@ all the way. Our boys Weliberated Havre, Rouen, ile, Dieppe,~ Boulogne, , and will take Dunkirk — E the vital Channel ports mi to speed the victory in title of Germany. '€ it clear that our mili- commanders and their s would not win such feline victories against yughest and most fanat Hitler troops if the fs of Premier Drew onn Smythe were true? 3 military prewess of our (ss generals has won the “Ee of the United Nations. Wee Drew's attack aims at ning confidence in these Sjs and their armies to * @ crisis of non-confi- in our military leaders hey are engaged in the = ucial actions in the war. 07} \right to criticize Can- bar effort, but we have fit to demand that he, as ne else, places the war {ee arty, victory above par- ® ory politics and the feel_ @| the wives and mothers Snbition. i ening, ambitious man is mind set on the de- the King government, nts to be Prime Minis- sCanada after the next ES is -why- he now ignores ‘ual military: situation "ai Taises the bogey of the nen Overseas above per- . Premier Drew is an ~ | > YOU. THINK? conscription issue which is not of decisive importance to the ‘fighting fronts at this time. Mr. Drew does not flinch from attempting to use this Sue to arouse the ire of Ontario and the treops against Quebec, ig- noring the fact that if he suc. ceeded he would Seriously weak en the war effort and plunge the country int} Violent racial conflict. _ i am not exaggerating one iota. Premier Drew has openly. boasted that his Single aim is to defeat and replace the Kong government with a Tory re- gime. No question is allowed to be studied on its merits. Everything is polities—evyen the actions of our generals in France and Italy, and by im+ plication the actions cf Gener- als Hisenhower and Mongom- ery whe are in Supreme com- mand and who would un- doubtedly not hesitate to de- mand further reinforcements should the oceasion warrant it. Politics, unsavory Tory politics, those are the reasons for the charges of Premier Drew and Major Smythe. e@ [°° back over the months since Premier Drew assumed | office in Ontario. Has he car- ried out his famous 22 points ? Has he kept his promises and devoted his talents to Ontario affairs, which after all should be his main concern? Well, he certainly raised pol- itical ruction in opposition to the Dominion Governments family allowances reform, al- mythe though he is backtracking a bit “now. He made great noises about the beer and liquor ques- tion. But we did not get the 50 _ per cent contribution to munici-_ “pal educational taxes, we did not get a housing program, and we have not got any postwar plans yet. To play with the beer and liquor issue may be permissible, but to play polities with casual-_ ty lists, to tear at the heart— Strings of the bereaved, to thrust aside reason and play. upon emotion and fear, is that not absolutely impermissible and unpardonable? We are at the crucial, victory stage of the;war- We need na- tional unity of all Canadians more than ever—not the fan- ning of racial discord. We need such unity to hasten victory, to bring our boys back soon, to play our part in defeating Japan—and in playing our part ‘in @ new world unity of the United Nations to prevent Ger- many ever again plunging the peoples into war. We need such unity to build 2 new Ganada of jobs, full production, national unity and democracy. If Pre- mier Drew succeeds in his am- bitions we will find all of these. things impossible. ~ .@ Alderman Charles Sims of Toronto is national sec-° retary of the ILabor-Pro- gressive Party. LETTERS FROM OUR READERS “SHORT JABS by OP Bill A Metter of Decency cE IS one of the decencies in democratic countries that comments on opinions about the truth or falsity of charges against an individual must not be indulged in while the case is pending or as the lawyers say, sub judice; in other words, a man is considered innocent until he is proven guilty. But these decencies, apparently are unknown to some leaders of the CCF. Tom Alsbury, provincial chairman of the CCF, and Arnold Webster, ex-provincial chairman, swept these decencies aside at a recent CCE rally, Webster by talking of “vigilante action” and Alsbury- apesking about “mob violence” in connection with the case against Bill tewart. : . Ehese men are school teachers, who by the nature of their calling, are supposed to be, intellectually and in their knowledge of civic virtues, a cut above a boilermaker or a ditch-digger, but the level to which they have descended in this instance to make political capital for them= selves would make an illiterate ditch-digger weep for shame. Since in the dialectic of nature there is no black but is partly white and no white but is partly black, so there is no tragedy but has comic elements in it. __im the newspaper report of the speeches, Alsbury is alleged to have™ said: “I will put my record as a trade union leader against that of * Stewart or Leary any time. I am a member of the TWA and proud of it and fought many years for the affiliation of teachers.” Here the newshawk makes an insertion in brackets as follows (Mr. Alsbury worked this summer in the logging industry). Wittingly or unwittingly, that newshawk scored a masterstroke of satire; Shakespeare or Marx could not have done it better and both of them were perfect in the use of that barbed Weapon. Alsbury. screaming in the style of a 14-year-old school boy about the superiority of his record as a “trade union leader” over Bill Stewart, is a joke of the first water and so is his boast about his membership in the IWA. : : Alsbury is a school teacher. He puts in his full stint at that job every day—then he works three hours in a saw mill. On the job he is a proud member of the TWA for three hours a day, but in the councils of the [WA he wants to be accepted as a full time, staunch and valiant leader. Many members of the TWA who work eight hours a day at logging and saw mill work believe it is for this reason and not for any patriotic reason that Alsbury: works three hours daily in a saw mill. life of the saw mill workers. 1 4 = tudents of Montreal, i Manitoba and Saskat- #n the various Student slubs are in whole- agreement with the made at the Western E@ece of University Stu- ‘establish a National i@2 y Hederation. . Ques- postwar planning, na- hid international unity ederal elections will be fully on all campuses e coming year. MeGill i the problem of dis- um, where Jewish sople must attam 75 werage in order to en- fersity, whereas the dents require only a 50 verage. = onto I met the editor ew. magazine called ; Their circulation has ret touched the West, iy. 5000 copies are sold The latest issue fea- letter to Mackenzie (ploring _the Christie lospital for returned is is the favorite issue ised by the Conserva- Boronto at the moment. ‘ype of magazine, the ine paper, large staif fansive offices, one Siat the ten cent maga- ii never pay. for itself have financial support "8 outside source. Evi- mie Conservatives are | bid for the support of 's attending the Na- aejil meeting of the P uth Federation have | ‘© their respective © eS with the object of eall the democratic youth organizations possible into a new national Federation. Montreal already has called a .conference for that purpose, and similar conferences will be held across the country. Youth organizations are awakening all over Canada. The Student Christian Movement has recently completed a na- tional conference in Ontario; the United Chureh Young Peo- ple’s were meeting in Winnipes when I was there last week; the CCYM has appointed new organizers to rally young peo- ple to the support of their poli- eies; and the Canadian Youth Commission is giving us a pic- ture of what young people are thinking today. Youth is pre- paring for action. BETTY DUNBAR. ELECTIONS Dear Sir: The importance of the Amer- ican election campaign to Can- ada, as well as to the rest of the world, can hardly be over- estimated. The result of the presidential election will prob- ably influence the future course of history in a very decisive way- If Dewey is elected, there seems to be little doubt that the American people will be saddled with a government of reaction under the influence of the worst pro-tascist elements in the USA. The gains made by the people will be subject to vicious and powerful attacks. But the consequences to the rest of the world are frighten- ing. A government dominated by the Hoovers and the Tafts from behind the scenes, with William Randolph Hearst, Colo- nel Robert McCormick and Gerald EL. K. Smith not far away, bodes ill for the possibili- ties of future peace and se- curity. 3 These men are, one and all, anti-Soviet, anti-British, anti- China—in fact anti-everything, except their own narrow, vi= ciously reactionary interests. They are no longer isolation- ists inthe old sense. They are definitely determined to take the tremendous weight of American industrial and mili- tary power, and use it for ends which presage another war. They are the living proof of the underlyins aims of the anti_ Teheran campaign. Of peculiar interest is the ac- tivity of the Norman Thomas outfit. Their campaign paral- lels, in propaganda and ideas, the anti-Roosevelt, anti- Uni- ted WNations agitation of re- action. It is a campaign whose field generals are as conscious of the fact that it has no Pros- pects of success for itself as the sponsors behind the scenes. Tt is essentially a pro-Dewey, pro-reaction maneuver, in the field where gpen Deweyism has very little chance of being in- fluential. 2 On the other side stands the encouraging activity of or- ganized labor, AFL and CLO, with the democratic elements of both major parties to reelect President Rooselvelt. Tt is a sign of the greatly increased strength and influence of labor, as well as significant of the awareness of the issues. OBSERVER. Alsbury joined the TWA under false pretences. He was working for a plumbing contractor at ‘the time, Sent to a saw mill to do some hours a day plan, no doubt to hold on to the strategic position he had wangled himself into, and challenged the shop stewards to throw him out. This is the only great fight in this “trade union leader’s” career. There are many loggers and saw mill workers who have a right to be proud of the IWA but Alsbury is not one of them. He is in a much more legitimate place in the parade travelling with that other friend of the TWA, Clarence Sharp, CCF federal candidate fer the Gomox- Alberni riding, who was running against Nigel Morgan, undoubtedly to prove just how good a friend he is to the loggers. es A couple of years ago when the workers at St. Paul’s Hospital organized into the AFI, and looked like being able to do something to- wards bettering their working conditions, which were of the worst imaginable, this CCF’er, Sharp became a stooge for the management, set up a company union and was instrumental in smashing all organiza— tion in the hospital. He has now, after six months as candidate, notified the GCF that he is resigning from the field—probably he Jacked the guts for a real fight. Eighteen Tons of Paper ;{GETEEN tons of paper, 3 million pamphlets printed at the govern- ments’s expense, free postage to every corner of the United States! What could we not do with facilities like that. For us, however, it is a dream at this time whatever the potentialities may be for the future. But it is a fact of the present for the spread of reactionary propa- ganda. President Roosevelt is authority for the assertion. He stated in a recent radio speech that one senator and 12 congressmen had pulled off this mass propaganda feat. These representatives of everything antagonistic to progress in America were able to do this because of their legislative rights to have freely printed any or all excerpts from the Congressional Record and the privilege of free use of the U.S. mails. ; Did we have such right and privilege this drive for The People would be much easier and so too would the effort to raise $50,000 in’ B.C. for the LPP election campaign. ? 3 - Remember, our column, it’s yours as well as mine, must turn in 100 subs for the drive and $100 over and above that for the election campaign. Are you helping? Time is not on our side. Send the subs in. I like to get them and I also like to see the broad smile on the face of the business manager.