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Canada has golden opportunity,
says Tim Buck in new pamphlet

IM BUCK’S new. pamphlet,

Canada In The World Crisis,
is a very timely presentation
of the -. great opportunities
available to this country and
its people to play a decisive
role as a leader for world
peace, instead of an unwilling
victim of U.S. “brinkmanship.”

This pamphlet drives home a
hard fact which a decade of
cold war experience in kow-
towing to Yankee imperialism
should have taught us: that
an economy geared to the re-
actionary war policies of ag-
gressive U.S. imperialism is
disastrous for Canada in every
shape and form.

If we pause a moment to
total up just a few of its evils
we will find that our export
markets and trade have been
greatly restricted or lost en-
tirely, and with this loss of
our jobs and general pros-
perity.

These are only a few of the
ills which have been visited
upon the peace amd well-being
of the Canadian people as a
result of suicidal policies dic-
tated by Washington and car-
ried out at Ottawa by Liberal
and « Conservative henchmen
of big business.

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Canada In The World Crisis
presents an inspiring analysis
and alternative; the knowledge
that these things need not be;
that the discoveries of this
new atomic age if used for
peaceful purposes, can elevate
humanity to unprecedented
heights of well-being — as al-
ready demonstrated in the
great and and ever-growing
socialist sector of the world.

The pamphlet makes _ it
clear that it is indeed possible
for the Canadian people to win
‘national independence and
the flowering of the Canadian
development — in peace,” free
from the evil domination of
reactionary US. imperialism
and its bi-partisan Canadian
bourgeois agents.

For a decade or more Can- -

ada has been committed to
staggering war expenditures,
much greater even than in ac-
tual wartime. Moreover, be-
cause of war pacts and simi-
lar deals imposed by 45, m=
perialism, our ‘independence,

Bang— you're sterile

A victory for yellow press
and horror comic publishers is
noted by Critic, in the British
journal New. Statesman, who
writes:

“T hear that American boys
now point ray guns: at eaeh
other and shout: ‘Bang,
bang—you’re sterile!’ ”

both economic and political,
has been subordinated to U.S.
interests.

In consequence our country
has been brought to the brink
of atomic war on numerous
occasions. Even now, through
U.S. aggression in the Formosa
Straits, no Canadian can be
sure he or she will escape the
evil results of Dulles’ “brink-
manship,”

Mass unemployment of the
proportions of the Hnugry
Thirties again threatens, with
its consequent. hardship, suf-
fering and monopoly-designed
sabotage of the national well-
being. Parallel with this is a
nation-wide organized attack
by big monopoly capital, aided
by big business-dominated gov-
ernments, upon the living and
social standards, the rights and
liberties, of organized labor
and the working people.

What Buck has done in
Canada In The World Crisis
will imbue workers, farmers,
and progressive people gener-
ally with a new confidence that
they themselves can create a
political alternative to the old-
line parties of big business,
and through such a movement,
win lasting peace and pros-
perity. :

To accomplish this, they
must discard for good the il-
lusion that the Tories, Liberals
or Socreds can or will decisive-
ly break with the class” inter-
ests inherent in the “brink-
manship” policies, which have
brought Canada to the verge of
war and economic ruin.

There is a valuable section
in this pamphlet which sharp-
ly illustrates some of the il-
lusions and retrogressive steps
taken by the recent B.C. Fed-
eration of Labor convention;

a section which will help to
recapture lost. ground in the
struggle to give Canada of the
working people its golden op-

portunity as a champion of

peace, world friendship and
the economic benefits of mu-
tual trade and good will.

Canada In The World Crisis
is available at the People’s
Co-op Bookstore, 307 West
Pender Street, Vancouver 4,
price 15 cents.

'Give and take’ relations urged
USSR by businessmen

on Canada,

A CALL for increased “give
and take” relations and

‘peaceful competition between

Canada and the USSR was

made in Toronto last week by

a spokesman: for the 32 top
business executives who visited
the Soviet Union this year.
The coexistence appeal was
made by Walter McLachlan,
one of AV. Roe’s vice-presi-
dents, on the occasion of the
premier showing of a Soviet
documentary film Canadian

_ Businessmen in the USSR.

A capacity audience jammed
the 2,300-seat Odeon Carlton
Theatre in Toronto to see the
film.

Attending was Soviet Em-
bassy Charge d’Affaires. Peotr
F. Strounnikov.

The audience, which loudly
applauded at the close of the
film, was by invitation only.
The trip. was organized. in
May by. Edgar TT. Alberts,
insurance official, and the
group invited over by Soviet
trade officials and engineers.

Businessmen on the visit in-
cluded A. C. Ashforth, presi-

O YOU think you could
D keep body and soul to-
gether on a measly $244.45
an hour?

This is the perplexing sit-
uation that L. L. Colbert,
president of Chrysler. Corp-
oration, was faced with all
through 1957.

Colbert, who struggles
along on a salary of $250,000
a year, was helped through-
out the year of high prices
by an ‘‘additional compensa-
tion” of $238,900; bringing
his yearly take to $488,900.

If Colbert worked 2,000
hours in the year his hourly
rate would be $244.45 and

Only $244 an hour!

United Auto Workers statis-
ticians have helped simplify
the matter further by point-
ing out that this is over $40
a minute.

UAW Local 44 News also
points out that this is the
same Colbert who “charged
UAW with ‘rocking the
boat’ when the union re-
fused to take a wage cut.”

It no doubt came as a
pleasant bit of news to Col-
bert and other top execu-
tives when Chrysler an-
nounced it would split $3,-
582,412 am®ng the execu-
tives. This will likely come
under the. heading of a
“cost of living-it-up bonus.”

Czechoslovakia and the USSR are » two of the many count
which have issued postage stamps honoring the great Ru
writer Leo Tolstoy. In 1953 Czechoslovakia issued the stat
at left and the USSR the stamp at right.

dent of Toronto - Dominion
Commerce; David Eaton; Phil-
lip C. Gdrratt of De Havilland
and Dr. Otto Holden of Ontario
Hydro.

They had gone to the Soviet
Union;,said McLachlan in in-
troductory remarks, ‘to see
for themselves” because of an
intense curiosity about Soviet
life.

He offered warm thanks to
the officials. of the Soviet em-
bassy and various ministers in
the Soviet Union for making
their trip a success and ful-
filling all their requests for
visits.

He stresed the fact that
Canada was a northern coun-
try like the Soviet Union.

‘We have many things in
common in developing the
natural resources of our north-
ern regions.” he declared.

Both countries were doing
things differenty and there was
competition on the economic
level, he said, but that com-
petition should remain eco-
nomic, not military, because
the outcome of a- war would
be disastrous for all.

He urged further exchanges
and visits and a “give and take”
spirit between Canada and the
USSR, calling on the audi-
ence to go over and see them-
selves some of. the things
portrayed in the films.

A second film which won

. the unstinted admiration of

the audience was- a color
documentary on treasures, halls
and exhibits inside the Krem-
lin.

Candian Businessmen in the
USSR shows the visitors on
the streets, in big industrial
plants, at building sites, inter-
viewing Khrushchev and the
mayor of, Moscow, enjoying
themselves at Sochi, at the
opera — “seeing for them-
selves.”

For ‘the audience as for the
touring businessmen, the film
was a succession of revelations

October. 31, 1958 —

and surprises about the § af
life. Instead of the “pack
conditions, they had bee? C
up to expect, they saw
bustling streets, apa",
going up everywhere uy
bus and subway transi
tems, huge factories
happy citizens.
An English commenti, “a
their reactions at! 3 j
moments. On the vist.
Electrosila Plant in
they declared the wit
would have been wrth # oi
they just visited this
alone. It makes turbine
electrical power edu!

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