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VOL. 10, No. 40 Ss PRICE FIVE CENTS

UNITED LABOR ACTION
GAN TOPPLE COALITION

meet All the pent-up public anger against the Coalition government’s hospital insurance and sales tax

i P - ? policies exploded in Premier Byron Johnson’s face this week. When the ballots were counted in the
Will it come to this?

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CYMER CMM OAM TIE

enone British Columbia, October 5. 1951 |

i

Esquimalt provincial byelection on Monday only one in four had been cast for the Coalition
candidate and the CCF candidate, 25-year old Frank Mitchell, had won the seat with a majority of
248 votes. The final count gave Mitchell 2,816 votes, A. C. Wurtele, the Independent supported by
breakaway Conservatives W. A. C. Bennett and Mrs. Tillie Rolston, 2,568, and the Liberals Mayor
Percy George of Victoria, the official Coalition candidate, 1,731. Two other candidates Archibald
McIntyre, Independent, with 382 votes, and Keith Gray, Independent Labor, were in the running only
to the extent their votes could have affected the election outcome.

Some facts that presented themselves to political observers were: Although Mitchell won on a split
vote through Wurtele’s drawing the greater part of the Conservative vote from the Coalition in what was
for long a Conservative stronghold, Wourtele’s vote was also a protest against the Coalition. The CCF,
which increased its vote by some 300 over 1949 did not conduct a strong campaign, the CCF News
barely mentioning the byelection in-its last issues and many CCF leaders being absent from the constituency

- The disgusted burgher shown
above lighting his pipe with a
devaluated reichmark in Western
Cormany three years ago may
Son have his counterpart in Can-
ada, if our dollar continues to
shrink in value. Only difference
Ss the price of tobacco is rising
°° high, -due to federal govern-
Ment taxes and Imperial Tobacco
Company profit-gouging, the citt-

Ze
"8 soon won't be able to con-

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N the latest hike in cigarette,

Prices, lurn to page 2,

Continued on page 7 — See FOUR-TO-ONE

Compel parliament
to act on people’s

emand for peace

—TIM BUCK
TORONTO

“A tide ‘of resentment against Yankee domination is rising all across the country,” declared Tim

Buck, LPP national leader, in a statement issued here this week.

“Canada’s voice, her people’s voice,

must be heard at Ottawa when the 4th session of our 21st parliament opens October 9. Canada’s voice,
not the voice of United States imperialism, must be heeded by the government, MP's and senators.”
The Labor-Progressive party leader’s statement continues:

What do Canadian workers, farmers, ordinary citizens want?
St. Laurent and his: supporters taking Canada?

They want peace. Where are

They are taking your country down the Yankee-designed

road of inflation, crisis and aggressive war, rearming Japan and Germany.
Continued on page 6 — See U.S. DOMINATION

‘SCOTCH THIS INIQUITY IN OUR MIDST’

Oppose atomic drills, paper urges parents

NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C.
Calling upon parents to oppose
atomic bofnb drills in B.C. schools,
the Fraser Valley Times, in its
September 25 issue, denounces
the drills as “ridiculous in their
purport of protection” and harm-
‘o children.
eae Times’ editorial states.
This month parents of many
children attending La ngley
schools have received letters from
their teachers that atomic bomb
drill will henceforth be part of
curriculum.
aie teachers have written these
communiques to the parents at
the insistence of the officials of
the department of : education
working in collusion with the de-
partment of national defense.

To state that most of the teach-
ers who have been compelled to
write these letters urging parents
not to be alarmed at the reaction
of the bomb drills upon their
children, have done so with re-
luctance would be no ‘exaggera-
tion, and teachers of our ac-
quaintance have delayed as long
as possible the commencement
of these exercises, so ridiculous
in their purport of protection
against atomic radiation.

. .. It is the purpose of this
editorial to arouse parents through
their Parent-Teacher Associations
to action to denounce this trans-
gression before it warps and dis-
torts the minds of our children,
as it muct inexorably do through
its conditioning to the inevitabil-

ity of war.

Already, unofficial reaction of
many members of Parent Teach-
er groups, has been one of dis-
taste for the scheme; now it
should be followed by direct, of-
ficial and determined action to

rid the schools in\Langley of its |

shadow.

To propagandize the minds of
adults is one, thing, but to en-
croach upon the sacred tenderness
of a child’s inner soul is quite
another. matter;. especially. so
when the measures recommended
for their protection are so’ ab-
solutely futile.

We wonder if the infantile des-
igners of these drills would like
to convince the children of their

invulnerability while cowering
under their school desks, by tak-
ing some of these desks down
to the fringe of the New Mexico
desert as shields for their per-
sons the next time they touch
ofi an atomic explosion.
We think not!

Langley of course, is not the
first district where these atom-
bomb drills have been instituted.
They were undertaken in schools
in New York.

And they have borne disastrous
fruits.

Surveys now being conducted
have shown that the young vic-
tims of this defence hoax, are

Continued on back page
See DRILLS