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Byrnes’ voice, Vandenberg’s words

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Vandenberg. The senator fren
Michigan kept Mr. Byrnes strict-
Iy to the score. While’ the
Prompter in the person of Mr.
Vandenberg, was of course e€asily
visible to the people 6n the stage,
these who had written the scorc
were invisible.

When Mr. Byrnes made his ra-

- Gio address to the American peo-

ple upon his return from the
Paris Conference, he Spoke in
the firm belief that he is the
maker of American foreign pol-
icy. His speech, however, was
made against the background of
a tremendoust Struggle between
the army and navy to take over
the state department. This de-
velopment was highlighted by
Assistant War Secretary Symins-
ton’s announcement that a brace
of B28 bombers would fly
=reund the world. =

One interesting aspect of the

situation was reflected in the

psychological] Preparations made
for the Byrnes speech. The stage
had been carefully set. The state
department had done the job on
the diplomatic level ang the yer
lew press had set the Stage with
a carefully timed Red scare.

On the -eve of Mr. Byrne’s
speech, state department offici-
als inspired a number of dis
Batches which appeared in the
newspapers the following day.
These were concerned with the
suspension of Czechoslovalkia’s
credits in this country. ft is in-
teresting to note here, paren-
thetically, that on the very same
day that the United States an-
‘nounced the suspension of the 50
million dollar surplus property
credit, Brazil extended a 20 mil-
lion dollar credit to Czechoslo-
vakia.

What is significant about this
story is the timing, for the fact
of the matter is that the Czecho-
slovak government was informed
of the suspension of these cred-
its over a month ago. In other
words, the story was not news:
It was. an old story. But the
story was broken obviously in
order to coincide with the re-
turn of Mr. Byrnes from Paris.

SENATOR VANDENBERG
The prompter

JAS. J. ‘McCARTHY’ BYRNES
The big noise.

The ostensible reason, inci-
dentally, for the canceling of
this credit which oecurred more
than a month ago, was the fact
that Mr. Byrnes was annoyed
when three minor Czechoslovak
officials applauded a speech by
Mr. Vishinsky at the Paris Con-
ference. The real meaning of
this development is, however, to

Hino by Johannes Steel

ge of world history for a brief moment, but
mistaken for strength, the dominating words
were the categorical imperatives of Senator

be seen in the Caption which the
WNew York Herald Tribune put
on the story when it appeared.
The first headline read: “U.S.
Suspension of Gzech Loan Warns
Others,” and the subhead read:
“But Government Denies New

Policy of Cutting Off Aid to

Eastern Europe.”

Gbviously this Step is tanta-

mount to a declaration to the
effect that anybedy in Europe
who expects economic aid of any
kind, or to trade with the United
States, or to buy surplus prop-
erty in the United States, or to
receive real consideration from
UNRERA, must subscribe to Mr.
Byrne’s foreign policy.

This policy was initiated for
all of Europe on the day that
Mr. Byrnes spent the weekend
with Leon Blum in Paris re
eently, following which the
French socialist leader declared
that since Hrance had received
900 million dollars from the Uni-
ted States, she would have to
erientate her foreign policy in
accordance with American
wishes.

fhe Czechoslovak story is, of
course, merely one example of
what is going on €very day, but
it is an indication of how the
subconscious mind of the Ameri-
can people is being worked upen.
day and ‘night. The Byrnes
speech was obviously to be de-
livered at a moment when the
anti-Soviet barrage was to be
even heavier than usual and
when a new Red scare, complete
with all the trimmings of in-
trepid reporters discovering mys-
terious agents of the Kremlin,
blossomed forth meonopolizing the
front pages of the gutter press.

I think it is useful to remen:
ber here, that the Canadian spy
scare, which incidentally led to
the breakdown of fundamental
Civil liberties, broke out during
the meeting of the United Na-
tions Security Council in Lon-—
don. These things evidently run
in patterms. There is a clearly
discernible design to them.

Brutality - logic of the system

perce brutality doesn’t come
just because police don’t like
the guy they're beating up.

That's part of it. They probab-
ly really don’t like the guy they
are slugging.

Police brutality flows from the
reactionary attitude policemen
ere forced to acquire by their
training and by orders of their
superiors. 5

It comes from the fact that
police are the first line defense
of the employers and big busi-
ness interests who dominate our
city and county governments
amd our state and national gov-
é€rmnment. :

The theory that police are neu-
tral as between labor and the
employers, is false, though pret-
ty.

Wot only are the majority of
individual policemen anti-labor
in their own thinking, but the
very system of the police make
it an instrument against work-
ing people.

The very system of laws which
the police enforce place prop-
erty above human rights. The
police are to enforce those prop-
erty r°ghts. That is what they’re
for.

Police training includes in-
structions about “mobs” and
“dangerous elements.” What are
“mobs” but picket lines in the
police mentality? What are “dan-
gerous elements” if not a group
of people with black skins or
tan skins or people carrying
placards denouncing some insti-
tution such as a bank—which

W ages and Inflation

the Nova Scotia coal miners er
te the underpaid textile workers
will result in inflation. This
Pamphlet by Buck should, there-
fore, be read and studied now
by everyone.

Union leaders especially can-
not afford to ignore this brier
but thorough treatment of tne
Wage-price inflation issue. They
will find in it the most effec-
tive’ ammunition in their fight

against low-wage employers and

their “theoretitions.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 5

Buck’s “Wages and Infia-
tion” is a must for everyone.
Workers should take bundles of
this excellent and timely paxm-
phlet into the factories, tne
mines, the lumber camps and
into every trade union meet-
ing in the country and get tens
of thousands of workers to
read, to study, and to keep this
long-overdue Marxist treat-
ment of 2 basic problem facing
labor under capitalism.

police are trained to believe is
hallowed “property”?

The police system includes po-
lice boards or commissions con-
Sisting of employers or lawyers,.
but never of plain ordinary
working men.

It includes Mayors who are em-—
ployers or lawyers or ex-judges,
but never simple fishermen or
carpenters.

The system includes a method
of election of lawyers and em-
ployers.

A simple electoral change, for
example, as the choosing of crty
councilmen by the vote of peo-
ple where they work instead of
where they live, would guaran-
tee the election of laboring men
in a Majority of districts,

Because laboring people are
organized where they work.
They're together, where they
work. But they are split and
scattered where they live.

So, in the final analysis, when
a cop slugs a worker on a pic-
ket line, just because he “didn’t
like the way the man looked at
him, there is a logic behind the
cop’s action that the cop him-
self may not always bé aware
of.

It’s the logie of the system.

The system is known as cap)-
talism.

(From ‘New World’)

Short Jabs » o eu

OS in a while some Senator wakes up from doing the Rip van
Winkle act in the Red Chamber. After the yawning performance
is over he uses his mouth for spreading gobs of the senatorial whim-

: Sies that pass ‘for Sagacity among the
Phoney.- Wisdom ! elder statesmen. We had a piece of this

: x senatorial sapience thrown at us in Van-
couver last week. Part of that excrescence on the body politic to
which good and faithful Party heelers are boosted to become a bar
rier to all forms of liberal legislation in our country, is one Senator
Harris. :

Im a speech he made to the Board of Trade here he displayedi
his credentials as a member of the Tapidly growing war monger
club. His words might have emanated from the lamb of war or the
wolf of peace, whichever way you Care to put it; they were sn echo
of the tones, of the belligerent “Bull” Halsley in Zuise of the poft
purrings of a peace-loving politician.

: Tike the brand of crude politicians spawned by the Liberal and
‘Tory parties in Canada, who Carry their quaking hearts on they
sleeves these days because of the militant attitude of Canadian labor,
he is not above insulting anyone with whom he does not agree.

With what he probably considers to be diplomatic suavity, he
exposes his low cultural standard by a statement in which he practi-
cally calls Stalin a liar.

As reported in the press, he said, “I didn’t believe the Russians
had the secret of the bomb! until T heard Stalin deny it the other
day.” Only a bumpkin without the slightest knowledge of the ameni-
ties of civilization coulda make such an insulting statement in dealing
with the leader of a great nation, a nation which has made efforts
towards the establishment of peace, greater than the efforts of all
other nations combined.

He went on to tell his hearers that Russia would use the bomb
“ruthlessly and without warning.” That is his opinion. It may be
correct and it may be wrone—but what is true, is that the American
imperialists DID use the atom bomb “ruthlessly and without warn-
ing.” Farris does net denovnce those imperialists who did use it!
“ruthlessly and without warning” because they are blood of his blood.
and flesh of his flesh. They did just exactly what he would have
done himself. :

And whethey Farris, with his backwoods culture knows it or
not, it is not the Soviet Union thateadopts a “truculent attitude” in.
in attempting 10 ‘establish world peace, but Farris and the gang of
imperialist monopolistic thieves for whom he is the mouthpiece,

That outburst of canting humbug from the leading Liberal in
this province reminds: me of 2 remark once made by Bob Edwards,
one-time editor of the Calgary ‘Bye-Opener.’ Edwards had attended
the funeral of a deceaséd western old-line politician. After the corpse
had been planted and the “eulogies” over, Bob was asked by 2
friend what he thought of it.

“Well,” he replied, “I learned what a statesman is. A statesman
is a dead politician. We need more statesmen.” :

Ee at this late day in the development of*capitalist society when

it is rotten it is beginning to stink like the atmosphere in the

neighborhooG of Pat Burns?’ abbatoir, new ways of doing business are

coming to light. One example of this has

New Methods ? received 4 great deal of publicity in the press

in the past week. Heretofore, if anyone had

occasion to collect wealth in any of its varied forms from another
person, it ~vas necessary that he prove his right to collect.

A worker in a shipyard who went to the storekeeper for &
spanner or any other tool, had to present a requisition from his fore-
man; if he tried to cash a cheque in a bank he almost had to be
identified by a justice of the peace, two preachers of the Zospel andi
a file of mounties.

But with the change of the times the new methods have placed
all these restrictions in the discard. All that is necessary now to
collect a million dollars’ worth cf jewellery, tapestry, gold and silver
art work and so forth, belonging to the Polish people, is to show a
carbuncle on the back of your neck or behind. your ear.

Of course that only works in 2 nunnery, nuns being sa simple in
the wily craft of trade and commerce. It did not go over in the Bank
of Montreal, and the treasures that were stored there are, we believe,
now on their way back to Poland where they belong to the people
of that country.

Wot so the million dollars’ worth of treasure that was left with
the Catholic nunneries at Ste. Anne de Beaupre and in Ottawa, fon
safe-keeping from the Nazis. It appears to have been less safe there
than if the Nazis got it, for these have ajready been miade to dis-
gorge much of their loot.

According to an alleged authority close to the Cardinal in Que-
bec, the Church has that million dollars’ worth of treasure, but re—
fuses to hand it over to the government elected by and representins
the Polish people.

Without commenting on the law regarding retaining stofen
Property and the remiss manner in which the RCMP operates,
except when they are after alleged “Communist spies,” we pass on
to find the cause of this “mysterious disappearance” actually in the
changed relations between the Church and the Polish people.

The steady flow from the earnings of the poverty-stricken Polish
peasants and workers is thinning out. The Church must recoup itself
somehow and seizing these treasures is one way. Among the great
monopolies the Catholic Church stands very close to the top.
It Owns more wealth in land, treasure and investments than any
of the great cartels.

Marx wrote in the preface to the first volume of Capital, first
edition, that “The English Established Church wilt more readily.
pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than attack on one-thirty-
ninth of its income.” The same is true of the Catholic Church and
teday the changes that are causing that thinning out in the flow.
of Peter’s Pence are, as Marx says in the place already quoted,
“signs of the times not to be hidden by purple mantles or blacit
cassocks.”

ERIDAY, NOVEMBER i5, 1946

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