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i THE recent British Board of
| _ Of Trade announcement that

Titain will increase its canned
salmon imports from this coun-
tty to $9,800,000 in the coming
_ Yar, an increase of some $560,-

: 000, is good news for the fishing
— Industry,

In the present strike of salmon
net fishermen for higher fish
Prices to meet their higher living
and Operational costs, the big
fish packers have used the ex-
“use that they cannot meet union

*mands because of ‘‘market’’
Problems. The British announce:
Ment strips from that argument
Whatever plausibility it had, for
C18 a fact, supported by the big

Shing companies’ own profit

Sures, that the operators can
‘Mord to pay higher prices.

For the fishermen themselves,
Who, through their union have
Waged a consistent struggle for
"storation of British and Euro-
Pean markets for B.C. salmon,
the British decision represents
Teoral and political victory.
~”© Operators can pay the higher
Prices the fishermen need to
Maintain their living standards,

€very community dependent

ion the fishing industry will
Cnefit,

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\ This welcome market devel-
PPent for B.C. salmon exports
aes Kates what can be done in
“Mher fields of Canadian trade,

»Ven the will and desire to get
\ 30ing,

| ker other great potential mar-
Waits Canadian industry in
pa Ma. But it won’t wait for

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‘Lack of markets’
argument won't hold up

ever. Already other countries
are filling it.

B.C. logging operators, using
the same arguments about “‘lack
or markets’ to deny wage in-
creases; have as yet made little
effort to reopen this great Asian
market for Canadian ‘lumber
products. Like the big fishing
operators (they are one and the
same monopoly tieup), the big
logging operators have gone
along with disastrous U:S.-dic-
tated cold war market policies.
‘Now caught on the horns of a
dilemma of their own making,
they complain about “‘lack of
markets,’’ hoping to use this as
a means of lowering wages and
living standards of lumber and
sawmill workers.

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At the present Commonwealth
Conference in London, Prime
Minister John Diefenbaker is re
ported to have raised the question

New markets — and jobs — can be won.

of an.all-in Commonwealth trade
conference some time in the near
future.

By all means. Anything that
will promote inter - Common-
wealth or other extended trade
is good for this country. First,
because it will cut down our
economic reliance upon, and
domination . by U.S.- dictated
trade policies, which the sellout

politicians have labelled “‘inte-
eration. And second, because
through the rapid promotion of
new trade with Commonwealth
and socialist countries, this coun-
try will build new bridges to
stable prosperity and peace, and
in the process, regain much of
its lost independence by run-
ning its own affairs, rather than
having them run from Washing-
ton.

Not so many years ago in so-
cialist circles there used to be
a continual reminder that “he
who owns the means whereby I
live, owns me”. '

In these piping times of on-
the-cuff capitalist “prosperity”
a lot of working people on farm
and factory are prone to forget
(to their’ own detriment) that
simple but -profound illustration
of a society founded upon the
“sacred right” of human exploi-
tation.

“He who owns the means
whereby I live, owns me.”

In the July edition of the re-
actionary American Mercury
magazine there is gn article en-
titled “(Canada’s March to Doom,”
written by one Derek Sones. The
gist of this article is already well
known to an ever-growing num-
ber of Canadians, the sellout of
our country’s resources, economy
and independence to the finan-

cial royalists of Wall Street.
What gives it added interest is
that an American author now
warns of the consequences of
such a sellout.

This article emphasizes that
Canada’s booming economy has
been purchased at the price of
the surrender of her independ-
ence to Wall Street. Two para-
graphs tell the story. “Whole vast
segments of Canadian industry—
totalling, in fact more than half
of Canadian manufacturing —
are now directly controlled from
the United States...

“Otiawa’s taxation structures
have been precisior@designed to
execute perfectly the money
power’s relentless purpose of
severing Canada’s links with the
British world, prepatory to en-
gulfing it as its own (U.S.) vas-
sal.”

Obviously such a_ gigantic
steal as that of Wall Street’s
grabbing of half our manufac-
tures, the great bulk of our nat-
ural resources, our markets for
farm and other products, and the
jobs of Canadian workers, could
not have been done without a
lot of “inside” help on the part
of our own fast-buck-grab-and-
run monopoly exploiters and
their political stooges in govern-
ment.

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That much is clear. What is

not so clear is the fact thaf it is

these self-same monopoly accom-
plices who now have the gall to
insist that 34,000 B.C. lumber
workers, 5,000 fishermen, thou-
sands of construction and other
service workers, shouldn’t ask
for wage increases. — ox should
defer their wage demands until
the market or some other phase
of the economic ruin they con-
spired to promote, “picks up.”

Le.’s put it another way. These
powerful monopoly interests and
their Liberal, Tory and Social
Credit spokesmen in govern-
ment — the real co-conspirators
in the sellout of Canada to Wall
Street — now seek to unload the
evil consequences of their mul-
tiple political crimes upon the
working people!

Wih~ soft deceiving words
about “all being in the same
boat,” these monopoly interests
seek a solution in depressed liv-
ying standards, union busting,
mass shutdowns in industry, and
the utilization of automation as
the road to con inued maximum
profits on the one side — and
idleness, hardship and want on
the other.

“He who owns the -means
whereby I live, owns me.”

What was missing in Sones’
“Canada’s March to Doom” was
the unpalatable fact that our
home-grown monopolists, ever
ready to barter their country for
a quick dollar, were Wall Street's
quisling vanguard in the march.

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: July 5, 1957 —.PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5