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Save Canada from crisis

COMBINATION of profit-mad monopolists and

their political ‘yes-men’ in government are deliber-

ately and systematically pushing Canada towards
the brink of a disastrous economic crisis. The King gov-
ernment—with almost every provincial government follow-
ing suit to a greater or lesser degree, has capitulated to the
evil crisis-making policies of Big Business. Profits are soar-
ing to new all-time levels, while the living standards of the
common people are being forced steadily downwards by
inflationary price manipulation and decontrols.

__ Unlike the economic crisis of the ‘hungry 30’s, which
Big Business, governments, and press sought to play down
with rosy pictures of ‘prosperity’ being ‘just around the
corner,’ the maturing economic crisis is being widely her-
alded. To soften the impact it is being labelled with a lot
of fancy names—‘a recession,’ ‘a depression,’ ‘a shake-down,’
‘a shake-up,’ ‘a reconversion lull’ and what not. But above
all it is being heralded as the result of ‘high wages’ and
‘unreasonable labor demands,’ rather ‘than what it actually’
is—a conspiracy of Big Business, aided by reactionary gov-
ernment, to sabotage postwar reconstruction, and filch the
Savings, gratuities, pensions and wages of the common
people. The promotion of inflation, price racketeering and
anti-labor legislation in the domestic arena—the promotion
of economic anarchy, international hostilities, and war
abroad are signs of coming storm.

A united people can save Canada from impending eco-
nomic crisis, All the needs of the people, already docu-
mented—housing, health, recreation, hospitalization, greater
educational and cultural facilities, roads, industrial develop-
ment—the united demand that these be implemented can
do much to stave’ off the impending crisis. Subsidies must
be restored to roll back prices, and price controls reinsti-
See Nd peeeticn must ie taken from the backs of
the middle and low categ Salary and wage groups, and
reallocated on the basis of ‘ability to pay.’ ore
_ The people can—and must make these aspirations liv-
ing realities. Big Business and its subservient governments
have demonstrated their unfitness and unwillingness to
guide Canada’s destiny towards social and economic security

and peace. The people must act—unitedly, to save Canada
from disastrous crisis.

Unite against Bill 39

REMIER JOHN HART and his Labor Department
have announced the government’s intention of en-

- forcing the anti-labor provisions of Bill 39 against the
Nanaimo laundry strikers. F, S. Cunliffe of Nanaimo has
been named ‘special prosecutor’ for the government. The
Vancouver Sun pontificates editorially on ‘the law’ and
those in the ranks of labor who challenge its moral validity.

Neither Premier Hart nor the commercial press has
troubled to look for ‘law-breakers’ outside the ranks of
labor. They see no breach of Bill 39 in the interference of
the Nanaimo laundry operators in the internal affairs of
a bona fide union, nor in the firing of workers. for union
activity. Nor, it may be added, has the recent firing of
approximately 60 workers by the National Biscuit Company,
to head-off certification of trade union representation in

their Vancouver plant troubled these CMA-inspired uphold-
ers of ‘law and order.’ Not at all—only the threat to use this
anti-labor pro-fascist weapon of the CMA against workers;
whose fight is identical with that of the Tolpuddle martyrs
of over a century ago—the right of workers to band and act
together for the common protection of their associate mem-
bership. |
Premier Hart’s waving of Bill 39 and the Sun’s homilies
on ‘the law’ will not intimidate labor into acceptance of a
fascist decree which abrogates every elementary right of
free trade unionism, Premier Hart and his CMA-dominated
aides may hope that labor is divided on Bill 39, but it is
a vain hope. There are many shades of opinion and political
ideologies in the ranks of labore-differences upon which the
enemies of labor often seek to capitalize. But the heart of
Labor is sound, and in every union constitution the principle
of struggle against oppression is implicit. The CMA and the
Coalition government conspired to destroy the trade unions
with Bill 39. They will not find Labor wanting in unity and
determination to effect its defeat—and theirs. \

FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1947

As the cartoon above illustrates, the average citizen today feels as though he
were being put through the wringer as a result of further removal of price ceilings
on essential food products. Finance Minister Abbott’s recent announcement of price
decontrol of all dairy products and other commodities stimulates that ‘wringer’ feeling. oe

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we see it

nu UH By Tom McEwen

A? the behest of the pow-
erful National Manufac-
turers’ Association (NMA),
the Truman government
killed the Organization of Price
Administration (OPA) outright.
Under pressure of the Canadian
Manufacturers Assn. (CMA) the
King government has finished
off price control by slow strang-
ulation. Last week Finance’ Min-
ister Abbott gave the prices cord
around the necks of the people
a final twist by lifting all price

ceilings on dairy produce and

other basic food commodities,

The immediate results of this
action will be felt in every wor-
king class home by a further
paring down in the family bud-
get. Young Jack and Janey Can-

-uck will have a lot less milk,

butter, eggs,- fruit— all those
things our medicine men tell us
are essential to healthy children.
By his willingness to progres-
sively strangle price control and
allow the monopolists to~ reap
fat profits, Mackenzie King
hopes to garner.a lot of tory
votes “Gn the next election,
by demonstrating to Big Bus-
iness that he can do a better job
of skinning the people than any
tory can.

Next week an all-Canada del-
egation of housewives will trek
to Ottawa to tell the govern-
ment a few things which price
decontrol has done to the econ-
omy and well-being of Canada.
These women delegates must be
given a mandate from every pro
gressive organization and indi-
vidual to ‘tell the government
plenty in good plain convincing
language.

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ACH period in human -history

produces its special types. It
couldn’t be otherwise, since
humanity does’nt live a vacuum.
With the emergence of the Tru-
man ‘doctrine’ a new type of
atomic female has appeared.

A dame called Elizabeth
Eagan, writing in the current
issue of the ‘Coronet’ magazine,

does a slick job of slandering

the Soviet Union by counter-pos-
ing her ‘sex appeal’ against the
watchful eye of the NKVD

(Soviet Security Police). This

? feminine trimmings. :
sia today, no man, woman or child

wordy extravaganza which
Madame Eagan entitles “What I
learned about Russian Men” is'
in a class by itself.

As a starting point the
madame relates that all Rus-
Sians are very suspicious of
foreigners—are not permitted to
talk or associate with foreigners,
and that any breach of this rule
may mean “Siberia or worse” to
the Soviet citizen who succumbs
to the charms of the Eagan a-
tomic female. A new version of the
‘iron curtdin’ guff, with delicate
“In Rus-

who fears the midnight knock
of the secret police, dares have
é ses Much to do
“with a foreign-

ser.’ It is clear

from the start

plainly-

dressed Soviet

working ‘wom-

wm—Ssans curves,

Lae sans lipstick,
Tom McEwen Her regard im-
proves a mite for the attire and
qualifications of the Soviet of-
fice or student woman, but

“madame is positively horrified

at the ‘overdressed” wives and

Gaughters of “fat generals”. —

Having thus disposed of the
female population of the Soviet
Union our madame gets down
to the nub of her story—the
male. “Any American girl knows
how to look at a man on the
street so that it is understood
at once just what attitude she
wishes to convey; and _ she
knows, too, what the looks given.
in return mean . . .”. But the
technique does’nt work on Soviet
men. ‘The Russian males—and
the madame laments that “there,
aren’t many passibly handsome
males to be found in the Soviet
Union“—just stared, or lookea
right past me”. The madame
gets even by “glowering right
into their square dark, dour
faces”, ;

It is inevitable that suck ® —
type as the madame must get
arrested in order to round out
this special brand of slander:

So the madame manages that

by being where she unconscious
ly admits she had no business

to be. But she emerges vi

_torious from the clutches of thé

NKVD—and uses the incident to
conjure up the atrocities which —
might have happened to her, had ;
she not possessed the magi —
wand of ‘diplomatic immunity’

‘The madame winds up with
B real ‘love’ affair, Alexei
Michaelovich, later ‘Aloysha’ #8
the romance progresses, seeks
the madame’s hand in marriage:
In this writer’s opinion it Wa5
like casting pearls before swin&
but even Soviet citizens err at
times. “You really do not love —
me Aloysha. You love Russia —
You want a disciple, not a wife”
chatters this atomic love-bird, 25
a “push of recollection” whirl —
through her empty head “of Red —
Army men and. women, fliers
foot soldiers, policemen, house
wives, students—all of them liv-
ing in daily dread of a visit from
the secret police’, “I am an AM
erican woman, ‘Aloysha,” warbles
this literary trollop, “and I bave—
bred in my bones the convictio®
that a man—or woman—is not
born to serve the State, but that
the State is born to serve the
man or woman.” And that was —
that. E pluribus unum! >
igkigies

_ In ‘our way of life’ prostitu:
tion is a social evil with its roots

in economic penury. In the Tru-
man era it has become a recog-
nized weapon of anti-Soviet ;
propaganda. Under Hitlet>—
women became breeding ma
chines for cannon fodder. Under
the new would-be world herreD-
folk of dollar diplomacy the —
madame Eagan has demonstré
ted that there are still a few
more rungs in the social ladder —
downwards,

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