CCF HOPES TO PLACE SECOND IN JUNE 27 CANADA ELECTION
ANDRAS, A.
CCF Hopes to Place Second In June 27 Canada Election Catholic Quebec Decisive For Liberals and Tories As Campaign Nears Close By A, Andrew New Leader Correspondent in Canada OTTAWA. AS...
...In contrast, to the rest of the...
...For example, he has been attacking Trade Minister Howe for handing over the assets of Canadair, a large aircraft company, to the American-owned Bibtrie Boat Company, which Drew asserts is involved in international arms racketeering...
...Toryism's long succession of leaders in recent years points up the Tory situation very sharply...
...Since 1917 French-Canadians have borne a deep hatred for the Tories, who imposed conscription during World War I. Consequently, the number of Progressive Conservatives elected from Quebec is generally infinitesimal, and the province's parliamentary delegation has for three decades been the backbone of the Liberal party...
...Although recently the Strike was accompanied by some violence, the pertinent fact is that it has received and continues to receive the unqualified support of the Catholic hierarchy...
...unemployment is still a secondary problem...
...The Liberal party's problem is mainly that of how much of a majority it can poll...
...In an attempt to make a corrtebaek,"Quebec's Tories have become isolationist, and have made a deal with neo-fascist Provincial Premier Maurice Duplessis...
...The Communists were yjatring to use-their prerogatives unit democracy to slander him, not 'fytol at gutter- level attacks...
...Would they show the same courage were they being tried in Russia for plotting Stalin's overthrow...
...Younger more progressive leaders have emerged whose thinking on social questions— and even on purely trade union matters—has far outstripped that of the province's staid AFL officials...
...Favoring its almost certain return to power is the fact that times are fairly good...
...The Catholic Church is trying to adjust to this situation...
...This was evident in the bearing of the defendants as they left the courtroom in a body...
...In fact, there are no common issues: Each party is fighting on issues of its own making...
...But jiffs Medina restrained Cummings...
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...and income taxes) have been cut...
...But for the CCF, which has no illusions about taking power this trip, to place second would represent an overwhelming victory...
...All stared at me witn Jw look of hate reserved especially ft* ex-Commtifii8ts...
...lie nudged Green, who was abWlhtd in a book...
...Alter fifteen minutes he seemed fljfe to leave...
...The existence of Labor governments in Britain, Australia and New Zealand provides the CCF with telling arguments, for its program is much like theirs...
...The fecal point is the asbestos wethers striae which started last February, and Which is now on the read to settlement...
...the cost of living has stabilized itself somewhat...
...thus of the pamphlet "The MUCH HAS HAPPENED in the ten weeks since the trial's beginning to shake the aplomb of the defense...
...4 concentrated effort is being made to elect their national leader, JFim Buck, to Parliament...
...Would they then be able to drag out the proceedings for months as they are now doing...
...It is the only party which can «y "we told you so" about the chapping of price centrals end the Jailureito introduce a housing program...
...This is all the more remarkable because the strike is directed against a large and powerful corporation, is illegal according t«f Quebec labor law, and encountered open hostility from the provincial government...
...Whatever the results of the election, this is cleart Caaada is en .the way toward be coining a eselU service state...
...PROFESSOR LEONID RAMZIN, a gentle, scholarly man more at home in a classroom than in a court where he was being tried for his life, was the ace culprit in the courtroom with banners, shouting, "Death to the agents of imperialism...
...As a result, the Catholic syndicates, formerly ,a federation of strikebreaking company unions, have grown into bona nde instruments of labor, and have been engaging in vigorous struggle with the employers on labor's behalf...
...No one knows what the campaign issues are...
...Their newest standard bearer, George Drew, former Ontario Prime Minister, has been trying desperately to instill new vigor' into his party, but with small tangible success thus far...
...Ironically, if — God forbid —this country were to fall prey to Stalin, these twelve on trial would not last a month...
...Though reluctantly, even sectttity^fai thahM^jSia^irattttaUr, the pace of faialiipsosau sawtM'iacreated easts...
...To fully appreciate the implications, one must remember that in Quebec there is no more potent nor highly respected an institution than the Catholic Church...
...I was attending the Lenin School at the time...
...To those perennial runners-up, the Tories, this would prove to be a blow a degree less disastrous than that which would follow relegation to third place...
...Well do I recall the "trial" of the eight defendants of the Industrial party in November 1930...
...The CCF made it atntndansly (new that tt will, on no account, enter also a enalition...
...security will ha Wtormssftsa nav onsy wr ssm wisanssgrpssfsj tioa...
...How different the proceedings would have been in Moscow...
...Quebec's two French - Canadian Archbishops are known to hold progressive views (which explains, in part, Church support of the asbestos strike...
...My presence in the Wtrtroom caused a flurry among the iHendan^s...
...the CCF has yet to be recognised as each...
...THE ANCIENT FRENCH Catholic province of Quebec will really determine the complexion of the next government...
...National CCF leader M. J. Caldwell hsn been receiving recognition on a plane equal to that of leaders of the two old parties...
...The surprise witnesses of the state have filled them with uneasiness: How is one to know whether one's fellow-defendant is not working for the FBI...
...The principal employer concerned is Canadian Johns-Manvllle...
...Would they have the effrontery to Insult a Soviet judge as they have Judge Medina...
...This is the nightmare which the Communists at Foley Square would have us exchange for our American heritage...
...Quebec itself is involved in a revolution all its own which, this writer ventures to say, will have mighty eonsequences for Canada...
...Second only to Coldwell as a campaigner is the Hon...
...The Liberals and Progressive Conservatives seem too angry at each other to form a coalition between'aheni, although they have joined Faroes' against the CCF m seme preOinoss, Bat these are net likely possibilities...
...Also, defeat of the Atlantic Pact by doctrinaires at one CCF provincial convention, has provided the party's enemies with some ammunition, although the national organization fully endorses the Pact...
...Conceivably, no one party may get a clear majority, in wfcieh ease the CCF may -hold the balance of power...
...Election of Liberal governments in Canada's tenth and newest province, Newfoundland, and in the Province of Nova Scotia recently, have spurred Liberal hopes and, by the same token, dampened Tory chances of victory on June 27...
...Word got around »;the others...
...The CCF expects to make Us gains, if anr.nvthe tednstriahwdaiidunionism rereas of southern Ontario and the omtt coast, where the political aetaan department of the Canadian Coasgreas-of Labor has been doing its meet-effective work and where successes %ave already been achieved in prartsstial elections...
...QUEBEC HAS BECOME the most urbanized province in the Dominion and the French-Canadian peasant is becoming rapidly proletariahized...
...Stachel recognized me IjBt...
...The CCF, of course, has been deluged with the usual slander, vilification ;ind abuse reserved for a radical party...
...Kill the wreckers...
...This election may answer finally the question: Is Toryism doomed or can it reassume its once powerful role In Canadian life...
...On the other hand, the neer-faseist, anti-Semitic local version of Social Credit —the Union des Bleeteurs—4s reaping profit out of the strike situation...
...Wrenched from the isolation of farm and village, the former habitant is learning much from his new contact with other cultures...
...T. C. ("Tommy") Douglas, Saskatchewan's CCF Premier, who lias been stumping the west...
...Yet, when charged with conspiring to overthrow the American government, they cry, ''Persecution...
...Out of thousands arrested and languishing in concentration camps, eigt men had been singled out as human sacrifices to the Communist medieval church...
...The latter is usually the course taken by Quebec "wdksaliern...
...The strikers belong to a Catholic sydicate (as Canada's Catheiic unions are known...
...AS CANADIANS PREPARE TO ELECT their government for the next four years from a list of 800 candidates running in 262 constituencies, 'signs point increasingly to a victory on June 27, Election Day, for the party which has held power with only one break since 1921—the Liberal Party The rank of official opposition is the best which either of the two remainirif major parties—Progressive Conservative (Tory) and Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (Socialist)—can hope to achieve...
...An Ex-Communist Visits Foley Square By Fred Beat HAUNTED BY THE MEMORY of my nightmarish experiences during a three-year soJfttrn in Russia prior to World-War II, I recently visited the Federal court at jfeslay Spuare where twelve Commu*Ut leaders arcbeing tried for conspiracy to overthrow the United States government by force and violence, jgfhree of those on trial—William Z. luster, Gil Green and Jack Stachel— Jpre close assocaitta during the period Ipta 1 unwittingly served the ComJtfinist party...
...But respectable end moneyed conservatives themselves have frowned on this latest effort of Drew's to make political capital, and it seems unlikely that the issue will profit his party...
...The CCF is receiving very active and substantial support from the Canadian Congress of *£ebor, one of the major labor federations...
...H win require a drastic worsening of economic conditions before a major political shakeup takes place in Canada...
...In Ms attempt to become all things to all men, Drew has been trying to mix his diehard conservatism with a bit of muckraking...
...Despite their contempt for privileges they enjoy under democracy, they would be most unhappy behind the iron curtain...
...Unfortunately, the province leeks a welldefined and acceptable pregreasive element to which Ti toUt-Ceaeslians can unhesitatingly tern...
...The syndicate chaplain has given it energetic leadelihip, and the Catholic Bishops have ordered collections for the strikers in every church in Quebec...
...June 27 will thus test the new Tory policy in Quebec, as well as the fate of the-party nettenelly...
...The people seem more or less satisfied with the status quo, and the Liberals are working on that assumption...
...KyflL, good-looking Negro, William jgsanjings from Toledo, Ohio, was Afshing his testimony for the prose¦ph...
...The Russian government hoped to appease the resentment of the masses because of the misery they were enduring 'under the first Five-Year Plan...
...country the Tories continue to pose^as the ultra nationalists and empire loyalists they have always been...
...THE SOCIALIST CCF has good reason to believe that it will increase its representation in the House of Commons (it has 32 out of 245 seats), and may become the Opposition...
...n ¦ Although crucial decisions will be made by the voter* oft MteW,!:*he camoaign has an air of lassitude about it...
...Free enterprise's grub street hacks are enjoying lull employment during this campaign...
...Together with other students, I was forced to join the lynch mob...
...but otherwise, communism's chief contribution to Canada's political education is to advise voters to write on their ballots, "Keep Canada Out of War," wtiich will have the effect of nullifying their votes altogether...
...But whether all this means a definite swing to the left or merely another ultra notionalist diversion, remains to be seen...
...Which is just as well, for Canadians can then weigh each party on its Intrinsic merits rather than on the amount of steam it can blow...
...Communist **Wtslt*)f with communism W* * "WHwsWnHnq stay la Russia...
...His integrity, statesmanship and constructive approach to problems are highly respected by the normally hostile press, and he has bern getting good coverage...
...THE COMMUNISTS, masquerading as the Labor Progressive party, are a negligible factor in this campaign...
...and pose as courageous martyrs at Communist mass-meetings...
...jfcftMsed him to answer one more •fton put by the prosecution...
...WjM'leal lad the famous Oastonia jpjhe o< two decades ago and played ¦PPM...
Vol. 32 • June 1949 • No. 25
