UNITED FRONT' CANADA IS EXPOSED BY THE C. C. F.
United Front' in Canada Is Exposed by the C. C. F. Cooperative Commonwealth Federation Tears Mask from Communists, Revealing __ Their Maneuver as Effort Deliberately Pcfignad to tjpefroy...
...They are ready "to take any steps" to et unity jrith those they denounced as "social fakirs" aad "social fascists...
...thousands of votes, several seats and not a few deposits...
...AND ALL THOSE WHO WISH TO END THE PRESENT SYSTEM, KEEP CANADA AT PEACE AND FORESTALL A CANADIAN BRAND OF FASCISM HAVE ONE CLEAR COURSE OF ACTION...
...And its purpose in affiliating is to ; "transform" the C.C.F...
...But it fought the C.C.F...
...were appeals made either with the most conscious malice, a malice aimed deliberately at weakening the C.CF., or those appeals were auate la .'total ignorance of the present state of Canadian opinion...
...Concerned more with this policy than wfth Socialism in Canada, they seek unity on any terms...
...THERE IS NO BASIS FOB CO-OPERATION THERE IS ONLY ONE SOCIALIST PARTY, l AND ONLY ONE UNI TED FRONT...
...THAT PARTY AND THAT FRONT IS THE C.C.F...
...was the only Socialist movement at any, vitality I in Canada...
...If it Iwas sold knowingly to the Liberals, what is the use of talking: "unity...
...THAT COURSE OF ACTION IS TO JOIN THE C.CF, TO STRENGTHEN IT, AND TO MAKE IT INCREASINGLY EFFECTIVE...
...This Communist literature was sold to Liberals with or without the knowledge that the liberals would use it...
...The article reveals the methods and tactics used by the Communists in Canada, which are an exact replica of these resorted to by the Communists in this country...
...In places like Bridgeport and Reading, where ihey had not the slightest chance of making an impression, toe Communists called upon their followers to support the Socialists...
...Beaver designed to destroy the Socialist movement, follows: • • • The stentorian appeals now being made by the Communist party for unity with the C.CF., or, indeed, anyone else, are recognition by the Communist Internationalaad its mouthpiece in Canada that Communist methods are futile and fliat they must be abandoned for those of democracy and socialism...
...As The New Commonwealth pointsout, this was done in Canada with the intention of embarrassing the Socialist candidates and hurting their chances, the Communists believing and hoping that their support would have this effect...
...The purpose of the maneuver was the same as in Canada and was so transparent that Socialists in Bridgeport t and Reading for example, had no hesiI tation in spurning the hypocritical I assistance of the Communists...
...The future of Communism such as it is, is to save its waning influence by clinging t» the coat-tails of a movement that is - rooted in Csnada and has no compromises to make...
...The intelligent Socialist will note that the campaign tactics of the Communists in Canada in the recent election were precisely those they used in the United States...
...by every unscrupulous method it could devise, and, by accident or design, it permitted the sale of its literature to Liberals throughout Canada for the purpose of creating the impression that the C.C.F...
...The Communist party had six months to demonstrate the sincerity of its friendly professions and its ability to create something with which unity could be created...
...The article from the New Commonwealth, dated November 9, and exposing the Communist united front appeal as a dishonest ma...
...was associated with the Communist party...
...But it is incessantly necessary to say and say again that the Communist party has yet to show itself capable of either a conscious appreciation of Canadian working class needs ar psychology or any capacity for frank and fair deaMne...
...and, second, that the j Communist party had abandoned Jany hope that Communist methods would help the workers in their straggle against capitalism...
...Unfortunately, however, there are some so-called militant Socialists who fall for the Communist trick...
...United Front' in Canada Is Exposed by the C. C. F. Cooperative Commonwealth Federation Tears Mask from Communists, Revealing __ Their Maneuver as Effort Deliberately Pcfignad to tjpefroy jj^bpr ment—Communist Methods and Tactics in the Campaign Are Replica Those in the United States...
...The . proposal scarcely merits consideration, Following upon a Communist election campaign -deliberately designed to prevent the election of C.C.F...
...If it was riot sol3"knowingly, then ,tae organisation is so slack that there is nothing worth co-ope rating.-with...
...has no desire to attack the Communist party...
...In places where the Socialists were not strong, or where the Communists thought they could poll some sort of a vote, the Communists ran their own candidates...
...The appeal made last Sunday in Massey Hail, Toronto, by Stewart I Smith, was' a frank recognition, 1 first, that the C.C.F...
...THERE IS NO BASIS FOB UNITY...
...No, and again no...
...It is a strange picture, this pictare of the simon-pure doctrinaries hyv^irling down before their own failures and before their international necessities...
...The activities of the Communist party coat the C.CF...
...They actually favor a united front with the Communists, or a "partial" united front, and they denounce those "Socialists who seethrough the Communist intrigue as "reactionary Old Guardists...
...The C.C.F...
...A party guilty of either is no party to .talk unity...
...There can be only one answer —that answer is an emphatic aad uncompromising NO...
...into the I broadest united fsont party...
...We reprint below article* from the New Commonwealth Of Toronto, organ of the Coopenaaive Commonwealth Federation, the Labor Party of Canada...
...And the appeals ±o "vote Comrnnnist, ar if yon cannot, then vote C;C.F...
...candidates in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Toronto, Vegreville, and other places, the appeal would be ridiculous if it were not- also each- a significant surrender...
...The Communist party is ready to "affiliate" provided its Ifreadam of independence" is maintained...
...W* leave the verdict to the intelligent and eXBerieaced Sods lists...
...Bat even this frank surrender has its hidden condition and sting...
...AS in the United States and elsewhere, the Communists in Canada are doing everything possible to destroy the labor movement under the guise of the "united front" appeal...
...The Communists are forsaking, for the time being, their orthodoxy* They are bowing to the necessities of the Soviet foreign policy...
...The'Communists . can take their choice—that policy of "friendliness" was either malicious or stupid...
...There are numerous such cases...
Vol. 18 • November 1935 • No. 77
