ORDER-IN-COUNCIL KEPT EVEN FROM MP's

What’s government hiding
from people? MP demands

OTTAWA

What is the, St. Laurent govern-
ment hiding from the people? Four
recent happenings indicate that a

new curtain of censorship is being }

erected around Parliament Hill to
hide some unsavory truths. —

@ Shortly after the opening of
parliament, Prime Minister Louis
St. Laurent admitted, in reply to
a question, that a secret order-in-
council had been passed by the
government. In other words a new
law has been passed which the
government wants no one to know
about—yet.

@ On October 18, Percy Wright
(CCF-Melfort) charged in the
House of Commons that censor-
ship of events in Korea was hid-
ing the truth. The people of Can-
ada, he said, were being treated
like “a bunch of morons.”

@ In its October 15 issue, Mac-
lean’s Magazine charged that four
Canadian soldiers died in Korea as
a result of drinking a mixture of

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canned heat, fruit juice and shoe
polish. The wild party was follow-
ed by the attack by some Cana-
dians on a Korean house in which
a Korean woman was raped and
her companion killed. This occur-
red last March, but, the magazine
declared, was suppressed by cen-
sorship. The leak came though a
U.S. publication, although the full
story had been written by Cana-
dian Press correspondent Bill Boss.

@ MpP’s gave first reading to
Bill II, a private bill introduced by
Wilfrid LaCroix, fascist-minded
member for Quebec-Montmorency,

“who in recent years has attained

considerable notoriety through his
perennial introduction of bills de-
signed to suppress traditional lib-
erties of free speech, press and as-
sembly. The present Bill II. would
deny use of the mails to progres-
sive labor papers and is aimed
primarily at the Canadian Tribune,
Pacific Tribune and similar publi-
cations. Tory Opposition leader

George Drew is known to favor
such legislation and recently in a
speech in Quebec first put’ forward
the proposal.

In his October 18 speech in the
House, Percy Wright cast dqubt
upon the reports appearing in Can-
adian newspapers and heard over
the air about the war in Korea.

“If you listen to the radio,” he
said, “in nearly every broadcast
you hear about dogfights between
United Nations planes and the
Communist planes. Almost invari-
ably. two or three Communist
planes are destroyed and several
are damaged; our planes returned
without any losses.

“Yet over the radio we got a
compilation of the losses suffered
among our planes. Something over
300 had been destroyed to date
while just a little over 200 ‘Com-
munist planes had been destroyed.”

Wright demanded the govern-
ment give the truth about what is
happening in Korea.

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CONCERN
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LPP MEMBERS

Comrades:

by the armaments

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pledged $100.

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Under the leadership of the LPP, working men an
fight against the insane drive to war and the worsening economic conditions created

drive. This fight has to be intensified and greatly extended.

There are literally thousands of B.C. working
the Labor-Progressive Party Fund if they are asked to.
the LPP to ask them And is up to the LPP clubs to or

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into their pockets and contributed $130.

These examples can and
period of the drive. Those
of personal sacrifice are to be
confident that the proposal for a
as a personal contribution will be taken

“Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad!” How aptly this applies
to the present. propagandists for imperialist war.
at the-latest issue of Collier’s

The articles that fill-the entire issue of Collier’s are a back-handed tribute to the
fighting capacity of the fighers for peace; they
peration of the enemies of the people as they reck
into the horror of atomic war. ;

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Now is the time for every sincere fighter for peace, every man and’ woman. of
goodwill, to redouble his efforts in defense of our country,
against the barbarians of the 20th century.

The stepping up of our activity in initiating -and organizing struggle of the ~
working people require-—DOLLARS—at this particular time—8,000 DOLLARS. .

who have always given the

Comradely yours, ~

ALF DEWHURST,

Provincial Organizer

To those who doubt,
Magazine should serve to dispel this

are likewise a grim warning of the des-
lessly strive to plunge all humanity

d women are fighting a winning

people who will give generously to
It is up to the members of
ganize the asking.

se $8,000 a anal group of seamen dug down
A logger gave $100. A professional worker

will be repeated over and over again during the six-week
- working class

found in the ranks of the LPP. ‘That’s why | am_
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‘member United Electrical,

man of the Toronto Chapter of the

“High prices and inflation,” she
said, “is not an accident, but is de-
liberately planned by a small group
of monopolists who seek higher
and higher profits.” Canadian wo-
men, Miss Neilson stated, are wak-
ing up to the fact that they must
do something more about high
prices than just talk.

“Wherever women put their
shoulder to the wheel, that wheel
moves,” Miss Neilson declared. She
pointed out that the federal gov-
ernment’s armament program was
reducing living standards and
urged that Canadian “men and
women work together to bring
down. prices.”

Guest speaker C. S. Jackson,
Canadian director of the 27,000
Radio
and Machine Workers Union, told
the meeting that the issue of in-
flation and high prices was’ linked
with the growing fight of the Can-
adian people to end the present
war economy and replace it with
a peacetime economy.

Mrs. Rae Luckock, national
president, Congress of Canadian
Women, felt “the time is long
overdue for the people of Canada,
who have been suffering too much
for too long from inflation, to
ee back to Finance Minister Ab-
ott.”

- ‘The Canadian people, Mrs. Luck-

ock declared, should tell Abbott

one thing, but preparations for
war is another thing.” ‘Canadians,
she said, “are all anxious to see
a world living in peace and friend-

some perspective for the future.”
The prices ‘meeting was unani-

have to go without,

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“Instead of Canadian people going without things themselves:
Canada should be providing enough food for our own citizens and also. ;
be feeding the hungry people of the world,” Miss Ethel Neilson, chait-

Congress of, Canadian Women, told 4

a public protest meeting on prices last week.

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mous in deciding that pressure
should be brought to bear on @ —
levels of government, federal, proves
vineial and municipal, to have the
following seven-point program put
into action: | rae

1. Subsidy on milk to lower
price to consumer. This to ‘be. *
paid by the provincial gover
’ment from liquor profits. ae:

2, Subsidies on essential foods
such as meat and bread, to be
paid by the federal government
out of an excess profits tax.

$. Embargo on beef to the
USA. No meat out of the country
until Canadian needs met 4
prices workers can afford. :

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5. Continue rent control.
6. No increase in phone rates —

The seventh’ point: called for f
rollback of ‘Toronto transit iat
to four for a quarter. — ny

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; OTTAWA
U.S. Colonel H. D. Brown will
command military manouevres of

for January to July, 1952 in Kluane
region of Canada’s Yukon Terri-
tory. The operation has been
named “Exercise Eager Beaver 1.”
It will concentrate on testing out
U.S. military Aretic weapons and
equipment, the construction of air-
strips on lakes and muskegs, and
training of U.S. and Canadian
troops in offensive operations un-
der Arctic conditions. eee

Brown will command U.S. troops
now undergoing training at Camp
Carson, Colorada and Canadian
troops now at Wainwright, Alberta.

U.S. troops in Canada
to man radar network

U.S. Fifth Army forces, scheduled |

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On October 11 the St. Laurer
government announced that 9
special order-in-council had i
passed \to give the U.S. Army Seg
rights to operate radar station®
(Canada. The U.S. monopoly 7
eral Blectric announced at is
has finished the contract for thi
U.S. radar network which st
across Canada from Norther? * the
bec, through Ontario and
Arctic to the Pacific Coast.

Size of this network, which
tied up with the chain ob
fields across the north of C4?
is indicated by the fact that t?
sands of U.S. army personne
needed to man it. Be

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