DISUNITED CANADA
ANDRAS, A.
DISUNITED CANADA By A. Andras Conservatives, Liberals, Communists Agree Only on Opposition to CCF y-^TSAWA» i*»»-nnw m new* irom the bet| 1 tlefielde grew* daily bettor end Canadian troop* wn...
...Communist tactics are familiar...
...The imminence of , federal electron has further emphasised and exacerbated the situation...
...Of 260 American economists canvassed, 240 endorsed the Bretton Woods proposals as the best possible now, stating thst if not ratified, the world outlook for international economic collaboration is gloomy...
...Rather than face the electorate en the question of postwar reconstruction, they would certainly prefer to fight on the conscription issue which is so much more adaptable to race provocation and the like...
...Coalition-may he one ef the results, or worse, a constant hedging and log-rolling Without effective accomplishment among the parties, none large enough te make a government by itself...
...The resson for this attack on Millsrd is not hard to find...
...W. H. Lawrence, the author of the above-mentioned nonsense, is a writer with a good reputation...
...IN SUMMARY • Official French estimates give the following pictare of France's war1 sacrifices: About 1311.01M) in the Resistance movement were killed...
...Them are the eaes now bemg broken up Snd divided...
...The socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation admittedly the dark horse...
...They are all, understandably enough, afraid that the people will prefer decisive postwar action making effective full employment to bumbling statements about "free enterprise...
...HI* uppeasiit ess* s lansnnithrt stooge...
...Conservatives as well as liberals wore included...
...The Ontario Legislature pre—ts tee edifying spectacle of the communist Labor-Progressives striving with all their might and main to support the Liberals and oppose the CCF...
...The province now conducts its own fur auctions and is backing financially a coopertive horse-processing plaint which will bring extra revenues te the people of Saskatchewan through the sale of horse-moat to China and Belgium...
...In Saskatchewan, the OCF government is going ahead with a number of projects, and public enterprise is being pushed vigorously...
...Is it true that the land af Poland was owned by only 10,000 families, by whom 70 percent of the population were employed...
...Police and army provost men were set upon by a mob when attempting to round up draft evaders...
...This rural papulation was divided into two categories: 19,494,000 owned their land and approximately 2,859,000 (including families) were employed by others...
...TflTJS, at least-five parties will enter the contest, four with some likelihood ef electing Mearibois to the Hems...
...In Ontario, Premier Drew is playing English against French by claiming that family allowances will result ia Ontario taxpayers paying for Quebec babies...
...Both fecial Credit and the Labor Progressives (alias comSMmitts) wiB ran in about one-quarter of the constisasocies, just enough for nuisance value...
...There is the gismins daasfer that conscription may so kexload She ssssw in she general election that the larger prsslwn af postwar adjustment may be overlooked by * issnidsrahlo section of the electorate...
...The party is entering the election far the first time est s national scale and in a serious bid for power...
...700,000 lost their property through Nasi looting...
...Guided, Guarded, and Misled From AARON MARJOLIS To the Editor: I HAVE just been shocked by the ignorance of a well-known Moscow correspondent...
...The communists have linked themselves with Mitch Hepburn, beyond a doubt one of the most vicious reactionaries and nnaMhamed political opportunists in Canada...
...The Liberal* will be hard put to hold their own, in view of the wartime stresses for which they are in large measure themselves responsible: conscription, laser relations, lack of clear cut postwar plans...
...In the lignite coal -fields, for example, a carbonisation plant is being established te convert the coal into high-igrade briquette* and te utilise valuable chemical by-products...
...at the same time he is exploiting the ¦wy-CHWiscriptdm feeling for all it is worth...
...1 ,600,000 have been left homeless...
...And even bs couldn't get th* basic facta, or see through th* I its of th* GPU...
...As things stand at present, then it * united front of all poMtinml partite agamtt the OCF...
...The t'-onservatives, who have been undergoing a face lifting, wil seeks a desperate bid for power, and it seems chat they will not be too finicky as to choice of issue* or methods...
...As usual, most of the local campaigns will be fought en the proverbial shoestring, backed by the sincerity, devotion and sacrifices which no other national party can hope to evoke...
...The «asssM*ss*oa saw ensy he that they them&ehe* art swidest, fejarasd end esssied ay the ovr-pr*eent and mlwmy^elficiemt GFTJ...
...For laboi, a shorter work-week has been provided and mere liberal payments under the workmen's compensation act...
...In The Nev> York Time* Magazine Seotion of February 18, 1946, I read: "The great landed estates, which were a feature of prewar Poland and which ware owned by approximately 10,906 families and tilled by approximately 70 percent ef the prewar population, are being broken up in the agrarian reform program...
...The recent noting in the Quebec town of Drummondvillc is a refection of what this sort of tactic is expected to produce...
...The idea ia to pull down the CCF by a campaign of detraction against Millard...
...A Department of Libraries has been created te give the people better library facilities, especially in the rural areas...
...It wiTI b? th- deliberate policy ef the timmsntrts la the ferthsimtssi alecties to place candidates hi these election dhrtricss where the CCF has the host chances of whtaig...
...To defeat Millard, communist unions embarked on a campaign of defamation from coast to -coast and used Sheer official journals to print anti-Millard articles, although this was « direct interference In the affairs af another union...
...Campaign plans are in fall swing tsd candidate* have already seen nominated ia s large "•saber ef riduffs (election districts...
...Thanks to decades of deliberate political misleadership, thaslegitisaate grievances of French-Canada are being care lited into such diversionary channels as race hatred and chauvinistic nationalism...
...More than 2,000,000 were deported to Germany, of whom 720,000 were French workers sent to slave labor and 200,009 were political prisoners...
...The Csnadisn director is C. H. Millsrd, a OCF Member erf the Legislative Assembly hi Ontario...
...Another instance: th* same osaeui shows that ef the 3,196,000 estates in Poland only 14,7** were ewer 50 hectares...
...About 86 percent ef French industry is intact...
...I must add that today there are less than 14,700 great landed estates to divide, because of the eases* i*i*ii which teak place every year in Poland up to the IMS bjvaaiia...
...In Quebec, Premier Duplessis is raising the sacred banner of provincial autonomy, also against family allowances, deliberately confusing economic issues with cultural and ¦miorrty rights...
...Meanwhile an Canada's two oldest and greatest provJsssjs, hisesJiiaihi* politician* are doing what they can te Undermine federal power to plan for social security and full eaasskryssaBat...
...It has in the past interfered with the enactment of important legislation and may make the difference between unified government action and nine differing, possibly contradictory, plans (or lack of them) m the future...
...Those east of the Vistula already have been divided, bat these beyond the riser in the newly-freed territory have not yet been apportioned among the peasants...
...Meanwhile, several of the provincial legislatures are sitting...
...Insofar as the CCF is concerned the election is already on and its varies* broach...
...That 'Poland was a> oosatry *f predominantly ¦snail land-owners is known te every Palish citizen, and must be smews te *vary*Oai who visited Poland bolero the war...
...Th* census ef 1911 shows: out ef s population of nearly 32, 090,000, about 19,346,000 (including families) earaed their living from agriculture...
...He is chairman of the PAC of the Canadian Congress of Labor, and since both the Congress and PAC, have endorsed the CCF, Millard ha* become the focus of all anti-CCF attacks...
...are acting accordingly...
...The communists even enlisted AFL unionists te distribute anti-Millard handbills, although the Steelwm km s Union is s CIO union...
...The OCT has stated clearly and emphatically that it will enter no coalition and its socialist complexion and natural militancy rule out makeshift arrangements solely lor the purpose of keeping Parliament together...
...A transport board is being set up whereby the province will engage in the transport of passengers and freight by sir, bus or truck...
...DISUNITED CANADA By A. Andras Conservatives, Liberals, Communists Agree Only on Opposition to CCF y-^TSAWA» i*»»-nnw m new* irom the bet| 1 tlefielde grew* daily bettor end Canadian troop* wn writing new pages of Canadian history jn jpir own Ifloed, Canada itaeTf is in a sorry state...
...Quebec is a thoroughly unknown quantity,'yet it may be the keyStone in the next parliamentary set-up...
...la a recent by-election it un dsiibtodry helped than- candidate win and defeat thereby the Lis...
...J'he party line eemaaate promotion of coalition with the Liberals and the coalition cry is a handy smoke screen behind which to knife the CCF and sec'nV'm gcnc-rnllv...
...It is a tragic paradox that the issue of conscription |ar overseas service should have reached the boiling paint •* toe very tirau the was- sees** to be searing its damax...
...it hopes to become at least the ssVial opposition...
...R H. Brand, ef the British Treasury, asserted that lint ain's postwar experts must rise to ISO percent of the prewar level to balance the budget...
...The premiers of Ontario and Quebec are prepared to destroy the basis of effective action in the name of provincial autonomy (states' rights...
...It is interesting to note that Millard snowed his opponent under...
...Not for many years nave political differences evoked such bitterness, nor demagogoes made such dangerous onslaughts on a none too stable unity...
...Joseph Schwsrtz, European director of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, estimated that only 1,500,000 of Europe's 8,000,000 Jews are left on th* continent, and thst only 600,000 managed to escape by emigration...
...What is truly wondrous is their ability constantly te reach new depths of political harlotry...
...Unless, therefore, one or another of the parties can successfully introduce a superficial issue to distract the electorate, the election issues will be clear-cut...
...Only a common cooperative economic policy of Britain and the United States can assure postwar prosperity...
...GeeMismesst Minister of National Defense, BeSStol' Mc.Naugt.Um, as null as the CCF candidal...
...LawreweV* assa% Sssaassrsds swssfehon* are an ¦laiwius tndioatten af hew iwosteassssf our Besses* correspondents wasp be t* ether reports...
...This ia in line with the present policy ef supper tine the «/•(«« qm, as pei Teheran-Yalta and the Liberal Party...
...This is s favorite provincial government pasfane...
...That, however, is the case sad the oenscrisrtioa issae has been eagerly seised upon by the Conservatives ia their hid for power...
...What will happen to Canada's traditional two-party , government is hard to say...
...This is a new and vastly stimulating experience far peasants, wh* never dreamed thsy would own land...
...Under these circumstances, the CCF stands to make exceptional gams...
...During th* twenty years bat seen the two World War*, 2,666,000 hectare, of arable land WON divides...
...easier te spTH <h* webs ftpsssHfis awl sssnm* » Lib where the (XT has She host rhaaoea of winning, in What strength the communists possess is In the labor movement and to what lengths they will go there to obstruct the CCF is illustrated ht a recent election of national and district officers to the Canadian division ef the United Steel worker...
...Rural electrification is being: pushed, the administration of education improved and health services augmented...
...In any event, the elertisn will be a complicated and bitter one...
...Parliament will expire officially on April 17, but just when a federal ejection will be announced is a secret which the Prime Minister has yet to divulge...
Vol. 28 • March 1945 • No. 10
