French workers answer sovt attaek with mass strikes industries all over France are joining the growing strike movement @8ainst Premier Joseph Laniel’s “economies” which threaten their Social gains and living standards. PARIS: The government made only one concession to the mass strike . Protests in publishing its economy decrees—it abandoned its attempt © impose a later age limit for Civil servants’ pension rights. The new economy measures are “nly the beginning of a system- atic attack on French living stand- ards. Information Minister Emile ugues has announced that a fur- €r series of decrees will be is- Sued on August 25. Three million workers are esti- Mated to be in action against the government’s policy in the coun- try’s biggest strike movement since 1936. Transport, communications and public services are crippled, with railwaymen, gas and electricity workers, hospital and health work- ers, postal, telegraph and _tele- phone workers on strike. And the strike is still spreading among the 5,000,000 government employ- ees, oP candidates make ‘good in Ontario, Labor-Progressive candidates in ntario and Quebec polled size- able votes in several key consti- aeucies in last Monday’s federal -€ction and, carrying their party’s goner into a record number of nstituencies, some for the first in won wide support for the Put Canada First platform. i Results in some of the key On- ario ridings were: TORONTO TRINITY c (Unchanged) mbecher (b) * ee See 7930 My 5879 BEE GOR) oS 3891 BMC ADPD)) fo 6% oe 1657 TORONTO SPADINA (Unchanged) rel ( 14,833 Bl 6247 3110 1946 gtr LPP candidates in On- ae Polled these votes: William Shtan (Toronto Broadview) 231; ae Annie Wilson (Toronto Dan- = h) 374; Hector MacArthur (Tor- § aa Davenport) 801; Stewart V e Notento Greenwood) 607; ="; Hopwood (Toronto High S. H. 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Ryerson (Hamilton South) 572; Al Camp- bell (London) 668; Harold Proctor (Nickel Belt) 662; Mrs. Helen Marks (Norfolk) 194; Lloyd Peel (Ontario) 390; Daniel Nerenberg (Ottawa West) 219; Bruce Magnus- son (Port Arthur) 813 (130 of 1906 polls); Joseph Billings (Timiska- ming) 265 (137 of 167 polls); Os- car Roy (Timmins) 460 (118 of 120 polls); Frank Haslam (Welland) 742, In Quebec, LPP provincial lead- er Gui Caron polled 1,092 votes in Montreal St. Jacques, while the CCF candidate, Albert - Leduc, trailed far behind with 576. Votes of other LPP candidates in Quebec were: Ernest Gervais (Hull) 274; Ro- meéeo Lafond (Labelle) 128 (70 of 111 polls); Mrs. Yvonne Bourget (Longueuil) 346; Harry Binder (Montreal Cartier) 894; Mrs. Gab- rielle Dione (Montreal Lafon- taine) 390; Irving Burman , (Mon- treal Dollard) 379; Camille Dionne (Montreal Hochelaga) 889; Mrs. Ethel Leigh (Montreal Jacques Cartier-Lasalle) 501; Mrs. J. Brun- elle (Montreal Laurier) 363; Alex Gauld (Montreal Maisonneuve- Rosemont) 557; Real Couillard (Montreal Mercier) 511; Norman Nerenberg (Montreal Mount Royal) 765; Mrs. Anne Eizner (Montreal Outremont-St. Jean) 407; Mrs. Ger- maine Leclerc (Montreal Papineau) 289; Stanley Dobrowlsky (Montreal St. Ann) 350 (118 of 124 polls). Mrs. Louise Harvey (Montreal St. Antoine-Westmount) »183 (145 of 170 polls); Lucien Gaboury (Montreal St. Denis) 151 (130 of 188 polls); Pierre Gelinas (Mon- treal St. Henri) 413 (157 of 158 polls); Frank Brenton (Montreal St. Lawrence-St. George) 410; Rog- er Messier (Montreal Ste. Marie) 240; Ken Perry’ (Montreal Verdun) 499: Gerard Fortin (Quebec East) 426; Hubert Rheaume (Richmond- Wolfe) 85 (80 of 120 polls.) In Nova Scotia, LPP candidate George MacEachern polled 794 votes in Cape Breton South. Election results show trend to democratic alternative maturing, says LPP statement “We are proud of the vote of approximately 62,000 cast for our candidates in 100 constituencies— a vote which shows that conditions are maturing for the further development of our great national crusade to unite wide circles of democratic Canadians in a nation-wide coalition to Put Canada First,” says a post-election statement issued this week, by the national office of the Labor-Progressive party, The statement in full reads: The Liberal government - has been re-elected to office by mas- querading as a “democratic altern- ative” to the reactionary Tories. The hatred of the Canadian people for the Tories was exploited by the St. Laurent government. The vote was not an endorsation of the policies of the Liberals so much as’a rejection of the Tories. The real issue in this election— for the U.S. path of national be- trayal and war, or the Canadian path of national independence and peace—was obscured by the anti- Tory Liberal device. Only the 100 candidates of the Labor-Progres- sive party brought out the real issue. The absolute correctness of the LPP position, and the inescap- able character of the issue of na- tional policy that our party and its candidates raised, was proven by the fact that towards the end of the campaign the Liberal, Tory, CCF and Social Credit leaders were compelled to deal with that issue, even though in a hypocriti- cal and confuisng way. But truth will out. Already, while the election campaign was still in progress some of the issues burst out of the conspira- cy. of silence by which the Lib- eral, Conservative, CCF and Social Credit party leaders tried to delay public discussion of them until after the election was over. The shortsighted, and for Can- ada, suicidal, attempts to give the U.S. monopoly control of world wheat exports brought exactly the results that the LPP had warned Canadians it would. Three days before the Canadians voted the inexorable facts of life broke through the provisions of the U.S.- dictated International Wheat Agreement and wheat prices slumped. Right on election day, the Chrysler Corporation of Can- ada laid off 3,500 workers. During the last few days of the election campaign the truth leak- ed out by way of a U.S. announce- ment that,Canada had been com- mitted to go to war again in Asia if the people of North Korea and China refuse to knuckle down to terms that are satisfactory to Sen- ator McCarthy and John Foster Dulles. ‘ The election has solved no prob- lems facing the Canadian people. These problems — peace, trade, jobs, war, taxation, housing, na- tional independence—will become more and more aggravated as the crisis of the Eisenhower-Dulles line overtakes North America, and as the forces of progress become stronger throughout the world. The next period of time will see fast moving developments in the world, and in. Canada, which will verify the policy of the LPP —the policy of a people’s coali- tion to defeat national betrayal to the USA. Already in this election campaign the elements of this germinating coalition are to be seen. The above facts and the trend that they illustrate, show the pro- found significance df the fact that three million people on the voters’ lists refused to cast their votes on Monday for the old-line parties of monopoly capitalism, and one and a quarter million voted for TIM BUCK 1657 votes in Toronto-Trinity. candidates who they considered to represent alternative policies. The Canadian people reject Toryism as such; its official and acknowledged party is a spent force. More and more of the millions who did not vote will, in future, vote against both old parties. Slowly, painfully, de- spite confusion, Canadian democ- racy is seeking the path for- ward. The parliamentary mono- poly of the two old parties is doomed. Estimated alongside the light mid-summer vote deliberately pro- voked by the Liberal government, the million and a quarter who voted against both the Liberals and Tories, make up a rising poli- tical force, which in the life of the present parliament will be heard from and make its influence felt for peace, economic progress and national struggle against U.S. imperialist domination. While, naturally, the Labor-Pro- gressive party would have been still more gratified had more elec- tors recognized the crucial issue and taken their stand in support of a Canadian national policy, we are proud of the vote of approxi- mately 62,000 cast for our candi- dates in 100 constituencies. That was a conscious, patriotic, clear- minded vote of Canadians who see the path ahead most clearly, and who, in spite of the unscrupulous news blackout, the discrimination against the LPP by press and radio, and the vicious discrimina- tion in employment, cast their bal- lots for our party. Every one of these 62,000 votes has a power far and beyond the power of one vote—it counts as a mighty force in the struggles of the immediate future. In this election the LPP sought to show to the Canadian people that there is a democratic alterna- tive in a new national policy which would Put Canada First and Make Canada Great. We have succeeded in this aim —an aim which could not yet be expected to be congealed in a heavy vote for the LPP. The vote shows that conditions are matur- ing for the further development of our great national crusade to unite wide circles of democratic Canadians -in all walks of life, in a broad nation-wide coalition to Put Canada First. We thank every party member, every supporter of the LPP’s poli- cy and candidates. We congratu- late every LPP candidate, who alone held aloft the banner of national freedom and democratic liberties in a hundred cogstituen- cies. We shall study and adopt the lessons of this magnificent elec- tion campaign. The fight for Canada, to ‘Put Canada First, has just begun. The distribution of over 600,000 copies of our platform, the grow-- ing sympathy reported from every riding towards the bright pros- pects opened, up by our party’s fight for a great people’s patriotic movement to regain our national independence and __ strengthen world peace—this encourages and inspires us to great deeds. | Put Canada First! A New Na- tional Policy to Make Canada Great! A people’s movement to change the course of our country to national independence and peace! We call on our members and supporters to continue the fight for these policies, which will be victorious. AMERICAN VISITORS YOU CAN SUBSCRIBE TO ~ _ THE PACIFIC TRIBUNE FOR $2.50 (6 months) or $4.00 (one year) : BY CLIPPING THIS COUPON Mail To: CIRCULATION DEPT., PACIFIC TRIBUNE ROOM 6—426 MAIN STREET, VANCOUVER 4, B.C. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 14, 1953 — PAGE 7