies needed

ee the next six weeks the at-
tention of the majority of
B.C. citizens will be focussed on
the provincial election campaign
which concludes on; June 9. They
will be listening to the candi-
dates and discussing the pro-
grams of the five major parties
—Social Credit,
CCF, Liberal,
Conservative
and Labor-Pro-
gressive — and
the various
minor groups,
Christian De- :
mocratic party, Rises
which — intends Mb
to enter 12 candidates, the
Native Indians, who are reported
to be considering three indepen-
dent candidates, Labor and other
independents.

As I noted in my report to
the recent provincial conference
of the Labor-Progressive party —
and I think it will bear repeti-
tion — the issue is:

“Which party, and concretely
in each constituency, which
candidate, will work most ener-
gétically and effectively for
peace and life as against the
grave threat of war and death?

“Which candidate will fight
for trade and markets as a means
of heading. off the scourge of
mass unemployment and declin-
ing incomes?

“The answer to these two
questions is also the answer to
the third question: which can-
didate will advance most the
people’s welfare — our living
standards and our health, educa-
tion, recreational and cultural
needs? ~

“By this measuring stick it is
clear that neither the Social
Credit nor the CCF program pro-
vides what the people want. To

limit the prospect to one of gov- .

ernment by either party would
be entirely wrong. In neither one
nor the other can the people re-
pose their trust.”

e

Social Credit’s main appeal, as
is already apparent, will be:
“Give us a chance — Give Bs.
stable government.” But who
wants to stabilize the hardship
of the Social Credit government’s.
refusal or inability to solve the
acute market crisis which is

gripping our primary industries:

of lumbering.and mining, fishing
and agriculture?

The Socreds will make the most
of CCF and Liberal opposition to
their “Rolston formula’ for edu-
cation, the so-called “Tilly Tax”
which actually brought about
the defeat of Premier W. A- C.
Bennett’s minority government.

The fact is that the “Rolston
formula,” although it makes cer-
tain improvements in the system:
of financing education costs, falls
far short of providing what is

required in the way of equaliz-
ing actual school costs to the
municipalities and equalizing
educational standards as between
the various school districts, and,
it lays the basis for future shift-
ing of the burden of school costs
on to the municipalities as has
been done in Alberta under a
Social Credit administration.

In an attempt to win a great-
er share of the working class
vote in the cities the Socreds may
be expected to extend their
promises of labor legislation,
despite the fact that measures to
fulfill their promises of a year
ago were conspicuously lacking
in the recent session.

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The CCF is taking the field
under a new leader, Arnold Web-
ster, whose political “respect-
ability’ is apparent
ability to win election consist-
ently to: Vancouver Park Board,
in latter years at the top of the
poll, although all his CCF col-
leagues just as consistently go
down to defeat, and in versatility
as CCF chairman of a Non-Par-
tisan park board during the past
two. years. There is nothing
to distinguish his policies from
those of his Non-Partisan fellow
members of the board and there-
fore no explanation of his big
vote except the obvious conclu-
sion that he has the support of
the still-dominant Non-Partisan
machine.

While the Liberal party’ under
its new leader, Arthur Laing,
now woos the votes of the work-
ing people it kicked in the teeth

~throughout the years of Liberal-
Tory Coalition government, there
is no indication that the CCF,
under its new leader, will place
any stress on the issues and pur-
sue the policies that otherwise
would distinguish it asa Social-
ist party from the Liberal party.

The CCF may be expected to
make the constitutional question
of its right to form a govern-
ment a main issue in the cam-
paign, ignoring the fact that it
was prepared to form a govern-
ment under Harold Winch, not
on a fighting program of the
people’s needs but on the basis
of what the Liberal group in the
legislature was prepared to ac-

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Again, ‘to quote my report to ©

the LPP provincial conference:
“In this situation
forceful and broad presentation
of the alternative to the do-
nothing policies of both the main,
contending parties, Social Credit
and CCF, is the main require-
ment in this election campaign.

“The LPP can and will have a
big influence on the final out-
come. The LPP’s central aim
will be the election to the next
legislature of a majority of
MLA’s committed to policies of

OPPOSE FEDERATION SCHEME :

Africans threaten boycott

BULAWAYO,
Southern Rhodesia
AN -African leader here has
warned that Africans will re-
fuse to stand for election to a
federal parliament if the British
government’s plan to unite
Southern and Northern Rhodesia

and Nyasaland is forced through. ’

__ Joshua Nkomo, one of the dele-
gates to a recent conference of
African leaders from the three
territories, said this would be

the first move in a campaign of
non-cooperation which had been
agreed on. OA

An African newspaper corres-
pondent in Blantyre (Nyasaland)
says that copies of several
treaties which exist between the
African chiefs of Nyasaland and
the British government have
been found in a public library in
Britain and are now in the hands
of the. Nyasaland African Con-
gress.

peace, Canadian independence,
trade and _ people’s. welfare;
pledged to fight the war crisis
policies of monopoly capital as
represented by the Liberal and
Tory parties, the top leadership
of Social Credit and the right

- wing of the CCF.

“This is the first step toward
the forging of a people’s coali-
tion in the legislature.

“The role of the LPP in the
struggle for such a ‘coalition as
the foremost force stimulating,
organizing and influencing the
development of mass. united
front struggles on key political
issues, will be decisive.”

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