LPP ADDRESS TO PEOPLE OF CANADA Stop U.S. from dragging Canada into war, McCarthyism, slump LLOWING is the fext of the Address to the People of Can- ada issued by the fifth national convention of the Labor-Progres- sive party over the signature of Tim Buck, LPP national leader, following the party’s convention in Toronto, March 25-28: Fellow-Canadians: For several days the delegates to the fifth national convention of the Labor-Progressive. party met to devote themselves to fash- ioning public policies to meet the crisis which is overtaking our country. We have unanimously agreed that everything points to such a crisis—in foreign policy, in demo- eracy, in the economy of Canada. Step by step this country is being taken over by the United States; we have been turned into a satel- lite of the U.S. monopolies by the St. Laurent government and the opposition parties in parliament. “Present foreign policy has ex- posed Canada to the horrible danger of being hurled into a hydrogen-bomb war by a decree of President Eisenhower. Democracy is in danger with the enactment of the new Crim- inal Code, which makes it a cap- ital offense to criticise the oc- cupation of Canadian territory by U.S. troops. All branches of our economy— industry, agriculture, commerce —are slowing down and facing depression, more than half a mil- lion workers are out of work, farmers are up against it, and Questions for McCarthy SEaTOR Joseph NicCarthy’s claim to high-mindedness and a purity of purpose are open to serious questioning. U.S. researchers have uncover- ed a wealth of data about his dealings. Put in a witness-box he would be asked to answer these questions: How did you manage to bank $172,000 in four years on a senator’s salary of $15,000? Why did you use $7,000 advanced by Alvin Bentley of Owosso, Michigan, on October 29, 1952, to speculate in the soy bean market? How did your brother William P. McCarthy, employ- ed as a truck driver, acquire $10,000 to play the market? families are facing severe hard- ships. Our convention declared that these threats to our security and peace are not necessary! They are the results of policies which betray the true interests of our country to the USA. The government continues to reject a policy of peace through negotiations and has tied us to the war-mad U.S. trusts. The government has retreated before hateful McCarthyism and undermines Canadian democracy at the orders of the U.S. state de- partment. ; The government has rejected world trade, and tied Canada to the shaky U.S. economy; it re- fuses to develop Canadian indus- tries, but allows the U.S. to own and control our industries and natural resources, to do as they like with them. We are confident that Canadian democracy is not powerless be- fore those threats to the peace, order and good government of Canada. The people can change the course of affairs. We can have peace. We can defend demo- cracy. We can defeat the threat of another depression. Whet is necesssary is that every Canadian democrat and patriot should speak up — demand new policies: that Put Canada First. -The government must de- clare that it is opposed to the H-Bomb experiments, that the atomic weapon must be ~banned, that the road to peace is through negotiation, that war must be out- lawed. The new Criminal Code must not pass the House of Commons as it is now written —but a Bill of Rights must first be-adopted by parliament so that no government can ever take away Canadian civil liberties. The government must open up trade with all countries, including the socialist countries, start now to build the All-Cana- dian Seaway and Trans-Canada Pipeline and other public works, and develop Canadian industry and agriculture to meet the needs of expanded world trade. The government must in- crease unemployed bene- fits, guarantee parity prices to the farmers, provide jobs for the workers, and take emergency action to keep our factories run- ning and our farms producing for Canada and the people of other countries. No More Hungry Thirties! These policies will Put Canada First and stop the U.S. from drag- ging Canada into war, McCarthy fascism and depression. Canadians! In your unions, ratepayers’ associations, farm. or- ganizations, youth and women’s organizations, churches, and indi- vidually — make these things known to your MP, your provin- cial member, your city, town or municipal council! Fellow Canadians! The fifth national convention calls upon all who agree with our policy and program to join the ranks of the LPP. To defend your families and homes against the threats of eco- nomic crisis, McCarthyism and the Hell bomb, join the party that fights to Put Canada First— Unite for Canadian indepen- dence, democracy and peace! Put Canada First! ' { MOM Ce OL LL at el Prayer from Wall Street LORD who watches the Atlantic And keeps us safe from every antic Of foreign spy and Red romantic I’m worried, Lord, I‘m nearly frantic, Hear my plea— Send help to me. My TV sets, my soap, my fridges, 3 My cars and planes, my dams and bridges, My DDT against the, midges Vil have to dump If you permit that terror which is * Not called a slump They’ve told me it’s a slight recession, A minor localized depression, A psychological repression, To think naught of if. But Lord, it’s having an impression Upon my profit. And though our wise administration Of course avoids each implication Of crisis leading to inflation, One fear prevails— That unemployment and starvation | Affect my sales. O Lord, I know I must be sensible. To panic would be reprehensible, Un-American and indefensible, Or even worse, But guard agatnit the. Great Unmentionable * My heart and purse. And if to you, who knows things best, : 1 dare to whisper or suggest— One plan would give my racked mind rest _ If you will bless it. Find us some nation unoppressed And we'll oppress it. © Lord who guards our sacred shores Send us some bigger, better wars And we'll supply the arms.and stores (Though not the men) And all the glory shall be yours. Amen, Amen. Honor Arundel an ti i 18) tee JEN SBUENENE f t ‘ “Ne could never get into a drainpipe shelter.’ OTM O Un OnE arte UM ee ee gen Sen TE ITE Gt Yi Tn) SEC) ai an) St Tn) nT ae) . MEL COLBY | ikl ue THOSE cretins in Washington have just exploded their third H-bomb and state they’ll touch ‘another off this summer. Every twisted action shows that their tortured minds yearn to commit the world to suicide. The first U.S. H-Bomb was exploded many months ago; it wiped out a Pa- cific island ten miles long by five miles wide. One second the is- land was there, then just a hole in the ocean. Yet this potential horror is ac- cepted quite casually by some sections of the big business press. Editors discuss the Bomb in terms of it putting out the lights if one is dropped. | The suggestion is that there is something romantic about eating in candlelight. are seriously accepted for “Rad- iation Umbrellas” and “Radiation Capes.” The Bomb is turned in- to a dollar-getter in much the same way that Billy Graham would sell tickets to seats in Hell if he thought the curious would buy them. : “One of the safest places to be during an atomic explosion is in a frozen-food locker,” according to George R. Scheimer of the New se Frozen-Food Locker Associa- fon! This is one of capitalism’s an- swers to the atom bomb and it can be taken for granted that eGn- eral Electric and Westinghouse, ' chagrined because Dr. Scheimer got there ‘first with his .sale-pro- motion idea, will suggest that the best protection from the Bomb will be to crawl into the record compartment of a radio-phono- graph. / 6 Tf you haven’t a frozen-food locker handy you can buy (for $750) a family-size drain pipe bomb shelter that a Vancouver firm is touting. j _ “You put the shelter in your backyard where the house won’t fall on it,” explains a member. of the firm. “When you hear an air-aid warning, you dash into it and stay put.” However, if you feel that the PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 9, 1954 — PAGE 4 Advertisements | TRUST MU RIRIE PO fi) i ie tet ti ee _drainpipe type shelter would cramp your style you are em- couraged to purchase an “atomie shelter house” being built by F. B. Sirotek, an Ottawa contractor- His “shelter” is built in the corner of the basement of am “atomic shelter house” and cor sists of a series.of four-by-four wooden supports which are sur- rounded by sandbags piled to the ceiling. i There is happy news for those who are immune to the effect of explosion but who, get a_ nasty headache when exposed to radio- active dust. A group of Can bridge researchers have announc- ed that the best antidote to radio- ‘tion poison is citrus juices. A London newspaper quotes one of the grapefruit’ scientists as stat- ing “the results have staggered us.” They may have been stag- gered but it wasn’t from, drinking fruit juice. aie e@ Amid all this confusion we aré glad to report that there are some who take the atom-bomb serious: ly. Major-General F. F. Worthing- ton is on record warning Cana- dians that ifan A-Bomb was drop- ped on an Ontario highway the re- sult could “snarl traffic for / miles.” This keen observation 15 on par with coming to the corr clusion that fine old crystal cat be dented if struck smartly with a hammer. | eee Well there you have some simple solutions: keep out of A- bomb traffic snarls; grab a hand ful of grapefruit and shut your- self in a frozen-food locker which has been stored in a family-siz@ drainpipe placed in the basement of an “atom shelter house.” ? Your other choice is to beg!” demanding that no more bombs be dropped, even in practise. And we can start insisting that our government go on record pledg- ing that Canada will never be the first to use atomic weapons. A start has to be made some where. Otherwise sciente will come up with the Whoof Bomb— | and we'll all disappear. .