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Open letter to the CCF

AN BY NIGEL MORGAN HNN.)

he issues before the CCF

provincial convention on
May 18-20 are of concern to
the people. What will the

convention do about peace? |

About Korea? The rearma-
ment of Germany? The Five-
Power Pact for Peate? The
seating of China in the UN?
The recognition of China by
Canada? These are import-
ant questions facing the dele=
gates to the CCF convention.
The way in which they are
answered will determine how
other important
questions are dealt with.

Will the convention follow the
road charted by the founding con-
vention of the CCF in i933?

“We stand resolutely against all
participation in imperialist wars

... . Canada must refuse to be en-

tangled in any more wars fought
to make the world safe for capital-
ism...” (Regina Manifesto).

The Liberal and Conservative
parties are the open and avowed

parties of big business.. Thus,
workers can understand why
these parties strive to carry

through the war program of their
masters with its heavy taxation
and super profits, its lowered liv-
ing and social standards for Can-
adians, and its terrible toll of lives
and limbs of working people.

But why do CCF leaders, claime
ing to speak for workers and
farmers, vote in the \House of

_Commons for intervention, in Ko-

rea? Why is it that the only criti-
cism M. J. Coldwell made of the
war policies of St. Laurent and
Truman was that Canadian
ground troops should have been
sent to Korea sooner? Why did
Coldwell introduce a resolution at
the 11th national convention of
the CCF supporting U.S. inter-
vention in the Korean war?

Coldwell is not the only CCF
leader who speaks and acts for
the Truman-St. Laurent war pro-
gram. Clarie Gillis, CCF M.P.
from Cape Breton, told parlia-
ment: “We might as well realize
and Lam quite frank in my think-
ing about it — that for the rest of
our lives we are going to have
higher taxes and standing
armies.”

Stanley Knowles, CCF M.P. from =

Winnipeg, not to be outdone by
Gillis in kowtowing to big busi-
ness, told parliament on Septem-
ber 8 last year:“Even if prices run
wild, even if the government lets
the people down in economic and
social matters, the people will
stand by.” Isn’t that an open in-
vitation to the government to ‘do
precisely what it has done in the
intervening months to our stand-
ard of living?

Professor Frank Scott helped to
provide the answer as to why CCF
leaders support the Truman-
Attlee-St. Laurent war policies. Ad-
dressing the CCF national. con-
vention in Vancouver last year, he
said: “We do not oppose the mak-
ing of profits in all its forms; on
the contrary, the profit motive,
under proper control, is now and
will be for a long time a most
valuable stimulus to production.”

Angus MacInnis, MP for Van-
couver East, also beats the drums
with ‘the rest of the war-making
gang. Replying to a query from a
high school delegation about his
views on conscription and recog-
nition of China, MacInnis recent-
ly stated, “I will support conserip-

,

tion when it is needed.” Asked
when he thought it would be need-
ed, MacInnis replied, “When the
government decides it is needed.”
To the question, “Are you in favor
of having conscription for Ko-
rea?” his answer was, “We have
to stand with the U.S. over there.”
More recently he has openly sup-
ported the rearming of Germany.

Support of such policies is to
ally oneself with the camp of war,
the Trumans, St. Laurents, Drews,
Attlees, MacArthurs, Chiang Kai-
sheks, and Sygnman Rhees. And
let there be no misunderstanding,
support of insane war policies,
leads to insane war budgets and
onerous taxation of working peo-
ple. "

Wars must be paid off and con-,
sequently CCF leaders who sup-
port war in Korea, no matter how

‘much they try to conceal it, are

at the same time «supporting a
government and policies which are
directly undermining our living
standards, blocking the extension
of social welfare and leading
Canada to ruin and destruction.
Governments can’t provide $1700
million dollars for war and at the
same time provide the millions of
dollars urgently needed for in-
creased old age pensions, health
insurance, housing, and farm as-
sistance, No, not even a “Labor”
government can do that, as At-
lee’s new charges for dentures and
eye-glasses proves.

So long as there is no basic dis-
agreement on preparations for
‘war against the people of Europe
and Asia, there can be no real
fight waged for the ‘people’s vital
interests. That is why the people
of B.C. waited in vain for Harold
Winch and the CF group in Vic-
toria to.present any real alterna-
tive to the Coalition’s , hospital
policies, to callyon the government
to resign, or to wage the militant
kind of a fight they should have
waged. That is why CCF trade
union leaders joined with the old-
line party trade union bureaucrats
in refusing to organize a broad
popular delegation to ‘Victoria to
back up the 205,000-name protest »
petition and compel the govern-
ment to withdraw or resign

The actions of ‘CCF leaders in
collaborating with St. Laurent,
Drew, Johnson and Anscomb on
the big business war program as-.
sists the capitalists in confusing,
splitting and weakening the strug-
gle of the working people. It is
creating splits and schisms in the
ranks of the CCF, widespread dis-
satisfaction and disaflusionment
among its supporters. ;

The debate now proceeding in
the ranks of the CCF around the
question of foreign policy will
emerge at the coming convention.
CCF leaders will attempt to use all
their power of office to keep the
B.C. convention in. the war camp.

CCF members cannot afford to
forget M. J. Coldwell’s coup d'etat
last year when he publicly ,an-
nounced on the eve of the national
convention that the CCF support-
ed U.S. intervention in Korea,
thus totally scorning the demo-
cratic rights of the CCF member-
ship to determine CCF’ policy in
convention. i

‘The pro-peace, pro-unity forces

the tanks of the CCF have the
support of the majority of B.C.’s
workers and farmers. Never has
there been so much anti-goyern-
ment feeling rampant in this prov-

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 11, 1951 —

, ful.

ince. This is recognized by the
Tories and Liberals who see the

defeat of the Coalition in the off-
ing. That is why the old-line

party strategists pushed through
the Transferable Vote Act last
month. By this means, big busi
ness hopes to deny political office
to the working people of this prov
ince for a long time to come. Peo-
ple’s unity can upset their calcu-.
lations.

It is not only CCF members who
want a change in government
The majority of the workers and
farmers of B.C. want the pro-wat
Coalition ousted. Over half the”
electorate who voted in the last
election signed a petition which
demanded the government resign
if it failed to withdraw the ‘hos
The govern
ment neither withdrew nor resign
ed.

pital amendments.

Now the people are looking to
the CCF, the trade unions, thé
farmers’ organizations and the
LPP to provide the means bY
which the Tory-Liberal Coalitio®
can be replaced by a government be
that will serve their interests.

The campaign for signatures 0
the Hospital Insurance petitiom
apongored: by the AFL, CCL ang
Railway Brotherhoods, cut acros> —
all party lines. Likewise the cam
paign to oust the Coalition at, the
next election must cut across é
party lines if it is to be success
. The decisions made by this
CCF provincial ‘convention ¢@? —
either advance the formation of #7
people’s electoral alternative to the
old liné parties, or, they ca?
hinder and retard this develo”
ment.

The old-line parties, the spons
ors of Social Credit and all spoke*”
men of the war camp are hoP
fully expecting the CCF conve®”
tion to follow the pro-war, 20"
unity policies of Coldwell, Mach”
nis and Winch. pot)

All fighters for peace and cane
dian independence, the worker
farmers, pensioners, women a
youth expect the CCF conventio?
to come out unequivocally
peace, withdrawal of Canadia?
troops from Korea, seating of toe
real representatives of China *
the UN and recognition of Chi a
and for working class and fat™ ty
unity to turn out the Tory-Libe” |
Coalition at the next election: —

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