Labor must act NOW HATEVER fears for their fu- ture employment may be felt Y Workers in B.C. lumber mills, ard tock mines and shipyards or a auto plants, the bankers . Corporation heads profess to ee On the contrary, td indications’ that big busi- a eaders are pleased with the ae of a labor shortage be- ing a labor surplus. It will, they el, give them the opportunity to St tough with organized labor. ag such expression of this at- € was given here this week by ward J. Friesen, general man- Set of the Imperial: Bank of Can- a a . . + Now on a cross-country inspec” Yon tour, - Ee tiesen acknowledged that there « ght be what he chose to call bene seasonal unemployment,” tf he thought it wouldn't be “veal- ‘: mee. Then, significantly, he ed: “We've had about 100 per Ce; Sy employment and we’ve got Sed to it.” S that one sentence is expressed itn tuthless philosophy of capital- ‘ which demands a permanent Pool of unemployed through which tt Se st can keep down wages and living andards. a August, at the height of sum- Bs 29,506 men and women were yg nbloyed in this province — 1000 in the country as a whole. ae figures, the latest issued and five tom representing the full pic- layoe qiave since been swollen by S in many industries. ate a generation has become to relatively full employment. ped It will continue to demand it ert oF the only way it can : ain living standards won by Sanization and militancy. e the Socreds at Victoria or the Mee votives at Ottawa have any cae about this, organized labor 3 dispel them by making its de- ands felt now. “ses Pacific Tribune Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone: MArine 5288 As Editor — TOM McEWEN Sociate Editor — HAL GRIFFIN Subscription Rates: One Year: $4.00 - Six months: $2.25 _ ~ Canadian and Commonwealth encs (except Australia): $4.00 ars year. Australia, United States d all other countries: $5.00 one year. “¥ must admit, Selwyn, when the Russians first propos tests I thought we'd never talk our way ed-their uncondi‘ional ban on nuclear out of it.” “pT IS OUR inflexible. purpose to destroy German militarism and Nazism and to insure that Germany will never again be able to disturbe the peace of the world ..--: words can ily they can be forgotten. Christian Democrats? Party labels don’t always reveal the political contents. If they did it would be readily seen that the pro- West government of Konrad Adenauer consists of the finest j f German war crimin- als, now elevated to the status of “our allies.” Among them are sub-human barbarians who, 1n one capacity or another, partici- pated in the torture/ murder and mass extermination of whole ~ communities; perpetrators of ev- ery crime known to mankind. Now twelve short years after the historic decision to “ensure that Germany will never again be able to disturbe the peace of the world,” the West hails re- election of the Adenauer govern- ment as “a victory for peace and western democracy” meantime using the taxes collected from Canadian, British and American workingmen and women to make sure that the Nazi gangsters who have now become defenders of democracy are rearmed to dis- turb the peace of the world. I could be wrong, but in my humble reckoning, which in- cludes the memory of Canada’s war dead in two world wars, the cause of world peace has received a severe blow with the re-elec- tion of the Adenauer regime. When one sees John Foster Dulles going into ecstacies over the results it is a warning that the people’s fight for peace must pe redoubled. Hitler is gone but the evil he created still governs in Bonn — and with the same objective: to transform the peo- ples of the socialist lands into the slaves of a new Herrenfolk. % se % With unemployment steadily rising we finda few hack writers polishing up their old hard times romancing ~with thumbnail sketches about “transients,” “he- boes,” “jungles,” and of course the lads of the scarlet and gold RCMP who have the job of keep- ing the boys “moving.” Last week the Kelowna Daily Courier ran such a front page yarn. It told of a ‘4ungle” outside that fair city where all sorts of transient unemployed workers, looking for jobs in the Okanagan orchards, ‘‘shacked up.” Supplemented by descriptive pictures of the “Jungle” and its inhabitants, together with the usual ‘human interest” stuff on - some of the boys, the Courier ro- mancer then went on.to describe the RCMP routine of raids and arrests. Armed. with the ‘“vagrancy act” which permits a very wide defin- ition of misdemeanors, the RCMP hale their victims before the local beak, who imposes a fine of $10 (which the boys haven’t got) or-one*day in the cooler, with a 24-hour “floater” to leave the salubrious ‘clime of Kelowna, otherwise back to the “jug”. It’s the same old formula as was practiced 30 years ago for “curing” unemployment, “keep ynoving.” It still seems to work, bn a small scale at least. It is just possible however that should unemployment reach the pro- portions some of our economists are predicting for this winter, those governments depending on the old formula of “keep moving” are going to have a rude awak- ening, for 1957 os not 1930. September 27, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5 Your protest can help © DECENT Canadian can re- main unmoved by the quiet, dauntless heroism of Negro school children in Little Rock, Arkansas. They walk intowa storm of vio- lence with a courage that should in- spire every democratic minded Can- adian to speak up in protest against the brutality and bigotry of the southern segregationists. It is not enough to abhor what is happening. Neither can it be passed off as a purely American prob- lem, of no direct concern to Cana- adians. When American Negroes dre beaten by lynch mobs because they take their children to inte- grated schools, a right guaranteed them by the constitution of the U.S. and its Supreme Court, it is an of- fense against humanity the world over. We are so close to the U.S. in many ways that we may fail to as- sers the full significance of what is taking place. Where is the flood of protests from the labor move- ment, from educators, from liber- als and yes, from the left? No Canadian can be satisfied with what has been done so far to express our solidarity with the Ne- gro people of the U.S. Organizations and _ individuals should protest publicly through the U.S. embassy in Ottawa and direct- ly to President: Eisenhower in Washington, D. C. Every protest, every public out- cry, will inspire the Negro people to greater efforts in their just fight for equal rights in every sphere of life. Sooner or later, that fight will be won, but a volume of protest from. Canada and from every part of the world, joined with protests from millions of decent Americans of every color, will bring victory much quicker, and with less suf- fering to the Negro people.