d holding 75 percent of the investment capital, Wall
eet seeks to monopolize world markets and to con-
idate that privileged position, and it presses for gov-
ental and military domination of all nations.

This is a dark picture, but make no mistake about
the outlook for the future is even darker. With the
‘pitalist sector greatly shrunken, the strongest remaining
Pttalist power, the United States, seeks to cornet for
If what remains in that sector. Aided by the St.
Urent Liberal government in Ottawa, abetted by the
tral-Tory Coalition in Victoria, the U.S. is syste-
; aatically grabbing the present and potential markets of
* Country, Pe

_ The Marshall plan has wrecked our traditional
1 ae and Western Europe. We are pre-

y the “cold war’’ policies from developing new
~ Promising markets in liberated China, in eastern
Pe and elsewhere.

Program for peace and jobs

' this connection, it is important that we should warn,
act only against any delusion that cyclical crisis is
ing oe over the entire capitalist world, but also
St any false assumption that public works provides
“lng more than a very temporary and limited relief,
Mant as it is at this stage. The central question
Aas and independence must receive increased empha-
Nesta € struggle for jobs, not only because around that
ee the whole future revolves, but because peace is
fhite Y to trade and markets out of which emerges in-
ma. . Steater possibilities for cushioning the impact of
Ming capitalist crisis.
Bits Labor-Progressive party calls upon the people
ing Columbia to fight against economic crisis an
st that measures be taken by the B.C. government
‘vent unemployment from undermining the ‘homes,
ealth and very lives of thousands of citizens of this
e are in a national emergency situation
Tequires ‘‘emergency measures.”
© Labor-Progressive party advances the follow-
™mediate program of action to retard, delay and
! the burdens of the crisis being placed on the

all spam Plot. The atomic bomb must be banned and
ock piles destroyed. Ottawa must halt the scanda-
ty *Xport of valuable Canadian uranium to any coun-

8s the government of that country gives a guar-
Ae it will be used only for purposes of peace,

or the mass murder of civilians.

€ call upon the St. Laurent government to sup-
Port the proposal for a ‘‘Pact of Peace” between

m,

es Mul has to be brought from Jamaica, the Philip-
Guiana or China where it is mainly

e Reynolds Company recently estimated

ke about 300 freighters a year to bring

N pounds necessary to turn out one billion

aluminum.”

hy shouldn't that necessary bauxite for an in-
byment tt is planned, would give year-round
Na, hs fo 50,000 persons, be obtained from

‘ch country, according to the Chinese hand-
> €nough known reserves to supply us for
at that rate?

Ricsr yc
he ddition, China has available such necessities
ds. ee hides and shins, oil cake, oil-yielding

» lea, rice.

ing, st beca ;

1 alistic Use Wall Street, for its own selfish,
oN Casons, insists on continuing to interfere
: Feit of China to try to save its corrupt and
Con, ital warlord’Chiang Kai-shek, is no reason
? to tag along.

ibe a must be jolted into action. Ottawa
Rian, 4 by that overwhelming majority of
0 the iva suffer under its preseni policy, to face
by 4, eality and act in the interests of our cound
leg, “thing off relations with the grafting, dis-
Tecogn:., NOW dislodged, Kuomintang warlords,

2e the only legitimate government of China.

ight .for peace

the five great powers: USSR, USA, Britain, People’s
China and France. Canada must extend immediately,
full recognition to the new People’s Republic of China.
Trade missions must be dispatched to China immediately.
As a concrete token of friendship, why shouldn’t the
people of this province initiate a “Friendship Cargo,”’ to
carry donations of medical supplies, food and other neces-
sities to this war-torn and flood threatened land? The
Labor-Progressive party urges consideration of such ‘a
project under broad auspices and pledges its support.
Friendship and trade with China, the USSR and the
New Democracies is vital to the future of British Col-
umbia. Instead of sending Jimmy Sinclair to be wined
and dined by Tito as part of Wall Street’s cold war
intrigues, send trade missions to strengthen friendly re-
lations with the New: Democracies. :

$—Against the St. Laurent government “un-Canadian”

agreement with the United States not to sell pro-
ducts to governments to which the U.S. does not sell
similar products, we demand that Canadian products be
sold to any country that desires to buy them. We call
upon the provincial government to join the demand for
trade with all, extension of credits, negotiation of barter
agreements and commencement of trade in sterling. Why
can’t we barter with Britain needed textiles, machinery.

cars, tools and steel for British Columbia’s surplus stocks —

of lumber, fish, apples and other farm products?

4—As further and immediate measures to relieve cur-
rent unemployment hardship, we propose:

@ Federal action to provide cash financial assistance

to all destitute persons, extension of unemployment in-

surance credits, and a 50 percent increase in such bene-

fits ;

@ Federal, provincial and civic authorities to act im-
mediately to launch their respective reconstruction pro-
grams including: low rental housing, slum clearance,
and improvement of rural and urban housing stan-
dards; urgently needed additions to hospital, school and
government buildings; development of water controls
against floods, for irrigation and drainage, and de-
velopment of forest, fishery conservation, roads, parks
and recreational facilities; building of rural water dams;
construction of Marpole and Cambie street Bridges,
False Creek and Little Mountain parks in Vancouver,
where unemployment is greatest.

To bring an end to the government’s shameful and
callous disregard of its wartime promises, and provide
for the pressing needs of thousands of B. C. citizens,
the Labor-Progressive party pledges itself to_ mobilize
the broadest and most vigorous united action to compel
replacement of the predent enormous and increasing

expenditures upon preparations for aggressive warfare —

by adequate expenditures on people’s welfare.

In view of the federal government’s refusal to
carry through its “Green Book” proposals for social
welfare, and its squandering of national revenues on
military projects, we must carefully work through and
press for better terms from Ottawa before the Domin-
jon-Provincial tax agreement comes up for discussion
next September. This. vital question must be approached
in the light of, and as part of the necessary action, to
bring our national constitution into line with the econ-
omic and political realties, and the social needs of to-
day. Changes must be made to take care of the im-
mense increase in the need for, and cost of social services:
to give equality of social services in contrast to the grow-
ing inequality of the sources of public revenue In our
various provinces; to answer the pressing question of
unequivocal constitutional recognition of the national sta-
tus and rights of French Canada; to provide for re-
division of federal and provincial responsibilities; and
establish uniform legislation concerning trade union rights,

minimum wage and hour standards, and a “Bill of :

Rights”’ : 5

Defend the ‘people’s rights

‘@ie special importance to the struggle for peace is
this question of a Bill of Rights and the develop-
ing struggle around the issue of civil liberties.

The paramount need for the establishment of an
active crusading civil rights movements for a Bill of
Rights and against political and racial discriminations,
and anti-labor injunctions and suits must receive im-
mediate attention. ‘The debate in parliament, and es-
pecially the reactionary statements of Garson, Drew
and Coldwell, emphasise that the labor movement must
be sharply warned against continuing to underestimate
the seriousness of the assault on civil liberties and the
danger of a new Section 98,

The Coalition’s plan to turn over policing of this
province to the RCMP, with its record of provocation,

‘labor spying and brutality in suppression of unemployed

Excerpts from the main report
given by NIGEL MORGAN,
provincial leader, to the
seventh convention of the
British Columbia-Yukon

Labor-Progressive party

struggles and strike struggles of the trade unions; the
recent ruling in Vancouver Trades and Labor Council
barring communists and fellow-travellers from being can-
didates in elections; the newly-announced plans for the
so-called Civil Disaster Organization, significantly head-
ed by the red squad—all these clearly point to the
pressing need for decisive united action.

The civil nghts movement must seek to embrace
the widest ranks of people, but we must route out the
misconception that seems to be prevalent that it must be
a “middle class’ movement.- That is not correct. Civil
tights is a basic “‘life and death” problem of the entire
labor movement, and the trade union and language or-
ganization, the full weight of the working class must be
thrown into the grave struggle that is shaping up today.

This is a primary task in strengthening the struggle
for peace, and maintaining the trade unions, the cultural
and other democratic organizations of the people. We
must, everyone of us, approach it as such.

For unity of working people

HE job now is to organize and- rally the broad
masses of people for active defense of the cause
of peace, for the sake of all the vital interests of the
people and for life and liberty. To do this, two con-

siderations must receive our primary attention.

First, we must realize that upon the energy and
imtative of the communists depends above all the trans-
formation of the possibility of frustrating the plans of
the warmakers into reality.

Second, we must grasp the fact that working class
unity is the very heart and core of the peace movement.

The fight for peace is inseparably linked up with the
defense of trade union rights. | March, 1950, finds
Bnitish Columbia already in the grip of a maturing crisis
with the union splitters, hand in hand with the reactionary
bosses, intensifying their offensive to divide and weaken
the fighting capacity of labor, thus assisting in placing
the burden of that crisis on the working people.

This most alarming threat to the labor movement, to
its effectiveness in the struggle for peace, and in fact,
to labor’s very existence, must be vigorously attacked and —
defeated. /

The fight for peace and independence is now the
center of all our work. We must understand that not
only in words but in life.

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