That’s what they’d like it to be

the story:

This headline appeared over a New York Times report from Calgary December 15. Said

“The province of Alberta has sometimes, and not always with good humor, been referred to as
the 49th state because it has the greatest concentration of U.S. citizens of any part of Canada.

“The United States consul at Calgary (who reports to the FBI in Washinaton on the activities
of the Alberta labor movement) estimatese that there are between 30,000 and 60,000 U.S. citizens

in the oil-boom province.

one person in 10 holds U.S. papers.”

Most of them, are in southern Alberta where it is said that roughly

Governments pass buck
as jobless ask for work

' While unemployed lineups lengthened at Dunsmuir House, the Salvation Army and
other charity handout centres during the holiday season, politicians at Victoria and Ottawa
made a political football out of the jobless crisis, passing responsibility back and forth and
ignoring the fact that destitute workers could gain no nourishment from their words.

Pressure from the labor move-
ment, which has mounted steadily
as layoffs in industry have become
more widespread, did force both
the provincial and federal govern-
ments to make some belated con-
’ cessions in benefits. But on the
main demand — jobs — both Vic-
toria and Ottawa relied on their
own optimistic predictions of a
buoyant economy in 1955.

Ottawa announced that supple-
mentary unemployment benefits
will be increased and made avail-
able for a longer period. This
action will be taken as soon as
parliament meets — but the gov-
ernment added that it doesn’t in-
tend to widen unemployment to
cover farm help, commercial fish-
ermen, certain classes of loggers
and hospital employees.

Ottawa washed its hands, too, on
help for the “unemployed employ-
ables” in British Columbia, on the
grounds that it has no evidence to
show that the province cannot
bear the burden alone.

Premier W. A. C. -Bennett
angrily replied that B.C. would
“take care of its own” but refused
to aid workers from other parts of
Canada who were attracted to this
province by glowing Social Credit
reports of a “great industrial
boom” here. oe N

Labor leaders condemned both
governments for this political
sniping and called attention to the
serious plight of the jobless.

The hungry, destitute men who
sleep in boxears and missions un-|
derstood that both governments
were using the situation for politi-
cal manoeuvring. “They want to
feed us thin soup with a teaspoon,”
said a homeless worker.

One jobless wanderer, Jean
Faubert, 46, of Montreal, spent
his last 30 cents for a dormitory
bed at the Central City Mission
on Tuesday night last week,
walked down to the railway

__ tracks when he was turned out
_in the morning, smoked his last
cigarette, and then took his life
by jumping under a CPR freight
train. :
_ The following day, in Ottawa,
Prime Minister St. Laurent said in
a New Year’s message that Can-
ada is blessed with almost un-
paralleled material well - being
which “justifies our optimism
about the future.”

Meanwhile from coast to coast|

Regina and distributed nationally

pro-Nazi views and are brashly re-
viving anti-Semitic lies now current
in Western Germany.

They are beaming these stories
at the German-Canadian popula-
tion which stood at 619,995 in the
1951 census. Thousands more who
came in the years 1952-54 as new
immigrants should be included in
the reading audience now being

confronted with Der Courier
stories.

Edited by Herr Rehwald, who
records himself as a Sudeten-

German driven out of Germany by
the Nazis, the paper has run ar-
ticles by Otto Strasser, recently
given permission to return to
Western Germany to lead a Nazi
revenge movement. Strasser was
one of those who originally team-
ed up with Hitler to build the
Nazi party.

In a recent issue, Der Courier
ran an article under the pen name
of Spectator Politicus which out-
lined a purported agreement be-
tween Bernard Baruch, Sir Win-
ston Churchill and Andrei Gromy-
ko whereby the world was to be
divided. into Communist and non-
Communist “spheres of influence.”
Mendes-France is reputed to have
joined the plot.

“Mendes-France,’ the commen-
tator wrote, “connected with Bar-
uch through race and common
interest in international high. fin-
ance, was assigned the task of
carrying out the arrangement in
Indoching.” ;

The story was picked up by a
news agency in Stuttgart and
circulated to the German press.
Christian Science Monitor cor-
respondent Ernest S. Pisko track-

the jobless lines grow longer.

ing the roots of the story down.

Der Courier revives
Nazi propaganda lies

One of Canada’s biggest German-language weeklies published in

is carrying stories reminiscent of

the anti-Semitic propaganda excesses of the Hitler regime.

Emboldened by official Ottawa approval to the rearming of the
Nazis, the editors of Der Courier, have dropped their silence on their

said “Goebbels could not have
invented a more ludicrous and
Poisonous story.”

Recently Der Courier editorials
have praised U.S. Senator Mc-
Carthy,

China outlines
trade proposals

WINDSOR

Canada and China could trade
to mutual advantage: in Canadian,
Swiss or sterling currency, Chin-
ese trade officials have advised of-
ficers of the Chrysler Unit of the
United Auto Workers union.

The China National Import and
Export Association; in a letter to
John McArthur of Local 195 edy-
cational committee, said there was
a big market in China for Cana-
dian wheat, lead, copper, paper,
motor cars and trucks.

The letter from the Peking or-
ganization came to Chrysler union
officers with the approval of Chin-
ese Foreign Trade Minister Yet
Chi Chuang.

“As regards the trade between
Canada and China,” the letter

reads, “there has been a long rec-
ord in the past. But just as stated
in your letter, the normal inter-
flow of trade between us has been
hampered of late by certain artifi-
cial. barriers. ;

“We are of the opinion that if|-

Sina-Canadian trade could be de-
veloped further, all commodities
such as wheat, lead, copper, paper,
motor cars, trucks, ete., from Can-
ada can find a ready market in
China. On the other hand our
traditional exvorts such as bristles,
tung oil, walnut meat, peanuts,
carpets, embroideries, ornaments,
etc., can also be supplied to you in
the days to come.” :

(One year ago, November © 12,
1953, president C. B. Thomas of
the Chrysler Export Corporation
in the U.S. said China’s market
was a big one. If the U.S. govern-
ment would lift its restrictions,
Chrysler would enter the Chinese
market in a big way, he added.)

‘The letter to Local 195 Chrysler
Unit trade unionists was a three-
page long account of how trade
could be brought about. On the
matter of:payment, “barter with
balancing of import and export;
straight credit payment both in

sterling and also in Swiss francs,”
were advanced as methods.

“Payment settlement in Cana-
dian currency is also feasible,’’. the

letter pointed out, “provided an ~

agreement could be reached by
the relevent banks on both sides.

“However, it must be pointed
out in this connection, that we
cannot use U.S. currency as a
means of payment as it has already
lost its function as an intermediary
for the foreign trade with China
ever since exchange in the U.S.
dollars was frozen arbitrarily by
the U.S. government in 1950 with-
out any ground whatsoever.

“We are of the belief that the
development of trade is not only
beneficial to the peoples of our
two countries but also helpful in
securing world peace.”

U.S. dividends
at $10 billion

: NEW YORK

A record-breaking total of $10,-
100,000,000 in cash dividends was
disbursed dy American corpora-
tions in 1954, establishing a new
all-time peak. f

This total compared with $9,550,-
060,000, the previous record, in
1958, and with $5,823,000,000 in
historic 1929.

Aircraft, utility, chemical, elec-
trical equipment, machinery and
metals, paper, petroleum and na-
tural gas, railroad, rubber and
steel companies increased pay-
ments. Stock dividends ranging
from 2% percent to 100 percent
and extra or special dividends
Were again distributed in volume.

Decreases in dividends were
Made by some automobile, farm

equipment, and textile companies. —

_ General Motors led all companies
in cash payments for the year
with $437,330,000.

DEVELOP B.C. RESOURCES--PROVIDE NEW JOBS

“ DETITION

_ NAME

To His Honor the Lieutenant-Governor-in-Council, Parliament Buildings, Victoria, B.C.

WE. THE UNDERSIGNED RESIDENTS OF BRITISH COLUMBIA, CALL UPON OUR GOVERNMENT
TO SEE THAT BRITISH COLUMBIA’S NATURAL GAS AND WATER RESOURCES ARE DEVELOP-
ED UNDER CANADIAN CONTROL, AND USED IN THE INTERESTS OF OUR PEOPLE AND FOR |
THE INDUSTRIAL GROWTH OF OUR PROVINCE

ADDRESS

SPONSORED BY B.C-YUKON COMMITTEE, LABOR-PROGRESSIVE PARTY
CLUP AND MAIL TO ROOM 502 - FORD BUILDING, VANCOUVER 4, B.C.

; PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 7, 1955 — PAGE 2

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