matters, policy. training methods,
even the structure of Canada’s mili-
tary formations. The manner and
conditions of U.S. operation of its
numerous key Canadian bases is
making Yankee occupation the de-

-cisive military factor in this coun-

_ being.

try.

Like military policy, our trade
policy is being “integrated” with
that of the U.S.—with the result
that Canadian exports are reduced
or cut off from countries (the

‘USSR and People’s Democracies)
comprising a third of the world’s

population. The Canadian govern-

‘ment assists Wall Street’s drive to

devalue the pound sterling and elim-

imate British imperial preferences.

The U.S. imperialists would not be
in a position to launch a world war
without Canada’s iron ore, nickel,
copper, uranium and other raw ma-
terials; but, instead of utilizing that
tremendous factor in the interests
of world peace, prohibiting the ex-
port of Canadian raw materials for
use in armaments, the St. Laurent
government has signed an agree-
ment, referred to as “the new Hyde
Park agreement,” which gives Am-
erican big business a virtual mon-
opolp of all Canada’s raw material
resources precisely as part of the
U.S.-Canadian preparations for a
war of aggression. “The effect of
that agreement is to commit Can-
ada to produce raw materials for
American industry, buy manufac-
tured products from the U.S., and
sell Canadian raw materials td other
countries, only by consent of the
American government. The Can-
adian economy is being made com-
pletely dependent on the aims and
interests .of the U.S. monopolists
and their war department.

Offensive against

i subordinate Canada’s national
interests to American war aims,
the government is assuming control
of key sectors of the nation’s econ-
omy, organizing a state-capitalist-
monopoly war economy in the ser-
vice of imperialism. To maintain
the fantastically high profits of the
monopolists at the expense of the
masses of the people, while divert-
ing a billion dollars worth of ma-
terials and labor power per year
for preparations for war. the gov-
ernment is introducing measures to
reduce the real incomes of the great

masses of wage and salary earners, -

farmers and consumers generally.

In 1949 thereewere maturing in
Canadian economy all the elements
of a cyclical crisis. The national
convention of the Labor-Progres-
sive party warned the people of Can-

ada of that development, pointing '

to the symptoms highlighted by
rapidly growing mass unemploy-
ment. The crisis did not “break”
because, in their mortal fear of its
consequences, the goverfments of
the United States and Canada adopt-
ed measures to bolster the economy
artificially by a policy of long term
governmental spending upon pre-
parations for war. By that reckless
expedient they succeeded in distort-
ing the economic cycle for the time
Governmental spokesmen
and the hired propagandists for
monopoly capital pretend that there

was no other way to maintain full,

employment. They foster the idea
that the only alternatives open to
Canada were, either large-scale war
preparations or mass unemploy-
ment. They lie!

‘Money spent upon the peaceful
physical improvement of our coun-
try would provide: more employ-
ment per dollar than money spent
upon argiaments; trade with the
socialist sector of the world would

“A third world war is not inevitadle.”

provide permanent profitable peace-

time markets for more Canadian
products than does the government's
wasteful armaments program. What
they now refer to as the “war boom”
is not a sign that capitalist economy
is restored to health. itis in fact a
fever. War economy is crisis, econ-
omy. It is the -method by which
Hitler gave the people of Germany
full employment and an illusion of
prosperity, buying guns instead of
butter. It is the method of pyra-
miding the contradictions of capit-
alist economy, of staking the exist-
ence of the government, of the cap-
italist system itself, upon prepara-
tions for war.

Hand in hand with Wall Street’s
war preparations there goes the
drive toward fascist reaction — in
the U.S. and on all satellite terri-
tory. Part and parcel of the Yankee
militarization of Canada are the

vicious and increasingly open at-.
tacks upon the democratic rights. .

of the Canadian people. There has
been a coordinated nationwide ef-
fort to intimidate Canadians who
speak out in behalf of peace. There
has been a systematic nation-wide
attack upon the historic “Right to
Petition.” Avowed fascists, import-
ed into Canada straight from the
Nazi stormtroop battalions, are per-
mitted, even encouraged, to engage
in terroristic violence against the
members of working class organ-
izations, their. property and_ their
public meetings. The government
and employers cooperate to en-
croach upon the democratic rights
and practices of the trade union
movement. Typical of the develop-
ment of a pro-fascist attitude to
ward working-class action was the
calling of a special session of the
House of Commons to break the
just strike of the railway workers..

‘The same dangerous trend is evid-

ent in the inspired propaganda in
favor of outlawing the Labor-Pro-
gressive party.

(CF leaders
in the war camp

OGETHER with the Tory and

Social Credit parties, the CCF
is officially aligned in support of the
war program of the Liberal gov-
ernment. Discarding the Regina

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Manifesto (which explicitly con-
demns participation in imperialist
war) the right-wing CCF leaders
have assumed the role of apologists

‘for the St. Laurent government’s

war policy within the labor and
farm movements. The right-wing
social democrats who head the CCF
and sections of the trade union
movement are out to ingratiate
themselves with the monopolists,
and eagerly take part in the work
of deceiving the masses with ‘“dem-

ocratic” camotflage of" imperialist”

war policy. They are disintegrating
the great mass anti-monopoly move-
ment of the Canadian people. They
are driving masses of reform-mind-
ed people back under the domination
of the monopoly of the two old
parties.

At a. time when the whole: cap-
italist state apparatus is being gear-
ed for fascism and war, the right-
wing CCF leaders become more and
more fully integrated with it. They
work overtime to sell the workers
the St. Laurent war program, sub-
servience to Yankee imperialism. the
giving up by Canadian trade union-
ists of the democratic right to gov-
ern themselves in their unions on
the basis of Canadian conditions and
Canadian law. They are the Ameri-
can war party within the ranks of
labor. Working to help bring the
“domestic rear” into line with the

war program, they are now seeking —

to turn the trade union movement
into the “Labor Front” of imperial-
ism. For this purpose the splitting
of labor’s ranks, raiding, and the
anti-Communist witch-hunt serve as
the overriding — and destructive —
policy.

Just as they work to undermine
international working class solidari-
ty by seeking to disrupt the
WETU, and to tie Canadian labor
to the U.S, war machine, so the
right-wing leaders strive to. split
solidarity of the workers here at
home, with the same bosses’ device
of “anti-Communism.” Their poli-
cy is aimed at achieving the isola-
tion and where possible the ex-
clusion from the unions of the most

devoted, consistent and courageous .

fighters for working class interests:
the Communists. But the policy
does not stop there. By throttling
trade union democracy, it seeks to
intimidate and gag the workers, and

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rob the labor movement of all fight-
ing capacity.

The LPP warns Canadian labor of
the deadly danger that such policies
represent, and calls upon the work-
ers in the right-led unions to unite in
rank and file membership action to
save their unions; to preserve,
strengthen and extend trade union
unity!

The people are fighting back

5 ever greater numbers of people

recognize the supreme moral is-
sue at stake in the question of peace
and war, they will face up to their
responsibility — to act for peace.
That more and more Canadians are
awakening to this responsibility is
shown by the growing movement
that-is rallying in support of the
Canadian Peace Congress. The
great national campaign for signa-
tures to the Stockholm appeal has
aroused tens of thousands of Can-
adians to the sharpening danger of
war, and showed the way to action
in behalf of peace.

Great masses of the Canadian
people are deeply disturbed over the
involvement of our country in the
war against the Korean people, and
the commitment of our armed for-
ces for action anywhere the U.S.
militarists may decide to send them.
They are disturbed at the enormous
program of preparations for war,
and angered by the rising prices of
necessities of life, brought on by
the inflation and war taxation poli-

‘cies. They are angered by the brazen

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betrayal of election promises by the
St. Laurent government,

All over Canada there is growing.
resentment against the arrogance
with which the U.S. imperialists,
particularly the war department, op-
erate in this country. The U.S. air
bases and other military establish-
ments within Canada, which are be-
ing steadily expanded and increased
in number, are operated as though
they were in fact on United States
territory; their personnel are not
subject to Canadian law; the actions
and attitudes of many of their offi-
cers are those of an army of occupa-
tion in conquered territory.
~ Opposition to the Yankee mili-
tarizaion of Canada is just begin-
ning to make itself felt. But resist-
ance to the effects of the Wall
Street war program on the living
standards of the Canadian people is
widespread. Its most pojverful ex-
pression was the great nation-wide
railway strike. :

Impelled by the rise in living
costs, the wage movement is rising.
There is a marked growth in the
organization of hitherto unorgan-
ized workers. :

Working class housewives and
consumers generally are demanding
a stop to the incessant increases in
prices of food, fuel, clothing, rent..
They want government action to
stop the flagrant profiteering by the
monopolists, to impose an excess
profits tax, and to reestablish sub-
sidies where necessary to enable
children of workers’ families to get
milk and other essential foods. —

Farmers are incensed at the cal-
culated sacrifice of their overseas
markets and reduction of thei; ir

comes when the prices of every-

thing they have to buy are rising
as a direct result of the govern-
ments war program, Prairie farm-
ers. their markets slashed to satisfy
U.S. interests, almost half of their
1950 crop downgraded to the’ price
of feed grain, are demanding organ-
ized action to halt the sacrifice of
Canadian agriculture,
widespread demands from farm or-
ganizations for a strike against de-

livery of the 1950 crop to the elev-
aors.

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