SAAC TTT TT TTT TT T he. '. PEOPLE Phone MA 6929 Published every Saturday by the People Publishing Com- pany, Room 104, Shelly Building, 119 West Pender Sireet, Vancouver, British Columbia, and printed at Broadway C) Printers Ltd., 151 East 8th Ave., Vancouver British Golum- bia. Subscription Rates: One year $2.00, six months $1.00. Editor — HAL GRIFFIN Associate Editor A. C. CAMPBELL ALATA TTT TTT TTT The Second Front 1HE second front is no longer a demand, no longer a promise, but a reality. The pledge made by Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt at Teheran that “we have concert- ed our plans for the destruction of the Ger- man forces. We have reached complete agree- ment as to the scope and timing of operations which will be undertaken from the east, west and south,” is in process of being fulfilled. This is answer enough for the skeptics and the cynics. For the defeatists it is also a fulfill- ment of their fears and they will seek desper- ately to play upon the inevitable heavy losses, the optimistic feeling that victory is already won—anything to halt the war short of the complete destruction of fascism. In the trying days ahead labor has the re- sponsibility of ensuring full uninterrupted pro- duction and of strengthening national unity against every attempt to weaken it so that the completeness of the victory may guarantee the strength of democracy in the peace. Coldwell lndicts the CCF 7X COORDING to a statement made by M. J. Coldwell during the course of an election speech at Humboldt, Sask., last week, the eyes of the underground movements of Europe are on the CCF. Had the CCF national leader con- tented himself with this remark there would have been little need to dispute it, although the interpretation placed upon it might not have been the one he intended. But, Coldwell con- tinued, the underground movements are look- ing to the CCF “as a bright spot in efforts to achieve social democracy” — in other words, the underground movements regard the CCF in Canada as the counterpart of them- selves in Europe. This is nothing less than an adroit attempt to identify the CCF in the eyes of the Cana- dian people with the underground movements of Europe, a piece of propaganda typical of the CCF leaders’ efforts to gain partisan advantage from every issue and development without re- gard for the facts. The facts are that the liberation movements of Europe are the living refutation of CCF policies. @ The CCF follows policies calculated to weaken national unity. The liberation movements of Europe have consistently striven to weld the national unity of their peoples in the struggle against fascism. @ The CCF leaders are openly anti-Soviet in their statements. The liberation movements of Europe base their policies upon the continued friendship and assistance of the Soviet Union. @ The CCF dismisses the Teheran Dec- laration as “just another general pro- nouncement.” The liberation movements of Europe have welcomed the Teheran Declara- tion and are directing their struggle towards the realization of its principles. @ The CCF advances the unrealistic slogan of “socialism now.” The liberation movements of Europe advance realistic slogans corresponding to the needs of their peoples and call for a new democracy after the War, a program around which communists, so- cialists, liberals, men and women of all shades of political opinion opposed to fascism can be and are united. @ The CCF is determined to continue its ruptive role of dividing labor for its own narrow purposes. In the liberation movements of Eur- ope labor unity is the driving force, the source of strength that has carried the struggle for freedom through long years of Nazi oppression. : The facts speak for themselves as M. J. Cold- well can never twist them to speak for his own party. Tf the eyes of the underground movements of Europe are on the CCF, it is in amazement that a “socialist” party can be so blind to the lessons of history, so incapable of estimating | current developments in terms of the people’s needs, so false to its own professed principles. The OLLOWING is the text of a radio address gwen over station C J OR, Van- couver, on Monday, June 5, _ by Fergus McKean, provin- cial leader 9f the Labor-Pro- _ gressive Party and LPP fed- eral candidate for Center. HE recently policy of the Vancouver announced Labor-Pro- gressive Party proposing that national unity strengthened and into the postwar that it find its further continued. period and expression ibe through the governmental form of a Liberal-Labor ereated widespread Unfortunately how senting the position coalition, has comment. ever, in pre- of the Labor- Progressive Party on this import- ant question of genuine labor rep- resentation in Canada’s next gov- ernment, the statement LPP National Executive has been garbled by many newspapers. In ~ order to clear up any misunder- standing ereated as a result, If quote here the official statement of policy issued by Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Pro- gressive Party. €67INHE coming invasion of Europe will break the back of fascism. able the world’s Ti will en- peoples to win great social gains and a lasting peace. It wil make possible the dawn of a new day for Canada. “Té is my firm conviction that the unity which is de- feating fascism can and must be maintained after victory, for the our postwar pro solving of blems. “We Canadians have be- come united in war. United- ly we must tackle the task of peace. None can deny that the vast majority of our beople, overseas and at home, are fighting an d working shoulder to shoulder so that victory may bring: © “A postwar whose peacetime Canada production shall match in volume our broduction in time of war. © “Dynamic of government, cooperation private en- ter prise and labor to provide decent wages for labor, ade- quate returns for farmers, fair profits for business, bet- “ter provision for health, housing and education, and social security fo r all. © “Full collaboration of Canada in world affairs, as a sovereign member of the United Nations Commonwealth, expanding markets, reconstruction and the main- alition? and British to share in world of the . By its | before th path to tenance of endu “Only throug) national unity wi try achieve these is no other road. “T urge you, b those who woz our national unit issues and self-se tisanship. “The greatest national unity a: progress comes fr hard opponents « form and world tion who domina, camp. The spi arch - reactionar leadership direct: holy alliance wit fascism. “While To stirs up the smok ‘state socialism’ reform, the CCl flies in the face with its ‘sociglis ing utopianism, defeatism and with predictions at home and @ Hitler is smashe: “You caunoi answers to Can lems either in ti the Progressive tives or in the } national unity CCE. “Only a ih coalition gover reinforce and i tional unity for of the-war and © “What does i mean? “Simply that : Ehe democrati shall come toget Canada on the p and progress, by camp of reaction ism in the con elections. The King has led our coun ficent war efc playing an imp in strengthening tions unity. 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