Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.Canada: MANITOBA: Another Licking
Socialism, riding high in many another nation, was having a rough ride in Canada. As virtually everyone thought it would, the socialist CCF Party took another lick ing at the polls this week—this time in Manitoba. In that province's first election since 1941 (and Canada's first since war's end), the Liberal-Conservative coalition of Premier Stuart Sinclair Garson won easily.
The CCF's greying provincial leader Seymour James Farmer had raised the banner of a "bold and practical people's program," had charged that the Garson coalition was the "tool of big business." What Manitoba needed, he cried, was a socialist regime like Saskatchewan's....
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