KASHTAN WARNS:

Martin’s ‘two Chinas’
onsistently, at the behest of Washington, and with
excuses and pretexts fabricated there, Canada’s rep-

resentatives at the United Nations General Assembly sessions
have voted year after year against the Peoples Republic of
China being accorded its rightful seat on the: UN-

This while countless thousands of resolutions, letters,
telegrams and appeals have been made to successive govern-
ments at Ottawa by millions of Canadians, individually and
collectively; that the 700-million people of China be accorded
their full and unchallengable rights on the U.N, But Ottawa

has preferred to listen to the dictates of Pentagon cold and hot

war hawks rather than the Canadian people,

Now we find External Affairs Minister Paul Martin resur-
recting an old moth-eaten Washington swindle, avidly dusting

it off, and peddling it as Canada’s “very own”, viz, the *Two

Chinas” gag, The one and only China, elected at the founding
of the UN, Mr, Martin would seat inthe Security Council where
history already designated its right to sit — without Mr.
Martin’s belated approval,

The other China of Chiang Kai-shek’s Taiwan, a puppet
creation of U.S, imperialism to keep Asia “safe” for U.S,
monopoly exploitation, Mr. Martin would seat in the General
Assembly — where it has — and now sits to add its vote to

U.S, reaction — and block admittance of the real China to the

UN,

It is no.secret in any state anywhere, that were it not for

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U.S. dollars and arms, Taiwan would have been reunited with -

its China Motherland a long time ago — and ultimately will
be! That thought no doubt has escaped Houdini Martin in pulling
his latest “Two Chinas” trick out of a soiled Yankee hat,

It would be well however, as numerous press editorials
have already cryptically observed, that Mr, Martin should
consult with Peking before he carried his refurbished “Two
Chinas” hat trick further, While Mr, Martin and his Liberal
cohorts may have achieved some considerable successes at
fooling the Canadian people some of the time, he will find it
much more difficult to fool 700-million people who are not
unacquainted with Western “diplomacy” and double-cross, and
most especially with his latest “Two Chinas” stunt,

Mr, Martin should learn that while Canada should sell wheat
to the one and only China, andour farmers feel grateful for the
sales, we can’t and won’t sell them the Yankee myth of “Two
Chinas” — not even for their rightful seat in the United Nations.

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Mc EWEN

E spionage, or just plain
snooping and spying on our

most man-made rules,

When
caught and exposed as RCMP

neighbor’s affairs is now rec-
ognized as a key function of all
modern state departments, Every
state of any account whatever
engages in this moral debauch-
ery — for different reasons,
To “get the jump” on their neigh-
bors; to ward off “surprise at-
tacks”, be it military, technical,
scientific, industrial, cultural, or
what have you,

In the spying business, today the
most elaborate and costly item
in the state budget (although not
listed in the annual balance sheet
except under the most obscure and
generalized heading of “se-
curity”), there are two cardinal
rules which the espionage
“agent”, stool or common fink
is expected to religiously ob-
serve: never “get caught”, But if
caught, never disclose the iden-
tity of the employer, whether it
be at the highest level of govern-
ment or a common garden worm-
labor faker — or all the other
multiple Judas specie in between,

There are exceptions to this
. rule of course, as there are to

stools operating in the trade
union, socialist and communist
movements in Canada, we have
seen such characters elevated
to the rank of RCMP “commis-
sioner” to star (in their sober
moments) as “experts” on the
theory and practice of com-
munism, In other cases when
caught they are “transferred”
elsewhere to continue their stool-
ing and snooping vocation,

The history of police spies,
stools and “agents provocateur”
in the North American labor and
socialist movement is as old as
the labor movement itself, It isa
long record of State-employer
promoted violence and frame-up,
perjured evidence and prison
against working men and women,
which has no parallel in human
history.

The McCarthy era with its train
of victims, anti-labor legislation
marks the epitome of this cold
war era, in which “bearing false
witness against thy neighbor”
was (and still is) regarded as
the highest patriotism, And, as

‘Present policies could
lead us to recession’

William Kashtan, Canadian
Communist Party leader, tolda
public meeting in Vancouver’s
Hastings Auditorium last Sunday
that Ottawa’s present economic
policies could lead in the direc-
tion of a serious recession unless

_ changed.

Speaking on the subject, “De-
pression — Can It Be Prevented?”
Kashtan said the government’s
drive to ‘‘slow down the econ-
omy” is aimed at weakening the
efforts of working people to im-
prove living standards and putting
the burden of economic diffi-
culties on to the backs of the
working people,

He charged the government was
trying to ‘‘organize a little bit of
unemployment” by its tight money
policies, Meanwhile, he said,
the monopolies are amassing
huge profits and there is no
‘pressure from Ottawa to stop
rising profits,

Kashtan called for new econ-
omic policies which will ensure
continuous economic growth and
higher living standards instead of
the present policies which favor
big business. He called for a
billion dollar cut in our present
arms bill and the launching of a
national housing program to build
the 300,000 homes Canada now
needs,

The Communist Party leader
hailed the efforts of housewives
across Canada to bring down
high prices, He said this move-
ment was one of the finest things
that had happened in Canada,
However, he added, “in order to
ensure that prices come down and
stay down it will be necessary
to direct strong fire against the
monopolies’’ who, he said, are the
main culprits, Kashtan called
for the setting up of a prices

with everything else “made-in-
the-USA,” this vile moral cor-
ruption has spilled over into Can-
ada like a gigantic sewer dis-
gorging its filth,

Thus no one should have been
surprised last week when they got
the “news” that officials of a
U.S,-based international union
had “bugged” the rooms_of a
Canadian union in convention, op-
erating in the same area of juris-
diction, and fighting for the rights
of Canadian workers to aunion of
their own choice in their own
vocation.

It is said that hotelmen are

always anxious to get all the pub-
licity they can advertising their
hotel as the “finest place in
town” to attract the tourist dollar,
and the Ritz in Vancouver sure got
it when the “bugs” were uncov-

ered, put there to keep the Inter- .

national fully informed on what its
Canadian counterpart had done—
and planned to do for Canadian
independence at the local level,

And then, “wurra, wurra” as
an Irish tramp would say when
caught stealing a neighbor’s
chicken, the “bugs” were caught,
and so was the “bugger.”

The latter, reputed to be an
ex-RCMP “Security and Intel-

ligence” (S&T) agent, and now a ~

free-enterprising “private-eye”
dick, specializing in data for
divorce cases, but is not adverse

review board before which.mon-
opolies would have to explain why
prices should rise in face of
vast profits,

Turning tothe strike movement
in Canada, Kashtan said there is
a new mood of militancy among
the working people which ex-
presses the desire that the “good
things” produced in Canada in
greater abundance should go not
only to the monopolies but be
shared by the majority of Can-
adians,

WILLIAM KASHTAN

He said that underlying the
present wholesale use of injunc-
tions against the unions is an
attempt to deny labor the demo-
cratic right to have a greater say
in production changes being
brought on by automation,

Kashtan said that. the workers
who have been sent to jail in
Vancouver and Ontario in the
fight against injunctions “are the
real heroes — not the judges.”
He added that labor cannot re-

to doing a “union job” for an old
friend.

Clearly Mr. “Bugger” has
broken both cardinal rules of his
trade: first by getting caught,
then by exposing RCMP and fink-
labor complicity in the case, Add
to that the concern of federal
Transport Commission officials
to see if someone has been oper-
ating an “eavesdropping” broad-
casting station without a licence
to keep union finks informed on
what union fighters are doing,
and we have an odorius omelette
indeed,

This expose has also brought
out the fact that the RCMP have
much more than a casual inter-
est in unions fighting for Cana-
dian autonomy and independence
from a U,S.-based International
union hierarchy,

Even Premier Bennett acted

spect unjust and undemocratic

laws and will fight to have them

changed, and that the fight to
eliminate injunctions in labor
disputes is part of the struggle
for democracy in industry.

Lashing out at the Liberal
Party’s adoption of its “free
trade” policy — which Kashtan
branded as ‘‘continentalism” —
Kashtan said this policy would

hand our country over to the U.S. —

He gave the auto pact as an eX-
-ample of economic arrangements
- which harm Canada and pointed
out that it has already led to

4,000 auto workers in eastern

Canada losing their jobs.

The Communist leader said

that Canada needs policies which —

strengthen Canadian democratic

control and end U.S. domination. —

Turning to the Vietnam wal, —

Kashtan welcomed External Af-
fairs Minister Martin’s trip t0
the Soviet Union, but, he said,
if he really wants to find a way
to end the war he should go t0
Washington and tell the U.S, g0V-
ernment to stop the bombing and

_ withdraw its troops from Viet-

nam,

Kashtan urged the Canadian
government to press Washington
to stop its aggression and allow
the Vietnamese people to settle
their own affairs, “The oD-

stacle to peace in Vietnam iS.

not the Soviet Union, Hanoi oF
China — it is the U.S,,” he said.

The Communist leader warned

‘that U.S. election results have —
strengthened the right wing and

that increased pressure to escal-
ate the war poses a grave danger
to all, ‘Canada has a great
responsibility to prevent this,””
said Kashtan.

with unprecedented haste in his
appointment of a royal commis~
sion to investigate the Ritz

“bugs’’, Far be it from us t0 a
question the preme’s lofty motive —

in this respect, but it could be
that the “incident” provides him
with a golden opportunity to tur?

the vials of his “indignation” upon .

the NDP, Who knows?

Meantime,

“investigating” themselves in this —

case, and no doubt the verdict
will be a most favorable ones
What the D-of-T investigator>
may come up with is anybody's
guess. One good thing about
“unlicenced” broadcasting radio
programs as planned by the
RCMP-union fink “buggers” —
they have only one“commercial
—how to become a 100-percent
18-carot union wrecker, Just sick
the “bugs” onto your fellow union~
ists.

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Editor—TOM McEWEN

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