Those who don't believe that the CCF is Communist have only to visit Saskatchewan where the CCF has been in power for 15 years. Measure by measure the government there has taken over all sorts of properties and enterprises.
It has seized all farms whose owners could not show papers of ownership. These farms have become the property of the government which does not sell them but rents them for a period not exceeding 33 years. At the end of 33 years the government can do what it pleases with these farms. Electricity, telephones and the fur business have all been nationalized, that is, made government businesses. The government has likewise gone into the sand and gravel business. The Saskatchewan Timber Board, a government enterprise, con- trols the lumber industry. No permits are issued for the exploitation of forest resources. Government trading stores are simply general stores owned and operated by the government. Autobuses, trucking lines, provincial airlines, all belong to the government. Garage cooperatives and all other forms of co-operatives are owned and exploited by the government. Socialism becomes more solidly established there every day. It has a stranglehold on the people. And, as in Russia, the Saskatchewan Communist government keeps itself in power not because it has the support of the people, for it has not, but because of its powerful electoral machine and the multitude of functionaries and officials of all sorts who support it to their interest.
The people of Saskatchewan are saying quite openly (and they should know for they have to live there); "We're not governed by Socialists; we're being run by Communists, same as in Russia."
The above is taken from the September, 1959, issue of The Union of Electors. It is a report made by our directors after their summer tour of the western provinces.
Last month the powerful electoral machine of Douglas and his Socialists put the party in power for another term. Worse than that, it strengthened the hold of Socialism, on the province of Saskatchewan. For with the re-election of Douglas, compulsory prepaid medical insurance will now become a certainty in that province.
Douglas refused to put the matter of prepaid medical insurance, controlled by the state, to a plebiscite. He knew he would lose. But he did know that his electoral machine involving thousands of government bureaucrats anxious to preserve their jobs, could put him back in power. Hence, he declared that his re-election would be considered as a mandate from the people to set up another state-controlled business which would bring more funds into the government (that is, the Socialist party of Mr. Douglas) and would give the same party even more rigid control over the intimate affairs of families and individuals.
The re-election of Douglas is a serious blow to freedom everywhere in our land. It constitutes a direct encouragement to Socialism elsewhere. The methods adopted by Douglas to insure the continued existence of Socialism as the controlling force over the lives of Saskatchewans individual citizens can just as easily be adopted by other Socialising forces in other parts of Canada. That is, unless the people elsewhere are aroused and put on their guard.
We have stated before and we shall continue to proclaim loudly and frequently that the social organism exists for one reason only to make possible the fullest development of the individual, a development both spiritual and material. Such a development is impossible when the individual is restricted and hampered by the continual interference of governmental force embodied in a group of persons known as government officials, who exercise their power through a multitude of restrictive laws and regulations which deprive the individual of his freedom of choice and thus bit by bit strip him of all human dignity.
In the CBC television program entitled, Viewpoint, on Wednesday, May 25, Premier Douglas of Saskatchewan was reported as having said, regarding such forms of obligatory state insurance as his government forces upon the people: "I have never believed that handing out charity was a way of enchancing human dignity.".
This can easily be classified as the ironic remark of the year. For this same Douglas who prates about "human dignity" think nothing of degrading this dignity by making the people of Saskatchewan the pawns of his gang of Socialists. Step by step Douglas has deprived Saskatchewan citizens of their rights and liberties until they are coming to resemble very closely the unfortunate individuals who dwell in darkness behind the Iron Curtain.
The Douglas, regime is a blot upon the fair face of the Dominion.
The Union of Electors is waging a bitter battle against the forces of Socialism and centralization. Through its publications, Vers Demain and The Union of Electors, it seeks to educate people to politics and the truths of a humane and logical system of finance. It seeks to arouse people to the dangers, political and economic which threaten the Canadian people. It strives to train them in political activity so that the citizen will shoulder his responsibilities and demand and obtain for himself what is his just due - the right to develop as an individual in security and liberty.
This is the work of our movement, and it is a work to which we summon all serious, right-thinking individuals who have a conscience, to participate in, to the end that the menace of Communism, which is not something of H-bombs and guided missiles, but rather one of ideas and principles, may be blotted from the face of society.
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