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SGrand design’
that backfired

By LESLIE MORRIS
__ It is sometimes said that Canada could not win her
Mdependence from the USA because our giant neighbour
Would not permit it. It is also asked: ‘“How could Canada go
Socialist when the USA is right next door?” While there is a

“use for ¢ cern, both ideas are actually fatalistic and
defeatist, ba se they take for granted that the working class
of the USA standing still and will continue to stand still.

latter question also takes for granted, quite arbitrarily,
at Canada will come to socialism before the U.S. does.
fre is no such “law”, of course.

* * *

Gus Hall, the outstanding Communist
spokesman in the USA, has written a fine
booklet, End the Cold War! which every
Canadian left-winger should read.

He sets out to show that present Am-
erican policy is not only an assault on
social progress in other countries, but is
an attack on the national interests of the
United States. :

The cold .war was heralded by that
hi “old fox’ Winston Churchill in 1946 in
(8 “iron curtain speech in Fulton, Mo. He called on the USA
© Seize the “opportunity” to launch the cold war. The chance,
© Said, “is here now, clear and shining” because ‘“‘the United
"ates Stands at this time at the pinnacle of world power”.

* * *

But economically the USA soon fell behind. fue
Prog Ben Churchill spoke the US share of world capitalist
truy Uction had risen from 41.5 percent in 1937 to 58 percent,
th Y the lion’s share. But, by 1960 it had fallen to 45 percent;

e tendency is to further decline.
haq the “pinnacle” Churchill spoke of in 1946, the U.S.
haq 3 percent of capitalist world exports. By 1960 that share.
fallen to 18 percent and it continues to drop. :
fallen '¢ US share of the world’s automobile production has

Pere fom 75 to 50 percent, and of steel, from 50 to 25
Teent.

taligh ° € US came out of World War II as the hoarder of oer
ro 80ld and was able to dictate its terms to its allies
the "gh the Marshall Plan. But there is now a heavy run on
afte 80ld reserves. From the “pinnacle” of $24.5 billion
* the war, the reserves fell to $16.5 billion in 1961.
us Hall writes:
‘the ae deluded by their belief in a long atomic monopoly,
~Coexigt ders of our nation ignored the proposals of peaceful
(w ea and followed Churchill’s call for a cold war .. .
the “9 Was supposed to be the grand design for turning back
Cone els of history. But as far as our nation and people are

ag 1. °% evidence is piling up that this grand design . . .
backfireg » ‘

* * *
do we Points out that “there are now US corporations who
USiness but who do not employ a single US worker”.
From © export of US capital harms, not helps, US workers.

Up 4g, 17-1960 to mid-1961, the giant US corporations “set

ing ; , NW industrial plants overseas, expanding 161 exist-
“y. Sttial plants and signed 323 licensing pacts”.

ue doubt some of these plants are in Canada.
for 4, ted States cold war policies mean, not only prosperity
than 3 orporations, but poverty for millions. There are more
loy» “Y€ million “permanently unemployed”, a “minimum
»S?YS Hall,

hangs" Year automation “replaces 1% million human
ie ae Quotes US authorities as saying that 77 million Am-

38 ‘| lived in poverty or deprivation in 1960, and these,

‘lion, or more than one-fifth of the nation, lived in

m
Poverty

natig® the 1930’s Roosevelt spoke about one-third of a
fom, ). t28 ill-housed, ill-fed and ill-clothed. “Now, after

“Our Years of the cold war .. . two-fifths of the people in

ntry (are) living under the deprivation level.”
$309 bin tional debt, piled up by the cold war, is now over
ion.

* * *

ae US Communist spokesman goes into great detail =
People “a the democratic alternatives which stand before the
: Is country.
‘Aden Tper fight against the menacing ultra-Right and
‘try ®nt political action and the unity of the left in
*kaingt 88ainst the monopolies, for the national interest
"nist € interests of Wall Street—this is the gist of Com-
tm CY, as it is of our own Communist Party.
Win, 1s anti-monopoly coalition”, says Gus Hall,
i Stowi,. ft develops, a political expression of the gap aite
Prog between the monopolies with their ruthless ae
“aq ha at 8nd total disregard of the interests of the peop ;
penal interests which emerge in this new epoch.
* * *
eon Hall has written a convincing, eloquent: and well-
: Pamphlet which many Canadians should read.
te si. 8teat democratic traditions of the American people

r . : r
saad allies for Canadians in their own new battle fo

€nce ang
its pea peace.

fighting against the US domination of our agen
witan ,“®YS distinguish between Wall Street and the Am

Sha
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"ig and

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17 YEARS AFTER VE DAY

_ NEW _W. GERMAN INVASION

Only 17 years after total de-

German army has again become
so large that it could not find
adequate training camps and.
ws military depots on W. Germany
. territory.

eS | feat in World War Two the

With the backing of the
NATO powers this problem is
being solved: German military
camps have been established all
over Europe as this map shows.
Solid crosses on the map show
where such bases and depois
are situated.

Outline crosses show where
negotiations are taking place
or have recently been conclud-
ed. The Bonn foreign ministry
has asked for more foreign
bases. -

Canada’s economy ‘not too bouyant’
see business upswing ending soon

Most economic indicators
show a “not too buoyant”
economy, according to an ar-
ticle in the Financial Post.

Canada’s Gross National
Product (total amount of
goods and services produced)
rose only 1.8 percent in the
first quarter of this year as
compared with the previous
quarter, and over-all indus-
trial production in April was
almost unchanged from the
March level.

Prospects for a continuing
increase in the GNP also as-
sumes a:normal crop this
year after last year’s very
poor harvest. Without agri-
cultural production, the GNP
first-quarter rise was only
one percent. |

Consumer spending, says
FP, increased three percent,
thus helping to prop up the
economy. However, dispos-
able incomes grew by only
.2.2 percent.

FP saw the increase in con-
sumer spending as a “buoy-
ant” sign, but it only seemed
to indicate more credit buy-
ing, adding to an already spir-
alling trend that can only

—_ pode a further million com-

pared with a rate of more
than $500 million in the
fourth quarter of 1961.

“This suggests a downward
reappraisal by business of the
outlook for demand and sales
in the months ahead, which,
indeed, is borne out by sec-
ond quarter trends,” the pa-
per stated.

Profits, said FP, were down
two percent from the post-
war 1961 peak, but this was
only a relative and not an
absolute drop. The 1961 peak
in profits was 30 percent
above the first - quarter low
for that year.

“These trends,” summed up
the paper, “‘could mean slow-
er growth in GNP in the next
few months .. . it is unlikely
that the seven percent in-
crease envisaged by Mr.
Fleming in his budget speech
or even the more conserva-

tive estimates of a six percent

increase will be achieved.”
Economists have estimated

the GNP must expand an-

nually by at least six percent
if the Canadian economy is
to keep pace with even mini-
mum requirements.

CIRCULATION ROUNDUP

‘Trib’ can be sold
even at vacation time

By HAROLD PRITCHETT
Circulation manager
How often have you heard
the remark “I read it in the

Trib’?

Our paper is not only a.
great source of information
about local, national and in-
ternational events, but
through its editorials and
columns it gives a lead on all
important political events. It
helps organize support for
Strike struggles against the
_boss, and in
the case of
British Col-
umbia, the
bosses’ cap-
tive govern-
ment . which
a‘ttempted to
hogtie labor
with its infamous Bills 42
and 43.

The Pacific Tribune is in
the forefront of the fight for
world peace, for unity in the
ranks of labor and for labor-
farmer unity. For, as the old
axiom says, ‘In unity there
is strength”.

A point in question is the
present struggles of the Car-
penters and Plumbers who
face well organized employ-
ers led by labor renegade
Roly Gervin.

The fight to develop the
Columbia for Canada; jobs
for Canadians; the fight
around the devalued dollar
and the rising cost of liy-
ing; rising taxation — these
and many others are key
issues affecting the Canadian
people.

We must ask ourselves,
“Can the Pacific Tribune

play its full role in the strug- oe

gle to maintain a world at
peace, make our country in-
dependent, and bring about
necessary changes in Canada.
to benefit our people, if the
message is not brought to
more and more readers?
Pick up that expired sub
now. Recruit a new reader
by inviting a friend or fellow
worker to subscribe, or com-
bine a little business with
lots of pleasure by taking
along a small bundle of
“Tribs” on your. vacation.
You are bound.to run into
someone anxious to discuss
politics with you at the camp
site, or wherever you and
your family are vacationing.
People mull over their. prob-
them, even at vacation: time.

Twenty-one students grad-
uated with diplomas in 1962
from the University of Mani-
toba faculty of agriculture.

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