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New danger signals

HE recent decision of the National War Labor Board
Ace ‘oppose’ a rigid pattern for wage adjustments is long
overdue and highly welcome. Labor Minister Humphrey
Mtichell’s ‘ten-cent’ formula, in which WPTB Chairman
Donald Gordon played the ‘star’ role before the Commons
Industrial Relations’ Committee has now been chucked
into the discard. The board has already granted wage in-
creases totalling 15 cents an hour to several thousand ship-
building and other workers in B.C.

The theory upon which Mitchell based his 10 cent for-
mula was that if wage increases exceeded that amount, an
inflationary spiral would at once ensue. In other words, lift
price ceilings to meet the demands of monopoly, but keep
wages frozen at a level far below living costs. This was
presumed to be the only basis of an era of prosperous Te-
conversion. It was likewise the sum total of Donald Gor-
don’s theory of ‘economic stability.’

We can afford to pass over the National War Labor
Board’s attitude as reflected in the commercial press, that
it was opposed to a rigid patterm of formula, meaning a
10 cent limit. What is important is the contention in gov-
ernment circles that the switch from a rigid 10 cent in-
crease ceiling to 15 cent or more now provides a good excuse
for further relaxation on price ceilings. Certain cabinet mem-
bers are quoted to the effect “that any price increase re-
sulting from higher wage rates could not constitute a great-
er national disaster than the work stoppages which have
been brought about by the current epidemic of strikes.” This,
coupled with the admission that black markets in food and
other essential are extending across the Dominion, and that
“lawlessness in business is becoming the price of survival’
must serve as a2 grave warning to labor and the people gen-
erally of the new inflationary danger that is imminent.

In the opinion of many the hurried cancellation of the
milk subsidy, hoisting the price of milk a total of 4 cents
per quart since last June, is considered to be the govern-
ment’s opening shot in giving the monopolies a free rein
in profiteering.

The fight for the reimposition and retention of price
controls must be :rtensified with greater vigor than ever.

‘Innocent. Nazis ?

HE verdict handed down this week by the International

Military Tribunal at Nuernberg against 22 high-ranking
Nazi criminals, is, to put it mildly, something of a shock
to decent people everywhere. The verdict confirms what
was already becoming a well-founded suspicion from the
long drawn-out proceedings of the ‘trial,’ that certain inter-
ests in authority were intent upon saving the lives of some
ef the miserable scoundrels in the Nuernberg dock.

Only the representative of the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics on the International Military Tribunal dissented
on the prison terms and the acquittals and, in the name of
a tortured humanity, demanded the death penalty for all.
Not revenge, but stern justice demands no less.

Early in September the Pacific Tribune wrote that “the
accused Schacht . .. has common interests with his Anglo-
American accusers .. .” Schacht’s contacts have ‘paid off.’
He is a free man, declared innocent. Schacht financed the
Nazi party and its crimes, yet he is acquitted on all counts.
Every gauleiter and Nazi sadist in the British and American
zones of occupied Germany will see in Schacht’s acquittal
his own freedom to conspire for another ‘der tag’.

Hanz Fritzsche, propagandist, who turned a generation
of German youth into beasts, is declared innocent of the
atrocities of Daschau, Maidenek and Buchenwald death fac-
tories, where his Nazi-inspired youth outraged every canon
of civilization. But Fritzsche is ‘innocent.’

Franz von Papen, one of the outstanding arch-conspira-
tors of our time, pillar of the Second and Third Reichs, who
has plotted and planned in half a dozen continents against
the peace of the world, is declared ‘innocent’ and acquitted.

Grand Admirais Raeder and Doenitz get prison terms;
Doenitz get 10 years, less than our courts hand out daily
for petty larceny. Gangsters who commanded the operation
of submarine wolf-packs; whose orders sent the ‘Athenia’
to the bottom with hundreds of British women and children

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 4

Kiss of death

Hole in the Iron curtain 1, Leslie Morris

ENRY Wallace’s decision to

speak at least some of the
truth about U.S. war policy has
torn a hole in the real iron cur-
tain which screens preparations
for World War 3—the military
and diplomatic secrecy and
double-dealing behind which the
grim policy of the destruction of
world democracy goes on apace.

The press has it that Mr. King
is going to visit the U.S. shortly,
likely to find out the story be-
hind the story. Saturday Night,
that increasingly right 3 jwing
organ of pseudo-liberalism, asks
Mr. Duplessis what he will do
about Quebec should war with
Russia come. Openly written
about are the coordinated plans
of the U.S. and Canadian mili-
tary Staffs for war— obviously
only with the Soviet Union.

All the facts go to show that
Canadian foreign policy is at
present synonomous with that of
the Anglo-U.S. bloc. As a matter
ot fact we have more than a
bi-partisan unity around Can-
adian foreign policy; we have 4
muiti-partisan unity. saberals,
Pories, CCH’ers, Social Crediters
—al]ll parties in the House of
Commons with the exception of
the LPP are fully agreed upon
and committed to a line of pol-
icy which, if pursued, wili lead
to war against Russia. Mr. King
places on his delegation to the
United Nations the leaders of
all the parties represented in the
House of Commons, again with
the honorable exception of the

LPP.

And the CCF is in the specially
guilty position of backing Brit-

eause the Labor Party is the
government of Great Britain.
This is indeed a disgraceful
and alarming situation—that in
all the leading circles of the par-
liamentary parties, only the LPP
has pointed to
the truths
which Henry
Wallace has

ge to bring
out into the
open.

As the LPP
is the first
to Say, the
strength and

influence of its
own forces are

Leslie Morris not sufficient
to pull the pendulum back from
pull the pendulum back from
war to peace, from disunity a la
Byrnes to the principles of the
unanimity of the Big Three. To
do that will require a people’s
erusade, a veritable avalanche of
public opinion, which will sweep
away the warmakers and change
Canada’s foreign policy.

In the United States Henry
Wallace and Claude Pepper have
mass public support for their
policy, first and foremost in the
CIO-PAC. It is an encouraging
thing to see the CIG News,
which goes to all CIO members
in the United States, carrying as
its headline in this issue the
simple but powerful political
slogan, World Peace!

Wallace and Pepper have not
acted as lone criers in the wil-
derness. They speak for that
section of public opinion which
elected F-D.R. for four terms in
the face of the opposition of the
press and every Russia-hater,

ish imperial policy even more labor-baiter and racist in U.S.
enthusiastically than others be- politics.
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on board, and machine-gunned survivors struggling in the
icy waters of the Atlantic. Gangsters, who sent thousands
of our Canadian seamen to the bottom without warning
and without remorse. The widows and orphans of murdered
British, Canadian and American seamen will be happy to
know that ‘justice’ was so finely strained at Nuernberg as
to allow the Nazi murderers of their loved ones to enjoy.
the perspective of life and an early freedom.

Yes, we will hang ten of the Nazi gangsters, provided,
of course, the machinery of appeal does not provide a loop-
hole, but the Nuernberg verdict has already strangled the
hope of total justice for fascist barbarism. Fascism is still
useful to a privileged segment of society, hence the effort
to save its most adept personnel.

ERE in Canada there must be

a similar development. The
present trade-union conventions
must speak out for labor—the
working people who will be the
first to suffer if War 3 comes.
Mackenzie King has sold Gan-
ada’s birthright for a mess of
imperialist pottage. He has in
the most abject manner tied the
fate of this Dominion to the
machinations of the oil, rubber,
‘chemical, steel, monopolists of
the U-S., hoping thereby to gain
more power and pelf for Can-
adian monopoly capitalism. He is
one of the authors of atomic
diplomacy; he is one of the chief
atomaniacs.

One does not have to be a
Communist, or a friend of the
system of Socialist society pre-
vailing in the Soviet Union, to

‘see the truth about war and

peace today. One only has to be

_Stir oneself and see how Canada

is facing atomic destruction. by
playing this awf Sinister,
dangerous game of plotting the
War against the Soviet Union.
For should that war come
‘and it can and’ must be prevent-
ed) we shall be the cockpit of
atomic warfare, and this coun-
try will suffer the fate of all who
have tried to dominate the world
either alone or in alliance -with

other unscrupulous imperialist
powers—defeat and catastrophe.
&

ENRY Wallace ,to his eternal
eredit, has torn a hole in the
curtain of war preparations. He
has permitted us to see a part
of what he knows—that Amer-—
ica, the fortress of world im-
perialist reaction, is plunging the
whole world into war by means
of the anti-Soviet plots of the
Anglo-U.S. imperialists. :
Henry Wallace has started a
movement which labor must fin-
ish, for even the most liberal
capitalist representative cannot
stop the war alone. And history-
shows that labor, by itself, can-—
not do it either. But certainly
without labor it cannot be done.

What is meeded is that labor,
unitedly, should take up the
cause of peace, the political
fight for peace, in an audacious
way, bringing along with it
that vast majority of Can-
adians who are against war, -
and against imperialist domin-
ation.

ERIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1946.