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LINDSAY IN NATIONAL AFFAIRS MONTHLY

U.S. ‘galloping expropriation’
of Canadian resources, markets

THE U.S. magaziné Bluebook

in its June issue had some
solid advice to its readers in
the U.S. as to how they can
get “a piece of this great new
wealth” being discovered in
Canada.

Accompanying an_ article,
Canada Goes Boom, by Irwin
Winehouse, it lists a number
of ways “to get on the Cana-
dian bandwagon.” Among
them is this gem:

“If possible, take a vaca-

‘Talk to the natives’

tion trip to the part of Can-
ada which interests you most.
Talk to the natives .. .”

On the subject of what in-
vestors would have to pay in
taxes it comments: “The tax
situation in Canada is almost
too good to be true ... Even
with the Korean emergency
there is no excess profits tax.”

No wonder U.S. investors
poured $697 million into Can-
ada in 1952 to bring their
total to over $8 billion.

READ THIS ADVERTISEMENT

Where coal miners get
secure employment, bonus

HIS advertisement, which appeared in the Hungarian daily

newspaper, Magyar Nemzet, on March 29 this year, will have

a special interest for Vancouver Island and Crow’s Nest coal miners

who are unemployed or working short time as a result of the

federal government's failure to pursue a Canada First national

coal policy and restrict imports of U.S. coal totalling 27 million
tons a year—three-fifths of this country’s annual consumption.

THE KOMLO COAL MINING TRUST

requires large numbers of workers for its plants and factories.
Pay at miners’ union rates, plus 20-30 percent for under-
ground work. Free working clothes and footwear for underground

workers.
Those taken on by May 1 who have no uncertified absences

get, on the Annual Miners’ Day, a bonus of three to five percent '

of annual pay and, after the first year, a complete set of good
quality clothing.

Married workers with families or those who maintain families,
get 80 hundredweight of free coal a year.

Workers contracting to work with us for one year get a
special bonus of 420 florint (equal to $36).

Ample meals three times a day in our canteens for 8.7) ft.
(equal to 66 cents) a day. Hostels for young men and women
are free.

The best workers will receive a flat with all comforts at the
end of the year, or the beginning of next year.

Komlo is a rapidly growing coal city in southern Hungary.
Twenty years ago it had little over 2,000 inhabitants; today it
has 17,000, ;

LPP assails color bar

Now however, the in-

families.

Refusal of Montreal real estate

agents to rent apartments and
flats to Negro families has long
contradicted the daily news-
papers’ pompous editorial claims
about “equality of opportunity.”
Negro citizens can only get hous-
_ ing accommodation in the slum
district centring on St. Antoine
Street, and even there the rents
ere exorbitant.

Until recently, some pretext
has usually been found for re-

fusing housing outside the St.

Antoine Street area to Negro

WHA YS) a,

fluence of U.S. racism is reflect-
ed in the sign shown here ap-

pearing in a St. Monk Street
apartment house.

The sign is being protested by
Mrs. Louise Harvey, LPP federal
candidate for Antoine - West-
mount, who states: “At a time
when many white people are

_ deeply shocked by Malan’s white

supremacist policy in South Af-

rica . . . Canadians must not
tolerate it” in their own couniry.

“is GALLOPING expropriation

by U.S. capitalists of the
resources and markets that be-
long to Canada” is going on in
this country, Robert Lindsay de-
clares in a feature article in the
June issue of National Affairs
Monthly.

Based on a study of Canadian
manufacturing, mining and pet-
roleum, Lindsay concludes:

“U.S. control has risen to 41
percent of our major industries
by the end of 1951, and is in-
creasing by an average of over
two percent a year so that by
1956 over half of all Canada’s
factories, mines, oil wells and
refineries will be ruled by U.S.
capital, if present-trends con-
tinue.”

He maintains that the LPP
campaign to alert Canada to the
risks of U.S. galloping expropria-
tion has the government and...
business worried. “Hardly a week
passes without some statement
minimizing the danger, and us-
ing misleading figures to ,show
how ‘small’ a part the U.S. plays

in Canadian capital investment.

“For instance, President Mc-
Gregor of Trans-Canada Air

Letter from China

W.G., Vancouver, B.C.: A Chin-
ese friend of mine who lived in
Vancouver for several years re-
cently returned to People’s
China. Last week I received a
letter from him giving his im-
pressions of his homeland under
the new government. He wrote:

“Tt has been three and one-
half months since I arrived home
in our village. I had hoped to

write to my friends sooner and
I am very sorry for _the delay

sg

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of a naticnal health insurance
“program before the necessary
personnel, hospitals and other
facilities are available would be}
“dishonest” and defeat. its own

Ottawa, May g—(cp)—ordels :
for * six more’ $2,300,000 ae
minesweepers are expected ie E
be placed shortly in Canad

‘Guns before butter’
shipyards. The ships Wh t0

The dying days of Canada’s
21st parliament reflected the St.

place vesels now being uke 470
be turned over to other +’

Laurent government’s_ entire
course — a refusal to vote in-
creases in veterans allowances,
old age and blind pensions, and
a “guns before butter” announce-
ment by Health Minister Paul
Martin.

ined
fihes said in Tampa, Fla, on for U.S. capital are obtan if
April 10, 1953: ‘Although the U.S. comparing with all the ;, cot
has invested more than $7 bil- invested in homes, farm»,

_mercial enterprises, &Y" <<¢s
unincorporated bus#? f soul
fields in which no one ©
mind would expect fore

lion in Canada’s future, this only
represents six percent of the
capital invested in the country.’
A few days later, Governor Tow-
ers of the Bank of Canada was

saying the same thing in Vancou-

ver.”

These statements, the article

points out, while accurate in one
sense, are deliberate distortions,
intended to lull Canadians to
sleep while their country is stol- °

en. These low percentage figures

but it is most difficult to get a
letter written in English.

“I a mhappy to report New

.China’s land reform is an ac-

complished fact! The landless
and the underprivileged have fin-
ally acquired their just share of
possessions.

“There are no beggars and no
unemployed. I have noticed par-
ticularly that large cities and
small hamlets are surprisingly
clean. No flies are tolerated!
Prices of commodities and the
currency are stabilized.

“The fields surrounding here
have all been planted over a
month ago and the whole coun-
tryside is green with new growth.
On May Day, I was in Canton
where I witnessed a parade of
160,000 people. After the par-
ade I went and saw the different
exhibitions and I was particular-
ly impressed by the Ling Nam
Culture Display and’ Hungary's
scientific and technical exhibits.

“I am happy to report New
phases of peaceful construction

here and if this is an example of

progress, the five-year plan is

well assured as this is only the
first year.”

Box office protest

M.S., Vancouver, B.C.: Recent-

ly I went to see a movie at a
neighborhood theatre. The name
of the picture was Assignment
Paris, and I thought it would be
just another Hollywood story of
a “hero” from our continent visit-
ing another country. Instead, it
turned out to be a vicious, chauv-
inistic, anti-Hungarian and “pro-
American” (pro-Wall Street) pic-
ture. After making a protest
at the box office, I got my money
back—but isn’t it time we Can-
adians protested against the

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUN

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ital to dominate. “vind
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The analysis of the
article shows that, contrat!
the statements of spoke
U.S. domination, “neW 5, i
in U.S. dominated firms eo
two and a half years

of 1951 totalled $1,056,100
56 percent of all the 2° tries
ment of our basic @™ —

showing of such mov
country?

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