THE NATION.

a ON. o nor of the Bank of
D INALD GORDON, deputy governor fly in New

Canada, made an important speech recent”
York, His speech was "important pecause, ty Wes nt
effect a pronouncement on behalf of the Nd gutta 73
_ 0f Canada to the national convention of all the Unite ‘

States interests concerned with foreign trade. Tt was

Significant beyond its surface importance meta

€cause it was a carefully prefaced statement upon the
Profound crisis of the capitalist system and @ warning

that the crisis will continue and deepen unless some-
thing drastic happens.

Let me explain that Gordon didn’t make Bi oa
before a meeting of workers, oF university’ stude d
or ex-servicement; he made it to a convention ©
Tepresentatives of big business. ~

: of “the economic

Hi % an explanation :
Ss speech wasn’t @ Pp it was a warning

Ws of motion” of capitalist society; :
 4gainst the danger ie disaster that lies and. a
Wasnt a contribution fo the shaping of policy #2
to make the transition from the profit system to, SOclal
‘ism les inful: it was an argum c :
to ee Sean: to make it as ae a
the working class as it can be made, to stall ‘
Possible.

But, precisely becatise of the purpose of rage et
his acknowledgement of the correctness of Se pate
Which only the Communist movement held to

Fecently is extremely significant.
ff by remindin 1

nike Tee eane@ gone, literally,
He described it as “a series

e field of “international

To the men listening to

apitalist system.
at the U.S. and Can-

- Donald Gordon started g his audience
hat the capitalist system
from one crisis to another.
Of crises.” He emphasized th
trade and foreign exchange.”

him that ‘term embraced the ¢

He reminded his audience th cs
Pai tretn ment had sought to help bolster up es
ism in Europe as part of a general concept ah ; p -
He then reminded them that the method of week
Solve each new crisis by loans oF gifts is not pro ee
lasting beneficial results for the world capitalist ey a

but. that, on the contrary the general crisis ot
Capitalist system spread to Canada. :
 "T%) 1947, Canada for the first time since the war
‘also faced a dollar crisis.” .. -
Seen another crisis, affecting par
Kingdom and sterling area.” —
_ Somewhat lugubriously: Oy

ticularly the United
And, Gordon added

ning to see that such meas-
dollar gap,
f the future.

, “All concerned are begin
“ures, while they temporarily fill the
little cr nothing to reduce the gap 0
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ho is interested that eee
is important and carefully
in effect that the pacific
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The reader must excus
Point to remind everyone W
in that opening part of h
Prepared speech admitted
Tribune was absolutely corre
Abbott Plan in November, 1947.

At that! time, the Pacific ‘Tribune pointed onk oe
inevitable results that would flow out of ae Tee
being- developed—the very results that Gordon

‘ ioned, also,
deplores two years later. It should be ment Sy
eae ‘i Communist Viewpoint deals

hat our book Canada: the Com before Gordon's

With that same question and, a year

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te 2V 's spe hich followed
However, parts of Gordon's speech W follow

his admission that the measures adopted ar? not spb:
the crisis of capitalism, and that they “canno {

_ tinue indefinitely,” are even more significant.

Reminding his audience of the multitude of un-
‘ solved Pane aietions that are accumulating, he Chine
them: “There. have been tremendous changes... n ifn
_ Past 35 years.” He then added the following imp pet
admission that the Communists—and_ the Conny :
alone-have been correct in their analysis of the ms
World War as the beginning of the breakdown ay aah
_ capitalist world system. “The devastation of hy eons
war, in Europe, and the exhaustion of its peop °s, u
“now be recognized as marking the end of an ar
That is exactly what Lenin pointed uae are
ence being that Lenin pointed it out 30 ; ase
ago to help the working class in its struggle ue ee
cratic progress, while Gordon pointed it out a4
end of 1949 to help the capita
Something of the character ©
longer be denied. ©

Having indicated the ge
Capitalist system, Gordon
understanding of his audience conc :
character by explaining to them, exactly

neral, historical crisis of the
then tried to deepen the
erning its chronic
what the

By TIM BUCK

~ Donald Gordon admits what

~ Communists have said all along

“Abolish the thought

iT HERE. ate a large number of amendments
to be considered. Some highlight the dif-
ferences of philosophy and trade union practice
between the big United States unions, with their
faith in free enterprise, and the European
socialist unions, who in some aspects think along
Marxist lines. :

- “One example is a Belgian proposal to include
in the constitutional objective of the new body
‘the establishment of a classless society and the
abolition of the wage system.’ This does not
appeal to the American Federation of Labor, which
believes in making wages higher, not abolishing ~
them.” "

—tLondon dispatch to Vancouver Daily Prov-
ince, November 23, reporting on formation
of an Anglo-American-dominated interna-
tional trade union organization in opposition

to the World Federation of Trade Unions.

,

‘In 1949 we have\ just —

do"

. the First World War.

acknowledgement, describes the problem as Garcon -
now admits it to be.

ably has a solution.

list class to understand’
f the crisis that can no-

Fifth World Congress of the Communist International
explained to the world working class movement in
1924; namely, that all the enormous loans, credits and
other measures adopted through the international con-
ference of bankers -in Brussels, the Dawes plan, the
Young. plan, the Bank of International Settlements

_ and passing several countries through a process akin

to bankruptcy and writing down of debts, failed to
restore health to the capitalist system.

The Fifth World Congress of the Communist Inter-
national, in 1924, described the combined results of
all those extraordinary measures as only “partial and
temporary stabilization of capitalist economy.” At the

time and for years afterwards, the ‘bankers, the capital-

ist press and their political serving men sneered at
that description of the condition of capitalist economy
put now, in his zealous effort to help U.S. capitalists
to recognize the real character of the -erisis which is
besetting their system, Gordon describes it in the
following words:

“Full recovery was-never achieved in Europe after

“4918 even in Great Britain, the most dynamic economy

of all. While some degree of stability was temporarily

: maintained by American loans, the inevitable ending

of such loans left Europe in a desperate situation and
was one of the factors contributing to the great agri-
cultural and industrial depression of the thirties;..%. 47.

There is a full, though not frank, acceptance of

exactly the analysis upon which the world Communist

movement, based its attitude towards capitalism after
In less complete form but no
less direct in its implications, Donald Gordon’s speech
explained or suggested to his capitalist audience the

warning that,-in all essentials, the Marxist analysis

of the general crisis of capitalism is correct and the
capitalists might as well face it.

oe Rae
So, the reader will probably think, Gordon prob-
The answer is, No. The contrast
between the large measure in which Gordon was able
to give a correct description of characteristic features
of the general crisis of capitalism and the utterly
puerile proposals that he asked his audience to adopt
to solve the crisis illustrates, perfectly, that the crisis
in capitalist economy is paralleled by a crisis in capital-
ist politics and in capitalist thought. :

His “solution” is that “North America, and es-
pecially the United States provides a much larger more
accessible and more reliable market for the goods
which other nations have for sale.”

, To explain the pollyanna character of that “solution”
would require another column. It ‘can be understood
by anybody who takes the trouble to read the article
“Canada and the World Economic Crisis’ in National
Affairs Monthly for October.

The difference between the “solution” proposed by

- Gordon and the policies advocated in the Pacific Tribune

consitently for more than two years now is revealing.
The Pacific Tribune points out correctly that we can
meet the problem here effectively only by polici
which keep Canada independent. Gordon merely re-
iterates the “solution” advocated by U.S. and Canadian
politicians and monopolists. who .don’t want to see® the
crisis solved—they only want to utilize it for the further
advantage of the United States. P

\

— Facts refute
Pearson, Martin

N THE House of Commons and at the UN, External

Affairs Minister L. B. Pearson and Health Minister
Paul Martin attempted to carry the ball for Washington-
Ottawa war policies before the Canadian people and
the world. Because their entire speeches were based
on turning the truth inside out, Labor -News Service
here presents a tabulation of the truth behind the
main lies on which the St. Laurent government has
based its suicidal foreign policy:

Who is blocking the ban on the bomb?

External Affairs Minister L. B. Pearson, on atomic
control was reported in Toronto Globe and Mail (Nov
ember 17) as follows: “Until the Russians gave some
indication of readiness to accept ‘genuine, not spurious
international control and inspection,” he told the House
it was difficult to see how any progress could be made.

“The Soviet leaders stubbornly maintained
they could not possibly accept the necessary limitations
to their soveriegnty. Canada maintained that
nations could not cling to any ancient concept of
sovereignty when they were seeking a chance for
survival. .. .

“The Russians . are not willing to entrust
to. an international atomic development authority, which
they claim would be under Anglo-American domination,
adequate functions of control agreed beforehand and
embodied in the treaty. It is a problem of establish-
ing sufficient mutual confidence to tackle not only
disarmament and the’ bomb but the whole range of
major friction points, political, strategic and economic.”

The truth — :

Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky, at the
UN November 10, repeated, “the Soviet Union opens
its doors wide open to inspection” under a genuine
control plan, but not the kind that the American
Beruch Plan envisaged, in which “inspectors would
put their feet on the table’ in the Soviet Union, and
try to dominate its peaceful atomic development in
the interests of a “super-trust” acting ‘for American
monopolists. : :

The Soviet Union favors certain limits on national
sovereignty, Vishinsky stressed, for that is the “ABO
of international cooperation.” But a “super-trust”
which subjugates the sovereign development of peace-
ful uses for atomic power while leaving the U.S. free
to stockpile atomic bombs would never be acceptable
to the Soviet Union. 4

(The Soviet Union has proposed simultaneous ban-
ning of the bomb, destruction of stockpiles, and estab-
lishment of international control without operation of
the veto in the day-to-day operation of control once it
is established—as well as a count of bombs and other
arms as a first step.) :

Who believes war to be inevitable?

Health Minister Paul Martin, at the UN November
15, reiterated the lie that the Soviet Union and Com-
munists generally see war between socialism and capi-
talism as inevitable.

Canadian Press November 15 said: ‘Martin called
on Vishinsky to brand as false the Communist philoso-
phy that war is inevitable between Communists and non-
Communist states. He added: “Those who really pre-
pare for war are those who believe in its. inevitability.
We do not believe war is inevitable.. It is a basic
principle of our political philosophy that there is no
political problem which cannot be solved by discussion’.”

A few days before Defense Minister Claxton told
the House that Canada would spend $594 million for
war purposes this year and arm “the nucleus” of a
Canadian armed force that would operate “as far away
from Canada as possible.” ; ‘

And the Toronto Star November 11 said Canada’s
Chalk River atom plant is working “on radioactive
materials that might be distributed over enemy terri-

tory in the form of death dust.” ace

The truth

Soviet Premier Stalin in 1936 told American corres-
pondent Roy Howard: “American democracy and the
Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and
compete with each other. , =

“The export of revolution is nonsense. Every coun-
try will make its own revolution if it wants to, and if
it does not want to there will be no revolution. Our
country, for example, wanted to make a revolution, _
and did make it, and we are now building a classless
society. But to assert that we want to make a revolu-
tion in other countries, to interfere in their lives, means
saying what is untrue, and what we have never ad-
vecated.” «

In 1947 Soviet Communist spokesman, the late
Andrei Zhdanoy, told the Communist Information Bu-
reaus’ founding conference: “Soviet foreign policy pro-
ceeds from the premise of the co-existence, over a
lengthy period, of two systems—capitalism and social-—
ism.” : , ;

Look who's talking!

AKE. SUCCESS, N.Y. (CP)—Philip C.

Jessup of the United Stated said today there
is evidence of another Russian attempt to dismem-
ber China. He called on the Soviet Union and
all countries to keep hands off China and let the
Chinese settle their own future—Vancouver Daily
Province, November 29, 1949.

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