PN A STATE, such as the capital-

ist state, which has its ideo-
logical superstructure firmly based
cen a foundation of hypocrisy, it
follows naturally that there

should be many taboos which are
as hypocritical as the foundations

on which the
system ‘is built.

One of these
taboos is the
little Angtlo-
Saxon word
“liar”. Under
oertain cir-
cumstances
this word) must
never be used,
and is not, by
“the, best people,” no matter how
true it might be. For instance, to
use that word so dear to the
commoner, to describe the head
of a “friendly” state is looked
upon officially as a orime worse
than burglary or mayhem, Even
‘Teddy Roosevelt, who was a near
relative of Aananias and whose
middle name _ was - undoubtedly.
Munchausen, was spared that de-
seription in countries outside of
the U.S. because of the bourgeois
taboo against such a use of the
word.
~ Such are the amenities of polite
bourgeois discussion—while the
simple plug worker who is not a
hypocrite and whose vocabulary
ig sometimes limited to a few
- hundred words, uses the plain un-
varnished truth.
e

A few weeks ago, President

yy the “big phinaat men of
the Canadian Chamber of

Commerce meeting this week in
Vancouver, it is a safe bet that
_ the current spate of anti-com-
- munist hysteria will hit new flood
Jevels in a tub-thumping Niagara

of oratory. Al-
ready these ty-
‘goons of “free
onterprise”, well
wubricated with
co pio u sf
draughts of =
Kennedy’s. best-)
watered) stock,
are sounding off
- about the “men-
ace of commun-

_ ism” and how much progress = :

are having in “combatting” i i
Had Karl Marx only lived to-

day, what a chapter he could

have written on these twentieth
=F century spook hunters, who look
everywhere for the causes of the
collapse of their own rotten sys-
tem except in the profit balance

| sheets of their counting houses!

5 National C-of-C president C.

Bruce Hill reports “great prog-
- ress” in battling the!“reds”, and
' lauds “the efforts of the unions”

in getting rid of them? We can

'C-of-C pretext of

' with the union.
is being proved to the hilt these

VLA A AU

Truman, in dealing with the Ber-
lin situation, screamed that Rus-
sia breaks all her agreements, a
statement not warranted by any
tacts.

In the Potsdam Sgcecond
signed by Truman himself, para-
graph 14 on (b) Economic Prin-
ciples,” reads: “During the pe-
riod of occupation, Germany
shall be freated as a single
economic unit.”

This is stili the stand of the So-
viet Union. They have not bro-
ken the agreement, but the Anglo-
American signatories have. Being
unable to compél the Russians to
accept all their schemes for re-
building a Germany suited to
their imperialist plans, they split
the country in two. They set up a
separate economic unit at Frank-
furt on the Main with its own
currency, called it Bizonia and
placed it politically under the heel
cf the American ~ pully, General
Lucius D. Clay.

When Truman made that utter-

ly false statement he was a little

mixed in his history. He should
have said “the United States
breaks all her treaties.” The first
treaty the U.S. ever made with
a foreign power, was with France
in 1778—the French Alliance
which enabled the American col-
onies to secure their independ-
ence from Britain.

Theat treaty stipulated that
neither party should make peace
without the consent of the other,
but when it came to a showdown,
Benjamin Franklin, John Quincy
Adams and John noe the Ameri-

only assume this meed of praise
is intended for the Conroys, Halls
and Fadlings, who, under the
“battling the
“reds”, are weakening and disrup-
ting the unity of the trade union
sovement -— which is precisely
what the big boys of the C-of-C
are aiming at!

It has been our ‘experience and
others before us, that when one
of these tycoons of finance and
“tree enterprise” begin handing
cut flattering praises to unions,
there is something seriously wrong
That contention

days’ in British Columbia by the
lavish praise of the monopoly
press, the trade union phonies,
and the boss loggers for the de-

crepit IWA-Fadling gang, and the

avalanche of lying abuse, distor-
tion and misrepresentation direct-
ed. against the organized lumber-
workers in the WIU, with top-
level C-of-C Babbits leading the
raucous chorus. As the inimitable
Mr._ Dooley says “whin th’ boss
starts prasen yer union ee time

ak give it th’ wance over.”

There is another flea in this
C-of-C hysteria ointment which is
worthy of passing comment, if
only to prove again what the
Communists always contend, viz.,
that the attacks on the Commun-

lists are merely a _ pretext. for

smashing the unions. While the

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can negotiatoms at the peace con-
ference 1782, secretly concluded
“peace terms’’ with the British

without the knowledge of, the -

French negotiators.

John Fiske, the American his-
torian, wrote of this Yankee

trick, that “The annals of modern.

ciplomacy have afforded few
stranger spectacles. With the in-
‘dispensable aid of France we had
just got. the better of England in

a fight, and now we proceeded ,

amicably to divide territory and
commercial privileges with the
enemy and to make arrange-
ments in which the ally was vir-
tually ignored.” They are doing
the same thing today with the
Russian ally in the last war.

The French Alliance also re-
guired that in event of France be-
ing attacked by another power,
the U.S. should come into the war
on the side of France. But when
Great Britain declared war on
France in 1793, the great George
Washington who never told a lie,
declared the United States neu-
tral,

Every treaty ever made by.
the United States has been dis-
honored, has been just as flag-
rantly violated as the first one;
with the native Indians; with
Mexico (in the grabbing of Cali-
fornia); with Colombia (in the
affair of the Panama Canal);

Cuba; with Korea and with Chi- —

na (before Chiang Kai-Shek).
Not the Soviet Union but the
United States is the treaty-
breaker and Truman _ should

C-ot-C tows are backslanpirie each
other at the “measure of success”
achieved by their
Mosher stooges in the labor move_
ment, they have another worry
which CCF workers in particular
should take note of. ;
.) - é

In the curernt issue of West-
ern Business and Industry, organ
of the C- of-C in this province,
the editor bubbles with delight
at the splitting job being done in
the unions... but, alas, “... the
CCF stands in a fair way to be-
come the automatic recipient of a
great deal of financial and other
support from the labor movement
in Canada now that the LPP is
being shaken loose from union

» controls.”

While unconsciously exploding
the “Moscow gold” myth, this

‘prospect lies heavy on the stom-_

achs of the fat boys. But they
have a solution for this hypo-
thetical case of a Canada ‘suffer-
ing from an overdose of CCF so-
cialism. Sabotage! Withdrawal of
“free enterprise’ into its hard
shell of accumulated profits until
the people come to their senses.
The cold logic of this C-of-C rea-
soning is to stop the wheels of
industry, starve the people into
submigsion, and complete the
wreck of the CCF ... begun by
its own top leaders in their shame-
less acceptance of C-of-C inspired
anti-communist hysteria. Western
Business and Industry echoing
C-of-C aims, wants “first things
very firmly in first position,”
which in more simple language
means first the Communists, then
the labor movement—then fas-
cism. ©

The pattern isn’t new and the

twitter of C-of-C birds differs lit-

tle from the mad screeching of a
Hitler, as they burp their way
from one hysterical red-baiting
oration to another.

-ness behind the smokescreen of anti-communist

Hall-Conroy-

These are the builders

AST weekend's constituent convention of the Wood-

workers’ Industrial Union of Canada was an outstanding
event in the history of British Columbia labor. No one
who participated in «or watched the deliberations of this
gathering will soon forget the stirring enthusiasm and de-
termination to build a union, free from the dead weight and
disruption of boss-inspired phonies.

Two hundred and forty-four delegates came to this con-
vention .“the great majority of the delegates straight
from the job. Veterans who have spent a lifetime building
trade union organization in the woods and mills. of B.C.,
fighting the blacklist and every obstacle the boss loggers
tried against them. “And young’ men (the majority of the
delegate body appeared to be men and women under 35
years), coming to grips with their first major fight in union
building, and demonstrating they could do a good job. Eager
and enthusiastic, the reports of these young loggers, and mill
workers showed how they were cracking through the
shackling policies of the boss loggers and. their Fadling
stooges, * and building the WIU on the firm foundation of
rank and file control.

To listen to the ‘reports of these WIU delegates trom
the camps and mills; to hear their searing condemnations of
the Fadling-boss-bloc splitters; to~feel their determination
to build again on the ruins of the old, was to realize that
here was not simply a case of a new union being born, but
of a basic section of British Columbia labor shaking itself
loose. from the poison ivy of reaction which has been choking
its healthy growth and sapping its fighting potential.

The standing ovation given Harold Pritchett, unani-
mously elected first national president of the WIU was a
fitting reply to the slanders of the Fadling-Conroy faction
who seek to hide their union splitting services to big busi-
invective
and falsehood. Pritchett’s election was a confirmation that
the men who have built all effective organization ,in the
woods of B.C. (including the IWA) will top all previous
achievements in the building of the Woodworkers’ Industrial
Union of Canada.

The Vancouver press eschewed this historic convention.
This great institution of public misinformation probably
assumed that if they didn’t see it... then it didn’t exist.
But it did exist; the biggest in the history of the B.C.
industry representing the cream of the fighting forces
in that industry, and confident that the future belongs. to
them and their Woodworkers’ Industrial Union of Canada.

_ “Gentlemen, if any member of this cans Chainber of Com-
merce were asked the question, which problem affects you most, —
_ freight rates or communism, I would unhesitatingly answer ... —
communism! Freight rates don’t SHORDR ET. your Pee
munism does.”

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clic backivard:

isrchnt the files of The People’s Advocate, October 28, 1938) ;

Britain’s Home Office faces a flood of ‘embarassing questions
when parliament reassembles as a result of investigations now wnder —
way by local branches of the Labor Party. Startling evidence of
profiteering in Air Raid Precautien materials during the peak of the
recent Czechoslovakian crisis has been uncovered.

At the highest point in the crisis essential materials used in
erecting defences against air raids jumped as high or 200 percent

‘in most parts of the country, according’ to reports reaching Trans-_

port House. Prices of blankets, corrugated iron, timber, sand and
sandbags soared skywards, and municipal authorities in various —
parts of the country are now faced with gigantic bills from com-—

_ panies handling these materials. Purchasers claim they were actually

blackmailed into accepting the cones at the high prices, —
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