TANSKY wanted to know, “could he have created the whole lousy world in seven lousy days when even in this modern scientific age it takes longer than that to build one lousy house? Answer me that, big-mouth.” Tansky, a dedicated communist, worked assiduously during elections for the Labour-Progressive candidates, canvasing for Fred Rose, and after his conviction in the Gouzenko case, nailing up posters for Mike Buhay. Buhay who, in his London days, had mixed with Clem Attlee and Morrison. “You heard what Maurice Hartt has to say about Buhay and your party. The Labour-Progressives, he says, are as much a party as Ex Lax is a chocolate.…” Hartt had also tripped up Buhay in the provincial legislature, asking him why he didn’t work for a living. “Because,” Buhay had replied, “I don’t want to do anything that would contribute to the capitalist system.” Then why, Hartt retorted, does your wife work? “Well,” Buhay said, “somebody in the family has to earn a living.”
