Canada Will Have CCF Government Soon
COLDWELL, M J.
Canada Will Have CCF Government Soon ly M J. COLD WILL Loader of Canada'* Caoparut* CotntHonirfulth Fedoro'iun T H!-. Saskal-rhewan election* which have resulted in * u r h ¦n o ver whelm -inar...
...That will he a happy day in American political history...
...The two veterans whom President Roosevelt has in his cabinet seem young and sprightly by comparison...
...For the present the thing to nail down is the fact that the Republicans are the conservatives...
...It would draw quick'political reprisals...
...Alexander baird Politics for Power daniel tELL...
...Saskal-rhewan election* which have resulted in * u r h ¦n o ver whelm -inar victory for the Cooperative < ommoiiM i »I...
...Perhaps Harrison Spangler and his faithful old-guard friends are pointing the way to a solution of this problem...
...Unfortunately there is little hope of this...
...The Spangler platform should suit them in exactly...
...Another four years or eight may change that...
...It is too low-down...
...The Political Crisis in France DE GAULLE AND THE GAULLIST COMPLEX........v»ax CONFUSION OR UNITY ............................iduard The CCF Victory March Exclusive Reports from Canada m. j. coldwell and a. andras The Collapse of Education...
...The Saskatchewan victory in a people's victory far democratic socialism It was schiered by thsussumi of willing and unpaid workers who, far twelve years, with gathering support snd •trenith, have worked for the common cans...
...It is not only labor which has been divided between Democrats and Republicans...
...Everything about them is old—especially their ideas...
...From the long-range point of view what is happening has its advantages...
...And as to international affairs— the Republicans are preparing openly and shamelessly to pull the old Harding trick...
...In 1944 Wendell Willkie cannot make an impression upon it...
...The move to form a labor-lsberal party is largely powered by this impulse to get all progressives into one camp...
...Wendell Willkie is coldshouldered with a tired smile...
...They have performed a service Jn not disguising the fact, in the course of time they should be able to draw to themselves many of undemocratic forces in the Democratic Party...
...it believet in tocithielion uhtce uximhitUon wilt lihertle Iht people from Iht (ontrol at monopoly or promote greater efficiency tnd the common Welfare...
...Wendell Willkie's political strategy has been based on the notion that the Republican party contains the majority of the progressive citizen* of this country...
...The obvious suggestion is that these men should turn Republicsn...
...From now on it is the conservative party of this country...
...They will announce the Mackinac double-faced doctrine, an association of nations without the sacrifice of national sovereignty...
...Her* si f rely is a platform to call all of the rock ribbed and dull-witted into a circle...
...States rights arc to be reasserted...
...But history stands in the way...
...mi an T. thayer Will Russia Join A League...
...They sputter about playing tricks in the electoral college...
...Republicans and the Future 0\K piling of the Republican attack on Roosevelt is blunted before the Chicago convention it called to order...
...Spangler'a camp, snd all the progressive Republicans rounded up by Roosevelt, we might view the future with greater confidence...
...Times and psychologies may altrr...
...The assault was to be spearheaded by young, vigorous, dynamic legions moving in against the "aging and tiled men" of the New Deal administration...
...For a generation intelligent voters have lamented the hodgepodge of our political alignment...
...But if there was ever a crowd which belonged in an old-folks home it is Harrison Spangler and his coterie of advisers...
...Government "interference" in business, in agriculture, in social welfare is to be ended...
...i has •leod solidly against the consolidation of large land holdings by financial institution', through fereclosare and eviction...
...The moTe-ment is based on the same fundamentals as the labor parties throu w li on t the British ( "in mon wealth II m not aoctnnatre...
...Forward-looking people of all sorts have been on both sides of the fence...
...They threaten to betray their voters by throwing their electoral ballots against the President, This, of course, will not happen...
...It has a program for the promotion and development of both producer •»d consumer cooperative societies...
...They want everything that working people, intelligent people, progressive people, do not want...
...It is not merely that they are old...
...david j. dalun Normandy and Finland...
...be ¦tvea in the family faras, with security of possesion far those who labor upon the land...
...The •feet of the sweep in Saskatchewan, together with the tremendous gain in Ontario last Sum ¦wr, where, starting with no seats, we secured thirty-four of the eighty in the Provincial House, ¦eana that Canada will have a democratic texialiti fovernment within a mtauuable period of time...
...Pappy O'Danisl and Harrison Spangler may yet be happily joined...
...Their organization is in the hands of their enemies...
...If he is right, the goings-on at Chicago prove that these progressive Republicans have been singularly ineffective...
...In common with socialist parties i" Sweden, Austria and other countries, where there are relatively small farm*, the CCF...
...My hone ia that, in spite of the differences in Mr constitutional aspects, the progressives in the United States will organise a similar movement t« unite farmer, worker and eitiiens «f good-will heaiad a peoples program, for the socialisation •f those economic enterprises upon which the life »*d well-being of the nation depends...
...Private enterprise— whether it is enterprising, snd free, or not—is to be given a free hand...
...If only the anti-New Deal southerners could be hoisted over the line into Mr...
...In 1912 Theodore Roosevelt could split the Republican Party...
...In Texas, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisiana the anti-FDR Democrats threaten to bolt...
...h Federation, are the outcome of twelve rears of education in demoi r a t ic socialist principles...
...william henry CHAMKKLIH What New World...
Vol. 27 • June 1944 • No. 26
