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Editor, Pacific Advocate:

For many months the cry of
progressive and labor forces
throughout

Canada for in-
export trade, brisk
foreign trade, opening up of
industry. and other measures
designed to stabilize Canada’s
economy and create the con-
ditions for what is termed “an
expanding home economy”, has
gone unheeded. Today big bus-
iness and capital in this coun-
try is staging a work stoppage
which can only serve to ham-
string the future of this coun-
try by attacking the income of
the purchasing public.

It is interesting to note that
in the report of the President
Dominion Bank of Canada, the
charge was made that demands
urging the government to make
expenditures was a form of
“subsidizing idleness”, and
while calling for “maintained
exports for moderate stability
and prosperfity”, he reneges on
the question of aiding foreign
nations by doubting the advi-
sability of making loans to
such nations.

One would think that the
president of a bank at least
would have some degree of
shrewdness about him, but the
stilted sentences of this pro-
tector of investment capital in-
dicae that the moguls who con-
rol the national purse strings
have much to learn from labor
and progressives. His expres-
sions also indicate that bank-
ers have their tongues in their
cheeks when speaking of “mod-
erate prosperity” and = are
softening up the public mind
for a ready acceptance of the
days of hardship to come.

In the critical days which are
approaching, there is.a need for

AT DO YOU THINK?

labor and progressives to open
up their batteries of heavy ar-
tillery - against the bankers,
bosses’ and other apologists for
capitalisms shortcomings and
contradictions. The years of the
war revealed that there is no
need, if the full potential of
Canada iis realized, for this
country to suffer the hardships
of depression. The immense pro-
duction job that was performed
by the people of Canada, the
wealth that was created for
destruction. if directed toward
the building of this country
would result in plenty for all.

Unfortunately it is to do
little better than pipe-dream if
one expects Canada’s vested in-
terests to give up their right to
profit and magnanimously op-
erate their factories and use
their capital for the betterment
of the people of this country.
Capital has shown, since V-J
Day, that it is on a sit-down of
its own, a sit-down which is
sapping the country of the
mighty strength built up to de-
feat the fascist war machine.

The issues today are sharp
and clear. Big Business has set

as its objective the destruction
of organized labor, and its next
fire will be directed at the pro-
gressive movement as’ the
spearhead of working class
struggle .The time_has arrived:
for labor and progressives to
speak out with a clear voice. to
condem the unsubtle machin-
ations of big money which are
thrusting the people of Canada
down the path to -privation and
poverty. The time has come for
labor to be prepared to utilize
the weapon of strike, of agita-
tion and organization, to de-
feat the plot of Tory-led re-
action.
James Partridge.
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tify against the Nazi overlords on trial at e
pee ee Panes, former Austrian ‘Chancellor Kurt E achuschnige
( i ho spent several years as a_ prisoner e Z1S,
ie een disvenme the case with Col. Williams, a U.S. Security

officer.

ABVOCATE — PAGE 5

Short Jabs » o Bill

What Of The Law?

QNE of Dickens’ characters makes a commentary on the law which is
the closest to the truth
august institution, one of the gods of the good bourgeois. Bumble it

was, if I remember Dickens rightly, who said, “The law is a hass.”

That comment is not only valid about the law, but is true about
many individuals invested with the so called “majesty” the same good
bourgeois imagines the whole institution to be tarred with.

From the judge to the dog-catcher down, or up rather, the muck
of legal “majesty” of which Bumble complained, seems to smother
their reason and in executing the class tasks which fall to their lot
to do, they talk and act as though they Possessed no reasoning powers
whatever. ;

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An apparently simple ten-word sentence from one of the prosy
law books, the contents of which earn for the law fraternity the false
title “learned,” will have 200 different meanings in a gathering of
200 lawyers. : :

Even in the United States Supreme Court, where the cream of
the profession sits down to read a Passage from some antiquated

is a building 30 feet high. (Don’t laugh: this actually happened in are
English law court where an injured worker was claiming *compensation.).

Not only do they seem to be unable to read, they are apparently
illiterate further in that they are unable to write well enough to make

writes a bill and when it is adopted by Parliament: and becomes statute
law, there is a genera] free-for-all among all the other lawyers as
to what it means.

When dealing with the law, where, if they shine we might be par-
doned for taking that fact as highly presumptive evidence of a mis-
spent youth, they are bad enough. But when they inject their personal
opinions, their likes and dislikes, their predilections and prejudices,
they become unbearably insulting for one thing. And in the second
place, they are almost unbelievably ignorant of what life really is

-like in the world- outside of their own juristic backyards.

ill matched pair seeking to end an -unbearable. partnership and even

But at times in their confusion, sometimes because of it, at other
times to cover it up, they utter a few grains of truth unwittingly. This

thing that we have been saying ever since there was a left-wing move-
ment. Here are his words: “I am of opinion that any person who gives
thought to the matter will realize that many false statements are of
and intelligence files and records. It is
understood that the police of any force, large or small, usually aet:
upon, and in fact could not function without, information received from
any available source, and it follows that any written record of such
information must ultimately be found te contain much that is un-

- it is incredible to me that big business,
Sanderson and Gladstone Murray, or

to embark on a campaign of lies and villification.” ;

‘Here the facts are so patent that even Mr. Justice LeBel’ is com-
pelled to admit them. But when he obtrudes his “opinions” he demon-
strates that if he is not naive, we are compelled to believe that his
“opinions” are tinted with class bias.

“It is incredible,” says this learned judge, that Big Business should
be willing to pay out its own, honest-to-goodness money to buy “palp-
able falsehoods.” If we give Justice LeBel the benefit of the doubt
when he says “it is incredible” that Big Business should want to buy
lies, he should not be sitting in judgment, for however much he may
know about the statutes, he knows nothing whatever about the world
struggles going om around him:

The whole history of the labor movement is replete with cases of

Business exploits.
Has Justice LeBel ever heard of Sacco and Vanzetti or of Tom
Mooney? These three men were railroaded, ;

gaged in a struggle to better their lives must not allow themselves to:
be fooled by the much touted “learneds.” Suspect all their decisions!

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1945