.

Ss ihe ‘observation. at “close. range of the Winchian technique of |
co-existence between his “‘socialism’” and capitalism (in tran-—

the Coalition has been tricky, e

,this miserable substitute.

with the Coalitionists on the

petition demanding ‘the Coalition either ‘

Let's get together now

a it first entered into unholy wedlock, the Johnson-Anscomb Coal-.

ition has pursued a consistent pattern of legislative ‘ ‘achievement’’.
This pattern has followed two main trends; one, to trample foresee
over the desires and interests of the common people, workers, farmers,
and small businessmen and two, to lend an ever obedient and sympa-
thetic ear to all the demands of big monopoly capital.

On the many problems facing ‘the people of British Columbia
evasive, and in some cases, as with
its Hospi al Insurance scheme downright dishonest.

On the other hand, when the Canadian Manufacturers Association
~ (CMA) has dispatched its paunchy lobbyists and high-pressure cor-
poration legal sharks to Victoria, : the Coalition has moved with the
a of a Waldorf-Astoria bellhop to grant whatever was requested.

B.C. farmers beset with the growing problems’ of resineted :mar-
kets, climatic hazards, high prices and higher taxes, have seen their

"representatives get the good old political “run-around” and “‘brushoff”’.

All done of course with a nice flow Coalition oratory “‘commiserating”’
with the farmer—but doing’ nothing to help solve his. problems.

B.C. labor has seen the original Industrial and ‘Conciliation Act

. (ICA) transformed from labor legislation designed to protect the

right of workers to choose their own form of organization and, collective
bargaining into its opposite—an instrument designed to thwart trade
union organization, . obstruct collective bargaining, and outlaw the
fundamental right to strike. AH engineered by a Coalition government
whose very origin stems from fear of the people.

And _ Hospital Insurance! The people themselves have | already
‘charged the Coalition with false pretenses and intent to defraud

insurance scheme as the Coalition has done the BCHIS, those citizens
would now be serving time in the penitentiary.
members : are stumping the province and flooding every, area with
attractive literature (at the taxpayer’s expense) telling the public’ what
ardent supporters of hospital insurance they are. If we judge Coalition
~ performance rather than words, then it is clear that all this ballyhoo in
ee and literature could well be prefaced with the observation that
“any. resemblance to Feality i is purely, coimcidental :

Iti is scoulaut Fain the “hearings” now under way on the ICA Act;
extra flurry to streamling in words (rather than facilities) the
HIS set-up: the frothy promises to farmers and others -in’ the
lower “social’’ brackets, that an election ‘is not so far off, and that

~ the Coalition incumbents are keenly aware of the need for some
political fence mending.

Now is the time for the common ke to begin getting together ;
to begin building a bit of unity on a constituency basis, around any
one of a whole number of pressing issues, and casting around for
worker, farmer or other Done Lo who will a to bat

Those hundieds of thowsands of workers who signed th labor
‘retract or resign’’ on the
~BCHIS premium swindle, have a golden opportunity to give their
signatures an added punch, by getting together and voting for pro-
"gressive candidates whose actions will coincide with their words, a

br aecal combination totally alien to ey sa hacks of Tweedle-
— dum and Tweedledee.

~ One fond embrace

ocialits jintst de to live with caniealiits ona temporary basis,”

@ according to CCF provincial sing Sipeienge h oted
‘Aig Uo Vena Ba June 16. : sia ee

“We must face the fact” quoth Fea, “that j in the a
Jr Aug pring Ws cn oe Ry anbuer Bey re
the preliminary years, to administer capitalism’. Doubtless —
Clement Attlee, who has much more experience than Harold on such —

ld give out with a a lusty Oxfordian “bravo Harold”,

“Silod) a yor. appear that Fics ga would he 1
describe ationship—in transition of course, since they
anes out regain sey tbe advent ae teal socialism. 3 ee

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Instead, Coalition’

CUS A LR

As We See lt

by TOM McEWEN

a iH

R the great majority of oil workers, handling

oil is a dirty job. But, as the radio soap operas
‘frequently remind us, there is nothing their special
produet cannot wash “sudsy” clean.

The politics of oil however, is something different.

That kind of dirt cannot be washed, not even by
senile oil magnates handing out dimes or endow-
ments. There is too much workers’ blood in oil
politics to wash out.

No doubt “the Seittielans of Britain and the
United States would be only too happy if they could
wash out all traces of nationalization which, in
ran, Egypt and Indonesia, now threatens the vast
oil monopoly which has kept their oil magnates rich
and the workers of these lands poor indeed. But’
it is too late.

~
y

Take Iran for an example. For nearly three-
quarters of a century’a huge Anglo-Iranian oil oc-
topus ,has exploited,’ starved, beaten and murdered
countless thousands of Iranian oil workers, ex-
tracted fabulous profits amounting to billions of
dollars, corrupted and ‘bribed a small Iranian feudal
ruling caste and, with the aid of such goyernments,
virtually control the economic and political an
ei the country. » o

Now the Anglo-Iranian oil monopoly is being
booted out of Iran. . Not even a “Socialist” govern-
ment in Britain (elected to power on its pledge to
nationalize key British industries) can save 5
Anglo-Eranian oil trust from the determination of
the Iranian people to own and operate their own
natural resources. No government which tried to
aid this oil monopoly to thwart. the will of the
Iranian people would last 24 hours in present-day
Iran. Not even with the “moral” assistance of a
so-called International World Court of Justice or
the proximity of British payee

EMM RNa ae eee

The long and short ori it is that the people of
Iran, bled white by the ruthless exploitation of
Anglo-Iranian Oil, have taken history by the fore-
lock and written: finis to the black chapter. The
demonstrations of public opposition ‘upon the ar-.

rival in Iran of Truman’s “Man Friday,’ W. Averell |
Harriman, as a special “fixer’ for the oil barons,

are merely indicative of \the determination of the

Iranian people to regain ownership and control

of their own natural heritage and resources.
According to newspaper ‘columnist Joseph Alsop,

who writes what he is paid to write, Harriman’s

job will be to convince the Iranian government to —

impose “a tough regime upon the Iranian people on
the Turkish pattern.” Given such a “tough re-
gime,” London and Washington may even reach
agreement on the moving in of armed forces, under
the pretext of “defending essential defense areas”
for the oil imperialists. To open up one of the
“new Koreas” promised some time ago by Canada’s.
External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson? Were .
such armed. aggression to descend upon Iran: the
issue of what we’d be fignting for would: be very
clear. Out from all of the verbiage of “defending
our democratic way of life’ the fact that we'd be
there to protect the sacred right of the Anglo-
Iranian Oil trust to oppress and exploit the: Iranian
pobre. would stand out like a sore _ thumb.
Getting back to this “tough regime” proposition.

In a recent press release, Telepress has the follow-—
ing to say: “Turkey is a country where tens of
, thousands. Bic People die ey from fever, diar-

rhoea and appendicitis. Less than half of the newlyr
born babes survive infancy; we have 60,000 blind,”
hundreds of. thousands of lame and crippled pete

sons .. . the population is the defenseless victim
in the hands of the agas and beys (feudal lords)

moneylenders, middlemen and _ profiteers.” That is

a direct result of a “tough regime” policy advocated” k
by the representative of dollar imperialism on beh

of the oil trust—and incidentally what makes

Turkey a worthy recruit in the Atlantic Pact “com:

munity of free PAOEe

The demand ise nationalization is rising
over Asia and the Near East wherever oil is
dominant issue. Iraq, across the way from Tr
is also talking strongly about nationalization of
its oil industry, and for exactly the same reasons
to'free the people of Iraq: from the ruthless exploita
tion of a powerful international oil -eartel,

. regain for thé people of Iraq access to their 0

natural resources, The people ©f Iraq say, ‘if the
Tranians can do it, so can we’, and the gil ae
expands. : f
In Cairo and through Egypt scastaeeeg are stagin 7
huge demonstrations supporting nationalization oh
the huge oil holdings of Anglo-Egyptian Oilfields
section of the British Shell Oil interests. The Egy
tian minister of trade and industry has been per
emporily called to London for “talks”. What these
“talks” will amount to is self-evident, a demand 9%

the British Foreign Office upon the Egyptian gov

ernment to “take effeetive measures” to curb .
insistence of the Egyptian people, and particu!
the exploited Egyptian oil workers for nationalizatio:
of the Egyptian oil industry, Or, to put it ™
Alsop’s words, to demand a “tough regime that will
gag Beyptian workers. 2

In Iran, the oil holdings are already in Pp
of being nationalized and while the foreign oil
opolies are hanging on with grim determination on
salvage a little of their old suzerointy, they and
finding the united will of millions of people hi
to withstand. !

Even Indonesia’s oil industry, owned and fin-
~ anced by Dutch, British and American oil magnet
is -being threatened ‘with nationalization.

“Dutch Shell of Sir Renry Deterding fame ‘read

shame) has’ been refused permission to extend }
domain in Sumatra, and is finding that the “in
pendent” government set up by Dutch imperialis ;
and British bayonets is becoming “difficult” 1

‘relations Pare the big. oil trust.

ee short, the Sockarno government of nd
nesia and a stratum of the Indonesian bourgeoisig
look with covetous eyes at the huge profits extrac
by Royal Dutch Shell and would like a bigger ch
for themselves, while down below the mass press? 12
of the exploited and oppressed Indonesian P nds
for an end to the tyranny of the oil trust, dee
nothing short of nationalization as a preliminary

ution. | ;

Nationalization; the determined will of millions
colonial peoples to repossess their native lands)

“the riches of these lands for their own wellbel

this is the new demand of the SH PraG UTE, count?’
of Asia, — ¥

The soap operas have some 2 eek ideas for was

ing out oil stains, but the sweat and bloo

workers expended to make millions for , ot
monopolists can only be washed out ‘by nation ss
Nae Mig ‘piped out | the oil ee

- "Danger of peace- -to whom?

ese. M. FISHER ah Fisher sed ries ins;

New York, delivered an address about nine
months ago to the Tanners Council of America. The.
burden of his spiel at that time wsa to point up the

grave danger of peace and : its a ae effects upon
—dollar-imperialism. =,

“What do you su ead here,”
ee es happen ere”

“even at this early stage of tha
- inflationary game, if tomorrow world peace were
ia to become - var through ‘ed ar
isarmament under the auspices inspection of the
UN; if 24 hours from now all Saha recovery
and defense budgets were eliminated—all govern-
ment (war) contracts cancelled—and America. re-
_ turned overnight toa peacetime economy?”

Then the great man went on: “If. peace Bette

us into a tailspin now, what will it do five

_years from now, when we have spent two or three

hundreds billions of dollars unproductively, watered

our 59c dollar down to a 45c or 35c value, and
priced | sigue out of world. etch.

"PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 2 1951, — 3 Pp.

Korea ‘cease fire”

Such treason to labor is only equalled by

i

A very , ticklish question for ike war pl
but diacle's as ABC to working people.
to tum our creative energies and resources toW
peacetime pursuits. The results will be i imm mmediz
beneficial toa civilized society. :

Todas.” despite. all the ‘efforts of the F
and | their kind to toss monkey wrenches. int
talks, to obstruct the
volume of world opinion for peace, the hand
of history is on the wall, spelling out the will a!

_ determination of millions of people—for peace:

In their hysteria at the danger ‘of pea

i iiers sud their stooges in the ranks of labor

represent peace as a danger to jobs, and sing
hell’s chorus around the theme of “war or 5" a

Even some of our own labor “leaders” in Can

tek:

-cap-in-hand. to the St- Laurent government, |

to keep things

for more ‘‘war contracts”
the
 spiracies of the war profiteers, who see in
doom of a system’ that can only survive by

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