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“Unite to stop the layoffs

js a recent headline, the New York
Daily Worker poses a timely question:
40W many layoffs make a depression?”’
x hundred millworkers laid ,off at Mac-
ss N's plywood mills, with more slated
a don’t make a depression, but let
joni Severance of workers from their
a ia Canada’s key industries continue
WOR © Present tempo of layoffs and short
will ing time, and the economic .crisis
mui be at all our doors.

ye Section of any community escapes
ond eevastating effects of workers de-
ene ‘of the right to work and a pay
ives Ope. The big corporation execu-
ats and monopolists who clip the coup-
i, saa pocket the profits, can stand a
ee Posing as “patriots,” they
oo lably spend much of their unearn-
-~ Wealth outside Canada, but the work-
aie family unit with a modest pay
lat] Ope coming into the home regu-
Y, is the backbone and lifeblood of

: Modern community.
nee? Problem confronting all.commun-
: “Alta the organized labor movement
ach tcular, is not to wait until layoffs
estab]; Crisis proportions, but to begin
4 Jshing that form of unity which
its cae the economic depression and
To ae Promoters to the punch.
Which 4 Unity of the people in action
grow! will Place the full burden of the
Whose.” crisis upon the backs of those
i,  STiminal stupidities have created
stent millworker, miner, logger, con-
a job. worker, deprived of the right
iberal and a pay cheque, is a victim of

Tal policies, which place warfare be-

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NY 4; :
A het the Yankee war trusts show
OVvey slightest hesitation about taking
| Which anada lock, stock and barrel
Liberal 36 often), some well-trained
Mto ¢ dee from “our side’’-steps*
Carpet} Situation to give the dollar
ee agers a helping hand.
Nother’ of weeks ago the Pacific
Me a St Trade Association was hav-
Th gvontab
Colum sect under consideration was
Ment ee River hydro-electric develop-
Yon, “S It affects Washington and Ore-
Seem aaron was going badly. It
ternation at the U.S. section of the In-
leet; - Joint Commission on hydro-
tied yy cVelopment had got itself all
Political n Republican and Democratic
d tape and thus was unable
© sho ri a satisfactory “solution” to
Washingt Se of hydro-electric power in
en ‘On and Oregon.
Man in . Steps our top Liberal sales-
© Person of General A. G. L.

oe Nau,
. of who heads up the Canadian ~

nthe 15C.
“Utlook qe useli gentlemen, the “joint
ohe Conce Very good indeed for every-
iY, Were ay if the international boun-
i tae Dou P Isregarded’.” Just - forget
o y business ©, line and let us get down
instream ee study the question of
this “au Orage.” Upstream storage
a River «vans damming the Colum-
de fo Water resources on the B.C.
*S. Tequirements. ;

n

ahs Say the least. What are
“Th, among hydro-hungry mon-

12 mit Big Bend Plan, where

Ud be 20n acre feet (of water)

ft)
btaineq by the creation of a

at Spokane, Washington. -

fore welfare, guns before butter, bombs
before homes, falsehoods before elemen-
tary truths. This victimization must be
halted — can be halted. Every layoff
halted is a victory for the common peo-
ple against the threat ‘of depression.
Unity can beat back the threat of de-
pression and teach those who profit from
depressions that it can be a costly ad-
venture—for them '
Unite to stop the layoffs.

The scuttlers

4 bea St. Laurent government has decid-
ed that the last remnants of Canada’s
merchant marine shall be scuttled. Four
years ago, with the aid of trade union
phonies, the same government destroy-
ed the Canadian Seamen’s Union.

During the war years, the most trying
years in Canada’s history, our merchant
marine, manned by Canadian seamen,
won the admiration of the whole world
for heroism and devotion to duty in the
patriotic war against Hitler fascism.

Now this great union and the ships it
so proudly manned for Canada have been
plotted out, not by Hitler’s submarine
woli-pack, but by a Liberal government
in Canada which takes its orders from
Washington.

In the process of wrecking our merch-
ant marine, Canada’s shipyards on the
Atlantic and Pacific coasts have also been
destroyed. Today they stand like gaunt
skeletons, those yards that once employ-
ed 50,000 or more workers building good

seaworthy ships (on a cost-plus profit for
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vast inland lake should meet present
requirements,” in McNaughton’s opinion. -
A lake on much the same scale as when
Alcan flooded the great Nechako-Ootsa
lake areas of B.C., with scant regard for
the people or the mineral, timber and
wildlife resources of the areas flooded.
Rhapsodizing on the General’s “breadth
of vision,” the Spokane press declared
that his speech had created ‘a new ap-
preciation . -. in the cultivation of Can-
adian-U.S. relations.” Why shouldn’t it?
The same paper also urged that the
WJC get itself “a man who would be the
equal of McNaughton in intellectual
calibre and devotion to duty.” In short,
to get itself “a man” as ready to take
over Canada’s hydro-electric resources as
McNaughton is to give them away.

abe the other end of Canada comes
a similar story of a different sort. Lionel
Forsyth, president of the Dominion Steel
and Coal Company, stated recently that
his company is introducing mechanized
methods in Nova Scotia coal mining, de-
signed to restore the industry to good
health. ;

Forsyth, elaborating on his new robot
to replace miners, has nicknamed it the
‘Dosco Miner.’ The machine extracts
coal at the face, requires no explosives,
loads the coal onto conveyor belts, and,
in the “good health” plans of Canada’s
top coal operator, “requires no manual
labor.”

Needless to say, Forsyth has no word
to say on the “good health” or otherwise
of the coal miners and their families
(already on short pay because Yankee
coal floods Canadian markets), who will
be uprooted from their jobs, homes and
livelihood by the advent of Forsyth’s
©Dosco Miner.” “Good health” means
good profits, and to hell with coal min-
ers and their families.

we elee, Digest for November, 1953,
earries the blue-ribbon story of the year,
“The Canadian Who Wouldn’t Talk —
The story of George Dupre of Winnipeg
and Calgary. He kept the faith.”

George certainly did, and how! He
told a cloak-and-dagger yarn of espion-

r

_ brass.

.

NEWS ITEM: Ottawa's official Peace Tower carilloneur was
ordered to greet President Eisenhower on his state visit with a tune that

would make him feel at home.

the operators) to carry our produce and
war material to the ends of the earth.
And many of the shipyard workers, who
were cited by ministers of the Crown for
their mechanical skill and devotion to
duty in an essential industry, are walk-
ing the streets unemployed.

While all this proceeds with paralys-
ing effect, our warehouses are plugged
with $4 billion in unsold goods; moun-
tains of unsold wheat fill the elevators
and granaries and spill over into the
fields; the ranks of the unemployed

swell daily — all with a world outside
needing the abundance which chokes our
economy at its source. To top off this
criminal’ stupidity a Liberal government
says, “Canada cannot afford to have a
merchant marine”!

Obviously there is one thing Canada
cannot afford to have much longer—for
the good of: Canada—a Liberal govern-
ment subservient to the dictates of the
Yankee war trusts, ready: to scuttle our
birthright as it has our proud merchant
marine.

age and “special intelligence” service in
the. French underground against the
Nazis during the years 1940-44, a story
which Reader’s Digest publisher DeWitt
Wallace and that top brass specialist of
brass cheque journalism, Quentin Reyn-
olds, went for, hook, line and sinker.

For a lad who was elsewhere all the
time he was supposed to be in France
outwitting Hitler’s Gestapo, George has
done a bang-up job. Some of Canada’s
top military brass who cashed in on a
little of the “glory” in our “hero’s” ex-
ploits are now a bit red in the face, and
Messrs. DeWitt and Reynolds are no end
“embarrassed.” Dupre though, is solid
“J felt I had a message, that no
man can survive without faith in God,”
he says, So now his book is being sold
for what it is, fiction.

Whether George will be able to col-
lect ‘royalties’ or not is a moot point,
but we can readily visualize Senator Joe
McCarthy saying: What a man, such tal-
ent, such imagination. What couldn’t
we do with a lad like George in our Un-
American Activities Committee. 3
e

When Nigel Morgan told us of the
Liberals’ main slogan in the Victoria by-
election, “Leaven the Lump with a Lib-
eral,” we began to appreciate the im-
mense possibilities in the use of slogans
to bamboozle and befuddle the people.
Liberal policies of selling Canada short
to the Yankee war trusts, with a result-
ant loss of markets, jobs and national
self-respect, are the very opposite of
‘Jeavening.” One might as well say
“Take the Grit out of your gullet with
Gunderson” (at 10 cents extra) and ex-
pect that to “leaven” the economic
(slump which Liberal betrayal has foist-
ed upon the backs of all sections of the
Canadian people.

There is only one slogan which has
any meaning in the Victoria byelection
—-and clear across the country to the
Atlantic, “Put. Canada First.” It’s a

slogan which means, among other things,

“Jeavening” the struggle of the people
against the Liberal sellout of Canada’s
independence, resources, markets, jobs,
and peace.

Ten years ago

» (From the files of The People,
November 20, 1943)

Delegates to Vancouver Trades and
Labor Council unanimously approved a
resolution stating: “We deplore the at-
titude of certain AFL leaders toward the
Soviet trade unions, and go on record
in favor of genuine trade union coopera-
tion with labor in the Soviet Union.”

The resolution was submitted by Rob-
ert Cormack, provincial executive mem-
ber of the Trades and Labor Congress
of Canada, who said: “When they talk
about Russian unions not being free, I say
the Russian trade unionists are fighting
in defense of a freedom we never knew
here.” :

* * *

In prison and concentration camps
throughout Spain, Hitler’s Gestapo agents
review the lists of prisoners and select
their victims. Franco’s firing squads do
the rest. This is the story told by seven
young Cubans, members of the Interna-
tional Brigades, who won their freedom
after a campaign conducted among the
Cuban people on their behalf.

Fifteen years ago

(From the files of the People’s Advocate,
November 18, 1938)
: Among the candidates for civic office
in the Vancouver elections was Mrs. Ef-
fie Jones. She was contesting a seat on
the school board.
x * * ;

Tincanners serving four and six-month
terms in Oakalla called off their protest
strike against poor food and overcrowd-
ed conditions after a series of meetings
with the warden won all their demands
except release from the jail itself.

x * *

Combines Investigator F. A. McGregor
was en route to B.C. to resume his in-
vestigation into charges made by Okana-
gan fruit growers that a combine control-
led marketing of fruit and vegetables in
the province.

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