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...members of the anti-Communist Bloc Populaire last week asked the Dominion Parliament to outlaw the Labor Progressive Party "because it is in fact a Communist Party under another name." The motion probably will not get far. The Government knew that banning the Labor Progressive Party would not stop the Communists. The Communists are always a name ahead of the Government...
Tourism looked better & better. Into the Dominion last year flocked some 5,250,000 tourists (plus uncounted millions of transients who stayed less than 24 hours). Most traveled by car, but 715,000 came by train, 340,000 by boat, 310,-ooo by bus, 100,000 by plane. Last week, the Dominion Bureau of Statistics totted up the year's take: $212 million (7% over the previous high in 1929), and all but $5 million from the pockets of U.S. tourists...
...Party. The Cooperative Commonwealth Federation is only 14 years old. Besides controlling the government of Saskatchewan, it is the official opposition in three of the Dominion's nine provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba and Nova Scotia). It is Canada's No. 3 party and has 28 seats (out of 245) in the House of Commons at Ottawa. Its national leader, Major James Coldwell, 58, is one of the most admired men in the House; by many politicians of all parties, he is regarded as prime-ministerial timber...
Nevertheless, CCF leaders know that no political party has much chance of winning a Dominion election without substantial support from Quebec. There, the CCF freely admits, its influence is negligible. The party now has about 70,000 dues-paying members ($5 a year on the average). About 70,000 more voters are members by virtue of membership in CCF-affiliated unions. A two-year organization drive, sparked by National Secretary David Lewis, now aims at more than 100,000 paid-up members and two million votes by 1949. The CCF hopes to become Canada's No. 2 party...
Strict immigration curbs keep Australia rather empty, but safe for seven million inhabitants who prefer kangaroos to competition. Even when it came to picking the King's Governor General for the Dominion, the Australian Labor Party wanted no "foreigners" to succeed the Duke of Gloucester (whose chief of staff had been charged with an unfair labor practice after a row with his valet). So Prime Minister Joseph B. Chifley, an ex-locomotive engineer, produced from the Labor Party's own marsupial pouch the new Governor General, William John McKell, Prime Minister of New South Wales...