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and impose on the imperialists a policy
of peaceful co-existence with the Social-
ist states. This was to be seen in the
winning of an armistice in Korea and
the prospect of peace. in that country,
in the fact that President Eisenhower
was compelled by world opinion to pro-
pose discussions of atomic energy, the
movement for a meeting of the Great
Pwers which resulted in the conference
of the foreign ministers of the U.S.A.,
U.S.S.R., Britain and France, and the
world-wide demand that the People’s
— of China take her seat in the

The Soviet Union, engaged in the
mighty peaceful construction of Com-
munism, is a natural ally of the Can-
adian people in the cause of world peace.
The true interests of Canada can be
served only by a policy of reducing in-
ternational tension through negotiations,
the restoration of world trade and an
end to the cold war. This demands the
repudiation of NATO with its automatic
commitment of Canada to a U.S.-in-
spired imperialist war.

This issue is sharpened by the grow-
ing conflict between British and United
States imperialism. The accelerated drive
of U.S. imperialism against the British
Commonwealth results in the strength-
ening of U.S. imperialism’s economic
hold on Canada, the grabbing of British
Commonwealth markets, the establish-
ment of U.S. military bases in Canada
and the pitting of Canadian diplomatic
policy against Great Britain. i

But, in contrast to the aims of mono-
poly-capital, the people of Canada,
French and English speaking, want
peace. As the instigators of war become
more frenzied, John Foster
threatens the nations of Western Eu-
rope in an effort to’ coerce them to ac-
cept the remilitarization of West Ger-
many and force them into the United
States-organized and dominated Europ-
ean Defense Community. Lester B. Pear-
son adds the official support of Canada
to this U.S. threat. More and more Can-
adians are realizing that the democratic
unification of Germany is in the national
interest. of Canada. Such a solution of
the German question would remove the
immediate danger of a new world war.

There is no threat to Canada’s security
except from the U.S. policy of world
domination.

The propaganda that prosperity can
be maintained by preparing for war is
a lie. More ‘and more Canadians are re-
cognizing that peace and concentration
of the national economy upon peace-
time production and peaceful trade with
all countries is the path to real and last-
ing prosperity for Canada. ;

With a truly Canadian national policy
Canada could be a decisive influence for
peace precisely because of U.S. depend-
ence upon our priceless strategic raw
materials.

While sentiment in favor of peace is
growing, peace action is not yet strong
enough to curb the treachery of the St.
Laurent government and those who sup-
port it. This is so mainly because of the
capitalist Big Lie about “the threat of
“Communist aggression”, and to the effect

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that the “benevolent” U.S.A. has only
peaceful intentions. The Big Lie must be
exposed. Canadians must be helped to
understand that it is directly contrary to
Canada’s interests. It is by use of the
Big Lie about “the threat of Communist

aggression” that Canada’s sovereignty
has been subverted. The Big Lie is the
main means by which the agents of U.S.
imperialism in Canada confuse large
numbers of people and thereby delay the
development of a great national move-
ment to compel Canadian trade with the
eight hundred million people in the So-
cialist third of the world. It is the main
pretense by which the St. Laurent gov-
ernment tries to cover up its betrayal,
its policy of “integration”, its surrender
of Canada’s independence, our future as
a people, and the U.S. military occupa-
tion of our land. The fight to expose and
discredit the Big Lie is an indispensabie
part of the struggle for peace.

The struggle for independence and
peace involves the defense of the living
standards of the people, a struggle for
the all-round development of our na-
tional economy, and to re-establish Can-
‘adian trade with all countries and their
people in the currencies with which they
can trade. It includes putting an end to
the crushing burden of war taxation and
to use the vast federal government ex-
penditures on war for the development
and enrichment of our country, to pro-
vide all Canadians with a broad pro-
‘gressive system of social security includ-
ing a national health plan, expanding
opportunities for education and careers
for young Canadians and the reduction
of taxes on the necessities of life.

This is the path of effective action to
beat the threat of war and crisis.

* * *

HE tendency towards the fascization

‘of the capitalist states goes hand in
hand with the drive to war. The first
target of this process is the working
class; but the attack upon democracy is
not only directed against the workers,
but against all democratic people and
views. The most hideous expression of
this is McCarthyism—U.S. fascism—
which is reaching out to drag down Can-
adian. democracy. :

In the federal elections, selected
spokesmen for the St. Laurent govern-
ment appealed to the democratic senti-
ments of the great majority. of Canadians,
to their healthy distaste for McCarthyism.
to their desire to maintain Canadian de-
mocracy and its proud traditions. Many
thousands of democratic Canadians were
deceived by this. Recognizing the more
brazen anti-democratic ambitions of the
Progressive Conservative Party under
Col, Drew, they voted against the most
reactionary bellicose party of Canadian
capitalism thinking thereby to secure
some measure of protection of Canadian
democracy. ;

But, the St. Laurent government offers
no real protection to democracy; on the
contrary, its policies expose democracy
to the assault of fascism. The govern-
ment rules more and more through Or-
der-in-Council. It abrogates the rights
of Parliament. It denies, officially, the
supremacy of Parliament.

ihe St. Laurente government feared to
enact the new Criminal Code on the eve
of the federal election because of wide-
spread public opposition. Back in office,
it promptly re-introduced ‘it as Bill 7,
retaining the anti-democratic sections
placed there at the demand of the LBs
government. Other signs of the growth
of political reaction are to be seen: the
infamous anti-labor Bills 19 and 20 of
Premier Duplessis of Quebec, the in-
creasing use of the injunction to smash-
strikes; the final capitulation of the fed-
eral government to the demand of the
U.S. government for the right to operate
on Canadian territory (the Gouzenko-
Pearson case) and the open admission
by the government that the FBI is per-
mitted to hold investigations on Canadian
territory; the extra-territorial rights given
to U.S. forces on Canadian territory; the
depredations of the RCMP as a secret
political police designed to attack the
labor and democratic movements; the
callous and brutal treatment of the
Doukhobor Rene ie British Columbia.
A CYCLICAL economic crisis is matur-

ing. It is aggravated by the federal
government’s reckless sacrifice of great
markets in the sterling area and the
Socialist third of the world and by United
States dumping of huge surplus stocks
of manufactured products on the Cana-
dian market. While corporation profits
are at the highest level in the history of
Canada, inflation and a crushing burden
‘of taxes have reduced real wages, lower-
ing the purchasing power of the masses,
hastening the trend to a new economic
crisis. Layoffs are creating mass unem-
ploymént in many areas. Spreading un-
employment in the United States and the
forecast of the steel industry that pro-

duction in 1954 will be at a twenty -

percent lower average than it was through
1953, indicates-that unemployment will
assume mass proportions throughout
Canada unless the federal government
can be compelled to adopt effective mea-
sures in time.
Agriculture is already in crisis. Farm-

Under the policy of “integratio
St. Laurent government has
Wall Street to feed

ers in all parts of the country are victims

of the loss of British Commonwealth
markets and the restrictions imposed up-
on imports of Canadian farm products
into the United States—in open violation
of the supposedly,solemn engagements 9°
the U.S, government.

Widespread distress is already being
felt by thousands of Canadian workers
and farmers and small business men, and
the prospect of crisis brings fear into
Canadian homes. Industries such as coal
mining, textile and farm implements are
already virtually prostrate, and others
like electrical appliances, fishing, lum-
ber-and auto are declining.

Effective measures are available to
Canada. Economic crisis could be pre-
vented if a New National Policy based
directly upon the interests of the people
were adopted. The economic laws of
motion of capitalism, from the operation
of which economic crises result, are
fundamental and inseparable from the
basic law of monopoly-capitalism: the
striving for maximum profit.

But, the onset of economic crisis and \

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its devastating effects upon the masses
of the people, particularly the workers
and farmers, can be influenced by effec-
tive mass pressure upon, governments
policy. The working class and the Can-
adian people are not powerless before
the evil consequences of the capitalist
profit system and domination by U.S.
monopoly. ‘To the extent that the work-
ers and farmers arouse and unite Can-
adian democracy in action to compel
the adoption of government measures
against the threat of economic crisis and
depression, to that extent the monopoly-
capitalist drive for maximum profits is

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freeing of Canada from U.S. control,
the unfolding of a great new industrial
expansion and the use of huge trade
opportunities open to Canada could avert
the onset of economic crisis.

The fact that the Socialist world
market, as contrasted with the shrinking
capitalist world market dominated by the
U.S.A., is -a rising, stable market creates
new possibilities for compelling the
Western governments to end the trade
blockade and re-establish one world
market. This would mitigate the con-
sequences of capitalist crisis upon the
working people and assist the cause of
world peace.

The St. Laurent government, being
the agent of United States imperialism
in Canada and its Canadian monopoly-
capitalist partners, seeks to faciliate the
drive for maximum profits at the ex-’
pense of the workers and farmers and
of the national interests as a whole.

The present appearance of helpless-
ness, of inability to dispose of record
surpluses of Canadian products although
hundreds of millions of people want to
buy them, is a definite part of the anti-
Canadian policy deliberately adopted by
the St. Laurent government, aimed at
making our country an economic, mili-

‘tary and political satellite of the United

States.

HE Canadian people are already re-

sisting the present policies of national
Calamity seis

Wide circles of Canadians in different
parts of the country and in response to
various circumstances are campaigning
actively upon one or other of these issues.

They are demanding an easing of in-
ternational tension, a conference of the
Great Powers, the banning of the atom

bomb and the settlement of all disputes —

by negotiation. — ;

Opposition is growing to the outright:

alienation of our natural resources to

U.S. corporations. Public outcry against

the U.S. grab of olr resources forced
the government to agree to an all-Cana-
dian natural gas pipeline and continues
to demand that the government proceeds

to construct an all-Canadian St. Lawrence ~

Seaway. As industry’ after industry be-

comes depressed because of U.S. dump —

ing the workers and some employers be-
gin to see the consequences of subordin-

ation to the United States. The strike

movement is growing. ;
Farm organizations are speaking out

vigorously against the domination by the .
United States of the wheat, cattle, dairy

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