ee ea j | | Ed { ty ; yf H (|) HP AON is=2. TiS CUINIENS q all end eI Diavetrmneetiell Published Weekly at 650 Howe Street By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. Telephones: Editorial, MA. 5857; Business, MA. 5288 Tom McEwen Editor Ivan Birchard Manager Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. Printed by Union Printers at 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. Authorized as second-class mail by the post-office department, Ottawa So long and so little . ILLIAM LYON MACKENZIE KING, prime minis- ter of Canada, has just completed his twentieth year in that capacity. Should he hold out another year he will outstrip the all-empire record established by Sir Robert Wal- record, but in terms of achievement there have been many lean years, Back in the early days of his career when he graduated from the Rockefeller Foundation with high honors as a labor ‘expert’ and assumed. his first public duties as a deputy minister of labor, Mackenzie King wrote a book—an extremely dry book entitled ‘Industry and Humanity.’ Dur- ing those 20 years he has been unable to evolve a Labor Code patterned after the ‘humanity’ of his author years. In the halycon days of Beauharnois, when many of his liberal colleagues were up to the ears in graft, he “walked through the valley of humiliation.” Since then he has in- sisted that his colleagues graft honestly, having- due regard for the sterling rules of ‘free enterprise.’ In the ‘hungry 30’s’ Mackenzie King expediently re- pealed Section 98 of the Criminal Code—as a mark of. respect for the Four Freedoms and to assuage English- speaking Canada: As a gesture of gratitude for French- _ Canadian ‘liberalism’ upon which many of his parliamentary _ victories have depended he has prudently left Duplessis’ ‘Padlock Law’ intact. Noblesse oblige! During his long years in office he has striven to achieve a greater Canadian independence from the consti- _ tutional colonial ties of the British North America Act— and then overnight, tied Canadian sovereignty and inde- pendence to the atomic-dollar chariot of American imperial- ism. Under the leadership of Mackenzie King, Canada as a nation has reached the zenith and the nadir of economic development. Under his leadership we are again heading _ for the bottom of the barrel. Future historians who under- _ take to chronicle Canadian development will have some difficulty in estimating whether its time-shattering prime _ Minister was.a god-send or an obstacle: We do not presume to answer that question, but merely to add our mite to the plaudits, and observe that 20 years is a long time. BCElectric ‘psychologist’ N a recent address to the Canadian Manufacturers’ Association of Victoria, A. E. Grauer, president of the BCElectric gave the big boys a few- pointers on how to deal with ‘social discontents,’ and emphasized the need for ‘free enterprise’ to “lay down a positive program of diag- nosis and remedial action.” : The BCElectric president is blossoming into a psychol- _ ogist of no mean proportions. In some of his after-dinner _ Rotarian burps he diagnoses all humans tinged with ‘so- cialist or communist ideas as ‘neurotic’ or mental cases, deploring their stress on material considerations and class antagonisms, and prescribing as a cure-all a high-pressure _ campaign by big business to sel] the blessings of ‘free enterprise.’ We will concede to president Grauer the ability to _psychologize a number of splendid deals for the BCER; to remove any and all opposition that stands in the way of BCER expansion. We are loath to admit that all the ‘social discontents’ who vote and work for the public owner- ship of British Columbia power and transit resources are ‘neurotic.’ We can admit that a citizen commuting over a long period of time in BCER rolling stock may become a trifle unbalanced and even ‘degraded’ when faced with the perspective of another 20 years of BCER transportation. _ The long and short of it is that the popular (in CMA circles) BCER president has evolved into number one front man for the CMA, dedicating himself to the art of insidious red-baiting and singing the praises of ‘free enter- ‘Canada needs 50,000 salesmen’ boomed Roydon M. _ Barbour, Toronto sales tycoon to a similar gathering a few days ago, “to sell the system of free enterprise to the man of low income.” Even with CMA backing the ‘salesmen’ are going to face a tough market, since the man of low (or no) income is already fed up to the gills with this special brand of ersatz baloney, whether it comes from a _ Grauer or a Barbour. FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1947) ; : e pole in 1742. Measured in point of time this is a very unique - ERT AA we see it AON By Tom McEwen : ene the last couple of weeks there has been a great hubbub in the com- mercial press and on the air regarding Hungary. Reaction has sought to make use of the ‘incident’ to further its ‘get- tough’ policy with anything and everything which doesn’t kow- tow to the financial royalists of Wall Street. : It appears that the Socialists and Communist parties in Hun- gary, determined to promote a genuine peoples’ government, put the boots to the nazi collabora- tionist premier Ference Nagy and a number: of his quisling politi- cians. and under strappers who have been playing the game with the Truman ‘doctrinaires,’ just as ‘they played it with Hitler. Real- izing that the real representa- tives of the Hungarian people were wise to his conspiracies with the foreign ‘advisors’ of Wall Street and London, Nagy phoned his ‘resignation’ as pre- mier from Switzerland. Hun- garian consulates in London and Washington, observant of the Tules of the new atomic diplo- macy, are disobeying the orders of- the new Hungarian govern- ment to return home for consul- tation, all of which provides the commercial press and radio com- mentators in the U.S. and satel- lite countries with plenty of grist - to their anti-democratic propa- ganda mills, The event has unloosed a veri- table avalanche of atomic blust- er from Washington, with Lon- don chiming in _ second-fiddle. ‘Outrageous,’ _ ‘atrocious,’ ‘sinis- ter,’ are only a few of the milder epithets anent this latest ‘com- -munist outrage.’ Developing this fine show at indignation to new levels, U.S. reactionaries are pressing their call for ‘war on the Soviet Union now.’ They see in the action of the Hungarian peo- ple to nip a new brand of fas- cism in the bud, an opportunity to further their provocations and hate campaign against the USSR and the new democracies of Europe. : Back in 1919, following the col- lapse of the corrupt Hapsburg TORY PAR HEADQUARTE “|. . anything we can put un dynasty, when the Hungarian Soviet government was establish- ed by the popular will of the peo- ple, the ‘great engineer’ Herbert Hoover was in charge of Amer- ican relief. Food became a weapon to dictate to the Hun- garian people what kind of a government (in the opinion of Wall Street) was the best for them. Hoover demanded a gov- ernment ‘sympathetic’ to Wash- ington, i. a government com- mitted to the exploitation of the Hungarian people. U.S. loans would be available, U-S. food and (al- ready stacked high on the docks of Trie- ste, Fiume and other ports,) providing the Hungarian peo- ple got rid of ‘anarchy (read Soviet govern- ment). Other- Tom McEwen wise no loans, no food, no medicine. American money purchased mercenary sol- diers for the butcher Horthy and *the Hungarian people and their government was drowned in blood by foreign-inspired terror and oppression. That was nearly 19 years ago. Successive Hungar- ian dictators, Horthy, Imredy, Nagy, who léd their people into the camp of the Kaiser, and 25 years later into the camp of Hitler, were all the darlings of foreign reaction. Only a few days ago, just as a quarter of a century ago he had condemned the U.S.-inspired and financed Horthy regime, the exiled Hungarian Count Michael Karolyi said in a New York press interview: “The United States is back- ing people who wanted to overthrow the actual Hungar- ian regime and set up an- ersatz Horthy dictatorship.” The communists and socialists — nipped a conspiracy in the bud. : ( OHN BRACKEN, leader of the progressive-conservative’ party ~—tory to us, is making the wel- kin ring in his demands for ‘the ea der the ban today?” outlawing of communism’. That of course, is'not news, although the commercial press gives ‘hon- est’ John’s drivel a goodly cov- erage. There is nothing new in Bracken’s anti-communist rants which haven’t been repeated by other tory stalwarts like Bluster- ing Bennett, Colonel George Drew, Maurice Duplessis, or our own stalwart Anscomb. When the tories picked Brack- en as a leader they thought he carried the Manitoba farmers in his political pocket. John insisted that the word ‘progressive’ be tacked onto ‘conservative’. to camouflage the leadership deal. In the long months as new leader of the tories, and prior to securing a seat in Commons, John’s stock as a good tory was waning. When he climbed on the anti-Soviet bandwagon his stock shot up. He ‘heartily approves’ of the government’s espionage ramp in which the liberties and rights of Canadians were viola- ted, and in spite of the fact that the courts of the land have al- ready exonerated over 50 per- gent of those Canadians so im- pugned. Being a tory of course, John must have some well-feign- ed disagreement ‘with the. meth- ods the government employed in handling the espionage ‘case’, but on general principles he is all for the ‘get tough’ formula, so well illustrated in action by his predecessors, Meighan, Ben- nett and Co. é AccoRDING to George A. Wil- kinson, secretary of -the Vic- toria Trades and Labor Council (AFL) the united program of the " recent convention of the B.C. Fed- eration of Labor against the Coalition government’s. infamous Bill 39 is just a “wave of hy- steria.” Being a democrat of a very special variety, Brother Wilkinson thinks theeact ’should have a chance to. prove itself’ before labor does anything about it! ’ Another view of the splendid ' BCEF convention decision for labor political unity and action to defeat Bill 39 and the govern- ment that gave ‘it birth by CCF leader Harold Winch, who, (if correctly quoted in the Vancouver Sun) sees it only as an- other endeavor of the Labor-Progres- sive Party to revive “the old _ united front. ..”. In these « days communists — are inured to this sort of ‘political analysis, but it must be damn tough for both AFL and CCF rank and file wor- kers who have al- ready learned the. lesson of unity, and ~ who know that only when workers get together, regardless” of their political faiths, will the bat- tle of labor be won, and repressive la- bor legislation like Bill 39 consigned to the ashcan. Just seems like the _ Winches have nei — ther-the courage _ nor the foresight of the workers they presume to- lead. Meanwhile the communists are proud to be bran- ded as the creators of the united front —past, present or future. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 4 ‘