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PARLIAMENT HILL

OTTAWA.

HE slightest word of an informer or association with
-S organizations of the unemployed dating back to the
Hungry Thirties can cause instant dismissal from the
tivl service or armed forces.

War Minister Brooke Claxton and Justice Minister
Stuart Garson, made this plain in revealing some details
of police state operation in the House of Commons.
Posing as a defender of liberties in the case of aedis-
charged serviceman, M, J. Coldwell, CCF national leader,

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was inadvertently exposed as an assistant to Claxton’s ©

Witch-hunt in the services.

Answering Coldwell’s questions regarding release of
& young airman who later turned out to be a member of
the CCF, Claxton revealed that the CCF leader had
agreed to dismissal of a second government employee
“when I gave him the facts.” The minister said Coldwell
was “completely satisfied’ and “never brought it to
my attention again,” ‘ ;
\ The .exchangé revealed to many CCF’ers thow the
‘CCF top leadership is helping to fashion the” “anti-
Communist” witchhunt net which the government casts
around CCF members as well as Commtunists.

Garson, it will be recalled, is the same minister _

who hesitates to prosecute the great monopolies guilty
of food profiteering, and who recently withheld a: dam-
Ming report on the flour milling combine. 5a
_ Replying to questions in the House, Garson refused to
divulge numbers of those fired from the civil service. He
Said screening is continuous, and while declaring future
employment of a discharged person was not in danger, it
is well-known that~a blacklist operates in the case of
2 civil servant who is released. . N ;

During debate on military estimates Claxton admit-

ted that he personally decided the fate of a young air-
- Man discharged from the service. “There was no find-
ing of guilt,” he told Mr, Coldwell, who had indicated
the young person had attended protest meetings on

Government pushes witch-hunt,
Coldwell ‘satisfied’ with policy

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Stump the ‘experts
HE chief foreign correspondent for the New

York Times (‘‘All the News That’s Fit to

Print’’) recently reported that the Soviet Union was
taking over ‘seven key ports’ in China. The worth
of this report may be judged by the fact that one
of the ‘‘key ports’” he named was “Li Fuchen’” —
which is not a port at all but the name of a leader of
the Chinese Contamaaist party: Li Fu-chen,

EAR ADMIRAL Zacharias (retired), wide-

ly publicized as a U.S. “‘specialist on the
Russian question,” recently gave this sensational
report to the United Nations World: “As is known,
the Russian scientist Chiolkovsky, who is a specialist
in the theory of rocket projectiles, is now working
with success on a rocket which is able to carry
soldiers and arms weighing several tons for a distance
of several thousand miles.’’ Chiolkovsky, a world-
famous Russian scientist, died 15 years ago.

unemployment “some thirteen or fourteen years ago.”

He later pointed out that no act of disloyalty was
necessary to bring charges against personnel under
present methods.

Coldwell expressed surprise at Claxton’s charge that
the airman had been “an officer in the ‘Young Com-
munist Party’ in 1938.” aN aes
“That is certainly news to me,” he said. “As far
as political activities go, I think I know what they

were. I believe they were in connection with the CCF

movement some years‘ before. I do not think anyone
can accuse our movement of: having any relationship
with the Communist -party.”

LPP COLUMN 3

Oss national leader and general secretary, Com-

new world, His whole party will warmly grasp Bue
hand in welcome.

say, after a visit to the Soviet Union: “I have nats
the future, and it works.” Today, theres more to i
‘han that; and the essence of Comrade Tim’s reaction
is, “I have seen the future, triumphant!”
, It is because the new world of
socialism is advancing from one
triumph to another, wresting fav-
ors from nature for the well-being
of man, that the moneybags and
their prompters and strongarm
squads in America are bursting
with rage. They demand in parlia-
ment that Tim Buck not be allow-
ed to visit Europe, or not be al-
lowed to return home once he was §
there; the indignities of search and.

_ the theft of his hath : Se eek e+e

lar curtain offici m; the ve =
ous comments in the kept press—all th:

“ing, but to the jittery desperation of the doomed. -
cae | On the day Tim reached Toronto, the

|. what do you suppose the riddle was that _
ing him? Russia? The prospects of the ‘ seu manseg
“A No, It was, “what the further future ho Sige
| in output, demand, trade, business, employment, |
-\and bond’ prices, taxes. and PL :
The people of the new world Of S®
bursting ae ondete because for them,
course of production of
nor is security of employme
ry are their common property,

the standard of life of. the whole ‘of society is an

Tim Buck - Welcome home.

rade Tim Buck, is home after three months in the

A quarter century or so ago Lincoln Steffens could

is bears witness
society that’s advanc-_

financial

that he de-
|. editor of the Globe and Mail bewailed what ve ©
scribed as ‘a Tiddle wrapped in an enigma.” And

n this continent.” —
of socialism are
the future ©
goods is no riddle or enigma, S
jent: for the tools of labor
and a continuous rise of —

"By STANLEY RYERSON

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assured certainty. GaN ; : :
; It is this simple truth, this overpowering fact,
\ that drives the moneybags to frenzy—and their only
answer is to reach for the weapons of atomic murder.
oe Fay ee 7 :
The meetings held for Tim Buck will speak out
for peace. ‘ ; :
Starting from the rally last week in support of
Harry Binder, LPP candidate in Montreal-Cartier, and
the great Massey Hall meeting in Toronto on Monday
this week, the leader of our party will carry a message
to Canadians that is of compelling interest and power.

the crusade for peace. The part played by members of |
the LPP in work for unity to Ban the Bomb, to gain
signatures to the Peace Petition, to defend Canadian _
independence, will be raised to a new height, gain —
‘ new clarity and power and ‘conviction, thanks to Tim
Buck's report on the new world. ;

The job, in every center where. our party’s leader
‘will speak, is to get every possible person that can be
reached, to come an

ning new recruits for our party—in the Tm Buck en-
rolment. E RESTS Le BS ae AS eat Se

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The call to action in defense of peace and jobs |

and homes, the call that our party sends forth daily,
' in all its work, is at the same time an invitation to
hundreds of progressive workers, farmers, house-
wives, young folk, to take their places in the ranks of _
the fighters for the society from which war shall be.
-. banished forever: socialism. WES A aS eee
_. Our welcome to the homecoming of the foremost
’ Canadian fighter for peace, independence and socialism
will really count, as we translate it into the. winning of
a new member for our party, the bringing of new
friends and workmates to hear Tim speak, the gain-
Ing of new readers for the workers’ press—the further-
‘me of the fight, today, for the winning of the brigh
;omorrow! =

' garmarked for war.

"His meetings will add new strength and inspiration to |

mn hear his message. Bae ig
‘Now is the time, too, to step up the work of win- |

_ government to use the atom bomb as a war criminal,

_ to supply new arms to the British for bloody aggress

Lot \ _ (anne M [Te ree me TO TT

THE NATION By LESLIE MORRIS

Take another

look at Look

Bo the money now being spent each year on air-

craft, guns, the upkeep of the armed forces, germ
varfare and aggressive atomic weapons, Canada’s citizens
could receive a $60 monthly pension without a means
test at the age of 65.

For the price of a jet engine the day care centers now
about to be closed in Toronto could be kept open and
enlarged. ‘

For the price of a bomber a good start could be made
on flood-control measures in Southern
Manitoba,

The personal possessions of Mani-
toba workers and farmers, whose re-
dlacement is being left to charity ac-
cording to the federal government’s
‘ast statement (a charity fund whose
ow mark is a reflection of the feeling
of people that the government is re-
sponsible) could be compensated for
the cost of maintaining for one year
the present military forces—perhaps
or the cost of Operation Sweetbriar.

The germ warfare station at Suffield, Alberta, about
which director Dr. Solandt has publicly boasted, if it
were devoted. to peacetime uses could undoubtedly make
a real contribution to the further control of agricultural
pests. 2 ‘

The attention now given by all the collected brains
of Canadian scientists to the work of the defense depart- _
ment, if devoted to the fight against cancer and polio, |
could record new advances in these fields.

As it is, the government money set aside for the
fight against cancer is a tiny bit in comparison with that —

It is not a bit of use for MPs to say, “Well, we must
go along te endure these social and natural ills, and you
can’t put them in the same category as defense expendi-
tures.” ‘That’s ‘the official bilge.

The fact of the matter is, that there is no danger of
Soviet aggression upon Canadian territory. The only
country who keeps its troops on Canadian soil, and
the only military power which includes Canada in its
strategic and. tactical war plans, is the U.S.

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: Only recently the government said that when the
terms of the new agreement with the US. state depart- |
ment about Newfoundland are made known, it will be
seen that the U.S, has ent military rights in the

newest Canadian province. ie ,
It is eyewash for er B. Pearson to claim that this
“agreement” with the U.S. is for Canadian defense. There
is no “agreement” at all. The government knows per- _
fectly well that there is not an ounce of conversation as _
between “equals” when Ottawa and Washington get to-
gether, The 'U-S. military feel that they can tell us what
to do; and the St. Laurent gov ent does it because
their aims are similar. = : : a eee
If the:government were to put up the slightest resist-
ance to U.S. military plans for Canada, the Canadian ©
people would support it. One proof of that is the repud- —
iated Tories’ clamor for more military expenditures. ,
_ The only country whose journals speak openly of
taking over Canada, is the United States.,The infamous
article in Look, in which the financial editor of the Wall
_ Street Journal advocated precisely this and went into
detail in the most impudent and scandalous way about
how it was to be done, evoked no protest in Ottawa. Pear-
son tried to pass it off by gossiping about Lana Turner’
sex appeal. What a howling farce that was! Ja
; The government. has not been able to put out one _
' jot or tittle of factual proof to show that the Soviet Union
is a potential aggressor. All it can show for its millions
_ of war expenditures is the claim that any country which
pushes forward along the socialist path is an example of —
“Soviet aggression.” By that token, the democratic revolt
of Mackenzie and Papineait was “American revolutiomary~ —
aggression,” or “German” or “French”, because all those
countries in their early days, went through revolutionary
When the Soviet Union proposes to, ban the bomb
and reduce armaments all around, and agrees with the
World Peace Committee's proposal to brand the first

-what becomes of this official. government propaganda
_ about “Soviet aggression”? It is exposed for what it is—

_ nothing but a cover for the desire to take over the world —
as a partner of U.S, imperialism—which has just offered —

in Malaya. oe aa ee
The World Peace Petition, sponsored in Canada by —
the ‘Peace Congress, is the most powerful means yet in
our hands for the exposure of the hypocrisy of govern- _
ment policy which finds all the money it needs for use-_
‘ess arms, but will not look after our older citizens and
che children. Fs ee

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