Canada's Tories and Liberals, busy belaboring one another, last week had to make way for a new, third party. It is a far-left political party that promises to give both of them trouble. In Ottawa's steamy Coliseum, the big. 1,150,000-member Canadian Labor Congress and the small, farm-based socialist CCF party joined forces under the banner of the New Democratic Party. For leader the convention chose Saskatchewan's fiery CCF Premier T. C. ("Tommy") Douglas, 56, for 17 years boss of Canada's only socialist provincial government.
Party Leader Douglas lost no time drawing a bead on the free-enterprising government of Tory Prime...
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