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SERIES of important confer-
€nces sponsored by the B.C.

© sittation of Labor will be held
ec ughout the province during

Ptember and October.
tie Snsistent with the political reso-
On adopted by the Canadian
ot Congress at its Winnipeg con-
E tion this year, the prime purpose
ad lese conferences should be the
tion of a labor-farmer political
Mernative in B.C. to replace the
Present Socred government and to
Mevent the return to power of the
ten Liberals or any other com-
. tepresentative of big busi-
rene intent and aim of the CLC
tution for labor-farmer united
ihetical action is clear and specific:
a heed for a broadly based
. Ple's Political movement, farm
Sahizations, professional people
Beet liberally-minded persons,
bi €sted in basic social reform mets
ee rosdly based political instru-
nid ould provide that labor and
topeth people S organizations may,
a. with the CCF, participate
ctly in the establishment of such
Movement . . .”
oy B.C., as in other areas of Can-
> cettain of the CCF leadership
* Now busily engaged in attempts
hattow down the CLC resolution;
Bee It to the CCE as “‘labor’s
ee arm,” and to exclude
tous independent unions, farm
Sanizations, the Labor-Progressive

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4 other progressive organi-
ations, prog 3

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to

these important confer-
CCF spokesmen, presuming
ata for the BCFL, have de-
togeth that BCFL policy is to get
onl er with the CCF, and that

y CLC affiliates can be invited.”
and 18 is not only a gross distortion
ing. uStepresentation of the CLC
tig, Pendent political action resolu-
Set f ut a denial of the very aim
> aaa by Canadian labor in con-

10n,
ca Socreds, Tories or Liberals
eins to fear from a political
fy) 2tive” which excludes power-
aie like Mine-Mill, United
the en, Civic Employees etc., or
abor-Progressive party,
S farm organizations, and

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other interested progressive groups.

None of these may be “affiliated”
to the BCFL. But the letter and in-
tent of the CLC resolution does not
require this. The point is that to
exclude these organizations is to
exclude a large section of any effec-
tive united labor-farmer movement
which, together with the CCF and
organized labor generally, can write
finis to the political monopoly of
big business in B.C.

In the forging of this united
labor-farmer political , alliance, the
CLC and its affiliates across the
country must take the initiative in
giving substance and broad united
content to its political action reso-
lutions. To do so it must be guided
by two conclusions proven by ex-
perience. One is that no unions,
farm or other progressive organiza-
tions which can add strength to the
common cause should be excluded.
The other is that the CCF itself
cannét constitute such a movement
—and win.

There is still time for the BCEL to
invite all interested parties to par-
ticipate in these conferences and
thus assure the full success of their
purpose.

Review * EDITORIAL PAGE «x

ponek Minister Lyle Wicks has
announced a conference between
labor, industry and government of-
ficials to be held in Vancouver on
September 25.

The ready acceptance to attend
such a gathering by spokesmen for
the Canadian Manufacturers Asso-
ciation and the Industrial Associa-
tion of B.C. makes clear the identity
of the real sponsors, at whose
prompting Wicks has launched his
“peace in industry” parley.

Trade union leaders will do well
to approach this. government-man-
agement sponsored parley with the
utmost caution and alertness. Big
business having met with unexpected
resistance to its attacks upon labor’s
standards, is now seeking to attain
its ends through restrictive anti-
labor legislation and cajolery of
union leaders, rather than depend-
ing upon deliberately provoked
strikes, lockouts, court injunctions
and evasion of collective bargaining
labor laws to impose its “hold-the-
line-on-wages” policies.

Both Ottawa (under Liberal and
Tory regimes) and Victoria have

Full unity is the need  Forewarned is forearmed

consistently disregarded the fact
that their stubborn adherence to
U.S. cold war policies has been the
prime factor in bringing the coun-
try’s economy to a state of crisis.
Moreover, both have been equally
determined echoing big business,
that the working people should be
forced to bear the burden of the
crisis in lowered living standards
and wages, while prices and living
costs — and monopoly profits —
continue uncontrolled.

Consequently, for organized labor
this government management “get-
together” should only have’ these
aims: no anti-labor ‘“dog-collar”
legislation; the maintenance of
wage levels commensurate with
living costs; adequate provision for
the unemployed; a break with U.S.
domination of Canadian economic
and political affairs; and finally, an
end to the destructive sabotage of
the nation’s wellbeing by big busi-
ness monopoly.

For organized labor and the
working people generally, that is
the only clear path to “peace in
industry.”

Tom
McEwen

ID YOU ¢ontract . bunions
D tromping around in the hot
weather looking for a job that
wasn’t there?

If you did, don’t blame the
weather, the plumbers’ union or
the lack of jobs for your bunions
or any other troubles you may
have. The real cause of your dis-
comforts is “communism.”

Believe it or not, but this week
I have a raft of publications on
my desk, each in their own form
of lunacy setting out to prove that
Zionism, the Klu Klux Klan,
Queen Elizabeth and John Foster
Dulles, are all agencies of “com-
munism.”

Individually or collectively,
these publications certainly pose
the time-honored question, “How
crazy can they get?”

First there is the virus-infil-
trated sheet edited by Ron Gostick
of Toronto, entitled “The Cana-
dian Intelligence Service” which
sets out to “prove that the British

royal family and our good Queen
Elizabeth are going ‘Red.’”’
According to the “Oxonian ex-
pert” who ladles out this piéce of
“intelligence;” it would seem that
Queen Elizabeth, her private
chaplain (who had the bad taste
to marry a French Resistance
atheist “heroime”) and Lord and
Lady Mountbatten, are all under
the thumb of “socialist” Aneurin
Bevan, who in turn undoubtedly
gets his. “orders from Moscow.”

Then some scoundrel of an
artist doing a portrait of the
Queen, somehow got the face of
Old Nick’ in the lines of Her
Majesty’s hair-do. Gostick pro-
fesses to be profoundly amazed
that parliament hasn’t acted on
this “communist” plot, and de-
mands action “forthwith.”

Another sheet - masquerading
under the misleading title ‘““Com-
mon Sense—The Nation’s Anti-
Communist Newspaper,” spews
forth a mixture of distorted his-
tory, anti-Semitism and _anti-
Negro racism, and loudly appeals
to the ignorant and unwary for
money to “bring the truth about
Russia, the National Association
for the Advancement ‘of Colored
People (NAACP), Africa, and
Mrs. Roosevelt” to its misguided
readers.

Perhaps the worst ‘of the -lot
(Gf such a term can be applied to
such garbage) is “The Coming
Red- Dictatorship,” a sheet dedi-
cated to anti-Semitism and the

Hitlerite “Protocols of Zion.”
Featuring the pictures of 50
outstanding Jewish personages in
American public affairs, this filth
collector weaves them all into an
“Asiatic Marxist” Jewish plot to
“control the entire world.” Anti-
Semitism and the “Protocols of
Zion” are its prime stock-in-trade.
Of this batch of sewer sheets;
the Iron Cross. (first class) goes to
one David Lawrence for his cur-
rent column in the Seattle Times

of August 10.

Having loaded Little Rock and
all the -anti-Negro discrimination
and violence of the Deep South
upon the Communists and dis-
posed of South Africa’s apartheid
policies as part of a world-wide
“communist plot,” Lawrence ex-
plains away the current race riots
in England in like manner.

Whodunit is clear... “the com-
munists”! The Un-American
Activities boys say so and Law-
rence supplies all the dime-thriller
flourishes. Little Rock, London,
Kenya or elsewhere, the Negro.
and colored peoples were all very
happy in that state of life into
which imperialist exploitation had
thrown. them. Then along came
the Communists with their “dis-
turbing” ideas that’ all men, Mos-
lem, Buddhist, Gentile, Jew, black,
brown or white, were equal. That
upset the old social balances —
and provides new grist to the
“pure Aryans” of racist sewer
journalism.

September 12, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5