HE Wall Street money changers, assisted by the St, Laurent government, have lopped 30'% percent off the exchange value of the pound sterling. This drastic move by top level Mar- shall planners is hailed as a ‘‘cure’” for Britain’s economic ills, For millions of Biitish workers and_ their families it means wage cuts, lowered living stand- ards, less social security and mass unemployment. No additional markets for British-made commodi- ties are promised by the Marshall planners un- less Britain reverts to the status of a sweat-shop nation able to “compete” for world markets with chéap goods. Even then the outlook is nothing if not uncertain. ay Canada has joppea- ten cents off the Cana- Soe dollar—not in “sympathy” with Britain’s economic dilemma; but in order to continue a traditional middle-of-the-road exploitation of dol- lar and sterling areas, at the same time acting as a willing lackey for Yankee imperialism. Sixteen other Marshall-planned countries have devaluated their currency to conform with Wall Street’ s dollar demands. The surgical eects on the British pound “will not enable Britain to buy more goods from Canada. On the ‘contrary, all signs at the mo- ment indicate that Britain’s declining market for -Canadian produce (resultant upon an arbitrary ‘Yankee dollar log jam); will decline still further. ~ Meanwhile, the real wages of Canadians are de- | Wall $treet i$ $0 Sympathetic pressed still further with rising living costs and a 10-percent devaluated dollar. Gold producers will reap new profits out of Wall Street’s Marshall plan currency shake- up. Exchange speculators will garner new for- tunes, but the great mass of the wage earners and low salaried categories will be faced with sub- standard conditions of life. This is the only point that is clear in Cripp’s “report’’ to the British people. Strange, is it not? When nations outside of Washington’s dollar orbit re-valuate. their cur- rency, the event is hailed with diabolical glee as a sure sign of impending economic collapse. When the Marshall planners do, the job it is hailed by John Snyder, U.S. _ treasury secretary, APRN constructive economic step” or, in the more flowery language of Britain’s “‘socialist’’ peers of the exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, “the challenge of the times for fresh and de- cisive action.” : Thus was Britain’s political and economic bankruptcy assured, anid the domination of Wall Street in Britain’s affairs doubly strengthened. The Yanks drove a hard bargain to make sure that Britain was irrevocably included in_ their cold war against Socialism. In the months ahead the Bnitish housewife, who must now pay sixpence for a four-and-a-half penny loaf, and the British workers who has his pay enyelope devaluated by 30 Vp percent, will move for ‘“‘fresh and decisive action’”—not, listed in the Washington dollar rule books. Remove N granting “interim” fare-hoists to the BCElectric and sundry other transit enterprises, the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has adopted a new standard of weights and measures. First comes the “‘interim’’ grant, upon request, and then later—very much later—the PUC may make a “study” of the matter to see how this *“interim’’ price boost has- affected thee ea octo- pus’ “financial structure.” thu: between the point pts penne what they want when they want it . . . and later insisting ‘that they cannot get along. without it, “‘interim”’ becomes “‘permanent” to the monopolist beneficiaries. As for public qlamor to camudy. the question now, or before the ‘ “interim” the Public Futilities Commission says in effect, the ‘public be damned, me are the public. : What a splendid arrangement this at PUC ‘standard would be, applied to the field of badly -the unstated future the LRB will increase is granted, the PUC ~ needed wage increases to meet rising living costs. Just imagine the LRB instructing the boss loggers (it takes a vivid imagination) to grant the lumber- workers an “interim” wage hoist of say 30 percent to meet rismmg operating costs—food, clothing, shelter, social security and so on—and casually advising the said boss loggers (and the public) that sometime in “study” this “interim”? wage hoist to ascertain how it fits into the ‘‘financial structure” of the lumberworker’s wage budget! go up from the bosses if anything A id such a procedure were 2 apply. In face of the Conastent refusal of the PUC to allow or conduct public hearings on the profit- gouging of thé monopoly interests it serves, it would appear timely to call for the removal of this mis- named PUC, and replace it with a body of men and women prepared to carry out what its name implies: protection of the public from shameless and _ barefaced exploitation by monopolistic utilities. ° _ The public wants the figures — AST week Health Wonister George S. Pearson “j “explained” that the recent boost in “hospital -insurance”’ premiums was due to wage increases of ‘hospital staffs in B.C. That is a good. stock “argument but it “‘explains’” nothing, and least of sall why the taxpayer should be further mulcted to ‘maintain an insurance scheme, which, its Ppabicy: é “insist, cannot be made public. ‘enterpriser” ‘months—that high prices and costs are the result -of high wages. A passing glancé at their profit-. balance sheets promptly explodes this phoney argu- -ment, but its votaries keep on repeating it. And that’s the other point that Health: Minister ‘Pearson underlined. The public will not be given * the facts on the financial operations of B.C. hospital _administration—aunless the hospital boards themselves “so decided to publish a breakdown of their financial balance ‘sheets, ‘which, since: ‘the’ advent of “hospital: ; All we are told is what every - chiselling “free has learned to repeat parrot-like in past» instance,” isn’t likely. The public may be told of hospital “‘needs,’’ but hospital administration and cost accounting is to remain a state secret. All the public ‘will know of will be told by the government is how much it» will have to cough up to “‘insure’ the hospitals. public treasury as “grants” “hospital i insurance’ scheme, the public is entitled to know just why so ‘much ofits money (in hospital in- _surance premiums) is being gee" with sO little benefit to the people. “ The “‘official secrecy” ministration, which apparently ‘has the full approval It isn’t hard to imagine what a howl would Aside from the huge sums token Sut of the 2 to make up hospital deficits, . prior .to the inauguration of the, Coalition’s — bai eaanelane Hospital ad- _ to those interests whose subsidies to higher education enable them . bians to the new standardized type of “educator” in the person “Russia may be overflowing with vodka, but children in the workers’ “his facttial reliability .. . of Health Minister Pearson, demands that the — Hamilton reports on hospital administration be re-a leased to the public, and the taxpaying “‘beneficiary’”” ‘Jet in’ on a deal, | where at ‘the moment: (if we read ~the Minister’s “‘explanation’” right) it would appear- he or she has only one right—to pay up and shut up. fod TOM McEWEN As We See let A WHOLE series of recent events, seemingly quite remote from — each other, yet merging into a single pattern, must serve to drive home the disturbing realizations that the poisonous psychosis ‘of “cold war? is being added to the curricula of our universities. : Universities in Canada and the 'USA are being “purged” of professors and other faculty members, who, despite long years of brilliant service in their special field, are now presumed to De tainted with “communism.” The recent dismissal of Dr, Geors® — Hunter, MA, BSc, FRCS, one of Canada’s leading piochemists and : head of that department in the University © Alberta for nearly 20 years, is a case in point ' During the past two years numerous educators have been quietly relieved of their posts, with only the vaguest reasons given as to when, how — or where they have erred. In American uniyersi- ties “purging” of faculty members for allege! “radical thoughts” has reached epidemic. stages: — - The expulsion of students from - universities for so-called “communist activities,” plus . the systematic blocking of their chosen careers, 23 in the case of Gordon Martin, is but anothet. facet in this “cold war” blitz for thought-con on the campus. e ° The use of trained spies, common stool pigeons and provocateurs | in the labor movement is.well known. What is not so well known i8_ the use of this “intelligence service” (the polite way of designating petty stooling) to keep tabs on the thoughts and activities of our lead- ing éducators. The aim is to eliminate those whose thoughts and i”- terpretation of the arts and sciences is considered “dangerous” .- * to dictate how it shall be taught. Sychophants instead of scientists. The Vancouver Sun of September 14 introduces British Colum : Dr. Hans Roinmois, alleged to be a “Russian-born” authority on Soviet economy, Dr. Roinmois comes to the UBC under the benevo- lent aegis of the Rockefeller Foundation of New York. This “noted economist,’ we are told, “will give two courses at UBC; structure - and organization of the Soviet economy and the national income ° the Soviet Union.” Dr. Roinmois makes an auspicious start in his Sun introduction? ; paradise have never seen an ice cream cone’—all to the end that Russia “can concentrate on stockpiling armaments.” To peddle this low-grade anti-Soviet slanders behind a label of “economics” is +? outrage the intelligence of young Canadian men and women WhO may feel obligated, in the course of their studies, to listen to such — “courses,” but it does prove the worth of the Rockefeller Foundatio? investment to advance the “cold war” at ‘UBC, fei e@ ae . The countless thousands of boone workers, professionals, sclen- ay tists, etc., who fell into Hitler’s hands during the war, were continu ally indoctrinated by the Nazis (if they survived) to believe that they could never return to their native country, whether Russia, or the countries we know today ag the People’s Democracies 9% — Europe. The Hitlerites indoctrinated them with fear ;-.. fear % anything and everything, should they attempt to return, x ‘Under Anglo-American military government of Hastern Burop? these “displaced persons (DP’s) represented an asset for “cold wal). a difficult asset, it is true,-since there were so many of them, but an asset *nevertheless. Like the Hitlerites, the Anglo-America? imperialists also used the fear psychosis to restrain DP’s from returning to Russia, Poland, or other country of origin. Better , to emigrate to the countries of dollar aK (eos OG: begin Pet working for a new “Der Tag,” le In our “screening’? of DP’s for emigration to Britain, the US: or countries of the Commonwealth we were primarily concerned that the DP had a good healthy hatred (or thought he had) of socialism and the Soviet Union. How deep the poison of fascism may have bitten was not important. Selection of DP’s for,emigration — was a class issu®. In their preparation for a third world war the gil aaa eed imperialists were already looking well ahead. ey \ " Canadian labor has already had some experiencés with DP’s in the role of cheap labor and “storm-trooper” disrupters of workers’ meetings. Not less important to the long-range plans of the wae mongering imperialists are the “intellectual” DP’s and “refugees many of them “re-educated” in English and American universities: and now blossoming forth as professors of the arts and sciences— ey trained to give their respective subjects a Helercedaboste “cold war touch. vy ~ “Raucation,” yelped the late Doktor Joseph Paul Goebbels, “i — what you make it. The receptivity of the great masses is very limited, their intelligence small, but their power of forgetting — enormous,” The Sun’s introduction of Dr. Hans Roinmois, gel a ezonoimst,” follows a similar note. ; oe ; ‘Only on one very smal] point is our Mpiiasia-bort noted aacdaontee right.. Russian children, up to 1940 at least, had never really seen an ice cream cone. Their “cone” comes in sandwich style, ‘som: ; like our Eskimo pie, and their consumption of ice cream proportion ately surpasses: Val of Canada, af St ie oclear that Dr. Roinrhois’ “gold war” training has frozen i and endowed him with a false pone of the credulity of Spoettaite Sea j : uy : ; ‘ Published “Weekly at 650 Howe Street es ‘By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LID. : Telephone MA. 5288 1. Year, $2. 50; An * si ‘ ‘i 7 . si ii ms if ; nA