. ‘Drew beats drums for war’ says Ryerson in accepting Hamilton South nomination — HAMILTON “The Liberal party, which drapes itself in a mantle of- pretended ‘Canadianism,’ has -betrayed Canada,” said Stanley B. Ryerson, in accepting nomination as Labor-Progressive party federal can- jidate in Hamilton South. |Addressing an enthusiastic nomination metting on October 29, Ryerson said: “The Toronto Globe and Mail recently carrie da public admission of Ottawa’s abandonment of the UN Charter and its replacement by the private agency of the American brasshats and _bil- lionaires. » “Phe North Atlantic Treaty has become the main base of Canadian foreign policy, L. Dana Wilgress, under-secretary of state for external affairs, told the Canadian Club yes- terday.” : “The direction of our national life has been surrendered to a for- eign power; the money-power of Wail Street. ; “The bitter fruits of this betrayal are the mass layoffs in industry, the ever-growing tax burden, dwind- ling purchasing power, and block- age of measures affecting the health, housing, social and cultural needs of the people. “The policy of the Liberal party is harmful to Canada. It has got to be changed. And the Tories cer tainly will not change it. . “Colonel George Drew, it seems, has been in Europe—and come back to warn Canada of the menace of ‘Communist aggression’ — and to beat the drums for another war. : freshly-released and at cocktail parties with U.S. corporation officials. “But to the people of Europe, the working people who are the ‘Europe, ‘Communist aggression’ is a cheap, prefabricated hoax. Those in the West, resisting the arrogant Yankee Occupation, and those in the East, building the new socialist -communities—all want peace, and are determined to defend it. “But Drew lies with a purpose— ealeulatingly. That purpose is, not the defense of this country from aggression, ‘but the commitment of this country to aggression. Now, as in 1919, he harbors the criminally insane dream—shared with his Nazi cronies, his spiritual soul mates— of a war to destroy the USSR. “Two days ago, he let slip the mask. Speaking at Melita, ‘“Mani-~ toba, he blurted out: ‘This country’s policy should be to help arm the west in order to deter Communist aggression... .” (That's the official pretext, the well-worn line; but then—), ‘but having done so, Can- ada and the other western countries should not be content with a static | peace.’ ““Rather—a ‘dynamic’ war. ‘We ~ must look ahead te the day when the*peoples of Bulgaria, Rumania, (Czechoslovakia, Poland and even Russia, will be free,’ he said. “The Eisenhower ‘liberation’ lun- acy—the cherished dream of Hitler. “Those who stood against the Hit- ler drive to ‘liberate’ the socialist world—the Nazis labelled ‘traitor’! “So today, the warmongering’ ~ Colonel stamps up and down the country, screaming: “Traitors! And his partner in aggression, Louis St. - Laurent, echoes him with Bill H-8 and its death penalty provision. “Traitors?! Those who chal- lenge the attempt to revive the Hitler Axis and the Hitler war _ aim? Those who stand on guard for Canada by defending its sac- red independence against those who undermine it for American dollars? Those who oppose con- _ scription for aggression and the __ two-billion dollar _ profiteering arms budget? é STANLEY RYERSON “We throw the lie back in the liar’s teeth! “The Tory warmonger and the (Liberal warmonger speak, not for Canada, but for the profiteers whose swag from industry alone last year totalled two billion dollars. “To defend Canada from her en- emies—those who put private pro- perty above human life, and betray our independence for American dol- lars—there must come into being a new alignment, a coming together in united action of all the forces that are for a new policy of peace and Canadian independence.” Mine- Mill wins Ontario strike MARMORA, Ont. ‘A four-week strike has ended in victory for 400 workers at the De- lora Smelting and Refining Com- pany at Marmora, Ontario. The plant, largest cobalt smelter and re- | finer in North America, is organized by Local 889, International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Principal gains are a general wage increase of 10 cents an hour, re- duction of the work week from 44 to 42 hours without loss of take- home pay and seven paid statutory holidays instead of the previous six. Vets back | CCW on army issue The stand taken by the B.C. Council of Congress of Canadian Women © against conscription of |youth for the armed forces this week won the approval of Walter H. Kirchner, MIC, DCM, secretary of the Canadian Combat Veterans’ Association. ° In a letter. to The News-Herald Kirchner makes these comments on a letter from Mrs. Hilda Scott, CCW president, which had appeared earlier: “Mrs Hilda Scott well sums up the infamous policy of conscripting children for the armed forces in one short paragraph: ‘The taking of 16-year-olds and conditioning their minds to war, bodes ill for the fu- ture of our country. For it is they who inherit and carry forward to further fruition, the growth and development of our homeland.’ * - “The sinister technique of Hitler. was to take the innocent German youth and train them in a social: vacuum by, as Mrs. Hilda Scott well states. ‘Conditioning their minds to war.’ By this method you im- pose a false maturity on the youth tof a nation and rob them of their birthright. “Hitler was successful in his tech- nique but brought a great nation to the verge of ruin, and those in control of our national destinies... are attempting to engulf us in the same abyss.” : A nation-wide postcard campaign against conscription, and the 16- year-old “apprentice scheme” is be- ing carried. on by the National Federation of Labor Youth. In British Columbia the youth organ- ization ‘hopes to secure 3,000 sig- natures on postcards urging Prime Minister St. Laurent to take a pub- lic stand against conscription. LPP candidate Henry Codd (above), Notch Hill rancher widely known throughout the Kamloops and Salmon Arm districts, has been nominated as the Labor-Progres- sive candidate for the federal Okanagan ~ Revelstoke constitu- ency. Last week, as the result of a garbled telephone message, the Pacific Tribune incorrectly reported Codd as having been nominated in the Kamloops rid- ing. ; Di smissal of Mrs. Gardner protested ‘Protest against dismissal of Kay Gardner from her Vancouver pub- lic ‘library job because she- took leave of absence to attend the Asian and Pacific People’s Conference for Peace in Peking last month was made to Mayor Fred Hume at city hall last week. The delegation explained ithe broadly representative nature of the conference Mrs. Gardner had at- tended, and asked for her unquali- fied reinstatement. It then invited Mayor Hume to attend the Con- gress of the Peoples for Peace in Vienna on December 12. “The B.C. Peace Council offers to organize a campaign for funds to send you to Vienna as a delegate at large, if you cannot find a sponsoring body,” the mayor was told. Replying to the delegation, Mayor Hume stated that he “would think about the invitation to attend the Vienna Peace Congress” and add- ed, It was very nice of you to ask me.” With respect to the Kay Gardner dismissal, Mayor Hume said that he was leaving the matter in the Effie fires: opener in campaign Effie Jones, aldermanic candic date im the coming Vancouver civic elections, this week opened her cam- paign headquarters at 543 Main’ Street, and appealed to progressive — yoters to “come in and help with the election work that must be done between now and December 20.” Mrs. Jones is running as.an in” dependent candidate, pledged to “sweep the Tory and Liberal NPA politicians out of city hall.” On Wednesday this week, Mrs- Jones, who polled over 29,000 votes as a mayoralty candidate a few ~ years ago, sent a letter to all trade unions urging united action to de feat. BCTelephone’s latest attempt to hoist telephone rates. 4 “The BCTelephone is using the traditional tactic of private mon" opolies.in the utility field, that 15 to ask for an interim increase which all experience in the past proves t? be a permanent increase, since it is always confirmed by the Board con- cerned,” she wrote. “The BCTelephone is asking £0F an interim hearing in (Ottawa, to be — followed at a later date by a ful — scale public hearing in Vancouvel “It should be pointed out that — the idea of interim hearings and in” creases was established to deal with — unexpected contingencies. The com — pany can ‘hardly plead that it 16 faced with such a problem. Its profits as reported in the Financia Post Survey of Industrials was 8 follows: ¥ yd 1949 ... $ 578,393° 1950 .... . $ 991,019 F951 ened $1,511,818 _ “The company has received num erous increases in the recent period. It received an interim increase 1? June, 1950, which was confirme® in October, 1950, In July, 1950 it was granted increases in its longs” distance rates and exchange rentals. In January, 1952, it was grante a further increase of two percent in local service. “While it is true that Vancouvel City Council and other bodies at planning to oppose the company’ latest application, one questi? stands out as absolutely imperative — in this issue. That is, that serious opposition to the company must based on the principle that ther — be’ no interim hearing, and that # full-scale public enquiry be held i? — Viancouver at which all intereste® — parties can make representations. “Resolutions to this effect shou! be sent to the Vancouver City Cou” cil and the Board of Transpo? Commissioners, Ottawa.” : hands of the Library Board. Gold towns in danger of becoming ghost towns Mine: Mill urges new federal metals policy “British Columbia cannot develop without a healthy metal mining in- dustry, but expansion of this indus- ‘try demands that present policies | of the federal government be chang- ed,” says a letter sent to all news- papers this week by the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, over the signatures of Mine-Mill presi- dent Ken Smith and secretary-treas- urer E. L. Walker. “The policy of the.government is directly responsible,” it~ continues. “Jt insists that Canada produce gold and sell it at a price fixed by the United States treasury department, which maintains the price set in 1935, which is recognized as being half price. = “In this section of the mining in- dustry wages are low and the con- stant fear of shut-down is the threat that has kept these “mining com- , \ munities on substandard wages and conditions. .. . , “Why does the Canadian govern- ment allow this situation to con- tinue? Why does the Canadian government take out of the public: treasury $15,000,000 on an average per year to continue to sell gold at half price? That is a question that should be asked of every member of the House of Commons. ... : Some 40,000 people are involv- ed. Whole mining communities face a future of becoming ghost tewns. The demand must be made on Ottawa for a change in policy. “Up to_very recently there has been a big expansion in the pro- duction of base metals, because the price of metals on the world’ mar- ket has been going up. Now the price is falling, and there appears to be a surplus of lead, zinc and copper, but this is also an artificial surplus. ea “Here again there is a tremen- dous world’ market for these base metals. But the federal govern- ment, at the insistence of, the Unit- ed States, is refusing to allow Can- adian metal producers to sell the metals to countries that are crying for them. a maak “The British Trade Union Con- gress has recently gone on record for expanded trade and compelled the British government to open up trade with the countries of eastern Europe and China. A special agen- cy has been established in Britain to develop trade. Over 1,100 firms are now trading jwith these coun- tries, while here in British Columbia, on the insistence of the federal gov- ernment, mines are being shut down and men laid off. “This is not only true of bas® metals, it is also true of lumber, and fishing. The crisis that i developing in B.C. is fostered bys the federal government. t al ates “The Mine, Mill jand Smelte™ Workers Union is urging a change — in this policy. We are advocating continued expansion of the ‘b ; metal industry and devyelopme? of a custom smelter in B.C. the could handle the tonnage from s™ mines which are at present restiC ed because of smelter capacity: British Columbia can produce .¢ per and there is an abundance copper ore in B.C., but we havé smelting or refining capacity copper. It is dependent up?? coma and faces restrictions tariffs.” for Tar ‘ and PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 14, 1952 — PAGE ?