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Down goes your dollar

OUSING rents are up from ten to twenty percent.

The prices lid is off. All that remains now is for the
King government to throw it away — as it has done
with all other pious ‘assurances’ given in recent months in
reply to widespread pubic pressure for continued price
control.

The tory profiteers, with Liberal backing, are winning
the day right down the line. The wage-earner’s dollar is
being ruthlessly slashed, ten percent at a lop.

A delegation of Canadian housewives visited Ottawa
to impress upon the government the urgency of ‘holding
the price line.’ Finance Minister D. C. Abbott listened

politely to what these Canadian women had to say; had
his picture taken in their midst, smiling pleasantly anon—
and then clipped another ten percent off the value of their
rent dollar! All this commotion on the scarcity and price
of butter and other essential foodstuffs is ‘just so much
newspaper speculation’ warbled gold dust twins Abbott and
Howe, knowing full well that the tory profiteers were even
then tearing the battered price lid off in a final triumph of
‘free enterprise.’

Today there is practically no price ceiling left, and what
little remains is on a par value with Donald Gordon’s
numerous ‘assurances’ that ‘price ‘decontrols would have
little effect on living costs.’ The lifting of the rent ceiling
alone takes some 50-million dollars out of the pockets of
wage earners, farmers and small business people, and trans-
fers it into the pockets of Big Business. And the rent boost
is only one item. The overall result of the sweeping re-
moval of price controls clips a minimum of approximately
35c off every worker’s dollar.

Restrictive labor legislation and red-baiting will not
aid the profiteers in getting away with this price looting ot
the public. The trade unions are moving into line for
action and big strike movements are in the offing to win
substantial wage increases as a counter against skyrocket-
ing prices. The onus of the necessity for such action rests
squarely upon the government and the price racketeers.
It is they, and not labor and the people, who have chosen
the path of depression and industrial unrest. It is they
who must accept responsibility for labor’s refusal to be
systematically robbed.

Bill 39 will fail

NTIL a month ago British Columbians could boast that

they had the most progressive labor legislation of any
Canadian province. Today they can no longer say so. The
passage of Bill 39 has changed all that. The best they can
say now is that B.C. has caught up with Duplessis’ Que-
bec in retrogressive labor laws.

Despite all the representations Sar to the Hart-
Anscomb government by the trade union movement, wide
public support for labor’s demands, and the splendid struggle
put up by CCF MLAs and Labor’s Tom Uphill—despite
all this, the Coalition went down the road to a man with
the CMA-inspired drive against labor and the people.

Even Labor Minister Pearson’s ‘sympathies with labot’
failed to stand up to the crucial test. Pearson chose to aid
the CMA put a dog-collar on his ‘friends’!

Labor will not be daunted by this fleeting tory victory.
The inflationary spiral let loose by the tory profiteers and
their government through ‘price decontrol’ makes big wage
struggles as inevitable as tomorrow. Reaction is hoping
by restrictive labor laws and anti-communist slanders to
terrorize labor into acceptance of lower standards of life as
a safeguard to profits, By restrictive laws and the outworn
tactic of stalling, it hopes to destroy collective bargaining—
to rob labor of its right to strike. In this it will fail.

The tory-coalition has thrown down a challenge to
labor. It must be met by a maximum of labor unity-—
broader than all the ‘isms’ in labor. The trade unions,
veterans, old age pensioners, small business people, the
CCF and the LPP, must get together to back the first
union that challenges Bill 39 on the picket line, and from
that struggle develop the political struggle which will send
the Tory-Liberal Coalition into oblivion, replacing it with
a people’s coalition that will restore B.C. to its honored

place as a progressive province.
FRIDAY, APRIL ll, 1947

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From Oswiecim to PRI

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_As we see it

ARNCRINAA AAT

Q* April 3 a Polish Tribunal
sentenced Rudolf Hoess, com-
mandant of the Oswiecim nazi
concentration camp, to death for
the murder of four million hu-
man beings. Hoess supervised
the killing of three million Jews,
plus one million other men, wo-
men, and children from a dozen
European countries. The enor-
mity of the crime of this one
death-camp staggers the imagin-
ation... In his defense this Nazi
fiend questioned the State’s fig-
ures of four millions, and de-
clared ‘his count only totalled
two and one-half millions.’ Hoess
admitted responsibility for car-
rying out the mass extermina-
tion, but whined that ‘he was
only carrying out the orders of
his superiors.’

Three million Jews—men,
women and children—the aged
and the babe in arms. Oswiecim
was operated with a diabolical
capitalist efficiency—and was
only one of a chain of similar
death factories designed to ex-
terminate a whole people. In a
period of two years, from 1941
to 1943, Hoess ‘only’ murdered
2,500,000 human beings.

While men grope among the
ruins and devastation of the past
decade seeking the road back to
security and life, voices are al-
ready loud in the demand for
more blood. The ‘war on com-
munism’ enunciated in the new
‘Truman doctrine,’ and with the
full backing of Anglo-American

‘imperialism, has brought all the

fascist rats out of their holes.
In Duplessis’ Quebec the crude
forgeriés of the ‘protocols of
Zion’ are again being freely
spread in the printed word—the
self-same anti-Semitic forgeries
upon which Rudolf Hoess based
his’ ‘moral’ right (if the term
moral can be applied to a Nazi)
to murder four million humans.
The fascist Arcand has announc-
ed that he is “confidentially
waiting for the day’ to put his
‘program’ into effect—a program
founded on fascist-inspired forg-
eries .of history and society.

T? the world of Jewry this is
the week of: Passover, to
Christians it is Easter, and to
Moslems the time of pilgrimage
to the hallowed earth near Jeri-
cho, the resting place of the
Prophet Moses. The ceremonial
pilgrimages differ but the hope
of each is universal. A handful
of Christians traverse the Via
Doloroso (Way of Sorrows)
which Christ travelled nineteen
centuries ago from Pilate’s tri-
bunal to Calvary. The Jew at
the Wailing Wall of Jerusalem
pours out his centuries of sor-
row and’ persecution and seeks
deliverance from hjs_ ceaseless
wandering which has taken him
from Egypt to Oswiecim, Maia-
enek or Daschau, and from
thence, with bloody feet and
heavy heart, across the face of
Europe—to another concentra-
tion camp.

In each ceremonial in the Holy
Land during the past week, each
worshipper, regardless jof his
creed, had to wend his or her
way back through millions of
feet of good British barb-wire,
symbol of the new Pharoahs who
calculate human life in terms of
oil and world power.

‘No,’ says the Nazi butcher
Hess, “I only killed two and
one-half million.’

‘No/ says Bevin of Britain,
‘the Holy Land of the Balfour
Declaration is impractical. Con-
siderations of security allow only.
of limited Jewish immigration to
Palestine.’ Not from Egypt to
the Promised Land oh Israel,
but what is left of you, from
Oswiecim to Cyprus.

A nice point this ‘considera-
tions of security,’ much like the
Hoess whine about ‘carrying out
orders.’ For ‘considerations of
security’ the gentile Irish rebel
Jim Connolly and his comrades
were shot to death in Easter

week of 1916 because they dream-

ed and worked for a free Ireland.
For ‘considerations of security’

countless thousands of Moslems

By Tom McEwen

and Hindu workers have been
shot down in the streets of
every Indian city and town, be-
cause they sought freedom to
live their own lives. For ‘con-
siderations of security’ the Jew-
ish Passover to the (Psomised
Land is detoured by all the arm-
ed might of British imperialism,
and the »Union Jack’ serves the
swastika in the Cyprus concen-
tration compounds.

N the current issues of nu-

merous Jewish periodicals
are many rabbinical and other
messages of ‘courage and greet-
ing at this Passover season.
From some of these messages
one can gather something of thé
indestructability of a people who
have eaten the bread of afflic-
tion’ for many centuries, and iD
turn given humanity a_ great
measure of its science, culture
and art. In the Jewish Wester?

‘Bulletin Rabbi Pastinsky say

‘But even in our own times is
it important that we should al
ways remember that the day
may come when we may be
obliged again to take up the
wanderer’s ‘staff, even as it has
occurred before our eyes. .-~-

Looking at the Nazi death-
camps in Europe where untold
millions of Jews perished, or at
the remnants trekking across
the face of the earth for a place
they could call home, with every
door except that of a concentra-
tion camp closed against ther
looking at the imperialist men-
ace of a new atomic devastation
preparing to be unloosed, or:at
the apathy with which so-called
Christians accept the admission
of a Hoess, that ‘I only killed
two and a half million,’ is it any
wonder that a Rabbi must tell
his people that a new flight from
Egypt may be imminent, but that
the Promised Land is still far
beyond the horizon of human
vision.

‘Wasn't it too bad it rained oP
Easter? I just couldn’t wear MY
new spring hat.’

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