Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - November 28, 1949, Winnipeg, Manitoba Freedom of Trade Liberty of religion Equality of civil rights Winnipeg free press printed and published Dally sunday by the Winnipeg free press company limited. 300 Carton Street Winnipeg. Manitoba. Authorised As class matter by the Post office department Ottawa. Victor Grant Dexter publisher. Editor. Win. Lord. Bruce general manager. Associate editor Winnipeg monday november 28, 1949 danger of Europe s cartels in a dispatch to the new York times recently or. Michael Hoffman that newspaper s distinguished european correspondent pointed up a new danger to the movement to liberalize european Trade. This danger is the re birth of those cartels and combines which before the War Lay like a dark Shadow across the Economy of the continent. A few figures will show the degree to which the Cartel system had spread before 1939. It is estimated that some Trade associations in Britain in the period 1929-37 were engaged in some kind of Cartel activity. Europe As a whole had some cartels or combines of which had their Headquarters on German soil and 800 in Czechoslovakia. The same feeling would not be out of place in Ottawa and certainly would be welcomed by the tax payers. The belie that waste exists that people Are paying Money for thing Money which they could conveniently and economically doing their cooking spend themselves undermines Faith in government and in the democratic process. It would be re assuring to hear that the Federal government is thinking of these things but no inkling of real Economy has appeared yet. All we have is or. Abbott s Promise of careful eco Onomy coupled with a Large the attitude of the average european government to car crease in expenditures Tell and combines has been very different from the official stand taken on this continent. In Europe the Cartel often has operated with full government approval and in countries a Lei e the line Between business and government is not National reticence clearly drawn Tivey have operated on Many occasions As an labor Speaks at the recent convention of the Congress of Industrial organizations the second most powerful instr neat of government policy As in fact the German Spon group on this continent the sorted cartels operated before the War. But whatever the organization followed the Lead of exact status of the Cartel or its particular organization it works As a general principle to fix prices limit or apportion output and allocate markets in fact to restrict and stifle Competition. The inevitable result of this is a general lower ing of efficiency the impairment of the Quality and the maintenance of obsolete Plant and equipment. There is the further changer that the Combine can do much to nullify the effectiveness of governments attempting to re Duce Trade barriers. Thus though a government May lower its tariffs a Cartel agreement will often cripple the effective Ness of this policy by its own agreement covering Sale areas and markets. This is the danger today in Europe and or. Hoffman notes that even quicker than the action of governments in Liberal izing Trade has been the growth of the Post War Cartel Struc Ture. Nor is this an academic problem for it is directly opposed to the integration of the european Economy and Means in effect a Brake on All the plans being made to stimulate Intra european Trade. There Are signs that Washington is Well aware of what is happening and that the . Representatives on the organization for european economic recovery will demand action against this form of Trade restriction before it is firmly entrenched. The Cartel is a grave danger at All times to the efficient operation of the capitalist system. It requires constant Effort and determination to smash it for it has shown sufficient resilience to survive wars and Trade depressions. Even before the end of the War there was Strong evidence that certain great business organizations were planning to restore the system which Hitler s invasion of Poland placed in abeyance though it did not destroy it. Or. Hoffman s article shows How far the Cartel s have been restored to Active operation. A the it is not interference with the internal Economy of sover eign. States for the United states to demand that this action be taken. It is a necessary precaution for the economic Well being of the West. Europe s strongest bulwark against communism is a High Standard of living. That Standard can Best be obtained by an efficient Industry operating under the freest possible conditions. It cannot be obtained by a Cartel system which maintains an artificial Price level operates inefficient plants in the wrong areas and prevents the Normal develop ment of competitive industries by its Power to Boycott and control. The senior and largest Union body the american federation of labor in taking direct action to expel communist dominated unions. The opening paragraphs of the Resolution expelling the United electrical workers Union clearly expresses the attitude toward communists of the governing body of the . It is stated we can no longer tolerate within the family of the . The communist party masquerading As a labor Union. The time has come when mask the . Must strip the from these false leaders whose Only purpose is to deceive and betray the workers. So Long As the agents of the communist party in the labor movement enjoy the benefits of affiliation with the ., they will continue to carry on this betrayal under the Protection of the Good name of the . The false cry of these mislead ers of labor for Unity and autonomy does not deceive us. In the name of Unity they seek domination. In the name of autonomy they seek to justify their Blind and slavish willingness to act As puppets for the soviet dictator ship and its foreign policy All its twists and turns from the nazi soviet pact in 1939. To the abuse of the veto in the u.n., the co inform attack upon the mar shall plan e.c.a., the Atlantic treaty and arms Aid to free nans. The workers must seek Refuge from a gang of men who Are without principle other than a debased loyalty to a foreign pow this should put a stopper if anything can. On local communist worthies who Are still trying to Nass themselves off As reprise la the Chilly Canadian by Bruce Hutchison e cannot read the swell ing record of those extra Ordinary extroverts the Roosevelt family without seeing at once the vivid contrast Between the nation Al characters of the United states and Canada. The american people Are obsessed with an almost pathological desire to Tell everything and avoid All privacy. The canadians Are afflicted by a reticence amounting almost to a disease. Through the writings of his wife and his. Former colleagues Iho in of Franklin Roosevelt Down to its intimate details has been Laid naked in the last years and the exploitation still goes on to satisfy the Public s insatiable curiosity. To Canadian Joss. A Ever been so exposed. I a Al is a startling fact that we we beast about our know More about Roosevelt a few Al Superior self restraint How years after his death than Mciever we should observe How know about sir John a. We read about the secrets Aid after half a Century that of of others. All canadians arc eager or. Mackenzie King we really to learn the most sacred details nothing at All because the Clanger from this Angle is less obvious than the pub lives of labor. Genuine labor rep lie policies of individual governments. It is not less dangerous because it is harder to see. Business statesmen or. Hoffman comments Are the great est need in Europe today. The psychology of the average european business Man is he remarks essentially protective. He has lost All Faith in his ability to face the problems of a fluid adjustable Enterprise it is this Faith which must be restored if the continent is to be restored to full and glowing health. Resent Tives would appear to have other ideas about the function of communists. Bad advice the London economist a quota lion from which is reproduced elsewhere on this Page has been Truman s evolution j1950 congressional elections on these policies and May seek re election himself on them in l952.iduncal1 As Canadian chairman Quick to see the weakness of some of the advice which or. J. S. Of and this entire programme is not Lluc Canadian Dollar Sterling Trade the evolution of president Trumal or Man from a fairly a when he was . Or 1 or has been giving to British Ghl says Duncan is Democrat into the vigorous to the presidency. Theh he economist in urging British Canada s income who gets the Money t Prophet of the welfare state is states has to reckon with at the More interesting new who is undoubtedly he Anatomy of the Dian income highly Complex and sensitive or its annual Dis Section in the new Green Book of the department of National Revenue. Through an inevitable time lag n such a Gigantic study the new figures Are two years old covering the returns for 1947. Thus the report on the income taxes paid by canadians is entirely out of Date since tax rates were drastically reduced Lait Spring. But the 1947 analysis of All canadians income could Boac Cepter broadly speaking today though total income has increased in the last two years. In any Case the last figures the government has compiled for 1947, Are the Best we have to go on and As usual they will prob ably Surprise most taxpayers As they certainly d destroy the calculations of Many politicians. Outstanding fact of the analysis the outstanding fact of the 1947 analysis is that most of the nation s income goes to people who consider themselves relatively poor and from this it follows of of a year As to those less than nature a Frozen Polar Sil ence which seems to creep Over us from the Arctic and the Geo Grapher May note that the same sort of chill seems to afflict the russians another Northern people who have managed to Bury their dictator alive. Nor can it be said As it is so often loosely said that we Are More reticent than our neighbors because we Are for of course we Are less than half Bri Tish by origin and the British people so famous for their will Scurei ivaness Are presently engaged in a fierce and repulsive investigation into the priv ate life of a helpless Young Prin knew have never inquired. One of the Civ of Roosevelt s life or or. Church ills while or. King a year out of office is almost forgotten and being a Canadian is quite her spy in one sense the Canadian in o fade into the snows of the Gat Sis tence on Protection for the inv Juneau. In the Canadian reticence ate of Public men is Admir Here is thus a Good Donl of hypo Nolc. We Are one of the few a Risy. Like a sunday in Toronto Lions which stand for a decent in any Case we do not know a privacy and against the Universal single Canadian alive or dead As conspiracy of Keyhole peeping. Other Peoples know their great hand no Era of fully understood on i be other history can be without a full knowledge of the men who dominated it. You might say for example that the English civil War cannot be understood unless we know the solemn absurd Ity of James Stuart any More than the american civil War can be understood unless we know the mys tical nature of Abraham Lincoln. A the same fashion the Roose velt revolution is quite Able being contradictory in consistent and haphazard until we ration still is Noi widely under probably because we have above 565.5 millions in to three dimensional life of Mac he brackets above and s22.s millions in the brackets Donald no portraits of the other see i Hose qualities in the Man who Mark of a wealthy Man less than h 10 per cent of canadians Are this left Only 5506.1 millions in Canada of wealthy. Considering the tax e brackets above a year levied on such a Man however Ugiss millions in the brackets he at least will not regard him self As wealthy. If the breaking Point is moved up to a year Only 5.62 Pel cent of canadians Are wealthy. The higher income figures carrying the figures farther Itji he government finds that of l1. Is found that Only 1.01 per taxpayers in 11147, of. Canal oco to above b real no ures a samples from a Down these sin with a various brackets men. This undoubtedly has con Vinced most of our Terly bored by what they find in history there have been no canadians Worth knowing. We have denatured our history squeezed All the juice out hidden he actors behind official masks and produced such a pallid show hat we turn to other countries in search of adventure when our own life has consisted of nothing else. We Aro i suppose a Duil people by nature but we Are not that Dull. Darina full Oil sooner or later some daring Fel Low will write the real life of a Canadian painting him warts and All. At first i venture to predict the Public will be founders which excite the Public same Public which delights in pry imaginations and As for the longing upon any american from of or. King which altered our Roosevelt to the Chc pc St baggage history it is a Grey and in Hollywood. For chill info fog. There will to shrill spinster 1 that Only 1.01 per taxpayers in clans have incomes of incomes under 5 1.66 5soo " under 51.000 under 000 under hence Only had incomes Over and 0.40 per cent have Over 000 Over cent have to 0.7 per a Cal. Have to Phenomena of our . A significant portent of the times. As or. Joseph Harsch Points out in the Christian science Moni Tor the original or. Truman was a rebel against the new Deal of his predecessor. From the time he took office through the midterm administration the British Colum election of or. Harsch Bia government is setting an sex writes he. Like Many of his Erst Jample which might Well be Fol waste in launching an investigation of waste and inefficiency in Public industrialists to make goods of course that most of the Federal a design desired by Canadian con Sumers and to sell then vigorously through salesmen who know their business. But " or. The ques Tion of Selling prices says the economist or. Duncan was less the Canadian consumer wants his goods at the lowest Price he can while Senate colleagues was Plain Lowed elsewhere. It is True the Canadian government by a Man who thought that once Courso that the British Columbia Java its these goods m the largest the War was won the United slates government is the most Quantity and has warned should and could get Back to in the history of Industry candidly that Vanie concept called normalcy and spends far More than any it must face such Competition. Up was anything but a provincial government would and of course Canada must buy of 5100 per far More British goods it it sex capita. However even in More to maintain anything like nominal doubt Juis present British Market. Less is room for More the interests which Are urging British exporters not to lower their Price Loo much not to offer real Competition to Cana Dian industrialists Are a few of these industrialists who enjoy Protection and intend to hang on to it if they can at the consumer s expense. They have found an Able but after the democratic party s defeat in the congressional elections of 194g or. Truman s whole attitude began to change. He Sud and this is especially True of the Donly turned Back to Roosevelt s National government. New Deal re christened it the fair Deal and proposed a sweeping Extension of Roosevelt s reforms. His total programme was announced not Long ago in his St. Paul speech one of the most significant he has Ever delivered. This programme includes a fair Price for Farmers Good wages and Equality of bargain ins Power for labor Protection for Small business and co opera Tives from being smothered by development of National resources for the Benefit of. All our assured income for old people and the Protection for families against Accident illness or Low Cost housing educational opportunities for better health and Medicine for everyone civil rights for everyone including negroes. As or. Harsch says policies stated in such Genc ral terms do not appear very controversial. Everyone is for a More abundant National life. But in his dealings with the Congress or. Truman goes far beyond platitudes into the most controversial proposals. He is obviously preparing to fight the no Canadian who examines the almost unbelievable Federal budget of nearly two and a half billion dollars can doubt that in the vast and proliferating machine of administration a great Deal of Money is wasted by duplication inefficiency and lost motion. When or. Hoover s commission investigated the affairs of the uni Ted states government it Esti mated that two or three billions could be saved without any impairment of the Public service. Whether a proportionate saving is possible in Canada it would be difficult to say. We Are making no Effort to find out. The parliamentary opposition is so weak that no real examination of the Public expenditures has been attempted for Many years and in any Case opposition parties which Are pledged to vastly increased expenditures Are in no position to criticize effectively the expenditures of the government. Thus waste has had easy ground to grow in and unquestionably it flourishes abundantly. The British Columbia govern ment evidently is shocked by what to finds in its Treasury a a Little of spokesman in or. Duncan. From the Golden books on Friendship by Woodrow Wilson True Friendship is of Royal lineage. It is of the same kith and Breeding As loyalty and self forgetting Devotion and proceeds upon a higher Prin Ciple even than they. For loyalty May be Blind and Friendship must not be Devotion May sacrifice principles of right Choice which Friendship must guard with an excellent and watchful care. The object of love is to serve not to win. Today s scripture for what shall it profit a Man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul Mark government s expenditures must be borne mainly by these people and cannot be borne by the Rich even if they were taxed into Pov erty. A few figures will illustrate this Point of the total income of taxpayers 63.12 per cent went to people Ith individual incomes under 000 a year s1.6s per cent went to the brackets under and oco. The total income of taxpayers in 1947 was millions. The income of the various brackets mentioned was As follows in millions 524 Over Over Over 7s7 Over 000 and 139 Over thus tha High income area which the government can tap for income is extremely Small and Al ready has been heavily tapped. For example the incomes above 5 under shoo 5800 to 5163.5 51.oco to 52.000 to 51.56d.2 to 53.000 502-1.0 55.000 to 5516.0 to ___520-1.9 520.000 of 556.2 to 502.5 of 543.0 Over 522.5 these figures reveal clearly How the bulk of the nation s taxable the government s experts have income goes to the smaller Brac Jalso studied the average income of sets. Thus of the total taxpayers i taxpayers in various occupations income of millions in 1947 mention was made of some of these we cannot bring ourselves to the ski fils Orpi the Hir. Of Ful Rev Platlan of our leaders Ami Tor the first Shock to shall their limes. It May be said Tom Litspy in Tho National re or Magazine time has imply been in apr. For first limn in print saying that to have failed shall find through its repro in the mechanical of writing Sonia Ives. That it is far More in Good biographies hut this will no a Persling than we had suspected explain the Canadian surphy to Are Lori enough now to on of silence. J remove Iho wrappings and take a this silence is part of our a look at ourselves. Non jury Art show by v. L. L. Tampie the incomes above non jury at Uncertain Lack of solidity troubles Ola cd 5509.1 millions and of this j auditorium this month i he onlooker he government in 947, i o o k to a kind . A category int a which a Ron 1742 in taxes. The on the difference bet of firm re a fall sections of later years will reflect or and the the 3949 lax reductions in these brackets and still More in Tiv lower brackets Many of w h i c h have been exempted altogether average in various occupations the sum of millions Wen to persons receiving under in a recent article on this Page but Only briefly and a More detailed year millions went to table May be of interest 510.000. One arbitrarily regards an 54.55s.3 millions to those receiving less than and Mil Canada and Sterling Trade from the London economist tors among birthdays Frederick h. Thick Holland Man. Born East Knoyle Wilts England nov. 28, 1879. If some labor backbench ers and left Wing publications Are to be believed the Only act necessary to put the British Dollar deficit right is that Canada should return to the Sterling not very explicit Way of saying that Canada should take Sterling for wheat sup plied to Britain. The suggestion blithely ignores a number of fac them the voluntary basis on which the Sterling area founded and the character of Canada s relations with the United Stales. Under present conditions to in clude Canada in the Sterling area would merely involve a new Drain on the Sterling area Dollar Pool since Canada needs dollars to buy from the United states both those goods which Britain does not make in comparable qualities and at comparable prices and those goods which Britain does make but which Are not fashioned to can Ada s taste. This problem of style and con Sumers taste was stressed last week by or. A. S. Duncan pres ident of Massey Harris and co when he outlined the tasks of the new Canadian Dollar Sterling Trade Board. This Board consist ing of leading Canadian manufacturers has been set up to help to 90.ss per cent to brackets under receiving less than 53.uoo occupy Linn average income lawyers doctors 57.56fi engineers and architects dentists osteopaths and chiropractors partners investors. A. Sole business proprietors salesmen forestry operators other professions j fishermen entertainers Farmers authors and writers pensioners estates employees unclassified nurses , trappers and guides the average income in thase groups was employees and their average in come were sub divided As follows armed services municipal government business provincial government Dominion government 52.093 educational institutions foreign governments other institutions private individuals agricultural enterprises the income of employees of All sorts thus averaged uralic in a nation or an Art. There Crane in. A Nuon or an Art. Nere a is no question Aso the Meni of certain Kinns of efficiency Appeal Virv perhaps of under the Rule of dictators or of cause of obvious deficiencies a thick is reveal on closer the democracies recognized evidences of Good technique1 fact during the War to the extent or perhaps portions of Coin Posi of utilizing the dictators methods in some Fields in order to defeat the authoritarian states. And no doubt exists As to the mortally Dull nature of Many democratic pro Ell More British goods in the Dominion. Or. Duncan urged that British exporters should have resident salesmen in Canada feeling the pulse of the Canadian Market and ready to Erica standards of salesmanship j on which canadians have been brought up. Some alterations of British design or. Duncan Assur a Ted would also be necessary it Bri Tain is to capture the 15 per cent of present american Trade with Canada which would bring Bri Tain s balance of payments into equilibrium. Selling prices on the question of Selling prices perhaps or. Duncan was less convincing. He advised British Export ers to sell below the corresponding prices of american made goods in Canada but to avoid arousing antagonism by Selling below the Price of Canadian made goods. In other words British exporters were exhorted to find an opening within the 10 per cent margin which devaluation has left be tween the Canadian and american dollars. It would not in any Case be very easy to gauge Tunis narrow entry and it might not be very Wise to attempt to strike it. S-1.34s 54.267 53.553 52. Big 52.537 reflects strength without suggesting that limited displays in the Art gallery Are the result of autocratic action because i do not Beni ave i would suggest that a completely open hanging of pictures such As the non jury show reflects not Only the drawbacks of democracy but As Well illustrates certain of its Virtues and strengths. Consequently to the person who. With some reason suggests that the current showing is largely mediocre i would reply that there Are a Good number of interesting Lions which Are Superior to the picture As a whole. I would group under the heading such items As a. S. Sutherland s old friends or Ruth Pybus s the Birch along with others. Another group which might be described As artists at. Play con of thai of mature and have apparent Arian ago of the lowered bars to some responsible work before Iho Public. On tic whole i Rio not. Admire tins behaviour any More than i admired the results. Wilful decadence in mature artists an All too common phenomenon today a not a particularly pleasing spectacle. Profusion of color As is regularly the Case with Art showings a few pictures in and exceptions to or Charm us for reasons general condemnation even if we Roi easily defined. Gilda Lugert s it. To support my Conlen mystery Stroot scorns to achieve Linn there Are pictures the artist intended As does Eugenia Gre Lien s Kenora Plage Laval of m. C. Holland Louse Francis Noden s ice Field con Cardy s hockey Mon Nruh Flowers either one of the Eye pleasantly while Hunt s pictures Gladiolus by Ellie Blakely e. W. Hatcher s Little sea scape and Rose Law s water colors of fruit. A group which seemed to emerge quite definitely could be fairly described As near misses that is to say pictures which though possessing some or even consider Able general Appeal fall Down in 51 me Way to such a degree that they cannot be described As Good pictures. Such works As George Bowler s Aurora on the ice where the animals detract from an other Wise quite Beautiful effect w. C. Mason s Kenora country where Good enough composition is betrayed by Over Strong color or Lois Mcleod s March where a in her English Garden at Wasagaming Margaret Doak has handled a profusion of color with consid Erable skill and in John Wilban Coupland s reflection an old trick is Given fresh interest by a Well handled Central figure. A Good criterion of either single works or collections is our reaction on the second or third visit. Obviously Good work improves and develops in our minds while a shallow production palls. I found this display definitely More inter Esting and significant at the Sec Ond examination and still More so at the third. And most important of All is perhaps the simple fact that a Large number of people tried their hand at painting ;