“Americans taking a walk’? — lithograph by Boris Prorokoy

Salesman of death

HE Canadian people, and first of all Cana-
dian labor, must crush the new warmong-
ering campaign launched by Rhys M. Sale,
president of Ford of Canada, and Alfred
Watts, president of the Canadian Legion.

Sale, the auto tycoon, and Watts, the
militarist, are spokesmen for a powerful cabal
of monopolists* who see super-profits to be
made in hastening this country into the ghast-
ly horrors of another world war, That is the

impelling purpose of their recent speeches,

Sale, in his speech to the Canadian Club
in Toronto, and Watts, in his call to the Can-
adian, Legion, demand a total war program,
‘They want a program that will destroy all ef-
forts for peace, create a fascist police state,
conscript youth for military service and labor
or compulsory work and completely subor-
dinate our country to American imperialist
plans for world domination. Both of them have
bluntly announced their intention to campaign

for such a program at the forthcoming ses-—

sion of parliament.

' What the cost of this program will be to
the Canadian people can already be reckoned

‘in the inflated living costs and curtailment

of liberties which is the price we are paying
for trade-destroying, freedom-throttling cold

war policies. Sale’s demand for a ten-fold in-
crease in war expenditures would mean super-
profits for Ford — and a new “austerity” for

working people. The rights -of labor, the lib-
erties of the people, would: be relegated to
‘the speeches of men like Sale, the anti-union
tycoon, who prate about democracy but op-
pose its practice.

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 Propagan
N Hees of how Canadian daily papers

-are using their columns to spread Ameri-
bet :
can war propaganda was provided by the Van-

‘couver Daily Province this week. Under the

heading “Must Destroy Soviet Union,” the
Province on Monday devoted two full col-
umns of its front page to an interview with
Fred Sparks, Chicago Daily News correspon-
dent, which was exceptional only in its accur-

ate reflection of American war aims.

What were Spark’s conclusions after
a three-month tour of duty in Korea? .

“.. + The U,S.-should consider itself ful-
ly at war and destruction of the Soviet Union
should be its goal,” nhs

“Formosa obviously should be held at all
costs as a valuable island base.”

“.... Nehru is a threat to the U.S, because

_he carries weight in the British Common-

wealth.”

-betrayed to U.S. imperialism.

War veterans who gave soine of the best
years of their lives to fighting fascism will
derive no satisfaction from a plan which
would blast their fading hopes for a peaceful
happier future by creating in Canada the fas-
cist police state they fought to destroy in
Europe. They will sée only \rony in Wall
Street’s schemes to rearm the German armies
they shattered five short years ago in France
and Holland and send them marching, side by
side with Canadians, under American colors,
against the peoples of Europe who were so
recently their allies in a war for freedom.

Our Canada can be, and will be a mighty

force for peace in the world, if our people .

relentlessly fight the warmongers.

The road ahead is that of rebuilding the.

United Nations as a force for peace; of hew-
ing to the lofty principles so clearly declared
by the Shetfield-Warsaw World Peace Con-
gress:

® Peaceful co-existence of the capitalist
and socialist worlds; solution of all problems
by negotiation, by peaceful means,

® Respect of the independence and rights
of all peoples.

® No rearming of Germany and Japan,

® Reduction of armaments, by all nations,
by one-third in 1951. 5

® Restoration of peace in Korea and
Asia, by withdrawal of all foreign troops.

® The seating of China in the UN.

Such a road, not the road of yielding to —

the blackmail and threats and ‘big lies of
Sales and Watts, is the real way to uphold
the security and national independence of
Canada.

q for war , _ | |

This is a frank statement of American
imperialism’s’ war drive to dominate the
world, to which the Province and the mono-
poly interests for which if speaks would com-
mit the Canadian people. It is anti-Soviet, an-
ti-Chinese and anti-Indian in that it sees Neh-

.ru’s efforts for peace in Asia as a “threat.”

It is against the interests of the Canadian peo-
ple, and the common interest of all the peo-
ples of the British Commonealth in peace,
War, not peace, is its aim. cee
Thinking people will draw only one con-
clusion from this and all other such Ameri-
can-line war propaganda in the Vancouver
daily press. The ability of the Canadian daily

newspapers to reflect Canadian public opinion

is part of the national interest that is being
More and
more they are becoming propaganda: organs
shaping public opinion in the interests of a
foreign power.

_ty, a certain leading member of the French Com-

TOM McEWEN

As We See lt

HERE was a time not so many years ago when that prairie farm

paper, the Western Producer, would have shied away from using
its columns to reproduce anti-Soviet forgeries in order to mislead
its readers. Today however, there is little difference between the-
editorial ravings of this weekly farm paper and the tory Toronte
Telegram. Aes

The most recent forgery to which the Western Producer gives
vocal.sapproval is carried in an editorial appearing ‘in its issue
of December 28 under the caption ‘Bogus Peace Orusade.” Ironic-
ally enough, this blurb nestles quite close to one of those other
stock editorial ‘messages’ which drools about
“peace on earth, goodwill towards men.”

The forgery in question purports to deal with
the sinister motive of peace, as expressed in the
great Stockholm peace petition, signed by over
500 millions of the world’s peoples. According ~
to the Western Producer, which quotes the South-
am-controlled Winnipeg Free Press as its authori-

munist party, M, Waldeck-Rochet, is alleged to
have stated publicly that the Stockholm peace
petition was aimed at undermining the “defense”
preparations of WeStern imperialism, in order
that when the “Soviet Union will choose the
right moment .. .” Atlantic Pacters and others of a like mind, will
be knocked off like sitting ducks. (The Western Producer editorial
added, “So highly do the Russians regard him (M. Waldeck-Rochet)
that his remarks have been widely quoted in Soviet newspapers,
‘obviously with complete approval.” .

(The Western Producer cannot produce, nor cite the identity of
a single Soviet newspaper or journal where the alleged remarks of
M. Waldeck-Rochet were “quoted”—for the good and_ sufficient
reason that such “remarks” were never made by him or any other
honest worker for peace, Soviet or non-Soviet, ‘

But the forgery, so avidly picked up and elaborated upon by
the Western Producer, does have an illustrious parentage. It was
sired by Lord Camrose, a British lord of the press in every. sense
of the word, through his weekly journal, Everybody’s, a tory rag
that specializes in anti-Soviet pro-Hitlerite forgeries. From. there
it was picked up by the Manchester Guardian, which .seldom passes
up anything which may bring a morsel of comfort to the six-
percenters of Threadneedle Street, and by sections of the French
provincial press. However, the Manchester Guardian and the
French press which reproduced the Camrose forgery, did have the
decency to carry the emphatic refutation of M. Waldeck-Rochet
that. no such statement was ever made,

; But of course, this does not stop the professional forgers like

Everybody’s from declaring that “this statement has never been
denied,” nor the Western Producer from “commending” .Waldeck-
Rochet “for his franknéss,” and adding its own barnyard touch
anent the Stockholm peace petition: “If, after reading that, any
person, not a ‘Communist, voluntarily signs his name to one of
these peace petitions, then surely it ‘is past time that those
responsible for such an idividual, should begin to worry about
his sanity.” :

Mes We: neve already said, over 500 milli
rea € Western Producer or the master-for ers it a i
Stockholm peace petition. Perhaps siieanag in peen oes =
read the Western Producer, also signed this historic petition ‘They
signed it, not because they believe in communism, or conservatism
or even the “isms” the Western Producer grinds out weekly but
simply because they believe in peace, Not. the “peace” which
comes from the propaganda mills cf imperialism, wrapped in anti-
Soviet forgeries and slander; but the concept of a peace which in-

spires men of all races and creeds to a higher desti
Street-planned manure pile. weer na ones

7. Those responsible for the

on people, who don’t

‘ee Western Producer should not onl
Legin to worry about its sanity, but the apparent loss of the Saree

honesty it used to possess as a widel j

S y-read far ou

they owe the farmers’ that much, , fe a Gee oe
e! : if

Peace Congress in Sheffield and Warsaw.
raged on how best to hang-draw-and
1S second to none in Alberta as
progress and enlightment.

: ‘How the fat boys back in; St. James and Bay streets must have
laughed. Here was a convention of farmers, wheat farmers a
key economic group in our social structure, concerned with a five-
year wheat “agreement” which has taken millions of dollars out
of their pockets (and Trade Minister C. D. Howe told them their
final payment “would not be more than a few cents”) and still
taking it; beset with periodic treight rate hoist: 7
prices, rural education, hospitalization, and what not
convention were some
that the convention find some course of redress i

All this was side-tracked on the phoney issue ae ee,
Shades of old MacNamee and Aaron Shapiro.

Before the
demanding

the St. Laurent government, can think up, it is the farmers And
by. the same token, and as a result of the efforts of millions of
workers, teachers, scientists, and farmers like Frank Maricle, if

imposed upon ‘the warmongers, no
: little time as the farmers of Canada.
Despite having’ to put some 175 resolutions in mothballs until
on did manage to send ex-president
m, and the fight for genuine peace in
Alberta has won many new adherents to the cause. as a! result of
the anti-communist “show” staged by reaction to take the farmer’s
attention off his own immediate and burning problems.

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