Pane ; PF Dy ip ees ll pimaatiaLiMtia Tom McEwen : WUE eM CE TE EET ee Eee EOE TTT from numerous journals, periodicals and other sources of*information it Would seem that the most popular and Widespread slogan expressing the feel- ; Ings of the common people is summed Up in three small words: “Yank, go home.” Whatever else it may express its pointed simplicity, told in scores of languages, underlines the fact that _ Modern American “aid” in any shape or form, is definitely not wanted by the _ People afflicted with it. : As defined in the American Journal of Commerce a few years ago, the _ Wrapper on this Yankee “aid” sets forth le objective with unblushing gall. The United States can produce more _ than its present capacity to consume ... € sell this excess abroad. And since _ the rest of the world is not up to our _ Standard of production, we must decide What to take in payment. We can let the deficit stand as a debt which will’ _ Probably never be paid... and... we _ Can’ take : ownership of properties fnroughout the world and help to run (2) 14 Big ‘This “taking ownership,” whether by slick dollar diplomacy or napalm and ~ _ Serm bombs, is the nub of the question Which has produced the universal cry from a score of countries, “Yank, go home.” _, 1M Canada, and particularly here in British Columbia, this world slogan of Protest is beginning to find expression : 4M varied ways. In many of the big war “onstruction projects throughout the Province under U.S. ‘contractor super- Vision, the bosses are beginning to shout their heads off about this “communist hate-America stuff” as they call it. These bullying ignoramuses, many of whom Wouldn’t pass the normal IQ test of a _ Mne-year-old, are screaming their heads ff. Some have expressed their attitude to Canadian workers in a foul jimcrow 'Spithet, that Canadian workers are white niggers.” - : - _ Having got the green light from the Laurent government to take over 88 much of Canada’s rich resources as hey want, the U.S. imperialists and their . bulldozer crews on the spot are now Moving to make “colonials” out of Can- adian workers! Paes __ Thousands of Canadian workers who May have been skeptical of the position Dut forward by the Communists, that € St. Laurent government was selling Cut Canada’s independence and sover- €ignty tothe Wall Street war trusts, are ‘Tow getting a first hand demonstration Of the correctness of this warning. Many of the recent developments at. Tail, on the Alcan; at Ioco and other _ 1g Yankee-controlled undertakings, Add practical emphasis to this loss of ‘Independence and rights by Canadians 40 their own country. | _ Covering up their deliberate viola- tons of, union contracts and labor laws — nN B.C. with a howl about this “com-. Munist hate-America stuff,” the Yankee Contractors seek to bypass B.C. union _ (fadership, and themselves “call in” elr own McCarthyized ‘international Union moguls to settle disputes between _ ‘temselves and their. Canadian employ €€s — to their satisfaction. | _ Over 30 years ago, Tim Buck, nation leader of the lLabor-Progressive _ Party, advocated full autonomy for the cs Pacific TRI BUNE of a Published Weekly at Room’ 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouv' Baie “Phone: MArine 5288 : yes Canadian membership within the inter- national unions. This policy was not, as the per-capita collecting enemies of Canadian autonomy sometimes liked to describe it, “a break at the border.” On the contrary, the autonomy advocated by Buck and by all Communists since, is the maintenance of the strongest fraternal relationships between the ’ trade unions of the U.S. and Canada; an open border, so that in all interna- tional conventions the opinions of all will go into the shaping of union poli- cies; and most important of all, the right of Canadian unions to run their own affairs in their own way without outside ‘interference or obstruction, and to win such labor legislation as will advance that concept of a united and independent trade union movement. Lacking that Canadian independence in government and in the basic sections of the working class, today we have the sorry picture or arrogant Yankee bosses on Canadian territory “calling in’ the international trade union bureaucrats (themselves part and parcel of the U.S. State Department), to tell Canadians when, where, how, and under what con- ditions they shall work — in their own country. , A typical Yankee “solution” to head- off a legitimate hatred of Yankee ar- rogance, “superiority” and abyssmal . stupidity! Is it any wonder that Brit- ish, French, Italian, West German, Jap- anese — in fact workers anywhere and everywhere, wherever dollar imperial- ism shows its ugly face, be it through a Dulles or a dumb contractor, say “Yank, go home”? ~ One of the worst possible errors these Yankee freebooters make is to harbor the self-centred notion that this “com- munist hate-America stuff” ‘is solely , communist. Only a few short weeks ago a Social Credit cabinet minister in _ B.C. tetmed the Alcan project “a terrible tragedy” for B.C. — the fruit. of Liberal sell out policies. Another So- -cial\Credit MLA, describing this tragedy, * spoke of the wanton destruction of na- ‘tural resources, game, and fish in B.C. “To see. beaver sitting on a sandbar crying like babies,’ he said, “because all the water had gone, was really heart- breaking.” = ; ; It is. But there is something even. more heart-breaking. To see Canadiah workers deprived of their independence, insulted by labor hating jimerow bosses. and whipped into line to suit’ the whims | of a foreign contractor by foreign agents, misnamed trade union ‘“lead- ers,” is much more heart-breaking. Canadian workers having ,to work un- der constant threat of having their - union cards lifted, thus barring them from their trade and their livelihood in their own country at the dictates of U.S. State Department “trade union” bureaucrats — ‘that too is heart-break- ‘ ing for the human beavers. The issue of Canadian independence is no longer an abstract academic ques- tion. To ‘thousands of Canadian work- ers on jobs owned and controlled by dollar imperialism it is becoming very real. The sellout of Canada by the St. Laurents, Johnsons, Anscombs and company, is now being seen as the sell- out of the most elementary rights of Canadian workers — the’ right to de- termine whether their union and’ the laws of the country are designed to — serve them as Canadians, Or the Canadian-Yankee war trusts. 7 The coming elections should: see this issue settled, and the sellout artists, ‘whether they be Liberal and Tory politicians, blustering Yankee con- — tractors, or a “lar duplicity, sent “home’ for good. ~ That much a united Canadian trade : - union movement can achieve. trade union stooges for dol- er 4, B.C. Tom McEwen, Editor — Hal Griffin, Associate Editor : - Subscription Rates: Canada and British Commonwealth countr One Year $3.00 . .. Australia, United States and One-Year $4.00 .,/. Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powe Authorized as second class” mail, Post: we a! ies (except Australia) Six Months $1.60 all other countries Six Months $2.50 | 11 Street, Vancouver 4 BC. Office Department, Ottawa ee ' ‘You must meet Marshal Tito, he’s iust the job—he’s an anti-Communist Communist!’ End the war in Korea Te news that truce talks may again open up in Panmunjom on the exchange of sick and wounded prisoners of war is heartening, as are the proposals for securing peace in Korea submitted to the United Nations __by Premier Chou Enlai of People’s China. The great maojrity of Canadians will need no urging to insist of the United Nations that these proposals be heralded with an order for a cease-fire in Korea; an order to halt the wanton killing and seek out those ‘paths leading to a peaceful solution of all issues between peoples “and nations. That is the essence of the ' give it form and content. - UN Charter. Now is the time t / _ Top American political and military brass must not be permitted again to undermine and destroy these latest efforts for peace in Korea, as - they have done in the past. Adherence to the provisions of international conventions on the POW issue, simplified by the latest proposals of the Chinese government, makes peace in Korea readily obtainable for those ‘who want peace. ~- Assuming full authority for the truce talks in Pan- munjom, instead of leaving it in the hands of Yankee: ‘‘operation killer’’ advocates, the UN can now achieve an end to the cruel war of aggres- sion upon the Korean people. . __ The stock exchange of the war profiteers may tumble. But thous- ands of lives — Americaneand Canadian, Korean and Chinese — can be R the second time within a year the people of B.C. will go to the polls | to elect a government. Election day has been set for Tuesday, June 9, with nominations on May 19. This election is probably the last thing the people of B.C, wanted at this time. They still have painful re- collections of the confusion and delay resultant upon the introduction of a trick “alternative voting” scheme, which backfired upon its Liberal-Tory “planners” and condemned B.C. to nearly one year of petty partisan poli” tics, while the pressing needs of the -people remained largely untouched. Since the advent of a Social Credit : minority government in B.C., and with ‘a CCF Opposition equally unwilling to deal with vital issues, the people of this of politics which would put any huck- ster to shame. | A handful of Liberal and Conservat- ive remnants from the now dissolved and discredited: Coalition, incapable of advocating anything constructive for the good of the province, have wield- ed a fictitious balance-of-power club over both Social Credit and CCF blocs, with, the result that B.C. has had 53 days of legislative partisan shadow- boxing at the taxpayers’ expense — but no legislation for the public weal. The people of B.C. should enter this province have been treated to a brand saved. Korea has bled too long. Demand the UN act now to halt the carnage. 4 What's at stake in the election? election determined upén one objec-, tive: to p burlesque which has _ characterized B.C. for the past year; to put a final end to the corrupt legacy of Tory-Lib- eral regimes which preceded it; and to elect grass-roots representatives of the people, be they Social Credit, CCF or LPP, who are prepared to fight for those vital issues‘ which have been — studiously avoided and neglected by both major parties in the legislative as- sembly, so abruptly and so unconstitu- tionally ended. tS Progressive. labor legislation, long overdue; a hospital scheme designed — to alleviate sickness rather than penal- 4 ize it; legislation that will safeguard fe _and develop British Columbia’s-natural resources for its people, rather than in the interests and for the profit of Yankee war trusts; the promotion of - trade policies which will enable B.C. “praducts to reach world markets, free _ from. Yankee dollar barriers; policies which will project B.C. to’ the fore- front as one of Canada’s leading prov- inces in the struggle for peace. These, and not the partisan fortunes of party _ _ politics, must be the touchstone of the _ June 9 elections in B.C. The’ first step towards victory: Make sure your name is on the voters’ list, Then use it to win B.C. for a people’s coalition for progress and peace. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 3, 1953 — PAGE 5 __ an end to the political