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Carb the tad profiteers :

. in 1987 at the behest of big business, the King

government carried out a series of sweeping price de-
Sic controls. As the ceiling was lifted off each new batch
of commodities, government: spokesmen were. profuse with
‘their sauve ‘explanations’ and assurances that such decon-
trols on this or that commodity would ‘have little or no
effect on living costs.’ Donald on, erstwhile chairman
of the WTPB became Canada’s number one apologist for
-the price raids of big business.

With the final end of all price controls looming up,
we are cautiously warned that there is every likelihood
of bread prices skyrocketing as soon as the wheat sub-

 Sidy to the millers terminates. In many lands bread is the
all-important item of sustenance, and even in Canada it
is not an unimportant item in the family man’s budget.

In Canada we are so situated that if each and every
Canadian were to eat all the bread and flour products he
or she could consume, the best we could do would not be
over 4% bushels of wheat per capita per annum—an an-
nual consumption of some 40 or 50 million bushels. Our
average wheat crop runs from 350 to 400 million
bushels per annum. Our ‘economists’ who like to chatter
about ‘supply and demand” will have to find other argu-
‘ments for any hoist in bread prices at this time.

The fact is already well documented—if not widely
known, that the organized grain trade . . . the big ele-
vator companies, the millers and the bakers, constitute one
“of the most powerful ‘interlocking cartel monopolies in
Canada. Names like the Alberta-Pacific Grain Co., the Lake
“ef the Woods Milling Co., the Canada Bread Co., are
not seperate entities, each engaged in ‘free enterprise,’ but
a huge monopoly combine which cuts several slices off the
worker’s loaf from the point of production right up un-
til it rests upon his table, because of their interlocking con-
trol in grain, milling and baking.

We are all for the subsidy being temporarily maintained
to offset any contemplated increase in the price of bread,
but the time is ripe, and rotten ripe, for a full-dress inquiry

into. the powerful grain, milling, and baking monopolies

' engaged in hi-jacking the workingman’s bread.

: ; : yee .
| Quarantine the aggressors
HE imperial government of the Dutch Netherlands

has launched a full-scale war against the new Repub-

lic of Indonesia. U.S.-made fighter planes, heavy
bombers, warships . . . all the excess war materials eagerly
sold to the Dutch government by Canada and the U.S.,
are now brought to bear upon the Indonesian people.

While all the details of this unwarranted attack upon
the Indonesian people are not available at the time of
writing, some facts stand out with a vivid clarity. First,
that’ the people of Indonesia, under the leadership of Presi-
dent Soekarno, take their independence (which they paid
for in rivers of blocd) very seriously, and are determined
not to permit that independence to be undermined by the
acceptance of impossible demands made upon them by a
resurgent Dutch imperialism. Secondly, the nature of the
armed aggression—directed at a number of key points in
the Indies simultaneously, indicate a carefully prepared plan
of attack to terrorize a peaceful, and largely defenseless
people with all the striking power of an arrogant die-

: Another fact that should not be overlooked, which has

‘iven enc ent to the Dutch imperialists is the fleet-

i ‘successes’ of U.S. imperialism to ‘reconstruct’ the world

in keeping with dollar-diplomacy, and slavishly abetted by

tory-dominated Britain. i states everywhere are
of

encouraged to ‘hold on’ to their colonial empires—to t
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: epe but not the content. When
_ the colonial peoples demand the content they are met with
pious words—and full scale war.

_ President Soekarno of the Indonesian Republic has ap-
to the U.N. Security Council to halt this latest Dutch
ry of the Indonesian people. Whether that appeal

will be turned aside by ignoring ears and empty platitudes,
depends upon the common people of ours and other lands.
If the Indonesians can be bombed at will—together with the
Chinese and Greek peoples, because they dare to seek
__ self-government, then the Four Freedoms become a hollow

FRIDAY, JULY 25, 1947

OYALTY is literally ‘on its

uppers’ these days and un-
questionably headed for the pro-
verbial ashean. All the evidence
of our, era. heralds this happy
exodus. Just a few days ago
Lady Iris Mountbatten was
haled into a New York police
court for passing worthless
cheques. In prison jargon the
noble lady would be described
as ‘a paper-hanger’, but tHat is
beside the point. The amounts
on the ‘bouncing’ cheques were
quite trifling, indicating that
this scion of British blueblood

is in a bad way.

“Tt is no crime in England,”
explained Lady Iris with charm-
ing naivette to tough New York
police, “to pass bouncing che-
ques.” Uncle Sam refused to
adopt this fine old English cus-
tom as a cardinal principle of

- dollar diplomacy. The last we

heard of the case was that some
baronial Horatio was heading

“across the pond to extricate the

noble lady from her financial
embarrassments. ‘The age of
chivalry’ you know, what! .
Then comes the heart-rending
news that the Duke of Windsor
is “faced with the alternative
ot increasing his income or sub-
stantially cutting his spending.”
For a hard-rock miner, a logger
or a laundry worker, this “al-
ternative” is an everyday prob-
lem. Lucky for Windsor he does
not live in British Columbia,
otherwise he would have Bill 39
to contend with in the business
of ‘increasing his income.’ Then
again, being a Duke, he might

be exempt from its provisions. .
has been:
‘waiting patiently for some time -

Anyhow the Duke

for a governorship of some kind
where the cares of government

_wouldn’t infringe too heavily on

the afternoon tiffin schedule.
But with the colonial empire on
the wane and the
peoples more determined than
ever to govern themselves, gov-
ernorships of the ‘pukka sahib’
category are going out of fa-

‘shion, and are now as scarce as

jobs were in the hungry 30’s.

~ wot-ho! .

colonial ©

we see it

. The Duke is said to be writ-
ing a history of the Anglo-
Saxon nations and a movie
script of the life of Queen Vic-
toria. The later should intrigue
the palates of Hollywood and

“net the Duke some ‘royalties’ in

the form of greenbacks.

Yes, royalty, like the old grey
mare, ‘ain't what she used to
be’. Following World War I it
was quite the vogue in the fa-
shionable cafes of London and
on the contin-
ent, to number
among their
staffs of wait-
ers, major do-
mos, shoe shin-
ers and bell-
hops a_ whole
herd of grand
dukes, counts,
princesses, bar-
ons, and what
not. The Rus-
sian revolution
threw a whole
flock of grand
dukes, duchesses, counts and
other royal Romanoff riff-riff
ento the labor market—abroad.
Austria, Romania, Hungary and
other countries added their quo-

Tom McEwen

tas as ‘crowned heads rolled in

the dust’ of history. World War
II has already sent a _ goodly

consignment of crowned heads

into the ashcan. For a time
these human fungus are able to
live on what they filched from
the public treasury on the way
out, but eventually they are
faced with the alternative. of
‘increasing their income’ by

some useful work, or . ... as ~

bouncing Lady Iris attempted
but with poor success, ‘a bit of
paperhanging’. Wot-ho chappie;
- an.era is passing.

A NEW Churchill. is being

groomed to issue the ‘world-
shaking pronouncements of Brit-

ish tory policy, and which by the |

way, and in spite of a Labor
government in office, is _ still
the dominant British policy.

Dapper super-groomed Anthony -

Eden, deputy leader of the Brit-

By Tom McEwen —
ish tory party and wartime —
foreign secretary, has just 4

‘Yivered an ‘exclusive’ Kiplinge>

que dissertation after the
tern of “The East is the
and the West is the West, 97°
never, the twain shall meet,
with all emphasis upon the ide®
that the West is anxious to meet
the East, but the East ( weed
USSR) refuses to play, 5° the
West must carry the ‘purde?
. alone? a
Eden’s ‘analysis’ of the split’
of the Paris conference on the
Marshall plan is a masterpiece —
of tory duplicity, hypocrisy, ie
downright misrepresentation 0”
fact. Eden repeats the old moth-
eaten canard that the soviet
peoples are kept in a state hae he
complete ignorance of the ou
side world by the Kremlin; tha)
to the Kremlin the “achieveme>™ —
of political aims” (read ee
munism) is more importa?
than “cooperation in the e”
nomic sphere with the capital
ist world” for world reconstruc”
tion. It sounds fine, but it
considerably short of the
In point of fact the ave
Soviet citizen is better info

pat-
Bast :

ed

on world affairs than the aver’

age Briton, American or
ian, primarily because
sources of. information are ®
owned, directed or controlled by
press and radio monopolies.

Eden repeats all th
gathered by Churchill
hate campaign against ~
USSR, covering a period of
years. His ‘exclusive
at this time is aimed at 8€°™
public approyal of what was *
signed by Churchil) at 5
.. . by the Truman 4@ the
and the Marshall plan —~ ge"
reconstruction of as large *
tion of Europe as they erie
bine into a ‘cordon’ § !
against the rising tide 0° "44
ism. By making it impossiele
for the USSR or any
respecting people to cooper sR
and then blaming the ~
and the ‘Soviet aes

ot

‘splitting’ Europe on ©