AS was to be expected of a parliament which has shown no disposition to fight for the people’s real interests, the House of Commons has voted to approve the draft text of the North Atlantic “‘Se- curity’” Pact. Only two opposing votes were re- corded by “Bloc Populaire’? MP’s. Liberals, Tories, Social Credit and, to their everlasting shame, CCF MP's voted approval of this suicide pact, which provides ‘that Canadians shall be the mer- cenary troops in the war adventures of predatory American imperialism—against socialism. The two Trotskyite CCF MP’s, Rod Young (Vancouver Center) and Harry Archibald (Skee- na), who are reported to have led a minority “revolt” in the CCF caucus against the pact were absent in the House when the vote was called. ‘Such strategy may be considered good Trotskyite . politics, but their non-vote is in reality a vote for the suicide pact. The erstwhile demands of CCF parliamentary Use your vote for peace spokesmen that the pact should have ‘‘economic pro- visions’’—provisions that would enable Canada to achieve “‘prosperity’’ in war—have apparently gone by the board. Our “Socialist” MP’s vote for war while deluding their own membership that they stand for peace. The final decision now rests with the people of Canada.. To reject this pact at the polls by rejecting those who voted for it in parliament, re- gardless of party labels. ? In a small five-cent pamphlet entitled Suicide Pact written by Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive party, the full import of this sinister conspiracy against the peace is clearly and simply told. ; Write for a copy of this pamphlet to the LPP, Room 209, Shelly Building, Vancouver, and see for yourself just’what your MP voted for. Then resolve to régister your vote for peace. | left off the voters’ list. out by official redtape and procedure. : your name on the voters’ list now. name is on the list. If not, make a street to have your name entered. it in—get on the voters’ list now. Get on the voters’ list---NOW _ Bie serah no fault of their own, many h Others, with a pollyannish faith in the powers-that-be, think that they automatically go on the new lists. in the provincial elections, they learn with regret that their citizenship rights have been cancelled point of getting to the registration offices at 619 Seymour All British subjects, male and female, by birth or naturalization, resident in Canada for 12 months and in British Columbia for 6 months are eligible to vote. _¢ If you really want to defeat the sales tax and the Johnson-Anscomb Coalition that brought undreds- of Greater Vancouver citizens have been When voting day comes. around Call up TAtlow 2348 to. check whether your HE federal government is planning to spend T $586,0000,000 this year for planes, tanks, guns and other instruments of war. That was the esti- mate placed before parliament iast week—just before gave its approval of the North Atlantic “Suicide” “pact. That Sum is more than double the amount spent last year. It is being g0 spent because Wall Street tells our government to tell us we are being “threatened” » by the Soviet Union! Almost in the same breath “War” Minister Brooke Claxton tells us in a press interview that he “thought it unlikely” the USSR was planning a war. ‘This gigantic war budget will cost the Can- adian taxpayer in the neighborhood of $192 a day. Housing—there is no money for housing—well, perhaps a_ little. government may propose loans for housing up to about $75,000,000, possibly Pipe the red herring aon EPORTS of “‘mutinies” aboard three of Can- 5 8) ada’s top naval units while engaged in man- --euvers in. Canbbean waters leaked out last week. ‘Top braid in naval ‘circles were inclined to play these events down. : Vice-Admiral H. T. W. Grant hazarded the _ Suggestion that our “post-war fleet is going soft.”’ The vice-admiral is quoted as saying that in pre-. war years the low pay and little shore diversion made “‘a man’s ship his chief interest . . . some sailors today don’t want to leave their wives .and automobiles.”” Such an estimate of the lower ratings is hardly calculated to stimulate the esprit de corps of Canada’s navy men. ~ ie is is. Naval Intelligence has begun an_ investigation of the disaffection aboard these ships, which seems to have aided the editorial: hack writers to come up with the trusty red-herring—not low pay or long hours of work or rookie officers throwing their Weight around the mess decks, ‘“‘but the possibility that Communists have infiltrated the navy’s pranks 20... We know of a good many Communists who _ manned Canada’s corvettes in the North Atlantic, chasing the Nazi wolf-pack from the seas. We know some who died in that service, and whose _ sacnifice added luster to the heroic exploits of Can- ada’s young navy. os To “blame the” “strikes” on the Communists may “save: face” for the gold-braided Captain Bhghs—and leave the grievances of the non-commis- stoned ratings unsolved. E:ven the sturdy British sing before bombers a single operation. Cardiff. .Bnitish workers with “misplaced” Nazis. ' less. But we must-have jet fighters—at least 100, says C. D. Howe—each to cost about $300,000. How many moderate-cost houses that would provide for thousands of Canadians now living in slum tene- ments and other quarters condemned by every one except the authorities. At least 100,000 low-rental héuses could be built with this huge war appropriation. Prime Minister St. Laurent is making good his boast, “Not a cent for subsidized housing by any government of which I am a part.’ St. Laurent and his government are all for war—‘‘Even if 11,999,999 Canadians are against it’’! ' What to do with a government which does things like that? At election time it can be turned out of office by an overwhelmidg majority of Canadians who want peace, housing and security, rather than jet bombers, war pacts and Marshall plan fascism. says and navy taught the late J. Ramsay MacDonald that simple lesson in 1924 when that silk-hatted “Social- ist’” attempted to cut their rations and their pay in The worst possible service anyone can-do to the men of Canada’s navy- is to pipe down their justifiable grievances with a Marshall Plan whistle and a red herring. ony fetie British DP’s WELSH lass writing her folks in Vancouver aA gives some angles on the new Marshall-planned Bnitam as seen from. the great mining center of ra Among other things the lass says: “. . . Even our hospitals are staffed with German nurses, while our own girls walk the streets, Weare told by the authorities that we must help the Germans. __ “While our men folk sit at the pit heads, and old miners are permanently scrapped, Poles from General Ander’s army flood’ the pits. We are told we must also help the Poles.” From this lassie’s letter it would appear that the idea of socialism, for which the Attlee-Bevin the British people in August of 1945, is now as , dead as J. Ramsay MacDonald. _- Bevin’s “‘help’” to the German and the Poles. is a Marshall-planned scheme with a USA trade- mark—a scheme to torpedo socialism by displacing. and to pose as the “saviors” of Canada from such “experiments.” aye Cl labor government got an unqualified go-ahead from _ Printed by Union Printers Ltd. 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. » ¥ TOM McEWEN As We See It _ OROTHY THOMPSON, star of the monopoly press’ muck-raking brigade is badly disturbed. In case you may not know it, Dorothy is paid a very high fee for being disturbed. Her syndicated columns of Winchellized bile, designed to give big business a democratic halo, puts her in the top income brackets—and right down in the deepest “intellectual” sewer in point of content, The cause of Dorothy’s disturbance last weel was the Cultural and Scientific conference held in New York. To Dorothy it was " nothing more than “... a Cominform (Communist Information *Bureau )invasion of America and a tactic in the cold war.” Dorothy berates the US. state department for permitting foreign delegates from “Cominform countries” to set foot on Ameri- can soil. According to Dorothy, “free speech’” should conform to Wall Street concepts of “free-- dom.” Like a mangy terrier snapping at the heels of a thoroughbred, Dorothy encourages the thought-controllers of the FBI to check and double-check all who discuss peace terms gcontrary to the omnipotent Yankee dollar, ~« Dorothy just cannot “understand” distinguished American musicians who welcome the great Soviet — composer, Dmitri Shostakovich, to this world peace endeavor. The nazi “Gieseking merely came here to play,’ wails Dorothy, “but the state department put him on a plane—after giving him a visa, Shostakovich is here on a political and anti-American mission.” To this literary Ise Koch the “mission” of peace is “un-American.” Disturbed by the realization that she and her kind cannot stop this peace effort by the world’s outstanding men and women of culture and science, Dorothy dons the snug-fitting mantle of a provocateur and “insists . . that all sides be heard—not in- a rival conference, but In ‘this one,” in order to turn it into a ' sounding board for the jingoism and hypocrisy of Yankee imperialism. ‘@ - A PT reader sent us a little news item culled from the February 15 Toronto Star and later reproduced in a Prince Rupert paper. It is of interest to union men. : Tke item reads: “Churchill, Man.—When Canada’s governor- _ general, Lord Alexander, piloted a train during a trip from The Pas to Churchill, trainmen wondered how he started and stopped the locomotive so smoothly. Lord Alexander explained he learned the trade during Britain’s 1926 railway strike.” 4 ? ‘The news item doesn’t mention what the trainmen said, but the — Quiz kids wouldn’t have any difficulty guessing that one, * The political weathercocks who write the editorials for Western — Business and Industry, and whose main job is to calm the fears of Chamber of Commerce tycoons anent the “threat of socialism,” have — been giving a deal of attention lately to “socialist” experiments in Saskatchewan. Needless to say they have proved (to their own satisfaction) that “Socialism won’t work,” and that our ‘democratic free-enterprise system” is still the best in this® best of all possible worlds. © From this they deduce not only the failure of the CCF in Sas- katchewan, but its ultimate eclipse as a national party with a future. _ What Western Business and Industry (and the CCF leadership) _ call “socialism” in Saskatchewan—it was repeated in the News- _ Herald of March 28—hasn’t the remotest resemblance to socialism. — But it all makes good grist for the political windmills of the old line parties and top brass CCF. It gives the Chamber of Commerce an opportunity to point to the horrible example of Saskatchewan It also gives the CCF leaders—outside of Saskatchewan—an opportun- ity to point to a practical demonstration of CCF “socialism” without having to go to Sweden or New Zealand for blueprints. _ From these observations Western Business and Industry’s top scribblers draw, the conclusion that Drew and St. Laurent, in the _ role of two new political gladiators, have put CCF leader Coldwell into total eclipse in parliament. Naturally, such a sake must add that part of the cause of the Coldwell blackout is because of the Communists—who, until recently, are supposed to have “stuck to his coat tails like burrs’’! That, together with the Saskatchewan | “experiment,” is presumed to have finished off the CCR. i We think the literary crystal gazers of Western Business and Industry ‘are indulging in a lot of wishful thinking. The evil that is overtaking the top leadership of the CCF is not _ because of “socialist experiments” in Saskatchewan, but because historically, and in_ practice, right-wing social democracy takes _ on the unenviable role of a “third force” to “save” the capitalism _ _ about which the spokesmen of the Chamber of Commerce are Fa so much concerned, ee Western, Business and Industry tops the joke of the year by — featuring the H. R. MacMillan Export as a great undertaking of “socialization—by private enterprise.” Presenting MacMillan as a great “‘socializer” is funny; it also shows that the Canutes of the’ Chambers of Commerce are having a difficult time holding the rising tide of real socialism in check. : A little more time and that tide will engulf them. mu i ll 7 . ai il Cnet esi oa | Hi | ik ai ara “PIU INDE mal lis : Published Weekly at 650 Howe Street _ By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. “Telephones: Editorial, ‘Tom McEwen ...... bets eee Pees Pe ease on Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. ¢ PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 1, 1919 — PAGE 8