LPP says Canada being plunged
Into made-in-U.S. economic slump

Demand for an immediate start on const fuction of the All-Cana
vent the St. Lawrence River from being seized by the USA,’
party in a statement issued this week on the growing economic crisis.

of the economic slump,’ the statement declares.

Prime Minister St. Laurent, the statement continues, should take steps during his present world tour
Commonwealth, accepting pounds sterling in order to reduce the increasing one-sided dependence on U.S.-Can

“He should also visit those coun-
tries anxious to trade with us —
the Soviet Union, the Peoples’ De-
mocracies and the People’s Repub-
lic of China.”

Full text of the statement. fol-
lows:

Canada is being plunged into a
Made -in-USA economic slump —
with a St. Laurent guarantee! Be-
cause of the government’s policy
of tying Canada to Wall Street’s
shaky economy, the slump in the

‘

TORONTO

dian Seaway and Power Development project, coupled with the call, ‘“Pre-
is the first of five points advanced by the national executive of the Labor-Pyogressive
‘It is within the power of the Canadian people to halt the menacing advance

“to open up trade with the ‘British
ada trade,

cline of trade because of US-inspir-
ed restrictions, and above all, the
terrible $2 billion 1954 armaments
budget being again imposed on
Canadians by the St. Laurent gov-
ernment and U.S. atom bomb
maniacs who now want to store
their fiendish weapons on Cana-
dian territory — all this is ag-
gravating and irritating the econ-
omic situation.

Labor and farm unions, associa-

chance to keep up production
by stopping dumping from the
USA!

@ Tell the prime minister that
while he is abroad he should
take steps to open up trade with
the British Commonwealth, ac-
cepting pounds sterling in order
to reduce the increasing one-
sided dependence on US-Canada
trade!

He should also visit those coun-

tions of unemployed workers, muni-
cipal councils, exporters and many
business people, are demanding
action from the federal govern-
ment. They want public works and
trade to provide jobs, and higher
and extended unemployment insur-
ance benefits.

“Work or Maintenance” is be-
coming the slogan not only of the
500,000 unemployed, but of hun-
dreds of thousands of workers who
fear lay-offs.

The LPP fully supports these
demands and fights for every

measure that will bring immedi-

U.S. is bringing™havoc and distress
to our people.

The scandal around the all-Can-
adian St. Lawrence Deep Seaway
is the latest example of this treach-
ery. The government has stalled
on this nation-building project for
years — and now U.S. war-minded
monopolies are acting to. turn the
St. Lawrence River, Canada’s trade
lifeline, into another Panama Ca-
nal.

The U.S. Army Command arro-
gantly declares: “Canada must not
be permitted to complete the Sea-

of a Put Canada First policy which
can prevent the deepening and
worsening of the Made-in-USA ec-
onomic slump which is haunting
the people of Canada! :

present policy!

Made-in-USA economic slump!

tries anxious to trade with us—
the Soviet Union, the People’s
Democracies and the People’s
Republic of China.

These are steps in the direction

H

Unite to compel Ottawa to change

Put Canada First, to stop the

way.” The Wiley Bill now before
U.S. Congress aims to establish
U.S. control of the Seaway for war
purposes — to carry Canadian iron
ore to U.S. steel mills to build arm-

ate relief to our people.

To this we add the warning:
These measures alone do not suf-
fice to prevent an economic crisis.

Rosenberg record made

The Rosenberg Memorial Com-

aments to terrorize the people of
the world. S

This is how Wall Street turns
Canada into a U.S. colony for its
war purposes and prevents the de-
velopment of Canadian heavy in-
dustry.

The St. Laurent government
knew of this plan long ago and
goes along with it.

This is the policy which is driv-
ing our country to economic crisis.

The situation is so serious and
the betrayal of Canada so enorm-
ous, that a New National Policy
is urgently needed which will
Put Canada First! It is necessary
for the people’s organizations to
challenge the whole. anti-Cana-
dian policy of this government
and to make their views known
to every MP and to the govern-
ment.

It is within the power of the Can-

mittee announced this week that
recordings are being made of the
talk given in Vancouver last De-
cember by the late Emanuel Bloch,
lawyer for the Rosenbergs, who
died suddenly in New York recent-
ly. ;

The records will be made avail-
able to interested individuals or
groups on a nominal rental basis,
and can be secured by contacting
the committee at 339 West Pender |

_ Dumping from the USA, the de-| adian people to halt the menacing

Street, Vancouver.

What was that about taxpayers?

$27 a day for MPs,
$1.33 for pensioners

This month, on the third and
final reading of a bill introduced
by the Liberal government of Prime
Minister Louis St. Laurent, 131 Lib-
erals voted to pay themselves $10,-
000 a year as members of the House
of Commons.

Of 171 Liberals 40 were absent,
none voted against the bill. Neither
did any of the Social Creditors
opppose it, although two were ab-
sent. Four of the 49 Conservatives
voted for the bill, 28 opposed it
and 17 were absent. Four of the 23
CCFers also supported it, 18 de-
clared against it and one was ab-
sent through illness. To complete
the roster, one Independent voted
with the government and two others
were absent.

As it breaks down, MPs and Sen-
ators will now receive $27 a day or
$192 a week or $833 a month. This
compares with the $1.33 a day or
$40 a month or $480 a year receiv-
ed by recipients of the federal old
age pension.

But, with a government bill to
increase members’ indemnities al-
ready prepared for presentation to
the House this, according to the
January issue of the Labor Gazette,
is the answer Prime Minister St.
Laurent gave to the Trades and

’ Labor Congress on December 2

PRIME MINISTER ST. LAURENT
Such concern for taxpayers

when questioned about old age
pensions: @

“would not be at all oppos-
ed, personally, to seeing that
the cheque I get read $65 instead
of $40,” the prime minister said.
It is not, however, the govern-
ment which provides old age
security, he pointed out, but “the
taxpayers of Canada.”

advance of economic slump. If we
act unitedly we can stop the be-
trayal of Canada to the USA.

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