ree re ta Figs Bet fi, pil (3 te 4 pat : fed F DR sl tag hh ; Eis Peo feta absLatl leit: Littees MCW 6, INO. 36 Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, September 16 Vytd1 WY jg : Mel) MN f, shite —>>«= Price Five Cents Demand gov’t keep pledges | LPP SEEKS ACTION ON JOBS, HOMES, TRADE TORONTO A good home, a steady job, and trade with all. the world. These three demands, directed at the St. Laur- ent government as parliament opened this week, are Voiced by the Labor-Progressive party’s national execu- tive in a statement issued here this week. Full text of the statement reads: The LPP national executive is convinced that de- Spite superficial appearances, elements of an economic ‘crisis are already to be seen. It warns against a tend- ency to regard the new economic crisis as one which is bound to come with a “bang” as in the stock market collapse of October, 1929. This crisis is now ‘‘creep- ing’* into all spheres of economic life and is aggravated by the crisis in Western imperialism so dramatically por- trayed in the conference in Washington. While large-scale unemployment and a big drop in production are not yet here, a careful examination of all the available facts show that they’ are coming. The executive will direct the LPP organization in the coming months to increasing its work among the workers and the people generally to win them for struggle against bearing on their backs the agony of the capitalist- caused crisis. The LPP advances three main political demands upon the St. Laurent government: ® A good home. * @® A steady job. @ Trade with all the world. These three things embody the wishes of the large majority of Canadians; they are likewise the main ques- tions upon which the St. Laurent government is betraying its election promises. In raising the demand for a good home for every Canadian, the LPP joins with all Canadians who are sick and tired of the stall on housing and who are fearful of the effects of rental decontrol next spring. Action on\ housing now to provide employment and a decent home for the average Canadian, is the keynote of the LPP demand on this question. A steady job for every Canadian worker, the sec- Continued on. back. page — See LPP UN gives to quake relief relief of earthquake victims in Ecuador. ee UN Secretary General Tirygve Lie (left) presents a $2,000 Cheque to G. V. Partridge, a field director for the American Red Cross. The money, contributed by the UN secretariat, is for Sir Stafford Cripps. hails the -U.S.-British-Ca- nadian 10-point Washington ‘“‘plan” as “the key to Britain’s recovery.” However, it would appear that Cripps feels that war is the way out, for he also declared that the Washington agreement is an important aid towards the winning of the “cold war. \ What is the most significant part of this 10- pot agreement? It’s in point 5, which reads, in part: “‘No permanent solution to the problem could be found in the emergency steps contemplated. A more fundamental attempt would have to be made . to expand the dollar earnings of the sterling area and to increase the flow of investment from the North American Continent to the rest of the world, including the sterling area.”’ That’s the real meaning of the deal rammed down the throats of Bevin, Cripps and Abbot by Snyder and Acheson on behalf of the Wall Street billionaires—wider opportunities, with ironclad guar- NEW WESTMINSTER CONTEST appointment of Tom Reid to the Senate. who will run as an independent. ee LPP may enter byelection The LPP provincial executive is discussing with its local Organization possible nomination of an LPP candidate to con- test the New Westminster federal byelection necessitated by Liberal, Conservative and CCF parties have already an- Mounced their intention to enter candidates, ex-Mayor William Mott of New Westminster being the favored Liberal aspirant : and Ronald Irvine and Len Shepherd, former MLA for Delta, Chief contenders for the CCK nomination. A fourth candidate will aes Elmore Philpott, columnist and radio commentator, antees for the investment of surplus Yankee capital in the British Empire. A main decision that Cripps agreed to is found in point 8, bearing upon this same fundamental is- sue, the investment of Yankee capital. The ‘‘Labor”’ chancellor Cripps agreed that President Truman’s committee would get down to work on this, and that it “will be expected to address itself especially to the problem of incentives (profits) and of pro- viding a suitable environment for a high level of private investment.” Britain’s crisis could only have been met by dealing with measures to develop all-in world trade, and that necessitates a new approach towards selling and buying in the Soviet Union, the New Democ- racies and China, countries inhabited by over 700,- 000,000 people. However, the men of Wall Street Nothing solved by dollar conference placed overseas investment as the No. 1 question, and they made it stick. It would seem clear that Cripps and Bevin made some secret agreement looking towards the U.S. plunking some billions of dollars of capital invest- ment in the Empire. This, they calculate, will enable them to “‘solve’’ the dollar shortage. The truth is 2 that it will sharp- Bit en and worsen the dollar short- age. It will speed up the process of Bnitain’s bank- ruptcy, and_ the domination of Wall Street over British economics and politics. The London financial press senses the hard bargain struck by the Yanks. It says: ‘Nothing that has happened in Washington changes the urgency of Britain’s crisis. Stockpiling will not show results for some time and cannot be sufficient to close the dollar gap. Nor can relief gained by Britain in winning permission to buy Canadian wheat instead of American solve the immediate crisis.” Maurice Webb, British Labor party chairman (now junketing at the swank Bigwin Inn), says that the “whole plan is valueless’ unless the U.S. lib- eralizes its tanff policy. So British Labor “‘social- ism’’ is reduced to a demand that Wall Street re- duce its tariffs! Webb seems to forget that Brit- ain’s exports today are 150 percent higher than in 1939! While “Austerity” Cripps calls upon British Continued on back page — See CONFERENCE EARNEST BEVIN The crisis remains