Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 25, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights. Winnipeg free press printed and published Winnipeg free press company limited 300 Carlton Street Winnipeg Manitoba. J. W. Dafoe Victor Sifton president general manager registered at the general Post office London for transmission through the Post in the United King Dom at tile newspaper rate of Post arc. Winnipeg monday january 25, 1943. Or. Thomson replies or j. S. Thomson the new general manager of the Csc of inclined to submit in silence to attacks upon his and stration by spiteful and vindictive politicians and political he has a standing in Canada and a capacity to present that now that he has shown his readiness to take off will end to discourage attacks such As those which recently been directed against the system. Or. Thomson civil servant who has to take in silence the slings and critics relying upon his minister for his defence he is directing head of a corporation and he is within his in not tamely submitting to miss Ere and abuse. The Globe and mail continues loudly to blame All and Sun for the refusal of the Csc to open the National network to 1-. A Meighen and the conservative convention at Winnipeg on lec. 9. One Day it is the government suppressing free speech is the Burden of its sing song the next it is or. Coldwell re . Leader aider re and abetting the there is vindictiveness towards the Csc management. In these attacks the facts in the Case Are carefully nored. The mania of the Globe and mail for attacking the government is so overpowering that no heed is Given to the injury that May be done to the institution of great glue that it should be the concern of the Public to protect. Or. Meighen s speech at Winnipeg and the proceedings of he conservative convention were purely political and Politi broadcasting Over the Csc National network is controlled a White paper drawn up and issued by the Csc in 1939 is White paper was based upon the unanimous recommend of the radio committee of the House of commons on which apolitical parties were represented. The White paper with the approval of the conservative de the other political parties provided that free network time sold be Given to All parties during general election campaigns that in Between these campaigns no political broadcasts Bould be carried Over the National network. The Globe and mail is invited to note that this Tubich was responsible for the refusal to or. No Ade by the government and that Only in a technical sense can management of the Csc be held responsible. The decision Bottom was the decision of All the political Jive Liberal . And social credit. After the outbreak of War the Csc without consulting Thi decided to eliminate All political broadcasts from Thi Vork but the parties demurred and after conferences be their representatives and the management it was de ded to continue the free use of the National network during a neral election Campaign but to continue the ban during the serval Between these campaigns. This conference took place irly in 1940 when the Campaign which ended in March was list beginning. Thus the regulations stood when or. Meighen Nade his application to or. Thomson who had just taken Over be management of the Csc. Under the circumstances the re usal of the Csc was inevitable. The suggestion has been put Forward that the government intervened to prevent the Public from hearing what or. Thomson i his address in Halifax has described As the Swan song of an elder Canadian statesman who spent the greater proper Ion of his last Public address As Leader of a great political arty in demonstrating the of the or. Thomson has made a categorical denial of this insinuation. Not slightest attempt to says has been made by any govern Jent official or minister of state to influence the policies of the 3c. This follows hard upon the similar statement by John Rierson of the National film Board in reply to or. Hepburn s tement that the government for its own glory had exploited in National films. These two declarations Are a tribute to the Overn mint s recognition of the limitations placed upon its Owers by considerations of fair play and Good taste. It would of be difficult to imagine How different would be the attitude certain Public men. Whom it is not necessary to name towards Ese agencies of publicity if they had the Power to control them that members of the government upon occasion employ radio to make Public statements in connection with the aspects of the War Effort does not come into the question at All hese Are National not party statements. There would be Stanton eos Public resentment with very few dissenting Oices if any Cabinet minister were to take advantage o Lese openings to make a party deliverance. Members of the government have the same first Page preferences in the news papers when they announce Public policies. This is publicity it it does not necessarily mean political advantage certainly if it is True As certain opposition newspapers gloating a declare that every time the government tightens up its restrict on even though these May be essential to our War Effort i its another Nail into its own coffin. The Choice by the conservatives of a new Leader created a actuation of such Public interest that it suggested that a Varia Iai in the regulation affecting political speaking would be it hence the invitation to or. Bracken for his policy each. Or. Coldwell has claimed an equal privilege and it As been granted. No doubt or. Blackmore one of these gets will be painting a Utopia which social credit will bring will put or. Coldwell s fancy picture completely in the bade. Or. King we Trust will abstain leaving the Field to the aspirants. The whole question of political discussion Over the radio Between election campaigns has thus been re opened and it will no doubt be remitted to. A parliamentary committee for consideration and action. Meanwhile these As aults upon the Csc should cease though this is too much to Tope for from the venomous and malignant Globe and mail new members they have obtained collective agreements with employers who never before would recognize unions. But with these new gains labor must assume new the unions if hey Are to survive must show restraint and Good common sense. They must realize that in the eyes of Many canadians they Are on trial. How they act during this rial is going to condition the Atti tude of the Canadian people to Ward them for Many years to come. Many unions Are of course get Ting on splendidly with the Job of winning the War. They Are accepting the War As a Challenge of them and Are doing everything in their Power to increase production so that the War can be won. If the political axe grinding of the politically ambitious Union leaders is allowed to bring the whole labor movement into disrepute Cana Dian labor will receive a setback from which it will require years to recover. The Little men come through anyone who glances through the lists of contributions to the Canadian Aid to Russia fund published in our news columns must be impressed with the More than generous response of oui economic under crust of the people who have so Little but who Are giving so much. To men and women in comfortable Circum stances a contribution of or does not mean a great Deal. But quoth the Raven never More Tripoli Tunis and the end of the african line Empire achievements Herbert s. Morrison Ber of the British War Cabinet has pledged the willing Ness of the British to co operate in the plan outlined by american statesmen to achieve Post War Aims for or. Morrison said the myth of sell sufficient Empire has gone the Way of other historical Many illusions held in ignorance about the British colonial Empire Are dispelled by a Reading of the colonial Survey Given in the British parliament by lord Cranborne the former colonial Secretary very recently made lord privy Seal. The i colonial Empire is neither Mori bund nor neglected. It is dynamic not Static. The striking feature of the problems a necessity for the socialize to spend a Dollar or so for himself. A Tion of our War industries was not stressed by or. M. J. Coldwell in his National broadcast to men with Large families and on Friday evening presumably Small incomes it Means that their household must definitely deprive itself something in order to Send help to our russian allies. Many of these people until Only recently were unemployed and on Relief. Many of them Are seasonal who know what a Hole periodic layoffs can make in their meagre resources. Many of them ave relatives in Russia and this f course makes them particularly sensitive to this Appeal. Never he less it would be easy for them o find excuses for not giving or or giving less. If the rest of the Community had done As Well As its poorest people the contributions o the fund would have been much greater to Date. Reading these lists we Are truck too by the splendid response of Rural Manitoba. The people in our Small towns and on because he foresees the winning of the War As things Are although the . Has been declaring for the past two years that without that policy Canada s War Effort would be a failure. But the . Leader did suggest again that the but the . Leader does not pro pose to ease the tax burdens. Free expenditure is his and that inevitably Means that the present rate of taxes will continue. The beautifully satisfactory conditions which he proposes to bring about in Canada would be subject to that necessity and most people will say that it rather spoils the picture. Money will have to be government made a great mistake spent the War to ensure pm Jur farms have come through handsomely. They have held up heir end. With the smaller contributions which Are not included n the published lists have come Many sincere and moving letters. Old age pensioners whose lot is particularly hard have sent in contributions of a Dollar or two with their regrets that they could not afford More. They could not afford to Send what they did. It meant that they would have to eat less or do without some Comfort. But they were moved by the plight of the civilian population of Russia and they gave. The people of Russia will be grateful for All that we Are Able to do for them but they will be particularly grateful to the people who though they have so Little have Given so much. In utilizing the skill and ability of Industrial and financial leaders in support of the War Effort and he adhered to his entirely impractical proposal that instead of using the developed skill of those men to should have appointed a Large number of National adm Nistra the men whose services the government has used have All been under the control of the govern ment. But they did propose to become members of the civil service and or. Coldwell s plan would have meant their Elimina Tion and the appointment of men in the civil service As administrators in. Connection with War work and War finance. The civil service has very Many Able men but their training has not equipped them for the great administrative and constructive tasks that have been so brilliantly discharged by the Dollar a year men whose ser vices or. Coldwell depreciates and whose character he column rates by his insinuation that they have in serving their country had selfish interests to defend and Advance. Kne of the Best things the War has done for Canada the . Leader evidently believes b 0 labor and politics last november workers n the Ford Plant in Windsor went o strike follow ing a dispute Over whether women who were paid to to clerical work were doing Man Al labor. The United automobile workers Union insisted that they the company said they wore As a result of this dispute Phich could have been settled in Jin hour or so by any reasonable Onci Viator one of Canada s great War plants was Idle for a week week or. Justice Mctague Man in whom Canadian labor a limited interest in Windsor local politics but the local influences prevailed. The free press has taken Strong objections to the injection of party political differences into Muni pal elections. Once the civic political Arena becomes a Battle ground for partisan politics there s no telling to what extremes the actions will go to win elections. Apparently even the War Effort great Confidence reported that investigation showed that the was right and the Union wrong in this dispute. A commenting upon this affair Teodato saturday night has this say Case is not improved by fact that the time of the coincided with that of the pal elections in Windsor that there is reason to sup that the strike was called with a View to influx the voting. The general users of the Union do not seem 9 have been Verv enthusiastic it having doubtless Only self is not immune when political ambition becomes rampant in the Abor movement. But there is More involved in this Windsor strike than even the important question of civic elec dons. The whole future of the Canadian trades Union movement is thrown into the balance. The leaders of Canadian labor have said time and again that they Are solidly behind the Canadian War Effort. They have said that strikes should to avoided in wartime. In recent weeks they have shown that these High sounding phrases Are not in Accord with reality. The Ford strike was bad enough but the steel strike is far worse. Canadian labor has made Grea strides since the War began. The unions have gained thousands of or. Pierrepont m of fat Canada will be deeply shocked by the unexpected and untimely death of or. Pierrepont Moffat the . Minister to Canada who has served not Only his own coun try but ours so Well for almost three years. The period of his service in this country has been one of very special importance for the Impact and strains of War have created new and difficult prob Ems the solution of which in a manner wholly acceptable to both the United states and Canada has Deen vital for the continuance and deepening of the great Friendship existing Between them. Or. Of fat s contribution has been an out standing one and Canada will look Back upon his years in Ottawa As having been marked with significance and lightened by the genuineness of the understanding which he brought to Bear upon his duties. Winnipeg was fortunate enough to have had or. Moffat visit it on several different occasions Anc during his stays Here his speeches have been marked by Wisdom comprehension and humor. He made friends Here who often spoke of him and were eager to have him again and it is a Rentable hat a career Only just getting under Way should thus be sharply broken off. He had served a Long is to establish a system of regi mentation restrictions and controls. This provides what he re Gards As a perfect Opportunity to secure such regimentation in peace time therefore he would carry Over the controls and restrictions into the Post War period not just to Aid the transition from War to peace for which some controls will be necessary but As a permanent system. Planning controls for All human Enterprise is the Ideal of the ., rather than stimulating individual Effort by Freedom of Enterprise and the ability to earn a deserved Reward. The serious Post War problems cannot be dealt with under the system of pre War or. Coldwell declares and he would perpetuate the Spe Cial wartime restrictions Anc agencies. He believes also that a fundamental policy is the socialization of the banking and financial in order tha the government May fully Contro the nation s currency and credit credit on the basis of party regu Larity which would be the govern ing principle under this delightful system is not Likely to Appeal to any Canadian who has courage enough to think that he is capable of attending to his own affairs in a free world. Or. Coldwell looks Forward t plans involving huge expenditure in that Happy future when he will Lave charge of the affairs of can Ada. By these Means everybody is going to be made Happy. See ploy ment and to achieve important social objectives but it will have to be done with a due sense of the rights of individuals As Well As of the rightful responsibilities of the state. Or. Coldwell envisages a future in which the individual will be cogs in a vast state machine he will find himself opposed by those who hold that the state is not the master of Man but his agent for the bettering individual and National conditions. A Koth during the War and after wards the government o Lis country needs to be in the ands of men who can keep their get on the ground they need to e realists who pursue definite objectives in a practical Way. I hey were Given to taking flights n the Clouds they would wreck he War Effort after the War the would not be tolerated if for the Ard and difficult problems tha beset us they could offer Only utopian solutions. Or. Coldwell suggests that unemployment can be overcome by increased activity in every Branch f production from our resources Anada will be fortunate after the Var in having a remarkably High apprenticeship in statecraft for he Nad been a member of the . Foreign service for More than Twenty years but it was Only now that the Flower of his capacity and his experience was being Given an Opportunity to Bloom fully. We As canadians can count ourselves fortunate that during these past few years the Diplomat responsible for our relations with Washington was a Man of or. Moffat s stamp and to his col leagues and to his immediate let us add the presi Dent himself who has lost a Brilliant and faithful servant the National sympathy is extended today. He says what the Large expend Ture of Money has done in provid ing full employment during the War does he give any consideration to where the Money of his Post War projects would com from is he going to bring Down out of the skies people have extremely Good reason know where the Money that now being spent comes from everyone and not merely Thos with Means is paying to the Limi of his in Man cases beyond them. There is Gen eral willingness to do this temporarily for the High purpose which canadians hold before them but there is also a Genera looking Forward to a future which the individual will be Able Washington. Productive capacity. But or. Soldwell s address showed no recognition of the fact that in creased production is no solution at All for unemployment unless it can be maintained and it can Only maintained if we can find sufficient outside markets for our surplus products. We have had for years an embarrassing surplus of wheat. What Good would other achievements in production be to us if we were Only to be worried with More surpluses which we could not dispose of on a basis advantageous to us to our customers and to the whole process of world wide Trade. In the world of to British Empire said lord Cran borne was its diversity of Peoples and conditions to Deal with which we had been obliged to establish and operate systems of administration distinguished above All by variety flexibility and elasticity. We had no Cut and dried the process has been one of Grad Ual evolution what was now called a social conscience was something comparatively new in the world. It would be absurd to claim that our motives throughout had been merely altruistic. But with the nineteenth Century the that As an advanced nation we had a moral responsibility for the welfare of the backward Peoples of the Empire came to be Gener ally accepted As a basis of British colonial policy. The old ideas of exploitation gave place to the new doctrine of trusteeship. We could fairly claim that in this respect Britain was ahead of the rest of the world. A ultimate objective of the a British policy was and is to promote self government in the colonies. Maintaining this policy kept the colonial Empire a living organism constantly changing and developing. To achieve the Politi Cal aspects social and economic it can be admitted that the As sumption of these and Many other responsibilities has Cost the British exchequer heavily. Each Cost has often been too great to be paid out of colonial funds. Colonies that Are poor also require costly facilities in development. Under a new Era of financial assistance arranged for All the colonies some years ago the Imperial exchequer contributes a year to carry out approved schemes put up by the colonial governments. This Imperial vote is to be greatly in creased after the War. Colonial territories have not usually been taken Over As War conquests but often at the request of their Peoples. They have been fitting into the strange system that has grown up sometimes haphazardly but practically and in their progressing state cannot be left alone or deserted. To say they should be pooled in some new International Organiza Tion is much too simplified and deprives their political and social growth of All the experience gained while bringing them along. H Morrow no country will be Able to turn itself into a utopian Para Dise by Domestic expedients How Ever ingenious they May be. Thus unemployment is not just a Domestic problem to be met by activity in As the . Leader appears to suggest. It is fundamentally an inter National problem. Or. Coldwell was on Safe ground however when he suggested the need for changes to remove the constitutional difficulties that will otherwise stand in the Way of necessary Post War policies. With out disturbing the Basic principles and rights on which confederation depends he said parliamentary authority must be established to Deal with the grave National prob lems beyond the peace. This is quite True and recognition of the need should be sufficiently Gen eral to bring the Early action that is required. Even with those Ham Pering constitutional difficulties removed the Post War problems will tax the Best thought and efforts of the Canadian people. Spheres had to be developed. Education As the basis of responsible citizenship was one of the most pressing and has always involved in the widest sense having to Cope with remedying a great Deal of illiteracy. Lord Cranborne instanced How tremendous the work done where the problems Are so different As Are those met with in Nigeria the Gold coast Tanga Nyika Nyasa land Uganda Mauritius the West indies Northern Rhodesia among less advanced colonies. In the medical services a mass attack was needed requiring trained staffs supplied by the colonial people themselves trained in their own schools and hospitals. Social Security had to be established but it rested so far As the colonial Empire was concerned upon economic Security and this in turn rested upon agriculture. Health education and agriculture were not really separate problems but three aspects of the same prob the provision of a better and Fuller and the British left their col onial Peoples to the disposition of an International body such As the league of nations where would those Peoples find them selves today or if the demand made to give Malta to Italy or Cyprus to Greece or Gibraltar to Spain had weakly been concurred in by the British what would be the strategical dilemma of the United nations in the Mediterranean today lord Cranborne could draw upon Clear facts to vindicate what his tory shows to be the record of the British colonial Empire. Too much reticence has concealed the Colo Nial Progress but limelight shed on it shows How startling has been the rate. The facts Are indisputable and Are not unconcerned with admitted mistakes in policy. As those facts Are they confirmed lord Cranborne when he said in parliament of one tiling i am sure the British Empire is not coming to an end. The work that we have ill informed criticism a Ottawa one of the most curious criticisms of Canada o appear in a . Newspaper was obtained in a recent column in he Detroit free press by that newspaper s Washington correspondents Clifford Prevost and Radford Mobley. The latter is not known in Canada but or. Revert a former president of the National press club in washing on is a former Canadian. Olumn appearing january 1g, hese writers remarked we be of an ally in this War which is not co operating. It s Canada. Shunning All efforts of the Ameri can state department to bring her nto the lend lease orbit she is pursuing a policy of paying As she they report that on excellent the state department does t like the Way Lanada is acting. They also re port that a lot of new dealers hink Canada should be brought within the orbit of lend lease i.e., As a debtor to the United states. Since Canadian policy with re Spect to the United states has consistently sought to avoid allowing Canada to become a Post War debtor of the United states and since this is a matter of foresight in which canadians have taken Pride these criticisms have a strange sound in Ottawa. To avoid piling up War debts which Are Likely to confuse and distort Post War relations has seemed a common sense policy for Canada to follow. It is a policy that can Ada has followed with a certain amount of stubborn insistence for at several stages since the War started it would have been easier for Canada to Start borrowing Money or goods from the United states. The fact that Canada has not borrowed from the .a. To fill out its War requirements has meant added privation for the people of Canada. Can it be tha any substantial responsible Opin Ion in Washington believes tha Canada is not playing the game by refusing to borrow Money or take lend lease assistance from by . Messes. Prevost and Mobley re port that such opinion exists. But before anyone in Canada takes heir report at full face value a Canadian should recall two Points the Detroit free press has been opposed to the new Deal and what seems to be a criticism of Canada May have been intended by its Washington writers As an oblique attack on the new dealers of the Roosevelt administration. Their report to summarize its argument is an accusation that the dealers of Washington Hope of bring Canada to Heel by making his country a debtor of the .a. 2. The Detroit free press has for years exhibited an anti British Jias a fact helping to explain its relish in seeing Britain brought into the position of being heavily indebted to the .a. For lend lease goods and to explain its Dis May in seeing Canada Able to re fuse to borrow in the .a. For War purposes. Detroit paper s criticism j. Rested upon a series of in accuracies and led it into other errors some of which Are 1. It states that or. King and or. Roosevelt Are not seeing Eye to Eye in this War on economic policy. Or. King and or. Roose velt personally arranged the Hyde Park agreement in april 1941, on which Canada-. Financial relations have been largely based. That agreement is apparently better known in Canada than in the United states. It provided that Canada and the United states would buy heavily of War materials from each other and that . Components of Canadian production for Britain would not be paid for by Canada but would be charged to British lend lease account. The Agency that buys War materials for Canada is the department of munitions Anc Supply the Agency that buys can Adian War materials for the United mately balances. That the United slates leases some of the Canadian oods it purchases Here is Well mown. Canada likewise reserves the right to use give away or re sell what it purchases from the United states. 2. The statement that Canada re tha this two Way War Trade approx states is War supplies Ltd. Gently or. Finley disclosed had to do is Only beginning. We the citizens of the British Empire whatever our race religion or color have a Mission to per form and it is a Mission which is essential to the welfare of the world. It is to ensure the sur Vival of the Way of life for which the United nations Are fighting and a Way of life based on Freedom tolerance Justice and Mutual understanding in Harmony with the principles of the Atlantic charter. In that great Mission we must not and shall not from the Golden books from Auld Langjr syne by Robert Burns should Auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to min ? should Auld acquaintance be forgot and Days o Lang sync we Twa Hae Rin about the Braes. And up d the Gowans Fine but we be wander d Monie a weary fit sin Auld Lang syne. We Twa Hae Paidl t i the Burn frae Mornin Sun till Dine but seas Between us braid Hae Roar d sin Auld Lang sync. And Here s a hand my trusty frien and Gie s a hand o thine and Well Tak a right guid Willie Waught for Auld Lang syne. And surely Stop s being paid on the barrel head for All that she contributes to the United is grotesque. During 1942 Canada gave away to Britain and Allied forces in Brit so theatres of War goods to the value of that is a Large sum in its own right and t should not offend the americans to say that it represents proportionately More economic Aid than the United states gave freely to he United nations in 1942, and that no claim to Post War repayment in Money or a kind As the United states did n its lend lease operations. 3. Also erroneous is the state ment when Canada Sells to eng land or Russia she is paid Accord ing to the most reliable of Diplo Matic sources from lend lease funds advanced by this recent War shipments of Cana Dian goods to England have gone As part of the billion Dollar gift and a billion dollars is one eighth of the entire Canadian National recent War shipments of Canadian goods to Russia have been financed in three ways a As a charge on the gift to Britain fund and this and other similar facts show that the gift was a donation to the United nations rather than purely a gift to Brit Ain. Canadian tanks have gone to Russia As a charge on the gift account b As a Purchase made in . Funds by War supplies Ltd. This portion is less than half the Canadian Supply going to Russia c As a straight Sale be tween Canada and Russia under the credit arrangement entered subsequent to the Anglo russian Mutual assistance treaty of june yell be your pint and surely i la be mine and Well Tak a cup o kindness yet for Auld Lang sync birthdays Norman. Brandle bin Earth Man born Moorefield ont., Jan. 25, 188o. Adam j. Smith Dand. Man Bora Brussels Jan. 25, 1865. Than Worth of munitions and supplies and the rate is steadily increasing. Canada has retained about 30 per cent for its own forces at Home and abroad. About 50 per cent has gone to British theatres of combat and All shipments since the exhaustion of British holdings of Canadian Dol Lars Early in 1942 have gone As a gift. About 20 per cent has gone to the United states and to Ameri can theatres of War As purchases a War supplies Ltd. Or. Ilsley once called foreign Exchange i.e., . Dollars one of the scarcest of the sinews Canada has Cut Down sharply its civilian imports from the .a., banned pleasure travel by canadians in that country and steadily increased its exports to the United states of materials that have greatly aided the . War Effort. Canadian orders of War materials prior to Pearl Harbor Day greatly helped . Industry to develop its War footing. Canada has confined its expenditures of . Dollars strictly to War sup plies and the most essential civil Ian goods. To have an american paper come along at this late Date and accuse Canada of not playing the game because it refused to borrow from the -a. Seems from Here like kicking a Friend. War industries have produced and delivered More scriptures the counsel of the lord stand Etc for Ever the thoughts of his heart to All generations ;