___1_t_| A a SR A (A eS i RRS ARR N ‘ 7 f e t DP’ HELMET wT CHOU ULUh Ls Cee te Saas MINISTER Milton F. Gregg in his New Year’s statement . on the shape of things to come says unemployment will be . S “spotty” in 1952. What the minister means by “spotty,” stated in ; workers’ language rather than the vernacular of the stock ex- i ‘change, is that ‘there will be a lot of Canadian workers who will 3 by TOM McEWEN be deprived of the opportunity’ to earn a livelihood in 1952. : The minister might have been talking of sacks of potatoes : a or cement instead of human beings. The “supply and demand of f : : Reg eee 4 kk, gave emphasis to the “go0d- : i ter Christmas we in USA” trademark, g ee ee en omer A ene sor anal Sprkesness in our will” messages of the warmongers—who desecrate did not turn out to ‘be as severe as had been anticipated.” ‘That’s found a number ; : : j ive for war pape : h: very human.ideal in their fantastic drive de ; , C : _ vicinity busy taking stock. It may have been eve 1 mt of conscripting <8 = SORA oe ee SNS eae ae sheer cussedness on our part, but the idea persist- and profits, even to the poin ufacturers ociation, Ra ist Tet ATT te CR Pat Tit Yay Yad Fi edt ed that this urge to take stock so soon after St. Santa Claus. aes GR Shee tabemap a Nicholas’ annual pilgrimage, might have some- In our own backyard, a parallel to this can Despite the statistics Gregg mustered in an effort to justify thing to do with the cash returns accruing from be found. A new streamlined church on Cre his optimism; his New Year’s message points up the urgent need his goodwill tour. : ville Street, erected recently to the glory He er? ee ee, aod other Temibabon sain waged, until While it is still too early 'to assess the overall and the late Lord Shaughnessy ave eit thousands of Canadian workers now unemployed are assured of picture of Christmas buying (and in our way of bears the illuminated ae anaes canine their right to work. life the cash register is the ultimate denominator Earth — qe we ss sah “ae | od iene Hundreds of thesé DP’s, gathered yp from the fascist gutter .of our weal or woe) some features of the 1951 ec as ae “Christians,” who bargain for of Europe, not only take the jobs of ‘Canadians, but are brought Yule season emphasize the trend. aes into heaven on the same terms as member: Bee oe, oe Sapte purpose “of “Undermining the organization, First, the big departmental stores and such ship in the stock exchange! civil and political right of Canadian workers. monopolies would seem to have made a killing. ay tee fot Sek shee 100ks To these fascist DP’s the door must be closed. Immigration The small free enterprisers who stocked up with = On ee ee of i Soi cie veatienyereaaa policies must be geared to-Canada’s needs and the interests of 4 lot of traditional bric-a-brac didn’t do so well. cma G2 le ee si ppitica nee lies in the fact that her people rather than the political and financial interests of the Im fact most of them did very badly, hence the Se et yide “holy” men of Shaughnessy reactionary moguls of St. James and Bay streets. , early and apprehensive stocktaking. : e Memorial ‘Church to be “united as one ee cond, the casual observer cannot help but atomaniacs of Wall Street in exten ing ws | shy there are probably more unsold ‘Christ- brand of “peace” to those whom mt SCT mas trees sticking in Vancouver snowbanks and of “goodwill” is designed to cover. AW eo a vacant lots than ever before, which can hardly of Bethlehem embraced all humanity. er. . e tbe explained away by saying that citizens went Shaughnessy cold-war version excludes mo: Take over the BC Electric out and hacked (an apt term) their own Yule half of the world’s peoples. trees. And ‘the Christmas lighting displays in Close the door on immigration and help remove the govern- ment’s “spotty” perspectives. ‘ : ere Vancouver’s residential areas are eouiegaa yeaa PCS ich ab igen Fibs ! f i e r i . +“ - wrt a ‘Public Utilities Commission specially designed to give sf a NE SAG Saag ad aarp ed their “goodwill” messages to suit the : the BCElectric the legal powers to rook the public every shows the advantage of a ready access*to the pub- ‘Sure of peep be oad ihe Maa asa to al time that monopoly feels like it, Vancouver residents face a lic purse when the occasion calls for getting lit up. Series of the slogan o leading humanineaa substantial boost in electric light rates early in 1952. Sie tons UE. WATMRORRETS. (40), ACRQINE ; : The high-pressure ballyhoo of the big free Slaughterhouse of atomic war? Tt.is only about 10 months since the PUC allowed the BCElec- enterprisers to “buy-Buy-BUY” for Christmas has ce; + Percy Byssie tric a 11 percent hike on residential electric rates and 5 percent 41) hut reduced the legendary beauty and signifi- Long ago. the Englis poe ) pees: oem on industrial consumption. The new increase will boost every cance of this eventful season to the bedlam of a Shelley, eet : up A | tae oe me of thes? 2 householder’s light bill by at least $1, if not more, adding close to sté¢k exchange, where “goodwill” is measured Speen ee aa es 2 ts turn the Santa a eal an extra million dollars to BCE profits. with the yardstick of profits. Karl Marx com- Cis P f oyr children into a Garnonventne pul: | eS Last month the PUC heard a lensth ‘ . mented on this strictly ‘bourgeois characteristic - . ; e fee g ngthy argumentation for in 4 + 2 lesque. x . ; ; hundred years ago in the Communist creasing what is ‘technically described as the “allowed rate of AE ae y dents return’”—a ipreparation ‘for future profit gouges, p. Manifesto with the observation that in capitalist natural gas is piped to Vancouver, : “Kings, priests, and statesmen, blast the society “all that is holy is profaned.” It certainly sd hae Howse g fits in the year 1951. Even in its tender bud;: their influence darts \ Like subtle poison through the bloodless vein$ Of desolate society, The child, articularly when ‘ber ior = a Gee rey re! ie ° Btop we Sus He catey se A great bulk of the Christmas toys bear the 'y 0 e public who live within the territory serviced by this inscription, “Made in Occupied Japan” or “Made grasping monopoly. Dump the present PUC, which is nothing in US. Occupied Zone, West ‘'Germany.”; This more or less than a political pawn of the BCElectric, and begin : Ere he can lisp his mother’s sacred name, 2 would indicate the beloved saint of all children . . ime, and with a strong united people's resolution in 1952 for taking over this is becoming more and more integrated into the SWells wae eo DAE B re! Pte OL ee » Power monopoly and making it a publicly-owned enterprise. _ Marshall Plan “way of life.” The good old saint : had barely ‘headed his red-nosed reindeer Rudolph His baby-sword even in a hero’s mood. i north again, before the airwaves began pouring This infant-arm becomes the bloodiest sco - aN iS : out their messages of “goodwill”? This year, Of devastated earth; whilst specious names; Hee, M 0 d eQ r n b U C c a Nn @ G r and particularly from the land of dollar democ- ) Learned in soft childhood’s unsuspecting racy, these messages had a queer admixture of hour } . Christmas “cheer” and cold-war atomic bluster: aeons am mai : : 5 R ai ; ad Serve as the sophisms with which yUst. before the year 1951 bowed itself out the December 31 2% Ean Ce ae eee ey hood dims. “ edition of.the Vancouver Sun carolled the good tidings of the > pte pete gO ay : ’ ord : Og of life” and “our” Santa Claus, to hell with them Bright Reason’s ray, and sanctifies the 5W latest achievement of British Columbia’s most “depression-proof” ae scab : 4 : —“our” stockpile of atomic and napalm bombs Upraised to shed a brother's innocent plood. citizen. “H. 'R. MacMillan Profits Hit $15,600,000 in 1951—Double can be most convincing! : t on 4 ‘Last Year’s Figure,” reads the Sun’s headline. Perhaps like the small merchants, bu ee a Roath : The tons of ingenious littl ical | To one accustomed to raking in a trifling profit of seven to aa ee ee y é much wider scale, it is time to begin tale aa age : 4 5 guns, cannons, planes, bombs and other such for the preservation of our sanity, our Me". nine million dollars every year, the pocketing of nearly 16 million symbols of imperialist “peace,” with their “Made. and pee were. dollars last year definitely elevates MacMillan to that select cate- gory of B.C. citizens. described by Finance Minister Anscomb as living proof of British ‘Columbia's “depression-proof” status. This 1951 record-breaking profit grab is apart from the re- 3 = ‘ é 5 x “ eae ‘ent MacMillan-Bloedel merger. The 1951 profits of the latter Put Ga ce in Korea fj rst i Nn 1952 te 2 for the first nine months of 1951 only amount to some $5 million— Se peanuts to MacMillan. Without a doubt, the 1952 balance sheet of this lumber trust, united in unholy matrimony to fleece B.C. ‘in the mass, will set a new all-time record in profiteering. of the world’s peoples added to the slow realiz- __ When we ‘hear MacMillan lauding “free enterprise” and assur- ation on the part of Yankee imperialism that thé It is ti k, to recall ae ing us that “socialism won't work,” we sometimes wonder whether will to freedom of the colonial people cannot be e Time #0 breaks the Shieas ; irators from See, gn get OSs that British Columbians like to be crushed by “superior” forces or new and terrible eae audios ao eee TaN ] of ? é€ must like it because MacMillan is still playing it engines ‘of death and destruction, not 5 anmunjon and send a representa -his way ... bigger and better than ever ! : Ronettes ash ; n peop.” Korea, the representatives of dollar imperialism eta bee Semcpmacea pa aan eral, q a, ke te y i aGl 1Ke an anata nit ] ei choos who impudently label themselves the “UN rep. V°rKers from trade unions, churches, ; at | aire the steadily growing pressure for peace ty, they’ turn the Korean peace talks into : ‘ propaganda! 114 reseed - wor. resentatives of the free world” have been com- culfural cates fraternal appeal = 4 pelled to talk peace. . se with a wide diversity of political view ‘ne prot : “ liefs, but united on the conviction that ler lems of civilization cannot be solved bY tel” murder. Workers united on the need and! mination for peace. IH ani INGA el i l Cn g yl a ; | or 2) jE VU) » y i These peace talks have been going on for snaetlldva ~ a raallinataioasine saa coh valli’ months. The reason for their protracted nature Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vestorees ee. ‘is not hard to seek. These so-called UN. (read By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. US.) representatives have resorted to every con: ce me : i fen Telephone MA. 5288 temptible trick and ruse in their criminal en- With. sueh..a body. jat the peace a wo id Tom McEwen po EEE eu Sa ae aEs Sk oe Editor Reels Fo MiGck Peace: And pene the: Foreee oe ean ae ; Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. shambles and destruction on a world scale. Their ave been ended months ago. Printed by ‘Union Printers Ltd, 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, BG arguments remind one of Al Capone playing the Let’s put peace in Korea’ and throughout Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa role of an honest citizen. With diabolical subtle- world high on the 1952 calendar of see PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 4, 1952 — PAT