B.C. right wing sidetracks protest motions on Korea, U.S. domination _ CCF ‘Socialist’? program ignores peace, trade issues By HAL GRIFFIN The CCF in British Columbia, after fiying a washed out and tat- tered flag for more than a decade, emerged from its provincial con- vention here last weekend to car- ry a resurrected “Socialist’’ ban- ner into the June elections. But the party leaders elected to carry it are almost without exception the same right wingers who have devitalized a once militant move- ment by abandoning the principles of the Regina Manifesto. _ To the working people gener- ally the new CCF provincial pro- gram holds out the promise of im- mediate nationalization, with “just compensation,” of transpor- tation. communications, electric power, oil and gas production, brewing and distilling. Stating that ‘a well-balanced and planned economy for the province must be based on social ownership of the means of wealth production and distribution,’’ the program proposes to restore pub- lic ownership and management of forests, acquire and develop min- eral resources, including coal re- sources, and establish fishing co- operatives. A steeply graduated tax will be placed’ on natural re- sources, To organized workers the CCF makes the promise of legislation to establish the 40-hour week, two weeks holidays with pay, higher minimum wages and 75 percent compensation. The In- dustrial Conciliation and Arbitra- tion Act will be amended to guar- antee workers the right to join the union of their choice and to bargain collectively. The right to conduct their own strike votes will be restored to the trade unions. On the contentious issue of hos- pital ‘insurance the CCF recog- nizes the overwhelming public op- position to co-insurance, which it pledges to abolish, and increased premiums, which it will roll back. Further, it undertakes to exempt low income groups from paying premiums, But on the equally contentious issue of the sales tax, introduced by Tory leader Her- bert Anscomb when he was Coali- tion finance minister over wide- spread popular protest, the CCF promises only to exempt meals, drugs and clothing—the tax it- self, bearing heaviest on low in-, come groups, will become part of the new ‘Socialist’ economy. Other features of the CCF pro- gram include full provincial re- sponsibility for a minimum stan- dard of education. subsidized housing, @ government auto in- surance scheme, early completion of the Pacific Great Eastern Rail- way from Squamish to, Vancouver, This program, with its return to “Socialism” as the CCF en- visages it, is a sign of the tem- per of the times. It recognizes the resurgent militancy not only Progressive sweep inside CCF reflected in Coldwell - _ Jolliffe breach in Ontario By LESLIE MORRIS TORONTO ~The progressive sweep inside the CCF has reached the top levels of the Ontario leadership. Started by Premier T. C. Doug- ‘las in Saskatchewan two years ago, the oppositiow™ to the right --wing’s endorsation of capitalist - foreign policy has gone so far ‘as to cause an open breach at the - Ontario CGF convention between _ E. B. Jolliffe and M. J. Coldwell. Jolliffe told the convention there was “no question but what the Soviet Union was the real enemy.” ; . Coldwell said. “1. agree with Nehru that it (the Japanese peace treaty) will lay the seeds of fut- ure conflicts and maybe, indeed, a future war.” Jolliffe supports, the U.S. for- eign policy of the St, Laurent government. Coldwell’s speech pointed to the danger of war ~ eaused by the U.S. in the Far Bast, He demanded the recogni- tion of China, opposition to the Japanese treaty and peace in Ko- aes —— This conflict, as yet confused, produced the challenge of Wil- liam Temple and the CCF left wing to the right wing Joliffe leadership, which has reduced the CCF from the official opposition of 34 MPP’s in 1943, to two rather silent members today. J. B. Sals- ‘perg’s fighting stand in the On- tario legislature had not a little | effect on the open disgust of _. COF’ers with. the Jolliffe leader- ship: Ses the change ‘of mind in the un- ions and plants on the key is- sues of war versus peace, dis-— armament versus peaceful world trade, and the disillusion- ment with the much-touted “prosperity through arma- ments” right-wing ilne. . This stormy CCF convention was divided on all the basic is- sues: foreign policy, anti-capital- jst versus a pro-capitalist policy, gemocracy I the party as against the encrusted Polliffe-Brewin- Lewis lawyer’s bureaucracy in Woodsworth House, organization versus passivity, Each one of these issues flows from changes in the labor and people’s movement, They do not only spring from the CCF as such, but out of the rising resentment against the economic conse- quences of the arms program. Fora change. the real conditions of masses of Ontario people broke through the right-wing blockade. This movement is as yet in its initial stages. The CCF in agri- cultural Saskatchewan sti holds the leadership of the left in the CCF, but the CCF Ontario con- vention shows clearly the left movement is spreading in the in- dustrial east. This is as it should be, for it is the working class which is the source of people’s unity. : ' The welcome fight put up by Bill Temple and his colleagues was not consistent, however. He did not put his program into clear words, expressive of the real and urgent feelings,. if not yet the clear-cut thoughts, of the CCF rank and file. ° Had this fight been placed more directly, had labor and people’s }’ unity been their watchword, had they passed from a general anti- capitalist position to a practical program of struggle, they would have received bigger support and perhaps defeated the Jolliffe group. The Ontario convention is fur- ther proof of the correctness of the new LPP program, New moods are arising, new experiences are overtaking ‘the workers, eco- nomic changes are occurring, all of which are the motive forces for new political thinking. This left CCF movement will, how- ever, run into the ground and the right wing recover from. its rebuffs and go on, if the left wingers do not more clearly for- mulate their program—and es- pecially take heed of the most noteworthy happening in Cana- dian politics today—the growing resentment against U.S.’ economic, political and cultural domination. On the other hand, if the left CCF’ers more clearly set down their program and take up the cause of labor and people’s uni- ty for peace. jobs and indepen- _ dence, they will contribute not only to their party’s fortunes but to the rising people’s move- ment, which will not be gain- said, come what may. » The Ontario ‘CCF convention is proof of the immense power work- ing class and progressive opinion has to change policies and lead- ers. Ted Jolliffe, Ford Brand, Dave Lewis, ‘‘Doc’’ Ames and Lalonde are in control for. the moment—but only in control of the top. The 1933 days when the Ontario CCF was the scene of bitter struggles over policy, and the Labor Section stood up for unity and was expelled for so doing, are coming back again. But this time the progressives can win. The lost opportunities of the provincial elections of 1945, 1948 and 1951 when the CCF in On- tario was under the rigid control | of the Jolliffe right wing, are not Jost forever. If the Temple forces come out with a clear cut program at the CCF national convention this summer along with the Douglas forces and the lefts across the country, the right wing can be de- feated. | 538 MAIN ST. of CCF members but of the thous- ands of workers and farmers who vote CCF. It is also formulated with an eye to the new program of the Labor-Progressive party with its cleat; bold call to work- ing people to join the struggle for restoration of national indepen- dence, a people’s democracy and peace, No doubt the new CCF progarm will strike thousands of working people as a fine-sounding docu- ment—until they examine it and discover for themselves its un- reality in the light of the reali- ties confronting them. Nowhere is there mention of the dominant and decisive is- sue of peace or war. Nowhere ‘is the question raised of Ameri- can usurpation of the very na- tural resources the CCF talks of nationalizing, nor any dis- cussion of what action the U.S. _ might take should the CCF, if elected, proceed to carry. out its promises. But the CCF lead-) ers, more than half of them schoolteachers, naively propose floating a bond issue to finance subsidized ‘thousing when all federal policies are dictated by war preparations—barracks be- fore houses, ‘ ‘British Columbia’s export trade — lumber, fish, fruit— faces a deepening market crisis. But the COF program, which calls for marketing all farm products through cooperatives, is silent on what measures it will take to pro- vide those markets now closed by cold war policies. Not that these issues failed to come before the convention. Resolutions from CCF clubs considered in closed convention questioned the use of Canadian troops in Korea, demanded that the U.S. be branded as ‘‘War- monger No. 1,’’ protested the presence of American troops. and bases on Canadian soil, con- demned COF MP's for support- ing the Emergency Powers Act. All were adroitly tabled or dis- posed of by right wing presiding officers in what the Vancouver Daily Province hailed as a “rout of the left wing.” re The prerequisite to carrying through the program the OCF proposes is popular unity of the working people, but the CCF re- jects any form of electoral unity } SOVIET “Everything in Flowers” BROM: - EARL SYKES 56 E. Hastings St. PA. 3855 Vancouver, B.C, and the new executive member are all right wing opponents oi unity. q Nonetheless, the demands of the working people, which have already found one-sided refiection in the new CCF program, are ad vanced in a real situation which — the CCF right wing leaders try. to deny or ignore. In the coming election campaign, the demand for — peace, the need for markets and jobs, the struggle against Ameri can domination in all its forms, will present themselves as the real issues, out of which the real — perspective of socialism rises, up- on which every CCF candidate ca? be compelled to take a stand. 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