tiny EEOC BERET REE Tom ; McEwen Nita, i nh MICO emia a nmiacauaieial TO Et (ANADa Day, 1935, is one day which tee Canadian should forget — and * € born since should make a point i, 80ing to the labor history books and aes to find out its significance, and - it happened. It was still Dominion ane and a black day it was. In- Fee of marking Canada’s birthday in Spirit of unity, wellbeing and pride, of a government gave a generation oth “anadians an era of stark hunger, ee clubs, overcrowded jails, and a €rite statute known as Section 98 € Criminal Code. ya ainly a queer menu for birthday eee but there it was. Unlike : Idual affairs, birthdays in .the case eon nation have a_ political content. an the pioneering working people an brawn, sweat and initiative have ida Canada (even if they have been the €d out of most of the vast wealth eve created) the birthday of their _ittry is a matter of justifiable pride ae an occasion for recalling their es and recounting their hopes Some day they may enjoy to the full What they have created. For the para- - peal vested interests, those who meas- hay values by their yardstick of aaa Canada Day is just another day, in which the “take” will be as big yesterday, bigger if possible. ; leaguet me to power,” boomed Tory att R. B. “Iron Heel” Bennett at ih 1930 Conservative convention in me nipeg, “and I will cure unemploy- Nt in thirty days.” ell, we did elect “Iron Heel” and his _"te” was a unique one for Canadians > the herding of Canada’s growing til, of jobless workers, close to one cents Men, into “slave camps” at 25 A 2 cy and TEU eatet oes » Or “keep moving” signs for the “employed. , Bee Dreetitish Columbia, with the Liberal ay, ier. Duff Pattullo in Victoria and a Gerry “Me and God” McGeer in Rime ee both ardent devotees of the ay ‘cure’ for unemployment, this eal w®, Pecame the most outstanding for «, Point in Canada in the struggle « pevork and wages,” against the hated i r camps” and for adequate relief hangone, of “charitable” belly-robbing ww two politicians, Tory or Liberal, Such Taised the art of buck-passing to Sa height of perfection as did these he Pera hacks, Pattullo and McGeer. ftom ever a delegation of unemployed apes Relief Camp Workers Union or red before Riot-Act McGeer, that tig 4 would launch into an Aberhar- Well | issertation on monetary reform the , 7ded with scripture, and then tell Vitieiat that “unemployment is a pro- ictori matter, you'll have to take it to their a When the unemployed took Mapas, ands for relief and “work and lookin to Victoria, bluff Duff Pattullo, tente 8 not unlike an overfed and con- be ‘ Yorkshire sow, would skillfully tility» € buck with a fine show of “hos- this. towards Ottawa, and say, “Men, S a matter for the federal gov- ef t. I would suggest you place it e them.” anit that is just what tens of thous- and ae unemployed workers in B.C. 2 Mon, q Over Canada decided to do. On ay evening, June 3, 1935, a great contingent of unemployed workers, young men and boys, the best sons of Canada, under the leadership of that veteran labor leader. and Communist, the late Arthur “Slim” Evans, boarded a freight at the foot of Gore Avenue, and the great historic On-To-Ottawa| Trek was on its long, hazardous, and history-making way. r) : Regina—the “Queen City” of the plains. A mighty army is gathering in Eastern Canada, timing its arrival in Ottawa with the magnificent B.C. trek- kers. In Ottawa “Iron Heel” Bennett is getting jittery. His “cure” has pro- duced something he, as a CPR corpora- tion lawyer and Eddy Match magnate hadn’t reckoned on. Tens of thousands of organized and disciplined trekkers converging upon Ottawa is inconceiv- able to the “great” man. They must be halted! But how? So, first a cheap Tory trick <--°s2a promise to “do something” if you'll just say in Regina. Two Tory stalwarts, both cabinet ministers, “Hon.” R. J. Manion and “Hon.” Robert Weir are dispatched to’ Regina to palaver — to kill time until Bennett completes his plans to deal with the unemployed who refuse to submit to his slave camp star- vation edicts in the only way he knows _-the “iron heel.’ Manion was most voluble with words, often getting close to the problem, but, like a good Tory flea, never staying long on one point. Some slight concessions were given, then the big one: “Mr. Bennett will meet a delegation from the trek. 2. If you can reach agreement (the Judas touch) you don’t need to trek to Ot- tawa. .. . If you can’t, well the trek can go forward.” A crude doublecross! “Slim” Evans, gaunt, ragged, clad only in overalls, and ten of his platoon leaders went to Ottawa—and into the “sreat presence.” They measured each other across a desk. “Who are you to make demands? Do you know who I am? I shall never put a premium on idleness,” exploded the Tory millionaire match magnate, who had bought the leadership of his party—and of Canada! “We demand the right to work and wages.” Slim leaned over the desk and looked hard into the fat pasty face of ‘Tron Heel” Bennett. “Yes, Mr. Prime Minister, I know who you are — but you're not fit to be the chief of a back- ward Hottentot village.” s A peaceful meeting was on in Re- gina’s Market Square, one of many, held almost daily by the On-To-Ottawa Trek- kers. The Regina people, as with all other Canadian cities, stood solid with their jobless sons. Then out of the blue it came. Massed police on horse, on foot, on motorcycles, “specials,” and hired goons, teargas and clubs. The Bennett “cure” was being applied on a large scale. It was Canada’s birthday — Canada Day, being written in violence and blood in the Queen City ‘of Saskatchewan. Shots rang out, men fell wounded, and clubs crashed on bare heads with sick-* ‘ening thuds. The full force and violence of the state was being handed out with a lavish hand, in lieu of bread and the right to work. . @ As we celebrate this Canada Day of 1953 let us not forget 1935—or that the same gang is still on the loose, trad- ing promises for votes, selling out Can- ada to the Yankee war trusts, and ready to unloose violence upon the working and common people at the first oppor- tunity. Proof? The Garson-RCMP false accusations against the LPP and the foremost fighters for peace and pro- gress—accusations, as in the case of the Rosenbergs, begun with lies and ended with judicial murder! Remember Canada Day of 1935 as we celebrate Canada Day of 1953. Pacific TRIBUNE Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone: MArine 5288 ; Hal Griffin, Associate Editor Tom McEwen, Editor — Subscription Rates: Canada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia) One Year $3.00 Australia, United States One Year $4.00 Six Months $1.60 and all other countries Six Months $2.50 Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Authorized ‘as second class mail, Post Office, Department, Ottawa eT TT One theme - - four tunes Wie Liberal, Tory, CCF and Social Credit big guns unload- ‘ing their opening barrage on the hustings, one thing already stands out: not one of these political parties or their spokesmen has the least in- tention of cutting Canada loose from the suicidal war policies of the Fisenhower-McCarthy-Dulles atomaniacs. In varying words and mannerisms, Louis St. Laurent, Colonel George Drew, Solon Low and M. J. Coldwell all support NATO; all agree with the Yankee-led ‘Operation Killer’’ and the U.S.Rhee double- cross in Korea; all preserve a cold-war hostility to China, the USSR and the New Democracies of Europe; and all, in one form or another agree of the wasteful spending of $2 billion annually as Canada’s contribution to the war adventures of Wall Street. St. Laurent boasts of his government's “‘record’’ and seeks re- election on that score alone. It reminds us of the notorious criminal, “Red’’ Ryan, who received a lily-white ‘‘record’’ from the late unlamented Tory chief, R. B. Bennett—but that “‘record’’ didn’t stop Ryan’s banditry against the Canadian people! | St. Laurent is the voice of the Yankee war lords in Canada. The Liberal policies of which he boasts are made-in-the USA policies, designed by the financiers and thought-controllers of Yankee imperialism. These policies are geared to the interests and the profits of big business in Can- ada and the U.S., designed to safeguard a steady flow of maximum profits from manufacture and traffic in an arms race. When it runs counter to such policies, peace and the economy of peace is “subversive.’’ George Drew, national leader of the vanishing Tory party gives full endorsation to the war policies of St. Laurent—and then promises to cut taxes by $500 million a year, build “‘low cost’’ homes, and step up cold- war spending. These Tory acrobats, now happily buried in B.C., must also be buried nationally on August 10. CCF leader M. J. Coldwell wets his finger and hdlds it aloft to ascertain in what direction the political winds are blowing. Mixing a little CCE “‘planned economic aid’’ to ‘‘backward’’ countries, Coldwell gives fulltthroated approval to NATO and Canada’s war spending. In Van- .couver the CCF News hails the U.S.inspired ‘‘Project X’’ riots in East Berlin as ‘‘. . . the most significant and hopeful development since the end of World War II.’”’ Doubtless St. Laurent, Drew and Solon Low find themselves in full agreement with the CCF on this ‘‘hopeful develop- ment’’ of counter-revolution, sabotage and violence, unloosed by the agents of Yankee imperialism in East Berlin! One thing is sure. If during this election campaign the indepen- dence, peace and wellbeing of Canada is made the issue, it will only be by the efforts of the Labor-Progressive party’s candidates. The tone al- ready seen in the pitiful and tragic positions set forth by the old-line party spokesmen and their running mates in the camp of social democracy is a clear indication that they are determined to pursue policies that can only drag Canada further down the road of subservience to, and embroilment in the war conspiracies of dollar imperialism. With the support of the peace-loving people of Canada, the Labor- Progressive candidates will force these vital issues into the arena of public debate. Bill 93 and the recent Garson-RCMP-McCarthy smear is prim/ arily designed to make the going easier for the Ottawa politicians and their under-strappers across the country; to choke off debate on fundamental vital issues. The LPP demand to Put Canada First places these politicians on the spot! The growing support of the people for that demand will ultimately put them out altogether—a prime condition for Canada’s inde- pendence, progress and wellbeing. ; ‘ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 3, 1953 — PAGE 5 a a ee as mee ener ae Laine oer