en Ut | — Tom McEwen Waiauay : BUTTE TET ee Cn ME Ee ee To WHATEVER else Harold Winch’s ten- i ae resignation as leader of the “ee in British Columbia may produce, on already brought him a whacking hick all of gratuitous if somewhat du- LS eae And those who know a S egocentricities intimately will ; ae Y agree that he was never one to ¥ away from the limelight. AS a contribution to our current a upheavals in B.C., the daily Bice have done a masterly job in ae crocodile tears over Winch’s fc nding departure from the political ; phe. ae a by frustrated ambi- ; itioal : nancial embarrassments and pol- Elie atigue. One of these sheets wax- pay Oquent on the miserly salaries we forsiac Parliamentary servants (?), and ie ai ae tt “a matter of deep regret” a aa ‘Our “niggardliness” in this respect tives us of Harold Winch’s “wisdom Soe " : a time when wisdom in provincial touchi ls. extremely valuable. Such e Peete stone-hearted to reach for the me OXY Already there ‘is talk in open- Rha see special “Winch Fund,” with pha ictoria Liberal initiating this ; Titable enterprise. . vanely tearful and with a finely shat a nostalgia observed editorially rs, arold had “lost that first, fine, i €ss rapture,’ which the Vancouver ay Province puts down to advancing BNA -*Clalistic in his wild oat days. ; Eat the valedictory honors belong to Sik Rene versatile column- é ae more Philpott. With a masterly latig Sard for historical fact, social re- - Dott ship or the public intellect, Phil- , Perse weates Harold Winch to his own : peony selected gallery of other Ments hen who “made some fool state- ne ack in the dirty thirties,” but Tn thi really mean what they said at all. Pott IS gallery of the Elmoretals, Phil- Prk himself, George Drew, “Winch, “ fing and, of course, Harold Pe ording to Philpott’s version it ap- “Rccig that Harold Winch, “by sheer a y a . . . happened to get person- colnet up when the police were Sach ce crowd of jobless protesters.” Reena himself is the originator of this plate and he has embellished it on the , ae and in the legislature from ; Biter eect: : However, we are to oe at this is what turned him in- Eten a8 Tipsnorting Socialist, hence the Bzainet to “make fool statements” “ast capitalism and all its works. ‘ Happily that was i 5 only a_passi Phase, due no doubt to the exubertiee he rei rience of youth. With the token Ng accuracy of a master who has “a a flyer in every variety of par- Non entre: devised since Confedera- into’ ott leads Harold Winch out amp € broad vista of bourgeois par- ame ioe opportunism, where “. . . he Xo p © See, quite clearly, that there was ie a ctical place in Canadian politics “TMhost Party as far to the left as the extreme CCF wing demanded.” One Year $3.00 . . One Year $4.00 . . ng commiseration should impel the Old Lady of Cambie Street was. oad and the “what-might-have-been” — ad Harold not been so “passionately” . havior of some of the cS : - Pacitic FONE Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver TBiC.e &: Phone: MArine 5288 bf Tom McEwen, Editor — Hal Griffin, Asso Subscription Rates: Canada and British Commonwealth countries (excep Australia, United States and Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Authorized as second class mail, Post 0 ee a So, avast me hearties, overboard with all leftist cargo, we are heading for port, and our ship’s articles for government, “as every realist knows, is not social- ism but advanced liberalism.” Philpott states the case very well for “Socialist” Harold Winch: “I think he would have given B.C. good moderate government and: not socialism, for the obvious reas- on that no government in B.C.. could socialize our basic industries, even if it would”? That last assininity is Philpott’s own apologia for Winch’s abandonment of the Regina Manifesto and all it meant to those who pioneered the CCF move- ment, as well as to its thousands of members and supporters of today. Philpott winds up his valedictory on Harold Winch with a bit of good news which (while of no great assistance to Winch in his present difficulties) might help the provincial Liberals now in search of a Moses to lead them out of the political wilderness. Gazing into his crystal ball for possible successors to Haroid Winch, Philpott suggests these might “include Arnold Webster, Tom Alsbury, Alex McDonald, 0. L. Jones and Bert Herridge. Here is a fact that every realist should ponder; any one of those men would make a first-class leader—either for the CCF or Liberals.” : : ye - Philpott is a “realist” of sorts; the sort illustrated alongside his column on Winch, entitled “Ten Years Age—April 1, 1943: Total disarmament of Germnay, ltaly and Japan was essential to endur- ing peace, British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden told the Canadian Senate and House of Commons.” “Ten years ago “realist” Philpott could see the CCF emerging as the key political party in Canada, ushering in a socialist era as painlessly as modern “painless” den- tistry. Now he cannot see at all—and - least of all how and why CCF top brass, in the Yankee war camp up to their / ears, now find it difficult to masquerade, as “Socialists,” and easier to make poli- tical dickers with the Liberals, even . when the risk of getting doublecrossed, as Harold Winch must have learned, is always a 99-to-1 hazard. ° A “Socialist” who gives the appear- ance of fighting for the right of his party to form a government one day, and “resigns” the next when his strate- gy has backfired, on the plea that he is “tired,” renders an ill service to his - party and the working class. A “Socialist” who bemoans his “finan- cial sacrifices” in the service of the people—when his annual salary is twice that of the average worker or farmer in B.C.—and waits for the alms-basket to be passed around, voluntarily puts his own party in the pillory of public con- tempt. ‘ In one of his many biting comments on the opportunist and cowardly be- “Socialists” of his day, Karl Marx once observed that it would be a most happy situation, were all hazards, sacrifices and dangers elim- inated from the class struggle. Then socialism would indeed be of the windbags and their “fool state- ments” would pass legal tender for pro- found “wisdom”! Winch’s resignation is not, as it is claimed by some ,a “desertion” of so- cialism. It is merely a belated confirm- ation’ (“sheer accidents” included) that Harold Winch never was 2 socialist. Whatever the. coming CCF convention may decide on the issue, there will be thousands of CCF’ members and sup; porters throughout the province who will be fully agreed on one point—that their socialist aspirations will not be buried ‘with Harold Winch. ciate Editor t Australia) — Six Months $1.60 — : all other countries Six Months $2.50 Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. ffice Department, Ottawa s s the slogan - to office. WE FEEL SO VERY LONESOME WE LET OUR HAIR DOWN AND CRY! WE FEEL SQ VERY MOANSOME ... THE LITTLE COLD WAR MIGHT DIE! (Hugin : The crying crooners of the West Peace in Korea-- Now QNCE again the eyes of the entire world are centred on the great hope that peace. will come to war-torn Korea. Many times since this cruel slaughter began nearl three years ago, hopes that it would be brought to an end have been: dashed b the actions of the Yankee generals and politicians who, while pretending to ne baa for peace at Panmunjom, in reality conspired to prolong and spread the i E _ Now, thanks to the efforts of the governments of the People’s Republic of China and the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea, peace talks have been re- sumed with hopeful indications that the outstanding POW issue can be resolved and a truce reached. Of course, the U.S. military brasshats and their press propa- gandists are talking as “tough” as ever and throwing every obstacle in the wa "of _ successful negotiatons at Panmunjom. The Yankee press mounts a new cam ee n of hate and suspicion’ against the “Reds.” Yankee war industries become ser if _ the “threat of peace” and the stock markets are depressed. But the American et ple, together with the peace-loving people of all lands, are appalled by napalm and germ warfare, sickened by the mass murder of civilians — and aroused by the fact that all this, conducted by the U..S in the name of the UN and peace, is being used in ay hae as in Sets to destroy their own liberties. Ea t is this growing demand, this undying hope for peace of peo J that once again compels the UN (read Us) oe sit Bees and ice eg the killing. ! _ We in Canada should spare no effort to make our demand known to Canada’s representative in the UN, Hon. Lester B. Pearson—the ‘simple demand for peace in Korea and the bringing home of Canadian troops now in that country. : Crisis of leadership N the present B.C. political scene per- haps the most outstanding and uni- form problem disturbing the old-line parties of big business is the crisis of leadership. Since the Johnson-An- scomb Coalition folded up both the Liberals and Tories have been seeking new leaders capable of restoring them Now the CCF is confront- ed with a similar problem. When large sections of the elector- ate begin deserting . the traditional parties of Tweedledee and Tweedle- dum en masse the first reaction of the boys in the back rooms is to discard their discredited leaders and look around for more efficient spellbinders to keep the old partisan shell game going. As the late unlamented Prime Minister “Iron Heel” Bennett discov- ered, his usefulness to the Tories end- ed when his ability to deceive even - some of the people was demonstrated by the Tory debacle of 1935. And, more recently, in B.C., former Coali- tion Finance Minister Herbert An- scomb learned the same thing as leader of the provincial Tories. e ‘One of the principle items on the agenda of the Liberel convention in Vancouver this week was the search for a leader to restore partisan fortunes. Even with the help of such Liberal stalwarts as Fisheries Minister Jimmy Sinclair and Deputy Defense Minister - Ralph Campney, nothing resembling the Liberal Houdini ‘required is in sight. Whoever winds up with the toga of leadership won’t be what the get! yy - Liberals want, but only what they can In the leadership crisis the Tories have fared little better. After much wrangling and scheming they managed to persuade Deane Finlayson that the position had a future, despite the un- promising outlook, but there is nothing to indicate that he can lead them any- — PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 10, 1953 — PAGE 5 EISENHOWER n) @ ) >» Va = = jen _ given the CCF their support on the ‘ . provides a “come-on” backdrop to the 3 _ qualifications of genuine popular lead- — . tive to the political brigandage of the — J ! where, other than where they happily _ are, in almost total eclipse. That isn’t Deane Finlayson’s fault, but he could have taken a tip from Shakespeare and shied away from the job of trying “to set it right,” or with Abe Lincoln, ee ee not even true-blue Tories can “fool all the time.” — oat s ae the wot ne problem of leader- ship stems from the same root cause. _ The Coldwell-MacInnis-Winch “lead: ership” demand. a bourgeois program- — matic “respectability,” alien to the con- — cept of socialism held by CCF rank- and-filers, and by thousands who have supposition that it was something dif ferent from the old-line parties. Top CCF political strategy and policies have narrowed the difference down to _ infinitesmal proportions, — ' The Regina Manifesto no longer political philosophies and ambitions of _ top CCF leaders. Therefore the choice — to fill Harold Winch’s shoes (provided, _ of course, that Harold seriously intends - to discard them) will not be made on ership, but rather u abili knuckle under. when e's Coa is considered advantageous to the fortunes of political opportunists, That type of “leadership” not only. destroys the CCF as a serious political — party with a socialist vocabulary; it wantonly destroys the confidence that tens of thousands of Canadians have placed in the CCF, both as an alterna- _ parties of big buisness, and as a pow- erful factor in a people’s coalition, _ pledged to serve the needs of the people. All parties. that desert the peo have a leadership crisis. It is one of the inexorable laws of modern society,