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FLASHBACKS FROM
THE COMMUNIST PRESS

50 years ago...

CANDIDATES FOR
THE BREAD LINE

Another Bunch of Suckers
Landed in the Old Country
for Exploitation by the
Parasites of Canada
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The Worker, March 8, 1924

25 years ago...

STYX OR STYNX?
RUSTICUS, REGENT, MAN::

The Saskatchewan Common-
wealth recently described how
Premier T. C. Douglas declined
the challenge of LPP leader Nel-
son Clarke to debate the Berlin
situation, saying he would prefer
to do so with someone who knows
something about it ... “Your
manuscript indicates you have no
knowledge of the subject, and
have apparently swallowed hook,
line and sinker the propaganda
handed out by the Communist
press.”

‘People of unprejudiced mind
are not restricted to the Commu-
nist press in their approach to the
situation in. Europe. The first
hand evidence of such witnesses
as the Dean of Canterbury, G. B.

Shaw, Henry Wallace and a host _

of others should be entitled to
some credence.

But their opinions are never
heard over the air or in the press.
The whole River Styx (or is it
Stynx?) of lying propaganda ema-
nating from the stooges of capi-
talism would be ridiculous if it
weren't so tragic.

Tribune, March 7, 1949

Profiteer of the week:

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Pacific Tribune

West Coast edition, Canadian Tru

Bit of bad news this week. Simpsons Ltd.,
Toronto, the department store where gener-
ations have parted with their savings, is
standing still. Profit for the year ended Jan.
2 was $23,574,000, about the same as last
year. Every year the same old $23,000,000.
Hardly worthy of an award you say? But
Simpsons-Sears Ltd., Toranto, a branch of
the family, netted $30,275,000, some $3.6
million better than a year ago. Well, the
family that Sears’ together, profiteers to-
gether, and accordingly deserves recogni-

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nd South America and Commonwealth countries, $7.00

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merica and Commonwealth countries, $7.00 one year

Speech evades compelling needs

The velvet-gloved Speech from the
Throne, opening the 2nd session of
Canada’s 29th Parliament, scarcely
_hides the iron-fisted intent.

The speech, behind all its vague-
ness, its 46 proposed pieces of legisla-
tion, its hypocritical nod to farmers,
touched many bases, but remains as it
was conceived, an anti-working-class,
anti-democratic trap.

The compelling need today is to do
something about the swaggering mono-
polies who not only exploit their work-
ers through the daily theft of labor
power, but rob-us all as consumers, in-
terfere in government, subvert our
country’s sovereignty, and stall the in-
evitable development of society towards
one which serves the needs of working

people.

The government’s. refusal to put a
stop to inflation by preventing catapult-
ing profits, is a declaration of further
attacks on living standards. Proposed
loans and advances to farmers are wel-
come, if indeed they occur, but they
leave the farmer at the mercy of profit-
eering corporations; in short it’s a way
to ensure that the farmer has the
money to contribute to corporation pro-
fits. These corporations should be taxed

for the amount of the additional farm’

aid.

Liberal dedication to monopoly is
matched by the Conservatives, whose
leader sails the political sea on his
wage-freeze raft, oblivious of the times
in which we live.

The government, says the Throne
Speech, “will step in, as it has done in
the past . . . to protect those who are
not able to protect themselves against
the effects of inflation . . .”

With such protection the working
people had better build the machinery
to protect themselves!

When has the Trudeau government
helped the consumer? When it allowed
an inflationary 9.6% rise in prices?
All that clap-trap in parliament doesn’t
put food on the table; and the reason
we are constantly under attack by the
profiteers is because governments of
Liberals and/or Tories are tools of
those profiteers — however polished
their speeches.

Speeches from the grassroots as well
as from the throne are needed. Firm
action is assured by the Communist
Party and must also be assured by the
New Democrats, the trade unions, and
scores of organizations united in their
determination. to ensure that the
Throne Speech concepts are fought at
every turn, and legislation enacted to
meet real needs.

The Kissinger plan for Canada

Events leading to Henry Kissinger’s
scheduled Ottawa visit this month, to
talk tough on energy, veer more and
more toward a program of dictating
Canadian policies — both domestic
and foreign.

Topies expected at the Ottawa meet-
ing with External Affairs Minister
Sharp include: Alaska crude by tanker
down the British Columbia coast, Cana-
dian oil shipments to USA, U.S. inclu-
sion in Alberta’s tar sands development,
and undoubtedly continued U.S. efforts
to prevent any Canadian utilization of
resources free of U.S. control.

But the Kissinger plan for Canada
evidently goes much deeper. “Canada
is a member of NATO,” he warned,
“and Canada... has to adjust to many
new conditions.”

His Ottawa lieutenant, Ambassador
Wm. J. Porter, then carried the ball.
He admired Canada’s resources and
said: “.. . a substantial integration of
(Canada-U.S.) effort . ... will permit
equitable economic development and
equitable benefit from such develop-
ment.” Canada, he noted, has resources .
“which can be translated into world-
wide influence.” Then the continental
view ....

“T believe firmly that this continent

‘and those who sit astride its resources

... are going to exert tremendous in-
fluence as we develop those resources.

We can be exporters of energy to the
world.”

In exchange for managing our re-
sources for us, the USA will push us

‘centre-stage as its world-wide political

huckster.

To amplify the U.S. stand, Maurice’

Strong, a Canadian heading the UN en-
vironmental secretariat, also spouted
U.S. policy. Canada, he said, “must re-
gard itself not just as the sovereign
owner and possessor of these advan-
tages: (resources) but in the larger
sense as their trustee.”

However, Ambassador Porter allowed
that, “If Canadians desired to partici-
pate (in the ‘complicated and expensive
technology necessary to exploit these
resources’) they could. get in from the
outset. But it’s the Canadians who have
to decide what they want to do.”

On that, Mr. Porter, you can bet!

Canadians said it to a Gallup: Poll
when 69 per cent favored, fully or in
part, “significant” restrictions on fur-
ther foreign investment in Canada. In
fact, taking only. those with opinions
(13 per cent didn’t know) the vote was
closer to 80 per cent. That was just on
“investment,” not crude interference.

The evidence is ample warning to the
Canadian government to treat serious-
ly its responsibility to the Canadian
people — in the: matter of resources, in
the matter of independent policies — to
reject the “Canada plan” of Henry Kis-
singer and his Ottawa hand. a

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