“YOU TOO!

‘Strength of public feeling in Britain against the fascist actions of Premier Dnaiel Malan’s National-
st government in South Africa is reflected in this cartoon by Low, which has been widely reproduced

in this and other countries.

As We See It

A FIVE-POWER peace pact; an end to the suici-
dal arms race: trade with all countries. An
to smouldering ruins, mass graveyards and
€n humanity. An end to mass killing as a
means of “settling” ideological disagreement!
On How many candidates stumping for votes in
of. June 12 election raise these issues? Outside
on the Labor-Progressive party’s five candidates,
© can almost count them on the fingers of one
ete And yet these three essentials for a lasting
os are the key question in this or in any other
*sseeable election, ¥
hi, and Liberal spokesmen sidestep these
to a, sestions to world peace as the devil is said
oe holy water. They obscure the war poli-
a respective parties promote with extrava-
ab Promises’ of social reform. They prate,
a Secondary issues and all they are prepared
NOE pope only the electorate will return them to
fice.

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Moreover, even these seemingly harmless
poary issues, wrapped in garlands of Tory
riberal froth, are closely related to the overall
n ‘on of peace, disarmament and trade. How
vi these Toty and Liberal political acrobats,
ESS Committed Canada to the war policies of
anual Imperialism, to the tune of $244 Dillion
loc about $250,00
to be so npect their “promises’’ of social reform
® taken seriously by sane people?
ti hat question should be thrown at them every

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and principle, concerned only in giving
Columbians what we have already had
Uch of—Tory and Liberal misrule, mal-
Stration, and outright betrayal. .

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the Y: ®y get in huge political slush funds from
big , “Mkee war trusts and B.C. monopolists, in
boote SS display advertising, radio, etc., to bam-

Nore he people into thinking that B.C. needs
Polity tf what it already has had too much of—
Cal trickery on a grand scale.

nq yj) vite the growing resentment against Tory
an eve ral betrayal, and the urgent desire among
loadin "widening section of the people for policies
Ursion to peace, it is already clear that the in-
Provide °f Social Credit into the B.C, political scene
Stree alternative solution.
Soo l "ped. of its “anti-trust” mythology, the
,, Credit government of Alberta, spilling over
‘~» is little more than a convenient “‘carry-
* dissident Tory, Liberal or other species of

ti c
Dank  OPPortunists and careerists. On the main
‘orwarg | Yankée imperialist war policies, carried

by the St, Laurent government and its

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per hour around-the- _

n-Anscomb carbon copy in B.C., the Man-

ae eateaeneat of Alberta and its federal Social
Credit MP’s in Ottawa go right down. the same
suicidal road. The religio-economic bigotries of.
Social. Credit, shot through with anti-Semitism,
racism and neo-fascist ideology, are danger signals:
the people of B.C. cannot afford to ignore. In
B.C., the Social Credit politicos promise a con-
tinuation of Johnson-Anscomb policies, under a
new label — an old political snake-oil ‘“‘cure
in new bottles. :
‘ The big question of the moment is therefore,
how can the people of B..C help to resolve the
momentous problem on June 12? Tne only de-
cisive answer, of course, is by people’s unity at
the polls to defeat the political Charley McCarthys
of the war trusts and cartels, regardless of their
Tory, Liberal, Social Credit or other labels.

That, of course, is much easier said than done.
Such unity does not come of itself, nor does it fall
upon us like manna from heaven. People’s unity,
like peace, must be fought for and worked for.

In their rather snide reply to the LPP candi-
dates in Vancouver Hast on the issue of peace and

© labor unity, CCF leaders Harold Winch and Arthur

say: “The CCF will take second place to
panier me desire to maintain peace throughout
the world . + . our policies, program and record
demonstrate our desire for peace and ‘prosperity to
all peoples of all nations.” ..The difficulty here is
that the Trumans, Churchills, St. Laurents, John-
sons, et al, say almost exactly the same thing—
and spend billions of dollars preparing for war
while they are saying it, The Coldwells and
Winches, in opposition to their own members and
supporters, give general approval to such spend-
ing and doubletalk!
When CCF’ers Winch and Turner accuse the
LPP of “splitting the labor vote”’ at the polls, we
would refer them to CCF-CCL activities in Trail;
to their new attempts at union splitting among
the civic employees of Vancouver; to the expul-
sion of CCF workers and trade unionists from
the CCF, because these workers fight for labor
unity; to the most masterly stupidity of the period,
that “those who want labor unity can get it by,
joining the CCF.’’ Those who do ey things
and represent themselves as being “second to
none”. in the struggle for peace, are deceiving
themselves, obstructing working class unity, and
undermining the fight for peace.

“The verdict of the people on June 12 will not
be final, but it will be a warning that the people
demand peace; an end to the arms nace, -and trade
with all countries. That struggle will go on after
June 12, and demand with greater insistence than
ever before that words and deeds coincide!

They're silent on wages

HIRTY THOUSAND lumber and sawmill workers are facing

the possibility of strike action to win justifiable wage demands.

Gorged with unprecedented profits, the boss loggers counter with
a demand for wage cuts.

The Liberals and Tories, who have left no stone unturned to
fashion labor legislation to the liking of the monopolists and whose
criminal policies are directly responsible for the market crisis
facing our key industry, are all too busy shadow-boxing on the
hustings to pay any attention to the economic welfare of lumber-
workers. All these political windbags are concerned about is how
to buy votes with extravagant promises.

Twenty. ‘thousand building trades workers similarly are faced
with the necessity of strike action to win wage demands. The big
building contractors say they cannot afford higher wages because
business ‘has “fallen off,” because of high material costs and credit
restrictions. Superficialy, a very plausible excuse, but very
superficial.

The Tories and Liberals are not interested in building trades
workers, their needs or their wage demands. On the hustings they
don’t even express interest in why the industry has “fallen off.”
If they did they would possibly discover that their war policies have
something to do with the substitution of armaments for homes,
Schools, hospitals, etc. But why bother now? Let’s get on with
the business of trying to bamboozle the people in a vote-catching
marathon.

Twenty thousand fishermen and shore workers are trying to
negotiate wages and prices that will leave them a slight margin of
remuneration for their investment and their labors. The big pack-
ers claim that the ‘industry can’t stand price increases. The market
is ‘hitting bottom. They want ‘to cut prices.

The Tories and Liberas, angling for votes with the shoddiest
of gear, remain discreetly silent on: their part in scuttling markets;
on their sellout to Yankee imperialism in a phoney “Japanese Peace
Treaty,” which threatens the very existence of B.C. fisheries. And
anyway, why bother with fishermen’s wages and prices at this time
—our main business is to hook votes.

- Substantial wage increases are on the agenda for thousands of

» BIC. workers. They are fully warranted, as every worker familiar

with profit statements and living costs will agree. Tory and Liberal
“friends of labor” on the hustings may choose, ostrich-like, to ignore
these demands. ‘A mass strike movement could shatter their-callous
unconcern and place the responsibility where it properly belongs—
upon the doorstep of Tory and Liberal betrayal of B.C.

(Let’s keep the wage demands in mind (from a worker’s view-
point) on June 12, and vote the vote-catchers out. .

Gentlemen monopolists

ee BE, or not to be, that is the question’—and it’s worrying

the board of directors of the “Gentlemen ‘Adventurers of Eng-
land, Trading into Hudson’s Bay” on the strength of a 282-year old
charter granted by Charles TI of England in 1670. Between the
HBC board of directors and some Canadian shareholders, the ques-
tion of moving the HBC headquarters from London, England, to
Canada became sharper than the scalping knives used by HBC
Scots factors to skin the native Indian people in Canada’s pioneer-
ing days.

Sir Patrick Ashley Cooper, governor of ‘the HBC, is insistent
that the company’s headquarters remain,in England. In the opinion
of this thrifty aristocrat “it saves taxes” and “might impair one of
their (HBC) most valuable assets.”

In more simple language, the HBC governor means that Cana-
dians might take a rather dim view of the “rights” and “grants”
implicit in a charter handed out 282 years ago, giving away millions
of acres of fertile lands, rivers, bays, inlets and what not, which
didn’t belong to the givers in the first place and could, even at
this late date, be held to not ‘belong ‘to the recipients! - ;

Never given to passing up a good thing, the HBC as an auton-
omous chartered organizations of “gentlemen adventurers” has also
gone into the oil business as a junior “partner” of the Yankee oil
trusts now taking over Alberta, and is part of the Continental Oil
Company of the USA, exploiting the oil lands it holds in fief...
and undoubtedly getting under the tax wire by maintaining foreign
domicile! ,

We don’t know what tax exemptions accrue to the HBC by op-
erating its (Canadian enterprises from-England, but it appears to us
that the worries of Sir Patrick’s “adventurers” should ‘be invest-
igated by a competent authority. It is just possible the people
of Canada are losing a lot of taxes on a deal made in 1670.

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