THE din of the old-line parties’ election cam-
paign has died down and stubborn economics

continue on their course.

Now the people have the chance of reading
in the newspapers some of the menacing facts
which will plunge this country into economic
depression—facts which were deliberately sup-
pressed by the Liberals and Tories.

® Fact No. 1.—The efforts of the British
and U.S. overlords to break off Western Europe
from the rest of the continent and to use western
Europe as a dumping ground for cheap Yankee
commodities, are kicking back in the teeth of
the plotters. It is becoming very clear that no
such scheme will work; that the economies and
the masses of western Europe are not pawns to
be moved on a giant imperialist chessboard.
@ Fact No. 2.—Resistance to the Yankee
tyranny is mounting. - Yet the Liberals,
Tories and CCF alike campaigned on the as-
sumption that the U.S. dollar is supreme, and
that the future of our economy is assured only
if we become an appendage of the Marshall plan.
But the plan is foundering. We shall be on the
@ Fact No. 3.—There is no stable future
in sight for the economy of Canada as it is
presently managed and organized by the Liberal
government. Exports are at the mercy of Yan-

Now the storm breaks

keedom; industry and agriculture cannot be main-
tained on the basis of the narrow home market.

@ Fact No, 4.—Socialist Europe and a
large part of Asia are achieving economic success
in making goods available to the masses. Their
economies are organized (and being organized in
China) on a new basis of human need. While
Marshall plan Europe and Asia are declining,
the new socialist and democratic sector of the
world is rising. :

In cutting Canada off from the new and
rising sector of the world, the Liberal govern-
ment, aided and abetted by the Tories and the
CCF leaders, are sentencing workers and farmers
to hardship and an even deeper depression—this
because their political hatred of a capitalist-less
system - blinds and poisons their minds. These
facts were withheld by the politicians from the
people of Canada, and particularly from the
workers and farmers, in the recent election cam-
paign. Only the LPP, campaigning in 18 con-
stituencies, told the truth.

Yet, these are objective facts, which all the
schemings and connivings of capitalist politicians
and their labor lieutenants, will not and cannot
squelch.

They are the’ facts which the labor and
farm movements have to grasp and upon which
they must find new programs of action against
the gathering economic storm,

Wall Streetwalkers

({RASPING at every rotting timber to stem the
rising tide of socialism, the ruling class in the
_ Capitalist countries is making the fullest use of inter-
national social democracy.
In Canberra, Australia last week a “Labor”
government and parliament has passed a law freez-
ing the funds of trade unions to- prevent them from
helping to finance strikes! This infamous law is
primarily directed against the current strike of
24,000 Australian coal miners, who are demanding
a 15 cents an hour wage hike to meet rising living
costs, and a reduction of the working week from 40
to 35 hours to help*curtail the alarming growth of
unemployment. *

To the miners’ demands, Prime Minister Chif-
ley’s “labor” government shouts “Communism” —
rae claps an injunction on the spending of union

nds.

In London, England, “Labor” Prime Minister
‘Clement Attlee screams “Communism” at the 8,000

_ striking London dock workers who refuse to become
a party to the gangup against the Canadian Sea-
men’s Union by handling “hot”’ Canadian ships
manned by Yankee-hired gangsters, goons and dupes.

According to Attlee, it is the “Communists”

and not the Marshall planners who are destroying
Britain's economy—despite the fact that his best
economic experts continually “advise him otherwise.
Driven to desperation by the trade union solidarity
of the London dockers with the CSU, the social

~ democtat Attlee launches into a shameless vitupera-

tion against the Soviet Union which would make
seven a_case-hardened Tory blush.
Thus does social democracy pinch-hit for im-
-perialism. The uniformity of its technique is start-
ling—and_ characteristic. To

And in New
Union Committee” of the American Federation of

_ Make good

Now that the elections are over
_* will obviously be to force fulfilment of Liberal
_ and Coalition promises, let’s check up
Sodunt canes: Pacific Tribune circula-
While votes in Vancouver Center, Van-
couver East, Burmaby-Richmond and Port Alberni
look small indeed when compared-to the substantial
‘majorities rolled up by the Liberals and Coalitionists,
Pacific Tribune circulation in those areas is even
lower by comparison. And that does not take into
account the thousands of workers who voted CCF

enemy.
the language of an: Attlee, a Bevin, a Chifley or a

so-called “Free Trade.

and the fight

on some of >

their opposition to the Atlantic war pact

Labor (AFL) is all for Yankee imperialism con-
tinuing its aid to the fascist Chiang Kai-shek against
the Chinese people. The AFL wants “no. recog-
nition or trade with, or economic assistance to the
Communist forces in China . . Guns, death and .
destruction, yes. Peaceful commerce and neighbor-
ly relations, no. That would be tantamount to
“strengthening the Chinese Communists through do-
ing business with them.” Even Wall Street, like |
Threadneedle Street, ready to sell its soul for six
percent and wondering how it can cash in on the
billions already spent ‘in a futile attempt to stem
the tide of the Chinese revolution, hardly dares go
the same lengths as its social democratic lackies in

New York and Washington circles of the AFL.

With the passing of the Senate “spy bill’
which will enable Yankee imperialism to put its
stooges into the unions of other countries to carry
on espionage and disruption, the AFL “‘free trade
union’” promoters see handsome pickings and great ,
opportunities for organized disruption, in helping
their Wall Street bosses block working class unity
and progress.

Like the Chifleys, Attlees, Bevins and their
kind, they seek to defend their treason to labor
behind the plea of “fighting communism.” In. this
period of struggle that is the role of social democracy
—first, to act as the shock-absorber between the
people and their exploiters; foiled in this, to join

openly with imperialism in its attempt to crush Social-

ism.

The problems of an Australian coal miner, a
London dock worker, a Canadian seaman, are basic-.

ally the same, acting as a magnet to draw them

together in mutual solidarity against a common
By the same token, that ‘is precisely why

Coldwell is also the same. That is why they all
shout “‘Communism” with the vehemence of a witch
doctor, hoping thereby to stay the flood waters of
socialism which nevertheless will inevitably engulf
them and their paymasters. . '

our.promise
baggage of its various standard-bearers. Scores of

these C
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As We See ki

A lad named Allan L. Swim edits the CIO ‘News. There
time not so very long ago when mention of “CIO” acti (
an enervating tonic upon American and Canadian trade union
And the CIO News, voicing a rennaissance of struggle, direct
bor’s struggle to ever greater victories against the citadels of V
monopoly. .

That time has clearly passed. In the short space of three
the CIO Murray-Carey leadership has completed the cycle it
Gomphers, Green and Woll in the AFL half a century to mi

that of buréaucratically .transforming a po
million-strong army of organized labor in
adjunct of exploiting imperialism. The CIO N
of necessity—still uses leftist-tinged phraseology
its editorials, but all of its “objective’’ ma
are directed against the Communists, intend
© serve as an apologia for its accepted Marshall
line of “action.” ‘
Editor Swim has a flair for vulgarized
antics. For instance, he seldom refers to the
munists as such, but studiously uses the t&
“Commies,” “Reds,” ‘“Kremlinites,” “Party-line
and so forth. Now that official CIO “organizatio
policy is directed towards the raiding of i
. affiliate membership, the term “autonomy” |
Kremlin invention, Likewise “unity.” In the Swim vocabulary “unl!
is strictly “Commie.” ;

It appears that George Morris, columnist for the New York x
Worker, has been offering some criticism of CIO Marshall-plan™
policies which has got Brother Swim properly chilled, Taken t
for circularizing National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) P!
aganda in CIO. Swim came back with the explanation “that
often distributes to key union people throughout the country si
terial ‘put out by organizations which fight the CIO—so the
people can easily follow the opposition’s line.” Swim forgot to
that NAM material circulated by CIO to “key people” without
covering directive is intended to consolidate existng policy
than wise-up on “oposition.”

Perhaps the most revealing in Editor Swim’s excursion —
vugarized semantics is seen in his “explanation” of what haP
to Morris Travis, Mine-Mill international secretary, in Bess
Alabama. It will be recalled that late in April CIO was cond
a “referendum” in Bessemer to determine whether Mine-
foundation union (which had done the organizational work and
the representative bargaining agency) or the raiding Steelw0’ gait
(CIO president Murray’s union), should have jurisdication a”
workers of Tennesste Coal, Iron and Railroad Company. A ®
of Steel goons set upon Travis and beat him up, causing grave b°
harm and the loss of one eye. Despite the very complete stat
on this outrageous affair issued by Mine-Mill, a statement bas
factual evidence, Swim smears the pages of an alleged trade |
-paper with his version: “The goons (plural) turned out to be
man (singular)—a local worker who struck Travis after the !
called him a filthy name.”. To lend emphasis to this Swimian V
point, CLO News concludes: “And—in case you didn’t know it
Daily Worker is published by the Freedom of the Press Com
+++ a corporation.” These paragraphs—in their. original context
the CLO News of June 27, indicate a psychopathic case rather
a responsible labor editor. They are typical of the mentale N.

which the “cold war’ has produced in top-level CIO an
thought-controllers, ' :

Truly the ClO News has gone a long way in the last thre
—downhill. There is nothing more pitiable than a Marshall-pl
“labor” paper attempting to hide its bankruptcy and betray®
smart-alex semantics and cynicism. é
@ : rf -
While the first effects of the Liberal landslide are weariDé
there is still sufficient of a hangover to prompt certain CU4
‘ysts” into explaining how it happened. No two have the sam©
sion . . . which adds spice to the entertainment.

Alex Marchant, president of the Mackenzie District CCF
sociation, is quoted in the Powell River News as saying: “. -:
the election is not a sporting event we do not feel obliged that
gratulate our opponents, but we wish them well and trust
the days to come the nation will be well served by this, the
powerful representative party Canada ever had.” That
should smell good to Liberal noses, if albeit, a bit mildewed t?
CCF socialists who take their Regina Manifesto seriously. _

: But it fell to Jim Bury, defeated CCF candidate for van :
Center and secretary of Vancouver Labor Council (CCL) t0_ ;
“analyse” the elections, First the Coalition and then the !
victories, according to Bury, resulted from “too much P)
which does not lead to intelligent thinking.” Peering into
Winch's crystal ball of “destiny,” Bury sees the masses fi
to the CCF to “do a better job” after Liberal and Coalition
perity” has worn off! fe

Meanwhile . . . well, that hasn't been “analysed” yet-

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