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U.S. talks hold key

AURENT POLICIES
THREATEN B.C. JOBS

{ Jobs and living standards of thousands of workers in British

Tory-Labor Columbia are an issue at stake in the conference between ministers of

E Britain, Canada and the United States now being held at Washington.
policy led

to plight’

—PALME DUTT
LONDON

“The failure bf the Labor gov-
€tnment is not the failure of so-
Clalism, it is the failure of Tory
| Policy in the leadership of the
labor movement,” the British

» Communist party declared last

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Price “Pwe Cene

Upon the working out ofa policy that will enable Britain to
buy B.C. timber, fish and fruit, which’she needs but lacks the dollars
to buy, depends to a large extent the future of these vital industries.
_Traditionally,..they.haveexported to the British market, and they
camnot hope to obtain U.S. markets, in competition with similar

industries in Washington and Oregon, to compensate for loss of
the British market.

How quickly the results of restriction of the British market are
reflected in B.C. has already been shown this year by layoffs and
shutdowns in the lumber industry.

Yet the St.. Laurent government, through Finance Minister Douglas
Abbott, is trying to reassure the people of this province that losses
in the British market can be made up by increased exports to he U.S.

The St. Laurent government, as shown by the tone of editorials in
the Vancouver,Sun and other Liberal-heeling newspapers echoing Wall
Street’s demands, is using its influence to support the Truman admin-
istration’s ruinous ,“‘cold war’ policies in the hope of obtaining ad-
ee : : vantage for Canadian big business—at the expense of the people’s
mating 100 candidates. in the

living standards.
Coming British general election,

five ti y as in the last Jobless demonstrate The attempt is being made through the Washington, conference
imes as many a :

Week in publishing its. election
Platform.

The Communist party is nom-

: to unload the economic crisis in North America onto the British people,
election. 2 as it has already been unloaded onto the French and Italian peoples
| Re Palme: ute vicerchainmmen Despite all U.S.-government financed ballyhoo about the with the help of their subservient governments.
of the party, in a press conference, economic recovery of Western Europe under the Marshall plan, As the crisis grows, the burden will similarly be unloaded onto
Called { ae of the ‘Tory. the cold facts illustrated by this picture of French workers pro- the es seep se the willing — = the St. fe aa
or =: A t
ici : ting their dismissal from closed down aircraft plants reveal ment. € people m this province wi among the first to fee
Labor policies which have turned testing their ue the disastrous effects.
Britain into a football for high- by, Picts: “off (adespiag). winetiployment pur pore Ap Any illusion that Canadian economy will escape the effects of
Powered American journalists to France, Italy, Western Germany, Belgium, millions of workers the economic crisis by the St. ‘Laurent government’s abject support
| kick,” are unemployed—the consequence of U.S.-dictated “‘cold war’’ SNE Se progam ooue ms eH away by the mes: —_
; nes ee R , & f trade. and whic! show that the »).-Canada co. war against Socialism spells
He advocated increased trade policies which throttle Europe’s normed East-West tra economic. disaster for-us; that war and crisis go hand in hand: that
with non-dollar countries such as «|. distort national economies to Wall Street’s advantage. By con- where people’s governments guard world peace and govern for the
the USSR, the New Democracies trast, in Eastern Europe, the planned economies of the People’s people, there is no economic crisis.
and China. Democracies have no unemployment. _ While the economies of the Soviet Union and New Europe and
: China rise, the U.S.-exported capitalist world crisis has already pro-
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EA UU @ 15 percent drop in US, production since November, 1948.

© 24 percent cut in U.S. steel output since March.

q SU states reasons @ 6,000,000 jobless; 91% million on short time.

@ 9 percent drop in farm income since January.

a @ 25 percent fall in U.S. exports from 1947 to 1948,
for wit raw a The U.S. economic crisis, now emerging from the cold war,
‘ will drag Canadians into disaster, with St. Laurent’s consent.

$ TOR Y ON. PA GE 7 - Only a new foreign policy of peace, a new domestic fight for
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es, housing, relief, can protect Canada’s people.

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