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King comes home

RIME MINISTER MACKENZIE KING has returned

to Canada from the Paris peace conference. There is
little on the public calendar of his activities while there to
inspire the hope that he returned a wiser man. There is
much to indicate, if his press interviews are to be taken at
face value, or as a measure of his contribution to peace,
that Canada might have been better served had he stayed
at home. :

Because the representatives of other nations and peoples
resist playing the dangerous game of imperialist intrigue
and atomic bulldozing and seek to expose it for what it is
in the peace conference, King thinks they are “wasting
too much time.” We have not seen the full text of King’s
address to the peace conference, but we venture to say what
it lacked in broad practical solutions for a war-tired world
it made up in well-feigned pious chatter. The commercial
press did not see fit to give the .Canadian people the full
text of King’s ‘practical’ proposals. It was too busy concoct-
ing anti-Soviet slanders upon the pretended assumption that
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov deliberately left the con-
ference while Canada’s prime minister was speaking. That
cheap fabrication, like most others of the same cloth, was
soon shown to be full of holes, but it was the highlight of
King’s debut in the peace conference and fitted in well with
his “espionage”? ramp at home.

King returns to Canada to a political scene which
stems direct from the policies of the government he leads,
and which has now become the subservient tool of big
business and tory reaction. His pre-election promises of a
prosperous postwar Canada~are thrown into the discard.
Big business, with government backing, is out to place
the full burden of reconversion upon the backs of the peo-
ple, by the simple formula of high prices and low wages.

Approximately 60,000 workers across Canada are on the
picket lines for wage increases and union security in order
to combat government-inspired inflation and discrimination.
The farmers of the prairie provinces threaten a non-delivery
strike, if decent price lévels—price levels that will enable
them to stay on their farms—are not established by federal
authority.

Duplessis, Drew and King have sent scores of provin-
cial and RCMP police against the striking textile and steel
workers, in an effort to drive them back to starvation wages
and to safeguard the fabulous war-time profits of big
business.

King has returned from the peace conference, deter-
mined to work for a ‘peace’ which will meet with the ap-
proval of monopoly capital, a peace based upon suppression
of the people’s liberties and needs at home, and upon atomic
war and imperialist gangsterism abroad, directed against
those nations who have “crossed their Rubicon” to a new
future.

The prime minister has confirmed by his tour to the
Paris peace conference what is already evident to a growing
number of Canadians, that his government must be replaced
by a peopie’s coalition pledged to make, Canada prosperous
and happy at home and worthy of the respect she merits
abroad.

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Good riddance

T HE resignation of three individuals, Reg. Bullock, Lloyd

Whalen and Tom Bradley, from the CCF seems to have
created more furore in the commercial press than it is like-
ly to create among CCE members. And this itself is a
commentary upon the disruptive activities of these self-
styled working class leaders. Nevertheless, it is good news,
not only for the CCF but for the labor movement as a
whole. Any exodus of Trotskyist disruptors from any sec-
tion of the labor and people’s movement is to the good of
that movement. 5

The stated intention of Bullock, Whalen and Bradley
to become associated with Labor Challenge groups is quite
to be expected, for those groups are already known to many
working people as an affront rather than a challenge to honest
working class organizations. They render invaluable services
to big business, whose strategists never miss an opportunity
for subsidizing professional disruption in the trade unions
and elsewhere.

Csmmunists have on occasions been called hard names
by the CCF leadership when they pointed out that Trotsky-
ists, renegades from the communist party like Whalen and

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_of these things,

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mission,

When Yugoslavia advised
the U.S. that its planes
were flymg over Wugoslay territory without per
the advite was ignored. When two were
shot down ‘ultimatums’ to Tite flew thick and fast.
The atomic imperialists hoped te use the incident
to further their war planus against the USSR.

The people will remember

ACKENZIE KING this

week stood at the
graves of the 900 Canadians
who were killed by the Ger-
man fascists at Dieppe. Per-
chance, through Mr. King’s
mind ran a Chord of mem-
Ory reminding him of the
time he visited Hitler and
praised him as a man of
peace.

Perhaps he even recalled the
years when he, as prime minis-
ter, supported the infamous
Chamberlain-Daladier “appease-
ment” which brought hell and
death upon the “little people’
of Spain and Australia and
Czechoslovakia — the prelude
to the Nazi whirligig of death
which eventually menaced the
world. Maybe Mr. King thought
but never a
word did he say of them.

Nor did Mr. King say one
word of atomic bombs, even
though, together with Attlee and
Truman, he is the co-architect
of the A-bomb diplomacy which
wiped out the peace legacy of
his friend, Franklin D. Roose—
velt..

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R. KING could have spoken

his mind in the Paris Peace
Conference, but did not. He went
to Dieppe, to the hallowed
graves of Canada’s dearly be-
loved dead who fell in the war
against Hitler, to rant against
what he called “quibblings and
futile discussions” at the Paris
Peace Conference. Strange per-
formance.

If Mr. King wants to speak
his mind about such a momen-
tous question as world peace,
then why does he not speak at
Paris? Why did he not speak
his mind in parliament before
he sailed away?

Mr. King and all who think
like him, should understand that

By Ald. Charles Sims

the “little people’ of the world
demand straight talk, straight
action. You will never get away
with another Munich, gentlemen!
Quibbling?
y is it quibbling when the “little
people” of the Danube lands
want to look after their own riyv-
er? They are not demanding the
right to tell us how to arrange
things on the St. Lawrence, the
Fraser or the Mackenzie rivers,
nor do they tell Truman how
to run things on the Mississipi.
We could perhaps learn from

ALD. CHAS. SIMS
“the days has gone.”

those “little people” how to set-
tle the steel strike, how to put
science to work on cancer
stead of A-bombs? Truman
might learn a bit from them on
how to deal with fascists and
lynchers of innocent Negroes?

Futile discussion?

Is it futile if delegates from
countries which paid the awful-
est toll to fascist war—i5,000,-

in-_

Bradley, usually sought the shelter of the CCF in carrying
on their disruptive work. Too often such individuals were
accepted by the CCF leadership for no better reason than
that they were bitterly opposed to the party which had
expelled them. The cause of working class unity, therefore,
has been strengthened by their voluntary withdrawal from
the CCF to follow their disruptive course openly within an
organization which, like any company union, can more read-
ily be exposed to the working people for what it is.

000 dead; babes, maidens, the
old folks burned in  Hitler’s
death-furnaces; their cities and
villages razed to the ground—if

these people fight for simple
justice?

You should perhaps come
home, Mr. King, and talk te

the steelworkers about quibbling
and futile dis¢€ussion.” It might
be more te the point.

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For the day has gone when
spatted diplomats could talk
down to the “little people” af
this green earth and scare
them by insults, or even with
the A-bomb. The day has gone
when the Hiltons and Mitchells
can have it all their own way.

The memory of the men and
lads of Dieppe will be ever green
in the Minds of Canadians. That
memory above all calls for peace
and justice for the “little peo-
ple” of Canada and all lands
today. Those heroes who sleep
at Dieppe, the millions who died
before fascist fire, paid the price
of death because MHitler’s path
was smoothed by “appeasement,”
by men who declared: “et us
not quibble over Spain, let us
not waste time on futile discus-
Sions over collective security.”

Bitter experience is the teach-
er of teachers. :

Peace is indivisible. It will be
secured by the same thing which

won the war; the unity of the
peoples.

Change of life

Thorpe, the Wall Street obsery-
er who is currently in Paris,
finds the holier-than-thou atti-
tude of the British and American
Spokesmen here reminiscent of
the old song about King David
and King Solomon who:

“Lived happy, happy lives.”
With their hundreds and hur
dreds of concubines :
And their dozens and dozens of
Wives.

But when old age came on
them,

And they beth had got the
qualms,

King Solomon wrote the Prov-
erbs,

And King David wrote the
Psalms.”

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1946

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