thumb|right | William Arthur Kardash, Canadian politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party (Manitoba) from 1943 to 1948 and Member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1941 to 1958.
William Arthur Kardash (June 10, 1912 He served as Winnipeg MLA from 1941 to 1958, as Worker's Candidate at first, then as a representative of the Labor-Progressive Party. He was among the handful of Communists elected in Winnipeg between 1927 and 1983.
The youngest child of Ukrainian Canadian parents Danylo Kardash and Ulyta Byck, he was born in Hafford, Saskatchewan, north of Saskatoon, and educated at Hafford High School.
Kardash ran in the new Point Douglas constituency in 1969 for the (renamed) Communist Party of Manitoba,
External links
- Election Handbills of a Spanish Civil War Veteran, by Kaarina Mikalson: Lieutenant William (Bill) Kardash
- Canada and the Spanish Civil War website has reproductions of three pieces of Kardash's 1941 election campaign literature: "Elect a True Champion of People's Democracy... Restore Democratic Rights... Tax profits, not wages... For workers' representation, not sell-out and coalition" (four-page pamphlet), "Who is Kardash?" (four-page pamphlet); "Mothers and Wives of Winnipeg" (3-page pamphlet).