Help to ban the bomb T last week’s convention of the British Colum- A bia-Yukon Labor-Progressive party, the top issue of peace keynoted all its deliberations.. It could not be otherwise, in a situation where feverish prepara- tions for atomic and bacteriological warfare against the peoples and countries of socialism has top gov- ernmental priority. Asa result of these war plans of Yankee im- perialism, into which Canada, is» being deliberately” drawn by the St. Laurent government, despite the . deep desire of the Canadian people for peace, Bnitish Columbia, as the keynote report to the convention by LPP leader Nigel Morgan states, “is being placed right in the cockpit of a hell-bomb war. Our skies have been mapped for the transport of atom-bombers . . . our roads and railways geared to the launching of war across our North, and our peaceful land yiola- ted by the provocative thump of the war-boots of maneuvering troops of a foreign power... .” Side by side with the standardization of arma- ments under U.S. dictation, the St. Laurent govern- ment “‘standardizes” sub-standard levels of our work- men and women by refusing to face up to the un- employment sabes eed one-half vailfion workers without work. Instead: of recognizing ah new: People’s Repub- be’ of China and winning vast markets for Canada’s exportable on a barter or long-term credit basis, ships like the SS Argovan still leave Canada’s ports with cargoes of death to be used by the fascist Chiang Kai-shek against the legitimate government and people of Clana. Trade with Britain, the USSR, ‘and the coun- tries of Eastern Europe i is brought to a veritable stand- still by “cold-war”’ policies. Instead of encouraging the Canadian people in a heroic crusade of peace, the St. Laurent govern- ment, under the cloak of socalled “‘security,”’ would ban the struggle for peace as ‘‘subversive.” This government puts forward the weak plea of “no money” to meet the growing need of social security, provide employment, or to subsidize our primary producers, who are being systematically expropriated -by ruinous Marshall plan policies, yet in the year 1950 the St. Laurent government will spend no less than $600 million for war purposes, amounting to approximately $33 per head for each man, woman and child in Canada! The Canadian Peace Congress has a Ban the Bomb campaign under way for 200,000 signatures. This is a splendid effort for peace—but it should not be regarded as the private concern of any one organization. An entire people should be participat- ing in this battle for peace, and particularly the basic sections of organized labor. It is little enough to win a signature for peace. Just remember Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto or Mon- treal could be Hiroshima. ‘Just remember that at this very moment top Canadian “‘scientists’’ under Dr. O. M. Solandt are engaged m the mass production of anthrax, typhus, bubonic plague, and other ter- rible diseases, aimed at the mass extermination of whole populations. All this devilish work, as sup- plementary to the H-bomb, .is officially stamped with the false labels of “defence,” “‘security’”” and so forth. The first, most direct, and certainly most sim- ple way to halt the warmongers in their atomic and bacteriological insanity is to BAN THE BOMB. SIGN THE PETITION TODAY. Defeat a new Section 98 T is axiomatic in capitalistic society that as recur- rent economic crises occur, those at the helm of af- fairs imvanably attempt to restrict the nghts and liberties of the citizen, in an effort to safeguard the interests of the monopolists whose servants they are. It was this crisis condition which gave birth to Section 98 of the Criminal Code in the year 1919 on that occasion to. break the Winnipeg general strike, and “outlaw” the leaders and the organiza- tion of that strike. Again, in 1931, 12 years later, Section 98, which had been lying dormant, was brought into play to “outlaw” the Communist Party of Canada and other progressive trade union. and cultural organizations. By this it was hoped to ‘silence the nation-wide demand of tens of thousands of Canadian unemployed workers and their families for adequate relief, work, and decent wages. Tn 1936, this infamous Section 98 was repealed, swept from the statute books by an outraged public - epinion which held that such fascist legislation had Se ee eens: For the past two years smoke signals shave again. Ea in the Ottawa political skies, bearing "the “sinister pl of a new Section 98. ‘Tory, CCF and Social Credit. In the throes of a deepening economic crisis, with unemployment assuming the permanency of the Hun- gry Thirties, with Canada’s markest being Marshall- planned out of existence and Canada committed to the criminal atomic war policies of Yankee im+ | perialism, the Canadian people begin to protest in growing volume. Hence the Ottawa ‘smoke signals, heralding a caesarian birth of a new Section 98. “Security” is the watchword of those who seek to strangle the liberties of the people with a new Section 98. How easy, they ruminate, it would be to have security — for themselves, — if civil liber- ties could be ignored. The police state in embryo, choking every voice that speaks for peace and pro- gress. , And with the united approval of top brass Liberal, How _ genteel. Fascism in top hat and morning ¢oat, instead of the heavy tramp of spiked boots and uncouth brown, black, or other shirts. But fascism just the same. Write your MP today. Tell him that the Cana- dian people neither want nor need the revival of Sec- tion 98. Tell him that as your representative you expect him to fight for peace and human rights . and against war and the destruction of liberty. ho benefits Son Trt ing? ERHAPS the most significant development in _ the struggle of Mine-Mill at Trail to defend its union raiders, is the fact that, ‘by a majority vote, - Mine-Mill remains the bargaining agency for the Trail and Kimberley hard rock miners and ‘smelter ‘workers. The same holds good for Sudbury and Port Colborne in Ontario, where Mine-Mill remains - = the ss agency with International Nickel, de-. the efforts of the -Millard-Mahoney union “a cael to aid the company through its raiding and oe a Mio Mut in: n these areas. ane Smaling, “Certainly it woulde't lp the hard Lies record of their fighting union. And only: against the CCF-CCL-Millard | ‘specious should advise Millard and his “ oe the most brazen reckless adventurer could argue that such actions could \help the steelworkers, economi- cally, politically or morally. . A bargaining committee representing Mine-Mill, elected by referendum vote of the Trail Smelter — Workers, and giving a substantial majority of votes to that union, shows that the smelter workers are more keenly appreciative of the gains Mine-Mill has won — and will yet win, than they are with the “cold war” promises of the Millard-Maho- ney union wreckers. The moral is clear. Union solidarity in negotia- tions with the boss is invariably productive of higher living standards and improved working conditions. Union raiding and disruption when such negotiations © are under way, can only give aid and comfort to every enemy of organized labor, resulting in wor M3 _ sened’ conditions and lower wage standards. Organized labor, regardless ne ote affiliation, raiders to get out of Trail without delay, eck, removing the - one main obstruction to successful wage negotiations for the smelter workers. | -just as they profit: from war—the crime of organized mass murder. TOM McEWEN As We See lt VERY so often the monopoly press, radio, and other propaganda agencies of big business, take time out from their “cold war” hysteria themes to bemoan the startling increase of crime. In our present day capitalist or so-called free-enterprise “way of life,” crime is one of the best barometers of its growing decay and rottenness. Any casual study of past economic crises, at once reveals that the deeper the crisis the higher the crime indices. One of the most glaring features of the present growing economic crisis, accen- tuated by the warmongering dollar imperialists in the drive for World War III, is the sharp rise in the crime wave, which at the moment sweeps every large center in North America and spills over into rural communities. Similarly in the “Marshallized” countries where dollar diplomacy has blocked the natural urge Of the people towards post-war normal recovery, a glance’ at the press will show that, corresponding _ to the “austerity” imposed by the dollar diplomats upon the people, the sharp rise in crime invariably follows. It is a safe bet that if one could read the official reports on the increase of crime in our own country, or ae harenee the foul effects of the “cold war,” expressed in govern- ‘mental policies, cuts into the social and economic standards of the. people, the picture would of itself constitute a damning indictment of our social system. It used to be said of the modern pork barons and their ilk, that they contrived to make a profit out of everything except the “squeal.” So with crime. As a direct product of capitalism, crime is a highly, saleable commodity. Nothing like a good sadistic murder to sensa- tionalize the headlines, pander to the lowest instincts—and boost circulation. And eincuiaHon for the monopoly press means. profits, big profits. Sex? Ah, there is a “best-seller. ” Big profits ... big business.. The Bergman case, for instance. How the hired ink-slingers of the monopoly press drool and slobber over all the salacious details. True, some few “Holy Willies” of capitalism rise to utter feeble “moral” protests—oblivious to the fact that they too belong to that goodly company of bourgeois profit-grabbers of whom Karl Marx observed in the Communist Manifesto they “delight in seducing each other’s wives.” If homicide and sex themes weré barred in Hollywood, that seat of dollar kulture would be as bankrupt of clean moral ideas as our modern union cannibal is of trade union principles. In fact, there is more than a close affinity of objective in both. The comic strip “best-seller” is that which features gunmen, gangsters, sex maniacs, killers — anti-social, anti-human and anti- socialist, but big dividend producers. The Chinese have an earthy proverb which runs “A tree is known by the fruit it bears.” By its very nature our social system produces a staggering crop of crime— but contrary to the dialectics of nature, the more rotten this tree becomes, the heavier a crop it produces. o Take a look in our own bailliwick of Vancouver. The Ducharme case is a case in point. Here is an avowed sex pevert who tops off a long record of sex offences with the apparent brutal destruction of his latest victim. A great monopoly press headline producer, a booster for circulation and profits. Here is a psychopathic sub-human whose formative boyhood years were spent, not with poverty-stricken parents, struggling above all economic hardship, to instill in their offspring the ideals of deceny and humanity, but the product of a Catholi¢ Jesuit orphanage training. Juvenile delinquency. Clearly there was a lot of it in Ducharme’s makeup. And though he is the victim rather than the cause, he may now pay the supreme penalty. How many Ducharmes roam Van- couver'’s streets in the “hoodlum” gangs upon whom the authorities have now declared war, by way of the big stick, the lash, jails, when the need is for jobs, opportunities, recreation? We cannot “afford,” to provide an opportunity to these misguided young people because we must build armories instead of recreational centers. atom bombers and jet planes instead of trade schools—because we make the art of mass murder of those peoples we are supposed to hate our highest “patriotic” duty. Many of our juvenile “delinquents,” when facing the stern admonitions of their “betters,” are given one solution to their “dead-end” frustration—“join the army—or else... .” The Vancouver News-Herald of March 24 poses the question edit- — orially in one of those typical Phillistine effusions so popular with the moralists of big business. “Must Peverts Kill Before We Move?” it asks,. After some philosophical rambling on the Ducharme case, the News-Herald wonders “How many of Canada’s penitentiary inmates — are criminal sexual psychopaths? Do the prison authorities know? Do the courts know? | 3 Sure they do. The Archambault Report on Penal Reform will — show that sex pervertion has been permitted in Canadian peniten- tiaries as a “concession” for stool-pigeon activity, and authorities admit that prison administration just cannot operate without stool- pigeons, any more than capitalism in the great outdoors can. In every historic struggle between reaction and the forces of progress, capital- ism has gone to the gutter to bribe crime into its defense. The — “specials” who were recruited to break the Winnipeg general. strike, Hitler’s “youth” brigades, Louis Bonaparte’s “ of December 10th,” all were recruited from the cesspools of crime to defend the — interests of a ruling caste. é The simple, albeit unpalatable truth behind all the bourgeois moral- ist guff in the monopoly press on the issue of crime’ is the plain fact, once brilliantly stated by the late Clarance Darrow in an American court while defending trade union leaders charged with the “crime” of defending themselves against the bloody violence of the harvester trust, “The real criminals are those who sit high in authority.” ; The real criminals of today are the warmongers and their satel- lites wherever they may be, upon whose decaying and rotting carcas¢ — crime grows like a poisonous fungus, and who profit from its growth, — —* — ie mG a D> i I) h Y £i ft ie QUSEUNI il “) ) _.. Published Weekly at 650 Howe Street By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. 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