Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-08-15

against the Capitalization of
power in the Ottawa federal
government and mentioned no
other issue. Roughly, he played
Dewey against Liberal Premier
Mackenzie Kings Roosevelt, al
though he is probably more con-
sentative than Dewey.
MO ONE expected DuplessiS TO
~ win. The advance canvass
erS concluded that the election
would enable the Socialists
tCCF party TO eat into the lib
eral control of the province,
causing three-way split with
no one in an absolute majority.
But when the votes were
counted, there were practically
none for the Socialists.
In an incomplete count, they
polled about 1-34th of the vote
cast. Indeed, they had only half
as many as all the scattered
minor parties at the bottom of
the list, and got one Parliament
seat from a remote new mining
district. Almost as badly de-
feated were the Nationalist
bloc Populaire), VIII ic h won
only four seats.
The Liberal party. represented
by Premier Godbout. swept
through the cities of Montreal
and Quebec, as they say Roose-
welt will. but the farmers and
small villagers surprisingly gave
the majority of Parliament to
Duplessis plurality over Liberal
4,737, absolute majority two or
three votes), ousting the God
bout government from majority
control.
OBVIOUSLY, they were
" alarmed at the centraliza-
ton of war powers in the ma
tional government. Dissatisfac-
ton with rationing, regulations.
red tape. is apparent here as in
the states. although less is said
about it publicly.
The Quebec taxi drivers, for
instance. called strike the
week fore election. ct is
popular to call strikes near
election time as the union lead
ers believe they can get more
out of the politicians at that
time, a factor which also eX-
plains the Montreal tramway
strike. where the union tried to
amaSs more power for postwar
by getting easclOsed shop
The Ottawa pric e commits
sioner d elm d the taxi de-
mands, but on the eve of cleo
ton the provincial Cstate) labor
minister d efi lie d the national
price commissioner and told the
taximen TO charge VIII a t they
asked, saying he would take
care of Ottawa.
It is true this states rights
sentiment is solidified here by
French Canadian fear that they
will lose the preponderant use
of the French language in this
province, their schools, etc, if
Ottawa takes too much power,
but no one in Ottawa has pro-
posed that yet, or probably ever
will.
EMIER MACKENZIE
Il KING. as all predecessors,
plays up to Quebec. which is
one of the three Canadian lib
eral strongholdS that has kept
him in power nationally, and
indeed might yet vote for him
in fall elections. depending on
who is running against him ma
tionally.
The western province of AL
berta is politically wild, woody,
and full of antics. There, the
social credit government swept
the CCF Socialists nearly off
the slate, giving them but two
seats. The farmers would not
90 to political meetings, did not
listen TO either side, but con-
tinued to get in their crops. 1t
was an unusual campaign.
In the cities also, there were
few meetings, but hot argu-
mentS on the street corners. AS
politics goes in Alberta. the So
cial credits are the Conserva-
tives. They are extremist social
security advocates, but they
feared the Socialists. and, be-
fore their windfall. all Alberta
experts claimed the election in
doubt.
| think the people just found
the Socialists out. This CCF
has a definite, complete So
cialization program. 1t pro-
poses federally TO take over
banks, railroads. businesses now
in private hands, and to issue 10
the stockholders a non-interest
bearing bond.
Now who is going to keep a
non-interest bearing bon d?
These naturally would be
cashed with the government.
the peoples treasury. So the
people, now burdened with ex-
cessive taxation, would have TO
bear the additional postwar
burden of purchasing every
business in the country. 1t does
not make sense.
CCF tried 10 get the farm
vote by leaving the farmer out
of their program, allowing him
10 continue to own his small
farms. But the farmers had
more sense. They also pay