Se eee eae ae . LABOR DEMANDS REPEAL OF SLAVE LAW RYDE ET ROTA A SEE STORY BACK PAGE te iH) : iedi ! 7 aT +4! i, WH AWA) EE bk Wy ‘ 2 WP esd split iy AAU BAG RRA UNRATE AT Price Five Cents < & Ke) LE fo) w On Vancouver, British Columbia, September 8, 1950 This program leads to war Above is shown a view of Pusan, principal Korean city still in U.S. hands, According to a Soviet war correspondent’s dispatch to Moscow papers, big caliber North Korean artil- lery began shelling Pusan airfield at dawn om Tuesday this week. Peasants carry out Korean land reform SEOUL Millions of peasants in South Korea are putting the great land reform program into effect under Ame- rican machine guns and bombs—with their ears tuned to catch the first whisper of a plane. These people know that the war is to decide who shall own their land and they are determined to own it themselves. ; They meet after nightfall, with only the stars for ~ Continued,on Page 7 See PEASANTS ee . : A in i eee sO tt Tn Ti) MPM a td Billion for arms — ABS8OTT ‘Guns before butter’ — CLAXTON Canadian force may fight ‘new Koreas’ — PEARSON The Canadian people this week were told, by Defense Minister Brooke Claxton, that they would have to choose guns before butter — an odious slogan they had been led to believe perished with Hitler — in order to “combat new Koreas,” in the words of External Affairs Minister Lester B. Pearson. This is the war program for which Finance Minister Douglas Abbott is asking parliament to appropriate another $447,000,000 for defense and for authority to make commitments for an additional $409,000,000—a total expenditure of close on one billion dollars. Added to more than half a billion dollars already. spent or allocated for defense purposes in the 1950-51 budget it represents a staggering expenditure for ends the eovernment can only hope to reach by creating an atmosphere of war hysteria, destroy- ing civil liberties and slashing living standards and social security measures. Although Abbot had not tends to raise the money as and the established trend of PT Te edad There are only six days left to place your name on Vancouver voters’ list Take heed, Mr. and Mrs. Vancouver Citizen— You have only six days left to get your names on the 1950 civic voters’ list. Final registration day 's September 14. If you are over 21 years of age and possess $300 worth of furniture, you're entitled to 4 vote. unless ad to year. But you won't have one, come December, you visit city hall and have your name adde: the lists, Just because you voted last year, don’t imagine that your name will appear on the voters’ list this If you are a tenant, it automatically comes off—and the responsibility is yours to have it put on again each year. The city clerk’s office, third floor at city hall, is open every weekday from 830 a.m. to . p.m, and will be open this coming Saturday and from Monday to Thursday until 9 p.m. yet disclosed the tax methods by which the government in- the Pacific Tribune went to press, reports from the capital government policy left no doubt that the working people, squeezed by profiteering and high prices and paying the greater part of present taxation, would be expected to shoulder the burden of the “guns before butter” policy. Target of Abbott’s “baby budget” was reputed to be “luxuries” — but not the luxuries of exorbitant profits now being reported by the great monopolies and big business concerns which control the country’s economy and deter- mine government policy. The interests which, in 1939, demanded security for their profits want the war program stepped up, for it means even greater profits, but they are also demanding that the cost be borne out of workers’ and farmers’ earnings, not out of their profits. Defense Minister Claxton set the tone for the present session of parliament, dominated by the Liberals’ big ma- jority, by stating: “It is sometimes said (he did not say by whom) that the democracies have a choice between guns and butter. For me there is no’ choice.” Continued on Back Page See WAR PROGRAM tte bese.