a HE battle lines in the

‘fi Montreal-Cartier by-

‘election have _ been drawn, The Labor-Progres- Sive candidate, Councillor Michael] Buhay, was nomin- i at an enthusiastic pub- ic nominating convention attended by 1,500 citizens. ‘The Candidacy of the Liberals gave the back-room boys quite a little trouble, for they announced - Maurice Hartt as a candidate without having any king of Nominating convention whatso- _ ever.

It is clear that the issue will be between Buhay and Hartt, even though some of the other parties have nominated candi- dates. For the Cartier byelection is almost a general election in Miniature. Great issues hang upon its outcome. The results

_ will unquestionably influence the whole course of Canadian Policy in dealing with other Countries, as well as the domes- tie matters of vital concern to the people.

It is inevitable that the Lib- €rals should be made to answer for _ the very means which brought about the byelection in the first place—the spy-scare they engineered. For in the light Of what has transpired since last February, it is clear that

the whole spy scare is only the,

‘Rew technique’ that reaction evolved against the progres- _Sive forces at home and against the Soviet Union and the new democracies abroad. __ What the Liberals in Canada peared: the Republicans

Sok up with great gusto in the Unitea States. What started against Fred Rose in Montreal, has now shifted to Washington

against the German anti-fascist,

Separt Hisler, a man who ne- wanted to come to the United states in the first place. What the reactionaries couldn’t rf. while Roosevelt was alive, _ “ey Now feel free to carry out.

~The Roosevelt administration |

had no need of spy scares. Roosevelt favored the path of Cooperation with America’s war- time allies, Britain and the USSR. He sought a policy that Would lead to world peace. Such & policy could be based only upon friendship ang mutual un- derstanding among the great cere, primarily between the nited States and the Soviet hion. For this policy, no spy Scares are necessary.

However, when governments 8re not looking for avenues to- Ward peace and friendly rela- Say) but instead seek ways to isagreement and ultimate war, SPy scares can sometimes serve 2% useful purpose. They can be USed for many things, including & smokescreen behind which to hide policies which the people would otherwise oppose.

® a LAT it is that the King Sovernment is trying to hide. from the people behind its ‘spy SCare’ is now being brought to

the attention of Canadians in

€ course of the election cam- Pe ‘in Cartier. The Liberals She their own reasons for vio- lating civil liberties, imprison-

ing people without recourse to

eir families or counsel, in- _ ‘Stituting interrogations which

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came impossible. These reasons are being recognized as the main issues of the election cam- paign by the progressive elec- torate of Cartier, and their can- didate Michael Buhay.) ;

The King government is try- ing to hide from the people the fact that it has become the servant of powerful imperialist interests who are preparing for a new war, which would make a battleground of our country.

Our government is supporting

monopoly control of the atom bomb, rather than disarmament. It is handing over Canadian soil for military bases.

But it dares not tell the people how many such bases are being set up or for how long our territory will be occu- pied. It is making the Canadian army a little offshoot of the United States armed forces, so that even our weapons .and training are made in the USA. It is hiding the fact that its military agreements, its arms standardization, its northern ex-

peditions, and the presence of

thousands of American troops are all preparations for war, not peace.

All these maneuvers are “ob-.

viously directed against the So- viet Union. As part of its ‘every- thing against the USSR’ policy,

the government has quietly gone —

about supporting reaction every- where. Bee aig

Is Franco still ruling in Ma- The King government

Greeks killing freedom fighters daily? The government has given them a helping hand. Are Jewish men, women and chil-

dren being put into new con- — *t ; a victory over a kind of sec-

centration camps at Cyprus by Bevin, as if they did not suffer enough from Hitler? The gov- ernment has no objections.

N THE contrary. our govern- ment considers it much bet- ter to keep Jews on Cyprus and in the DP camps in Europe than to let any of them into Canada. The Polish fascists, 4,000 of

whom have been allowed into

this country, are welcomed by the government. But the victims of Hitlerism -are rigidly ex- cluded.

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is under constant attack, fas- cism is becoming resurgent. So- lon Low and Norman Jaques drool speeches over the air waves similar in every respect to those of the late, unlamented Goebbels. Vers Demain in Que- bec serializes the Protocols of Zion, The notorious antisemitic rag Le Goglu has appeared on the newsstands.

Have the Liberals even lightly reproved them? No. The King government which had much time for spy scares, has by its

silence encouraged the fascists to become bold anq to strike out quite openly.

These things the spy scare

was designed to hide from the people. But the removal of the former member of parliament for Cartier does not hide them, any more than it covers the glaring failure of the govern- ment to provide housing for the

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_A guide to good reading

tine played by the i G. Farben’

RMAN SCHENDEL’S Why Work ‘tor Nothing represents

tarianiam, Here, in work-bench dialogue from beginning to end, is a study of political economy covering value, price and profit and wage, labor and capital that digs the Marxist essentials from a subject which too often has been _ buried in formidable

phraseology or unfamiliar refer-

ences. Schendel talks as if he were a ghop stewardt putting a new man wise around the shop --only in this book he is giving him the score on capitalism and how it works.

The versatility of the book is its big asset. It is broad enough for a study group in any trade union and adequate in treatment for a Marxist political economy class. The language is so sim- ple, the graphs and illustrations so’ clear, that any working man who gives it an evening’s atten- tion will find his own unavoid-

able but somewhat hazy sus

picions about the true nature of wages and profits taking con- vincing shape as he reads. |

The appearance of this, book

and Ryerson’s A World To Win

are true and encouraging signs

of the maturing of the Marxist movement

ae ‘on this continent. They are putting the basic ideas

‘people, to keep down prices, to

provide adequately for our youth. and veterans, the aged and the sick. ee

Where are the promises of full employment? Where are the big housing projects to take people out of overcrowded rooms and cellars? What has happen- ed to the dollar which today

can only buy about sixty per- cent of what it purchased last year? Why did Finance Minis- ter Abbott tell a consumers’ delegation that rents would go up, in order to be “fair to land~ lords?” ;

To silence these and many

other questions, the Liberal gov- ernment started a spy scare.

“But it will avail it little. For

the people of Cartier recognize these facts and know what the Labor-Progressive Party and its candidate stand for. ,

into our present day language and in terms of our own experi- ence and current class relation- ships. This is the direct route to the minds of our people.

“The author, Herman Schendel,

is the director of the trade union department of the Abraham Lin- coln School in Chicago. His book, which is printed in the large magazine format selling for 95c in Canada, is being widely used as a textbook by study groups in the U.S.

ae printed in this big mag- azine form and selling for around a dollar are an important post-war trend that promises cheaper progressive reading. Pamphlet Press has just released a new book in this format called Out Of Your Pocket by Darel Mc- Conkey This is one of those ‘read all about it’ books exposing the operations of the cartels to the public gaze. ee

Read, for instance, about those tycoons who considered adulter- ating their plastic powder prod- uct with arsenic and lead to compell dentists to use their pre-

pared denture blanks made of

the same material which only cost 400 times as much! Read about the Standard Oil patriots

who goose-stepped to Hitler's

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| Rov. Hutchinson. $3.00. _

They know that Michael Bu- hay stands for a real peace — policy for Canada, for friend- ship with all our neighbors and allies,

They know that he stands for an end to racial discrimination, both in our immigration poli- cies and in all spheres of Canad- ian life.

They know he stands for higher wages, better old age pensions, health and unemploy- ment insurance.

They know he will fight for a real housing program, against — rent and price -increases which — add to the swollen profits of — the millionaires. ; :

Michael Buhay, candidate of s

ihe people, by the very fact of

his election as the member for Cartier on March 31, will con- —

tribute a heartening victory to- the cause of peace and the well- being of the people. eo

band and put America on flat — tires in war time. Their loyalty —

was to their German partners ~

with whom they reached ‘an ‘ad- | justment’ on synthetic rubber.

Or perhaps you are interested in General Electric, who make

light bulbs and whose biggest

technical headache is to make — them so good they won’t last too

long. Or if you think you get —

fair value for the spectacles you buy that is an optical illusion — you haven't figured out yet, — ;

Out Of Your Pocket shows ‘free enterprise’

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Two books that merit early review are Underground to Pal-

-estine by I. F. Stone. the story — of the greatest migration in the _

history of a wandering people, and The Badgers by Leonid Leonoy, the author of Road To The Ocean. zi Be RECOMMENDED BOOKS Fight For Peace by Henry A. Wallace, Pamphlet Press, 25c. Peace Key by John Weather- wax. Bryant Foundation, $1.35. Underground To Palestine by I. F, Stone, Boni & Gaer, $3.00. : » Badgers by Leonid Leo-

in a light its advo- — cates would prefer to keep hid- |