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Fight now to compel Tories
fo fulfill promises, says LPP

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the Workers
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Of view pressions of a point
strength » each is gathering
tinueg, ” he statement con-

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the needs af vied by which

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ave people could
and ri met at this time,
and in Cted in parliament
Was aoe national policies,
farm .. he trade.unions, the
Lpp 4, UPS the CCF and
®greome Come to a working
lebor-f, nt to put up and elect
Was ae candidates. This
tion One and as the elec-
“sults proved, the CCF

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 ORONTO — “The parliamentary sweep which gav

Parliament with little over half of the popular votes,
gad farmers of Canada,” the national executive of th
election statement issued here thisweek.

did not and could not become

=the alternative to the Liberals

and Tories.

“It was this policy of unity
which the LPP advocated, and
will continue to work for in
coming mtunicipal and provin-
cial elections, both as a party
and. through its candidates.

“Diefenbaker’s lavishly - fi-
panced, high - powered pub-
licity campaign captured the
votes, temporarily, of mil-
lions of Canadians by exploit-
ing their demands for im-
mediate action on reforms,
protection of Canada from the
U.S. monopolies, and for
peace.

“The voters will now be in

+ Bruce Magnuson (above)

was elected Ontario leader
of the Labor-Progressive party
at the party’s provincial con-
vention held in Toronto over
Easter weekend.

Socialist Youth League

Vic
tion 2 ORIA, B.C. — Forma-
club a Vancouver Island

Leg S the Socialist Youth
Warten s Canada, with head-

€re, was announced
oak Ollowing the holding
Na mond youth school at
People pended by 32 young
the Cea Vancouver and

on
bet

ae
of. _-S iSland group, made up

SOejai;
fron Cl@list - minded youth.

ther « ictoria, Nanaimo and
Ally ve €ntres, hopes to event-
all ruit young people from
Snctia of Vancouver
Sued 1, Sald a statement is-

_ » the SYL.

MS of the new club are:
re Study the principles
Raye aic Socialism and the
fton, > that could be derived

@ Socialist Canada.

Sj,

€stablishes Island. club

@ To work and fight for
better educational and job
opportunities for young Cana-
dians.

® To advance ideas for-bet-
ter methods to combat juve-
nile delinquency, including a
deryand for more and better
recreational facilities..

The. meeting, held in the
Chase River Finnish Hall near
Nanaimo, also endorsed a
resolution protesting the per-
secution by the Spanish gov-
ernment of youth delegates
from that country who at-
tended the World Youth Fes-
tival for Peace and Friend-
ship in Moscow last year.

Esa Kuisista of Victoria was
elected secretary of the new
SYL club. —

e the Tories 80 percent of the
will solve none of the problems of

e Labor-Progressive patty said

a position to judge what the
Tories, the party that big busi-
ness put its money on, will
do about these matters.

“The LPP will actively
work with all Canadians to
make the Tories live up to
their promises to end unem-
ployment and develop Can-
ada’s economy. The voters
will judge~ by the results.
The exposure of the Tories
will come about when their
actions are contrasted with
their promises.

“The deep-lying, unavoid-
able issues facing Canada wili
sharpen in the coming period:
peace through peaceful co-
existence, the banning of H-
bomb tests, recognition and
trade with People’s China,
action to protect the people
from the ravaging consequen-
ces of capitalist economic
crisis, a change in our trade
pattern to fit in with a world
in whieh socialism is becom-
ing stronger than capitalism,
and policies to win Canadian
independence from domination
by the U.S.

“To deal with these mat-
ters in the people’s interests,
and not in monopoly’s inter-
ests, requires broad and ef-
fective labor and farmer poli-
tical action. The unions, farm
associations, the CCF and we
of the LPP are: called upon
to exert united pressure for

*such actions and for such a

political working: agreement—
the price of failure to do that
may be harsh politicat re-
action.

“Conditions are now such
that this democratic alterna-
tive to the capitalist parties
is not only advisable, but
fully possible because of the
organized economic strength
of labor and farm move-
ments. This economic strength
must be directed to political
action.

“The LPP will work hard
for such unity in preparation
for elections, and also from
day to day around the daily
needs of the people.

“Specially important les-
sons will have to be drawn
from the election results by
the CCF members and sup-
porters. It is clear that the
CCF official policy line of
competition with the Liberal
party, on a platform hardly
distinguishable from the Lib-
erals’, instead of one embrac-
ing labor-farmer political ac-
tion against the old - line
parties, does not work. We
hope the CF members will
come to see how the election
results vindicated this judg-
ment,”

NANAIMO, B.C. — Trade
unions here are sparking a
move to get Eureka Sawmills
back into operation — either
by mill employees leasing the
plant from Anglo-Canadian
Timber Products Company Ltd.
or by having local capital buy
the mill from the parent U.S.
concern, Puget Sound Pulp
and Paper Company in Bel-
lingham.

Layoffs at the mill, biggest
single plant in Nanaimo next
to the giant $42 million pulp

Unions move to get
Island mill opened

mill of MacMillan and Bloedel
Ltd. at Harmac, began three
weeks before Christmas and
threw 500 men out of work.
The office staff was laid off
December 31. Plan crews
were called back in January
to handle 7,000,000 board feet
of lumber.

IWA sub-local 1-80 is spon-
soring a special meeting Thurs-
day this week to discuss plans
for reopening the mill with
Eureka employees.

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