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THE ADVOCATE

February 2, 19407

King Gov't Speaks For Big Business

Continued From Page One

Conservative, Liberal
Press United In Praise

intervention in Spain, in Germany’s
annexation of Austria and Czecho-
slovakia? Did it not ignore wide-
spread demand to halt the supply
of Canadian war materials to
Japan? And, likewise, does it
mot now advance the hypocritical
claim to be fighting for liberty,
democracy and the rights of small
nations?

is it not a fact that in the spring
of 19388 the King government was
already preparing for the war to
which it had virtually committed
Canada before parliament assem-
bled last September to give it for-
mal sanction?

The King government has be-
come the voice of the entrenched
interests, the while it endeavors to
retain the mask of democracy.

Has it not fulfilled all the re-

quirements of big business by its
suppression of civil liberties, by
its denial of the rights to free
dom of speech and press? Not
only has it failed to curb profit-
eering, but to find a parallel for

war scandals that have become

common knowledge, it is neces-

sary to go back to the sordid rec-
ord of the Borden government.

The King government repealed
Section 98—only to restore it in
new form under the War Measures
Act. It granted labor the right to
organize — only to threaten the
trade unions with deprivation of
that and other rights under the
War Measures Act,

Where are the traditions of Wil-
liam Lyon Mackenzie in Prime
Minister King’s actions in banning
Clarte, the Clarion, and exciuding
scores of publications from the
country ?

_ Was it William Lyon Mackenzie
who said:

“How are the people to know
when to approve or to disapprove
of the conduct of their rulers,
if the freedom of expressing all
opinions concerning public men
be checked? .. . It is by the liberty
of the press, and the freedom of
expressing opinions that a remedy
can be had for an unfortunate

choice.”

New Alignments

INo wonder then, that when the
federal election was announced last
week Conservative papers like the
Montreal Gazette and Ottawa Jour-
mal could find praise for the Kine
government's record.

This is the government which is
now appealing to the people for
re-election after an abrupt and
unexpected dissolution of parlia-
ment calculated to deny protest
and criticism a hearing on the
floor of the House.

Issues now will be taken to the
platform, where opposition to the
war, unlikely to be heard in the
House, comes within the unlimited
Scope of the War Measures Act.

King cleverly seized upon Hep-
burn’s attack on his government
to turn it to advantage in calling
the election. Aware of widespread
protest against the Hepburn goy-
ernment’s attacks on the labor

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movement and of that govern-

ment’s waning popularity, King is
seeking to utilize the feud to win
Support for himself.

All four parties now represent-
ed in parliament—Liberals, Con-
CCE—have declared their sup-
port of the war and will make
conduct of the war the issue.
The real issue—war or peace—
will be relegated to the back-
ground if the people permit it.
Between the Liberals and Con-

servatives and the CCF the differ-
ence is between ‘full’ and ‘limited’
support. In other words, the dif-
ference is only one-of degree, for
‘limited’ support becomes, in ef-
fect, ‘full’ support. Between the
Liberals and Conservatives the
difference js merely one of pro-
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resenting the issues to be ‘national
unity and support of his war
policies, striving by introduction of
such questions as unemployment
insurance to retain the vote which
placed his government in power.
If he is re-elected, the vote will be
represented as one of complete en-
dorsation for his (and inferentially
Chamberlain's) policies, as the
Quebec election results were simi-
larly represented,

And just as the Quebec election
was fought on distorted issues, so
will this election be fought The
question of a ‘crusade’ against the
Soviet Union, of re-direction of the
war against the socialist country,
will prebably be kept in the back-
ground by the Liberals. But the
vote, if the Liberals are re-elected
will be misrepresented as a mandate
for Canada’s participation in the
‘crusade’ Canadian and British im-
perialism so ardently desire.

Manion, Drew, and their newly-
declared ally, Hepburn, still try-
ing to restore the prestige of the
Conservative party ,can think of
no new ‘popular’ approach to the
people than through the appeal
for a ‘union’ government. This is
but a continuation of the cry rais-
ed by George McCullagh when he
formed his shortlived Leadership
League in an abortive attempt to
Win mass support for the drive of
big business to replace the King
government with a government
still more reactionary.

Manion, of course, will seek for
political purposes to make an is-
sue of war contract scandals, of
profiteering and such questions in
which the King government is so
vulnerable, but this does not mean
that a Manion government would
do any more than divide the spoils
among its friends,

The CCE will also take issue
with the government on war con-
tracts and profiteering, although
its strongest appeal will be made
on the question of civil liberties.
But no matter how strongly the
CCE words its criticism, the fact
still remains that the present
threat to civil liberties, like prof-
iteering, flows directly out of the
war. By giving ‘limited’ support
to the war the CCF will also as-

‘sist the threat to civil liberties.
‘Limited’ becomes ‘full’ support.
In that period directly preced-
ing the war, the growing demo-
eratic forces of the people fought
for a comprehensive program of
social reform. The war, however,
cut through the common lines
loosely uniting these forces.

A majority of those who were
prepared to fight for social reform
did not actively oppose the war at
first, no matter how critical they
were of its conduct. But they want
social progress. The increased vote
obtained by Lewis Duncan, reform
mayoralty candidate in the Toron-
to civic elections, indicates this.

What this section of the people
does not realize as yet is that the
war constitutes the main barrier
to realization of social and eco-
nomic needs, that while millions
are being spent daily to destruc-
tive ends, there is possibility of

‘money being diverted to con-
structive ends only under tre-
mendous pressure from the peo-
ple. Indeed, so long as the war
continues, the living standards of
the people will be forced lower
by the increasing burden of war
eosts and only a bitter struggle
will retain what social gains have
already been made.

As developing political align-
ments now exist, the Communist
party is the only political party in
the country opposing the war, find-
ing a growing support within the
trade unions and the CCF, among
the workers and the farmers for its
unequivocal stand.

In this new period the war is the
dividing line. War means a reduc-
tion of the workers’ real wages as
prices soar. War means an attack
on their democratic rights, the in-
troduction of fascist measures,

There can be no unity with
‘the leadership of the CCE,
which today stands committed
to a policy of supporting the
war and objectively, all the hard-
ships it imposes on the people.
Unity now can come only from
below, from among those mem-
bers of progressive groupings
who cannot accept the official
stand of their leaderships. And
such unity must be based, first of
ij all on a program of opposition
to the war.

Peace Or War Issue

The immediate struggle of that
large section of the CCE member-
ship in BC which opposes the CCF
national council’s stand on the war
is to work for candidates who will
reflect the real views of the rank-
and-file.

Two weeks before Canada enter-
ed the war, on Aug. 25, 1939, Prime
Minister King wrote this in an
appeal to Hitler and ex-President
Moscicki of Poland:

“The people of Canada are of
one mind in believing that there is
no international problem which
cannot be settled by conference
and negotiation.

‘They equally believe that force
is Not a substitute for reason, and
that the appeal to force as a means
of adjusting international differ-
ences defeats rather than furthers
the ends of justice.”

For the prime minister this was
just a means of preparing the rec-
ord. But the people of Canada, in
whose name Prime Minister King
sent this appeal, want peace. It is
they upon whom the burden of the
war is thrust, they who must pay
in hardship and suffering. And for
them the question is whether Can-
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venting this war — or whether this
“war will continue to the ultimate
of destruction and misery.

This is the real, the decisive
issue in this election. And the
interests of the Canadian people
can be served only by one de-
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Helsinki:
The difficulties besetting the

Helsinki government, it is felt here,
help explain the feverish activity
in London, Paris, and Washington
for sending of immediate material
aid to Finland.

Meanwhile, in Paris, a tacit ad-
mission that all is not going so
well in White Finland as press de-
spatches claim, was made by Dr.
Harri Holma, Finnish minister to
France.

Baron Mannerheim’s army, he
told newspapermen, is “condemned
to death’ unless countries now sup-
plying arms and munitions to the
Helsinki regime step up to their
aid,

CLDL Delegate

Coune:l Formed

TORONTO, Ont. — Guests and
delegates at the Canadian Labor
Defense League supper held here
Jast week decided unanimously to
organize a local delegate council for
coordination and
CLDL in this city and suburbs.

After an address by National Sec-
retary A. EH. Smith outlining the
proposal, members of the new dele-
gate council were elected.

Ten GLDIL branches in the dis-
trict were represented and great
enthusiasm was expressed at the
work being done by the League.
Establishment of the delegate coun-
cil was felt to be a great step for-
ward in the building of a strong
civil liberties movement in Canada.

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form a local of the Hat, Cap and
Millinery Workers’ union, the
ILGWU has accepted them as mem-
bers until such time as the worlk-
ers can establish their own union,
Secretary R. Jackson informed the
Advocate.

Manager Chessman of the Para-
gon Hat company, which also op-
erates the Coast Cap company, told
the Advocate that negotiations had
been very satisfactory and that
samples of his hats had found favor
with Street Railwaymen’s union
members, but that for further dem-
onstration he had an appointment
with the union executive Friday,
which he hoped, would lead to a
contract, since orders are placed
by the men’s committee.

The company, which has a plant
at 992 Powell street and a store at
is able
to manufacture any type of hat or
cap in felt, cloth or straw, accord-
ing to Manager Chessman, and ef-
forts are proceeding to secure con-
tracts to make hats for the police
and fire departments in a BC union
shop.

The ILGWU, as is customary
after securing a union shop con-
tract, will make known the products
of the company to all affiliated
unions as being fair and worthy
of support of organized labor.

AFL Executive
Suspends ITU

MIAMT, Fla.—iInternational Typo-
graphical union, which embraces
80,000 members, was suspended this
week from national state and local
central labor council affiliation by
decision of the American Wedera-
tion of Labor executive council
meeting here in mid-winter session.

Continued refusal of the ITU to
pay one cent per member a month
assessment into the AFL’s war
chest to fight the CIO is the reason
for the decision upholding and ex-
tending the suspension order of the
AFL convention in Cincinnati last
October,

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Indica-
tion that the ITU, suspended by the
AFL executive council, will pursue
an independent course was given
by ITU President Claude M. Baker
here,

The ITU will “go its own way
until there is a healing of the
breach in the general labor move-
ment,” Baler stated, adding that
to seek reaffiliation or affiliate
with the CIO,

Harry Neelands, secretary of
local 226, ITU, in Vancouver this
week had not received any official
statement on the AFT, action. He
told the Advocate that he did not
think the order would affect unions
in Canada, since the Trades and
Labor Congress has been granted
autonomy for Canada.

He stated the ITU’s policy was
set out in the wunion’s current
Journal, which declares that the
conflict between the AFI, and the
ITU is based upon the departure of

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ILGWU Signs Pact
With Paragon Hat

Conclusion of a closed shop union agreement between Local |
276 of International Ladies Garment Workers’ union and Para
gon Hat Manufacturing company, a Vancouver-owned and
operated concern, which raised wages of employees 15 percent
was announced this week. The agreement, in operation for six
months, can be*reopened at any time for revision.

While employees are unable to@

he kuew of no attempts in his union.

Pay Tribute}
To Bethune}

A tribute te the humanitariar.
work of Dr. Norman Bethune J
famed Canadian surgeon who die &
in China recently while teachin|
young men as doctors to assist hin |
in administering to Ghinese wounag
ed soldiers, was paid by a meetin: B
in Croatian Educational Home it §
Vancouver Monday night.

A, M-. Stephen of the-Ghinc=Aig
Council, under whose auspices th §
meeting was held, made a brief ad
dress, and $60 contributed to hi |
appeal will be sent to the Interna
tional Peace Hospital in Nort
China,

Musical numbers were contribu’
ed by Mrs. D. and Miss Jean Mi
Lean, Chinese Musical Associatior
Men Keong School Girls’ Ghoi' |
Croatian Orchestra, Finnish Won
en’s Choir, the Russian Choir an
Orchestra. Wreaths were laid ;
Dr. Bethune'’s portrait, while Mii
Helen Boresky played a funer:
march, Rey. R. N. Matheson, ¢
United Church, presided.

by the ITU.

First, complete autonomy and i:
dependence as regards matters «
jurisdiction by international union
and second, tHe right of intern: }
tional unions to determine in the
own right whether or not they w
be assessed by order of any outsic 7
body. {

“The members of the ITU wai
no part of the war among labc;{
unions, the scope of which has e 4
ceeded the bounds cf unionism ar |
common decency,” the Journal d —
clares. j

Conciliation At
Pioneer Diseusse:

While eviction of striking Pionet gi
miners proceeds, efforts of EF. J
Harrison, federal labor departme!
representative, are being pushed :
find if Pioneer Mine directors ai §
favorable to a federal coneiliatic
board and thereby overrule Mii §
Manager Dr, James’ objections.

Cameramen Fail
To Obtain ‘Scoop:

COLUMBUS, Ohio. — The sco;
planned by newspapermen coverii
the United Mine Workers unior
international convention here to p
a red label on UMWA Preside}
John I, Lewis proved a boomera:§,
this week.

While Lewis was speaking ar
flag was unfurled behind him a:f
cameramen jumped to get the p:
ture, but delegates, sensing som
thing was wrong, smashed eve
camera and exposed the plates. |

The hall janitor told delega:|}
that the newsmen had planned TH

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