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new low in political depravity

appears in a recent copy of
the CCF News, in a letter from
Vienna over the signature of Ar-
thur Turner, CCF MLA for Van-
couver East,

After putting a false interpre-

tation on the reparations exactions
taken from Aus- aor
tria by the Sovi-
et government,
‘mostly of Ger-
man - owned
property, he re-
sorts to plain,
ordinary lying
like his fellow
party member,
Rod Young.

In the usual >
style of capitalist red-baiters he
makes the outrageously slander-
ous statement that in one Austrian
village all the women were raped
and
Army soldiers. Did he make any

‘attempt to verify this charge be-
fore rushing it into print? Could
he, on a flying visit to that coun-

try, investigate the truth of such.

an assertion so contrary to the
eharacter and discipline of the
Red army as vouched for by hun-
dreds of impartial witnesses,
seme of them social democrats?
Did he interview any of the "wo-
men alleged to have been treated
in such a capitalistic manner?
Undoubtedly not! He got the
story, after it had passed through

RE is an old saying that
the dignity of a nation is mea-

sured in the actions of its lead-
ers! If we use that rule in assess-
ing Canada’s dignity, the result
is somewhat less than 12 inches
te the foot.

Last week the Yugoslav ship,
Radnik, sailed from Montreal

with some 600

of the flower of

- Canada’s work-
ers aboard —
Canadian - Yu-

goslavs return-

ing to their

‘home - land to!

help repair the
devastation of
war and build a

“hew socialist so-
ciety. ,
Instead of thanking these work-
-érs for the great contribution they
had made to Canadian progress
and expressing regret at their go-
ing, official Canada _ sneered,
snooped, and grabbed like a small-
town tax collector. Its booty in
seizures at the dock consisted of
a quantity of washing machines
and sundry other household ef-
fects, a few kegs of nails, a last-
minute income-tax gouge of indi-
viduals, and similar other hi-
jacking activities. Reconstruction
Minister D. C. Howe is reported
to have snarled at the departing

_/ Yugoslav-Canadians that “if he
had‘his way, they would leave

with very small suitcases.”

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infected with VD by Red .

many tellings, from the mouths
oi some of jis Social Democratic
triends of the type of Rod Young,
members of the party as whose
head is Karl Renner, the Austrian
. Social Democrat who practically
welcomed Hitler with open arms.

When the Nazi rape of Austria
took place, one of Hitler’s first
moves to give some apparent jus-
tification to the “anschluss” was
to take a “plebiscite’ ’to decide
whether the. Austrian people
wanted fascism or not. On that oc-
easion Karl Renner wrote in the
Neue Wiener Tagblatt an article
in which he praised the conquest
of Austria as the fulfillment of
old Social®Democratic demands.
He stated that he was not in ac-
cord with the methods to be sure,
but that nevertheless, he would
vote “yes” and called on the Aus-
trian people to follow his example.

On the defeat of Hitler, Renner,
with the help of Anglo-American
bayonets, was placed in control of
Austria as the head of a Social
Democratic government and his
program is no different than
when he called on the Austrian
people to vote ‘“‘yes” in the alleged
plebiscite—to accomplish the same
objectivés as Hitler but by other
methods.

One of those methods is un-
doubtedly by lying and slandering
the real revolutionary movement,
the Soviet Union and the Red
army, and this is the source of
Turner’s “information,” a polluted

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well-spring further poisoned by
the intrigues of Anglo-American
imperialism.

There are people, CCF voters
who think Turner is honest, Tur-
ner may think so himself. But
Engels put the finger on such
philistines who consider they have
the right to commit any despic-
able act because they consider
themselves to be “honestly” de-
spicable. Of them he says: ‘Every
hidden motive is supported by
the conviction of intrinsic honesty,
and the more determinedly he
plots some kind of deception or
petty meanness, the more simple
and frank does he appear'to be...
this philistine is a drainpipe in
which all the contradictions of
philosophy, democracy and every
description of phrase - mongering
are mixed up in a monstrous
manner.”

“Tn their “honesty” they find ex-

cuses for a British Labor Party
which uses the same Emergency
Powers Act to defeat the London
‘dockers as the Tory Baldwin gov-
ernment used to defeat the Gen-
eral Strike of 1926; they will find
alibis for the New Zealand gov-
ernment that today is moving
against the New Zealand long-
shoremen for “interfering with
trade”, So it is not a far jump
to find one of their number in the
most shameless piece of “honest”
unadulterated lying, for a lie is no
less a lie though it comes from a
second mouth,

CCU LUC LLUMy MMC

As W

] AST week from Quebec City, _

1,500 Mennonites, men and
women and children, left their
splendid farm homes in Manito-

ba’s Red River valley and boarded
their ship Volendam to build a
new home in the fever-ridden jun-
gles of Paraguay. They took with
them all official Canada would
allow in farm machinery and
household effects, and a deep faith
in that measure of freedom they
had sought but had not found—
in Canada.

Instead of thanking these pion-

eering God-fearing men and wo-
men for the great contribution

they had made to Canadian pro-

gress and development, and ex-
pressing deep regret for broken
pledges,
the attitude of pious unconcern,
checked the goods being taken out
to see if a last dollar could not
be extracted, and’ turned its back
on an industrious sect whose faith,
toil and sweat had made the des-
ert bloom like a rose.

Like the Mayflower of a by-
gone day, the Volendam sailed for
a new Plymouth—only this time
it was Canadians outward bound
in search of freedom to till the
soil and worship as their hearts
desired. ‘

- One may disagree on the mo-
tives of the going of these two
ship, loads of men and women
from Canada’s shores, the one to
help construct a new socialist Yu-

_ goslavia—the other to build a new

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temple to their concept of free-

“dom and their God in the

malarial swamps of the Para-
guayan jungle, but one cannot ig-
nore the fact that the order of
their going constituted a mon-
strous indictment of governmental
immigration policies — policies
based upon trickery, deceit and
cheap exploitation.

Successive governmental poli-
cies of the last 50 years have
promised ‘prosperity’, a new
home, freedom, and opportunity

to Europe’s thousands who came _

to Canada. They dug our mines,
hewed the forest, laid the ‘steel.

To open our “Last Great West”
governments promised to Men-
nonites, Doukhobors and other re-
ligious sects the right to land, to
peace, and to worship, We gave
them these things... in the form
but not in content. When they
left our shores we heaped petty
cfficial opprobrium upon their
heads. :

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\VHILE our vest-pocket states
men croak their hoary swan-
song on “more immigration” and
send their Drews to Britain as
empire salesmen to perpetuate
short-sighted immigration stuPid-
ity, the Reverend J. M. Findlay of
Carlton United Church is report-
ing to the Toronto Welfare Com-
mittee on this land of “promise”:
“In 1947 more than 3,000 men
_were given hospitality (2) at
their own solicitation, in the po-
lice cells of the city. In the first
three months of 1948, more than
2,100 transient and homeless

“men have resorted to this ac-

commodation,” | ,

The sturdy pioneers on the Rad-
nik and Volenden, each in their
own setting, symbolize man’s age-
long struggle for freedom. Home-
less men, compelled to seek shel-
ter and sustenance in a prison cell,
symbolize the moral and ethical
bankruptcy of capitalist medioc-
rities—sometimes called “states-
men”.

Warmongers’ fear

HE dirty work is, being well done. Shaping up in Wash-
ington is the aggression pact that even Truman and
Marshall didn’t dare announce this spring. ‘Truman and

Marshall didn’t dare—but the iKng government boldly

offered to torpedo the UN. St. Laurent in May trumpeted
before parliament a call for a war alliance to replace the UN.

Now Ottawa rushes its salesman of death, Lester Peat-
son, to Washington to join with the U.S. in entering the
recent military pact of Britain, France and the Benelux
countries. Wall Street is constructing its juggernaut of
global aggression. The Martial Plan countries are to bear
the brunt in Europe and Canada is to be the no man’s land
directly between the U.S. and its projected victims in
Europe and Asia.

The dollar axis has torn up the Potsdam agreement.
With the connivance of Nazi elements and right-wing social
dembdcrats, they seek to make Western Germany a key
base of aggression, a club for the political and economic
subjugation of continental puppet powers. Against the
background of the Berlin crisis the time is considered ripe
to unveil the Washington war parleys, now frankly admitted
to be the “cther half” of the Martial Plan.

Canadian monopolists, busy selling the
stock and barrel to the foreign power of Wall
for profits from arming western Europe. Food is being
snatched from our tables, and a million homes lack building
so that our swollen economy can get a shot in the armaments.

What the warmongers fear most is. what the people
most desire—peace. This stands out in the brash Washing-
ton statement on why it took a long time to draft the
American, British and French demarches to Moscow. The
reason? Extreme care had to be taken- not to leave ‘any
openings in the wording for a new Soviet peace offensive.

This very fear shows that the people have the power
to save the peace. Even now the Canadian people can
unite to compel Canadian withdrawal from the war parleys
and support for the peace points proposed by Wallace and
accepted by Stalin.

It is for the trade union, the veterans, the mothers,
the youth and the church to speak up now. It is more than
time to carry forward the emergent peace movement.

This is the road of life. Failure leads to national
suicide.

people lock,
Street, thirst

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“Wake up, B.O. The 57-day cooling off period is over.”

Looking backward

(Erom the files of the People’s Advocate, July 8, 1938) :

BLUBBER BAY, B.C.—Picket lines around Pacific Lime Com-
pany’s plant here, now barely operating with scab labor, are being
maintained in face of police intimidation, in order to-force abolition
of the company’s blacklist. ’

There is a proscribed area around the plant, which, while

interfering with free movement of local residents, also necessitates.
police permits being obtained before telegraph services situated in.

company offices can be used. ; tu
Some unsuspecting Chinese laborers managed to desert the

plant recently when the strike situation became clear to them, but |

others are watched night and day by police to prevent their escape.

Quen Yip, Chinese scab herder in Vancouver, however, suc-
ceeded in rounding up 16 Chinese workers for Blubber Bay this week.

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