QOVE® 65 years ago Marx wrote
in the third volume of Capital
that, “the more a ruling class
is able to assimilate the most
prominent men of a ruled class,
the more solid and dangerous
is their rule.’ The history of the
British Labor Party is evidence
s of the proof
of that obser-
vation of Marx.
The men who
compose the
Labor govern-
ment of that
party are of
“the assimilat-
ed” but ~ be-
cause of
changed ob-
; jective condi-
or Bill tions in the
recent past they have failed to
measure up to the task imposed
on them by their imperialistic
masters. In their efforts to
earry on the foreign policy of
the die-hard Tories who preceed-
ed them in office, the real rulers
of Britain, they have failed mis-
erably—Greece, for instance.
Because of that failure, US.
imperialism, which is assuming
the proud position once held by
Tory Britain of world’s chief
bully, has taken over on its own
f

account. It is now carrying on
the policy the British Labor
government proved itself in-
capable of executing. In con-
taining communism, as it calls
it, one of its moves is to pre-
vent the spread of the influence
of the Soviet Union. The British
once tried it.

One of the documents seized in
Berlin by the Red Army when it
conquered that city is a report
of the German ambassador in
London, Dirksen, the year pre-
vious to outbreak of the Second
World War He writes that the
the British government “has
come nearer to understanding the
most essential points of the main
demands advanced by Germany,
namely, to keep the Soviet Union
out of deciding the destinies of
Europe; likewise to keep out the
League of Nations as well as
the advisability of bilateral ne-
gotiations and treaties.” (From
the Archives of the German For-
eign Office. Report A No. 2589.
July 10, 1938.) \

That Hitler-Chamberlain policy
which the British government
was “nearer to understanding”
in 1938, is today the outspoken
foreign policy of U.S. imperial-
ism if we make the slight change
of the United Nations for the

League of Nations. Having taken
over the leadership of reaction
from these Labor failures, they
must carry through the only
foreign policy possible for im-
perialist agressors. They must
continue the dirty work of Hitler
and Chamberlain.

So the Italian people who are
practical enough to vote into
office a government that will con-
sider their interests first, become
by that token, “agents of Rus-
sia” and they must be put in
their place even if it means
armed invasion as it did in
Russia in 1919-20. ;

When Stalin agreed
Roosevelt and Churchill. as an
expedient, to recognize the
Badoglio government as the only
organized representative of the
Italian people, the Vancouver
Sun stated in an editorial that
“What Mr. Stalin has also signed
commits him to the cardinal
principle that redeemed nations
of Europe shalt be free, after
Hitler has been driven out, to
choose their own democratic form
of government.” (Vancouver
Sun, October 18, 1943.)

It’s a pity the Americans were
not committed to the same prin-
ciple when they signed the same

with

document.

REAT
opening‘ up for people en-
dowed with the gift of “drawing
the long bow,” or more simply,
for plain and fancy liars. Using

opportunities are

a stock exchange term, we
might say the market is “bull-
ish” with emphasis on the
“bull”. In fact, the present de-
mand for consistent. and versa-
tile liars is without precedent
in cur times.
In grasping
these opportun-
ities, “no pre-
viqus_ experi-
encé is neces-
as the
68 4. ertis
ing lads would
say. All that
is required for
a suecessful ca-
reer, is that the
“Tom McEwen applicant be a
‘liar, possessing
‘lurid: imagination, and be aller-
_ gic to anything red.
. The technique of this “new
look” in current events can’ “be
easily acquired from a_ brief
‘study of. the orations of our
‘leading statesmen, legislators,
captains of industry, the: daily
press and radio, an assorted va-
riety of alleged trade union

leaders, or the. misfits and

eastoffs of the labor movement.

A few examples will Sow

how easy it is—-with a mini-
mum of intellect to become an
0 public — figure. :

Supposing
miner in his union argue that
the businéss of living is now so

you hear a hard rock

wage increasé is long overdue.
And suppose that, in giving ¢m-
phasis to his argument for a
better pay envelope, he should
add that the Consolidated Min-

ing and Smelting Company,
which made a net profit of

$23,323,168 in 1946, topped that
in 1947 with a net profit of $37,-
278,341, can well afford to

grant a wage increase without
upping prices — that guy is a
Red. He is under orders from
Moscow to demand more wages
for the purpose of, creating “in-
dustrial chaos”.

* See how simple-it is! Take an-
‘other example. The loggers will
soon be moving into wage ne-
gotiations in another effort to
keep up with spiralling prices.
When the logger looks at the
profits he made for the H. R.
._MacMillan Company — $5,319 780
“in 1946 and $14,628,294 in 1947—
he develops an idea that a rea-
sonable wage increase is easily
possible .out of such _ profits,
witkout boosting the price of
lumber one cent. But these are
not his ideas at all, They are all
thought out in the Kremlin as
part of a “communist plot” to
destroy the B.C. lumber indus-
try. The guy is a ruddy Red,
with ulterior motives against
“private enterprise”!

The whole business of apply-
ing a lying smear in such cases
is as easy as rolling off a log.
Should the applicant for the lu-
crative position of a professional
Ananias be a shade weak in
giving the proper polish to his
prevarications,

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of industry, to give it a real-
istic touch. It may be added
that the use of one or more
cf these specialists does not
lessen the earning abilities of
the budding Ananias. The har-
monious balance in the law of
“supply and demand” in terms
of present market prices, al-
lows an ordinary plain liar ap-
proximately 25¢c a word..

Should his ability to spin tall
yarns merit the admiration and
aproval of some of Canada’s
top journals and broadcasting
stations, there is no limit to
his earnings as a good all-
round plain and fancy liar.

Pie

"THERE are other inducements

in choosing lying as a paid
profession. The attainment of
national recognition opens the
door to travel, and admission
without question, to some of
our best social circles. It also
opens the way (off the record,
of course) to other sources of
income, which can be pried out

of business circles, for ‘protec-
tion” against the fancied “red
menace”.

It came to our attention last
week that one of these profes-
sional liars put the “squeeze”
on a local business firm to come
across with $5,000 (this aside
from his salary) for “protection”
against the “menace of commun-
ism”. The busines firm in ques-
tion thought the price was a
trifle high for the quality of
the goods on display, but in the
parlance of a professional liar,
such a firm was just not show-
ing the “proper patriotic atti-
tude” in a national “emer-
gency”.

Yes sir, the business of lying
has now become a regular vo-
cation, offering opportunity, af-
fluence. and the sunshine of
approval in the proper quarters.
It is now becoming a recogniz-
ed axiom in “our way of life”
that it cannot survive without
the services of professional liars.
Goebbels has been resurrected
and given a halo to preserve
capitalism from its historical

grave-diggers—the people.

The issues remain

i Rose labor lobby sponsored by the B.C. Federation of
Labor is already a thing of the past, but the issues it
represented, in terms of bread and butter and the unrestrict-
ed right of workers to strive for these, remain. The labor
lobby was arrogantly ignored by the Coalition steamroller
government but this solved no problems. These issues of a
democratic labor code, taxes, health, homes, inflationary
‘prices, decent wages—all these remain on the Coalition’s
doorstep to, remind, legislators that broken promises have a
habit of catching up with those who think they can fool
all of the people all the time.

The labor lobby unfortunately reflected a lack of unity
of purpose and determination among working men to get
things done. Sectional and ideological differences tended to
obscure the widening gap between the people of B.C. seek-
ing progressive legislation, and a Tory-Liberal Coalition
flagrantly betraying its pledges to the people. The govern-
ment now seeks to cover up its political bankruptcy with an
all-too-familiar campaign of- redbaiting, villification and
covert intimidation of those who speak out against its
policies.

This is a poor answer to labor’s demand for a genuine
labor code, It is equally a poor answer to the thousands of
veterans and othcrs who cannot. build homes because pro-
tecting the unprecedented profits of the boss loggers has
become the prime concern of the Coalition. Likewise it is a
poor answer to the hundreds of small boards of
trade, farmers’ organizations, trade unions and others, who
regard the sales tax as a trick to place the whole burden
of the cost of social services upon the backs of the common
people, while the monopolists continue to reap fabulous
profits, with a minimum or responsibility to the people or
the resources plundered.

The noisy howl of “communism” only confirms the
bankruptcy of those who must resort to it. With the Ans-
comb-Johnson Coalition it has become the answer to all
demands of the people. That much at least the labor lobby
confirmed, and because of that it was not the ‘‘failure”
some represent it to have been. The needs it advanced must
still be met. First among these is the need of a new govern-
ment—responsible to the people.

WL. -
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G.Radbinda

“Thank ‘goodness that -horrid labor lobby is over. Now
we can relax.”

Looking. Esclaranl

(From the files of The People’s Advocate, April 15, 1938)

In a resolution presented by Dr. G. B. Switzer, chairman of the
social service committee, and adopted at its special meeting Tuesday,
Vancouver Presbytery of the United Church of Canada strongly
urged upon the federal government repeal or amendment of the
Quebec padlock law. eat ty! f ,

The resolution reads: “Resolved that we heartily commend the
‘efforts being made to obtain the repeal of the padlock law, in force .
since March, 1937, in the province of Quebec. We would
deplore the fact that under its provisions the civil liberties guaran-
teed by the British North America Act appear to be seriously
violated. : ;

We would commend the action of ,the minister of justice in
seeking a conference with the Quebec government to procure either
repeal or amendment, and would urge upon our federal government
the necessity of such action as shall conserve the liberties of alll
the peop ”

The Rev. H. P. Davidson reviewed the padlock law and
out that its application had menaced liberties which, he emphasized,
must be carefully guarded. b .

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