Depression threat can be beaten--LPP “If the two million Canadians in trade unions and farm organizations speak out now, before the threat becomes a reality, they can prevent another depression,’ says a statment issued this week by the national executive committee of the Labor-Progressive party. a 10-point Plan to Beat the Threat of Depression. Full text of the statement fol-| lows: Not a single Canadian need lose his job. Not a single Canadian farmer need suffer loss of markets. | Not a single small business need | close down. Yet the policy of the St. Laurent | government is leading to another) depression. Layoffs are spreading to industry after industry. Farmers | see one market after another van-| ish. Signs of economic decline are} multiplying. The government re-| jects great overseas markets to| which Canadian products could be | exported. By refusing to develop | Canadian industry out of our rich} natural resources, it is sacrificing | Canada’s national interests and sell- | ing out our country to the USA. It| spends billions for war. / We can prevent another depres- | sion. The Hungry Thirties do not} have to come back. The fear which | haunts every Canadian family could | be replaced with confidence. We can create a million new jobs|} and new opportunities for’ our young people, and find new mar- kets for our goods. We can have peace, prosperity and more democracy—if, instead of the U.S. interests which are now) running our country, we put Can- ada first. Here is the LPP Plan to Beat the | Threat of Depression: Restore trade with the British | Commonwealth by accepting pounds sterling in payment for our factory and farm pro- ducts. Break U.S. shackles on Can- adian trade. Demand that the government send trade drle- gations to the 12 socialist states to sign trade agree- ments. Build up and expand Cana- dian industries by processing more of our raw materials at home. Stop the dumping of U.S. products which throws Canadians out of work and ruins our industry and farm- ing. Build 756,000 low-rental, low- cost homes, reduce down pay- ments and mortgage interest. Save agriculture by gvuaran- teeing the farmers parity prices, exporting food, not guns. 10 Diabolical power’ of H-bomb reason all must back peace plea The LPP statement, issued under the name of Tim Buck, national leader, outlines 6 Build an all-Canadian St. Law- rence Seaway now, construct a publicly-owned Trans-Can- ada natural gas pipeline, the South Saskatchewan’ River Dam, the Maritimes Chignec- to Canal and other nation- building projects. Raise purchasing power and expand the home market — by higher wages and farm in- come; reduced corporation profits; a 7-hour day, 5-day week; repeal of the sales tax; lower taxation on the people’s homes, food and incomes and higher taxes on corporation profits; a national health plan; payment of unemployment in- : surance benefits at 75 percent of earnings for the full period of unemployment; old age pensions of $75 for men at 65, women at 60. Improve the social and cul- | tural life of Canada by build- ing new schools, day nurser- ies, hospitals, theatres, re- creational centres, sports stadiums, libraries, roads and highways. Enact a Bill of Rights to pro- tect the civil rights of all Can- adians. 9 Cut spending on armaments to the 1947 level, spend the money on people’s needs. Ban the A and H bombs. Call for a conference of| the great powers to preserve world peace and expand world mar- kets. | This is a patriotic and realistic /plan, based on the principle that |every worker has a right to a job, |and every farmer a right to a mar- | ket. ; | It is a new national policy which : | puts Canada first, to build up our |country, and make Canada great |in a world at peace. / What do you think of this plan, fellow-Canadian? If you agree with it, or. even part lof it, organize supporters of these | proposals into deputations to your |MP or MPP, send resolutions to | Prime Minister St. Laurent, the pro- | vincial government and your muni- |cipal council. There are two million Canadians in trade unions and farm organiza- tions. With their families, they are a majority of the population. If these two million speak out now, before the threat becomes a stark reality, they can prevent an- other depression. Friendship and trade with all countries! Stop the sell-out of Canada to the USA! Put Canada first! McCarthy burned in effigy Sunday night. Denouncing the “terror tactics” of unAmerican witch-hunters, University of Toronto students, wearing hooded robes and holding candles, burned Senator McCarthy. in effigy on the campus las eee Thompson victim of vicious attack NEW YORK The U.S. government’s “drive against defenders of democracy and peace” was held responsible for the attempted murder of Rob- ert G. Thompson, New York State Communist party chairman while standing in a dinner line in the “The diabolical power of the hydrogen bombs being manufactured today is probably the final rea- son why all Canadians, including all members of parliament on both sides of the House, should unite in supporting the world campaign for the negotiation of every international dispute,” declares a statement issued here by the Canadian Peace Congress announcing that a national peace delegation will visit parlia- ment on November 16. Jointly signed by Dr. James G. Endicott, chairman, and Miss Mary Jennison, secretary, the statement says that the national council of the Canadian Peace Congress will meet at the Chateau Laurier at Ottawa, November 14-15, and that distinguished guests are being in- vited to join the discussions. The statement continues: HOME OF UMON MADE MEVS WEAR and FRIENDLY SERVICE UG =s init "WHAT — HE TRIED TO SELL VOW A SUIT THAT DIONT FIT? TRY THE. HUB,-/7Y-B0Y, ANO CET} YOURS. WITH EASY CREDIT /” 45 EAST HASTINGS VANCOUVER 4, B.C TORONTO “The Appeal of the World Coun- cil of Peace for the negotiation of all disputes has been implicitly and explicitly endorsed by Cana- dian opinion. “Reports from many Canadian cities and from the countryside show that Canadians are voting 9 to 1 in the National Peace Refer- /endum to back Sir Winston Chur- |chill’s call for direct discussions among the leading powers. - “The gathering trade and mar- kets problems of Canada add urg- ency to the effort to end the cold war. “The worldwide movement to- wards negotiation becomes strong- er every day. Faced with this, that minority which still clings to the policy of force is attempting by sowing confusion and by provoca- tive actions to turn the clock back. “To bring about a_ successful conference on Korea and the Far East, to prevent Germany from be- coming a new Korea, to compel the substitution of negotiation for force in British Guiana, Trieste and the Near East, every peace- minded person must speak up. “The solemn warning by Prof- F. Joliot-Curie of the menace of atomic and hydrogen bombs puts the question of peace in a way that every man and woman has to answer. The simple instinct of self-preservation demands that we overcome all differences of poli- tics, religion, and nationality to impose that lasting peace which is within our reach. “At the heart of the question is the need to restore negotiations among the great powers. “We therefore call on all who wish to act most effectively for peace to circulate the Negotiation Appeal and win YES votes in the National Peace Referendum. “We have before us summaries of hundreds of individual reports on the results of this work as it is being carried on in all parts of Canada. “Out of these, we wish to single out the report of what one worker | did in a Winnipeg shop. This worker distributed 25 copies of the national peace ballot to his work- envelopes. He asked his work- mates to mark the ballot, place it in an envelope, seal it, and return the sealed ballot to him. When the | ballots were counted, 23 recorded YES votes in favor of Churchill’s proposal and two recorded NO votes. “Let this worker be symbolic of all the plain folk and eminent folk in Canada who are doing likewise. His simple action is most impor- tant because it is the way to end is cold war, the way to peace and ife. “We call for stronger effort along these lines to back up the national peace delegation to Otta- wa. It is the expression of public opinion which will mainly deter- mine the effectiveness of the new parliament in tipping the world | balance towards peace.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 6, 1953 — He was operated on for a dept skull fracture in Bellevue Hos Counsel Blake Charney,. congressional probe to “the suspicious circumstance rounding the unprovoked fé assault.” mates in the shop along with 25) New York Federal House of De tention on October 23. This 15 charge made here by the Rights Congress. civil. om De Thompson was slugged fr nde? hind with a lead pipe by Alex@ Pavlovich, about to be deporte Yugoslavia, who has declare carried out missions as an assas il: for the Nazi-collaborationist iba ovitch forces in Yugoslavia. ritical. essed ital. P e Thompson’s condition is ¢ for Thompson, * is demanding, Y determ? es SUT feloniovs jal Thompson was about to face tr for refusing to surrender to 5° a three year jail term for what W* 4 termed “conspiracy to teach i advocate violent overthrow © government.” ; ROBERT THOMPSON Ae pace is)