BY NIGEL MORGAN

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B.C. markets--and jobs--depend
on breaking U.S.-imposed bars

British Columbia’s four prim-
ary industries, fishing, agricul-
ture, mining and lumber are in
the grips of a market crisis. De-
elining incomes for those em-
ployed, employer demands for
the cutback of wage rates, and
mass unemployment in a num-
ber of communities are the order .
of the day. The
market crisis is
not something
in the future.
It. is already
here and is be-
ing keenly felt
in many homes
and communi-
ties in our pro-
vince.

“The U.K. will buy at least
175,000,000 board feet of lum-
ber less from B.C. in 1953 than
jn 1952, at prices down 15 per-
cent” announced the Vancouver .
Sun on February 2. On Decem-
ber 5 the same paper reported,
Mining curtailed . . . 18 mills,
out of a total of 51 plants in the

province, have shut down.”

In the decade 1940-50 Britain
ought practically all of our
- million case salmon pack. In
1950-1-2 the order dropped off
to an average of 211,000, with
1952 hitting the all-time low of
25,000 cases. ‘

Up to 1951, Britain took close
to half our apple crop—three
to four million boxes annually.
Last year it took none. Our
livestock and poultry producers,
cheese and butter manufacturers,
berry and vegetable growers,
have been similarly hit.
- The cause of the crisis is three-
fold.
Firstly, the arbitrary division
ef the one world market into
two (one within the capitalist
and one within the socialist sec-
tor), with little trade between
them. Responsibility for this
rests on the dominant circles in
the capitalist countries, who for
- purely political considerations,
refuse to accept trade offers
from the socialist countries.
Secondly, the market within
the narrowing capitalist sector
is still further reduced by fabu-
lous arms spending. In 1952, 42
percent of the British national
income and 39 percent of the
French went to pay taxes which’
have been steadily rising under
the pressure of arms spending.
A shocking drop in food im-
ports has been the inevitable re-
sult as shown by the 1951 United,
Nations Economic Survey of

BY PETER ZINKIN

aha debt to the colonial
countries has almost doubled
in the last four years, according
to figures given in the Balance
Payments White Paper issued
‘London last week.

- eolonies were owed the consider-
able sum of $1,668 million, but
_ by the end of last,year the debt
risen to the staggering sum

s Most of this sum represents

dollar sales of raw materials and

products of the territories of the
_ British Empire.
- Instead of being given to im-

+ the end of 1948, the British

prove the conditions of the pov-

Europe which reported: “West-
ern European countries were im-
porting 35 percent less meat, 31
percent less butter and 20 per-
cent less eggs than in the de-
pression year of 1938.”

Even the Canadian home mar.

ket is being adversely affected, |

by the increasing burden of arm-
aments on our economy — $2%
billion in 1953.

’ Thirdly, the sharp restrictions
imposed on the capitalist world
market inevitably led to a frenzi-
ed struggle over what is left. In
this struggle the U.S. used the
Marshall Plan to muscle in on
our traditional markets and force
the sale of its products to the
exclusion of ours. By placing
other nations-in debt to it for
so-called Marshall Plan aid, it
has compelled these countries to
buy U.S. products (including
Coea Cola) and to toe the line on
fiscal, trade and foreign policy
dictated by Wall Street.

To protect their economies
from complete disaster in the
face of the U.S. drive for world
domination, the countries of
Western Europe have been com-
pelled to resort to various kinds
of trade restrictions, including
restrictions on the free exchange
of their currencies. Thus the
British pound can no longer be
freely exchanged for U.S. dol-
lars. Because of our govern-
ment’s slavish subservience to
the dictates of the U.S. State
Department, this U.S.-made short-
age of dollars has resulted in a
sharp drop in the sale of Cana-
dian goods in British Columbia’s
traditional Commonwealth mar-
kets in particular. /

Such trade policies do not
benefit either the Canadian
worker or the average Canadian
businessman. :

On the contrary, they spell
nothing but mounting unemploy-
ment, declining income and

business bankruptcy. They are —

a major roadblock to continuing
improvement of social welfare,
health services, educational faci-
lities, transportation and com-
munication. Unchecked, they
become the excuse for drastic
cutbacks. :

This is why the questions of

peace and trade with all coun-
tries is the decisive political is-
sue in today’s elections. :

There are plenty of markets -

for our mounting surpluses of
farm, fish, lumber and mineral
products. People in Europe need

British debt to colonies
yubled in four years

erty-stricken peoplé of these
“under - developed areas”
-money has been, used to help

close the dollar gap.

Payments of interest, profits
and dividends by Britain to for-
eign countries, mainly to the
United States, also doubled in
these four years. In 1949 Britain
paid $318 million and in 1952
‘$633 million.

Leaving aside the large sums
paid in interest and capital re-
payments on the North American
loan, over $300 million was
drained out of the country by
foreign investors.

“ture, romance and sports.

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them desperately. Yet, we are
face to face with another de-
pression worse than anything in
history. Clearly the problem is
man-made, and can be solved by
man.

The Labor-Progressive party is
the only one in the country
which warned of the evil con-
sequences of the Marshall Plan.
More than that, the LPP is the
only party in either the federal
or provincial field which of-
fers any real alternative to the
present disastrous course.

What does the LPP propose?

Firstly, action by Victoria to
compel Ottawa to take steps for
the restoration of a single world
market;

Secondly, action to break U.S.-
imposed trade restrictions by of-
fering to take a dollars’ worth of
imports from any and all coun-
tries willing to take a dollar’s
worth of exports from us regard-
less of payment in U.S. dollars.

Thirdly, reopening of British
Columbia’s — traditional United
Kingdom . and Commonwealth
markets through sterling ex-
change, barter and other means

of trading our surplus of wood,
fish and farm products for need-
ed goods which we don’t manu-
facture.

And fourthly, sending of B.C.
trade missions to the important
trading centres in order to de-
velop trading relations and cul-
tivate outlets for our goods, up-
on which the future of our great
and rich province depends.

Comics and profits

CORA PHILLIPS, president,
Women’s Auxiliary, Vancouver
Civie ployees, Outside Work-
ers: e members of our auxil-
iary discussed the question of
comic books at a recent meeting.
We came to the conclusion that
while there are some good comics
printed for children, the majori-
ty are not in this category.

Our association is composed of
wives of Vancouver civic em-,
ployees, and most of our mem-
bers are mothers or grand-
“mothers. We are shocked when
we see the horrible front covers
on these comics. The contents,
from an artistic and literary
standpoint,- lead you: to believe
that most comics are written by
rnadmen and dope fiends.

We understand that young
people like to read about adven-
We
believe that this natural desire
can be gratified by low price
reading matter. The comic book
can supply part of this need and
lay the basis for a sound appre-
ciation of good literature.

However, we do not believe
the comic book publishers, with
some notable exceptions,
guided by any motive of serving
our younger generation along
these lines. We believe their
guiding motive is to make as
much profit as they can, as quick-
ly as they can, without any
thought to the ultimate social
consequences to these young
readers. They are more con-
cerned with the big turnover of

are .

HOW WORD ORIGINATED

Tory no longer

Kies Conservative party, once
4+ the Liberal Conservative party
of Sir John A. Macdonald, now
officially describes itself as the
Progressive Conservative party,
which is a contradiction in terms.
To their opponents, and partic-
ularly the progressive labor
movement, the Conservatives are
Tories, and the word Tory itself
has become synonymous with re-
action. In fact, the term is now
generally applied fo any one op-
posed to progress. Hence the
contradiction in the title of the
Progressive Conservative party.
Here a British writer, Stella
Jackson, explains the origin of
the word Tory and how it ac-
quired its modern meaning.
©
“TORY” is a remarkable word,
one of the few native Irish
words in the English language.
From the Irish verb toir, to
pursue, it meant at first a hunter,
then a hunted person. j
When the unsubmissive Irish
were hunted by Cromwell away
from the Dublin area “to Hell or
Connacht,” many of them took to
snatching a living by raiding and
robbing. They were thus both
hunted and hunters, and their
word Tory, used by them to mean
outlaw, and then rebel, was
taken up by their oppressors and
used between 1650 and 1734 to
mean “bloody highway rogues,”
“robbers, thieves and _ bogtrot-

ters,” “despicable savages,” “the
same as savage brute and idiot.”
Tories were, in fact, synony-
mous with the “wild Irish” gen-
erally.
After the restoration of the
monarchy in England, however,

lurid potboilers that are produc-
ed cheaply, and yield a higher
rate of profit, than they are in
building up a sustained program
of producing worthwhile comics
for young people. 4

We earnestly hope that more
publishers will bring out, in
greater numbers, the kind of
comic books that will be enter-
taining, instructive, and will tend
to raise the moral and ethical
standards of young people. To
accomplish this, we are prepared.
to cooperate with all like-minded

groups. ?

Doctors’ responsibilities

ANTON POPOWICH, Vancou-

- ver, B.C.: I’m a desk clerk in one

of our city hotels. One night
last week, about 11.30 p.m., a
guest phoned to inform me that
there was a sick man in Room
210. Immediately I rushed up-
stairs and knocked on -his door.
I could hear moanings from in-
side. Upon receiving no answer,
I gently lifted the latch and walk-
in. There lay an old man (about
70, I'd say) with a wet towel on
his forehead.
I asked, “Do you wish me to
call a doctor?”

Upon request, I phoned Doctor
No. 1. Of course, he couldn’t

me “because I’ve just had a
ot bath and might catch cold
in this stormy weather.” He re-
ferred me to another doctor.

Doctor No. 2: A woman an-
swered the phone and informed
me that “right at this moment
the doctor is performing an oper-

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 17,

but rogue---that’s different

; Nountry,

» the name Tory clung to the Jaco-

“Are you sick?” -

means rebel,

English politics became compli:
cated by the pro- and anti-Cath-
olie intrigues around the heir
to the throne, James, Duke of
York, later James II, who was a
Catholic. :
The Irish Catholic nobility sup- —
ported his claim, and were there-
fore abused as “wild Irish,” oY |
Tories, by the anti-Catholics.
When James had to flee the
and the Jacobite ’ oF
Stuart-loyalist intrigues’ set in,

bites for a while, but became ~
more and more associated with
“loyalism” to the throne.

From the accession of George
Third, 1760—which is roughtly
the date of the setting in of the
Industrial Revolution—the term
denoted the upholders of col
stitutional' authority and oppot-
ents of increased religious. lib-
erty or Parliamentary represel
tation. Se

Thus, the Tories, ‘who had
once been militant Catholics, be —
came the main opposition
Catholic emancipation. :

As the formal name of “the -
party of order’ the term was
dropped in 1830. “The Tories
are defunct—they are all vac
cinated into Conservatives’ ~~
quotes the Oxford English DIC —
tionary for 1833, but gives this
definition of 1892: ;

“ define a Tory as a person.
who would .. . have oppose

Catholic Emancipation,

form, the Repeal of the Cort

Laws, and the whole Irish le&

islation of Mr. Gladstone.” _

That is to say, an instinctive
opponent of anything new, to S4¥
the least. ae

\

ation in one of the city hosP cee
tals.” Well, I guess that was
reasonable excuse. K

Doctor No. 3:
said he would come in the ™
ing. I pleaded with him; 4 st
ed him he would be well ns
upon his arrival. Evidently, an
provoked him, and I received ri
angry blast. “Do you thi put
doctors have nothing to 40 of
chase around in the middle
the night just because es '
imagines he is in terrible pa ue

I phoned the downtown lini
A nurse answered the phone tyr
after she had heard MY ae
transferred me to a doctor:

“Sick man? , . . Where? °°
What is the matter with him" ”
How has he been attended t0**"

Do you think he has the flu’ -
“Is it just a plain headache: ally? .

May I talk to him person

.. Is his face red or pale: *”
How old is the man?” mi

| When I was finally asked I ae
and ask the man his ag¢> min’
run out of patience. SIa
the phone down,
told my patient that
to obtain a doctor
- futile. _

What could a person 40 1?)y,
a predicament as mine: ak
not a code in the medica”
fession charging a doctor
a call: any hour of
night, regardless of we@
ditions? If so, is it liv ;
Or perhaps if my hote
the vicinity of Georgia apt
by, I would have received ie

attention! ta)
1953 — PAS

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