HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1943-7-28, Page 2GEORGE A. D U2W
Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party
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ETHEL
Ret and Mrs S. H. ll:enton of
Winaipaci ilecee arrived a' the United
parsioeinece. tadnetleei tit.'.? 1,e held
on Friday eventing, July 39th.
Mrs. Ed. Call "et art eanieeee ,al
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CINE
Ms, maffrelt.11•1111111171‘.
i a ter ttenerilicitis in
Lieetcwel heel/fiat on Saturday last:
We wish her 'a speedy recovery.
Mrs. Frank Hunter of Oshawat,.
Miss Marlon Hunnte•r and Miss Dorris
Bents are holidaying with Mr, and
?lira: Jos. Antes. They also visited
':re.' Cecil ,Bateman' in Listowel,
&Ars. Alex Dunbar enol Douglas
have been visiting for a week. with
Mr, and Mips, Bete Whiti,eld near
Listowel.
Congratulations are extended .Mr.
and Mrs. 1Vilfred Hoy tion the
P reeentl .
birth a a ecru y
Mr. and -111ri . Bill Flood of Tenant
fort? *emit a few days holidays .with
friends here.
Miss Helen Whitfield of Listowel
spent the mist week the guest of !!!
Miss Mary Dunbar,
Mr. Kenneth Thompson, who has
jeined'No. 2 Army University Course
re;=ietering in Toronto, is taking his
Basic traininngiu Brampton at
'pre -sent, was home .for the week end.
:He is the yarn of 121 r. and Mrs, II1tv1u.
Thompson•. •
Mr. end h'Lre. Welland Kreuter
have arrived hone from theta honey-
moon and were entertained to an
otti-,time "diveree" het Tuesday
eight.' We sal extend our :best,
'gleams.. to them.
Master Verne Bowes is spending a
holiday with his aunt Mrs, Asa1re'e
Shaw of Brigden at prettec1
L,A.C. 'Stanley Alexander of Wen -
bon was home over the week en•d,.
Mr. and Mits. D. H. Aclarnas .of
New Market and ,MT, anti Airs. Vera]
Matthews, 'of Toronto were recent
visitors 'with Mr. and Mie. W. C.
Stevenson 10th con.
Menses .W]n. Love, Eleaold Love
and Master Hug'11ie spent afeiv days
In Toronto recently.
.BUY wA.R.,SAViNG STAMPS—
Follows Father as CCP.% Vice -President
Ktric A, heelie (left),'' newly
appointed vice-president and
Comptroller of theCanaciiatlVacific
Railway Company; 15 carrying on
i family tradition in that high
aosition fir his father, John Leslie
right), was vice-president and
Comptroller of the company from
1926 until 1928 at which time he
became vice-pi'e'sideiit "offinance
Ind treasurer, a position he retain-
ed until 1982 when he retired after
more than helf a century of rail-
*as work, Tee nor v'ice•president
arid comptroller, is 48 years old and
hes been 'associated with the cool- "
pahy•for 80 years.; Iris record was
bi+oken- by:. attendance at McGill
University on a Canadian Pacific
scholarship and three years over- '
'Seat service in the Great War al
a 'lieutenant with the Canadian,
Artillery. He won two medals as' �a
student— the Governor General e
Silver Medal at. Montreal High
School and the British Association
Medal in transportation at11omit
Univerei where hegraduated froth
theP'a t at APP ed Science.
THE BRUSSELS POST
Country
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W4dmeeclay, July 29th, 1t1
ditor S ows ocialism
Leas t'0
.) y�i L)ictat � .' ren
lrStatesman], Bowmanvill"c
Two -Minto on socialism C: C. �', by George James, Editor Canadian
How Socialism Af f
cots How Socialism A
f feces
The Trade Unionist
ilio Will Control
The Controllers?
In car last talk we asked "Who will control
the controllers?"
One of the great strengths o"- democracy
ltas been that it sought to leave ',sad loan to
lead his 0r11 life as free as passible from out-
side interference, Government or othernls•e,
The. one limitation on the indivddt�ual has al -
Ways been that the exereitee of his freedom
must nttt interfere with the freedom of others.
\o l•ii`e has'. grownmole complicated, theclanger
of one mat's. freedom Interfering with that at
cinother Las inoveased, , and we have found it
neoeseary for the State, theca represents all the
people, le exercise more and more cent+o], even
it. peacetime. Supporters of the individualist
systenr recognize this.
To ensure that the exercise of power by any
individual shall not be .excessive, ,the State,
representing all` classes, analmtatnis itself in the
position or judge, controller, regulator, arbitrator,
tied, in the mains; 11 •coniiin'es Itself t.e these roles.
It closes, of course, supply numerous public services
such as non-oompetitive natural monopolies,
notably water' and light, but It has expanded its
economic acttivibies gradually and has been
content to act in the mann as the regulator and
not the mainspring.
AN IMPORTANT QUESTION
What will happen if it steps out in a big
'-'ay to ,,pa'ate virtually everything itself? If the
regulator becomes the mainspring; .then who
regulates•? The answer eau be got quite clearly
by looking at Germany and. Italy. In these
cou-drics, o.ce the politi•oal • p'ower began to
operate the economic machine It at once b`eaitte F
clear that -complete regiauealtation teas n•eces`sary, •
with the necessary force belhitid to makesure
that the decrees of . the dictatorial power were
carried mil. The question, of eohteolling the
controllers here, of course, never even atwse—who
power ltund t'el,tilate or control lite supreme 1 ort et do
the State? Once the regulator becomes the '
mainspring then the mainspring has nothing to
regulate it •
This seems so clear t114at 'one wcndc}s why
the Socialises do not see it. They cid in fact,
see that there Is a problem and try to answer
it, but being unversed in, the practical -work-
ing of Government their answer is' entirely
unpraoetcal and uurealistim. They fall back on
such statements as "Tire principle ,f Cabinet
responsibilities' or ultimate democ vile- ,control'
must be retained in the rnniaing orf estate •
industry." But any. :ane who will reitect on
the way Government is carried on will realize
that "ultimate de ,00ratic controb" must be
entirely con0ned ° to principles and policies
and cannot possibly have to do with the de
tails of day-to-day business. Ito other words
a fete men comprising .a •cosnnntttes of Parlia-
ment fthe iGabinet) must matte all the day-to-
day deeistnns;
' BUDGET AS AN EXAMPLE
Take as an 1Uoustration the budget, We all
know that la practtoe (,and it is the ond'y
practical Tray) the :Minister of Finance and
'his' a pert?iasllsganite prepare the budget, that
it is approved ily the •'Oabinnet and then goes
before 4J10 Parliament, witere the Govern -
meet majority puts it through. Under the
sacla1at t tan it:Istead of lire Government con-
tinna:, :100lt :in the, lnmin to regulate measures
• to direct and control Dither people, it will be
carrying on QMI-greait hulk DE the n,aLion:'s
busineos itself, and, to suggest that there will
lie . 'udti'nuate deenocrahiic control" be merely
Playing with, words. 'Frankly, the situation
nu that a felt- men, 'w'ithtou't only one to control
thetlt, -w111 run the .whole show. There Will be
aro one to control the ' oontvellenS, and • roiiient-
h01 that' the proposed contro11ats almost cer-
irarely be Men . witarout 'any practical
e:,pel ,epee y11 affairs, And yet they are Teed/
10 a5s01ae responsibilities from which c01n-
peleo11 1'1'111,11 with a lbfettme of trotting 'arid
experience world shrink, -
'The farmer
In this talk we shall deal with eoetalisia 100
it would affect farmers, After stating that
the major proposalof socialism is the public
a ownership and :'operation of suet things as
banking, railways, dour mills, pulp and paper,
heave chemicals, the Research CnurmiLtes of
the League for Social Reconstruction in its
Poole, ,'Democracy Needs Socialism," says]
"Agriculture ,reta]l trade Indus ries which
ere really competitive, and small businesses
will probably con•ti'nue for some time to Pe
privately . owned, although their output and
its distribution will be related' to the uatioual
plan,
It will ,be cold comfort t0 tn0 fanner who
wishes to , have Mlle control over his own
affairs to be told that. "probably'—not cer-
fainle— he will be lett in contiroi ef' hie own
land. It will be still corder comfor;Cho have
the words "for some time'' added,
however, one certainty—that is, "output and
its disti'tbrition'will be related to the national
plan.'
PART OF CONTROLLED SYSTEM
What is meant by the phrase "related to
Um national plan It means, of course tilat it
*ill be part of a controlled system. It could:
not be otherwise, ' because the ileal objective
of 'socialism is the control' of production and
distribution. In other words, tate farmer may
continue to produce but ,the Government will
look after the business end. by taking over and,
controlling the distribution- of hip; products,
All this is to be done whether the individual
farmer hires it or not. It is obvious that this
totelly.'ttrialdsregtarde what .becomes of the
farmer's independence eland -,personality e es-'. a
factor in t1:e life; of- the, country.
MEANS OMECK'ON PRODUCTION
There is'another point in this type of coli -
trod whi',lt should not 'be overlooked If the
bureaux -race is•'to know what a farmer is
doing with his iproducti, and is to snake sure
he places all ;his production at the disposal.
d
+ Government •nmteut a ewCies, sus indicate by
of .,its _,atei g
"Democracy Needs Socialism," it will be
n!e+nesseey to deck :.:.every fernier's preduet pre
end prevent Mill . cireanaventimg the Govern-
ment's arrangements for disposing ,of it.
"Gestapo" method's which 2011 necessarily
have to he used Can be left to ' the imagination,
:.The gecialists,' of course, would question
this, Mr. T. C. Douglas, 'Deputy Leder ..cif •
the C.C.F., for example, would pct it 1if-
fereetly. He would isay that the s'ocial'ist plan
means giving workers, farmers trade union-
ists, .consumers, a real -voice in managing
their own ,affairs. The C,C.F., he says, will
establish a p'lan'ned economy, but .an economy
planned end controlled by the people for the :
people. Commenting on this, . Mr Bruce
Hillehisnn, the well-lauownn and ' widely tra-
velled. student of public affairs and a obese
observer of polities, writing in- the Vanctuver
Stn. saes: "Whether a C.C.F. bureaucracy
would be eflf'i:cieuit, would represent only the
People ae d remain: above relined, or whether
any bureauoracy will soon become a force
uueontrollabie by the people and determined
to coutro7 the people, is a matter of opinion,
But it is only childish to say that Govern-
ments tail control en economy without a
bnreantei-acy or operate without tools."
PLENTY OF EVIDENCE
Mr. Hai tnrisani night have gone further end said
that hi the last few years in Germany and else-
where we have itacl ,conviii 'log evidence 'If what
happens when Gevern,tltenta undertake .to control
economic lite. No one who undersd'a-tds that. Gov-
ernmtentti must govern can be deluded by any
•:ague suggestion that 4i1io1e can, be direct
eotnrol from Ole bottom except on itmatt, long-
range matters pP, peeneip10 and policy 'The
day -to -clay deci'stons must be arrived at by the
few and, carr'i'ed out by them through I ho steadily
increasing power . of .a Neige sad,, •.growing
bur ea a ex aue.y, • '
Wo have aalreuady in waatiene a forstagita of what
that will meat, and we endure lit els or necessity
wa.rthee, however pupil 'ss dislike it, , Bet we'
Should ren'cenlber that what the have cow is a fore-
taste only of -the regimenta'ti'on and control which
IVs l have to ene 2211 peaestima if_- the
Sncihlishalst's lave 'their., watimry, : ,
Theme slioukt- Pe no doubt In rho mind of
any Leede unionist allot will happen to trade
unions in the :telly planned economy con-
templated by the Soeialisls, in which, as.
Pointed out its our first tone, • they propose
to take am and operate practically the whole
means of pradueetan and dis o'i'butiou What
will happen is not a natter of .coni,.cture. We
have cit.itr and striking evidence front Ger-
many,. Italy, and ladror elsewhere. What hap,
pens is ilial under the fully Planned 'economy'
the supreme authority, which is also the
supreme employer, cannot tolea•a,te any, op-
position among its employees, and, therefore,
it cannot tolerate any independent employees'
organdzatiens.
That is why In Germany it was inevitable
that Ole Nazi's should stamp out trado • unions,
which they did promptly, oomiilote1y and
ruthlessly—within six menthe of comiug into
Power. -
SOME rte ITALY
Ia Italy it took longer. The cutiawiug of
the trade neons was not complete until 1925,
three ysai's after the Fascists came into
power. ` There are, indeed, shill tame trade
unions In Italy—how `tam'e may b. indicated
by the fact that under the law iso trade union
official can be elected to dtiice in *he onion
without 'he consent of itLgh Fascist officials.
This 011511(0 it Clear tlhat the trade union can-
thrue4 to 'exist in name only. Indeed under
the . Fascist state the made 011110 becomes
merely 0 'propngh.ndist and admen.strative
orgallizutfen tinder the 'directions and, dictation
of 'the Govertnmennt, -
flow could it be oblimwise? 'Oreele unions
exist to assert and maintain the rights; of
employees in any uegotintionr with employers.
When there. arises an lereoOnellable differ
once- It becomes necessary to have resource
to a higher authority, namely, the will of all
the penl.ieas expressed theoegh i'orernment.
This stouter will can harmonize and adjust.
differenl:es - when they arise between- em -
player ; and .employee. But . what 1•-appeus
when the higher power takes over: the prop -
may of the employers and •Itself becomes the
virtually universal employer It is perfectly
evident to any one who will ponder the facts
that when this happens trade unionism .is.
doomed. ' Its final disappearance rta,y perhaps
Pe eonnew'hat delayed, but is nevertheless
imoviiatile.:
Let as look at the plain facts. Under
socialism the trade union -no longer deals with
the individual .employer who is subject to
the higher authority 'of the State, but it deals
with the :State itself, the supreme authority.
In these oir0umstances any n•egitiation be-
tween the trade union and the- m'tw employer
would be like the negotiation between the fly
sed the spider,
BENEFIT EY EXPERIENCE
With the experience of Germany and Italy
before us, it ' ought net to be neeeseary to
Tabor this point •Purtllev. ,Sorely it ]e 'clear
that when socialism steps in at the frost door
trade eniondiisml goes out by the back. The •
union may continue to drag out a shadowy
arid useless existence 15s• a tool subservient to
the Coveinment, like the cape 0_f trade union-
ism .in Itely already 'mentioned, but ;that is. all,
It would be well for trade unionists to
ponder ihe•e things, Wandto stop, look and'..
li,stent before they Cort; btbe fate 01 the trade
ttnl0n9-- in Germany emit. Staly, While . no one
suggeste lira i . in this • coninnery they would .. be
put down in the ruthless 'and Jeril101 tehlon.
employed in IHurope, nevertheless under so-
eialism the trade union 0 ``understood in thus
or any other demooracy t50U7d not continuo to
oxi51 its disappearance would be the logical
outconee of the. filly planned r,•ongilly,a and ..
e 1perielice iii. other countries ]las shown that.,.
11 would 1:e 'folly 'to expeet anything, else,
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In 4110 leresbyireelon 011001/40 en.
i'Sunclay''liev.•-Samuel ICea'r 01 Situs•
, sets coneincteci the service .and tools
his sermon - Moan. ,the words 0£
Pilate, "What' shall I do linen, with
Jeans which is' caliled Christ?"
Slcv. P. Ei'. Streeter, of Trinity
Anglican church spoke on the, hie,
tory of the thaile1t in keeping With
the St. ,Tnlute' Day strike, Next
�lnttele the service will be held at
, i y
t16 iii 'the evening. • •
In the United church Rev, i1, 11,
Dunlop, preached :trout . •,the, text
"'hush is our . Lite?", The ,1.linsic
ir„eluiled a sole„lay ,Noniron i1eat
Tri ;lite, Stnaday,acliool - the o,t1
teatdauce beiimstr went . to the be-
girruers! oiass for Julil -
Mr. and Mrs. Ob10r1 3 1rohneton
have received word ..of te .safe ar-
rival overneias, of Niel). soli, A:ir-
craftinetu i4$ait)an4• iioitinston,
Geoe4q•,e Oooik hate; put2haeed tie]
r,r ,
EWAon the, ;yth conceseion -tat.
Bast.' Witwanoult belonging to Mkai
Robert Owens, and 1104 resold the
front hall: of the farm' ria •)!Tarry
111•c,Caer ag1S0u1 t t
l\4r5' Rtrhert 0wenda' 'has rettirared
after' sped`ding aet''esal' weeks with
Iier nephew, hl'➢wend and id's, Ni-
col, Newmarket, ,and le with her
nnephew, Wtlliamt and Mrs; .° Van,
Camp. . ..
Caritas 'end Whergare't Clratg,
twin Som and , timtighter of Mr, and
Mrs- ..I'ohul;. Craig, Morris, township,
were, successf111 :in attaliiier t, honor,
,standing in tile, recant ,.plane ex-
autinati:one held in Minton.
Pete'anads; Mrs, J, • A,s•, Be'aurlim
has. returned home (s+ons' London,
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dei', • London,' With 'her;' NMI'S, C, l.o.
bah,1 with her orates,, •', Mee, ROY
' 141a'eSweem, Toronto; "Mims Richard
"tele, London wmt 11x: and'14ti's,
Birkby.
The edliil'o, 0 illmtlpity. -1505, setd'r:,
denied, on, Setuvday by the • , epimere,
death of,:lCjlierier#.V'ernon,,,,Chamnoy,
on4y 0201 ;tit a M:and ' 1(41.5, ; David,
Clraaniiey'01 ISa8n1 W wan0*i.tia ,Ilii
�Mick year, Survlviang are 'his per.
1 cuts and :one sister r (zjale1be) }lira.
Me1bauolne Keating, London: "
I 'Phe antral rwas -.held 'on ;vibnday'''
aeberinoon ah twos otaloclr - i'
family residence f3 iipwod c;byfrOn,latothetiv:'
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, stud T6aeto1n Mnerow. ,r , stoil.Gl;y , for
•;tile bereaved, fam1ly IVO' ehnwn 1»'
the rattr7 beautiful literal tribute&