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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. JONUVEVOSAAVLNOESUTRASOTAUEUUEDTUUHRELTALAVGRHPTON AO EUHOSETTOATUUUUUDEARUSUAVANLAPOTOEOOTSTODUOe SAAS ATA

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.