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the capitalists as @# class; in
their willingness to embark on
any mad adventure to escape
the contradictions of the sys-
tem they exploit; that they will
use it, balking at all attempts
to curb them, and force Russia
to retaliate for self preservation.
Tt is really the old danger
with a new terrible urgency. It
would be.self delusion to doubt
that incorrigible reactionaries
are already-toying with dreams
of employing the bomb“as a
class weapon. This dream can-
not be frustrated though it will
be weakened if Russia posses-
es the secret. It can only in
the last resort be controlled if
we are equal to our historical
task—the rooting out of all in-

~ eipient tendencies to fascist im-

perialism in the last stronghold
of international reaction
America. :

HARRY WEST.
Burnaby, B.C.

Houseworkers

To the Editor:

Now that the postwar is upon
us, it is time to consider the
position of Vancouver’s hun-
dreds of women who for the
duration of the war have worked
to assist in keeping the flow of
war materials teadily flowing
to the boys overseas. Women

_ have played a great part in the

war effort, and have grown
accustomed to working under

,the protection of trode unions

with the assurance of equal pay
for equal work and decent wage
and working standards. .-
With the threat of layoffs
facing women, one cannot help
but consider what openings will
be available to women war-
workers. Obviously numbers of
women,have learned new trades,
trades at which they could work
in peacetime as well as wartime.
But the big question is, are wo-
men going to have the oppor-
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the specialized fields in which
they have found employment im
the war.

Needless to say a large num-
ber of people have been waiting
for the end of the war. It has
not been. unusual when. sitting

In the restaurants to hear some

wealthy old crow state that
“these girls won’t be. quite so
lippy after the war,” or “If I
have a maid like that after the
war J’ll tell her a thing or two.”

Glancing through the want
ads of the daily press indicates
that, already certain of our
wealthier citizens are inserting
ads in the press in an attempt
to snare girls leaving war in-
dustry.

Conditions in “service” will
have to be greatly modified if
maids are to be kept after the
war. The “servants’ quarters”
will have to be improved, and
the meals given to girls will
also have to be improved.

One of the best means of
assuring decent treatment to
household servants is the forma-
tion of a Household Servants

.Union. To my knowledge noth-

ing of this nature has been at-
tempted, and yet if there ever
was a group of underpaid, over-
‘worked, and overexploited work-
ers, the household workers are

that group.

_ It would be well for the trade
union movement to consider the
formation of such o union. Un-
doubtedly a number of women
at present in war industry will
be compelled to enter household
service to make both ends meet.
It would be well if these women,
accustomed to the protection of
a trade union, had a union of
household servants to protect
their interests and guarantee a
decent standard of wages and
working conditions.

JEANNETTE STORM.

Bevin
To the Editor:

The recent blast of Ernest
Bevin, Britain’s new foreign
minister, against the so-called
insiduous influence of “total-
itarlan” states in the affairs of
the Balkans, should serve as a
warning to any who think that
it‘ will be all beer and skittles
now that a labor government
has succeeded the British tory
party to office in Great Britain.

There is little doubt that the
crushing victory that the Brit-
ish Party scored over the forcés
of Tory reaction indicates un-
questionably that the will of
the British people is for pro-
gressive government with a
foreign policy designed to meet
the situations posed by the new
world alignments and alliances.
But the victory of the British
Labor Party in itself will not
assure a future free from im-
perialistic intrigue. One news-
paper correspondent, covering

_the Potsdam Conference, noted

the fact that the Attlee retinue
displayed an attitude that was
“even more imperialistic with
regard to Britain’s colonial pos-
sessions” than that displayed by
Churchill. It is also well to note
that the reactionary Lord Hali-
fax, General Alexander, and
others of that stripe still re-
main in favor with the new
Labor Government.

J. MARTINSON

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PN a News Herald editorial of August 16, captioned ‘‘Storm Warning,”
figures are quoted from the monthly report of the Dominion Bureau

of Statistics showing a rapid decline in Canadian employmnent. It@was .

enlightening to learn from these statistics that the average war wage
was a.mere $55.00 per week. In view of this it was surprising to note
in a later News Herald editorial of August 21, that the editor Says,
“The task of converting from a war to a peace economy is complicated
by the inflated wages which ave been paid to war industries.”

No wonder Storm Signals are needed when an editor of a respon-
sible journal regards $35.00 weekly as high wages and laments because
the workers are reluctant to-accept lower wages based on alleged “econ-

omic realities” of the peace.

Is it not obvious that the only way that we can avoid mass unem-
ployment is to increase—not reduce— the wage level! Apparently the
scarcity complex is so fixed in certain circles they refuse to acknowledge
that the vast war time .consumption must be transformed into peace
time consumption by raising the living standards of the people.

To achieve this it is essential that the productive power of the hun-

dreds of thousands of men and women to be released from the armed
forces and those discharged from war industry be utilized in. the peace
economy. And if we are to win victory against the resurgence of the

starvation thirties, wages must be raised above the $35.00 war level so

that the purchasing power of the people can consume the total production

of total employment.

Atomic Energy

Witte the present economic system can be expert in the use of atomie

energy, functioning as destructive bombs, there is no possibility that
the vast energy of atomic power can be utilized by privately owned en-
terprise. This is demonstrated by the fact that private enterprise is in-
competent to handle undertakings even of the scope of Boulder Dam.
Just as conquering the time space by steamship and locomotive swept
away Feudalism, so will atomic energy force the transition to state
capitalism as a prelude to a Socialist World.

Editorial writers have expressed the gravest fear of the inability
of man to control this new power as a motive for suppressing knowledge
of atomic energy. We however feel that their fear is based in the prob-
ability that atomic power would wipe out vast investments in railways,
steamships, automobiles, and aeroplane industries that would become

obsolete.”

The only country which could apply atomic energy rapidly to the

benefit of all people is the Soviet Union.

No capitalist society can

rapidly develop am energy that spells the end of its own economic order.
Several columnists predicted big time laps before atomic energy could
be applied. In this attitude they ignore the facts of history. It was but a
short time after Hertzian discovered his wave impulse that Marconi had
harnessed it for universal use and the knowledge of present day scien-
tists is infinitely deeper than in Marconi’s day.

It is only the outmoded system of capitalism that will hinder the
scientists. This is why the Soviet Union is the one place on earth where
this new energy can be universally applied. This fact will impel all the
dark forces of the earth to connive at war against the only country
where knowledge brings immediate advantage to the common man.

Those columnists who fail to recognize the interference which atomic
energy would have on vested interests speak enthusiastically of the rapid
application of this energy to capitalist society. Among these is John J.
O’Neill who writing in the Seattle Times says:

“Coal when we learned to use it as a fuel and source of power,
brought the present age which made it possible for man to have days of
leisure in his week, hours of recreation in his days and at the same time
provide an era of plenty in the matter of necessities and a vast array

of luxuries and comforts.

“The amount of power now used in the United States gives each
person the daily equivalent of 37 horsepower hours of energy. On the
basis of human work output this is equivalent to each individual in the
country having several working for him every hour of the day.

“Atomie energy will increase vastly the energy available to us.
Uranium gives off 3,000,000 times as much energy as an equal weight
of coal. It will not be 3,000,000 times as cheap because of processing ex-
penses. If we are able to get the advantages of only one tenth of one
percent of this output coal will be more than 1,000 times as expensive

as uranium.

“Atomic energy will be used first in power houses, our present es-
tablishments where it will be transformed into electricity. Our homes,
factories and offices will be heated by electricity. There will be no coal
bin or furnace in any cellar. Our automobiles will eventually have atomic
energy units built into them at the factory, so that we will never have
to refuel them. They will be operated by steam engines of a new type.”

John O’Neill speaks -glowingly because he fails to realize that the

inventive achievements of the capitalist order have been enjoyed b
a small portion of the world’s population. He overlooks that the hu

of millions of peoples of China, India and Africa still live in primitive
misery despite that their lives are controlled by great capitalist powers.
Then, too, we must remind him that all the inventions of the capitalist
order could not give a decent life to people during the depression.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 1945

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