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OLGA TURPLE.

Behavior

sition of support for
rmed forces urgently
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jadian. As to the
* people of under-
talize that human be-
is conditioned. A re-
Hur propaganda will
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sent behavourism of
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‘olunteer for general

Hance in many schools
tion was given of the
‘ils of fascism! In-
> reactionary school
made favorable com-
out the fascist re-
das though this was
h to confuse youth
ding citizens even
aneo the butcher of
smocracy.

™)0 our Victory Loan
Much as dageers drip-
§ blood and even the

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war slogans contain no moral

urge because they have no anti-
fascist pro-freedom meaning.

A consideration of these facts
may make us realize that those
who exerted reactionary in-
fluences have caused the tem-
porary stoppage of reinforce-
ments; they are the real “Zom-
bies” who conditioned the be-
havourism of some of our
youth!

Even now, at this critical
hour, these reactionaries are
ereating national disunity.

Tm. view of this it is our duty
to be even more patient and
tolerant with those who have
not as yet vclunteered. Above
all we must change the reac-
tionary propaganda and tell our
youth the truth about fascism,
the sole obstacle that bars
their way to a better life.

Their basic instincts will then
prompt them to fight for their
own well-being as youth has
always striven:to do through-

out the ages.
JACK BOYD.

Equality
Dear Sir: :
It appears to me that one of
the most important issues aris-
ing out of our war economy
will be the equality of women
in the industrial life of our
country. :

Ts this correct, and what are
the possibilities of women at-
taining industrial equality in
the postwar years?

I think it is correct and ne-
cessary if working people are

~to enjoy the fruits of further

progress in the future.

I look at it in this way—
women have found a place in
wartime industry in numbers
unbelievable in the war period.
They have become skilled work-
ers in many trades and com-
pare favorably with men. They
are earning a wage that _en-
ables them “to enjoy a personal
and economic freedom they
only dreamed of before. These
gains have enhanced their lives
and made it possible for them

“to prove they can make a great-

er contribution to society.

Now, can men wisely and
truthfully say that after the
war is won, women should go
back to the low wages paid to
domestics, waitresses, etc. ff
they do, many surprises await
them in the postwar world. If
they are wise, men will realize
nothing can stop women from
exploiting their newly won
gains.

Trade Unions should take
special note of this and organ-
ize and protect women in an
equal manner. If they don’t
they will find a body of work-
ers who will threaten their
very foundations.

Is equality for women pos-
sible in a postwar industrial
economy? I think it is. Canada

has geared its war production
to unheard-of heights and spent

‘billions of dollars for war ma-

echinery. In doing so Canadians
haye given-up and rightly so,
many essentials such as homes,
wearing apparrel, electrical ap-
plianees, cars, radios, washing
machines, ete. Now, when the
war is won the demand for
these necessities will be enorm-
ous. We will need every last
one of us men and women to
produce them. Not only for our-
selves but for millions of people
in the devastated areas of the
world.

Women have won the struggle
for the right to vote. Working
men and women must elect pro-
gressive people who will pledge
themselves to govern in the
best interests of the working
class. This is the key to the
whole problem. Women -and
men must unite in the common
cause. Equality for women,
prosperity and social progress
for all Canadians.

ELMER BAXTRHR.

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Shor t Jabs by Ol” Bill

Achieve Fame

WHEN the question? of Trotskyism was being discussed in the Gom-
munist Party of the Soviet WWnion and the Communist Interna-

‘tional, I followed every development of it. I read all the material pub-

lished in the party, press and the articles i
She i L published later by Trotsky and
ace Eee ed peadied ple cvidente tendered at the inal of the "peor
€ other wreckers influenced by th: I
row the ‘Soviet soyernment. ; eee ae ers 2
: these convinced me that the Communist Part took the right
line when they expelled Trotsky from their ranks. They proved £6 ae
oe ey es oe ad eves had been, a communist. He did not
clong in the party that Lenin built and led, th
workers of Russia to victory. : en ee - oe
So, when I find a paper alleging itself to be a labor paper, the

pages of which teem ‘with the anti-communist and anti-Leninist ideas
and slanders that Trotsky tried to inject into the movement and which
brought about his downfall, I.don’t waste any more time on that paper.
Such a paper is the CGF News. :

A Personal Tinge

()CCASIONALLY, however, someone who is less choosey than I am

or who buys it to find out if it is getting any rottener. draws my
attention to some news item or other contribution in its pages and
wants to know what I think of it. ’

That happened this week. The item my friend asked me to look
at had a personal tinge. It was partly about myself. It was part of
a column allegedly “prepared by the Trade Union Committee.” The
Section in which TI was dedicated to fame was headed “Left Hooks.”

__ Advertising men used to write in their blurbs, “Imitation is the
sincerest form. of flattery” Left Hooks is probably as close to Short
Jabs as the Trade Union Committee could come without being labelled
plagiarists. I don’t offer them any thanks for the compliment. I will
quote the paragraph in full so that no loyal CCF’er may accuse me of
distorting or falsifying it. Here it is:

“No, wonders will never cease. Could anyone who knows
both men and their records have ever believed that Bill Ben-
nett, one-time revolutionary, and Ieon Ladner, K.G., follower
of R. B. Bennett and former Tory member of the House Of.
Commons, would appear on the same platform? Old-timers
in the labor movement’ in Vancouver rubbed their eyes and
wondered what Liquor Board Kennedy had been selling them
when they saw posters advertising a meeting at which Bill
Bennett would be the speaker and Leon Ladner the chairman.

a “Ladner must like the Bennetts, and we hope he will be as

faithful to “Bill” as he has, been to “R.B.” There was some-
thing lacking at the meeting, however, just as if one of the
Marx brothers were absent. The doings would have been
complete had “Father” Boyle made the collection speech.”

{EE is really nothing to wonder at, not even the amazement of

the writer of that paragraph. Travellers from highly industrial-
ized countries tell us of how savages in out of the way corners of the
world are struck with amazement and awe at every new thing they

‘see and the more ignorant they are the less contact they have had with

the civilized world; the more amazement they show. ‘The writer of
that paragraph belongs in that category. politically.

If I were to tell him that Bill Bennett was on the same platform
with Angus MacInnis, his eyes might pop out of his head. But it would
be true, and that would be a greater source of wonderment than that
Bill Bennett was on -the same platform with Leon MLadner, for the
purpose for which this particular meeting was held. ;

‘This Left Hooker does not tell his readers why Bill Bennett’s
name was coupled with Leon Ladner’s. [I will. It was to raise funds
for the reconstruction of Odessa, the city for which Vancouver has
undertaken to act as patron, a city, among many, whoSe citizens have
added a chapter of heroism in the struggle against fascism that will
be an inspiration for generations to come:

For this purpose I would be willing to be on the same plat-
form with Beelzebub or Angus MacInnis or even the writer of
that paragraph, who may be one of those egotistic souls whe
ratted from the Communist Party, whose frayed dignity could
not stand communist discipline. He does not sign his name

- for which I de not blame him. If I wrote crap like that I
too would be ashamed to put my name to it.

Changes Ignored =

VN THE 1930 Federal elections there were three; candidates in South
Vancouver. Ieon Ladner was the Tory. Angus MacInnis was the

candidate of the Federated Labor Party or ILP, the 1980 edition of the.

CCE (with Liberal support).
date.

In that campaign all the candidates were invited to speak on the
Canadian Legion platform. And we did. Bill Bennett, “the one-time
revolutionary”, is still communist. Leon Ladner has come to recognize
the need for friendly political and cultural relations with the Soviet
Union, our neighbor across the Pole. And Angus Macinnis writes
“Bombs over Finland.”

Great changes have taken place in these fourteen years. Much
water has flown under the bridge. But water does not flow under
bridges for the CCF. The Social Democrats then in power in Germany
isaw their Karl Marx House in Vienna battered to pieces by the fascists
whom their policies helped to power. But the CCF does not learn
anything from history. So Vienna, and all the other German events,
are no concern of theirs.

In all their paper there is not one word of the issue of the day in
this province. Nothing about shut-down plants and lay-offs. Not a
whisper about the housing shortage. And as to the hydro-electric
question, only on one page is there any sign that there is a BCHlectric
question in this province—an almost ful page ad., which must have cost

Bill Bennett was the Communist candi-

the B@Electric as much as would pay the printers bill for the whole.

issue of the paper, a baloney ad. claiming there will be lots of power
after the war. : :

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