BE ASD VO GAA ae adi anuary 12, 1940 epitaph for political development in the United in 1939 were needed, it would read: ical fact of 1939. Nor is TE aS wide a sap between the senesis and nemesis of what has come to be known as the New Deal, as might seem at first. When Franklin D. Roosevelt entered the White House in 1933, @ frightened Wall Street and a terrified capitalist class shouted, *Hossana ” That they later tried to crucify him is not without his- teric precedent. And that still later, they could claim him as their own, also has its parallel in the story of the fisure whose birth is celebrated at Christmas. At any rate, the big industri- alists and financiers as repre- sented by Alfred P. Sloan (€Gen- eral Motors) and Lammot du Pont (du Pont de Nemours) and others sired the National Recov-— ery Act, the first measure of the Roosevelt regime. The Hearst press outdid all others in its sup- port of Roosevelt Father Charles = Coueglin, the evil priest, shout- Slogan: ‘Roosevelt or Briefly, the most hide— bound reactionary forces of the country, petrified at the specter of collapse in 1933, rallied around the Roosevelt standard. At the time, Roosevelt served their ends in staying off the cat- astrophe, and they even apreed to a2 measure of assistance to the meedy and the poor. But when elements of recovery set in, re—- action became emboldened and demanded that Hoosevelt halt all SOps to the masses of the people. Caught between the conflictine forces of the people and Wall Street, Roosevelt attempted to Steer the middle course of com- promise, but instead of compro- mise, reaction wanted a frontal attack on labor and the unem- ployed. Thats when the break came. Jchn J. Raskob (General Motors) and Pierre du Pont (du Pont de Wemours), assisted by others in- cludins Alfred E. Smith, formed the American WLiberty WLeascue. Bather Coughlin changed his slo- gam to read “Roosevelt and Ruin!’ By AL RICHMOND The Hearst press denounced the New Deal as ‘crackpot’ and Roosevelt and his aides as ‘reds.’ e@ T WAS not until this break, and President Roosevelt was compelled by the fury of Wall Street attack to seek greater sup- port from labor and the people, that the most Significant meas- ures of the New Deal were en- acted. Among them were the Waener Act, the Social Security Act, the Wages-Hours Act, an ex panded WHA program, With such a program and pro- claiming, “For all these tihngs, we have just begun to fight!’’ President Roosevelt was re-elect- ed by a crushing majority in 1936. it was then that he denounced ‘the economic royalists’ and saw the challenging vision of ‘one- third of a nation, ill-nourished, ill-housed, ill-clad.’ Subsequent to his re-election and after his defeat in the su- preme court reorganization ficht, President Roosevelt renewed ef- forts to arrive at an understand- ing with Big Business. That he did not succeed was primarily due to the adamant attitude of Big Business and the increased pressure from labor against any further retreat. it was not until outbreak of the Huropean war that the basis was finally created for a rap- proachement between the White House and the House of Morgan. Suddenly President Roosevelt be— San to see eye-to-eye with some of his most virulent foes of the past As the year progressed and White House policy became clearer, the rapproachement at— tained the character of a fervent reunion. t=) IN DEC. 26, for example, the Hearst press, for the first time in many moons, sane the praises of the president in a front page editorial. “Roosevelt deserves the praise of the nation,’ said Hearst of Roosevelt's ‘peace’ exchange with Pope Pius Xt “The nation is With him to a2 man in this most vital of all questions.” ' it was a fitting expression to climax the year. At the beginning of 1939 when Goneress convened, reaction went on the offensive. Eincouraged by results of the 1938 elections when the former New Dealers suffered a reverse, reaction opened up with an attack on WPA. The battle centered on a deficiency FORUM OF CCFer Advwises Operation To the Editcr: Present world events are driving people into the camps to which they properly be— lon= Those who pose as social- ists, defenders of democracy and workings class interests fenerally, ean well be Known by their work and their stand on international politics. Tt is tragic that many of our people who stpported the sociai- ist cause without taking an ac- tive part, find themselves con- fused by the sudden turn to the Tight of such leaders as Macinnis, Garland and Miss Gutteridge. When a patient gets appendicitis, there is nothing for it but an op- eration and IT am quite confident that our , ©CE party is plenty strong eneugh to stand an oper- ation. ™~ How do these leaders conceive the idea that they can get the rank and file of our CCE party to follow such a lead? It is only necessary to remember a little histery of the past few years for us to be able to compare the gov-— ernment of Finland with the present feovernment of Spain. in i918 imperialist powers as- Sisted the monied class of Fin- jand to overthrow the people’s Soevernpment and only 20 years later history repeated itself in Spain with practically the same imperialist powers fighting against a democratic government. These people who are now try- ing to direct the werking class against the Soviet Unien are not doing much, if anything to pre-~ vent a Japanese victory in China. if they are so anxious to stop ag- sression, why not defend a coun- try which has suffered for over two years from Japanese militar- ism, Supplied with war materials irom our own country and other ‘democratic nations’? if we feel the Japanese should Ibe helped, why sell them mater— jails which are only used by the apanese imperialists for destruc-_ tien, thus bringine more hard- Ships to the Japanese workers. If eur sovernument took a greater interest in selling our foodstuffs it does war materials, our €rs yould be able to obtain better prices for their wheat and other products. job Mactnnis or Miss Gutteridge that if they think they can swing the CCE into line with imperialism, they are badly mistaken. We in- tend to march onward towards socialism. We will fight ever harder for the rights of free speech and free press. We will liberate those who have been ar- rested by the same government that gave Garland his fine job, for speaking of things on their conscience, regardless of what the world thinks. HIGHLAND PARK CCF’er. Wew Westminster, BC. Nore Bombs Over Waclhnis To the Editor: If the editorial board of the Federationist ac- cepts any more articles from Macinnis in the same vein as “Bombs Over Finland,’ I’m afraid its circulation will suffer badly. Already at the newsstand where I buy extra copies of the Advo-— cate to send to friends, I was informed that whereas the stand sold 8&8 Advocates it only sold 33 Hederationists. This was at the time? this particular article ap- peared, ‘Bombs Q@ver Finland’ would be understandable in a capitalist pa- per, but it certainly has no place in the Federationist. It sounds very sinister for Macinnis to be deine missionary work for fasc- ist Mannerheim and the banker premier of Finland. Soviet authorities were certain- ly correct when they refused to 2liow Macitinnis and his wife to enter the country. Im contrast I was very inter- ested to read Elizabeth Kerr’s article on the Soviet Union in her women’s column and noted par- ticularly her gratitude for the at- tention she received while in hos- Pital there during her tour as a delesate from BC. TOMMY ATKINS. Worthlands, BC. Wants Campaign Against Disease To the Editor: Being a sub- seriber to the Advocate in which i have read many interesting art- icles and which is a tremendous asset to the trade union move- ment, I regret that it has dealt very lite with social disease, that scourge of modern society. I have found many millworkers during My own five years work who were unable to stand the work. Upon investigation I found they were sufferine from social appropriation, and the relation- ship of forces at the very outset showed that in Congress, a coali- tion of Republicans and reaction- ary Democrats had the upper hand. Gaater in the session, when the 1939 budget was under discus- Sion, reaction again sank the hooks into WPA, emasculated the prosram, made a shambles of its cultural features, decreed the dis- charge of hundreds of thousands and shattered the prevailing wage standards. it was significant, in the light of further developments, that while the labor movement united against the WPA wage slashes, the president retreated, and his most famous pronouncement dqur- ing the controversy was, “You cannot strike against the govern-— ment.” Whatever victories were won by the people in that session of Congress was primarily of a de- fensive nature, such as blocking immediate emasculation of the Wasner Act and the Wages- Hours Act, or préventins passace of the most vicious of the bills aimed at civil liberties. On the other hand, positive measures like the Wagner Health Bill, the Wagner Housing Bill, the anti-lynchine bill were killed by the reactionary coalition. It must be said that for all these things, Roosevelt hardly began to fight. @ OWEVER, it was in the sphere of foreigsm policy that the most important development oc- curred. At the beginning of the year, Loyalist Spain was still bat- tling for existence against fascist invasion. China was engaged in a life-and-death struggle against Japanese aggression. Qn the Loyalists, Roosevelt had declared an embargo, depriving them of arms, helping to™~throt- tle Spanish democracy. At the same time, traffie in arms and other war materials to Japan was wide open, with the result that the United States supplied Japan with more than 60 percent of her vital war needs. There was no apparent alarm in the White House at this state of affairs. In fact, it was not un- til after the Loyalists had been defeated and General Franco was accorded immediate recognition by the Wnited States, that an energetic fight was launched by the administration for revision of the infamous Weutrality Act Thirty percent of Canadian people had or have these diseases and if the present increase keeps up, it will soon be forty percent. Most of the sufferers are forced to go to government clinics, un- able to afford expensive special- ists, where treatment is ineffi- cient. As a last resort, patients are given malaria fever, which puts the body in a weakened con- dition so that man*® cases end up with TB or in Essondale. In the Soviet Union, where there is socialism, these problems have been overcome. Premier Molotov, speaking to the Con- gress of the Soviet Union, de- cClared: “The Soviet Union is now free from social diseases, they are gone and forgotten.’ im recent years, discoveries in Germany, tested by American doctors, have proved that these diseases can be cured. A new rec- ord in curing gonorrhea, 95 per- cent, was claimed before the Am- erican Congress of Therapy, by the use of two new methods, arti- ficial fever and sulfanilamide. As a2 worker myself, I appeal to the Communist party, CCF and other progressive organizations to petition the minister of health 2nd those MiLA’s interested to See that artificial fever machines and this new drug, sulfanilamide, are put into regular use in our hospitals and clinics so that the dread diséase can be effectively stamped out. A WOREER. Wew Westminster, BC Asserts Patient Flarshtiag Treated To the Editor:A recent occur- rence of harsh treatment by peo— ple in authority towards those unable to help themselves seems to me to be unique in its way. Some months ago a young fel- low of seventeen was brought to Grandview Hospital, where T am also a patient, suffering from TB of the spine. Previously he had lain in the General Hospital for more than a year on 2 wooden frame about a foot or so above the bed. He has to lie in this position indefinitely Cure is not impossible, but highly improb- able. His courage in the face of such hardship is inspiring: To occupy his time he got the idea of making small dogs out of pipe cleaners and a few other things that look well on a coat lapel He found he could sell them and in a littie over a year he saved $12, which, with a previ- ous amount, $8, Zave him the grand total of $20. A few days ago a representa- EREADPDH FOR THE NEW DEAL At that time the tory Congress, fearing that revision of the Neu- trality Act still might have a de- terring effect on the spread of war, blocked such action. Only a few months later; after the war — had broken out, the same Con- gress, convened in special session, voted overwhelmingly to repeal the Neutrality Act and thus make the United States an economic ally of Britain and France in the war. e EADING Congressional forces in this ‘victory’ for the White House were Vice-president John Wance Garner and Senator James Byrnes who earlier in the year did the hatchet work on the WPA. The rapprochement be- tween Roosevelt and the Right was in its inception. His subse- quent activities in the foreign sphere deepened the strange friendship. —— Hlements of the Roosevelt for— eigen policy became: ~ i.—Assistance to Britain and France in the war. Aid in the form of planes and other arma- ments at first, as at this stage of the war the BPrench and British have hardly found use for their own armies and are not in need of reinforcements. 2.—Assistance to Big Business in making profits from the war. 3—A preparedness policy with- in the country, based on increas- ed military expenditures and drastic restrictions on civil lib- erties and the labor movement, and an. open attack against the Communist party and allied forces opposed to a war policy. 4—A new role in international affairs as the aggressive organ- izer of the anti-Soviet front which has been temporarily shat- tered by the Soviet-German non- ageression pact. Such a foreign policy, also ex- pressed in greater aggressiveness by American imperialism in Latin America and the Far Bast, was just what Wall Street ordered. While the ingredients might have been brewed in the White House, the prescription was written in the House of Morgan. The forces of reaction began to love Roose— velt at the end of 1939 with al- most the same fervor they did at the beginnings of 1933. The social objectives of what had been konwn as the New Deal were incompatible with such 2 foreign policy. The New Deal Was buried on Capitol Hill with less ceremony than attends the burial of an army horse. THE PEOPLE tive of the General Hospital vis- ited him here and bluntly told him he must sign this amount Over to the hospital. Realizing the futility of trying to fight the octopus, he signed the paper. The phrase “Stealing a blind man’s cup” has long been used to denote extreme cupidity. is that phrase now out of date? FRED GRANGE. Grandview Hospital, Vancouver ,BC. Gargrave Spins Around Axis Lo the Editor,—In reply to your editorial footmote relative to the Kelowna story, I would like to in_ form both the editor and your readers that I have not and do mot intend to align myself with either the Mannerheim-Chamber— lain-Daladier-Hoover axis or with the Stalin-Hitler axis The axis I am primarily con- cerned with is a working class axis here in Canada. EH. GARGRAVE, Provincial Secretary, CCF. Vancouver, BC. (We bave already expressd our views on the attitude of Herbert Gargrave to current political de velopments. Gargrave has publicly aligned himself with reactionaries everywhere by hastening to con- demn the Soviet Union’s ‘aggres- sion’ in Finland. He does not withdraw that statement. Neither does he state that he will not be party to the developing ‘crusade’ of imperialism against the USSR. Even if he were to make this Statement, as the Federationist does in its current issue, it would be meompatible with condemna- tion of Soviet ‘azgression’ in Fin- land, which objectively aids the ‘crusade.’ Garerave, in his crack about the Stalin-Hitier axis, confirms his alignment with reaction. He pre- fers to ignore the fact that the Communist party of Germany, with the aid of honest German Social Democratic workers, is lead- ing the fight against Hitler—not the Hilferdings, Vogels and other German Social-Democratic leaders in exile who are preparing to play the same treacherous role in 2id- ing British and French imperial- ism to crush the German revolu- tion they played in 19138. A ‘werking class axis’ in Ganada will mot be built by deceiving the workers. We shall be interested in receiv— ing letters from CCE members on the points raised by Gargrave in his letter.—Editor). SHORT JABS by OF Bill “Sea-power should be in the hands of the de mocracies and not of one power.” Thus spoke Lord Lothian, Britain’s ambassador to the United States, in Chicago Jast week. This is a reversal Go. British sea Policy, first established by Blake when he defeated the Dutch under van Tromp at the Texel and later subscribed to by Nelson at Trafalgar. The speech is acclaimed by the American press. According to the Wew York Times, it is “a striking democratization and humanization of British policy. ... In the light of this speech Britain is, in fact, ready to abdicate empire in the interests of world-wide security for the demo- eratic civilizations.” Putting this promise alongside of Ghamberlain’s ‘new Europe’ which is to arise out of the war, many people will, undoubtedly, conjure up wisions of a world freed from exploitation; from national, racial and class antagonisms—a world in which harmony, goodwill and peace will prevail. i But me! f am merely reminded of an old Seots dominie of mine. When he caught any of us in any kind of mischief, he would give us a lecture and exact a promise from us ‘not to do it again.’ He always accepted these promises with a larze measure of doubt and recited to us a jingle in the Irish idiom which showed just how much he believed us. Here it is: When the devil was sick, the devil a monk would be; When the devil was well, the devil a monk was he. On Sea Power. I was listening to the radio one evening recently. Beethoven Arthur Schnabel was playing a Beethoven piano Concerto. concerto accompanied by the London Syimphony Orchestra with Albert Coates conducting. TI must admit that as far as music is concerned IT am an illiterate. The pleasure I get out of the playing of a musical composition of any kind is purely materialistic, sensuous. What interpretation a trained mu- Sician would have given to the playing of that concerto, I don’t Know. To my ear, however, it sounded beautiful, so beautiful in fact, that I had no difficulty in convincinge myself that I had listened to few things to equal it and nothing that excelled it. I don’t know which was responsible for the impression it made on me; Beethoven’s music, Schnabel’s playing or Goates’ leadership, but Schnabel it was whose name came uppermost in my thoughts. As the last notes died away, I came out of Lotusland where it is always afternoon and there is only pleasure and began to think in terms of stark reality. Arthur Schnabel is a Jewish artist who once claimed Germany for his homeland. Today he is in exile. If the Nazis had their way, the Knife of some Aryan sausage butcher might be thrust between his ribs for daring to be a great artist and a Jew at the same time. : When Hitler spoke at the Munich Bierhalle where he was almost blown up, one of the smart cracks he made was that “England has never produced a Beethoven.” True, but neither has Nazi Germany. When Beethoven lived in Vienna, reaction was in the saddle but it was not so terrible as it is there today. The great musicians were not all chased out of the country, so that Beethoven could still write in one of his letters, “Words are bound in chains but sounds are still free.” But if he lived in Vienna today and was possessed of the same liberal political ideas and feelings as when he scorned the Austrian iaiser he would undoubtedly meet the same fate as Arthur Schnabel, even though he was a German. Dutch Treat. Here is a little contributed item from the Nya Svenska Pressen, local Swedish paper published in Vancouver. This item follows on the tail of a : column about the activities of the Finnish Red Cross and is no doubt contributed by Finnish Viee-Consul H Wiken- Sren or someone on his committee. Translated, it reads: “Today Finland is engaged in 4 life and death struggle. Tn all parts of the world, Finns are volunteerins to fight for their country. Thousands of our countrymen have already left the United States and Eastern Canada to join their fighting brothers at home. Where are the Finnish volunteers from British Columbia? Do they not feel it is their duty to return home? “For the time being, those who are returning home, will have to pay their own way, but a considerable reduction in fares has been ar ranged for those going home with the intention of joining the Fin- nish army, “Those who can travel home at their Own expense and are willing to do so, please get in touch with the Finnish Consulate 16 Bast Hastings street, Vancouver, where ocean passage Can be arranged at reduced price.” = @n another page of the same issue of the Nya Svenska Pressen there is an advertisement for the Swedish-American Hine, a com- Pany which operates steamers between New Work and Sweden. This is the company which will sell the tickets at reduced prices to Finns Soing home to join the Finnish army. The agent at 16 Mast Hastines street is H. Ekengren. it would be a useless war if a poor shipping agent couldn’t fet a few nickels out of it, but does the reduced rate hold g00d for Finns yrho desire te go home to fight for Finland against the fascist White Guard Mannerheim-Wallenius Sang who have had the Finnish people by the neck for the last twenty years? Sam Gompers, whose policies were the bane of the American Labor movement for halfa-century, summed up his whole Philosophy in the slogan, “Reward your friends and punish your enemies.” This is probably one of the things our Premier learned while working Reward Your Friends, Etc. ernment today. He cannot look upon the GCF as anythine other than his friends since he has rewarded the national organizer of that body. BE. J. Gar land, with a cushy job as secretary to the Canadian Bish Commissioner to Bire—ambassador if you like that better—salary unstated, but prob- ably around $5000 a year since his immediate bess, the High Com- missioner will receive not less than $8000. The next friendly move may be the appointment of Angus MacInnis as ambassador te Finland. The premier’s enemies who are being punished are undoubtedly the Communists. Their paper, the Clarion, is banned and some of their members are being sought for exercising their democratic right to freedom of speech. Ordinary, sarden Variety, run-of-the-mine CGE members should give some thought as to whom Mackenzie ing considers his enemies and whom his friends, and why. In view of the Lenin Memorial Meeting to be held SUNDAY, JANUARY 21, there will be no meeting in Orange Hall this Sunday. Speakers and place for the Lenin Memorial Meeting will be announced next week.