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workers to work harder and eat less, the Labor government in 1949 expends over $3 billion on arms, Six times the 1935-36 fig- ures, and keeps 1,500,000 Britons in the armed forces and on war supplies! The Labor government's war expenditures equal one-third of Marshall plan aid to Britain. The Yanks struck a hard bargain to include Britain in their global war planning!

Capital investments by Wall Street, stockpiling of war mater- ials, studying ways to speed up British workers, tinkering with U.S. and Canadian tariffs, minor concessions on Canadian wheat— these do not-begin to touch Brit- ain’s crisis. :

The real alternative before Brit- ain, as Canada, is, shall she go down the road of economic crisis, mass unemployment and war in subjection to the Yankee billion- aires, or shall she fight for her independence in unity with the so- _Cialist lands and peoples? The British Communist party sums it up well in its 5-point election pro- gram, entitled The Socialist Road for Britain:

1. Tackle the crisis at the ex- pense of big monopoly by cutting profits and’ prices, raising wages and standards of living, extending nationalization, and reorganizing foreign trade; ;

2. A drastic change in foreign policy to end dependence on Amer- ican imperialism and bring Britain alongside the socialist Soviet Un- ion and the progressive peoples of the world, to ensure peace and national independence;

3. More money for the social services, housing, health and edu- cation; ‘

4. More democracy, not only in elections, but at work, in the forces, and in local affairs;

5. Unity of all those in the la- bor movement, Labor and Com- munist, who desire to conduct a real fight for these aims and for socialism.

That’s a real, working-class an- Swer to Britain’s crisis!

LOMBARDO TOLEDANO

Opponents of peace are traitors to their own countries

LPP

ond point to which the executive directs the attention of the LPP and the whole labor movement, embodies the fight against menac- ing unemployment, layoffs, against short time and the speedup, and for a 50 percent increase in un- employment benefits.

The executive is of the opinion that housing and jobs must be provided also by a radical change in present Canadian foreign trade policy, which is being strangled by the U.S. dollar blockade and the embraces of the dying Mar- shall plan.

“Trade with all the world,” says the LPP, and especially with the Soviet Union, the New Democra- cies and People’s China (embrac- ing 700,000,000 people, a third of mankind) who are now banned from trade with Canada because of the political hatred of, Cana- dian capitalists towards socialism.

The executive is of the opinion that the workers of Canada and Britain should cooperate to en- courage direct trade between Can- ada and Britain by breaking away from Wall Street’s design to cap- ture Canadian and British mar- kets.

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‘lf war trumpets sound,

we shall not answer,’ peace congress told

' By JOHN WEIR

MEXICO CITY

“If the war trumpets sound, we shall not answe:,” world-famed poet Gonsalez Martinez told a cheer- ing closing session of the Continental Peace Congress here. A thousand delegates and four thousand Mexi- cans jammed the Coliseo .arena in this city to hear Martinez and Lombardo: Toledano, spokesman for the Latin American Confederation of Labor.

“We give waming now that the people of the Anericas won’t participate in imperialist war,” Tole- dano stated in summary. He refuted the “slander that this hemisphere is united behind Washington wat

| policies.”

Toledano declared that propa- ganda of war between continents is a falsehood and the peoples of all American countries are anti- war. The congress represented all

anti-imperialist forces and true patriots of all classes, races, creeds, and religions defending

the independence of their tries, democratic liberties,

coun- work-

ers’ rights and the progress of na--

tions. He further declared that the

struggle for peace is also a fight

against dictators foisted on Latin American countries by American imperialists. The only opponents of the peace congress here were open hirelings of Wall Street, rem- nants of clerical reaction and racketeers organized by the AFL

in a vain effort to split Latin,

American unions. ‘

“The opponents of peace are traitors to their own countries,” concluded Toledano, “since Unit- ed States domination of thie world—if realized, which is un-

of the LPP are asked to take up these three points as the center of their public work in the fall and winter months, to win adher- ents from the trade unions and the ranks of the CCF for these demands.

It is possible that LPP delega- tions will be arranged to visit Ot- tawa later in the year with these demands and to place them before the government and members of parliament.

thinkable—would reduce Latin Americans to slavery.”

Typical of sentiments voiced by many speakers was the flat dec- laration by a Venezuelan oil union leader that not a gallon of oil

would come from Venezuela if Truman launches war.

Latin American delegates gave

a tremendus ovation to messages

from Henry Wallace, Paul Robe- g

son and Charlie Chaplin.

U.S. bans delegates,

congress asks apology

adiah Peace Congress. passports and entrance permits to Mexico, were going to the Conti- nental Congress for Peace.

Among those stopped at the bor- der was Miss Ethel Neilson, who protested that se was a fifth gen- eration Canadian and a Liberal in politics, and had been visiting the U.S. for 30 years without having been stopped before.

A delegation representing the Canadian Peace Congress ig plan- ning to see Prime Minister: St. Lau- rent in Ottawa.

The delegation will ask that the+

external afafirs department pro- test to the U.S, state department denial to Canadian citizens of the right to pass through the United States on their way to Mexico.

—TORONTO ©

A Canadian protest to Washington over . refusal’ of the U.S. government to grant transit, visas to a score of Canadians who wished to travel to Mexico is being asked by the National Council of the Can-

The Canadians, equipped with Canadian

The prime minister will also be asked what right the American consulate has to question a Can- adian citizen as to religion, politics, family background, as well as what their activities will be in a foreign country, other than the U.S,

The delegation will ask the prime minister if the procedure being fol- lowed by the U.S. government is not an infringement on the right

of Canadian citizenship, and will.

want to know just what protection a Canadian passport gives a Can- adian citizen.

The delegation. will ask Ottawa to request a formal apology from Washington for this unfriendly treatment of Canadians, and fut'- ther request be issued.

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