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‘BITTER DRAUGHT FOR

SOCIALISTS’

Charges CCF leaders have

betrayed members on pact

BERYL M. WHEELDON,, Na-
Maimo: What a bitter draught to
its socialist members is this lat-

est double-cross of the top leader-
ship of the CCF, in its support
of ratification of the Atlantic
Pact! Twice before they have
been sold down the river by these
same individuals, as ex-members
will recall, but this is surely the
most traitorous move.

The ranks of the CCF during
the five years in which I was a

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member were filled by three cat-
egories of persons: a hard core of
socialists who saw in its inception
a vehicle from which to form a
progressve workers’ party with
socialist objectives: a few dis-
gruntled old party deserters of
negative viewpoint; and a greac
number of idealists raotivated by
higk principles if of little activ2
political experience

The socialists have become (is-
gruntled year by year as prin.
ciple has been subordinated to ex-
pediency and opportunism. Many
have left the party. The second
group are now riding high, nurs-
ing the limelight they could not
attain elsewhere, and lining up
to fight battles‘on behalf of cap-
italism more markedly day by
day both in the unions and in
the national and _ inte:national
fields.

But one’s genu‘ne sympathy
goes out to these well-meaning
folk in the third group, who be-
lieved the CCF was a party to
which they couid harness their
ideals, and who have now receiv-
ed a blow to the heart. Their dis-
tress and frustration must be
very real.

Even the Labor government of
Britain has its rebels against sig-
natories of the pact and now

LETTERS DIGEST

makes gestures of friendship to-
ward the new people’s govern-
ment of China. Yet its equivalent
in Canada not only subscribes to
a second “cordon _ sanitaire”

against the people of the Soviet
Union but at the crack of the
whip will presumably line up with
the rightists in the proposed Pa-
cific pact.

The CCF leadership may con-
sider it is attracting votes by
this treachery. The votes of
whom? Those who would become
a liability to them were they to
attain power. On the other hand,
the result is alienation of its own
most valuable members and sym-
pathizers and of placing its al-
ready nominated candidates in
the position in which to support
the top leadership would necessi-
tate a betrayal of their own most
fundamental] principles, and of
those who put their trust in them.

In my opinion the CCF leader-
ship, far from achieving unity,
have dealt a mortal blow to the
integrity of the party both in the
eyes of their own membership
and of the thinking public.

“This above all: to thine own
self be true—and it must follow.
as the night the day, thou canst
not then be false to any man.”

Why we support CSU

DONALD GUISE, Vancouver:
The Civic Employees Union (Out-
side Workers) is going all out to
help the’ Canadian Seamen’s
Union. Members who attended
the last union meeting took up a
collection from their own pockets
which netted $113 for the seamen.
All shop stewards have collection
cards and money is starting to
roll in from the jobs. Our Wom-
en’s Auxiliary is collecting gro-
ceries to feed the strikers.

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more than their immediate aims.
They are fighting the battle to
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and independent of boss control
and control by scabherders pack-
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One of the demands laid down
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Miami concerns all civic workers
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unions of civic employees to be
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CANADA: THE COMMUNIST VIEWPOINT ~

book is now off the press.

Jerome praises book

“THE UNIVERSALITY of the Marxist science of
society is here manifested through the concreteness of the Can-
adian people's struggle,” writes V. J. Jerome, editor of the U.S.
Marxist Magazine. Political Affairs, of Tim Buck’s book Can-—
ada: The Communist Viewpoint.

“I admire the, book for its superb ‘outgoing’ quality,”’ Jer-
ome writes. ““While addressing itself to the party and near-party
audiences, it simultaneously makes its appeal to broad ranges of
the Canadian people. By its cogent analysis supported by rich
documentation, (it) proves to the hilt your thesis that Canada’s
national policy is today in crisis.

_ “Your discussion of the evolution of Canada as an imperial-
ist power in the course of her parlous relationship to the British
Scylla and the Wall street Charybdis is a masterly background
to the understanding of the country’s present subservience to U.S.
imperialism. When ones comes to the end of the chapters analyz
ing the war danger and examining the political interests and
parties, one is impressed that the title of the section ‘We Fight
for Canada’ has earned its spurs.

“Pleasing is the book’s concreteness, its rock-ribbed Canad-
ianism, its warm concern for the people, who come to life in your
discussion of the issues; and with all that, the universality of the
Marxist science of society is here manifested through the con-
creteness of the Canadian people’s struggles.”’

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Louis Saillant, general secre-
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State Department and that the
walkout was projected at a meet-
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Use of racial antagonism as a
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of the CIO Mine, Mill and Smel-
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