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workers to work harder and eat
less, the Labor government in
1949 expends over $3 billion on
arms, Six times the 1935-36 fig-
ures, and keeps 1,500,000 Britons
in the armed forces and on war
supplies! The Labor government's
war expenditures equal one-third
of Marshall plan aid to Britain.
The Yanks struck a hard bargain
to include Britain in their global
war planning!

Capital investments by Wall
Street, stockpiling of war mater-
ials, studying ways to speed up
British workers, tinkering with
U.S. and Canadian tariffs, minor
concessions on Canadian wheat—
these do not-begin to touch Brit-
ain’s crisis. :

The real alternative before Brit-
ain, as Canada, is, shall she go
down the road of economic crisis,
mass unemployment and war in
subjection to the Yankee billion-
aires, or shall she fight for her
independence in unity with the so-
_Cialist lands and peoples? The
British Communist party sums it
up well in its 5-point election pro-
gram, entitled The Socialist Road
for Britain:

1. Tackle the crisis at the ex-
pense of big monopoly by cutting
profits and’ prices, raising wages
and standards of living, extending
nationalization, and reorganizing
foreign trade; ;

2. A drastic change in foreign
policy to end dependence on Amer-
ican imperialism and bring Britain
alongside the socialist Soviet Un-
ion and the progressive peoples of
the world, to ensure peace and
national independence;

3. More money for the social
services, housing, health and edu-
cation; ‘

4. More democracy, not only in
elections, but at work, in the
forces, and in local affairs;

5. Unity of all those in the la-
bor movement, Labor and Com-
munist, who desire to conduct a
real fight for these aims and for
socialism.

That’s a real, working-class an-
Swer to Britain’s crisis!

LOMBARDO TOLEDANO

Opponents of peace are traitors
to their own countries

LPP

ond point to which the executive
directs the attention of the LPP
and the whole labor movement,
embodies the fight against menac-
ing unemployment, layoffs, against
short time and the speedup, and
for a 50 percent increase in un-
employment benefits.

The executive is of the opinion
that housing and jobs must be
provided also by a radical change
in present Canadian foreign trade
policy, which is being strangled
by the U.S. dollar blockade and
the embraces of the dying Mar-
shall plan.

“Trade with all the world,” says
the LPP, and especially with the
Soviet Union, the New Democra-
cies and People’s China (embrac-
ing 700,000,000 people, a third of
mankind) who are now banned
from trade with Canada because
of the political hatred of, Cana-
dian capitalists towards socialism.

The executive is of the opinion
that the workers of Canada and
Britain should cooperate to en-
courage direct trade between Can-
ada and Britain by breaking away
from Wall Street’s design to cap-
ture Canadian and British mar-
kets.

Local and provincial committees |

‘lf war trumpets sound,

we shall not answer,’
peace congress told

' By JOHN WEIR

MEXICO CITY

“If the war trumpets sound, we shall not answe:,” world-famed poet Gonsalez Martinez told a cheer-
ing closing session of the Continental Peace Congress here. A thousand delegates and four thousand Mexi-
cans jammed the Coliseo .arena in this city to hear Martinez and Lombardo: Toledano, spokesman for the
Latin American Confederation of Labor.

“We give waming now that the people of the Anericas won’t participate in imperialist war,” Tole-
dano stated in summary. He refuted the “slander that this hemisphere is united behind Washington wat

| policies.”

Toledano declared that propa-
ganda of war between continents
is a falsehood and the peoples of
all American countries are anti-
war. The congress represented all

anti-imperialist forces and true
patriots of all classes, races,
creeds, and religions defending

the independence of their
tries, democratic liberties,

coun-
work-

ers’ rights and the progress of na--

tions.
He further declared that the

struggle for peace is also a fight

against dictators foisted on Latin
American countries by American
imperialists. The only opponents
of the peace congress here were
open hirelings of Wall Street, rem-
nants of clerical reaction and
racketeers organized by the AFL

in a vain effort to split Latin,

American unions. ‘

“The opponents of peace are
traitors to their own countries,”
concluded Toledano, “since Unit-
ed States domination of thie
world—if realized, which is un-

of the LPP are asked to take up
these three points as the center
of their public work in the fall
and winter months, to win adher-
ents from the trade unions and
the ranks of the CCF for these
demands.

It is possible that LPP delega-
tions will be arranged to visit Ot-
tawa later in the year with these
demands and to place them before
the government and members of
parliament.

thinkable—would reduce Latin
Americans to slavery.”

Typical of sentiments voiced by
many speakers was the flat dec-
laration by a Venezuelan oil union
leader that not a gallon of oil

would come from Venezuela if
Truman launches war.

Latin American delegates gave

a tremendus ovation to messages

from Henry Wallace, Paul Robe- g

son and Charlie Chaplin.

U.S. bans delegates,

congress asks apology

adiah Peace Congress.
passports and entrance permits to
Mexico, were going to the Conti-
nental Congress for Peace.

Among those stopped at the bor-
der was Miss Ethel Neilson, who
protested that se was a fifth gen-
eration Canadian and a Liberal in
politics, and had been visiting the
U.S. for 30 years without having
been stopped before.

A delegation representing the
Canadian Peace Congress ig plan-
ning to see Prime Minister: St. Lau-
rent in Ottawa.

The delegation will ask that the+

external afafirs department pro-
test to the U.S, state department
denial to Canadian citizens of the
right to pass through the United
States on their way to Mexico.

—TORONTO ©

A Canadian protest to Washington over . refusal’ of the U.S.
government to grant transit, visas to a score of Canadians who wished to
travel to Mexico is being asked by the National Council of the Can-

The Canadians, equipped with Canadian

The prime minister will also be
asked what right the American
consulate has to question a Can-
adian citizen as to religion, politics,
family background, as well as what
their activities will be in a foreign
country, other than the U.S,

The delegation will ask the prime
minister if the procedure being fol-
lowed by the U.S. government is
not an infringement on the right

of Canadian citizenship, and will.

want to know just what protection
a Canadian passport gives a Can-
adian citizen.

The delegation. will ask Ottawa
to request a formal apology from
Washington for this unfriendly
treatment of Canadians, and fut'-
ther request
be issued.

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Little PeeTee, “but the big

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6%4’M out hollering my head
I off for peace,’ says

guys who want war are also
busy. Seems to me that the
only way we can stop them
is to get more folks interest-
ed in living than dying. Of
course, most people do want
to live, but they don’t un-
derstand yet just how ter-
another world war
would be. That’s where the
Pacific Tribune comes in—
it exposes the warmongers
and fights for peace, prog-
ress and socialism.”

Little PeeTee is continuing
his street sales, but he real-
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next six weeks is to get sub-
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says.

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