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- OVER THE PAST: few days
three significant reports -on the
current economic crisis appeared.
In the Financial Post, the head-
line on the lead story read:
“Who'll Buy Wheat? Big Surplus
Looms.” The Toromto Star head-
ed an Ottawa despatch: “May
Ban More Imports from U.S. to
Curb Building.” And from the
Bank of Montreal report for Aug-
ust 24 came this in the opening
paragraph of its review of the
Canadian scene: “....-the Cana-
dian demand for imported goods
predominantly from the United
‘States, continues to mount to un-
precedented levels.”

Readers of the Pacific Tribun®,
of course, have read similar head-
lines before—in this paper—as
far back as November, 1947, The
PT has warned continuously of
the effects of the Marshall plan,
the Abbot plan, and the direction —
of Canadian foreign policy. Now
the facts are coming to light.

_ But for a real thorough under-
standing of how the Communists
have forecast with almost un-
eanny insight what! is now hap-
pening; and as a background to
the conferences going on in
Washington between Canada, the
US. and Britain, read Tim, Buck’s
book Canada: The Communist
Viewpoint,

_ Comparing some of. Tim Buck’s
Statements in his early chapter
on the Canadian economic scene,
with the report by the Bank of
Mentreal, is to provide statistical
proof of what the leader of the
Labor-Progressive party ‘wrote.
just about a year ago. |

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TAKE THIS quotation from
Tim Buck’s book:

“In the existing situation, the
alternative to economic depend-

‘States monopolies.
“become

‘ished manufactured goods,

' the first five months of this year,

ence, achieved in large part by
calculated development of pro-
ductive capacity now lacking in
‘Canada, is the economic coloniz-
ation of our country by United
Canada _ will
increasingly dependent
upon the United States for cap-
ital goods, machinery, and fin-
and
increasingly dependent upon agri-
culture, industrial raw materials
and specialized products to pay
the United States for costly cap-.
ital goods and manufactures. The
inevitable economic and political
results of such a_ relationship
would be to undermine the politi-
cal sovereignty ‘of Canada’s
people.” (P. 31.)

Now compare that statement
with this from the Bank of Mon-
treal report: :

“Merchandise imports during
at a value of $1,159 millions, have
been running at the highest rate
in history, 12 percent above the
comparable period of last year
and more than four times the
level of 1938.” 3

Then this: “...the growth of
our export trade, mainly in a rel-
atively few basic commodities
such as lumber, pulp and paper,
wheat and metals, has enabled us
to obtain from beyond our bor-
der . . . goods in sufficient quan-
tity to permit a broad diversifi-
cation of production... .”

The bank review goes on to
show that Canada, per capita, is
the highest importing nation in
the world. Expressed in dollars,
the record stood in 1948: Canada
$205; Britain $167; France $81;
U.S. $41,

Now let's take another quota-
tion from Tim Buck’s book:
“For Canada it (the Marshall

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’ munist Viewpoint. It is

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Tim Buck’‘s analysis borne out
by today‘s newspaper headlines

plan) meant that economic — de-
velopment couldn’t continue in
the old way. Canada’s trade with
the United States had tobe bal-_
anced by means other than those
which previously sufficed. The
long-range interest of Canada re-
quired that all possible effort be
made to accomplish the change
by producing in Canada many of
the products that have until now
been imported from the United
States. The government chose in-
stead to reduce our consumption
of such .products while develop-
ing a long-term plan of increas-
ing our export of raw materials
‘and specialized products to the
United States, (P. 25.)

The Toronto Star’s Ottawa cor-
respondent reported on Septem-
ber 1: “Canada is going to place
heavy new restrictions on the im-
port of U.S. products.”

The reason for this is because
Canada, like Britain, is short of,
IU.S. dollars because we buy a
great deal more from that coun-
try than they will buy from us.

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s

TIM BUCK had something to
say in his book about this short-
age of U.S. dollars and how it
could be overcome by a govern-
ment that obeyed the dictates of
the welfare of the Canadian
people instead of heeding the in-
struction from Canadian and
U.S. monopoly capitalists.

“We had been buying more
goods from the U.S. than the U.S.
and other dollar countries buy
from us. The Abbott plan did
not propose to make the de-
ficiency good by producing in
Canada the goods that we have

. been importing, thereby making

Canada economically independ-.
ent, but reducing our purchasing

power and thereby our standard ~

of living. ;

“Instead of cutting down on
the amount of citrus fruits and
fresh vegetables that Canadians
are permitted to consume, the
government should ‘have placed
restrictions upon the amounts the
United States corporations are
permitted’ to transfer to the
United States in any one year out
of the profits of their branch
plants and subsidiary corpora-
tions in Canada. To have limited
them to half of their profits,
allowing them to invest the re-
maining half in Canada, would
have saved. Canada ten times-
more exchange than was saved
by restrictions on fresh vege-
tables; it would have gone far
towards ‘solving Canada’s - U.S.
dollar problems.”

A Canadian Press despatch

* from Ottawa prior. to the Wash-

ington Conference said the St.
Laurent government would stand
‘with the U.S. against Britain in
the Washington conference,

Tim Buck made that clear in
his book when he wrote: “Cana-
dian monopolists ...count upon
the technical efficiency and capi-
talist resources of United States
imperialism _to conquer world
markets and destréy Britain’s
colonial monopoly. For their own
avaricious aims they are sub-
ordinating our national economy
to the needs of U.S. RnOnUBONEE?

To understand clearly the crisis
in world economy pin-pointed by
the Washington talks; to under-
stand the way out of this crisis
for Canada, there is no
guide than Canada: The Com-
living
proof—proved by today’s head-
lines—of the correctness of the
Marxist analysis of events.

New Comin series on CBC.

First of a series of six weekly broadcasts “designed to point
up world reliance on the UN for peace, welfare and security in
the postwar .world” was heard over the CBC’s Trans-Canada
network last Sunday. The series is being supervised by Norman

Corwin (above), radio dramatist now in charge of special pro- 4

jects undertaken by UN’s radio division.

CURRENT MOVIES

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‘Religious comedy‘

#82 ighly Recommended *%%R ecommended
** Acceptable *Not Acceptable

*Come To The Stable: Ever since Bing and Barry got
a load of laughs and a load of favorable publicity ‘for the
Catholic church in Going My Way, Hollywood has been: try-
ing to give a new twist to the formula. Now come Loretta

Young and Celeste Holm as two nuns in something described. |)

as a “religious comedy.”’ They tear around in a jeep, cavort
on tennis courts, visit a bookie joint, and perform numerous
“miracles” with- considerable aplomb. Elsa Lancaster, as a
wack landscape painter, introduces a few chuckles, but the
antics of the gay nuns fail to produce anything but boredom.

*%% Knock On Any Door, Body And Soul, Paisan.

** The Guinea Pig, A Song Is Born, Yellow Sky, Top O’
The Morning, The Paleface, June Bride. aes

* Come To The Stable, Slattery’s eunionney The Purple
Heart. .

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