For 15 years the socialist Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) had been lurking like a poor relation around the Dominion's political house in Ottawa. Old-line Liberals and Conservatives thought that if they paid no attention, the loiterer might go away. But last week he walked up and started banging on the door.
The CCF knocks were loud. After winning the Yale, (B.C.) by-election (TIME, June 14), the party put on a three-ring show.
In Ontario it: 1) gained 14 seats in the provincial legislature, became the official opposition; 2) defeated Premier George Drew in his home riding; 3) routed the Conservative Party...
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