AND MARTIN BOASTS ABOUT SOCIAL SECURITY be spent in 1950-51. before butter. : (This week, only a few days after War Minister Claxton in- troduced his staggering estimates, Health Minister Paul Martin, making a speech that bristled with contradictions before the Canadian Conference on Social Work in Vancouver, boasted of the government’s social security program. Cynically ignoring 300,000 Canadians still unemploy- ed to observe that the “first es- sential in any society is to pro- duce in such quantities that all who are willing to work will be_ able to enjoy a decent livelihood for themselves and their fam- ilies,” he wound up by advising B.C, busimessmen to develop the vast potential trade of an “Asia from which “the old order is gone” while his government still refuses to recognize the Chinese People’s Republic.) Were there any Canadians who were being lulled into a sense of false security by External Affairs EAST END ~ Gov't asking one million dollars a day for war Over a million dollars a day, will be spent on war in 1950-51. looking enough, spelled out the details, when War Minister Brooke Claxton brought it be- fore the House of Commons-on June 9. Total authority asked for was $579,301,670. Of this This is the immediate toll of family income and social services ex- acted by a government which, despite its boasts, places guns — and atomic weapons — , OTTAWA Item 202, casual- sum $384,942,304 or more will BROOKE CLAXTON He contradicted Martin Minister Pearson’s promise of a cheap push-button war? The anx- iety which War Minister Claxton expressed for his colossal appropria- | tion, and his flat contradiction of Pearson’s thesis fhat masses of infantry were out of date in modern war, gave sharp evidence that the government is steadily moving for Canadian involvement in a disas- trous atomic war. Even as the world-wide peace offensive strikes deep into Cana- dian life, the warmakers are step- ping up their campaign. STANTON AMERICA’S BEST i NATURE’S “181 West Pender (Next to Province & MUNRO Barristers, Solicitors, Notaries SUITE 515, FORD BUILDING, 193 E. HASTINGS ST. (Corner Main & Hastings Sts.) MArine 5746 FED STOMACH “THE KITCHEN, SINK”. RY PATH CAFE Edward Moxey, Dietician ‘ tPA. 2757 Press Rooms) Re-armament of western Ger- many was openly proposed in the House by ex-brasshat D. S. Hark- ness (PC-Calgary East). He _ also called for admission of Franco Spain into the Atlantic Pact. His suggestion about the arming of Nazi-ridden West Germany was supported by C. Gillis (CCF-Cape Breton South). (In Canton, New York, Prime Minister St. Laurent received an honorary degree of doctor of laws from the, St. Lawrence University, in part for being “the first respon- sible statesman in the western hemi- sphere’ to begin giving concrete form to the idea now embodied in the North Atlantic Pact.” St. Laur- ent himself called for joint coopera- tion in war production, and support- ed U.S. Secretary of State Dean Acheson’s theery and practice of armed might in international rela- tions.) © Claxton announced that by fall a 10-province civil defenstet set-up- | would be instituted. No details of the defence system | were divulged, despite prodding by | p Tory. members. | For civilians, defence against j;atomiec bombs is non-existent. In- creasing numbers are instead sign- ing the Peace Petition to ensure that atom bombs are never dropped. Claxton was hard put to answer pointed questions about the future of Yankee war bases in Newfound- land, Already Canada has given the U.S. permission to construct per- manent and semi-permanent struc- | base. Current negotiations are going on to fix Yankee military move- ments in Canadian territories of Newfoundland, according to Clax- ton. They may definitely involve com- mand of Canadian and U.S. military by a U.S. commander as in Exercise Sweetbriar, announced Claxton. The question of the U.S. military actual- ly taking over Canadian land out- side a leased area in the event of military need was under negotia- tion, he said. © j Last fall External Affairs Minis- ter Pearson, discussing U.S. bases and similar Canadian grievances, Said his government would never be a “camp follower” of the U.S. But Canadians are able to define for themselves the role in which the St. Laurent government is cast- ing stet. Aanual - - Programme of Music Summer MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL SWEDISH PARK, Sunday, June 25, 1.00 P.M. Bus Service from Hastings & Cassiar Sts. > ra: AUSPICES: SCANDINAVIAN CENTRAL COMMITTEE NORTH SHORE & Crowning of Mid- Queen. : m." PACIFIC Jack Cooney, Mgr. 9588 FERRY MEAT MARKET 119 EAST HASTINGS * VANCOUVER, B.C. , FREE DELIVERY Supplying Fishing Boats Our Specialty Nite Calls GL. 1740L UNION HOUSE ZENITH CAFE | 105 E. Hastings Street VANCOUVER, B.C. Brother's Bakery Specializing in Sweet and Sour Rye Breads: 342 E. HASTINGS ST. PA. 8419