———— ——————— AT DO YOU THINK? ¢ local paper ‘pposes pro- education da. Though fin a politi- ‘ave taught . “and propa- /- our class - pre-war i ed immun- that ever -ords were Us cran- iimed with --ing order ?- 2s in the tand there ' fictional * interpret: tnctly dif- » truth position -t example, _custriakist ages and -i contrari- te worker = ind lower -oubt - Mr. _ that ad- ~s is edu- » means of osper and =titate for ical pro- ‘ress de- ore of the “1 though -s-name it Poa logs es fe Rodin But how to control it, they don And if you should find that Bomb Control On their atomie bombs they heap far too much stress. ’*t know, they confess. When they’re killing off millions no wisdom is heeded. Kill production for profit then bombs are not needed. this method Complete the job—kill off the profiteers too. You can then rest assured that mass-murder will cease. For if they have their way man shall never know peace, Their wealth-grabbing, we so well know is accursed, With them, reach the proportions of madness or lust. Let no moron tell you your efforts are vain, to save Your sons’ lives from the criminal insane. Your power transcends far beyond your belief. Do not hand it to those who repay you with emief. Now they’re killing war-criminals who. wallowed in slime. But they kill only stooges—no creators of erime. The effects on the masses is no longer lost, when our Gilded assassins are saved at all cost. é Whose only thought is—how their loot they may save While our sons, whom they murdered; now won't do, rot in a grave. J. McIVER. Stewart, B.C. Streetcars Editor, Pacific Advocate: The terrific congestion on Vancouver’s antiquated street car system is again becoming cause for ‘caustic comment. I doubt. if there is anyone who has not thought, while sand- wiched between two other un- fortunates on the street cars during rush hours, that the call of the slaves “How long, oh lord, how long”, might be, ap- propriate. How long is the BCElectric going to get away with their age-old “sitdown strike” against buying new cars and equipment? How long before steps are taken by both provincial and civie govern- ments to take over transporta- tion facilities of all cities in the province? How long be -fore the public “gets the idea” and clamors for competent, ef- ficient, civic-owned and oper- ated transit operation? WIKER The .BCElectric might’ be quite correct when they say “Business is moving to BC”, but if one rides the street cars in Vancouver one finds that moving is a tough and hazard- ous business in B.C. as long as the city’s transportation needs are toyed with by our power moguls. z ROBERT CARGILL Demonstration Editor, Pacific Advocate: The parade of a thousand workers which walked the streets of Vancouver last week in a mass protest demonstra- tion at the sit-down of big bus- iness since VJ Day is greeted by all sincere werking people and progressives as the most positive step in the direction of militant mass action in may a moon. While we all gladly gave up the right to strike in wartime, and pitched in to complete the job of - eliminating fascism from the earth, it is obvious that the no-strike pledge must go the way of all things, which are no longer useful and be re- placed by determined and de- cisive action on the part of organized labor and the people. Big business has assumed an attitude that can be considered nothing less than provocative and challenging. Organized 1a- bor must in turn face up to its responsibilities to the people and the future in accepting the chalenge. The promise made by one union leader, that “Mayor Cor- nett can expect more and big- ger demonstrations” can well serve as a warning that the mili tant forces of the people are now prepared to divert the tre- mendous drive devoted to the winning of the war to the win- ning of the peace. Labor too must point the way, by clearly pointing out where capitalism, either through greed or incom- petence, fails, and calling in no uncertain terms for measures to meet the crises which will come. Labor and the people must again prepare for militant struggel. - MORGAN FRANKS Two Canadas By LESLIE MORRIS OMPLACENCY and its twin brother, cynicism, are the harbingers of fascism and reaction. Vigilance and its twin brother, faith in the power of the people, are the harbingers of progress and Socialism. ' Abroad in this country at the moment are to be seen the most flagrant exhibitions of the thoughts and feelings that lead straight to fascism. At the Progressive-Conservative national ‘convention in Toronto, a few words spoken in the French-Canadian language caused an erup- tion of fascist-like hatred, a spontaneous outburst of the vilest kind of chauvism. In the House of Commons, while the Moscow conference was beginning, the Prime Minister of Canada further harmed rela- tions between the Big Three by advancing the narowest sort of claims _ of -Canadian nationalism under the guise of a hypocritical “world government.” When he was asked why Canada maintained her diplo- matic connections with the fascist Peron regime of Argentina, he said not a word. But he was vociferously annoyed when a member re- ferred to his government as “organized hypocrisy” and succeeded in getting a retraction. When Fred Rose, MP, pointed out to Mr. affairs debate that his “world government” rubbish has anti-Soviet motivations, he implied that Mr. Rose was negligent as a Canadian for “speaking in behalf of one particular country,” the Soviet Union. So did the Prime Minister cynically repudiate the conception that there can be common world policy between Canada and the USSR without the surrender of “national sovereignty.” King in the extérnal In Ontario; some obscurantists in the Protestant Church who, like Professor Cornish, disgrace the traditions of academic learning, demand the suppression of the French language among the French Catholic minorities in the province. ; The CCF News of Ontario gleefully points out that Harold Laski, in an hours-long talk with M. J. Coldwell, defended Bevin’s — policies in Palestine and Java, including, apparently, the wiping out of the Java- nese village of Bekasi by RAF Mosquitos (perhaps made in Toronto!) as a lesson to the Indonesian patriots. This is supposed to justify Mr. Coldwell’s speech in the House of Commons in which he derided Fred Rose’s protests against shipping Canadian arms to Indonesia and stuck up for Bevin, his party mate. Major-General Brock Chisholm’s attack upon superstition and witch- eraft and his defense of modern educational principles brings forth a dervish howl from those who want children to believe in Santa Claus rather than in the noble virtues of the mind of man. Watson Kirkconnell avidly spreads his fascist poison and Frances- chini asks for “compensation” for his internment as a Mussolini de fender. Arcand is at liberty, just like Mosley, and psychiatrists are busier in Nuemburg than the hangman.. The Toronto Telegram suggests that Molotoy should sit in the prisoner’s box along with von Ribbentrop. A columnist in the Windsor Daily Star uses the initials KKK to denote the Labor-Progressive _ Party. Angus MacInnis, M.P., proposes in the House of Commons that the Tory MacTague would be a good director of labor relations; Tom Brannegan, CCF aldérman in Windsor, campaigns for re-election with but one plank in his platform—the defeat of LPP’ers Mike Kennedy and Oscar Kogan. ; Complacency with the status quo; cynicism towards any effort to realize the implications of the victory over Hitler fascism. These curse Canada and dig the fascist ditches into which this country will surely fall if the people are not aroused, and if labor does not stand up and fight every single solitary expression of fascism and conserva- tism, wherever and whenever it shows itself. But, there is another Canada. The Ford workers battled for almost three months against a corporation whose founder is befouled with anti-Semitism and Hitler decorations. Toronto strikers picketed in freezing weather, surrounded by police, for their rights as union men. Through the icy Canadian streets, young men, some of them greyed now, are marching home from the battlefields where the Meyers and Keitels were annihilated, to fight on a new front, for jobs and homes. The LPP takes up the battle for municipal reforms, for a billion- dollar housing program, for United Nations unity on the Yalta plan, for higher wages, union security, and labor cooperation. Both central labor councils in Toronto endorse a Communist for re-election to the Board of Control. Thus the fight againsti fascism and its mother, capitalist monopoly, goes on apace, : Through this morass of unashamed apologetics for its practices, of national hatreds, Social-Democratic betrayals and anti-Soviet intrigues, the direct, simple demands of the Canadian working class break through. They come from the economic and political realities of today. They are a continuation of the cause for which the people’s war was fought. They are freighted with the vigil- ance, militancy and popular faith which saved this country from Hitler, and which alone can save it from another war whose outlines can already be seen in the policies of cynical, grasping political lead- ers who groan about) Nuremburg and the SS murderer Meyer while condoning his friends Peron and Franco. fascism and To the labor movement falls the responsibility of speaking and fighting for the Canada of the vets, the war workers, the farmers, the women and the children—-who have no ‘imperialist aims and no axes to grind, but who want only to live in security and peace. The fight against fascism continues. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1945