‘THE Indian natives of this
province who had to make their
living in its jungles could see and
hear things imperceptible to the
“civilized” human. So _ expert
were they at reading these signs
that they could find their way
around with more ease and sure-
ty that we who are directed by
stop-and-go signals are able to
negotiate the city streets.

A somewhat similar facility in
interpreting signs has been ac-
quired by workers. interested in
social development when they
make the class struggle the basis
for their under-

standing of po-
litics.

crowded
act as indicat-
ors for them in
knowing how
t h e political
wind blows. j a :

Some remarks I heard of re-
cently are worth passing on. The
first relates to the conversation
of a banker and one of his clients
which was overheard by a friend
of mine who was waiting to make
“a touch.”

The client was apparently very
low in spirits because of the pro-
gress being made by the “reds”
and he finished his tale of woe
with the very significant asser-

—— AN alliance whose aim does
: ~ not comprise a plan for war is
senseless and worthless.” So de-
elared Adolph Hitler in Mein
Kampf. in which are embodied
all the basic Nazi concepts.

Hitler is dead, but his literary ;

monstrosity has become the guid-
ing text-book of Wall Street. Its
alliances, hatched in the pseudo-
democratic Truman doctrine, -
Marshall plan
incubator , t o
“contain com-
munism” are
strikingly  simi-
lar to the Hit-
lerite “Drang
nach Osten”
(Drive to

face of grasping Yankee imper-
ialism.

In 1934 Hitler said: “. . . But if
we talk about new soil and terri-
tory today, we thirk primaruy
enly of Russia and its vassal bor-
der states ...” (Mein Kampf, p.
951, Ch. 14) The Hitlerite carrion
coveted above all the rich gran-
aries of the Ukraine and the oil
‘of the Caucasus. Wall Street's
eyes are turned in’ the same dir-
ection.

- In the May 8 issue of Barron's
National Business and Financial

MTT

Tom

tion that, “there must be some-
thing good in Communism, so
many people are falling for it.”
To which the brainy banker re-
plied, “Phooey! There can't be
anything good in it or we'd have
tae

Stalin hasn't yet been blamed
for the Fraser Valley flood, but
he has been accused of respon-
sibility for everything else of evil
content. There was a traffic jam
on Dunsmuir Street a few nights

ago. One of these nice new busses.

of the B.C. Collectric broke down
and held up traffic for about ten
minutes. A man whovhad been an
interested spectator for the
whole period turned to the girl
in a tobacco stand in front of
which he had been standing, or-
dered a package of cigarettes and
with a twinkle in his eys, re-
marked, “That must have been

_ene of Joe Stalin’s dirty tricks.”

A little further back in time
but still fresh, was a remark over-
heard among the audience being
evacuated from the
Club meeting addressed by that
high-priced literary parvenu,
John Hladun. Two of the evacu-
ees, unmistakeably business men
from their appearance, were dis-
cussing Hladun. One of them ask-
ed, “What d’ye think of him any-
way?” To which the other replied,
“Once a rat always a rat!”

That remark conveyed the dis-
gust even the capitalists feel for
the hirelings who do their dirty

UAUUUALEGAAQUUUELEAY

Weekly, exclu3've organ of Wall
Street, Hitler comcs to life again.
Starting from
the American people have “Legun
to think” in terms of war against
the Soviet Union, the Wall Street
weekly repeats Mein Kampf:
“Turkey, on the one hand, stands
guard over the Mediterranean,
and if it falls under Russian con-
trol. the whole eastern Mediter-
ranean, the Arab countries and
Persia are lost. On the other
hand, so long as we hold Turkey’s
friendship (with Yankee dollars)
we have a potential short route
to the Ukraine ... which has
been in the past the most popu-
lous part of Russia, and also the
one with the largest and best
developed natural resources.”
Clearly, as Lenin said of covet-
ous imperialist eyes on the terri-
tories of the Soviet Union, the
chickens of Wall Street, as in
Hitler's Reich, ‘dream of millet.”
e
J)HILE the crudities of Yankee
diplomacy are exposed in the
Smith “cold” peace feelers (which
were not intended for public
view) Wall Street, like Hitler, is
frankly brutal in its “Drang
nach Osten”.

According to Barron’s Weekly,
“the question about the will to
peace of the Soviet Empire .. .
is merely a left-over for crackpot
discussion.” War now, according

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work, so well expressed in the
film The Informer, when - the
Black and Tan officsr pushed the
blood-money over to the informer

with the end of his walking
stick,
The last item for now is the

latest to come to my notice. It is
about an ex-farmer. Some years
ago he sold his crop by the bush-
el, now he sells it by the barrel.
He had the good fortune to find
“black gold’”’ under the grass roots
of his land and was boosted into
the ranks of the oil barons.

While being visited by one of
the “knew-him-when”’ friends of
his dirt farmer days, he got
tangled up in an argument with
one of his new friends. The new
friend introduced the question of
oil field labor and their demands

on th? owners of the oil wells..

With a voice shaking with indig-
nant emotion, he asked, “What
are you going to do with your
workers?”

The old friend could not stay
out of the argument any longer
and horned in with a most potent
question which was also an ex-
planation. He said, “That’s not
what’s worrying him. What’s wor-
rying him is what his workers
are going to do with him.”

So, if you keep your ears open
you may become as proficient in

reading the signs as the Indians.

used to be in the B.C. woods!

e See lt

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to Barron’s, may be a bit disturb-

management .and industrial in-
vestment, but this disturbance
will pay off handsomely in “...a
well-armed America.” Heil Hitler,
heil Wall Street!

While the latest political
events, such as the Smith “peace”
feelers in Moscow, the Wallace-
Stalin correspondence, and Tru-
man’s unheralded recognition of
the new State of Isrue1, made the
stock market needle quiver like

a professional hula-hula dancer,
Wall Street kept its head and
posed the question “Is now the
time?” and supplied its own an-
swer, “In numbers of men under

arms and quantity of materiel |

immediately available, Russian
superiority over the western
world is probably at its highest
peak. this year..." But, “. rae if
Secretary Forrestal’s information
is accurate ...” the Russians
have no atomic bomb—so let’s get
going—now!

“The German plow,” said Hit-
ler, “needs only to be given Jand
by the sword.” The “American
ideal,’ says Wall Street, is to
leave the question of peace for
“crack-pot discussion” and get go-
ing from a “cold” to an atomic
war against the “Soviet Empire”.
The nearer we have _ strategic
bases to “the enemy”, the easier
our short-cuts to his granaries,
oil, or other potential resources
of profitable exploitation. For
Wall Street the possibility of
atomic warfare holds no horrors
--only the promise of extended
profits, Like Hitler, they want
war, and like Hitler in Mein
Kampf they are already agreed
that “... the right to soil and
territory can become a duty if
decline seems to be in store for
a great nation.”

‘

to corporate

We must have flood control

66 ON’T look for scapegoats—everybody'’s to blame for

the flood,’ the News-Herald apologizes for the gov-
ernment,
It’s not a question of scapegoats. If there is blame,
then for the sake of the future that blame must be fear-
lessly fixed. S

If nothing could have been done to protect the people
against natural conditions producing such a runoff, then
Valley residents may as well stay away for good because
the tragedy could recur in 1949.

But complete control of entire river basins has been
established on the Tennessee and in the Soviet Union.

Now is the time to establish a Fraser River Authority
to harness ol’ man river and develop the whole watershed
for the benefit of its people. :

‘This requires governments whose interests will be the
needs of our people, not big business governments whose
concern is plotting war, guarding profits and busting unions.

The watchdog governments of the multi-millidnaires are
unable to cope with disasters that threaten the people. The
CCF during the last session had to ask if the government
was going to wait for a major mining disaster before enact-
ing the miners’ rejected safety proposals,

/ The government failed through the years to establish
proper river control. It has abetted wanton denuding of the
forests which are nature’s runoff control. It refused to take
emergency measures till disaster was already widespread.
There are not even yet guarantees to the anguished people of
100 percent restitution. All this is consistent with the gov-
ernment’s whole record and stems from its very nature as a
big business government. ¢ :

__The leopard could not change its spots even to cope
with a flood.

Such questions cannot be.hidden. They are being raised
even as the peopie intensify their heroic struggle to halt
the flood.

Only fearful partisans seeking to hide the guilt will
dare to accuse critics of partisanship in speaking out before
province and nation.

“You sweet boy, I hear you drove right through
. the picketline — without stopping.”

Looking backward

(From the files of the People’s Advocate, June 3, 1946)
“If you think you are going to starve them out you are mis-

taken because the women intend to see that these boys are fed,”

Ald, Helena Gutteridge told Mayor G. C. Miller in ci
oon Bara he oe she present council policy was to Soke down the
_ powers o ie unemployed

at hin ployed sitdowners in the postoffice and
Stating there were many camps in B.C, which could be immed-

iately opened pending start of a federal’ works program,

Gutteridge spoke in favor of passing ‘a resolution. in council which

could strengthen the conference of women’s organizations called to

aie aoe for a works program.

J. W. Cornett declared himself in favor of the resolution,
re Ses for police patrols are $1500 a day, and that
&@ short time there would be a bill of A
“cipeine seni | of $300,000 for which the: city

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