att

DON’T LET THEM
SIGN YOUR

Whether you are of military age or over, male or female,

_ DEATH SENTENCE!

the signing of the NORTH AT-

LANTIC PACT concerns you directly. It might prove to be the signal for the U.S. Brass Hats to

start dropping atom-bombs.

well as our country’s national existence—is at stake.

Your personal survival—the fate as your family and loved ones—as

The fateful hand at Ottawa can be stopped frem siging on the dotted line.

Sign a Peace Pact, Not a War Pact

A veal peace pact can be achieved through the UNITED NATIONS. WAR IS NOT INEV-

ITABLE. Which path Canada takes, depends on YOU. Canada should speak up for peace and —

understanding between the U.S.A. and the U.S.S.R. The Soviet Union is engaged in long-term
rebuilding of her war-ravaged land that is meaningless without peace.

Only if we have foresaken peace and decided on the path of war, will we by-pass the United
Nations and join a military alliance which gives real control of our future to Wall Street.

-Let’s

There isn’t much time. We
must think fast if we want
to stay. alive in ths atom-
bomb world.

The moment you look at
the map you can see why
the Atlantic “Suicide” Pact
May prove to be your death
sentence. Be realistic about
what the map says.

If the. brasshats take the
‘Signing of the pact as the
“green light” and start an
atom-bomb war, look where
we're. sitting on the map.

The conclusion is obvious—
isn’t it?

Look at the

Map

Another war—with atom-
bombs this time—means the
end of Canada as we know
it. It’s PEACE OR PERISH

for us—and no maybe!

. For our country and our-

selves, there’s only ONE
SIDE to this question. We
can’t have one foot in the
war camp. It just doesn’t
make sense for us. It iis
national betrayal — not na-
tional defense. We must
Stake everything on peace
— because OUR EVERY-

THING depends on it!

STOP THOSE ATOM- BOMBS

Everybody in Europe knows—what we are not supposed to know—that Yankee Brass Hats

plan to attack Russia one of these days with atom-bombs.
In the U.S.A. every “big shot” boasts of their preparations to drop atom-bombs on_ great

Soviet cities.

They’ve set up bases everywhere.

They've taken over Greece, Turkey, Iran. They're

grabbing all the oil and markets of the world. They dropped atom-bombs on civilian centres before.
They are planning to do it again—unless Canada and the world peace forces succeed in stopping

CANADIANS WANT PEACE

them.

Before it’s too late Canada should speak up.

We should not be afraid to speak straight from.

the shoulder to the Yankee Bully, who has ousted old Uncle Sam. The time to start is now.
Canada’s refusal to sign the Atlantic War Pact would stop the war-planners in their tracks.

We would regain our national independence.
to die for Wall Street’s war/
would earn the gratitude of a war-sickened world.

bridge of peace between the U.S. and the Soviet peoples.

Fellow-Canadians!

Speak up now.

warmongers scare you into silence!

(Signed) TIM BUCK ‘for

We would serve notice that Canadians are not going
Canada would become a great power for peace in the world. We
Instead of a _ battlefield—we would -become a
Speak up for peace. Don’t let the fear-makers and

the Labor Progressive Party

For further information, enquire at L-PP office..Room 209, Shelley Bldg., 119 Pender W., TA. 1451,

Wire or Write to Premier St. Laurent, Otfawa:

‘Don’t Sign the Atlantic Pact’

Canada Must Speak Up for Peace!

LPP NOMINATION RALLIES _.

Vancouver— Center, March 17, Hastings Auditorium
Speakers: Maurice Rush, LPP Povincial Organizer

Leslie Morris, Editor,

Canadian Tribune

Burnaby—Richmond, Sunday, March 13, Capitol Hill Community Hall
Speakers: T- McEwen, Editor, Pacific Tribune

Elgin Ruddell,

The public are cordially invited to these nomination rallies.

Vancouver City LPP organizer.

War expenditures

bar to tax

cuts,

low-rent housing

—OTTAWA

The tal on Parliament Fil is that the tax cuts expected to be
announced in the budget,to be brought down before the Easter recess

will not be large.
had been
Young Liberals: “We don’t want
to go before the people with a
budget that may be said to have
been prepared to gather votes and
then ,have to raise taxes the fol-
lowing year.”

The plain facts.are that the
government is committing the peo-
ple to huge war expenditures, that
it is not prepared to place the bur-
den on the big corporations and
therefore the cost must be extract-
ted from the ordinary taxpayers’
living standards.

The cost will be taken out in
tax exemptions that will not be
made, in housing projects not un-
dertaken, in social security meas-
ures not placed in effect.

But the big corporations, whose
interests the government’s policies
are designed to protect, have al-
ready been released from the Ex-
cess Profits Tax which in 1947
brought $420,000,000 into the fed-
eral treasury.

What taxpayers will be getting
for their money, whether they feel
they need it or not, was revealed
by Defence Minister Brooke Clax-
ton in a recent address to Mont-
real Canadian Club.

“On 2 modern detroyer the
new equipment which didn’t ex-
ist in 1939 adds $3,000,000 to the
cost, which is more than the
whole destroyer cost in 1939, A
modern anti-aircraft gun costs
$600,000. A powerful single-seater
jet fighter costs anywhere from
$200,000 to $400,000. The price of
a tank is about $300,000.”

The ease with which Claxton
reeled off what he termed “a few
quick figures” contrasts with the
stumbling manner in which his
chief, Prime Minister St. Laurent,
deals with housing needs.

John Dickey (Lib.,

“three reductions since the end of- the war,”

Halifax), contending that there
told Ottawa

What did YOU get?

—OTTAWA

This month some 2,250,000 men
and women will be getting back
a total of $250,000,000 represent-
ing the percentage of their wages
deducted as compulsory savings
during the years 1943-44. But
the average amount, $g0, is small
compared to the fat cheques be-
ing received by a number of cor-
porations.

For 1943 gibke corporations
have coming back at least $65,-
000,000 in refundable excess prof-
its. Distribution of this amount
to corporations this month will be
followed shortly by return of a
further $161,000,000, the two
amounts virtually equalling the
total now being distributed to —
workers.

In an address on March 3, St.
Laurent declared that “we do not
believe that low-rental housing pro-
jects should be undertaken and
managed from Ottawa,” And
speaking of building costs and the
impossibility, in his opinion, of
building low rental homes, he stat- —
ed that “rentals of, say $20 to $35,
do not go hand in hand with con-
struction costs of $7,000 to $9,000
per unit.”

Thus the government has stat-
ed its position that where arma-
ments are concerned nothing is
impossible, but where housing is ~
needed, nothing can he done.
And the taxpayers who wil] not

be getting low rental housing
will be footing the bills for tanks
at Pes apiece.

Pro-fascist Quebec MP’s
now joining Tory ranks

By MARK FRANK .

Frederic Dorion, THdeépendent

_OTTAWA
MP. for Chitlertidisertccad. 4

the man who defended Gestapo-torturer Count Jacques de Bemonville

is expected to join the ranks of
soon.

Attracted by the reactionary ban-
ner of Col. George Drew, Dorion
recently made a defense of De Ber-
nonville in the House, contending
that this only “crime” was adher-
ence to Petain. He boasted of hay-
ing, as a lawyer, defended De Ber-
nonville, and revealed his anti-
Semitism by his remark that had
the person in question been a “Com-
munist Jew,” little would have
been heard of the matter.

Another Quebec MP, G. H. Heon
of Arenteuil, also an Independent,
is already attending Tory caucuses.
Significant too is. the fact that
during the WNicolet-Yamaska by-
election the notorious Jacques
Sauriol, a Bloc Populaire man, cam-
paigned on behalf of the winning
Tory candidate. Sauriol in 1944
made violent anti-war speeches and
was attacked. by the then Tory
leader, R. B. Hanson, who called
for his internment as a treasonable
person.

Drew’s effort to woo the French-
Canadian electorate is provoking
‘Liberal backbenchers, sensitive
about their chances of election in
view of the threatening Drew-Du-
plessis axis) in the coming federal
election. They recall Drew’s vicious
attitude expressed in his statement
carried in the September 30, 1944,
issue of the British Everybody's
Weekly, in which he said: “I want
people of British stock for Ontario.
We can receive thousands and
thousands of your people. The only
thing that can contain the growing
French-Canadian pressure is a pow-
erful Ontario peopled with Brit-
ishers.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE

$2200 instead of $2500 for st

the Progressive-Conservative party

Military cost
biggest item

—OTTAWA.
More than half the increased
overall expenditures, anticipated

for the 1949-50 fiscal year are ex"
pected to be earmarked for wa?
preparations.

Predictions of estimates to bé
tabled shortly suggest an increas-
ed expenditure of $250,000,000 for
all government expenses. War
preparation will take around $160,
000,000, including a ‘$10,000,000 pay
increase to the armed services. BY
contrast, social service expendi-
ures, covering war pensions, fed-
eral health grants, and family ab
lowances, will be eaty, some $547
500,000 higher. '

Added war costs, it is felt, will
definitely limit any income t@*
cuts. tr

Instead of the suggested raising
of income tax exemption levels t?

$1500 for single persons, what 5.
more likely is a level of $1100, be

persons.

_— MARCH 11, 1949 — PAGE 2