Weigh your vote carefully

a es Wednesday the people of this province
will go to the polls to elect a new legislative

assembly and government. Aside from two con-
stituencies where LPP candidates are running—
Alberni and Vancouver East—and a few other
constituencies where CCF, labor and independent
candidates merit whole-hearted support, it is an
unfortunate fact that voters have little to choose
from in marking their ballots.

The candidates of the Liberal-Tory Coalition,
by record and avowed policies, are the select spokes-
men’ of monopoly big business in British Coumbia.
Having constructed a monstrous “ted bogey” of
alleged “‘socialism” to frighten voters into sup-
Porting their alleged ““free enterprise,” the Coali-
tionists pose as the defenders of the very freedoms
they have been careful not to write into their
restrictive labor legislation. And, as the party in
office, the Coalition has used the millions of dollars
—picked in pennies from the pockets of the
poor—collected’ through its Sales Tax as an elec-
tion bribe to its victims.

The CCF candidates, with a few notable ex-
ceptions, have been conducting this campaign as
though their chief purpose was to convince voters
that they are better defenders of “free enterprise”
than the Coalitionists themselves—and in deference
to the ideals of the Regina Manifesto and the
considerabl people who really

candidates and CCF candidates offering the same
thing in different words.

With @ realistic program of reform in place
of a “‘socialist’” platform constructed to allay the
fears of investors there would be no doubt as to
the CCF’s ability to sweep the Coalition into the
discard. But instead of helping to create the labor
unity to accomplish this end the CCF top leader-
ship has split and disrupted the basic trade unions
of the province wherever it has been able. Instead
of rallying the people in a concerted attack on
vested monopoly in the province, the CCF top
leadership has endeavored to outdo the propagand-
ists of big business in anti-working ‘class smears.

Having little to choose from in so many con-
Stituencies, it is all the more important that voters
in those constituencies where there is a choice should
make every ballot count.. A vote cast for any
candidate who supports policies directed against the
interests of the working people is a vote for reaction.
A vote cast for Nigel Morgan in Alberni or V. iola
Bianco in Vancouver ‘East is a vote used to the
very best of purpose—to give the working people
of , this province voices that will be raised con-
sistently in their interests in the legislature.

Similarly, in a few constituences where there
are labor, and CCF candidates prepared to voice
honest aspiration of the CCF provincial rank and file
instead of opportunist dictates of the Coldwell-
MacInnis-Winch machine, a vote cast for them is
also a vote well used. In this, progressive voters
will be well-advised to weigh carefully the record
of the various CCF candidates, their stand on the
Marshall plan and the Atlantic pact, for it is a
striking commentary on the course of the CCF
under Winch and Coldwell that approval of any’
CCF candidate in these columns would be equal
to his or her being marked for rejection by the
CCF top leadership—already the fate of more
than one progressive aspirant for CCF nomination
in this election. By the same token, it illustrates the
futility of voting for those CCF candidates who
couple their support of the Atlantic pact with red-
baiting, in the illusion that their elevation to legisla-
five office will produce any real advances for the
working people.

le proportion of the
want socialism, affixing a socialist label to’ their
un-socialist proposals.

In provincial as in federal politics, although
not as clearly, the dividing lines between progress
and reaction, between democracy moving towards

ialism and capitalism impelled towards fascism,

are drawn by those two Wall Street documents for
the “American century,”” the Marshall plan and the
North Atlantic pact. The CCF candidates who
echo Harold Winch from the platform no less than
the Coalitionists are committed to support of those
two basic policies which are ruining British Colum-
bia’s vital export trade and driving the people into
_ the hardships of a new depression. That is why,
in the policies that will determine their future, the
people have so little to choose between Coalition

The one real advance for the working people

will be the election of Nigel Morgan in Alberni
and Viola Bianco in Vancouver East.

Back the fighting CSU

ye combined forces of the St. Laurent gov-

ernment, the shipowners, the scab! y gun-toting
Seafarears’ International Union (SIU) and CCF
leader M. J. Coldwell won another ally and scored
another “victory” last’ week.

Under orders from W. ashington, through presi-
dent William Green of the American Federation
of Labor (AFL) and the USS, state department,

executive council of the Trades and Labor

of Canada suspended from affiliation its
union, the 6,000-strong ‘Canadian Seamen’s

upheld the constitution, dignity and honor of its
parent body. The CSU held no divided allegiance.

It was not an affiliate of the AFL—only of the
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada,

At its last convention the entire leadership of
the CSU were elected by secret ballot, supervised
by William Jenoves, president of Toronto Trades
and Labor Council and member of the TLC
executive which carried out the despicable orders
from Washington. Thus the ‘“Communist-domin-

ated” excuse and act stand exposed as a piece of

Union. ; cheap treason.
This cowardly and despicable act «was carried

on the pretext that the CSU was a “Com-

- ™unist-dominated” union. It was a gala day for

the professional union-wreckers of the ll-Johnstone

stamp, who have demonstrated beyond _cavil that

they are worthy of their. “thirty pieces of silver.”

With the striking CSU fighting for its very
Jife against the violence of combined

Not a man on the TLC executive can wash
his hands of this treason. They can argue that
they were “pressured” into. it by the St. Laurent
government and the U.S. state department—but that
excuse will never be accepted by decent Canadian
workers. Nor can they salve their guilty conscience
by thinking that throwing out the CSU will end the
demands of Yankee imperialism, delivered by
William Green.

The TLC executive has opened the door to

the history of organ- treason and exposed every single affiliated union to

ry:
: sg? ge a Classic, not in simple economy, but in Coalition skulldugs®!
ized labor. brave decision of the Trades the poison and disruption of treason. _ Already Here’s one for the Quiz Kids, Question: “Why must the tax °
Congress convention in Victoria last summer has shipowners on the Great Lakes have given Ameri- paid on small purchases from 15 cents up?” Answer: “Because
become a worthless scrap of paper. In place of a can stoolpigeons in American ports permission to there are more small than large purchases made. If the tax start’
decision to stand by the CSU despite government- board vessels with a CSU crew and point out who at the dollar mark, less money would be collected and less benefit
shi attacks and the splitting attempts of the among the crew may be suspected of being a com- Would be available to ALL OF US” (Coalition caps). \ een
Hall-Johnstone gang, the Trades and Labor munist. Every seaman who defends his union against Caneel out this Coalition bunkum with your vote on June 15

has now driven a knife deep into the back of the goons and finks, will be

these Yankee Pinkertons,
so branded. -

Betrayal of the Canadian Seamen’s Union by
the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada means
.the betrayal of Canadian labor’s national and demo-
cratic rights. No union member within the TLC
is now safe. Eviction of the CSU from the TLC
subverts every trade union principle for which gen-
erations of Canadian workers have fought.

Well may the 6,000 fighting men of the CSU
of Percy Bengough as the great Cesar once
said of his murderers, ‘Et tu, Brute!”

Nor is that all. The countless thousands of
union workers, dockers and seamen in every port
of the world, who joined in unity and solidarity
with the CSU, seeing in its epic struggle for union
rights and standards a reflection of their own cause,
have been wantonly betrayed by eviction of the
CSU from its rightful place in the House of Labor.

Not a single charge has been or can be made
against the CSU upon which to base this cowardly say
act. Throughout its entire existence the CSU’ has

see how it sounds to ourselves,

present the world in its own false pattern.
@ .

literature—which “we, the people”
for later on.

did this tax come about?
demanded more and larger benefits

insurance. We asked for these benefits, therefore we must be Pr :
pared to pay ,for them.”

Anscomb Sales Tax twins imposed this
while all along “we, the people”
Here we’ve been beefing all the ia
pay this 3 percent Sales Tax (sometimes nearer 6 percent), total

unaware that “Big Business P
wage earner pays less
H. R. MacMillan pays
school arithmetic taught us that one and
Coalition idea of 3 often adds up to 6!

Sales Tax beefing. Even
taxes.”

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As We See It

BSE the old gag of “reliable sources,” New York Times co
pondent C. L, Sulzberger has discovered a large-scale polit ,
“purge” taking place in Russia. For the last 31 years or so, evel

since 1917, we have been reading of Soviet “political purges” in th
columns of our daily press. ;

This is one style that never changes.
dispatch from G

showing at least

For instance: “a Paris

L. Sulzberger says evidence can be assembled
300,000 members have been expelled from the Com
munist party... .” This time it is supposed to be

a “Zhdanoy faction” which is getting the ew

York Times’ cold-war axe, The report also throws

in the usual dash of the mysterious. Andrei
Zhdanov died in August, 1948, and the cause of
his death was “listed officially as heart failur®
but there were world-wide rumors that he
been liquidated.” Rumor, it might be added,
itiated by the Salzburger presstitutes,

In this latest New York Times
high Soviet personages are listed
to have disappeared quietly.”

- Soviet slanders .
ference, plain falsehoods . 4

in-
“purge,” several

“who are
Note ‘how anti-
are manufactured. Inuendo, i
- Set down as common every day truths.

If some energetic student of social affairs were to take time
out to estimate the number of Soviet “purges” that have take
to total up the number
or “removed”—and add :
who died so that w®

that there were n0_
+ + not even a Communist party. And that would

really put the cold war cheer leaders in a hell of a jackpot!

Everyone knows—or nearly everyone—that Mackenzie King ha
retired from leadership of the Liberal party (officially at least)
after winning the all-Empire marathon of prime ministership.
us apply the sewer press method of “reporting” (in reverse) a

as well as to others. {

“A Helsinki dispatch via Athens reports that Mackenzie King
long-time prime minister of Canada, has been purged. Sources —
Close to the government say that King may have been liquidated —
since he hasn’t been seen around the Chateau Laurier since his
removal from office. Reports around Ottawa strengthen the cOl- —
viction that he may have been purged to prevent publication of
his memoirs. These, it is said, touch upon the Beauharnois scal- —
dal which broke some years ago and in which some of King’s
most intimate colleagues were deeply involved.”

Doesn't sound very good to Canadian ears, does it? Of cours?
not. But every last propaganda sheet masquerading as part of our :
hallowed “free press,” spills the anti-Soviet slander of the Sulzberger
across its pages—and the Russians are supposed to like it, Whe
the Soviet delegates to the United Nations protest, our Bevis
Achesons and Pearsons term it “Communist propaganda.”

In covering “Soviet purges”
respect. It does a masterly job

our free press is consistent in oe
of liquidating truth in its efforts

The Coalition Sales-Tax Twins are getting out some hot electio?

will have to pay through the n0S?

“It’s Your Money” Says a snappy little Coalition folder with iB
ash of ((horrors) red, and a frothy defense of the Sales Tax. How
“Because we, the people of British Columbia
+». greater security . . . hos

“The Government Is You, Remember that. You pay the
tax in order to help yourself.”

And here we have been under the illusion that the Johnsom —

Pay-envelope gyp on ie
did it to ourselves! Just think of
time about the workers having

‘ays Most Of The Tax. The averse

than 1 percent of his monthly budget,” out
almost 2 percent. He must pay two since

two are three—although “

levies such :

: beaks ie

distortion and misrepresentation, this 0° 1

» “It’s Your Money,” takes the cake. J”

But remember boys,

“The Government Is You” so quit
“Socialist Saskatchewan

For sheer downright

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