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Editor, Pacific Tribune:

Sir: Regarding the Marshall
and Abbott plans: We must be
very. cautious in our dealings with
the US.. In its greedy lust for
power our freedom and resources
are coming under the fascist dic-
tatorship of Wall Street. Let us
not be sabotaged by becoming a
satellite of US big business.

Canada. is a country which
should be- fully capable of handl-
ing her own: affairs and, above
ali, we Should utilize our produc-
tion at home. The US does not
seem anxious to annex Canada,
but only to exploit her, as we are
far more valuable to her as a

dumping ground than if we were
part of her.

I sincerely hope that the Prime
Minister: -will be very careful not
to involve Canada in a disastrous
commitment from which we may
never recover.. People of a coun-
try should be allowed to shape
their own destiny in all matters
of grave concern, and in such
grave matters. as war, or the
Marshall Plan, which amounts to
the same thing, the people should
be granted the say-so. Above all,
we should preserve what civil*
liberties we think we have.

Just a word regarding the hue
and cry we have heard about
‘ Russia inflating her rouble... I
do not know of a greater act our
ewn government could perform
than’ to inflate the dollar, for
what the péople must buy is in-
fiated ‘to’ the ‘extent that we can-
not use it. If ‘our dollar were in-
flated instead of the goods, we
would ‘be ‘much better off, as that
would:raise the value of the dollar
thereby .incréasing our purchas-
ing power. The trouble with our
money is the dollar is so deflated,
it is practicaly,.reduced to a sou-
venir.

-What ‘we wanti today is‘a gov-
ernment which is in keeping with
the times and in the front line,
not one in keeping with centuries
back, asiwe have today. We want
a government which is far-sighted
enough to see ‘the “need of the
masses, not one to help just the
few. :

—BERT B. CALDWELL.

Blairmore, Alta

Town Meeting reaction. ~
Wditer, Pacific Tribune:

Sir: From a snowbound' faim’”

on the Alberta prairies I listened
a couple of Sundays to Town
Meeting from CJOR, Vancouver. It
gave me great pleasure to hear
Tim Buck and Harvey Murphy
and their very able replies to-
Colin Cameron and MacDonaid.

DR. W. J. CURRY
49 W. HASTINGS
(NVITES ALL HIS FRIENDS
rO DROP IN AND SEE HIM

The hands and feet may have
been those of Cameron, but the
of Walter

voice was the voice
Lippman and Wall Street. I note
that while Colin Cameron sheds
crocodile tears for the late Jan
Masaryk, he uses the abominable
phrases of the late unlamented
Joseph Paul Goebbels when he
refers to the Iron Curtain, and I
would remind him that only a
few weeks before his death Jan
Masaryk informed us there was

no “Iron Curtain” in WBastern

Europe.

While MacDonald shrieks about
the “massacre” of the Polish
traitors, Erlich and Alter, who ad-
vised Red Army men to resert to
the Nazis, he fails to give any
credit to the 7,000,000 of the Red
Army who fell fighting to save
democracy from the hordes of
fasicsm

Both these gentlemen rave
about force and violence, yet by
their own statements ally them-
selves on the side of American
imperialism, which makes war-
mongering statements such as:
“We will go where we damn well
please!” (Halsey) and, “We can
now land on any shore!” (Nem-
itz) and threaten to starve Italian
children whose fathers dare to
oppose the scheme of Wall Street
and their satellites, who are now
spending billions to arm _ reac-
tionaries in China, Greece Turkey
and Iran and using the Marshall
Plan to set back socialism for
another 50 years.

After listening to the CJOR
Town Meeting broadcast and con-
trasting its confusion and distor-
tions with that great stirring noble
appeal of Henry Wallace at the
Chicago Stadium the previous
night, I came to the conclusion
that the only way to defeat the
forces of reaction ahd warmon-
gering is to use our ballots to
defeat these forces and our finan-
cial help to support our people’s
press and therefore enclose my
subscription for one year to the
Pacific Tribune.

I hope others of the radio audi-

‘ence will do the same for it’s not

poverty, but speeches like those
of Colin Cameron that gets our
ire.

—E. H. TUDOR.

= Morningside, Alta.

Whrete what you Pleate.

Red bogey in Nanaimo

Sir: The Nanaimo Free Press of
March 26 reported a meeting of
Nanaimo Board of Trade, which
it would seem from press reports,
has joined the ranks of the red-
baiters

The April 1 issue reported a
second meeting, with the federal
member for Nanaimo, General
Pearkes, being present, and com-
munism again the main topic of
discussion. Stanley Dakin a
businessman, was the main
speaker at both meetings.

Mr. Dakin seems to have taken
his cue from an editorial which
appeared in the Free Press on
March 12 or 13 which, the editor
said, gave proof that Communist
infiltration was approaching the
menace stage in Nanaimo.

The haunting specter of Com-
munism . troubles Mr, Dakin so
much that it gives him wierd
dreams and sleepless nights. His
dreams being so weird he recom-
mended to the Board of Trade
they strike off a committee to
investigate Communist  infiltra-
tion and activity in Nanaimo!

As reported in the Pacific
Tribune last week, the
miners won a wage victory con-
sidering that at the beginning of
negotiations the coal barons pre-
sented a contract demanding that
the miners accept a reduction of
wages, the welfare fund and
transportation to be paid out of
wages.

When the company refused to
accept the majority award of
the conciliation board, Mayor
Muir attempted to intercede.

Before interceding to settle the
miners’ wage dispute, the Mayor
should settle the dispute with
the civic employees. To date
this is still unsettled. ;

—M. McQUEEN.
Nanaimo, B.C.

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Un-American exposed

ACCORDING TO A pamphlet soon to be published
by the Literature Division of the Progressive Citizens of
America, the man who mapped out and supervised the
initial “investigation” by the Un-American Committee of
“red activities’ in Hollywood is an anti-Semitic propa-

gandist who used to keep in
touch with the Nazi Embassy
in Washington, D.C.

His name is Edward F. Sulli-
van and that name can also be
found in the files of the old La-
Follette Committee as a labor
spy! Written by Albert E. Kahn,
co-author of The Great Con-
splracy Against Soviet Russia,
the pamphlet will be entitled
Treason in Congress and will ex-
pose the behind-the-scenes record
of the Un-American Committee.

Sullivan began his “work” on
Hollywood, the pamphlet asserts,
shortly after the official propa-
ganda bulletin of the Nazi
propagand ministry, World Ser-
vice, launched an all-out cam-
paign in Hollywood during the
when the movie industry

was making some _ anti-Nazi
films. At that time the Nazi
ministry declared that the in-
dustry was dominated by ‘“com-
munists” and “Jews.”

war,

It will be interesting to note
that, according to Kahn’s pamph-
let, the same names the Nazis
picked out for special abuse are
among those selected in the Un-
American Committee’s recent

‘can Capitalism,

campaign of intimidation, for
his refusal to accept which John
Howard Lawson, screen writer,
has just been found guilty of

contempt of Congress.

* * *

AMONG THE innumerable
book clubs operating in the U.S.
a& new one has just blossomed,
The Executive Book Club, with
an advisory board comprising
such people as Lewis H. Brown,
chairman of Johns-Manville Cor-
poration; Bradford B. Smith,
economist of the U.S. Steel Cor-
poration, Alfred P. Sloan Jr.,
chairman of General Motors Cor-
poration and several other big
business executives.

Needless to say, their choice
of books is typical—Economics
in One Lesson, The Twelve Rules
for Straight Thinking, and How
to Develop Your Executive Abil-
ity. As a free gift for joining,
new members are presented with

a copy of The Triumph of Ameri-
“an industrial
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paralleled anywhere”!

—KAY ERICKSON

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