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Soviet delegation in U.S.

Here Earl W. Smith (foreground), president of the U.S.
National Association of Home Builders, is seen greeting members
of the Soviet delegation of housing experts on their arrival in

Washington.

LPP VOTE GAINS

Liberals lose

Toronto seat.

TORONTO

Reflecting a growing dissatisfaction with the St. Laurent government's pole
voters in the Toronto-Spadina federal byelection Monday this week defeated Samuel Gor
frey, millionaire Liberal candidate in a seat the Liberals have held since it was created in
1930, trimming the Liberal vote from 14,496 in 1953 to 6,108.

The seat was won by Charles E, Rea, the Conservative, whose 6,708 vole

represented less than 30 per-
cent of the total cast.

Result of the balloting was:

Charles E. Rea, Conservative,
6,708; Samuel Godfrey, Liberal,
6,108; J. B. Salsberg, LPP, 3,937;
Harry Waisglass, CCF, 2,938.

Despite an unparallelled red-
baiting campaign, conducted by
Liberals, .Tories and CCF
against the LPP, J. B. Salsberg
emerged in third place. The
CCF candidate Waisglass trail-
ed the field, losing his deposit.

The combined labor’ vote

Turner fo contest council seat

BURNABY, B.C.

William Turner, who first
turned the spotlight on the
Burnaby land grab, announced
this week that he will run for
council in the coming muni-
cipal elections.

Appearing recently before
council, Turner urged “an im-
mediate suspension. of land

sales until after the elections
and a public enquiry into the
whole land sale procedure.”

Demanding that results of a
provincial probe be made pub-
lic, Turner questioned whether
ratepayers -could’ be satisfied
with such. a one-man inquiry.

“The investigator slipped into
town and slipped out again
two days later,’ said Turner.

“Even the organization whose

charges prompted the investi-.

gation was not questioned. To
cap it off the report is not made
public.

“Council now claims that it
has not been able to work out
a completely satisfactory land
sale policy. I say that this policy
has been perfectly satisfactory
—for the real estate sharks.”

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would have defeated the old-
line parties and elected a labor
representative.

Splitting tactics of the entire
right-wing CCF union leader-
ship however, again helped to
send a Tory to Ottawa. In
comparison with 1953, the CCF
candidate lost 332 votes, while

the LPP vote went up by
2,000 from 1,938 polled in the
last federal election.

Bad weather -and the hours
of voting (8 a.m. to 6 p.m.)
kept many working people away
from the polls, with the result
that only 19,691 of the 45,000
registéred on the list voted.
Many worker in the constitu-
ency, delayed by transporta-
tion snarls after work, rushed
to the polls only to find them

closed.

J. B. Salsberg led in 54 poll-
ing subdivisions in the working
class areas of the riding, south
of Bloor street. He received
great support among needle
trades workers, old residents
as well as new immigrants. The
red-baiting of the CCF candi-
date and the concentration of
right-wing CCF leaders in the
riding, among them Charles
Millard, Donald McDonald and
Larry Sefton, failed to win sup-
port among the working people.

“This byelection was the first
test of our Geneva policy,” Les-
lie Morris, LPP national organ-
izer, told a rally of election
workers.

“We have come through this
test very well indeed, despite
the reactionary attacks, and
the most scandalous campaign
conducted by a CCF candidate
since that party was founded.

“The awful beating received
bysthe Liberal machine was in-
dicative of the growing criti-
cism and dissatisfaction - with
the St. Laurent government and
its policies. The vote for J. B.
Salsberg on the other hand was
an affirmation and approval by
thousands of working people ,of
the program. presented by the
EPP. '

The growing crisis of the old-
line parties will be speeded up,
Morris declared, now that the

spirit of Geneva brings within |

the people’s grasp the things
they long for — peace, security
and independent development
of our country.

The LPP leader said there
was no doubt the situation is
maturing to a point where in

‘the next period it will lead to

a political shift: to the left. “The
labor movement has the grave
responsibility of making sure
that this movement is united,”
he concluded.

A great cheer went up in the
hall, when Salsberg was called
to the platform.

“We were the only party to
bring the basic issues of peace
and people’s welfare to the at-
tention of the citizens of Spa-

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 28, 1955 —

J. B. SALSBERG

“We help-
greater
jrit of
por-

dina,” said Salsbers-
ed the people acquire 4
understanding of the SP!
Geneva and of the most un :
tant national and internatio®

problems.” em
“The . LPP spoksstiags ae
gratified by the suppor

: f
ceived from a great section
the labor electorate 10 cally
ing. He referred speci pee
to a section of newcome
the garment industry, Wh? ©.
won over to vote for DOr es
This was a very pos
achievement, he said.

ent
“Despite the $100,000, eral

on the campaign, f
machine ey soundly trout
Even the expenditure in buy
per vote couldn’t help then.
Spadina for the multi
aire Godfrey,” he declar

; defeat
Salsberg said that the sense

of the Liberal was in one ©. .
an act of poetic justice nage
the Liberal machine and mber
Croll, former Liberal es Sen-
whose appointment to t recto?
ate necessitated the bye fas i
conspired with the bedi
the June provincial ig a
defeat the labor candida ory
elect Allan Grossman, iding-
MPP for the provincial :

Thus the Liberals gent
reaping the fruit of sien
ing the Tory machine
riding.

The vote he redetveys
berg pointed out, ae 1G
demonstrated the confiden ?

en-

the working people 19 ©” oeds
as the spokesman for the! x :
and demands. ‘Be

‘T will walk down int? cect
market, with my hea
proud of the tremendou pais?
plishments in this Ca" "vies
and confident of the V
to come.”

ex-
Salsberg concluded aie fe
_pressing praise ani ermpaig®

to the hundreds of ba
workers, LPP member" rking
friends, youth singers: groups
women of all nation d carly
and others who hePp™ cam
through one of the fin pistory-
paigns in the riding’s

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