Political Standstill in Canada
ANDRAS, A.
Political Standstill in Canada By A. Andras QrTAWA, Canada.—The three provincial electrons akich teok place la Canada laat month did little to gfcnfy peiitieal trends among the Canadian people....
...Pa*of the surprises of the election was the disastrous ™*re of the Bloc Populaire...
...About a third af the population is of FrenchCanadian origin...
...To French Canadians conscription is tied forever to British imperialism and they want none of it...
...For Social lata, the etectione Patented jsaf rtaat losaona...
...H'/4 ins...
...The other is that Socialist education must be maintained at a high pitch...
...Meanwhile all parlies are making preparstions and nominating candidates...
...AtTKNTION is now turned to the possibility of a federal election in the near fulare The government may, if it wishes, stay in eeVe until the spring of 1015, the constitutional limit, bet it is generally considered that an early victory in Europe will bring the election date rleaer...
...Rice, the staple diet of the Indian, which in Britain is made into s pudding and eaten as a sweet, is nonexistent in many parts of India...
...Recently 27 prominent Indian sociologists, dieticians and economists issued a manifesto on India's food situation...
...It is generslly conceded, however, that the CCF will emerge with a tremendously increased representation, possibly even as the largest group in the House...
...The meat significant event in the labor movement » the adoption ef a political action program by one of the two major Canadian labor congresses, the Canadian Congress ef Labour...
...According to them, practically nothing has been done by the Viceroy's Government to build up food stocks, as recommended by the food policy committee, headed by the eminent British scientist, Sir Richard Gregory...
...Provincial autonomy (states' rights) was an important factor, since French Canada is haunted day and night by the fear of ultimate absorption and assimilation by English-speaking Canada, in the event of sa extension of federal authority...
...The Communists, at usual, gat nowhere, while the Independents (the residue of the Conservative and Liberal parties in disgejael ware almost wiped ant...
...quickly in conjunction with the Indian people, there ran be no doubt that a second, a third and fourth attempt will be made by the Indians to free themselves...
...Of these occupied countries, India's problem is the gravest...
...The CCF is well aware of its growing stature and new responsibilities At its next convention, which takes place at the end of October, a sweeping program will be presented which will indicate.tha party's proposals far the post-war years...
...In addition the Congress calls for an extensive housing end public works program, improved social security and labor legislation...
...By aae af those paradoxical quirks to whirh the totiag method ased ia the English-speaking countries ie subject, the Liberals received the largest seaelar vate bat failed to elect enough members P ¦•be a government...
...Famine Threat in India By J. V. P. de Silva Ak SPKCTRK is haunting India, famine, disease and death...
...it elected only four ^fsabera, an indication that, its existence will be even ¦b^'Uir than moat persons anticipated...
...Any suggestion of funds mental change terrifies the Communists who have been ordered to keep the boat from rocking as their part of the Teheran agreement...
...la Alberta, tha Social Credit government wee retarsed with an unmistakable mandate from the people, {sopite use fact that its papular vote decreased for the nfftmA time since it first saeumed office in IMS Tha OCT doaWed its vote and elected two members to the lagriletie* Asaeaably, a gain af oaa...
...That is one of the factors which helped to bring that smashing CCF victory in Saskatchewan...
...Despite the weakness of the organisation there, its newness snd paucity of membership, it did a good job and laid the foundation for future successes...
...The old game of Tweedledum and Twoedledee which the Liberals and Conservatives have played for so many years is finished...
...05 years 27 years Death Rale ........................».2 per 1.000 22.8 per 1,000 Tuberculosis Deaths 3D per 100,000 252 per 100.000 Infant Mortality ............31 per 1,000 177 per 1,000 Mr...
...The program is undoubtedly the most radical and far-reaching which any labor organisation in Canada has adopted in recent years and bears witnesa to tha inffuence of the CCF in the trade union movement...
...Thia is the same organisation which laat year endorsed the CCF as the "political area of Labor...
...But an industrial and agrarian revolution is possible only after a political revolution...
...They foresee "grim prospects in the coming months...
...But Asia's is far more difficult...
...Protective foods are the rarer, costlier products like meat, milk, eggs and green vegetables, whirh are filled with protein, minerals and vitamins...
...N (ITRITION experts divide food into two classes: "energy" foods and "protective" foods...
...during-this time her population has literally starved...
...The one method by which India can solve her food pohlem is by an industrial and agricultural revolution...
...Thorndike goes on to say, "Given a fairly free world trade Europe's food problem looks soluble...
...Speculation as to the composition of the next House of Commons is now a popular pastime and one man's guess is ss good as the next's...
...In Great Britain, after five years of war, many have died or have been killed, but none due to lack of food...
...a study of India must raise these grave issues...
...Life Expertsnry...
...In the United States food is plentiful...
...improved farm and labor legislation...
...It becomes, therefore, the favorite stock in trade of every demagogue...
...For the densely populated countries of Asia are also backward industrially...
...in dike Jr., the well-known American food expert, makes a very valuable comparison between the New Zealander, whom he considers the world's best-fed person, and the Indian, who is (he worst-fed...
...He says, "If thousands of these victims are not saved there will be less . hands to till and cultivate food...
...Also important is the fart that it made good headway among the French-Canadians, generally regarded as the least hospitable to CCF ideas...
...The ytrogam, drewn up by ita Political Action Committee, stresses the need for effective state action in the achievement ef full .employment in peace and presents a number of demands te bring this about...
...Protective foods keep the body strong and healthy...
...Energy foods provide the calories that every human being needs to live and do his work...
...The CCF received about it per cent of the popular vote and made a very good shewing in some of the urban ridings...
...From an economic standpoint, conditions are among the worst in Canada...
...The Union Nationale barely •"need aver the top and forms the government, a e*eeage af dark times for Quebec and discord between qaebec and the rest of Canada...
...They have no export balance and hence no money to pay for imported food...
...Its campaign was based on the need for national unity through economic equality...
...It aucceeded in electing its first representative te the provincial Assembly and in acquainting many thousands of French-Canadians at first hand with what the CCF stands for...
...The Social Credit party has retreated considerably from its original monetary reform platform...
...There is little Industry and fanning ia poor...
...As the government in one province, the eflfcial opposition ia twa ethers,and with elected representedvea in four other provinces, the CCF is now the principal opponent of the old-line parties...
...every poll and every constituency must he well organised...
...Nationalr and the extreme nationalist and equally reattieaary Bloc Pepalaire all vied with one another ia renfesing national issues, in minimizing the war egort or condemning it outright...
...Neither is worthwhile without the other • • • ThK elections in Qaebec were fought with all the bitterness and rancor whirh the war might hare keen eipected to create in a province considered to be the home af Canadian isolationism snd ullraeatienalissa...
...The CCF entered the lists for the first time, nominating candidates in all but throe ridings...
...Two conclusions must be drawn from the Alliens election...
...I addition there may well be a repetition of the supof civtl liberties and the anti-labor bias-whieh "frbsd the last regime of the Union Nationale ?** third ejection took place in New Brunswick...
...The PAC program has drawn howls of anguish from the Communists who see in it a threat to their own collaborationist policies...
...One of them is the nationalization of banking and finance, another ia the maintenance of wartime controls for as long as necessary In the post-war...
...The food-growing areas will be laid waste and desolate...
...The Commuplayed a slippery game of nominating a few candidates, some under false party labels, meanwhile dividing their efforts between slandering the CCF arid • ssnporting the Mackenzie King Liberal government in accordance with the Teheran "line...
...She has been occupied for over 150 years...
...Unfortunately, y*ver, those four members hold virtually the balance "Power in the Quebec Legislature, which means that ** government will have to veer even more to the ri**t In order to hold their support and preserve its •jfstence...
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...Energy foods are chiefly fats, sugar and the great cereals -rice, wheat and corn...
...Unless the progressive forces in Britsin set...
...Thorndike's conclusions are correct...
...The CCF for the first time ran a number of candidates, mainly in urban constituencies and in the mining districts...
...In India even "energy" foods are very scarre...
...that means Britain must quit India...
...They have therefore opened an all-out offensive against it, within the Canadian Congress of Labour especially...
...Thus it may be expected that any post-war '"•construction plans calling for the strengthening of Naral powers will meet with opposition from Quebec...
...In f Ae London Sow Loader...
...FaMINES will come and go, but the Indian people will remain...
...These are grave issues...
...Starvation will increase not only their hunger for food, but also their desire to be.free...
...Even in Nazi Germany, one never hears of a German dying because he had nothing to eat...
...They charge the Viceroy's Government with not taking adequate steps to guard against the approaching famine...
...Height...
...This J****** Is the seat of the die-hard United Empire k^ralista whose ancestors emigrated from the United states in 1776 rather than saver their allegiance to England...
...It will deepen their hatred of the alien government...
...New Zealander Indian Weight ....................................til lbs IIS lbs...
...rsecurity legialation and the like...
...The conscription issue regarding compulsory military service overseas (all overseas enlistments are voluntary) was the cornerstone ef most of the campaigning...
...the CCF campaign was based on its Socialist program, aeth national and provincial.'' On the one hand its opponents attacked H for its Socialism and on the other tried to make out that it waa compromising its Socialist principles because it did not advocate socialisation of the land...
...Only last year, as a result of famine, she lost over four million of her people...
...Recently, Calcutta's foremost physician, I>i Chandra Roy, again warned the Government of the great wave of epidemic taking heavy toll of lives already hit by the famine...
...One is that year-round organization is essential...
...If teething they hare illustrsted how much variation tfj|U in tee thinking of Canadians in various parU of fMs far-dung eeewtry...
...Hitler's Kuropean Empire, Chinese territory conquered by Japan, and Britain's Eastern Kinpiie, have had one thing in common: they have gone through the dreadful horrors of famine...
...By and kuge, it fought its campaign on its record as an honest gevernmeent—a fairly good one ae such things go...
...The Liberals, ostensibly supporting the federal war effort, the near-fascist I...
...To thia must be added the customsry mudslinging without which the capitalist political parties cannot gdt along...
...The people must learn to differentiate between ordinary honest and efficient government and fundamental economic change...
...Joseph J. Tin...
...Its platform included the social ownership of the trusts sad monopolies...
...Famine again is on the order, of the day, unless food is shipped to India immediately...
...Barring a decrease in population or large-scale emigration, there is only one solution: a great industrialization...
...The conventional clap-trap put forward by the official spokesmen—such aa "the benefits of British rule," "the loyal Princes," "the illiterate peasant" (who may be starving, but is still "loyal to the British Raj"), "the various languages," "the many religious castes"—how cheap and bankrupt are these excuses, how stupid to serve ss barriers in the advancement'of a people determined to go forward...
Vol. 27 • September 1944 • No. 39
