on.— Che Editor. js war against fascism, mic system that exter- democracy and trade fa strike that hinders ij eftort cannot be justi- |s there is a limit to endurance however and | the long - suffering j> workers have been i into strike action, the had the public correctly he government beauro- id the BCE for trans- [ppage. © ps all these years of } Strain the tram work- : patiently operated the Sbsolete junktanks pack- = a2 mass of Sweaty. hu- sover the yilest roadbed H-continent. No wonder fat under such condi- se workers are incensed jvernment beaurocrats ©-ced them to wait nine i! mt of wage disadvan- J n top of this the wage ic Ottawa, ignorant of fuditions, cancelled the of the regional board, anded the men to sign Prm-contract that would m to a low wage irre- of advances in living esperate as conditions ;pear here we- should | low minor issues to ‘mediate issue of de- Nazism which is the + of world fascism. A gon or spreading of “2 would greatly en- *hose in our midst who smash trade unions m the cost of strikes government money:- ‘ions until after the then cause a strike by 5 the cost of the strike we to be paid out of a BCE postwar income. wre as strikes are not Eat this time all ef- fdd be directed toward ae the government ‘need of instantly set- i! commission to effect A setlement of intoler- litions_JACK BOYD. sare supporting Various its because they be- ive do that theirs is the i: better life. We need ficles on Technocracy, iredit and CCE if we Bsee their view points © our own clear to 2 must speak in simi- HW. These articles must te, if not, we will be fof deliberate distor- §. 28 issue of the P.A. if by F. J. Anderson *. Credit appeared. It | Sood except for two ‘ation of our regular | VHAT DO j tor decision regarding . disrupt us from the~ ‘ted from war.profits. * delay attempting to - examples and one Statement, namely, “the present financial system is the only kind that could possibly function in a Capitalist society.” implying lo- gically as many GGFers do “weve got to change the sys- tem first.” Examples of club operators and hatless patrons and why not pay $50,000 divi- dends pointing to inflation. Social Creditors state “their proposals are not inflation be- cause money issued would not exceed goods produced and services rendered.” This last part could inflate currency: If, Mr. S. Low hired persons to shine the car or his shoes or any other service not adding a thing to the country’s wealth, the currency isued to pay these ygorkers would inflate the money if carried on a big scale. Hion. Mr. King’s family al- lowances to needy families are small dividends in Social Gred- it’S way of speech, or as we call: Raising buying power for the low-income groups. These are the things we must co- operate upon to get the quick- est tangible benefits. When, by united pressure, we force the government to broaden and imerease these allowances, peo- ple will benefit and no change will occur in the capitalist sys- tem only an improvement in the distribution of wealth. My family and I and thou- sands of others canot wait till CCF or Social Credit, Social- ism or Technocracy gets into power, we need income the very next week after the shipyards ‘and other industries close down. Call it what you like, dividends, family allowances or higher wages with shorter work-week, | Notice—We regret that we are forced to temporarily reduce our paper to twelve @ pending completion of atrangements regarding paper supply. We expect to resume 6 pages early in February. Meanwhile let’s boost the cir- YOU THINK? if it will provide us with a de- cent standard of living, we all must press for it. When Social Credit leader Hon. Solon Low flirts with Gon- servatives for their support in the fight against socialism— the yery same Tories who so opposed even the small divi- dends (family allowances) to a limited number of families— how can he expect Drew, Brac- ken and Duplessis and the rest of the ‘pack’ to support Social Credit demand for the bigger dividends to all Canadians. The above is one of the examples against which Mr. S. Low’s sincerity fades. _—A. GRINKUS. Social Credit Dear Sir: In a recent article, in your excellent journal, purporting to analyze Social Gredit Mr. - Floyd Anderson asked why, if _ 4a national dividend of $100 or $500 a year could be issued, why not $50,000? The answer, in terms which everyone ought to be able to eTasp, can be given by a simi- lar question: If a steam engine operates at high efficiency un- der 60 pounds pressure, then why not 60,000? The Social Credit dividend is based solely on growth in pro- duction. The volume of money must be increased at the same Yate, as production increases, not a lesser rate, or a greater rate. So that, if this growth in production requires a divi- dend of new money amounting to $100 per annum per person, then $50 would not be enough and $150 would be too much. —WM. ROSE. Saturday, January 13, 1945 — Page 5 Se SEAUCUAUAUANEEAUNYSUSETETSUCUEEEDEUNEUCUA OA OEIEOLESSTCLEFEEE1 5 UF ETTFTeLEULUNALyersTsaTAANAAAN EEL ELLE LsUCatiy Shor t Jabs ., Ol’ Bill NU ACCUCCUSCUMADARABAURASeneSuRaurenauaecsecnsustacensscesssaysytocursasyys¢usvsssvrev4 ea eaeerssrstarsisayey Generosity GENEROSITY is not dead in the world! Nor is the age of miracles past! Harvey R. MacMillan, the biz boss of all the boss loggers, is throwing a fit of generosity and—miracle of miracles—he wishes the people of B.C. to share in his good fortune. Starting out before .the last war with hardly two nickels to rub against each other, as the saying goes, he now owns or controls a great part of the timber resources of this province. Having reached that august position, he has now become, appar- ently, “stricken with remorse and comes humbly to the penitent stool. “Directors of our company,” says this boss boss logger, “have long subscribed to the view that British Columbians, insofar as possible, should own or control B.C. industries.” Does that mean that this boss boss-logger is a convert to Premier John Hart’s program of public ownership of power and transporta- tion system? Not by a jugful. The MacMillan plan is differ-ent, as the MWrenchmen say. The wants to make 50,000 new boss loggers at eight dollars a head. He wants to sell 50,000 shares in the MacMillan industries at $8 each to 50,000 people who must be British Columbians —and presumably voters. That looks something like the scheme the BCG@ollectrie worked on some of our easy-money citizens when they sold stock in that octopus at 560 a throw, citizens who could undoubtedly be depended upon to vote for BCCollectrie stooged to the city councils to protect their $60 worth of stock every time an issue affecting. the BCCollectrie came up for discussion. Fifty thousand small-fry boss loggers may be expected to perform the same function for the lumbermen’s lobby at Victoria. It would be “quite an argument to throw at the head of the government in power, “We got 50,000 solid votes behind us. Tf we don’t get what we want, well throw them the other way.’ ‘This is real power politics and there is no such a thing as powerless politics. If all these MacMillan shares are taken up by 50,000 different people, they will own $400,000 worth of the capital stock of the company. What relationship this bears to the paid up capital is not stated: but as the assets of the MacMillan companies is placed at $19,104,028, it is not hard to figure how much ownership or control the new boss loggers are going to have. ‘ This company controls three billion feet of standing timber. At one time every last stick of it belonged to the people of British Colum, bit. Twenty-five years ago MacMillan did not own as much of it as would make a toothpick. Now he proposes to disgorge, for a consideration, to the tune of $400,000 worth of interest in it to 50,000 of our fellow citizens. What about the other 750,000 British Columbians who are not to become boss loggers? Many of” whom, by the way, can- not get enough shiplap to build themselves a two-room shack. Who gave this standing timber to H. R. MacMillan and his asso- ciates and the other timber pirates from whom the-MacMillan outfit bought some of it? And by what right did they do so? And yet, it was all, or almost all, perfectly legal, (or was it). Such is the system that obtains in this céuntry of ours. Some system! A Successful Policy HE success of the Liberal-Labor coalition candidates in the Toronto civic elections on New Year’s day is an answer to the faint-hearted and others that the policy.of the Labor-Progressive Party is the correct policy for this period of history. The alignment of all progressive forces to confront reaction, whether the threat comes from the Tories, reactionary Liberals or reactionary Socialists, worked just as success- fully in Toronto as the same policy has succeeded under other names in other parts of the world. It has been successful in Yugoslavia, -where a common front against fascism has freed the people who suffered under the jacjkboot of Hitler’s Nazis. It is succeeding in Slovakia, where a government has been set up consisting of Communists, Social Democrats and iberals, that is rooting out-every vestigesof fascism from the country. It was successful in Greece and Belgium until outside interference was interjected to assist reaction. The success of the French people too, must be credited to the same policy, as also the ease with which the Polish provisional. government at Lublin is overcoming all obstacles in comparison with the reactionary clique of Pans and anti-Semite militarists n London, the so-called Polsh government-in-exile. The Toronto elections show what Labor can do when the interests of Labor are placed first and party aggrandisement left out ‘of the picture. With the endorsement of the AFL unions, CCL unions, many cultural organizations, the Labor-Progressivze Party and the Liberal “Toronto Star,” all backing the Labor candidates, their election was 2 cinch. : The only regret is that the CCF does not yet see its way clear to line up with progressive Labor. Toronto, however, must be a warning to the leaders of that organization, that this is the road to success and _ that the Liberal-Labor coalition policy will continue to lead along that road—with the CCF’, if possible, without them if necessary. Book Wanted OMETIME ago I made an appeal to readers of this column for a copy N) of a book I wrote some years ago, “Builders of B.C.” I received a few copies and made good use of them. Now I need a couple more. I receive requests for it often but as it is out of print it is not te be had. Some of these requests are from trade unionists who could make good use of it. If any reader*has a spare copy or one which has served ~ its purpose to the owner, I would be very pleased to get it. Send it to me at the People’s Book Store, 420 Pender Wst, Vancouver, B.C.