‘ Suffered 2 ae PAY, AUGUST 29, 1947, By BRUCE MAGNUSSON A Labor Day message Secretary, Ontario Joint Council, Lumber and Sawmill Worker’s Union (AFL) —SUDBURY, Ont. FTER two terrible world wars we still have a lot of unfinished business left in the world. And, after all, who would expect history to give birth to a new world over- deter Proper stations and start pulling dong with history. .In 1945 we Called it “The Battle To Win the Peace.” That battle is still Taging fiercer than ever. Unless We win that battle we shall have More depression, more fascism, More war, The signs are beginning to Multiply that we are are head- Mg for stormy waters. Already the Australian government is taking steps to meet, what Can- €rra officials term “an unavoid- able large-scale depression in the United States.” And this 18 the creditor nation of . the World that did not suffer from a, Single bomb. This nation, the mortagee of almost every nation en earth, js facing economic crisis; While the nations that greatest destruction, ®nd while being refused Ameri- fan aid on political grounds, “re pulling themselves up by heir bootstraps and confident ‘of their future in their new- rn freedom. Ought not this © @ lesson for us Canadians? it not high time we realized at we have come to the cross- roads where we must pick the “ight trail to civilization or per- PRE with the wolves in the wild: ernegs? We must get back on the right (Course, The coming economic “risis in America, is being hast- ened on its way by rapidly ris- na living costs and a catas- ae fall in the bnying pow- Ry? of ordinary people. And we Stat too closely tied to United toca imperialist politics in’ both saa and domestic affairs to eta the consequences of this mil) S. Our capitalists, like the Milonaires of Wall Street, are ‘gi A big job Editor, Pacific Tribune: is letter was first forward- Buble the ‘Vancouver Sun’ for leation, but was returned & nice little card stating wing to “restrictions on © and other reasons” it not be used. I am_ for- & it to-your paper because elleve its contents are of in- ®st_ to Canadian readers. (Vassaily Zalenko, a Croatian Y Whose : Alberta from what is now Boslavia, at the age of five Shab » and who spent several has cn my farm in Alberta, “try eturneg to his native coun- Stes After he had sold his home- Person and held a sale of his about al property, he had i heen) in cash with which ‘This w" to his native land. the ee Colossal fortune, from 5 He returned alone with his two years ago and . ot wait for any of the Materia ments of Jugoslavs to f ze. He had graduated ro oe ®n Alberta high school, fath,, ‘te bush lands where his *r had homesteaded, and Young gp telttennt, industrious thr ~“°8 young children. ety aia not return to Th 0 parents brought him | Ugoslay viewpoint. _ : @n, with a wife and making too much profit. They sap the lifeblood out of our veins through monopoly controt and price fixing. They refuse to give us a roof over our heads and take the milk away from our chilren. "BRUCE MAGNUSSON us, the workers’ wages are Toe we depend upon to live. But for monopolies wages are merely so much cost per unit that must be reduced to. make still more profits. High prices and high profits go to- gether. And both are possible only at the expense of workers living standards. We are both the producers and the bulk of the consumers. A lower standard of life for us eventually destroys the market for goods and serv- ices. When that day arrives we - You Derarfineat Jugoslavia because x Two of his uncles had been ‘murdered by the Germans, their wives carried away by the Ger- — man army and seven children turned out into the forest to starve, if not rescued by came partisan band. He took his life’s savings from Alberta to his na- tive land to try to find his" rela- tives, rescue them and re-estab- lish them in civilized living con- ditions. So far he has found but four of the seven lost chil- dren. XN There are 1,225,000 orphaned children in Jugoslavia. Many of these will never be found alive. Some of these children were too young to talk when orphaned, so it is difficult for Tito’s so- cial service workers to deter- mine to which ethnic group they belong, so they can be placed with families speaking their own tongue. — : Tito’s government is taking these orphaned children out of camps, institutions and other public places and is paying a family with other children, $10 per month for their keep and’ an extra $30 per year for cloth- ing. He is doing this in order night? It is far from being a simple matter. But its complexity does not in any way history from proceeding on its way. The best thing all of us can do is to find our iose both our jobs and wages, while the profiteers can con- tinue to live on accumulated profits. The only thing we can do is to organize and stop profiteering. We can force a roll-back of prices and new peace-time con- trols. We can fight for higher wages to be taken out of ex- cess profits. We can bring back subsidies for small producers and thereby help to keep prices down. We can find plenty of money for this if the government tax the big corporations and con- fiscate their excess profits. At the same time it is possible to do away with sales and excise taxes to help us poor folks pay our grocery bills and allow us to buy food and shelter before taxing our small incomes out of existence. In- addition to all these things we must get a Canadian Bill of Rights to guarantee that we are not going to be kid- napped in the middle of the right by some agents of a new gestapo. We must get demo- cratic labor laws and less red- baiting of our trade unions. We must put a stop once and for all to foolish witch-hunts, while the. profiteers pick our pockets clean of the last penny we pos- sess. Such a simple program of ac- tion is the only way to post- pone and to mitigate the con- quences of a new depression. It is indeed a priority concern of the community at large. On this Labor Day it would be good for all of us to give a little attention to this pressing prob- lem, and how best labor can unite its ranks to meet it. Wte what you Please. it had be- come a Communist state. Here is why he went, as he writes me: that these children may have a home and family influence around them, instead of an in- stitutional influence. It is a gigantic task to sort them out and place them where they be- jong, as far as is humanly pos- sible. The three predominant ethnic groups in the country are Croa- tian, Slovene and Serb and there is yet bitter rivalry among them, to keep alive their own national identity and customs. In addition to these million orphans, there are 19,000 ampu- tation cases among Jugoslavs from the war. It is estimated that it.will require 10 years for the government, with its obsolete and inadequate machinery, to supply artificial limbs to these war victims. So, in spite of the lies, sland- er, misrepresentation and _ vil- lainous abuse of Jugoslavia com- ing out of the commercial press and kept alive by the U.S. gov- > ernment I thihk Tito is per- forming the greatest humani- tarian task of any single indiv- idual ruler on the face of the earth today. BERT HUFFMAN. Newton Station. hort Jabs why Ol’ Bill i was Christmas Day in th there.” This quotation may from two sources: G. R. Sims’ English poorhouse system and one of Service’ the Malamute saloon. And it e€ workhouse, and a goodly crowd was be a little bit mixed as it may be Vancouver, the ban- quet was not of the poohouse j : variety and the crowd was .a ‘goodly’ one, only in respect of numbers, not in any other sense. It included such characters as Chas. A. Dunning, one-tim juggler in the Canadian government; Phillipe Shins PN, lawyer for the CPR, and leading participant in the recent scandal known as the ‘spy trials’; G. W. Spinney, president of the CPR’s bank of Montreal; Ross McMaster, top man among Canada’s ‘fifty big shots,’ chairman of the Steel Company. of Canada, very inter- ested in keeping freight rates in the West high enough to prevent successful competition with his ‘interests’ in the East; some other big noises in the CMA, and the Board of Trade and the little toad in the puddle, acting-Mayor George Miller. With such a gang on deck even the most innocent might know “the de’il h thing on his han’.” mem The occasion was the ‘honoring’ of W. M. Neal, who now wears the shoes once worn (metaphorically), by Lord Strathcona, Sir Thomas Shaughnessy and Sir Edward Beatty. The purpose of Neal’ s visit to Vancouver was something dif- ferent, again. The oppos ition to the railways’ demand for a 30 percent increase in freight rates has been so pronounced that some kind of maneffver had to be devised to offset it. The fiercest wes- tern opposition has come from Vancouver, so an effort to calm down the Vancouver dissident sentiment had to be made. Neal admits, just as other CPR presidents have admitted, that the freight rate stricture is antiquated and should be subjected to a ‘general investigation,’ but as a matter of ‘sheer necessity’ the 30 percent increase in freight rates must come first. To ease the pain, however, Vancouver is to be rewarded by being made ‘a regional headquarters,’ the official hub of Canada’s Pacific transportation system. So, not for the first time in the city’s history, the CPR gives to us the magnificent gift of ‘nothing for something.’ Not rumor but well founded driblets of information, war- rant\the belief that the CPR which in the past has always sabotaged every effort to develop the PGE is now, in cahoots with U.S. imperialism, planning to carry the steel ahead through northern B.C. on to Alaska. : Pe, To do that is just as easy as building the Alaska Highway. That would link the U.S. proper with the armed military ad- vanced base, Alaska, which reliable evidence informs us, is a military post where civilians are practically fenced out and where inquisitive visiting journalists are given the run-around and actu- ally run out of the country. é To take full advantage of such a development of the PGE it’ is necessary that the CPR even if it does not gobble up the PGE entirely, has its own machinery on the spot, so Mr. Neal give us a ‘regional headquarters.’ This city owes nothing to the CPR. We are actually located on a branch line. The end of the main line is really at Port Moody. The van Horn gang of CPR brigands were only induced to build that branch line from Port Moody (after they had sold all the town lots there) by getting a gift from Vancouver of all the lands west of Burrard street and a huge chunk on the south side of False Creek. So we must feel highly elated at the high ‘honor’ of being made a ‘regional headquarters’ so that the CPR can better exploit the possibilities of trade with the Orjent. are not to be ‘honored’ by the CPR replacing its antiquated and obnoxious steam locomotives operating in the city, by Diesel- electric locies. Some of the noises made by these relics are called for by railroad regulations and are bad “enough in the heart of a city, but the worst nerve-wracking inftic- Cause of cancer! tion they impose on us is the noise of the exhausting of steam and smoke from the engine and the firebox, day and ‘night. This noise is the most disturb- ing of the rest, of the people who live in the east end of the city and is one of the reasons why accomodation at Essondale has to be continually extended. 3 : that ‘this property makes them a potent cause of cancer. : But according to the reports, Vancouver is to be the last place on the CPR system where Diesel-electric locomotives will replace steam engines. Apart from the cancer potential, what the smoke nuisance means to Vancouver may be seen from the public buildings that have had a face-lifting in the past year. Most of the grime washed off these. buildings came from CPR steam engines. The Diesel-electric would. solve that problem. - : : And if all the Diesel-electrics are like the one now being used by the Harbor Board, the noise nuisance would also be solved for it is practically noiseless in operation. This question should be the subject of a city-wide agitation with — the aim of getting immediate action. Not a ‘regional headquarters,’ but removal of all steam locomotives from the city area in the interest of public mental and physica} health. Every candidate in _the coming municipal elections should be questioned as to his or her stand on this matter. The Great Northern is making the change, why not the CPR and the CNR? : And, tell it not in Gath, a regiona} headquarters here will make. it easier to keep the CPR-Ross McMaster-Chas, Dunning finger -on the development of the PGE, as part of the ‘defense plans’ for an aggressive war aimed against the USSR. : PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE .