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Vol. 8 No. 13 cc 28 Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, April 1, 1949 Price Five Cents

It can happen here!

GOSS WARNS OF NEED
TO FIGHT PEACE GAG

It can’t happen here? But it can—unless the people, aroused
by what is happening, here in Canada, unite to combat the threat to
their civil liberties, to the peaceful future they worked and fought for.

i ak e@ Ss ecamen A LaCroix Bill, ostensibly aimed at the Labor-Progressive party,
can be used—and will be used, if it is allowed to pass parliament—

‘ | # to suppress all opposition to the government’s war-bent policies. :
Peace can be secured only through a policy of international
E ~@ in ars friendship and trade and it cannot be separated from the issues of

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improving living standards in Canada and strengthening civil ‘liberties.
This is the. policy of the Labor-Progressive party. It is not the
policy of the St. Laurent government nor is it the policy of the
Tory “opposition.”” They are agreed on a policy of high profits and
high prices, of substituting war industry for peaceful development, of
draining half a billion dollars from the people’s living standards
-}) to pay. for war preparations.

To the big business interests who profit from this policy peace
holds a terrifying prospect, a prospect more terrifying than the economic
crisis into which their war policies are driving them and from which
they see war as their only solution. The growing achievements of Godt a ee
the Soviet Union and the New Democracies only heighten their fear ee oe ee

aegis sg : to leave the world peace confer-
of socialism—and the democratic aspirations of the Canadian people. — ence.

The fight for peace—a fight in which the LPP plays a leading
part—has become “‘subversive’ to those who have committed Canada
to U.S. war policies. If they can, unless the people halt them by GOSS SAYS
their protest, they will use the police state powers conferred by the
LaCroix Bill to reach into the trade “unions, into the CCF, wherever Py
people dare to speak for peace, to silence all opposition. é

It can’t happen here? But it can, for this is the impelling need ys eye

of the police state into which the St. Laurent government is moving

by its own policies. It is no less, in fact even more openly, the aim ~
of the Conservative party. It is the product of right-wing CCF irecte
policies, in parliament and in the trade unions, committing that party

to support the Atlantic pact—the medium through which American
imperialism hopes to halt the world-wide advance toward socialism.

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It can’t happen here? But this is the picture presented by the at Pace
events of only the past few days:

MARGARET FAIRLEY

b @ John Goss, internationally known Vancouver singer and author, “What is happening in the
; : ‘ 2 Be a United States today is that
was arrested by U.S. immigration while at the Scientific. and Cul- the snc <avio cae in sand
tural Conference for World Peace in New -York last weekend. of American policies are or-
After being questioned on his ‘‘communist activities,”’. Goss ganizing for war. They are
“voluntarily” agreed to leave the U.S. immediately, the al- preparing the minds of the
inure t | eck f ad h : : people for war, and the in-
ternative elng _the pressing of undisclosed charges agaist him spired hysteria against the
} ML Ee Gsnessw a ttadt axduiliveieecretary Gt. bie Nadonel and his expulsion from the U.S. Goss said his attitude was world peace conference was
en's Dar aed Me ahbwithers: ebing: bard’of dirtated by his desire not to embarrass the peace conference. part of that preparation. The
th SORE SE pTER Eee, AF On his return to Vancouver, he told newspapermen that the nana ge psec a wr
© Cornwall county jail following his arrest last summer ‘ x = ference to devote the talents
tin y j ney action taken to prevent Margaret Fairley, noted Toronto writer, of some-of the world’s most
nah & the seamen’s Lake strike. Serving a three-months j and himself from attending the conference was part of a U.S. prominent Vancouver  sing-
© ®nce for his defense of union rights, he is today the center state department plan to whittle down representation from Ameri- artists to the cause of peace
Ta developing labor campaign to halt the announced plan can and west Eurpean countries and so bolster the false charge was deliberately smothered
°f Ontario Attorney-General Blackwell to appeal Nuttall’s that the conference was a ‘‘Cominform propaganda front.” weniaeg ae a
Verdict j : 7 - ; :
n order to increase his sentence. @ Mark Frank, Ottawa correspondent for the Canadian Tribune, This is what John Goss,
4 A total of 43 seamen still remain behind the bars of Pacific Tribune and Le Combat, has been expelled from the outstanding scientists and
Ntario a 5 tentiaries.. They are victims press gallery on charges that information on the Atlantic pact er, teld a capacity audience
of th ee ee nae ah cachelt against disclosed by External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson an at Pender Auditorium here
; ’ *© Most flagrant and brutal attack ever laun rth 4 f hada i if ‘ ; : Wednesday this week in mak-
he Canadian labor movement. Singling out the Canadian Sea- off-the-record conference had subsequently been ‘used in articles ing his promised public state-
eRen's “Union asa key target in the big business drive to smash appearing in the Canadian Tribune and the Pacific Tribune. ment on his expulsion from
Militant trade unionism in Canada, shipowners have been Contending that his expulsion was discrimination, intended to deny the U.S. last weekend.
“'Pported by police and state, but despite terror, intimidation, information of public interest, Frank’ pointed out that he did not Co-speaker with Goss was
tnd vicious jail sentences, the fighting seamen have refused attend the press conference in question. (See ntory on page 2.) John Stanton, Vancouver bar-
uckle under and are fighting back with increased vigor : rister, who returned to the
BEN Overs ‘attack, 5 @ In Montreal this week, the padlock law and massed police were city last week from Britain,
‘ri : coat Gee MARE ehh used to prevent the holding of a peace meeting. Fear that the er ~ oe Barta
‘ © seamen’s fight is the concern of a a adlock law would be’ invoke d :
Value liberty. Your dollars to help free the 43 jailed seamen Pp d prompted the AFL Carpenters ment.

and Joiners’ Union to deny its hall to the Montreal peace council

when it learn that Harry Binder, LPP federal candidate for
Continued on back page—See PEACE

be sent to the. National Seamen’s Defense Committee,

Continued on back page
Parliament street, ¢Toronto.

See GOSS

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