OL’ BILL

SHORT JABS

OMEONE sent me a bunch of old magazines with a hope that they

might be of some use to me. They were of pretty ancient vintage
and all came from the J. P. Morgan stable; Life, Time, Fortune dope.
They were not of much use to me, but they will help to buy bats and
baseballs for the kids down our way. ¢

One of them, however, from the days right after the atom bomb
that killed 73,000 people all at one blast at Hiroshima and gladdened
the hearts of the Wall Street imperialists, had a lot to say about the
statement made by Truman which most readers of the Pacific Tribune
have undoubtedly heard, that there was no danger of the Russians
getting the atom bomb because they did not have
the “American know-how.” I don’t know if I com-
mented on that blurb at the time, but it is not too
late to comment on it now in view of the war-
creating antits of Truman, representative of Wall
Street first and secondly of the population of illit-
erates whose mental age is still seven, according
to Dr. Bernard Berelson, Dean of the Graduate
Library School at the University of Chicago, speak-
ing at the convention of the American Library As-
sociation at the UBC recently.

That type of people may derive their mead of
glory from Truman’s statement and others like it,
as children of seven do who are told that they are
much smarter than everybody else. But the state-© . ,
ment is a blatant insult to.a great people. Coming from Truman,
foo, it is a sword with a double edge, for Truman himself did not
have enough of what he calls “American know-how” to be able to
stay in business as a haberdasher when he tried it in his own home
town and had to shut up shop. He had to fall back on the notorious
“Boss” Prendergast “know-how” to get into politics. Prendergast has
since landed in jail for the corrupt character of his political activities.

It might interest Truman and his mental seven-year-old fellows
to know that greatest contribution to chemistry and physics during
the nineteenth century was made by the Russian chemist Mendelieff.
By discovering and formulating into a working guide the Periodic Law
of the elements, Mendelieff proved that the characteristics of all the
elements were a function of their atomic weight. Research work in
these two branches of science was advanced by the aid of that law
as surely as navigation was advanced by the invention of the mar-
iners’ compass.

No American, not.even Benjamin Franklin, made as noteworthy
a contribution to science in that or any other century and certainly
not those Americans whose only contribution to atomic science was
the invention of the atrocity known to the world as the A-bomb.

Mendelieff’s Periodic Law made chemistry, which before his time
had been a more or less intelligent series of guesses, into a science
and enabled physicists to establish the existence of about twenty
elements unknown to man, most of which have since been discovered
and conform in all their characteristics to what the tables of periodicy
in the Periodic Law demands of them.

Truman, being only a seven year old haberdasher, and. not a very
good one at that, could not be expected to know anything about
Mendelieff or other great Russian scientists. Still less could his
rooters among the rank-and-file go-getters who believe that Edison
invented everything from the alarm clock to the seedless banana.

Edith Cavell it was who said “Patriotism 1s not enough.” That
guiding rule of conduct was good enough for Edith Cavell and thous-
ands of others like her, who put service to their fellows before their
own selfish interests, but it would not do for the boss lumbermen
of this province. It would have to be amended to suit them so that
it would sound something like this, “Profit is not enough.” Any
logger knows that by the way they go after him to grab back what
he forces from them in wages, whether in the board bill or in
other ways.

The general public got a chance to learn it last week _when
$24,000 in fines were assessed in police court against Hugh Leir and
the Penticton Sawmills, of which he is president. Leir and the com-
parly were charged with evading payment of ‘the income tax. Accord-
ing to the report in the Vancouver Sun they made an admission of an
$86,000 fraud, which, after pleading guilty, Leir and his company
tried to smooth over by paying in a cheque for $50,000 and undertaking
to pay the other $36,000 in 30 days. , -

This is how they pay the taxes they yap about when wage scales
are being discussed—when they are caught. How true it is that only
the worker pays the income tax—as he pays all the other taxes.

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Endicott tells congress

. “The so-called undefended border pene Canada. and the United States

—MEXICO CITY
is beginning to swarm

with secret police, informers and political stoolpigeons of various kinds,’ Dr. James G. Endicott said
in an address to the Continental Peace Congress here last week. Dr. Endicott, chairman of the Canadian
Peace Congress, headed the Canadian delegation to the peace rally here in which delegates from 20

countries of the western hemisphere took part.

His address was followed by a standing ovation and

a statement from the chairman that the address would be published and “spread all over Latin-America.’
The Canadian delegation was not large, Dr. Endicott explained, because it was not possible to

get permission from the United
States to citoss that country to
get to Mexico. Several went the
long route, at considerable ex-
pense. Many more were stopped by
U.S. immigration authorities and
turned back.

“The differences between the ide-
ology of this vast organized police
network and the ideology of our
late enemies Hitler and Mussolini
is quite difficult for us to discern,”
Dr. Endicott said. “We do not
know, however, that Christians
who take the necessity of human
briotherhood seriously, liberal re-
formers who do not feel impelled
to hate Russia, humanitarians
who believe that peace is better
than war, pacifists, Communists,
trade unionists whose internation-
al headquarters are in New York,
and many others, are blacklisted
and denied the right of even pass-
ing in transit through the United
States to such a Congress as this.”

(iat this. Congress we see the
establishment of a real Pan-Ame-
rican Union—the, union of the peo-
ples—and we are proud to repre-
sent the Canadian people in’ this
union of hearts, minds and action
of all our peoples.

Perhaps to many of you Canada
has appeared in the form of Cana-
dian bankers who squeeze profits
out of the toil and misery of Cu-
ba workers ... but do not forget
that Canada—the real Canada—is
also the heroic seamen who struck
in all the ports of the world to de-
fend. their own rights and the
rights of the workers in. all
countries,

Perhaps to some of you Canada
has apepared in the guise of cor-
porations that own your streetcar
systems—but please remember that
Canada is also Dr. Norman Be-
thune who served the bleeding
people of Spain and died minister-
ing to the liberation armies of
China. <

Canada is the thousands of Can-
adian graves scattered over the
continents in the generous outpour-
ing of blood to save ourselves and
our fellowmen from fascism, to lib-
erate all men from colonial oppres-
sion, to bring to life the dream of
the brotherhood of all men.

Perhaps many of you know Can-
ada as the yes-man to the Yankee
imperialist atom-madmen and Mar-
shall planners in the councils of
nations—but please to remember
that Canada is also the people
who labored and fought over many
generations for independence from
British colonial rule, with William
Lyon Mackenzie, Louis Joseph Pa-
pineau, Joseph Howe, Louis Riel
and other great leaders. and mar-
tyrs who stand beside Washington
and Lincoln Bolivar and Juarez
in the history of the American
peoples, and that the voices of the
common people—of the mines, elec-
trical workers, auto workers, the
farmers of Saskatchewan, are rais-
ed today against the Atlantic war
pact, against the Marshall plan and
for peace and friendship and equal-
ity among the nations of the
eartn er .s

Canada is the nearly 4,000,000
French Canadians who for a cen-
tury and-a half passionately re-

fused to fight England’s wars and
just as passionately today are op-
posed to fighting a war for the
Yankee multi-millionaires, and who
are traditionally linked by by ties
of culture «and sympathy with the
Latin American peoples, f

Canada is the 6,000,000-Canadians
of British stock who, with their
French compatriots, hewed a great
country out of the wilderness and
made it one of the finest in the
world; Canada is the more than
2,000,000 Slavic, German, Scandi-
navian, Hungarian and other na-
tional groups which poured in to
open the vast western prairies and
build the factories and cities; of
the 120,000 Indians and Eskimos
who have never ceased to demand
the respect of their rights which
were ravaged and destroyed by the
governors, fur traders and the
ereedy. richwrscs.

We have now had nearly four
years of deliberately fostered war
psychology and phoney war scares.
The radio, the press and the pul-
pit have all done their best to pres-
sure the people into accepting the
biggest and most costly armament
program ever known in  peace-
time. All this is accompanied by
an increasing loss of civil liber-
hy eae : :

Dollar Colony

But it is not only in the area of
civil liberties that the cold war
policy is working grievous harm.
The anti-Russian hysteria is being
used as a cloak to justify the
complete economic subordination of
Canada to the foreign policy of
the United States and the fitting
of Canadian economic and politi-
cal life into the Marshall Plan —
United States investments in Can-
ada amount to over five billion
dollars and are a powerful influ-
ence in compelling Canada to act
as an economic colony of the
United States... .

Canada is today facing an eco-
nomic depression which will soon
be as serious as the British crisis.
This is a dollar-made crisis and
is largely unnecessary. Canada
could supply Britain with most of
the food she needs and could re-
ceive British goods in return but
this is prevented by the United
States, since the moguls of Wall
Street have decided that, under the
Marshall plan, Britain must not
buy Canadian wheat. Canada could
supply Mexico and South America
with agricultural machinery but,
instead, large numbers of work-
ers are being laid off in the Mas-
sey-Harris plants and unemploy-
ment is growing. ... *

Armaments to prop up the dy-
ing reactionary regimes of Europe
and Asia, to be followed by the
sacrifice of our ‘youth, will not
bring prosperity to our country.

We feel that peace and friend-
ship, and the free exchange of
goods between our country and
yours, between our! country and
Britain and China and Czechoslo-
vakia and the Soviet Union and
all the countries, is the answer
to a prosperous Canada in a pros-
perous world... . ;

_ We can promise you’ that, as the
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third world war as inevitable and —
have confidence in the _ fight
against any plans to wage it, Ital-
ian Socialist leader Pietro Nenni
told the USSR Conference of Pat-
tisans of Peace here, at which hé
spoke as a guest.

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ni said, the government of Italy
ignored petitions signed by seve?
million people from all social
groups. “The rulers of Italy have
forgotten that the pact will be 1°
more than a slip of paper without
the support of the people,” he said.

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calm” of the Soviet conference w@5
“a great encouragement” to Itak
ian workers for peace, It gave him
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collapse under the weight of its
own errors and as a consequence
of the peoples’ struggle for peace
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