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-REW Canadians will share the
* St. Laurent government's at-
titude that the most pressing need
of the moment is a new Criminal
Code (Bill '7) aimed at curtailing
© civil and democratic rights. of
the People.

Nevertheless, in view of the
Ss°vernment’s action (spurred on
Y demands from Washington),

i 7 is high on the agenda at

S session of parliament. The
‘mands of the people for new
‘Smestic and foreign trade policies
penn lost markets and head off
as layoffs of workers are rele-
. * to the background. Bill 7
a € central demand of the cold
4f camp of reaction,| both in
es and the U.S., and it is

this that the St. Laurent gov
ag gives its most ‘‘sympath-

© and urgent attention.

Se Pressure of the Canadian
9 i e, and particularly from the
a a movement, despite
‘the _ agreement of many of
the € union bureaucrats with

Provisions of Bill 7, result

1 :
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A &s MS as well-staged show of
‘al, all. si ton” and diplomatic double-
hat Ottayy Sns at the moment indicate
ton in t & will capitulate to Washing-
Gouze a atier's demand to have Igor
¥ the pW a closely-guarded protege
“atthy Senate’ appear before the Mc-

ate committee witchhunters.

There
its likelihg eee compelling reasons for
OWer’ od. First, President Eisen-

Sinister sae visit to Canada and his
yiether Set to Canadians that
ank e-skin like it or not, we’re in this
Second, “Re ibahen cold war boat together.
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one way or another that
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coat, anadian security officials
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brett more €: It is not a question of
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: Son what Gooey has al-

- Defeat Bill 7 and
win a Bill of Rights

give it a “‘hoist’’ during the last
session of parliament. This mass
pressure upset the government’s
timetable in conforming to the de-
mands of Washington. Now it
will try again to foist its undemo-
cratic restrictions upon the Cana-
dian people.

A mighty nation-wide campaign
is needed, greater even than that
of 1952, to block the passage of
Bill 7, and in its place, to win a
Bill of Rights for Canadians
which will protect their right to
assemble and speak out against
war, fascism and hunger. The
kind of a campaign which com-
pelled Mackenzie King to bury
Section 98 of the Criminal Code
in 1936, and which will serve as a
warning to reaction within and
outside the borders of Canada that
Canadians do not surrender their
democratic rights easily.

Write your MP today demand-
ing that Bill 7 be quashed; that
he speak out for a Canadian Bill
of Rights as supplementary to the
urgent need of trade, jobs and
peace for Canada.

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ready said. Back in 1948 the National

Manufacturers Association and its Cham-
ber of Commerce twin in Canada even
made ‘the Gouzenko ravings one of their

key manuals for trade unionists on the ©

subject of “good citizenship.” The Mc-
Carthyites know Gooey’s repertoire, but
want to improve it—and Gooey needs the
cash!

The present interest of the McCarthy-
ites in Gooey is not what he has said, but
what they will have him say in the crea-
tion of a foul and crude “spy” forgery
against the late Harry Dexter White,
onetime official in the International
Monetary Committee — and having com-
pleted this “link,” to extend the forgery
until it serves as a judicial whitewash
of the Eisenhower administration for the
cold war murder of Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg.

No one, and least of all Pearson,
should feel surprised that the McCarthy
smear reaches out to impugn his own
integrity. The McCarthy subpoenas 1s-
sued to ex-president Harry Truman, ex-
secretary of state Byrnes and other
“high” U.S. citizens were a fine demon-
stration of the political smear, reaching
out far beyond Communist and progres-
sive circles.

Having willingly sold out Canada’s
independence, resources, economy and
peace to the Yankee war trusts, our high
priests of Liberalism should not feel in-
dignant if the spokesman of these same
trusts resort to unprincipled blackmail
when we refuse them the services of a
professional Judas to keep their smear
mills running.

It is not the first time in history, as
Hitler must have learned before Soviet
artillery buried him in the rubble of his
Reichs Chancellory, that a Frankenstein
can destroy its creator. Aided by Chur-

chill and that late consultant with spooks,

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Ree Hutchison, editor of the Victoria
Daily Times, author of The Incredible
Canadian and self-appointed apologist
for bankrupt Liberal policies, came for-

ward in a leading editorial this week
with a proposal for beating the growing
threat of depression. This “fractional
decline,” as Hutchison so learnedly terms
it, can be knocked into a cocked hat Dy
boosting production levels and lowering
costs. In short, produce more goods and
work for less pay.

With warehouses plugged with unsold
goods, credit buying reaching an all time
high, and 1000 million bushels of wheat
on hand with markets closed because of
the Yankee dollar blockade, Hutchison’s
“readjustment” cure makes us wonder
which Canadian is most incredible. But
it is still good Liberalism.

PUTTING UTM TOA

Mackenzie King, Truman created this
McCarthy monstrosity (see Churchill’s
Fulton, Mo., speech, March 5, 1946) as
an extra-legal launching platform for
war upon the Soviet Union — and the
freedom-loving people of all lands with-
in the dollar orbit. Thus the machinery
of McCarthyism became what, it was in-
tended to be, the cornerstone of a Fas-
cist America.

But, as the saying goes, “better late
than never.” Truman has rendered free-
dom-loving people in the U.S., Canada
and elsewhere some little service in his
recent publicized definition of McCarthy-

ism . . . just what the Communists and
other progressives have been saying for
years!

“Tt is the corruption of truth, the
abandonment of our historical devotion
to fair play. It is the abandonment of
the ’due process’ of law. It is the use
of the big lie and the unfounded accusa-
tion against any citizen in the name of
Americanism or security,”

Having stated the truth, Truman could
have gone a bit farther and rescued the
name of a good American from the Mc-
Carthy character assassins. But Truman
isn’t built that way. After all he could
also have saved Julius and Ethel Rosen-
berg — but he didn’t. Truman only tells
the truth about McCarthyism when Mc-
Carthyism reaches out to get Truman.

A federal grand jury exonerated the
late Harry Dexter White of all charges
of “espionage.” Not even the “expert”
evidence of the Bentley-Chambers stool-
pigeon twins, who have become an in-
tegral part of the McCarthy smear pro-
duction plant, could make it stick. Hence
the insistence of the McCarthyites that
“Uncle Louis” lend Uncle Sam a profes-
sional stool, whose main stock-fh-trade
is saying what he is told to say — for a
good price!

Socred defeat

EFEAT of Social Credit Finance Min-
ister Einar Gunderson by the Liberals
in the Victoria byelection this week
should cause Premier W. A. C. Bennett
and his apostolic cabinet to ponder the
words of the sage who said “Pride goeth
before destruction, and a haughty spirit
before a fall.”

The cocksure attitude of Socred spokes-

men, their smug assumption that .
.they are “in for keeps,” gets a bit irk-

some to people who see their jobs, live-
lihood and welfare threatened by parti-
san policies — or lack of policies.

The victory of the Liberal candidate,
George Gregory, in Victoria solves none

- of the economic problems and issues
bearing down in ever-increasing weight:

upon the people, but it does serve as a
warning that the era of Social Credit in

‘B.C. will be short-lived unless it. rids

itself of some of the worst vices of the
Tory-Liberal Coalition hangover.

BAUPALESEFRTERESLENUE MLL / g1 EUUSASEUPREOESERR PUL TEE AER

Ten years ago

(From the files of The People,
November 27, 1943)

A draft union agreement embodying
recognition of the International Wood-
workers of America as sole bargaining
agent for thousands of organized loggers
and sawmill workers in British Columbia
willl be presented for ratification by the
15,000 members of the IWA within the
week, and when approved the lumber
industry on the Coast will no longer be
operated on the open shop basis.

+ * x

Capacity meetings and rousing recep-
tions greeted Tim Buck, national leader
of the Labor-Progressive party, during
his tour of the Interior.

Fiffeen years ago

(From the files of the People’s Advocate,
: November 25, 1938)

The long smouldering resentment of
British Columbians against increasing
shipments’ of war materials to Japan
flared into action in Nanaimo when a
citizens’ committee flung a picket line
around the Adirim scrap iron yard at
Five Acre Lots to prevent loading of
2,000 tons of scrap destined for Japan.

* * oe

Calling for a boycott on German and
Italian goods, Vancouver Trades and
Labor Council president E, A. Jamieson
told an audience of 2,000 people in the
Lyric Theatre that “the only way to
check Germany is through the pockets
of her leaders. When buying your
Christmas presents, refuse to buy Ger-
man, Italian or any fascist goods.”

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