PEACES =

“Is there anyone in this country
Who sincerely wants peace, who
cannot support these proposals
—which are implicit in our peace
petition ?

There is no doubt, the former
United Church missionary added,
that the Stockholm Appeal had
prevented the U.S. from using the
atomic bomb in Korea. “I haven’t
any doubt that had it not been for
world public opinion expressed in
the petition, they would have drop-
Ped a dozen atom bombs on the
Korean armies around the beach-
head,” he said. ;

Asked about the growing pro-
paganda to promote the idea that
war is inevitable; Dr. Endicott
Said:

“War is not inevitable, even now.
While world peace is seriously
endangered, it is possible for the
Peace forces in the world to stop
the spread of war. It is our res-
Ponsibility to make the peace
forces ag powerful as_ possible.
The United Nations was set up to
Nid the world of the scourge of
War and we are determined to
Make it function.”

To make the UN function for
peace, the People’s Republic of
China must be admitted, said the
Peace Congress leader. “The In-
dian government of Premier Neh-
Tu has warned the UN that the
Continued refusal to seat China
May mean the break up of the
Organization,” he -said.

He drew attention also to the
Congress position on the Korean
Conflict which calls for (a) an im-
Mediate end to the bombardment
of civilian populations; (b) cessa-
tion of hostilities; (c) withdrawl
Of all foreign troops; and (d) a
hearing of both parties concerned
by the UN.

Miss Mary Jennison told the
Press conference that the Peace
Congress would send 20 delegates
to the World Conference in Britain
In November. Twelve have already
en nominated, she said, of whom
SIX are trade unionists, one MLA,
One farmer, a representative of the
Congress of Canadian Women,
legates representing the nation-
al groups and one from the cul-
tural: field.

“In addition,” said Miss Jenni-
Son, “there wil] be delegates rep-
Tesenting French Gamada, the
Youth organizations and the na-
tonal council of the Peace Con-
8ress,”

On October 1, in connection with

orld Peace Day, cities’ across the
Ration will organize special events,

Was announced.

In Toronto there will be a peace |
yin Massey Hall; in Van-
‘iia a' weekend piace festival;
Sims innipeg a public meeting.
rater events, parades, mass can-
jeep and other forms of peace
~*Monstrations are being organized
Many centers.
« October has been set aside as
ore month”, during which an
ea ®nsive campaign will be launch-
4 to achieve the 500,000 objective
bri the petition campaign and to

Ng the new proposals of the
re tld peace movement into the

alm of public discussion.

Civic workers
Short-changed
On setflement

HAMILTON
p “a thousand striking ciyic em-
the <S 8te back at work without
-hour week which could
T been won.
Provig unsatisfactory settlement
Quetion for an immediate re-
44 4, n of the working week from
ome 42 hours at the same take-
hour pay and promises the 40-
Cept Week in 1952. Workers, ex-
imm Sarbage men who will get an
m host increase of 2% cents
More oy Will get one dollar a week
& Week’ January and a 50 cents
Nise ie bonus for every 1% point
Th hs living costs.

ton © Settlement reflects §Hamil-
Sehtimerrs , of Control’s anti-labor
the “Mt, its refusal to recognize
the Union’s original demands for
Our week and a 10-cent
Se, and its approval of police
ation.

Chinese people sign for peace

tat
The people of China are demonstrating to the world that they
want only to live in peace. Sixty million Chinese have already signed
the stockholm Appeal and the objective has been raised to 150 million

Signing the world peace petition.

names, These pictures show (left) soldiers of the Chinese People’s
Liberation Army demobilized to work on the land, and (right) workers

Working people carry tax
load of war program as
monopolies amass profits

Finance

When

By BECKIE BUHAY

Minister Douglas Abbott brought in his highly unpopular “pop and

candy” budget, the daily press wrote about it as though the working people really had some-
thing to be thankful for—they had been let down easily because the 20 percent increase in
personal income taxes predicted by the same daily press had not materialized.

The prospect is, however, that
the income tax increase will mat-
erialize at the next session of
parliament, Abbott intimated as
much, and current inspired speech-
es about the need for “sacrifices”
and giving up our “comfortable”
living, “working harder and for
longer hours” bears out the grim
prospect.

The only people who are getting
off easily are the big corporations,
and they are benefitting by the
war program for which working
people are being forced to pay.

The story of how the people are
being fleeced by “indirect” taxa-
tion, as well as by direct taxes, Is
quite revealing.

During the past decade, al-
though they have made un-
precedented profits of more than
$25 billion, the monopolies have
-in corporation taxes.
income taxes, which fall heaviest
on 85 percent of the population,
amounted to double that figure
—$5,399,000,000. :

Even the Excess Profits Tax,
which was in operation from 1942
to 1947 only brought in $2,688,000, -
000, and 20 percent of this was re-
funded after the war. This was
less than half the amount raised
by personal income tax over a ten-
period.

But it is not only through a
personal income tax which bears
heaviest on the lower brackets and
general price increases that work:
ers pay envelopes are raided. Dur-
ing the past ten years, indirect
taxes (excise duties and _ taxes,
sales and other taxes on consumer
goods) have taken out of the
pockets of working and middle
class people the staggering sum
of $6,'305,170,000.

year

-fiseal year 1949-50 affords
a Tao a Sean of this legalized
robery. Direct taxes (income and
on) amount to $1,254,000,-
Abbott’s latest tax).
Indirect taxes (also including Ab-
pott’s latest taxes) amount to
$1,062,000,000. Before Abbott added
his latest imposts it was estimated
that 49 percent of anager
revenue came from direct and 3%
percent from indirect taxes.

corporati
000 (including

year’s consumers’ taxes
twice as much as cor-
g some 28

This
amount to tbe
poration taxes, coverin

categories. Federal sales tax brings

in $390,174,000.

Excise duties and taxes
tobacco, cigarettes andcigarette
papers alone contribute almost
$191 million, which means that
en every package of cigarettes
you buy you pay 24 cents trib-
to the government,

Close on another $100 million
comes from taxes on the children’s
chocolate bars, chewing gum and
pop, and from the working man’s
glass of beer.

Finally —-
underlined --

and this should be
in most provinces

you have to add amusement, sales |

and other taxes, in some, hospital

taxes, as well as municipal water, |

gas, electric and property taxes.

Without municipal taxes, every
family contributes $460 to -the
overall tax bill, at least $220 in the

wnaividual: | form of hidden taxes.

Nor is this all. Taxes on com-
modities have g tendency to in-
crease prices all along the
When taxes are increased on tires
for instance, big companies using
truck transportation seize the op-
portunity to increase prices on the
plea that their ‘‘costs” have risen.

Living costs are up almost 68
percent since 1939. Since June
there has been the _ sharpest
single jump of 6.5 in the cost of
living index (almost three times
that of 36 months of the Second
World War). Higher living costs
and heavier taxation make it
clear to the working people who
is paying for the huge arma-
ments program.

Billions in profits for the big
corporations — “sacrifices” for the
working people. This is the way of
life we are called upon to “defend”
against the benighted Russians
and others who have the temerity
to do away with corporations (and
every form of capitalist exploita-
tion) entirely.

It’s time for action, to demand
substantial | wage increases, halt
runaway prices, shift the tax load
from the people to the corpora-
tions, and change the policies
which place guns before butter. If
the profiteers were forced to dis-
gorge some of their profits, they
would also lose some of their ap-
petite for war-making.

line. |

Longshoremen win

18-cent wage hike,
1500 fo benefit

A wage increase of 18 cents an
hour—one of the “ largest pay
hikes won this year—was negotiat-
‘ed for 1,500 longshoremen, checkers
‘and grain liners this week by In-
| ternational Longshoremen’s and
| Warehouseman’s Union (CCL).

Only wages were open for dis-
cussion this year, as the general
‘contract between the union and
|Shipping Federation of B:C. does
‘not expire until September, 1951.

It was the first wage boost for
|longshoremen since 1948, and rais-
les the basic rate for workers in
Vancouver, Victoria, New West-
‘minster, Prince Rupert, Port Al-

iberni and Chemainus to $1.73 per

hour.

Highest pay increase won in
| B.C. this year was chalked up by
the International n Brotherhood of
Blectrical Workers (AFL) who
secured a 24-cent boost for line-
men a few months ago.

Guise, Phillips
score violation
of union rights

Business agent Donald Guise
and secretary Jack Phillips, Civic
Employees ‘Union delegates who
were barred from the Trades and

Labor convention in Montreal as
“communists”, this week issued a

press statement in which they
said, in part:

| “The leadership of the TLC have
'done violence to the most element-
|ary principles of trade union dem-
|Ocracy by denying us, the demo-
'cratically elected delegates of our
union, seats at the convention:

“To deny members of any local
union the rightto elect whomsoever
they wish is equivalent to a gov-
ernment denying citizens the right
to elect whoever they wish as
their representative to parliament,
It is a flagrant violation of demo-
cratic procedure which was won
by the British people down through
centuries of struggle from the
time of Magna Carta down to the
battle against the rotten burough
system.

“We believe that the prece-
dent established is dangerous
for the whole labor movement.
We are certain that our mem-
bers, as well as the members of
all unions, will resent this vio-
lation of trade union democracy
and will fight for the preserva-
tion of democratic procedure,
their auicmomous rights and for
defense ‘of their hard won
gains.”

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