Duplessis moves
toward fascism

—MONTREAL.

IGEROUS, long steps to-
ward fascist strangulation of
democracy and labor have been
taken by Premier Maurice Du-
plessis of Quebec.

To terrorize and break the la-
bor unions he persecutes the tex-
tile workers’
Parent and Azelus Beaucage;
they are sentenced to two years
hard labor in prison because they
fought for higher wages and dem-
ocracy in the textile mills.

To silence the voice of the free
press Duplessis acts as judge, jury
and executioner and padlocks the
labor newspaper Combat because
it fights for justice for Quebec's
common people, for democracy
and peace. '

To prepare for new “frame-ups
and provocations against the la-
bor movement, Duplessis, with
the servile aid of the big business
press, conjures up the most in-
credible “plots” and lays them at
the door of the labor movement.

These are serious signals to
every Canadian labor organiza-
tion, to every Canadian who cher-

_ ishes justice, liberty and democ-
racy. Duplessis’s savage two-year

prison sentence upon union or
ganizers, his padlocking of Com-
bat, his provocations against the
Labor-Progressive Party are mat-
ters which much seriously con-

cern every Canadian.

ai lho

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*OR the past two years Duples-
sis has vainly tried to break
the spirit and the organization of
all who fight for the needs of la-
bor and the people.

He has declared illegal every
ene of the militant strikes of
Quebec's workers. His police have
viciously attacked their pioket

‘lines with tear-gas and _ clubs.

Harsh jail sentences have been

meted out to strikers and union

leaders.
He has blasted and branded as

‘a “Bolshevik conspiracy” every

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trade union struggle. Where the
logic of this leads is made plain
in his recent imposition of a $50,-

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000 fine on the leaders of a Catho-
lic Syndicate union in his home-
town of Three Rivers.

His police have terrorized every
public hall owner to the point
where freedom of assemblage
has been denied to the Labor-
Progressive Party in Montreal
and Quebec City.

You may be sure that the la-
sor movement and all friends of
justice, democracy and peace in
Quebec will redouble their fight
to expose and eventually defeat
Duplessis. And, in every other
Canadian province, and in par-
liament it is the duty of all who
cherish Canada to raise their
voices against these savage acts
and to take action in unity with
French-Canada to expose and
combat this tyrant who has set
his feet on. the road to fascism.

Quebec needs justice and dem-
ocracy, the protection of hard-
won trade union rights in order

that her workers may resist the”

bitter exploitation of the monop-
oly trusts, in whose behalf Du-
plessis acts to try and crush trade
unionism. .

‘fight must go on to win
wage equality for Quebec's
workers. Every Canadian trade

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union in the interests of all or-
ganized labor, must demand free-
dom for Madeleine Parent, Aze-
lus Beaucage ‘and Kent Rowley,
organizers of the textile workers.

Freedom of the press must be
protected. Every Canadian who
stands for this ideal must demand
of Duplessis that he lift the ban
on Combat and repeal his infam-
ous padlock law. The fight for
this requires that every support
be given to Combat to continue
its work of spreading the truth
in Quebec, of organizing the Que-
bec people to resist the attacks of
Duplessis and the trusts against
the living standards and the civil
rights of the Quebec people.

In Quebec the Labor-Progres-
sive . Party, many CCF-ers, im-
portant trade unions, and other
champions of, civil liberties are
battling and uniting to cope with
these new attacks. Pierre Gelinas,
editor of Combat, has declared
that his newspaper will defy Du-

plessis and continue publication. —

We ask readers of the Pacific
Tribune to wire or write to Pre-.
mier Duplessis, Quebec City, Que-

bec, and to their M.P.’s at Ottawa «2.

demanding: ! :

Freedom for Madeleine Parent
and Azelus Beaucage, lifting of
the ban on Combat and repeal of
the padlock law.

Snow denounces Chiang

AMERICAN foreign policy in relation to China is “stupid,” accord-

ing to a statement made by Edgar Snow, noted author and an
associate editor of the Saturday Evening Post. The statement,
released in New York last week by the Committee for a Democratic
Far Eastern Policy, pointed out that the only way Chiang Kai-shek’s
regime could be saved would be through making China an American
colony. Snow, who is now in the Far East, warns that American
funds will line the pockets of Chinese “gangsters, profiteers and
blatk market operators.”

“There is nothing more stupid on the record of our foreign
policy” said Snow, “than present American support for the dicta-

_ torship of Chiang Kai-shek, in war against the Chinese people.

“Nothing less than a major American military operation, carried
out by American troops and costing billions of dollars, to end in
making a colony of China, can save this hopelessly corrupt regime.
Even General Marshall knows that.

“Then why are we wasting more millions on a cause we know
is indefensible? Is it the road toward world leadership im peace and
progress to line the pockets of Chinese gangsters, profiteers and
black market operators? We must stop adding to the misery of
people who never did us any. harm or we shall surely suffer for it
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