SIMPSON’S TO OS Ie WITH SEARS, ROEBUCK’S GEN ERAL WOOD

America’s No. fascist moving into Canada

DGAR and papa c. L. Burton,
heads of Simpson’s Ltd., own-
ers of one of Canada’s greatest
department Store chains and mail
order houses, are ‘soon to ‘“as-
sociate”’
aman who has direct links with
the most dangerous fascist and
pro-fascist organizations in the
United States—General Robert
E. Wood.

Wood is chairman of the huge
(691 stores) Sears Roebuck mail
order house” headquarters in
Chicago. Once, during the war
years, he defied President Roose-
velt and wartime price ‘control
regulations ‘to the point where
U.S. troops were ordered into
his office to°remove him bodily:

He was one of the chief organ-
izers—along with the Chicago
Tribune's “Bertie” McCormick
(who two weeks ago urled an
insult at ‘Canadians by calling
the people of Newfoundland
“halfwits”)—of the notorious
America First Committee, which
came into being in September.
1940, with the avowed purpose
of stopping U.S. lend-lease aid
to the Allied powers and turning
Nazi Germany towards the So-
viet Union.

In mid-March of this year,
Wood came to Toronto at the
invitation of the Empire Club.
There, he expressed his enthu-
siasm for Canada, as so many
U.S. bankers and financiers do
these days. At the same time
he indicated he hasn’t changed
his opinion about Britain—along
with McCormick, he’s been a
British-hater all his life.

: Changing human nature

ARTHUR STRATTON, Van-
ver, B.C.: I think the science
feature article on changing hu-
man nature in the Pacific Trib-
une of March 7 is erroneous.
“You can’t change human na-
‘ture,” they say, ‘but who wants
to change human nature—what-
ever that may mean. But you
can change human behavior.”
(Sir Norman Angell.)

In my opinion, in every place
where the words “human nat-
ure” appear in the article, it
should read “human behavior.”’
What I understand by human
nature is to eat, to sleep. to
drink and all the biological
urges,

ere, eae . ’
Where's ‘Third Force’?
& H, TUDOR, Morningside,
Alta.: A friend sent me a copy
of the CCF News and an editorial
“Progress at. Lisbon”’ caught
my eye. To quote: “All the
socialist parties of the NATO
countries and of Western Ger-
many are agreed upon the prin-
ciple of common rearmament
and common defense... . And
the socialist parties of the NATO
: countries: must make their peace
either with their capitalist par-
ties, or with the Kremlin, ig

they have elected the former.’

So, the cat is out of the bag,
gone is the “third” force we
have heard so muchof. And like
the Noskes, Scheidemans of the

First World War and the Strach-
eys and Russels of the Second

this organization with

‘Laura Ingalls,

In the America First Commit-
tee, General Wood was associat-
ed with the most violently re-
actionary forces in the United
States — Henry Ford, Senator
Burton K. Wheeler, Hamilton
Fish, Charles Lindbergh (who
told an audience at a public
meeting that Nazi Germany
must. be permitted “to expand
eastward into Russia”), and
who became an
official spokesman for Wood's
committee and who was later
convicted as a paid agent of the
Hitler government,

This committee, when Hitler
invaded the Soviet Union in
1941, called the assault a “‘holy
crusade-° against the USSR.”
Wood himself stated “ publicly
that he was willing to hand over
Burope to” Hitler and, if neces-
sary, all, of South America. “be-
low the bulge.”

When japan attacked the. U.S.
in December 1941, the America
First Committee went under-
ground. In July 1942 a US.

Justice Department indictment’

listed the committee as an agen-
cy which had been a conspiracy
to undermine the morale es the
U.S. armed forces,

- In: 1945
party was formed, under the
public leadership of the avowed
fascist, Gerald L.. K.- Smith,

“whose anti-Semitic filth is still.

being peddled in Quebec.

Today, General Wood is link-
ed ohosoly with one of the most

cialists have returned to their
vomit, :

I would refer you to US.
News and World Report of
March 7 to see Who’s Who and
who controls NATO and the so-
called socialist parties. “The
Grand Plans of NATO” have no-
thing to do with socialism, only
aim to destroy it, and are hatch-
ed in the Pentagon by the men
of Wall Street. Churchill re-
cently spilled the beans on Mor-

-rison and Company; now the

CCF News: admit their coalition
with finance capital. 4

-Elmore Philpott in the March
12 edition of the Vancouver Sun,
has an article, “Pearson and
Coldwell.’”’ To quote: ‘“‘The CCF
had a real responsibility for
getting Canadian forces involved
in Korea, for the CCF was the
first of all Canadian parties to
come out and urge action, as a
necessary national obligation un-
der the UN charter . .,.” and
so on ad nauseum.

I challenge the CCF News or
Elmore Philpott to prove to the
Canadian people how by their
actions they are upholding the
United Nations charter. I would

refer them to Articles 27 and °

33 which are ignored by Phil-
pott and the CCF, as the Chin-
ese People’s government is ig-
>nored by the U.S. and its satel-
lites.

The CCF, if it endorses the
CCF News and Philpott’s state-
ment, has thrown the Regina
Manifesto overboard completely,
and forfeited any right to lead
the socialist movement in Can-

World War, these so-called so- ada.

'

’ described in

i dump
the America First ©

powerful and certainly .one of
the wealthiest men in the U.S.—

James Kemper, muiti-millionaire ;

banker and head of the Lumber-
man’s Mutual (Casualty Company,
former head of the U.S, Cham-
ber of Commerce and leading
Republican. During the pre-war
years he was hooked up with the
Nazi cartels and reports from
Chicago point to him as a sup-
porter of or the power behind
every white-supremacist, anti-
Semitic, pro-fascist organization
in the country. He ‘was once
U.S. Congress as
“the Number One fascist in
America.”

The unholy trinity —- Woods, _

McCormick and Kemper — has
holdings in Canada. McCormick,

‘owner of the Chicago Tribune,

owns seven pulp and paper mills
in Canada. Kemper collects in-
surance premiums and Woods is
now moving in to become “‘asso-
ciated’? with Simpsons, courtesy
of the Burton family.

' The Chicago general already
has an ‘association’? with Gen-

-eral Douglas MacArthur ;— in

buying up Japanese textile in-
dustries, Presumably Wood now
seeks the Canadian market to
cheap Japanese goods
made by sweat-shop exploitation
of Japanese workers,

The thought of Wood as a
pow er in the Canadian economy
‘even causes Bay Street’s Finan-
cial Post a slight shudder. It
editorialized on March 22: “Like

those of Colonel McCormick of

the Chicago ‘Tribune, Wood's

our De antinent

you Pleate.

Things in common

READER, New Westminster,
Bw-: 2 reed your newspaper
regularly and have long admired
your untiring efforts for peace.

I am only 25 years old, but I
am a servant of God, and my
knowledge of the future assures
me that this system under which
we exist will not last much long-
er, to make way for a system
of freedom, justice and equality
for all, a system that is termed
in the bible as ‘a kingdom of
righteousness,’ where all man-
kind will dwell together, and
“having all things in common.”

But even. if I:did not receive.

my light from above, it is only
common sense, that if our newly
acquired knowledge were put to
good use, we could in no time
build a world of peace and
abundant prosperity.

“Our Alfie

‘Please, teacher—why did
Columbus discover America?’

ideas and preachings about world
affairs and about what U.S. poli-
ey should be have had an alien
sound for Canadian ears.”

The Post quotes Wood as de-
claring: ‘Once we went on 4
great crusade to save. demioc-
racy. ~wWé have no regret over
that participation if from it we
have learned the lessons of its
futility.” :

But big business is no respec-
ter of morality and.ethics and
soon the Sears Roebuck cata-

logue, published by “America’s |

No. 1 fascist,” may join the rest

of the Yankee pulp that, floods.

Canada.

WI! LLLAM KASHTAN

08 Aine blast at Presi-
« dent Aaron Mosher of the

' Canadian Brotherhood of Rail-

way Employees and the Can-
adian ‘Congress of Labor shows
how serious is the crisis in the
CCL. Conroy’s resignation last
fall was the first intimation that
all was not well in the top CCL
leadership but the right wing
did a temporary patch-up job
and restored ‘unity’ within its
ranks. It is clear now from Mc-
Guire’s attack on. Mosher that it
was temporary and that far from
there being unity on top, a bit-
ter internecine and unprincipled
struggle for power and leader-
ship is shaping up in the CBRE
and CCL. It will probably be
carried to the convention floors
of both organizations in the fall.

Mosher, is suing McGuire for
unstated damages, claiming Me-
Guire has libelled him. Ontario
Supreme Court judge M«Doug-
all on April 1 granted Mosher
an injunction which restrains
McGuire (from repeating his
charges for eight days. :

According to the press, Mc-
Guire charged that Mosher tried
on several occasions to “sell the
workers short on wages and
working conditions,” that during
the 1950 rail negotiations he

“offered a sellout proposal to a_
high railway official whereby the —

workers would have got a 44-
hour week without: any general
increase in ‘wages’; that Mosher

GENERAL WOOD
First: American Firster

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ported the expulsions and ee
ing of the Mine-Mill, United Elec”
trical Workers, and Fur and
Leather, and consistently backed
right-wing CGF policy all dow?
the line.

The firing of McGuire and
Conroy’s peenetion raise.

The Mosher, Millard,

and Conroy conflict has laid pare
the inner rot and corruption that
has been characteristic of
CCL sineé the top leadership e™
barked on a policy of bipartisé
support for the gov ernment’s
program and as a consequen®
began expelling unions frow
CCL ranks. Now the right wife
themselves are becoming victim®
of that policy. Today it is
Guire. Who will be next?

A reflection of the CCL cris
has to do with the CCL's T
tionship to the CCF. The
pacle suffered by the CC
the Ontario elections has a¢¢
tuated the inner difficulties
the top leadership with some

them looking for a “new”

to hide in before. the ¢

storm. To what extent. the
erals have a finger in the.
has still to be éxamined:

In any case, for the ran

‘file within the CBRE a

unions one thing should!
OA gel uine housecle

tried to “divorce the CBRE from _

the international unions” in cur-
rent negotiations for . ‘wage in-
creases; that Mosher foisted the

CCF as the political arm of labor
on the CBRE even though only,

five percent of the members fave, Te

‘ored it; that Mosher, while fights”

ing the Liberals with words. was play a role within it 0

behind the scenes angling for a’
Senatorship; that Millard was
attempting to- ‘gobble up , the
chartered CCL ‘ocals: and that

_ Mosher, in order to hold his posi-

tion as president of CCL, had
“reached a temporary arrange-
ment” with Millard at the ex-
pense of the autonomy of these
locals.
mt i
. McGuire’s. press statement
gives the impression that he

a fighter for progressive, dene
labor policy. This, of
is far from true. I have attend-
ed several CCL conventions, and
McGuire was always vigorous in
his red-baiting. He fully sup-

course, —

rot’ corruption ‘and betrayal

make it possible for the ©
again play the role for whit
_was established in the first PY

_ All unions that
the CCL should be per

of its original progra

‘McGuire statement also |

the need for something else
united rank-and-file agin i
in the CBRE to ensure joi?
tion of all railway yorker®
current negotiations and
stant pressure to prevent
cheap settlements. In @

it points, up ‘the need
blood within the leade!
CBRE and CCL coming
the ranks of the workers |
will place the interests | Ok
above all else,

Militant leaders are need?
day to give the’type of }
ship the workers expect »

PACIFIC ‘TRIBUNE — APRIL 11, 1952 — PAY