LPP is not
--MacLeod

TORONTO

The Labor-Progressive party will
Not be diverted from ‘its “struggle
to unify the Canadian people to

defend their living standards” be-
Cause of statements such as was
iSsued last week by Cardinal Mc-
Guigan. A. A. MacLeod (MPP-
Bellwoods) told the press that the

PP “is not an anti-Catholic par-
ty. On the contrary, we defend
the right of all Canadians to un-
trammelled freedom of worship.”

MacLeod quoted the
American _Abolitionist
a Garrison when he said that
mM dealing with these matters, “We
Shall be as harsh as truth and as
UNcompromising as justice. We
Shall not equivocate. We shall not
retreat a single inch. And we will
be heard.”

The Bellwoods MPP cited the
Asbestos strike as an indication
that Catholic workers are right
Up in the front ranks of the Can-
dian fighters to defend living
Standards and trade union rights.”
“€ expressed confidence that the
future would witness greater ex-
amples of the unity of all work-
ts, regardless of their religious
r political beliefs, in the fight
°r jobs, higher wages, homes, de-
Mocracy ans peace.

“Cardinal McGuigan’s absurd
edict will prove about as effective
&s King Canute’s command to the
North Sea waves,” MacLeod said.
The LPpp wiil always stand for
Unity with our Catholic fellow-
Workers to defend Ganada from
. © Miseries of monopoly capital-
‘sm and atomic war.”

famous

Lay off steel workers

—HAMILTON
Dollar -an@-steel shortages forced
© Studebaker Company of Can-

®da to lay off 165 employees this
Month,

William .

¥

anti-Catholic

Youngsters help fisht polio

Anxious to do their
Brooklyn youngsters set up a

bit in the fight against polio,

these

sidewalk shop. Proceeds from

the sale of their lemonade and comic books. goes to the American

infantile paralysis fund.
a mailman, >

Their first customer

is Abe Aspes,

Canada’s Slavs urge
release of Pirinsky

®

TORONTO

In a sharply worded letter to the U.S. attorney general, the Ca-
nadian Slav Committee declared last week:

“Hundreds of thousands of Canadians view with alarm your gov-
ernment’s persecution of George Pirinsky, general secretary of the Amer-
ican Slav Congress, Tom Babin and other prominent Slavic Americans.

The arbitrary seizure of these
men for deportation, despite the
fact that they committed no crime,
and their continued incarceration
withoit trial, are, in our opinion,
wholly indefensible and outrage
human decency and justice.

“Because George Pirinsky and

his colleagues are known to us as

.

_ LITTLE PEETEE SAYS:
- Bring truth to people
and defeat warmongers

Little PeeTee believes that the pen is mightier than the sword,
but only if the truth reaches the people. ‘So many lies and war-scare
Stories are hurled at workers by the capitalist press these days,” he
Says, “that many honest citizens become confused and fall into the trap

of believing war is inevitable. GREATER VANCOUVER
hat’s why it is so important to|,

F ; G. Bennett, Maritime ...... 5

henat®, Pacific Tribune into their) 7° Dicvins, Maritime ...... 4
ee Pager they Sots A. Lindberg, Victory Sa. .. 3%

a py eon Nhe Lier tee A. Gilsiead, Sea and Shore... 3
. J. Rockendal, Maritime ay
_ Little PeeTee’s example is find-| w, Martin, Maritime .....- hy
ing followers. A group of readers| Ann Boylan, Van. Heights. . 2
trom Burnaby now sell the PT| Maud Stehr, Norquay ..... : 2
every Saturday morning at the| HH. Murphy, ie oes Ser Rate
Corner of Boundary Road and} H, Harmon, Eas ara

. Stevens, Sea and Shore..
* PROVINCE

Cc. F. Coleman, Salmon Arm 2
ema

Hastings. And Hastings East read-
*ts, starting with the Labor Day
‘sue next week, will sell the paper
a Saturday near Forst’s in the
~ £500 block East Hastings.

Some good people in Mission held
& little get-together last week to
lp a neighbor who was burned
out. After collecting funds for that
hy purpose, they kicked in
8dditional $7 for the PT and sold

Sub to one of the workers at the
8athering,

inatey've got the right idea. Sell-
labo ues and raising money for the
er press is not just @ ieee
whi but a year-round job. An
ey € We're on the subject of mon-
Bray 4 like to thank “Silvers' of
tu alorne for a $15 contribution
Sethe ‘in some time ago, but never |
is Nowledged in this column. We'd
nit like to thank an old-time sup-
“ter, Mrs. V, Soderholm of Web-

Corners, for her most recent
On,

ALis

“phtta

dite = the August honor roll to

staunch fighters for peace and

democracy, we regard the perse-
cution of these men as an in-
justice against lovers of peace

everywhere and an affront to ail
U.S., and Canadian. citizens of
Slavic decent. We, therefore, pro-
test most vigorously against their
imprisonment and ask you to
grant them their immediate re-
lease.”

U.S. Circuit Court Judge Charles
Clark last’ week said that the
$24,000 bail demanded for the re-
lease of Pirinsky from Ellis Is-
land .was “unreasonable.” The
judge’s opinion amounts to a re-
buke for Attorney-General Tom
Clark whom District Court Judge
Bondy urged to set a “reasonable”
sum as the price for Pirinsky’s
release.

Catholic writer hits
recent edict of pepe

WARSAW

In pointing to the Pope’s re-
cent excommunication edict, Krzy-
stof Radziwil in an article in
“Kurier Codzienny,” Polish Demo-
cratic party organ, writes:

“Not long ago we saw in War-
saw a noble film, Rome, Open
City. We saw in it a Catholic
priest and a Communist fight and
die together defending their coun-
try and civilization. Today the pat-
riotic priest in that film would
certainly be excommunicated.

“What has changed Rome, which
should be a truly open city for
all Catholics in the world regard-
less of politics, into a closed city?
And who needed this change?

“The answer can be found in
the last war, which the Catholic
hierarchy has quickly and con-
veniently forgotten. i

“The class-conscious Marxis
worker was the chief force in the
anti-coalition responsible for the
victory over fascism. Religious
Catholics fought at first because
they did not want religion sub-
jugated to the totalitarian state.

“But it was only the Marxist
who understood that fascism is
a stage in capitalism and that it
is not possible to fight efficiently
against fascism without fighting
capitalism, the father of fascism.”

mineral weal

“Squandering our

ith’

says Keenleyside

—OTTAWA

Squandering of the world’s mineral resources through wars and the
rapacious methods of profit-seeking corporations: may lead to critical
shortages of valuable metals and minerals seriously hampering human
progress, according to H. L. Keenleyside, deputy minister of mines

and commissioner
West Territories.

of the North

The minister’s views were made
known through release here of the
text of an address given before the
plenary session of the United Na-
tions scientific conference on the
conservation and utilization of re-
sources.

In a pessimistic utterance about
the society we live in being “as
yet very far” from having reached
a degree of sanity for the coopera-
tive planning of mineral conserva-
tion, Keenleyside gloomily con*
cludes: “If humanity finds it im-
possible to avoid war, we may as
well assume that we shall be in-
terested in survival rather than
in prog?'zss.” -

A striking fact revealed by the
minister is that the quantity of
mineral products consumed be-

tween 1900 and 1949 far exceeds

that of the whole preceding period
of man’s existence on earth. : “It
is a grim commentary of human
intelligence,” says the Canadian
official “that a great proportion of
the minerals used during the last

five decades has been criminally
destructive was in history.”

Source of the problem of de-
wasted in the waging of the most
veloping critical shortages and so-
cial misuse of the earth’s riches
is given in a later comment on
conservation of metals, when the
minister points out there has been
no interference “with the free play
of a market that is interested only
in profits.” The result of the mad
race for profits to fit out armies
of destruction have led to practises
which has “squandered our miner-
al resources.”

“The experience of the two
world wars has shown the folly of
wasting our irreplaceable mineral
supplies in barren struggles that,
apart entirely from the moral and
social degradation which they pro-
duce, end only in general impoy-
erishment and the depletion of our
resources. Further conflicts of
kind will hasten the day when
CS shortages in our reserves will
| develop. They may leave us too
‘little time.”

EDITORIAL

Yank impertinence

Rumors emanating from Ottawa indicate that cabinet minis-
ters Howe, Abbott and ‘Pearson, slated to attend the Washington
“talks” on the ‘‘dollar crisis,”
termed ‘‘a firm policy of no more loans to Britain.”

The usual ‘‘close to the government” informants express the

will carry with them what is

opinion that Canada will support the already widely-publicized
views of Washington, viz, that Britain must play the full game
according to Marshall plan rules before any further substantial
help in her dollar crisis is forthcoming.

This includes the rather impertinent demand “‘the Britain
must shoulder more of the task of working herself out of the
financial mire in which she now finds herself.” No mention is
made of the fact that it is the Marshall plan which has embedded
her in this “mire.”

Also, and. very significant, that Britain ‘‘must throw the
brake on her initiative-killing social security program; that she
must scrap all bilateral or barter agreements made with other
states . . . not approved by Washington and its Ottawa satellites.
And not least important, she “must immediately increase produc-
tion and lower unit costs” in order to get her goods in world
markets at competative prcies.

Most workers understand what such ‘“‘demands” mean.
Scrap all social security measures, slash wages and increase speed-
up, and compete only in those markets which have the approval
of Yankee imperialism.

Small wonder that a prominent British labor leader cracked
at a public meeting in London this week that “Britain would
rather take the risk of communism than of being kicked around
by the unletiered, petbellied money magnates of the United
States.” ;

Canadian trade unionists and workers should find some way
of assuring British workers, that while Messrs. Howe, Abbott
and Pearson may back Yankee imperialism in its “no more loans
to Britain policy” as a means of finally destroying British efforts
towards greater economic and social security, Canadian workers

will have no part in this fractricidal gangup by Washington and
its Ottawa hangers-on. *

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