son struck a dramatic note:

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of U.S. imperialism are being
made plain for all to see On
March 13 the Vancouver Sun re-
printed by special Permission No.
1508 of the Whaley-Eaton Service,
a news-letter political guide for
the monopolistic rulers published
in Washington.

In this bulle-
tin, the answer
of U.S. imperi-
alism to a Soc-
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ist victory in
» the coming

Italian elec-
tions is clearly
stated. “Our
own belief,
says this guide
to action, “is

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that the Western powers simply
cannot permit Communist control
in Italy even if force must be
employed to prevent it.

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The fact that this “belief” ‘is

the accepted program of U.S. im-
perialism was proved a few days
later when President Truman ex-
pressed the same idea in his ad-
dress to Congress in slightly dif-
ferent words, that a truly demo-
cratic, constitutional victory at
the polls for the Socialist-Com-
munist united front, which was
practically conceded in the Wha-

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ICTURE to yourself the writer
of this column, distractedly
seeking some inspiring subject to
write about, when, bang! it lit-
erally hit us like a ton of brick.

Lots of good men take orders
from their wives, and on most
occasions we do too. But when
you suddenly
learn — from
the cold print
of the daily
press — that
your wife is
the “Big Boss”
of all the “B.C.
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well, it just
kind of leaves
you limp.

Bob Morri-
0 - son of Stuart
Tom McEwen Research,
Vancouver's vest-pocket Goebbels
and court jester for the Canadian
Manufacturers Association, as be-
fits his calling, must of necessity
‘provide his Board-of-Trade lunch-
eons with new and hitherto un-
_ known thrilling versions of the
“Red Menace.”

..Monday of this week he ad-
dressed the Advertising and Sales
Bureau of the Vancouver Board
of Trade. When the B-of-T boys
settled back in their chairs to the
accompaniment of a few relieving
cracker-and-cheese burps, Morri-
meee
‘we were looking for somebody
_ superior® to the Murphys and

Pritchetts in the party (LPP), we

might find that this man of des-
tiny they take their instructions
from ... would be a woman...”

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ley-Eaton letter, would be an act
of aggression by Russian agents
and must be stopped at any price.

When, in 1936, the Spanish peo-
ple, in a perfectly constitutional
and legal manner, elected a gov-
ernment of liberals, Socialists and
Communists, by a clear majority,
vote, what happened? Mouthing
the same phrases as Truman,
‘Hitler and Mussolini immediately
sent their military forces into
Spain to support the reactionary
feudal elements who rose in re-
volt :

What difference is there be-
tween the action of Hitler and
Mussolini then and the proposed
action of Truman today?

The most reactionary body in
the U.S. today is the state depart-
ment, worse even than the un-
American Committee, at the head
of which is Loy Henderson, while
in the background pulling the
strings is Admiral Leahy, friend
of the anti-Semite Marshall Pe-
tain.

These are the conspirators who
spread the lying canard that

Soviet Russia intended to
invade Palestine. That lie
belongs with the slogan of

Henderson and Leahy, that “the
goodwill of 80,000,000 Arabs is
more important that the fate of
a few thousand Jews!” Arab
“goodwill” to these warmongering
hypocrites is a very material

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The B-of-T boys sat up. Tch,
tch, they clucked as Bob rambled
on: “We might find that her name
was Rose Belinkoff, wife of Tom
McEwan .. . now editor of the
Pacific Tribune ... we might find
that McEwen himself, despite his
impressive party record, was sub-
ject to Rose Belinkoff’s political
instructions: . . .”

(We pause here to take an as-
pirin.)

Ha! thought the B-of-T boys as
they burped cheesily down each
other’s necks, now we are getting
somewhere. A woman, hey! Just
like those damn Reds.

‘But hold a moment, Bob isn’t
finished yet. Not one woman, but
two! Not one politically henpeck-
ed husband who must take his
wife’s iron-curtainized “instruc-
tions,’ but two! “We might also
conceivably find,’. purred Herr
Doktor Morrison, “that the pro-
vincial leader of the LPP (Nigel
Morgan) is: not nearly as import-
ant in the party as his extremely
active wife, Mona Morgan.”

In the Morrison fantasy the
name Rose Belinkoff conjures up
a pipeline direct from the Krem-
lin to our humble home on Bal-
sam Street where the “instruc-
tions” are received and dished out
to all and sundry, including the
editor! ;

In the Morrison fantasy the
name Mona Morgan conjures up
a spark that has set a million
signatures on fire against the gov-
ernment’s price decontrol policies,
whith have resulted in stripping
the workingman’s table and add-
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thing and
spells O-I-L.

They need the Middle East oil
for their battleships, planes and

tanks in the war against civiliza-
tion which they are taking up
where Hitler was stopped and the
fear that the Arab rulers will
cancel their oil concessions and
destroy their pipelines is a de-
cisive factor in their political
maneuvers in Palestine.

in three letters it

That, but a few weeks ago,
they agreed to the setting up of
a Jewish state in Palestine and
have already broken the promise
they made in the U.S. Assembly,
is-only another demonstration of
the utter hypocrisy of their kind
of democracy, of which broken
promises are characteristic.

The Jewish people in Palestine
may be subjected to persecution
and death as they have been down
the ages, what do these power-
hungry warmongers care so long
as they achieve world-mastery
which was once the burden of
Hitler’s bellowings?

The struggle against them must
not be left to the Palestine Jews
alone but taken up by all progres-
sive people, liberals, Socialists,
Communists, in every country, in-
cluding the exploited Arabs.
Here in Vancouver we must cer-
tainly do our share.

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the monopolists—who pay Bob his
“thirty pieces of silver.’’ To Bob
the Housewives Consumer Asso-
ciation is just the LPP in dis-
guise, and woe of woes, how can
“two prominent labor men .
like Birt Showler and Alderman
R. K. Gervin have permitted
themselves to join its delegation
to Ottawa” in a roll-back-prices
campaign!

Up until last Monday the most
sinister of sinister B.C. Reds, ac-
cording to the Morrison calendar,
was Harvey Murphy, regional di-
rector of the International Union,
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
Now it appears that Murphy, like
the rest of us, must take a back
seat—and our “instructions” from
the political Cleopatras of the
Kremlin we unwittingly married.

Stripped of its crude absurdities,
this latest Morrison aberration
has a more sinister aspect. Un-

founded charges made before the

B-of-T meeting of “Communist
terror” . . . of alleged intimida-
tatory letters being sent to a cer-
tain Vancouver woman who is
reputed to have stated her oppo-
sition to the Housewives Consum-
er Association .. . of “anonymous

‘threats and beatings” and “fear

stalking the streets of Vancou-
ver,’ as a result of “Communist
activities’—all this constitutes

nothing less than an incitement

to violence against prominent
LPP members in this city and
province.

The hooliganism which marked
the action of the Port Alberni
“bucket” attack against Tim
Buck stems directly from the
insane ravings of Morrison and
his ilk. - The hooliganism which
smeared UBC traditions of free
speech and assembly, carried out
by a handful of organized ruffi-
ans, who come from the homes
of the people who swallow Mor-
rison’s poison—all are the fruits
of this brand of anti-Communist
slanders and falsehood. Those
who provide the “moral” justifi-
cation for violence seldom prac-
tice it. That is left to other
dupes whose warped minds are
filled with this Hitlerite poison.

4

The Italian elections

Despite the most flagrant interference in the internal
affairs of another nation by American imperialist and Brit-
ish “Socialists”, ranging all the way from Marshall Plan
bribery to the tearing up of international covenants
(Trieste), the possibility of a Socialist-Communist victory
in Italy is reluctantly conceded at Ottawa, Washington and
London,

April 18. will be an historic day, not only for Italy, but
for the world, because the Italian elections will test whether
a people can elect a Socialist-Communist government of
their own choosing, or whether Yankee dollars, backed by
every form of reactionary intimidation, threats, and even
military intervention, can force upon the Italian people a
government subservient to the policies of Wall Street.

If, by cajolery and threats, these imperialist forces can
browbeat the Italian people into endorsing the De Gasperi
government, it will be hailed as a great “victory for democ-
racy’, and the tloodgates of provocation will be opened
upon the Soviet Union and the new democracies of Europe.
But if the Italian people, undismayed by the present press-
ure-politics (sometimes labelled “‘diplomacy”) by Yankee
imperialism and its satellites, should. give the Socialist-
Communist front a substantial majority, then we can expect
anything, up to and including armed intervention as in
Greece, China and other lands, where people are struggling
to live their own ways of life.

The warmongers of London, Washington and Ottawa
with their servile press make much ado about “preserving
democracy”. But when a people constitutionally elects a
Socialist-Communist government, then the silken curtain of
sham is ripped aside and the mailed fist of open armed
iritervention comes into play. “The Western World”, we
are told in the Whaley-Eaton newsletter service for big
business (in the event of a Socialist-Communist victory in
Italy), “must re-examine the practicability of attempting
to combat this ideology (communism) by present means
(Marshall Plan dollars) and try something else.”

The “something else” may correspond to the type of
armed interference in China and Greece, accompanied with
new provocations against the Soviet Union and the new
democracies of Europe, plus a new and hitherto unprece-
dented campaign of hysteria against the “Reds”. This is
the pattern of the war preparations now under way by
U.S. imperialism. This is why a possible Socialist-Commun-

ist victory at the polls on April 18 has become not only the
affair of the Italian people, but of all progressive mankind._

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more—ah, er—background. I suggest we sponsor a visit by
Mr. Mikolajezyk.” a

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(From the files of The People’s Advocate, March 25, 1938)

“Butter the bread before the meal and keep the butter off the
table.” This and other free advice is being given daily to families
appealing for help at 1675 West, Tenth Avenue, headquarters of
Family Welfare Bureau, a charity organization subsidized by grants
from the Vancouver Welfare Federation. :

A family of three, which had been limited for some months to a
relief allowance of $15.00 a month, and had managed to obtain
small additional sums periodically from this organization, was
refused further assistance recently and, instead, given a food budget
to cost $7.47 over two weeks, ’ ;

“Helpful Hints” in mimeographed form are issued those who
apply for assistance, and beside suggestions of keeping certain
foods off the table, housewives are urged to “save some supplies for
the end of the week” and “start cooking cerials the night before,”

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