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Vancouver, B.C., February 21, 1936

B.C.E.R’S ROLLING ICE BOXES

HAT the B.C. Electric Railway has the peo-
ple of British Columbia and especially the

people of Vancouver and outlying points by the

throat is well Inown. This all-powerful corpora-
tion not only makes false and misleading state-
ments as to its earnings to the City Council, but
flaunts all authority and prevents regulation.
Tn fact, it is the only public utility on the North
American continent that is able to get away
without regulation of any kind.

The cold weather of the past few weeks has
stirred the long-suffering Vancouyer public who
are compelled to use the antiquated perambulat-
ing igloos of the B.C.E.R. to vociterous protest.
Cars fit only for a museum, inadequately heated
and without rear doors, in which citizens shiver
with cold are provided to shake the bones of the
people who ride in the rattletraps.

And for this sort of service the people must
pay seven cents, and put up with one-man cars
and lack of adequate bus service, whilst pedes-
trians have to put up with almost having their
ear-drums shattered every time one of the con-
traptions rattles by on its dilapidated roadbed.

Tt is about time the people made an issue out
of this infliction on the public and compelled
the provincial government and the City Council
to make the B.C.E.R. toe the line or have the
junk that they are palming off as a utility
thrown to the serap heap and a municipally-
owned, modern transportation system installed.

THE “RIOT” ENQUIRY

ME one-man Commission, Mr. Judge Doak,

one of the three judges appointed to investi-
gate the Dominion Day attack by the police on
the Slave Camp trekkers and citizens in Re-
gina, is now in Vancouver ‘taking evidence.”
But he is not taking evidence having to do with
the police riot at Reoina.

Accompanied by a lawyer for the Commission
and the police, the “inquiry” imsofar as Van-
couver is concerned goes into occurrances which
took place weeks betore the trek began. Doak
and his lawyer are digging into the affair at the
Hudson’s Bay store during the strike of the
camp boys when they were attacked by police.

The camp strikers have nothing to fear from
an investigation of what took place at the Hud-
s0n’s Bay store, providing they have an oppor-
tunity to present their case. But they know that
such irrelevant stuf has nothing whatever to do
with what happened at Regina, and is intro-
duced only for the purpose of creating a back-
ground which will lend justification to the police
for their murderous attack.

From the day the inquiry started in Regina
it has been notoriously clear that the whole pur-
pose of appointing the Commission was to ab-
selve the police and clear them from the obloquy
under which they rested as a consequence of
their savagery on that day. ;

The Minister of Justice, Mr. Lapointe, let the
eat out of the bag in the House of Commons
when he stated in regard to the doings in Regina
that “I believe the evidence that is being given
will rather be a justification of what the police
did,’ and as providing the people with “wnfor-
mation they should have had’ (Hansard Page
139). And referring to the one man Commis-
sion and his lawyer in Vancouver he said, “Jt
may happen that the evidence given there ( Van-
couver) might be far from injurious to the case
of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police” (Wan-
sard Page 139).

This is the way Prime Minister King’s right
hand man talks, while at the same time proceed-
ines for the trial and conviction and sentencing
to prison of the trek leaders goes on under the
infamous Section 98 which Lapointe along with
Kane denounced and promised to repeal.

The workers of Canada, backed by all who
are in Sympathy with the yictims of the depres-
sion who are interned in forced labor com-

pounds, are disgusted with the Commission that
has been working to blacken the camp boys with
a view to justifying the criminal actions of the
police in Reg ina and to make it easier to raul-
road the trek leaders to prison.

The people of Canada are wise to the charac
ter of the political police known as the R.C.M.P.
and know them for the finks, stoolpigeons and
strike-breakers they are-

of the R.C.M.P.

The common people of Canada demand that
the Commission be disbanded as utterly worth-
that put them
where they are. They demand that the charges
against the strike and trek leaders be withdrawn

less except to the interests

and that Section 98 be repealed, pending which
no prosecutions be carried on under its infamous

provisions.

GERRY SUPPORTS BIG INTERESTS

ERRY McGEER, mayor of Vancouver, fed-

eral member for Vancouyer-Burrard, strike
breaker extraordinary and tool of the shippimg
interests, lived up to his real role in the House
of Commons in his first outburst. The man who
posed as the scourge of the money-changers got
up on his hind legs to howl because the million-
aire shipping bosses were not getting enough m
the shape of hand-outs from the Federal Govern-

ment !

McGeer, it will be remembered, was the man
who refused to provide relief to the blacklisted
eamp boys; but he was right on the job along
with Bennett to ery for more relief for they; ,
wealthy ship-owners who blacklisted ‘Canadian
workers from their ships and employ Chinese
(We are far from deny-
ing the right of Chinese workers or workers of
any other country to secure jobs, but we are
that

erews at coolie wages.

opposed to their employment at a wage
tends to bring down the standard of living.)

Bennett is the man who instituted the slave
compounds for young workers, and McGeer was
the man who in Vancouver did his best to make
them like Bennett’s camps and to drive them
back to them when they came out on strike last
summer. Bennett is also one of the largest share-
holders in the shipping industry, and again Mc-

Geer was his man Friday.

Truly the people ond Waneouver and B.C.
are sick unto nausea with the hypocritical Mc-
Geer. And knowing this, the shipping interests”
are grooming one of their own tribe to step into
Knowing that Gerry couldn’t be
elected as dog-catcher, they are boosting the
stock of Major Harold Brown, of the Shipping
Federation, as their next candidate for the

his shoes.

mayoralty.

The people were hornswoggled into electing

McGeer; they must not again be fooled by the
unctuous Major Brown.

OLD AGE PENSIONS
ee proceedings in the House of Commons,

from the Speech from the Throne to the

most recent speeches of Liberal back-benchers,
shows that the King government has no imten-
tion of implementing its pre-election promises
unless compelled to by the progressive opposi-
tion in the House, backed by a mass united
front of struggle throughout the country.

The right line was taken by those of the

C@.C.F. when they pressed for the institution of

a public works program to relieve unemploy-
ment. The stand of Grant NacNeil (North
Vancouver) for public works projects financed
by further taxing of the rich is a correct one

and should have the support of great masses of

the people.

The proposal put forward by Heaps (Winni-
peg North) for pensions for all people who reach
the age of sixty is also good, but not his sugges-
tion of “controlled” inflation to fnanee it. In-
flation will mean a lowering of the real wages
of the workers because of the increase im the cost
of living which follows it. Inflation to finance
old age insurance would mean that the workers,
small pensioners. and people with small incomes
would be taxed to pay such imsurance.

There is no need for further burdenine the
poor by means of inflation, which is but another
form of making them contribute. There is an
abundance of money in Canada to finance old
age insurance, as there is to finance unemploy-
ment insurance and other social services. It is
in the hands of a few people, among that a
eoterie of multi-millionaires. They ean pay it,
as Grant MacNeil adyoeates, by having further
income taxes and death duties mmposed upon
them.

And no swinging of
the whitewash brush by capitalist agents on
Commissions will ever cover up the rottenness

RELIEF SYSTEM
WRECKS HOMES

“J, Eraser, a small pensioner,
and his two young children, left
Wanecouver Monday night to take
up residence with his brother in
Chicago.’’

That is the news story handed
jn to these columns by the Work-
ers’ Ex-Servicemen’s Association,
and behind that news item lies a
sad story.

Fraser is a veteran of the war.
We was unable ta find work to
maintain his family; he had a wife
and three small children. His small
pension, with a relief allowance,
from a benevolent government, for
whom he fought in France to pro-
tect, was inadequate to keep his
family in health. They suffered in-
cessantly.

Last year the government cut the
relief down, making it equal to the
Municipal relief, regardless of the
fact that the disabled veteran may
need extra diet which is not neces-
sary for a healthy man. At last, his
wife could stand it no longer. She
decided to try another method of
alleviating the constant misery. She
jeft her mate, taking with her the
youngest child, thinking that this
method would ease the burden.

This is only one case out of thou-
sands. Homes are broken up, chil-
dren suffer from want and parental
guidance, lives of men and women
are wrecked,—all because the cap-

italist class will not open up the
factories or pay out decent relief or
unemployment compensation.

This is one phase in connection
with unemployment that is lost
Sight of altogether. The relief au-
thorities can tabulate all the par-
ticulars in connection with a worker
and his family when he asks for
relief; they can tell you to a five-
cent piece how much every relief
recipient earned in the last twelve
months or even in the past five
years; but they won’t tell you how
many workers’ homes have been
broken up and workers’ lives
wrecked through the misery caused
by the damnable system of starva-
tion relief allowances.

Only by united action of all un-
employed workers along with their
more fortunate brothers and sisters
who are in employment will the
governments be compelled to pay
decent relief allowances that will
alter this form of miserable ex-
istence and wrecked homes.

YOUTH IN CHURCH

WINNIPEG, Man. — Something
novel, so far as Winnipeg is con-
cerned, in the way of church ser-
vices was the Grace Church young
people’s service held Sunday, Feb-
ruary 16, at 7 pm .

Five young people, each speak-
ing for five minutes replaced the
usual preacher. The subject of their
talks was “My Ambition in Life.”
The speakers were Fred Westwood,
junior stick, United College; Rober-

The Pipeline

One hundred and fifty men
stand in front

of an office at daybreak
and wait ....

a scanty breakfast and
wornout clothes, we shiver.
Young Proletarians—

how much longer?

One hundred and fifty men—
a rumor comes

to the company shack

on the job

at Capilano.

A motorcar stops—

the boss climbs out

Ignoring us

he hurries to the office.

In tension we tarry

for a share of hard labor—
pipeline construction

Work and Wages

Come on.

The Push comes out
smiling politely—
he hollers loudly
for all to hear
“Sorry Boys . . -
One hundred and fifty men
walk home in silence

a false alarm

God, but I’m hungry.

3

ta Smith, lady stick Science, Uni-
versity of Manitoba; Bill Ross,
Young Communist League; Thelma
Hermanson, Junior Liberals; and
Elliott Bolton, president, Student
Christian Movement, United Col-
lege.

CAMP ENQUIRY
AT MOOSE HALL

(Gontinued from page i)

lieve that if longshoremen had no
trouble of their own they would be
in & position to further assist the
strikers. Salonen swore before the
commission that this was his per-
sonal opinion, haying no authority
to make the statement as a pledze
from his union.
Chief Foster Hides Behind
Stool Pigeons.

Colonel Foster had told that he
had sworn testimony from “one of
his representatives” who was pres-
ent at the Avenue Theatre when he
first took the stand on February {7
and returned to the stand with the
affadavit, but was unable to say
where the individual who swore it
was at present. He believed “he
was back in the camps.”

Making every effort to link up the
Gommunist Party with the camp
workers, Chief Foster stated that he
had knowledge from his “represent-
atives’’ that a general strike was
planned in Vancouver and the bring-
ing in of the camp workers was the
first step. None of these “‘repre-
sentatives” were produced before
the commission. Camp workers, he
explained, thought they had a legiti-
mate grievance and were backed in
this opinion by large numbers of
eitizens of Vancouver, but they were
“fertile field for those who
wished them to remain in town for
picketing; on the waterfront.’’

Police evidence throughout the
enquiry has been conflicting. It was
estimated by Patrol Sergeant Mc-
KGnnon that between 400 and 500
strikers were in the Hudson’s Bay
Store at the time of the riot, about
700 by Deputy Chief Grundy and
1500 by Staff Inspector Tuley. The
assistant superintendent of Hudson’s
Bay Store placed the number at be-
tween 200 and 300. Similar was the
evidence of Chief Foster that 300
strikers occupied the city museum,
Librarian Robinson swore that he
counted the strikers as they left,
their number being 176. Deputy
Chief Grundy swore that the girls
in the part of the store where. the
fracas occurred became hysterical
and were removed to another part of
the store, where he atempted to
soothe them, four employees of the
store, two of them girls, swore that
they stayed right at their counters,
Miss Allwood testifying that “it was
all over before we knew what was
happening.”

Floor Manager of the Hudson's
Bay Co., B. M. Timmins, who was
at the spot where the trouble oc-
curred, stated there was perfect or-
Ger until the police commenced to
“throw” the strikers out of the
store. The only weapons he saw
being used were the police using
their batons, although three railroad
shoe pins were found in the store
afterwards. Miss Allwood and Miss
Bourque, store employees, both
stated that the damake to Show
cases, etc., appeared to be done by
the strikers as they were running
around to get out of the store and
away from the disturbance and
neither one saw anything Gdeliber-
ately damaged. Miss Bourque stated
that the strikers seemed to “‘stam-
pede to get away rather than stay
and fight’? and was sure that far
more damage could have been done
if the boys were out to destroy
property.

Referring to the trouble on Has-
tings Street the evening of the day
the Riot Act was read by Mayor
McGeer, Harold Winch, M.1L..A., tes-
tified that the “majority of the
trouble was not being caused by the
camp boys, but by men in civyvies
earying black jacks who acted like
‘mad men... had the police shown
the same discipline as the boys
there would have been no trouble.”

Clubs Made After Riots July ist.

After T. Burns, striker, had given

evidence in the morning session,
February 20, to making clubs in
Regina for the purpose of self-de-

fence on the night of July 1, after
the riot on Market Square, Garfield
A. King, appearing for the Vancou-
ver Citizens’ Defence Committee,
asked permission to question wil-
ness. Commissioner Doak stated
that this could not be allowed un-
der the arrangements made before
he left Regina. “This is not the
commission which is sitting in Van-
ecouver, we could have taken affi-
davits of the evidence’’ and further
went on to state that he, together
with Commission Counsel Tourigny

would decide on what witnesses
would be called. Permission was
finally granted Mr. King to ask

questions of the commission coun-
sel, who in turn would ask them of
the witness.

Four trekkers have been called to
testify as to the making of clubs.
Each gave evidence that they saw
no clubs until a large number were
made after the riot on Market
Square. Large numbers were then
made for self protection in case a
police raid was staged on the stad-
jum and the grain-show building,
where they were housed.

No Tumultous Assembly at
Victory Square.
Colonel H. E. Lyon gave evidence

of following the strikers’ parade
from the Wudson’s Bay Store to
Victory Square on April 18. Stating

that there was no disorder by the
men on Victory Square, the men at
one time all sitting on the ground,
Col. Lyon said there was probably
not ‘fas much disorder as you would
find at a Sunday Schoo] meeting.”
In answer to questions from Mr.
King he said he did not see any-
thing in the nature of a “tumul-
tous assembly,’ there being prob-
ably ‘not as much noise as there
was on the Central School grounds”
where the children were playing.
He say a mounted city police ser-
geant with a look on his face like
that of a maniac rush up to the
Strikers with club drawn as they
were preparing to leave the square.

Wancouver Citizens’ Defence Com-
mittee haye protested to Chief Jus-
tice Brown, chairman of the com-

PLENTY TO EAT WHERE WORKERS RULE

This is no banquet of the Shipping Federation—it’s just the grub
for some workers at a Moscow factory when they banqueted
the plant’s shock brigaders. Fruit, caviar, dainties and liquid
refreshments fill the table—and the factory pays the bills!

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mission, that Commissioner Doak
refuses to take the evidence that
camp strikers and citizens of Van-
eouver wish to submit and is him-
self selecting witnesses he will hear
and discarding others. They also
protest denial of the right to have
counsel present to cross-examine
witnesses and request that Com-
missioner Doak hear all available
evidence. A wire from Chief Jus-
tice Brown is as follows:

“Judge Doak is at Vancouver to
clear up loose ends in some mat-
ters on Which strikers and police —
have already given evidence. He
received his instructions in that
respect from us before leaving.
We have no intention of opening
up a wide inquiry at Vancouver as
it is not necessary to the perform-
ance of the task assigned us. In-
quiry has already been too pro-
tracted. I am sure Judge Doals
and commission counsel will be
glad to have your help in the
matter which they have in hand.”

Speaking in the House at Ottawa
on February 13, Minister of Justice
Lapointe believed “the evidence that
is being given before the commis-
sion will rather be a justification
of what the police did, and will
rather clarify certain issues which
were perhaps dangerous, as to which
the people did not have the best
information, the information they
should have had,” further stating,
“The evidence to be given in Van-
couver might be far from injurious
to the case of the RCMP’ Citizens’
Defence Committee, Regina, protest
the anticipating of the findings of
the commission and comment on the
nature of the evidence to be given
in Vancouver. M. J. Coldwell, M-P.,
C.G.F., has been informed by Min-
ister of Justice Lapointe that he
had given a statement to the press
on his remarks. If the statement
given is not satisfactory the €.C_F-
group will attempt to eget clari-
fication by raising the matter in
the House as a point of privilege
February 24.

R.R. TRANSPORT
IN SOVIETS UP

Increase in 1935 Double
That of 1929

NEW YORE, Feb. 6-—(ALP)—
The Paris correspondent of the
“Wall Street Journal,” organ of the
business circles, lays emphasis on
the successes of railroad transport
in the U.S.S.R.

“Utilizing the- rapid develop-
ment of industry and the admimi-
strative abilities of Kaganovich,
the best organizer of the Bolshe-
vik Party, and Soyiet railroads
display activity and competence
which not only attract attention
inside but also outside the Soviet
Union,” writes the correspondent-

Kaganovich was appointed head
of transport less than a year ago,
but already in December he was
able to declare that the railroads
fulfilled the 1935 plan.

Analysing the figures illustrating
the achievements of the Soviet rail-
roads, the correspondent states:
“The data on the tonnage-kilo-
metres shows the continuous Suc-
cess of the Soviet Union.”

The correspondent uotes that

while in the U.S.A., England,
France and Germany freight
transport has greatly decreased

during the last-few years, in the
U.S-:S.R. freight transport has
considerably imereased. “If we
take transport in 1929 at 100,” he
writes, “then freight transport in
England in 1935 totalled 78, in
France 61, in Germany 79, in the
U.S.A. 57, and in the Soviet Union
miore than 200.

Further emphasizing the tremen-
dous increase of industrial output in
the USSR. the correspondent
points out that the problem of the
Soviet railroads is how to cope with
increased transport, while in other
countries the problem is decreasing:

freight transport.

CORONERS COUR
CHANGE VERDICT

(Continued from page 1)

ing and to lack of supervision on
the part of the foreman,” with a
recommendation that “in future the
company employ a ypermanent
safety first inspector to adequately
supervise all scaffolding prior to
men commencing to work.”

Having reached a verdict the
(presumably) clerk of the court
came into the jury room and statea
he would assist the jury to frame
its verdict in such a2 manner as to
give it a legal character and in
order to assist the coroner. He de-
clared that the verdict as reached
Was not correctly worded, that in
actuality death was accidental and
a verdict could not be brought
Which seemed to imply that the
company had deliberately caused
the death of this man. The jury,
however, refused to include the
words “accidental death’? and after
being warned that only the fore-
man of the jury was allowed to
speak in court entered to render
their verdict.

Verdict Changed in Gourt

After the foreman had read the
verdict the coroner asked permis-
Sion to change one word, a gram-
matical error, which did not change
the meaning at all. This was
granted. The coroner then asked
the foreman if it would not be bet=
ter to include in the verdict that
death was “accidental.” The other
members of the jury who had
fought this out for some consider-
able time in the jury room were
surprised to hear the foreman
acquiesce in this, They further ex-
pected to hear the counsel for the
relatives raise an objection to this
changing of the verdict by the cor-
oner and the foreman of the jury,
but no objection was raised and the
ease now goes on record as one of
“accidental death.”

This will undoubtedly open the
eves of many workers as to how it
is possible for a coroner and a
foreman of the jury to bring in a
verdict which is the absolute op-
posite to that intended by the other
five members of the jury. Not only
in times of labor disputes is every
effort made to shield and protect
the large corporations but also when
the policy of endangering workers’
lives in order to cut down expenses
results in death.

LOUISE STRONG
TO LECTURE HERE

Anna Louise Strong, well known
writer now on a lecture tour of the
U.S. will appear in Vancouver for
a lecture under the auspices of the
Progressive Arts Club and other
cultural groups towards the end of
March.

Dr. Strong is the author of one of
the most outstanding autobiograph-
ies of recent years, “I Change
Worlds.” She was the first editor
ef the Moscow Daily News and is
now an associate editor of that pa-
per. Because of her personal ex-
perience which includes 16 years
close observation of life in the Sov-
iet Union, she is well able to in-
terpret life under Socialism as well
as under capitalism. Dr. Strong
was formerly a school trustee in
Seattle.

Watch our paper for announce-
ment of dates when she will lecture
in Vancouver.

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The refusal of the Faculty Com—

mittee at the UB.C. to allow
“Waiting for Lefty’ to be produced
on the University campus reminds
me of a story of one of the great
New England knowledge mills—
Cornell. An alumnus, one of the
greatest, of that cloistered stamp—
ing ground of Puritan Kill-joys-
died, and in his will he asked his
widow to do something for Cornell,
“to make the place more human”
It appears to be time for some
flourishing son of the U.B.C. Gf
there are any) to do something for
his Alma Mater with the same end
in view.

The glistening mediocrities, well
described by Engels as “empty—
headed, eclectic, flea-crackers,” who
secure the dominating positions in
our educational factories, partic—
ularly the lean-to establishments in
the sticks, seldom make a move
without betraying the fact that
they represent business interests,
Masquerading as cultural bodies,
so it is beyond reason to expect
them to extend the glad hand te
“Lefty,’ unless they are compelied
to.

Living themselves in a state of
academic peonage to the finance
barons, their job is to turn out 2
stream of graduates with heads as
empty as an alderman’s hat. As
far as brain work is concerned it
must be confined to metaphysi-
eal subtleties and forensic
trickery. Learning must be di-
vorced from the facts of life which
might set the students to thinking.
In the interest of big business the

college pundits must turn out
stuffed shirts, swallow-tailed ac—
cents, high-brows and costive

brains, so— the youngsters must
not be allowed to see “Waiting for
Lefty.” ;

* * * =

Gardinal O’Connell, chief agent
for the Pope in America and!
undercover man for J. P. Morgan
still continues to pour forth his
splenetic diatribes in his at—
tacks on the working class in the:
interests of American capitalism:
and particularly of the mill owners:
of New England, who for his good
work, built a statue to him in Irish:
town, Lowell, Massachusets. This
is the same holy misleader who, im
attacking what he described as
fakes and trash, namely, the fossij
remains of apetike men in the
New York Natural History Mu-
séum, also branded the director of
the museum, Dr. Henry Fairfield
Osborne, one of the best informed
paleontologists in America, as 2
faker,

This ignorant priest referred in
his fulminations to the “grotesque
gullibility of the so-called scien—
tists.’ His Eminence the Cardinal
should be an authority on “gulli-
bility,’ being chief hocus-pocus
man for a church that has peddled
“saintly relics’’ for generations.

In one of the museums in Mos—
cow is a box full of bones that
once drew the veneration and awe
of the faithful. They were sup-
posed to be the remains of some
miracle working saint. The calipers
of the anatomists and the micro-
scopes of the histologists, however,
prove that they were the bones of
a dog, of canis vulgaris. Saintly
relics are the same in all churches
—fakes—and the sooner workers
quit taking advice from the O’Con—
nells and the Coughlins the sooner
the business of dealing with the
priests’ boss will be settled.

* * * *

The Red Army is admitted to be
the most highly machanized in the
world. Its technical equipment,
man for man, far surpasses that of
any other armed force. This, of
course, is as it should be, since it
has the task of protecting the gains
of the revolution from the imperial—
ist wolves, from the fascist vandals
Wot only is the Red Army armed in
the most modern style but its ideo-
logicai equipment is superior to
that of any forces that may oppose
it. This is in line with the perfec-
tion of an army whose business is
peace, not war.

Eyery officer in the Red Army is
now learning to speak English
under the guidance of Madame
Litvinoff. This has been made
easily possible by the development
of a new form of English which is
simple to learn by non-English
speaking peoples. This is known as
Basic English. It is not a literary
language, not a language of the
columnists; nor is it a ‘primer
language. Although it is not the
language of Shakespeare it is cap
able of expressing every idea of
Shakespeare's.

This language is not a “‘chinoek’”
or “pidgin’’ jargon, but fully cap-
able of being used as an official
language in diplomatic correspon-
dence. There are only about 350
words in it and only sixteen yerbs.
The English teachers who have de-
veloped it believe it has a greater
chance of becoming a universal
language than HMsperanto. This be-
lief is justified because the Eng-
lish speaking people understand it
as their native tongue, while they
seem to be congenitally unable te
learn any other.

The teaching of this new form of
English to the Red Army officers
will undoubtedly be followed by
teaching it to all the soldiers in the
Red Army just as they are taught
political economy, history and sci-
ence. This equipment is as much
a force as the material factors, the

guns, tanks and airplanes.

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