Make every minute count FE LECTION day for British Columbia is June 15, a bare two weeks away. If every day be- tween now and then is utilized to push doorbells and acquaint people with the real issues of the elec- tion, the Johnson-Anscomb sales-taxers can get their come-uppance at the polls. Election day for Canada is June 27, less ok a month to go. If every day is utilized to get the Program and peace policy of the LPP into the hands of the people, the North Atlantic suicide pact gov- ernment of St. Laurent (despite purchased gains in Newfoundland) can be set back on its heels, Liberals, Tories, Coalitionists, CCF’ers of the Coldwell stamp, have nothing to offer the people save empty promises and windy oratory—and nothing better to hide their shameless political opportunism it's a lie, N polite circles it is not considered proper to call a person a liar. In his meeting’ at Pender Auditorium this week, Attorney General Gordon Wismer is quoted in the press as saying: “You may wonder at the lack of LPP candidates in this election. I know, as attorney general, that members of the LPP are collecting money tor mem- bership in the CCF.” ‘That is a downright falsehood, and if uttered by Wismer “‘as attorney general” or plain weasel- worded Liberal politician, still remains -a cheap lie. The LPP is collecting money from workers in this election—dollars and dimes—to the extent of $25,000 to help in enlightening thé people on .the trickery and treachery of Tory and Liberal (single or in unholy wedlock), and right-wing CCF'er, and io help in electing genuine workers’ ‘tepresentattves to parliament, and_ broken pledges than cheap anti-Soviet, anti- LPP red-baiting. These worn-out phonograph re- cordings of Hitler’s big lies sound no better from old-line—and some CCF—platforms than they did over Nazi loudspeakers. The answer is to get Labor-Progressive party's program and other election material into the hands of the people, to use the Pacific Tribune as an in- troduction to new progressive voters. Only a few short weeks are lefi—but those weeks can yet turn the path of B.C. and Canada towards peace,, a greater social security and lasting freedom, if we go out to meet the people on their own doorstep. From now until either election day, mass can- vassing should be the duty of every progressive worker. : The LPP gets no slush funds as the Liberals and Tories do, from the mining, lumber, transport, liquor or other interests. Nor does the LPP intend to collect or to spend one cent of the money it collects “for memberships in the CCF,” or to sup- port the election of CCF candidates. LPP members will vote only for those CCF candidates who stand for peace and socialism, and they will reject other CCF candidates who stand with Wismer and St. Laurent for the North Ailantic pact, war and reaction. x As attorney general, Gordon Wismer has a very loose concept of what constitutes truth. Any politician who ‘must resort to deliberate falsehood has a poor case, and on June 15 should be demon- stratively retired from public service for the com- mon good of the people of this province. The two-party line UMEROUS. well-defined rules and practices govern the behavior of our two-party system. In B.C., where the Tories and Liberals are joined together in Coalition wedlock, they. pose as the em- ‘bodiment of political virtue. The domestic felicity they parade in public however, merely conceals the brawls behind thé Coalition boudoir curtain when division of the political spoils is not to the taste of :one or other of the participants, : Operating under the straight party system, both Tories and Liberals put on a better show, although it is still the same huge pretense. Charges and ‘counter-charges fill the air. Mud-slinging is the order of the day. It is all permissible—and duly _ recognized as‘ part of our “free” institutions. Most ‘important, it helps to delude large sections of the electorate into the belief that perhaps the Liberals —or the Tories—‘will do something for us this time ” » , One infallible rule is held sacred by Tories, Liberals, or combinations of both: the right of the party in power to “buy” an election. Old age pensioners have benefitted in recent weeks from this old-line party practice. Prime Minister St. Laurent upped the old age pensioners’ meagre allowance with a means’ test $10 bill. The Johnson-Anscomb Coalition, not to be outdone in electioneering muni- ficience, has added another mite, which will bring the basic old age pension in B.C. up to $50. Every citizen. will feel glad of this belated and partial recognition of the plight of our senior citizens —at the same time despising the election purchase plan by which it has been achieved. The rules provide that just before elections nothing is “too good for the people.” After the elections, well that’s a different story. There is still nothing “too good for the people’’—providing it doesn’t interfere with the profits of big business, which dic- tates the policies and lays down the rules for Liberals and Tories alike. | WHICH | SIDE ARE. YOU _ ON? HIS is the title of a new pamphlet just off the press. {t is by Stanley B- Ryerson, organizational secretary of the LPP and federal candidate in Wentworth. The pamphlet, sub-titled “A Question for Messrs. Coldwell, Lewis and Millard’ is a ringing challenge to Canadian workers to choose een unity in action for pro- gress, democracy and peace—or the labor- splitting, red-baiting, pro-war tactics of the right-wing leadership of the CCF. Ryerson carefully documents _ his case against Coldwell, Lewis and Millard with authentic evidence. He recognizes the fact that official CCF leadership policies are not supported by a considerable body of CCF members. In his final appeal for unity, he writes: “Among CCF members, the desire for a real peace policy is growing . .. The ‘idea is that everybody who wants peace must get together and fight for an independ- ent, Canadian policy of world cooperation, for friendship with our Soviet neighbor and with all the peoples of the earth.” The pamphlet is priced at three cents. » for this column, ; ‘ TOM McEWEN OR the last couple of weeks the hot romance of Aly and Ri has almost pushed the “cold” war gutter press. The professional tear-jerkers really had something to work on, what with the wedding rehearsal, which ‘shouldn’t ha’ been too difficult for triple-event Rita, the pink champagne and lobster, and the doings of the numerous guests who were eithé too far up—or too far down—the social register. nuptial knot was tied by Communist mayor Paul Derigon © Vallauris, who wished Aly and Rita all “the happr ness they desire.” While Communism is vastly superior to the social order which the newlyweds epitomize in all its artificial bloom of degeneracy, the fact that a Communist mayor tied the knot is no_guarantee that Aly and Rita will stay tied. That however, is the least of our worries. We can get back to the cold war, Mrs. Oksana Kasenkino, who jumped out of © a window in the New York offices of the Soviet Consulate last summer, with somewhat less _ satis- factory results than James Vv. Forrestal, is re- ported to be building a little “nest-egg,” or, as “ the race-track lads Say, getting “into the dough.” off the front pages of the To top it off the Through the sale of her anti-Soviet syndicated articles, writtet — by the notorious Trotskyite ghost-writer Isaac Don Levine, Madame Kasenkina netted some $45,000. in the anti-Soviet literary market with a book entitled Living for Freedom, which will contain all the stock canards and calumnies which go into the making of a current American “bestseller. Madame’Kasenkina has got herself a nice “shiny 1948 black sedan, numerous proposals of marriage from Texas and California, and — assurances from publishers that anti-Soviet treason still rates as 4 high-priced commodity with a ready market in the United States: Who says the age of opportunity has passed . .. if one is not ‘too sensitive about pawing among anti-Soviet garbage? e According to Attorney-General Gordon Wismer, now making the welkin ring on the hustings with Coalition “achievements,” British Columbia has two choices on June 15—“poverty or aluminum.” Should .B.C, vote for CCF “socialism,” that, in Wismer's jargom will mean “poverty.” But a vote for the Coalition will bring us “aluminum,” and of course, the implied “prosperity” that comes with aluminum, Wismer’s “choice” is the Aluminum Company “of Canada” of Shipshaw fame, a Yankee-controlled monopoly which made millions of dollars out of the Canadia , is getting set t0 \ precisely the formula. cook in it. Which is essence of Wismer’s “poverty” versus “aluminum” In 1949 she hopes to do even better — With Colonel George Drew and the charming Fiorenzia back in ‘ Vancouver out-promising the Liberals (with a minimum of em barrassment to the Coalitionists) we need not be surprised Gorgeous promises to put a chicken in every Wismer aluminum It is an old habit which dies hard engaged in the business of seeking votes. Py A number of enquiries have been sent to this paper by workels and other who are seeing some queer sights in this double-electiol campaign. One citizen asks us why it is that the Unitea Jewish People’s Order school on Broadway has been turned into a Tory headquarters, with a big placard advertizing a Tory MP (se ‘reelection on his war record) as “a friend of the people.” All we can say is that we too would like to know—when the Tories wel? ever friends of the people? - Another tells rather than asks us, the CCF leadership supports the Atlantic war pact. member,” says our correspondent, supported giving the BCElectric another 25-year franchise when question was up in the House? Harold explained ‘that giving th® “You will ré- BCElectric another 25-year lease on B.C. would speed up socialism — Well, it’s the same idea behind OCF support of the Atlantic pact We have to admit that we are a bit dense when it comes ' following this line of reasoning. When the Johnson-Ascomb Coalitio? (with GOF support) gave the BCHlectric a new grip on B.C’ Power and transit ‘resources, that to our mind was building e stronger monopoly bulwark against the interests of the people: Similarly with the North Atlantic pact; it is an instrument ° Military agression and intervention against people and nations whose ideas of a socialist “Way of life” differ from our. How eee can the support of an imperialist war pact against socialism, o so-called socialists, be even remotely considered as an aid to socialism Better have Coldwell or MacInnis answer that one. It’s too mue -Q i. ’ ; . mm ‘| 7 K Qu: y bined Anni at ron il i ol aki . oath Samah Published Weekly at 650 Howe Street : By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. Telephones: Editorial, MA. 5857; Business, MA. 5288 Tom McEwen ' f Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. 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