The Unfree _ ‘Free World | LESLIE: MORRIS and pundits are so busy. talking about? “Free world’’ is one of the weasel phrases which burrow into people’s Minds by constantly gnawing at them and paralyze their ability to'think for themselves. Let’s take a short look at the. “free _ World”. It means, of course, the capitalist world. How do peo- _ ble fare in that best of all possible worlds which we are sup- » bosed to be ready to be atomized for? * * * EVELOPED capitalist countries like U.S.A., Canada, France, Belgium and so on, with one-quarter of the capitalist ‘ world’s population, contain 90 percent of all capitalist industrial production. Lest “industrial production” is consider- €d to be an abstract phrase, read instead: boots, shoes, houses, bicycles, automobiles, drugs and medicines, clothing, washing Machines, vacuum cleaners, household utensils, agricultural Implements and fertilizers, machines to make these things,, Ybewriters, radios, television sets; in short, all the things _ We may take for granted but which three-quarters of the | beople of the ‘free world’ go without because they haven’t got € means to make them, and must. import them at high prices }} from the “have” countries. * %* % a a | HE part of the “free world” with three-quarters of its g population that hasn’t got these necessities, is made up : mainly of millions of peasants in India, Pakistan, Burma, 3 Tndonesia, Central and South America, and Africa, who culti- ; || Vate their land (when they have it) by the same primitive ' Methods as did their grandfathers and great-grandfathers. 4 “his part of the capitalist world has about one-tenth of its } ‘Ndustrial output. According to the United Nations, six out of 10 of the | Population, of the countries of the “free world,’ over 1,000 | Million people, are constantly on the verge of starvation, or are A Starving. Hundreds of millions have never in their-lives had a Square meal. Yet, science says, the earth can feed, not 3,000 4, Million people, its present population, but many times more. % %* % EALTH requires that there be a doctor for at least 500 or 600 people. In the U.S.A., Canada and France there is a a doctor for every 800 or 900. But for the majority of a the people of the ‘free world” there is only one doctor per { 30,000 to 50,000 inhabitants. In some sections of South Africa, alf the children die before they are 16. * *% * HESE are the bitter fruits of imperialism. No wonder the| millions of people of these countries hate imperialism ! and fight to throw off its yoke so that their countries ) fan become independent and the battle against poverty won, 8S only a free people can win it. | In the socialist countries which John Diefenbaker wants 10 be “liberated,” presumably so that they can be “free” to *eturn to such conditions as have been described here, illiter- Y has been almost wiped out; public health has achieved World records; industrialization and the development of farm- & have reached the point where soon these not-so-long-ago ackward countries will produce more than the “free world” | >and with the six-hour day, 30-hour week at that. Cd x * HAT we have given you here are cold figures. But be- hind each unit of these figures lies a starving child, a distracted mother, a harrassed father trying to scrape h to keep body and soul together. These people are in revolt against the hated “free world” hich has sentenced them to life-long suffering and ‘held pack the development of their countries by sucking their life- blood to fatten the City of London, the Monds, the King “€opolds: of Belguim, the Morgans, Rockefellers, Kennedys ®nd the rest of the pirate crew whose day is done. : © Who Said lt? “. . Make no mistake about it |... we buy and Control our Presidencies. And by we,.I mean the five 1} Men. seated right here at this table (an oil tycoon, a ; | West coast banker, and three other banker-industrial- t/ ists) and a few of our friends. back home. We make | Mistakes sometimes. (like FDR), but usually we win ho matter which party wins.” €nou g HAT is the real picture of the ‘free world” the politicians pe q if PRESIDENT NKRUMAH of Ghana, charged this week in| a telegram to U.N. Secre- tary-General Dag Hammar-| skjoeld that the U.S., Britain | and. France were ‘‘support- ing Belgium in her attempts to regain control over the Congo.” He announced that nine independent African states were considering the establishment -of an African High Command with mili- tary planning headquarters, which would aid any Afri- can country finding itself in circumstances such as the Congo. | ‘District 18 Coal Miners Win Award | Members of District 18, Un- ited Mine Workers of Ameri- ca this week signed an agree- | ment with steam coal opera- | tors on the basis of the major- ity award of a conciliation board. The board award granted a two year agreement from July 2, 1960 to July 3, 1962, with 5c an hour the first year and another 5c the next year. The award was accepted by the miners but rejected by the coal. operators. In the strike vote that followed on Nov. 24 the coal operators sent a personal letter to all union members through the mail urging them not to vote for ‘strike. Despite this interference by the operators the miners vot- ed overwhelming for strike by’ 1,159 votes, The unity of the miners and the overwhelming strike vote is credited with the victory. PT DRIVE As the PT went to press the sub drive was nearing the 1400 mark. Next week ‘we will publish the full re- (Turn to Page 12 for Name of Author) sults of the drive. against 323. | | CAPITALISM IN | AGRICULTURE | The following | cialism in Canada,” the pro- | gram of the Communist Party ; of Canada. What a clear and profound description of farm- | ing there is in these brief 325 words! come concentrated in ever fewer hands. This process div- ides the farm population into distinct economic groups. At one pole among the farmers are the large-scale owners with sufficient capital to buy the necessary machinery, employ- ing wage-labor and produce at a lower cost and obtain greater returns than the average farmer. other pole are the farmers, the quately equipped, hire labor and often compelled to work for wages, forced to smallest of land, or rents for land. The majority of farmers constantly tends to be pressed by econo- est category. “The farm laborers are wage workers. They constitute a part of the working class, pro- ducing profits for their em- ployers. “Among the large-scale far- mers and the medium and small farmers and the farm la- borers and their employers, an economic struggle takes place. Many farmers are forced eith- er to leave the land altogether or are reduced to bare subsis- tence levels, “Thus the farm population is not a homogeneous class, but “Capitalism operates in agri- | ; culture as it does in industry. Land and capital tend to be- | At the} | more and more is divided into poorest, inade-| conflicting economic groups as unable to Peaceful co-existence correct way says Pravda | FARM | |NOTES| MOSCOW — In a world divided between socialism and capitalism, peaceful. co-exist. ence is the only correct policy, declared the Communist Party newspaper Pravda last week in an editorial marking the third anniversary of the Dec- | laration and Peace Manifesto, extract. is} 'taken from “The Road to So- | | ers’ Parties. adopted in 1957 by a confer- ence of Communist and Work- “While imperialism exists there will also remain the soil for aggressive, predatory wars and a threat to peace,” says | the editorial, adding that there is already a real possibility of countering the threat to war. The forces of peace are al- ready stronger than those of war and they are growing | stronger daily. The editorial says the inter- lests of Communism require that all Communists continue the resolute struggle both | against revisionism and against able to) and solidarity of the interna- dogmatism and for the unity tional Communist movement. the laws of concentration of capital and production in agri- | culture take their toll of the exploit the labor of the fam- | ily, and unable to pay the in-| creasingly high purchase price |} formerly independent produc< er. “The financial indus- and | trial monopolies of the cities | dominate | ture. Farmers are compelled to mic forces down into the poor-| Canadian agricul- pay high monopoly prices for industrial goods, while the prices they get for their pro- duce are set by the powerful packing, milling, grain hand- ling and railway monopolies. Monopoly capital fleeces the farmers through its control of markets, prices and credits. It is now extending its domina- tion of the production of many farm goods by means of verti- cal integration, whereby the farmers, under the pressure of economic difficulties, are com- pelled to enter the unequal and penalizing contracts toe produce for the monopolies. PoE . es = eo Photo shows a Remembrance Day demonstration in Montreal put on by the students. Similar demonstrations took place in Saskatoon and Winnipeg. December 2, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 11