TRB TM mm i Cl il e@ ps ae 4 ya ot an eel em V9 fl oe URE lausesarnesentll I << Te HH Aitti ii NY , ‘itis NF) ae Tayi i UB eet Neentedh fe Published Weekly at 650 Howe Street By The TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY Telephones: Editorial, MA. 5857; Business, MA. 5288 Tom McEwen Editor Ivan Birchard ..... Re cen cA ah By oan Manager Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. Printed by Union Printers at 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. Authorized as second-class mail by the post-office department, Ottawa Where King is leading Canada RESIDENT TRUMAN’ has bluntly stated the truth— that Canada is to be taken over by the United States army and navy. Try as Prime Minister King can to repre- sent this as cooperation between ‘equals’ he is not talking to infants. There is no equality involved here. What is at stakesis the very sovereignty of Canada. The government of Canada has tied the Canadian people. hand and foot to a Truman doctrine of world domination which Canadians, as well as Americans, are opposed to. Our fate is to be decided by the dollar-mad, power-drunk U.S. imperialists, who fondly imagine they can make the whole world bow down to their wishes. And the government of Canada goes along! The ex- plosive RDX, which was withheld from our Soviet ally at the time of Stalingrad, is now handed over to the U.S. war department. U.S. troops are quartered here. Our arms are standardized on the U.S. pattern. We are fast becoming a vassal of Wall Street. Henry Wallace is warning the American people that this policy will lead to war. He truthfully says ‘that Ameri- cans are earning the hatred of the peoples of the whole world, who see in the Truman doctrine another tyrannical threat to peace and reconstruction. Suis Are we, Canadians, also to be hated because we are part of the U.S. war machine? Are we slavishly to allow the sovereignty of our country—its arms and its foreign policy—to be given away for a mess of pattage which the people will not get in any case, but which will go to the rich? — Canadians must answer these questions, They must realize that Canada*is part of a U.S. military bloc which exists not to defend’ America, but to attack the Soviet _ Union and the European democracies—still wet with the blood of millions of anti-fascists, with the blood of Cana- dian soldiers. We warn the Canadian people that to permit the King government to make of Canada a satellite of U.S. imperial- ism imperils not only our country, but the whole world. The government must listen S THE movement of the consumers, led by the organ- ized housewives, gets under way in the fight against high prices, it becomes very clear that this issue is upper- most in the minds of the Canadian people. The government, quite indifferent to the people’s needs, refuses to do anything about it. Under pressure of the tory ‘free enterprisers,” and with a touching complaisance of its own, it has permitted the cost of living to rise. Graham Towers, speaking for the government as the governor of the Bank of Canada, said in February that Canadian prices would rise to U.S. levels, But not if labor, housewives and other groups can help it. : On June 11, consumers, unions, labor leaders and others are going to Ottawa in a big delegation to lobby MP.’s and present a brief to the cabinet calling for restor- ation of price controls, . When they arrive, we hope the government will take the wool out of its ears and listen to the people. Uniting labor's wage drive af Nees decision of the Canadian Congress of Labor’s wage coordinating committee to conduct a drive this summer for higher pay was made,. in the committee’s words, “des- pite repeated warnings” against price increases. About 325,000 men and women are in the CCL-affiliated unions. They include the mass production industries like auto, rubber, steel, electric, as well as the metal miners and smelters—all of which have grown in strength during the war years, The 1,100 local unions and council of the Congress are asked to “initiate and coordinate their wage campaigns immediately.” = This is labor’s answer to the price and profit rampage. It is a fully democratic decision, and one which constitutes organized labor’s reply to the falling dollar. ' The Trades and Labor Congress (AFL) unions would do well to coordinate their wage movement with that of the CCL. Trade union unity—for the defense of living standards and the life of the unions—is the key to the success of the wage campaign. FRIDAY, MAY 30, 1947 ‘ish-occupied Germany for ANIA As we see it AAA AR By Tom McEwen NDER the nose of the U.S. and’ British mili- tary governments of Bavaria, a new fuehrer is blowing nazi froth in the beer halls. He is 45 years old Alfred Loritz, ‘minister of political liberation.’ Just as the Germans once rant- ed about ‘Unser Adolph’ now the remnants of Nazism rave about ‘Unser Alfred.’ The horoscope readers in Ba- raria see some favorable omens to indicate that ‘Unser Alfred’ is a reincarnation of ‘Unser Adolph.’ Both were the same age when they came out of obscur- ity onto the stage of world politics. ‘Unser Alfred,’ as the leader of a new party, the Wirt- schaftliche Aufban Vereinigung (WAV) uses the same demagogy as Hitler. “My party will march again,” he barks. “No one will stop it on the day.” Loritz rants about ‘decadent democracy,’ and reaches his best in the denunciation of commun- ism and the USSR. Military government authori- ties can ‘find nothing to dispute’ in Loritz’s program nor in the financing of his party. He pro- poses hatred of Hitler but not of Hitlerism. In the new U.S. ‘war on com- munism’ the Loritz breed are essential tools in U.S. and Brit- the crushing of progressive thought and action and the holding of Germany as a control European base of reaction against social- ism. Loritz, with his 6-point ‘pro- gram’ against communism and his demagogic raving about a new ‘Der Tag’ for a ‘purified Germany,’ are good yardsticks for measuring denazification, as - it is carried through by the U.S. and British Military govern- ments. e ‘ bec scab-produced Winnipeg Free Press, in its May 21 edition, featured a special re- port on bacteriological war as submitted. by Drs. Theodore Rosebury, Elvin A. Kabar, and Martin H. Boldt. According to these three sci- entists of destruction, bacterio- logical war need not necessarily be confined to attacking great areas, but can be confined to specific areas—war bases, cities and towns, war production areas. A quotation from this report— which incidentally the Free Press features as news without edi- torial comment—reads: “Airplanes are considered the great disease spreaders. Air- borne infections, that people get by breathing are the. top /menaces. Wa ter and _ food borne’ diseases are not consid: ered as so like ly to succeed Topping the fa vored war dis- eases are. tula- remia, or rab- bit fever, not : the common Tom MckKwen form, but one that spreads _ in air and causes pneumonia; pneu- monic plague, which is the lung form of black death and spreads by air; and melioidosis, a rare disease, which attacks the lungs. ' “Bubonic plague, the form of black death spread by rat fleas, is considered unfavorable for war because it can be stopped by getting rid of rats. “Flu, the common cold and malaria are listed as war possi- bilities with proviso that more studies are needed to find out , how to use them. “Among the rejected diseases for war are smallpox, cholera and typhoid because of vaccina- tion. Streptococcus infections are rejected because of too low casualty rates. The stephylococ- cus diseases of food poisoning also are ruled out. Leprosy takes too long to incubate. Most of “which would make publ Kc the common pneumonias a i sufficient infectivity. Shichi = diseases are considered t0° ficult to spread. “The report predicts that food animals on farms will be ve nerable to diseases scattered plane. They may _ suffer, is from plant diseases scattered reduce their own food suPPlY: EN Stanley Knowles, CCF member for Winnipeg Nort’ the introduced a bill in lic’ the . businesses he Minister Douglas Abbott into ® ministerial dither. The ministe’ appealed for “time to. consid the bill. The recent tax reduction the budget have been hailed i? government circles and the s in eral press as giving the W® Zz earner ‘substantial’ tax reduc tions. The ordinary worker ing about $1,600 to $1,800 @ t gets a tax reduction of anole $12 a year, which the incre in the price of butter can a away in two months. The sol 3 citizen with an income of ye 000 or $200,000 a year mee tax saving of $10,000 or mor Little ae that Abbott ‘wants time to consider the PFO visions of the CCF bill. wee the common people get the ie low down on the financial PY” earne yore ee Z House i acy of big business and its ODRE SA ing governments, the game political skulduggery become’ more difficult for the big i 4 Abbott will undoubtedly *"— that it is “not in the public 1” terest””° to have the tax mat ment tell the people the plat truth of a rich man’s budget ed here, regions of our economy.” The threat of monopoly r. big business’ alarming trend toward tightening its monopoly control continues unchecked, the US. will wind up with a “depression, large numbers 2% business failures and mass unemployment,” former U.S. Assistant Attorney-General Wendell Berge watt “The most important fact the majority of bust nessmen must face today,” he said, “is that the CO?” centration of monopoly power in American industty now stands at the greatest peak in history—towerins — over our basic industries and overshadowing inde pendent enterprise in some of the most important —NEW YORK. | a a PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE