| People’s China builds new dams.

f People’s China too, has begun the tremendous task of har-

Taipinekou,

_ €ssing the country’s great rivers which for centuries have taken
their toll of life. ‘Here is a new dam on the middle Yangtse at

‘Schools remained closed in the
Bridge River district at Gold-
Midge, Pioneer. Bralorne and
Shalaith in an attempt to combat
‘bread of the dreaf disease. Movie
theatres have been shut down
“Nd public meetings prohibited at
"lorne and Pioneer.

There have been a total of 118
“Ses, with six deaths, in this city.
At Present there are 55 patients
ss Vancouver General Hospital’s
Polio Wing which has a 67-bed
“bacity,

Fatalities in B.C. polio
epidemic climb to 20

British Columbia’s polio fatality toll reached 20 this week, with
the deaths of two more children in the Hast Kootenay area. The
idemic total now stands at 230, the highest on record.

Mine-Mill in U.S.

ealls strike vote

CHICAGO

A nation-wide strike vote for
locals of the International Union
of Mine Mill and Smelter Workers
in the United States has been call-
ed by the international executive
board and national wage policy
committee. Included in the vot-
ing will be all Mine-Mill Jocals in
the non-ferrous metals industry
except those which have conclud-
ed negotiatins or are involved in
disputes over recognition.

Raise wages 35 percent, cut prices!

Canadians would be surprised

if Liberal party did this

By CHARLES SIMS

Imagine how you would feel if the ruling party of Canadd4, the Liberal party, was holding a
convention next month to plan for a leap of 70 percent more industrial production, about the same
for our farm output, to increase the national income by 60 percent, to raise wages by 35 percent, to
reduce retail prices, and double the number of houses to be built?
the convention call, it was stressed that every Liberal party member

How would you feel if, in
was called upon—and expected—
to be critical, to expose and fight
against bureaucrats, chair warm-
ers and everything that harms
Canada and. the cause of peace?

Well, the St. Laurent govern-
ment is not thinking of anything
at all like that for the coming
session of parliament. Nor are
they thinking of calling a Liberal
Party convention,

But, over in the Soviet Union,
it is a fact that the ruling party,
the Communist party, has laid be-
fore the people such a magnificent
set of propositions. At the 19th
convention of the Communist Par-
ty of the Soviet Union (Bolshev-
iks) they will deal with a Five-
Year Plan, 1951-1955 that could
be aptly titled: A Plan of Peace,
Plenty and Prosperity For the
People!

’

It says that by 1955 the Soviet
people will be consuming 90: per-
cent more meat and fish, 70 per-
cent more butter and cheese,
They’ll buy three times as much
furniture, many times more
radios, bikes, cars and clothing.
They’ll quaff twice as much grape
wines and 80 percent more beer.
This will be achieved by increas-
ing wages by 385 percent, farm
income by 40 percent—anqd by
further reductions of retail prices.
Soviet people confidently look
forward to eating more, enjoying
life!

Toronto Globe and Mail, edit-
orializing on the five-year plan,
asks: ‘‘What has happened to the
old North American system—the
system which aimed to put more
and more goods into the hands of
more and more people? ... Ap-
parently it has moved to Russia.”

Commenting on the .mighty
goals of increasing production
from factory and farm, the
higher standards of life planned
in the Soviet Union, the Tory
organ cries: “Why have we al-

lowed our chief argument to be
stolen, our chief weapon to be
turned against us? What hap-
pened?

The answers are simple if the
Globe and Mail wants to face
them. There are no billionaire,
‘or millionaire exploiters in the
Soviet Union scheming to drive
profits up and people’s living stan-
dards down, no merchants of
death plugging for war. There is
a People’s parliament, a People’s
government, People’s planning in
the Soviet Union, Peace and
plenty is the goal of the Soviet
people and their great party —
the Communist party!

How true Stalin’s words sound.
The Globe and Mail should recall
what Stalin told Prime Minister
Attlee in February, 1952: ‘‘Were
Premier Attlee well versed in fin-
ancial or economic science. he
would without difficulty under-
stand that no state, the Soviet
state included.’ can develop to the

John L. ioe warns Americans in Labor Day call

WASHINGTON

yyohn L. Lewis, president of the
Niteg Mine Worker of America,

ieelarea in his Labor Day address
at“ the men and women in

7 the Yanks of labor cry aloud for
ity.»

“American labor faces an era
danger and of the threats to

| a Very existence” and must
stite against those “who would
Boy us and institute their own
va serfdom,”

Uy €fn version of

MWA officers said in a \state--

Ret Yeleased ‘over Lewis’ signa-
g,

t] “America’s coal mine workers,
ae Shock troops of organized
ah? Stand ready, willing ‘and
a if to lend their time, resources,
@ ities and experience to the
that that goal (a united labor
ment) may be attained,’’ the
€ment declared.

*ollowing is the text:
th The international officers of

hited Mine Workers of

dente, John. L. Lewis, presi-
ide, -homas, Kennedy, vice pres-
trea > John Owens, secretary-
in , rer, extend fraternal greet-
4; © the hosts of labor in

‘ica on Labor Day 1952.

+ American labor faces an era
Ve danger and of threats to its
€xistence. There are those
Cians beholden to reaction-
Y interests and those who are

Stay

Polit

still advocates of the institution
of human. slavery who would
take from us the only effective
Weapon we have in our struggle
for a better America,

“There are those intellectually
corrupt corporate interests in this

JOHN b. LEWIS

“Labor faces era of danger”

country who would sell a free,
democratic and progressive Am-
erica down the river in their mad
gamble for .unchallenged control
of-the economic future of our
great nation. |‘

“Those politicians and those
moneychangers have no effective
opponent. But that opponent could
be the American labor movement.
Our labor movement is not now

even an effective challenger. Our
labor movement is split asunder.
It is a house divided against it-
self. The leaders of the -Ameri-
can labor movement babble and
prate,and prattle.: They view one
another askance, They utter
petty words of venom,’

“But the men and women of
the ranks of labor cry aloud for
unity. They seek a strong org-
anization with Singleness of
purpose, policy and_ action.
Their hopes and aspirations are
answered with cynical words
and viewed with suspicion by
those whose ipolicy it seems to
be to seek their own salvatioon
at the expense of others.

“The spectacle of the segments
of organized labor in America
heaving and shoving in al] direc-
tions—or in no direction—gives
‘aid and comfort to those who

Labor must unite against big business

would destroy us and institute
their own modern version of serf-
dom,

“For five years now they have
made of us second-class citizens
through the instrument of their
iniquitous Taft slave statute,
They have stopped our natural
growth and expansion. We are
weak. We are disarmed. Like,
wolves, they are now ready to
move in for the kill.

“The United Mine Workers ney-
er has ceased to raise the warn-
ing cry. We reiterate that call
now. We have no choice but to
capitulate or fight back, We can-
not fight back effectively without
unity and singileness of purpose.
America’s coal mine workers, the
shock troops of organized labor,
stand ready, willing and able to
lend their time, resources, abili-
ties and experience to the end
that that goal may be obtained.

“What is the answer? It is up
to the leaders of lahor. The time
to stop uttering words of fear
and act in unison is upon us.”

utmost civilian industry, launch
great construction projects such as
the hydro-electric stations on the
Volga, the Dnieper and the Amu-
Darya, requiring budget expendi+
tures of tens of thousands of mil-
lions, continue a policy of syste-
matic reduction of prices of con-
sumer goods, likewise requiring
budget expenditures of tens of
thousands, invest hundreds of
thousands of millions in the res-
toration of the national economy
destroyed by the German occupa-
tionalists, and together with this,
simultaneously with this, increase
its armed forces and expand war
industry.

“Tt is not difficult to under-
stand that such a reckless policy
would lead to the bankruptcy of
the state.”

Turn to the grandiose plans
now being enthusiastically dis-
cussed by the Soviet people and
ask yourself: What does this all
mean? It means strengthening of
peace! It is the opposite of the
Anglo-U.S.-Canadian government-
al policy that presses way in Ko-

rea and pushes the world towards -

atomic war, and thrusts our coun-
try to crisis and suffering. That’s
the contrast,

In the Soviet Union they ad-
vance to Communism, the higher
stage of socialism when every hu-
man need will be satisfied, when it
will be: From each according to
his ability, to each according to
his need. ‘The experiences of the
Soviet Union show that a coun-
try can develop magnificently in
peace. Our own experiences show
that the big monied men put pro-
It first and choose war not peace.
That’s the issue the Globe and
Mail dodges!

The cause of peace and peace-
ful coexistence of the nations
will be enormously strengthen-
ed by the epic plans of the So-
viet Union. And the day will
come, as the new program of
the Labor-Progressive party
predicts, when a People’s par-
liament at Ottawa will also con-
vene to map out great plans
for our Canada, For that is the
aim of Canadians too—to de-
Vote the talents and arts of man
to enrich life, to build, to ad-
vance to the glorious life that
can be planned and developed
for every nation and every hu-

man being on this planet of
ours, :

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