: TIM BUCK

eas of Europe, Asia,
or Whether it is financ-
smmbination of private
and governmental fi-
i Secondary considera-
lecisive facts are that
lone if peace is to be
7 be done by coopera-
irnments committed to
“live opened up at
id such governments
ported by all sections
e including important
dig, aye, of monopoly

jary expansion of the
to enable our people
the goods that will be
* home consumption,
‘xporting three times
we exported before

will no doubt be
hose fories and busi-
S who have learned

hed.

‘expand the consum-
# our domestic mar-
considerably above
Is will invite disas-

| analysis the needed
tket expansion can
tured by increasing
ion of the masses of
articularly the wage-
ers and members of
iddie classes. It re-
‘sing of popular pur-
r to the extent that
iger domestic market
ull employment and

e to raise the stan-
ving in French Can-
sections where sub-
is now prevail will
NE the effort to main-
svel of production.
mhions, higher wmini-
vels, guaranteed an-
‘qual pay for equal
sed earnings com-
ath increased pro-
aims will become
fe nation, clearly in
Mterests and will be
questions of public
_ possible to unite
‘ters who want pro-
2s so that their com-
constitute the great
ae nation united to
ales into effect?
Imێ way, and only
it it can be done,
| electoral coalition
tberal labor forces
ing the main body
sive ~ working-class
desire independent
al action and the
of reform-minded
“the King govern-
© Coalition.
le to bring about
m? Yes, it is. ..

sovernment and its
ary support consti-
nN Practical nucleus
fan government of
after the forthcom-
election. This is so
imnesses of the King

| require far-reaching ~

the war but it must ~

government, the timid way in
which it gives support to domestic
policies in accord’ with the Teher-
an agreement, and the concessions

that it makes to reactionary
interests.
The Progressive-C onserv a-

tives do not offer such a Possi-
bility; on the contrary, there
are signs that the Progressive-
Conservative Party is becoming
the main concentration of anti-
Teheran reaction.

Neither does the CCF offer such
a possibility. Disregarding the
basic pro-Teheran sentiment of
the labor movement the leader-
ship of the CCF rejects ail pro-

posals looking toward such a
political objective.

Furthermore, in- the existing
situation in Canada, national
unity, including important sec-—
tions of big capital, cannot be
established around a CCF goy-

ernment and the official policies
and proposals of the CCF: on the
contrary, the policies and propa-
ganda of the CCF play directly.
into the hands of the present Tory
conspiracy around the false issue
of “Socialism vs. Free Enterprise.”

It tends to foster the develop-
ment of a broad coalition around
the most viciously reactionary -
forces in Canada,

There is a contradiction be-
tween the reform desires of these
masses however and the defeatist
“Socialism Now!” policies advo-
cated by the CCF leadership. The
mass of the €CE supporters favor
the Teheran line. Jobs, security,
social reform, national prosperity
and peace expresses the essen-
tial content of their political
aspirations.

A coalition of those forces
desirous of social reform and of
independent labor political action
and operating as an independent
political force, with the King Lib-
erals in a government of national
unity pledged to progressive
policies, would correctly express

both the current political Situa-
tion in the country, the aspirations
of the majority of Progressive
Canadians, and the new and far-
reaching perspective made pos-
Sible at Teheran. >

The trade union movement,
through various forms of activity
including Political Action Com:-
mittees, must become a powerful
force in the struggle for labor’s
political program—mobilizing the
workers in increasingly conscious
Support of the drive for victory
and in support of a realistic pro-
Sram of postwar security and
Social reform, and election of a
strong group of labor members
pledged ‘to support a liberal-labor
coalition government pledged to
maintenance- of the national in-
come and far-reaching social re-

forms.

Wass vigorously pressing for-

Ward its independent elec-
toral campaign as an independent
national parliamentary party, and
nominating the 65 federal candi-
dates already asreed upon, our
party must appeal to the CCF to
realize the need of the nation and
the desire of the labor movement
to win important reforms.

We shall appeal to the CCF to
cooperate in making possible unit-
ed labor election campaigns
around ~-single candidates, CCE;
LPP, or independent labor or
farmer in each constituency where
labor representation is feasible.

Our party must come forward
as the advocate of united inde-
pendent labor action for the
election of that powerful group
of labor candidates which will
constitute the labor wing of a
Liberal-Labor government and
labor’s guarantee that the high
Promise of Teheran shall be
fulfilled.

PEue United Nations are advanc-
ing to the decisive battles of
the war. ‘With United Nations
victory humanity will have an op-
portunity to advance to a more
democratic, happier world. The
people of Canada must advance
with them. .

The  Mabor-Progressive Party

will help the great majority of our
fellow citizens to understand the
real meaning of Marxism by help-
ing them to achieve the world of -
peace, prosperity and democratic
progress for which this war is
being fought.

SHORT JABS

by OV Biull

Winntpeg Free Press

Apacs Winnipeg Free Press is at least consistent. It may be that only,

in its attitude to one of our most powertul allies, the Soviet Union,
is the Free Press consistent, but in that there is no doubt about its
singleness of purpose. :

Every little picayune or jerkwater piece of journalistic gossip that
may be inflated into an alleged argument is seized upon with avidity:
and made subject matter for an editorial—such an editorial as can only
appear in papers like the Free Press.

A friend of mine has sent me a recent copy of this moulder of
midwest opinion. “Socialists,” states one of the editorials, “used to tell
us that Russia had done away with the evils of borrowing, that such
capitalistic devices as government bonds had been eliminated in that
enlightened state.” :

And it continues: “This is interesting to remember today, when it
is announced that the Russian government has decided to float its third
war loan to the amount of 25 billion rubles.”

The Free Press is elated to be able to comment that “Russian citizens
will buy bonds and profit by them just as our citizens do in Canada.”
And further, that Soviet citizens, who have already loaned their gov-
ernment 35 billion rubles in war bonds, “are thus vast ereditors, bond-
holders and, in fact, Capitalists, just as our people are collectively in
Canada.” i

“Laughter,” taught some of the old Greek philosophers, “is a gift
from the gods.” They believed that only man among the animals POs-
sessed this gift and that the ability to laugh was the dividing line
between man, homo Sapiens, and his less fortunate fellow-sojourners on
this earth. I believe these old philosophers were wrong. I am sure
that if the most dolorous of the four-legged brutes could read the
free Press editorials they would laugh in great stentorian peals that
would put the humans to shame. What the non-human animals Jack
is not the ability to laugh, but the stimulus that the Free Press’ editorials
supply in quantity. ;

It is tragie rather than humorous, however, that the two outstanding
words in the editorial are “profit” and “capitalist.” The mind of that
editorial writer is not only exposed but displayed by these two words.
He apparently does not know that the vast majority of purchasers of
Canadian war bonds did not buy them with the idea of making “profit”
out of them but to help their government to provide the weapons
necessary to achieve victory over fascism.

These are the small purchasers whose Savings from wages were con-
verted into bonds. To refer to them as “capitalists” places the writer
where he belongs as far as Capitalist economy is concerned—among
those who do not know the difference between Capitalism and rheu-
matism. .

And Socialist Economy

DON’T know to what “Socialists? the editorial writer of the Free

Press turns for his conception of Soviet economy. The Soviet Union
is Carrying on in the midst of a capitalist world. Its trade and commerce
are conditioned by the limits of the capitalist world :‘market. No one
knows better than the leaders of the Soviet Union, not even the editorial
writer of the Free Press. At no time has the Soviet government Pro-
posed to abolish the banks, to do away with money or to scrap the
necessary machinery for financing industry. Government bond issues
and lotteries are part of that financing.

The financial machine is the very Same but in the Soviet Union it
works to an end very different to our own and other capitalist countries.
It might be said that the difference is similar to that of my old mother’s
sewing machine and the same make of sewing machine in an overalls
factory. “Money, profit, capital” and other economie categories have
different meanings in the Soviet Union to those they have in the capi-
talist world.

Money is a means of calculating expenditures of human labor rather
than quantities of gold and capital, and profits represent natural re-
sources and accumulations of goods for use instead of means of ex-
ploitation and surplus values for further exploitation. These grow by
jabeleited improvement of the financial machinery developed by capi-
talism.

The Soviet people remember the advice given them in 1921 by Lenin:
“It must not be forgotten that every radical reform we introduce is
doomed to failure if we do not make a success of our financial policy.”

: “Socialists” may have given the editorial writer of the Free Press
his information as he writes, but their knowledge of Soviet financial
policies was as scanty as his own—or Mrs. Dorothy Steeves. :

A word about the result of this war loan may not be out of place
here. The 25 billion ruble loan Was oversubscribed by 3% billion rubles
in six days. The All-Russian Trade Wnion Central Council asked the
workers to subscribe three or four weeks’ wages. They replied by.
buying to the extent of six and eight weeks. And the collective farmers
beat the workers in the cities. Last June the second loan of 12 billion
rubles was raised in one day. But that does not make capitalists of the
Soviet people.

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