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A PERIOD of sharpening struggle is

opening up. The class struggle be-
tween the workers and employers, and
between the farmers and the monopolies,
is becoming moré intense as monopoly
attempts to place the burden of the
crisis on the backs of the people and
as resistance to the anti-national policy
mounts. As the struggle sharpens and
the dreadful illusion that economic se-
curity is to be found in war orders
breaks down, the demand of the work-
ers and farmers for peacetime produc-
tion and new peacetime markets will
grow.

The crisis policies of monopoly must

and can be defeated. The trade union
and farm movements constituté a force

- today which, if united around correct

policies, can curb monopoly and. force
federal and provincial government: to
enact legislation to protect the workers
and farmers from the threatening eco-
nomic crisis.

The LPP in its 10-point Program has
outlined the measures which are essen-
tial now to meet and Beat the Threat
of Depression. This program: must be
spread more widely than ever, SO. that
it becomes the property of the majority
of Canadians. Here is the LPP plan:

1) Restore trade with the’ British
Commonwealth by accepting pounds
sterling in payment for our factory and
farm products.

2) Break U.S. shackles on Canadian
trade. Demand that the government send
trade delegations to the Socialist states
to sign trade agreements.

3) Build up and*expand Canadian in-
dustries by processing more of our raw

materials at home. Stop the dumping of ©

U.S. products which throws Canadians
out of work and ruins our industry and
farming. :

4) Build 750,000 low-rental, low-cost
homes, reduce down payments and mort-
gage interest. :

5) Save agriculture by guaranteeing
the farmers parity prices, exporting food,
not guns.

*6) Build an all-Canadian St. Lawrence
Seaway now, construct a publicly-owned
trans-Canada natural gas pipeline, the
South Saskatchewan River Dam, the
Maritimes Chignecto Canal, and other
nation-building projects.

7) Raise purchasing power and ex-
pand the home market—by higher wages
and farm income; reduced corporation
profits; a 7-hour day, 5-day week; repeal
of the Sales Tax, lower taxation on the
people’s homes, food and incomes and
higher taxes on corporation profits; a
national health plan; payment of unem-
ployment insurance benefits at 75 percent
of earnings for the full period of un-
employment; old age pensions of $75 for
men at 65, for. women at 60.

8) Improve the social and cultural
life of Canada by building new schools,
day nurseries, hospitals, theatres, recrea-
tional centres, sports stadiums, libraries,
roads and highways.

9) Enact a Bill of Rights to protect
the civil rights of all Canadians.

10) Cut spending on armaments to the
1947 level, spend the money on people’s
needs.

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(CAMPAIGNING to make its own pro-
posals known ‘and acted on by the
Canadian people, the LPP will support
all movements of the Canadian workers
and farmers to protect their economic
interests. }

The LPP supports the demands of the
trade unions for higher pay, reduced
hours of work and for amending the
unemployment insurance act so as to

ay People’s unity and

"THE LPP, in putting forward a New

National Policy for Canada, nominat-
ing and compaigning to elect its own can-
didates and working to become the party
of the nation, stands upon the program
of people’s unity, constantly appeals for
unity and shows the path of unity. att
fights to inspire the working class, the
farmers and the middle class with con-
fidence in the victoryweof the forces of
Canadian democracy.

In advancing the cause of people’s

unity for Canadian independence and
peace the LPP must more boldly and

confidently take its own Program and ~

Policy into the economic .and political
struggle, nominating many more of its
own candidates and establishing the
closest connections with the workers and
_ farmers. *

The main political task of the Labor-
Progressive Party is to work to build
people’s unity for the democratic alter-
native to the domination of Canada by
the U.S.A., the threat of war and eco-
nomic crisis, the alternative of Canadian
independence, peace, democracy and the
satisfaction of the vital economic and
social needs of the people.

Working class unity is indispensable
to people’s unity. Only the leadership of
the working class can weld together a
coalition of democratic forces such as
the farmers, the middle class and even
sections of the employers who are adver-
sely affected by the sell-out to the U.S.A.

The vital economic and social interests
of the Canadian people, their desire for
world peace and trade and their growing
national consciousness are the factors
making for the.success of a New Nation-
al Policy, because the-aim of the people’s
movement*must be a change in the di-
rection of government policy to bring it
into harmony with the pressing needs of
the Canadian people, and ultimately to

~-vin a majority in Parliament.

The starting point for people’s unity

~ is the growing resistance of the Canadian
people to monopoly and the economic

effects of U.S. domination, and for a

policy of peace, jobs and world trade.
The rising democratic Canadian con-
sciousness bears witness to the profound
possibilities of winning this struggle.
The LPP will work to build people’s
unity in action on all issues, large and
small, which have to do with the strug-

y

gle for Canadian independence, peace,
democracy and to beat the threat of
depression. The Party advances the slo-
gan, People’s Welfare, Not Warfare!

In the working class movement this
means unity against layoffs, mass unem-
ploynient, wage cuts, and for jobs, higher
unemployment benefits and increased

wages. The Party advances its slogan — ~

Not a Single Canadian Worker Need Be
Laid Off If We Put Canada First!

Among the farmers, this means regain-
ing lost Commonwealth markets, winning
new Socialist markets and trade for
pounds sterling, and guaranteed prices
for farm products.

Among ‘the .urban middle class it
means to enlist support for rising living.
standards as the only means of main-
taining the incomes of businessmen and
professionals.

The LPP must work harder to extend
and deepen the movement of the Cana-
dian people for the peaceful negotiation
of all outstanding differences through a
meeting of the Five Great Powers, the
banning of atomic and other weapons of
mass destruction and the using of Cana-
dian atomic resources for peaceful pur-
poses, peaceful co-existence of the capital-
ist and Socialist states, disarmament and
the reduction of taxes. People’s unity for
peace, to bring pressure upon the govern-
ment to change its “cold war” policies,
requires the active participation of the
whole membership of the LPP.

. The LPP campaigns against the ugly
threat of McCarthyism in Canada, which
has aroused the Canadian people to a

.keener awareness of the necessity to.

strengthen Canadian democracy. The
LPP will join with all democratic Cana-
dians to stop the introduction of Mc-
Carthyite methods, oppose the fascist
tendencies, prevent through public pres-
sure the passage of Bill 7, which opens
the door to political reaction and threat-
ens the democratic rights of all Cana-
dians. The LPP will continue to advocate
among wider and wider circles the ne-
cessity for a Bill of Rights as a safeguard
of Canadian democracy.

In French Canada, the building of
people’s “unity starts with ‘the struggle
for Canadian independence, for it is
through the domination of Canada by the
U.S.A. that French Canada is being drag-
ged into war. This flies in the face of

_ the deep-rooted anti-war traditions of the

increase benefits and make them con-
tinuous until other employment is found.

The LPP supports the demands of the
farmers for trade in sterling, guaranteed
prices and cash advances on grain sur-
pluses. Lec?

If these demands are to be won they
will require active daily struggles by the
workers and farmers to wrest from the
government and employers those con-
cessions needed to maintain living stan-
dards.

Working class and farm action against
the threat of economic crisis means mak-
ing demands upon the« federal govern-
ment, on provincial legislatures und city
councils, on MP’s, MPP’s, aldermen and

_ trustees, through petitions, public meet-

ings, delegations, demonstrations and’
other forms of public agitation.

It demands too, that the trade union
movement begins to take up an active
fight against layoffs and the closing down
of plants and for policies which would
expand employment in conditions of
peace. LPP members must take the ini-
tiative in formulating concrete programs
for every industry aimed at providing
jobs and stopping layoffs.

With unemployment rising it becomes
necessary for the unemployed to band
together and in close cooperation with
the trade union movement, actively fight
for increased and continuous unemploy-
ment insurance and work in an expand-
ing and peaceful economy.

The growing attacks of monopoly on
living standards and trade union rights
makes it more essential than ever that
the workers bring about the unity of
the trade union movement. A_ united
trade union movement in an all-inclusive
Canadian trade union centre will come
about all the more quickly in the course
of unity of action around the common
demands of the workers. The cold war

reatening economic crisis —

policies which held back and divided
the‘trade union movement are being ex-
posed in all their bankruptcy and must
now be replaced by militant united action
and lead toward a united Canadian trade

* * *
HE content of the work of all pro-
gressives in the trade union and
farm movements must be radically im-

union movement.

‘proved and be directed:

a) To do everything to build the mem-
bership of the trade unions and farm
organizations and fight against restrictive
anti-labor legislation; -

b):To support and strengthen all cur-
rents making for unity of the trade
union and farm movements to oppose
raiding of one union by another;

c) To advance progressive policiés in
the working class and farm movements

_by fighting harder for democracy in the

trade unions and farm organizations,
and showing how new markets, higher
peacetime production, new economic
possibilities, the economic progress of
Canada, and the defeat of the monopo-
list enerhies of the people, will make
these mass organizations powerful forces
to serve the people’s interests.

d) To combat sectarianism and
“economism” by overcoming hesitancy
in giving political expression and mean-
ing to the economic struggle. Such hesi-
tancy can only strengthen the right-wing
leaders of these organizations, - and
weaken their contribution to the strug-
gle for independence and peace.

e) To strengthen ‘the fight for inde-
pendent labor-farmer political action.

f) To raise higher demands for Cana-
dian autonomy, the election of all Cana-
dian union officers by the Canadian
membership, and bringing Canadian
trade unions under the complete contro!
of Canadian workers.

the tasks of the LPP — —

French-Canadian people. The struggle
for national equality of French Canada
today requires joint struggle with Eng-
lish-speaking Canada for Canadian inde-
pendence. Therefore, building people’s
unity in.French Canada is a matter of
‘arousing all patriotic, democratic ele-
ments to oppose the sell-out to the U.S.
which is being carried through by the
Duplessis government.

Opportunity for young Canadians in
a Canada independent and at peace is
the basis of building unity among the
youth. The LPP will work to assist the
young people of Canada to become,
through their organizations, a powerful
force to win New Horizons for Young
Canada. .

Equal rights for women and the de-
fense of the family and the home are
demands of Canadian women, especially
working class and farm women. The LPP
will strengthen its work to build a strong
women’s movement in opposition to the
threat of economic crisis and war.

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TERRUTORIES

“The St. Laurent government play-
ed an aggressive role. in the founding
of NATO .... while agreeing to
military occupation of strategic areas
of Canada by U.S. forces. . . . Its
policy has led to the recent U.S, de-
mand for outright occupation of more
than a million square miles of our
Northland, a vast area endowed with
enormous mineral wealth . . .” Many
U.S. bases are located in region of
map above. e

The LPP recognizes that people’s un-
ity for Canadian independence requires
the mobilization of all the forces of Ca-
nadian democratic culture and national
consciousness. The LPP will do all in its
power to stimulate and strengthen these
growing forces, recognizing that the fight
for a democratic Canadian culture is not

‘the responsibility of, cultural workers

alone, but is the cause of all democratic
people, and in the first place the working
class. Left wing cultural workers must
be helped to make greater contributions
to Canadian democratic culture and must
receive the active support of the whole
movement.

_ The LPP must conduct political agita-
tion and propaganda around these ques-
tions and make them the centre of its
political mass work, sharpening the strug-
gle over policy in the labor and farm®*
movements. The Party will help the poli-
tical education of masses of democratic
Canadians by drawing political con-
clusions from the struggle for Canadian
independence, peace and democracy, and
‘showing that a new parliamentary force :
is needed to defeat the parties of Big
Business ‘and to elect genuine people’s
representatives to Parliament and other
elected bodies. 5

The LPP will strengthen its work to
become a national parliamentary party
of the working class, contesting all pos-
sible federal and provincial constituen-
cies, .and participating actively in
municipal elections. It will strive harder
to elect more LPP members to parlia-
mentary bodies. The election of Com-
munists would immensely contribute to
the struggle for people’s needs and
people’s unity.

The LPP seeks unity with the CCF
members and voters on all the issues of
the day, appeals to them for cooperation
in the struggle against the policies of the
St. Laurent government, and calls upon
them to unite the labor and farm move-
ment on a program of the defense of the
people’s needs. :

Our Party works for unity with the
anti-monopolist masses who vote Social
Credit, shows them how the McCarthyite
propaganda of Social Credit leaders as-
sists the monopolists, and that only
people’s unity can curb the rapacity of
the bankers and monopolists.  *

The LPP seeks to help the masses of

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