"VIOLENCE HELD ALIEN TO C.C.F. DOCTRINES," Toronto Star. July 11, 1933. Page 3. --- Seek New Social Order by Orderly Evolution, A. H. Williams Says ---- REFORM IS URGED ---- Canadians "Crucified on Cross of Unemployment," Tom McGuigan Declares ---- Violence, revolution and bloodshed form no part of C.C.F. policy. A. H. Williams, president of East York Workers' Association, told an open-air meeting of the Riverdale C.C.F. club in Withrow Park last night. It was the C.C.F.'s intention, he contended, to establish a new social order in Canada by constitutional, evolutionary methods.
"I saw enough of revolution from 1914 to 1918," the speaker declared. "I have seen quite enough spilling of the blood of workers without wanting another upheaval. It would be better that we should all be smothered, than that we should cut at each other's throats."
Mr. Williams traced the history of social changes from ancient times, pointing out that the world had witnessed one system being replaced by the next until to-day when the capitalist order, having outgrown its usefulness, was to be replaced by a more vigorous system, better fitted to present-day needs.
G. Phillip scored the capitalist system for allowing women and children to go hungry while granaries were "bursting with grain" and warehouses were filled with goods. "The children in the schools," he charged. "are deliberately imbued with false ideas for the purpose of maintaining the capitalistic order in power."
Apathy of the great masses of the electorate, he saw as the chief obstacle in the way of establishment of a co-operative Canada. commonwealth in
As the meeting got under way many youths who had been attracted by the large crowd began to leave but they were called back by Chairman W. Green, who warned them that they should learn the injustices of the present system.
"If you don't learn them now," he cautioned, "you'll certainly learn them later on, when looking for a job.
"There are thousands of children coming from your schools," Mr Williams continued, "who can find no foothold in the present economic system. The young people to-day know ten times more than than we did, yet they can find no place." Pitiful as was the plight of the
young boys out of school, who were vainly looking for a job, the lot of thousands of young girls was even more tragic, said Mr. Green. "If we ever want to change these conditions we will have to control the government of the country," he declared.
Tom McGuigan maintained that the people of Canada were being "crucified on a cross of unemployment."
"The C.C.F. is the only party," he declared, "that holds out any hope for the human beings of Canada."
At the opening of the meeting, Chairman Green announced that the Riverdale C.C.F. planned to hold similar open-air meetings each Monday night.