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HE recent “conference. on
world affairs” staged by AFL-

CIO top brass in New York’s posh
- Commodore Hotel should leave no
doubts in the mind of anyone just

where these high-salaried trade

_ union burocrats stand on the vital

issue of peace or war.

They want war, period. War on
the Soviet Union and the Socialist
world, and are more brazenly open
about it than the most diehard
warmonger. in U.S. ruling circles.

Like Chancellor Konrad Aden-
auer of West Germany they de-
clare in advance what must be
done, and not done, at the May 16
Summit meeting in Paris. AFL-

_ CIO president George Meany key-

noted “policy” for U.S. represent-
atives at the Summit. “There must
be no appeasement of Khrush-
chev,” Meany boomed, “our lead-
ers at the conference table must

show the Communists that. we

have the determination, the re-
Sources and the power .. . to deter

_ any aggressor,” etc. and so forth.

The late “massive

retaliation”
John Foster

Dulles. never did

State department, tep military

brass and other Specie of U.S.
» Sabre-rattlers were also on the

guest-speaker rostrum of the
AFL-CIO. war pow-wow. Under-
secretary of State Douglas Dillon

_ told the trade union fat boys that
_the “Western powers (read U.S.)

weuld not allow West Berlin to be
sold into slavery ... the first im-
perative is to maintain our mil-
itary strength .. . to deter the
Communists.”

Strange talk for a nation going

0a Summit meeting, convened for

the purpose of talking disarm-
ament and peace, but not so
strange in such a gathering of
Labor’s high - salaried misleaders
and parasites.

AFL-CIO vice-president Walter
P. Reuther gave voice to a current
boast we hear occasionally in Can-
ada, viz., that “free world labor is

0 tive anti-Communist
force in the world,” while another

_ AFL-CIO pundit, George M. Har-

ege .
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rison, urged “unity” at the Sum-
mit “against the threat of Com-
munist despotism.”

The April 23 edition of the
AFL-CIO News carries a fulsome
roundup of this shameful betrayal,
and places the AFL-CIO top brass
and their lieutenants in Canada in
true perspective; that of agents of
aggressive imperialism in the’
camp of labor.

Not labor leaders rallying their
ranks in support of the Summit to
assure its initial. success in the
first practical steps towards total
disarmament and peace, but cor-
rupted machine - made burocrats,
echoing the anti-Communist hate
of the powerful monopolists and
warmongers they ape; and utiliz-
ing their high-salaried position
and resources to Sabotage the
Summit meeting.

In this, these Chamber-of-Com-
merce “trade unionists” not only
disgrace and betray the millions
they are well paid to serve, but act
as a powerful roadblock to the
great army of organized labor
pulling its full weight for peace,

disarmament, and mutual ¢o-
existence.

Labor must repudiate such
“conferences” of its. coldwar top
brass, and give its full support to
the most vital cause of mankind —
the winning of peace and disarm- .
ament at the Summit, :

ANADA’S Bomarc B “defence”
weapon, on recommendation
of a U.S. congressional committee,
is going to be scrapped. The U.S.
congressmen have decided that a
ninety percent failure in Bomarc
B tests make that missile “a ques-
tionable weapon at best.”

U.S. Representative Dan Flood
of Pennsylvania said the State
Department had continued with
its Bomare B program mainly be-
cause of political repercussions.
Such consideration is touching, to
say the least. Flood wound ug his

’ observations with what may be-

come a classic on Tory government
at Ottawa with the wisecrack:
“Td rather be a senator from Cuba
this week than the Defence Min-
ister of Canada.’

The continued  Pollyannaish
“optimism” of our defence min-
ister “Blimp” Pearkes in the Bo-
mare B and his “faith” that it
would ultimately get off the
ground. and probably go in the
general direction intended, has.
often bordered on the senile. Even
when its Yankee promoters were
getting set to write it off Pearkes
has been filling columns of press

: A labor fakers ‘summit’ Bomarc down the drain

balderdash anout his “confidence”
in the Bomarc buy. 5

With millions of the taxpayers’
dollars squandered on the Bomarc
B now following the Avro-Arrew
jet interceptor down the arms
drain, the Diefenbaker “defence
program not only stands out as

totally bankrupt, but Canada _

stands out = as an experimental
backyard for US. warmongers
and armament manufacturers; :
backyard in which the residen
guinea pig pays through the nose
for its own extermination.

i j his
Thus it may be said at t
precise moment of history that all

we have to show for the billions ~

ndered on obsolete arms for
Spalted “defence” is a decade of
Liberal and Tory hot air from
Ottawa, plus a minister of defence
in an advanced state of senility.

This, and the dignity, independ- |

ence, and resources of a nation

‘subordinated to the whims, pol-

icies and profits of U.S. merchants
of death. d

Now that the Yanks are burying —
“defence,” >the 4
Canadian people should follow

our Bomarc: B

suit and bury the Tories; cut loose
from U.S. war entanglements; and
use our own resources to build for
peace — the only real defence in a
nuclear age.

Tom
McEwen

RE you a “Discontent” or a
“Malcontent?” Think carefully
before deciding your category,
Since it may affect your. entire
future. eat
A U.S. Chamber of Commerce
panel of experts have been doing
exhaustive research on the matter
and have wrapped up their pro-
found conclusions in a’ pamphlet
entitled ‘“‘The Promise of Economic
Growth.”
Extracting what little solids this
Chamber of Commerce alphabet
_ Soup contains, it boils down to this.
If a worker is discontented with
his lot as a cipher in an army. of
4¥%-million U.S: unemployed, and
hankers to be president of the.
USA, or at the very least president
of General Motors or the Steel

progress” even if the next meal of

“Discontent” is nowhere in sight.
But a “Malcontent,” phooey; that

can be “channeled into efforts to

Trust, such “discontent leads to.

overthrow the existing system,”
and the C-of-C literary cooks don’t
like that recipe one little bit.
Where too many MalcOntenis con-
gregate, ‘“‘the doctrines of revolu-
tion gain the upper hand over those

of evolution.”

Remarkable how much hangs on
a single word!

* * *

(News report that A. E. ‘“Dal”
Grauer, president of the B.C.
Power Commission and B.C. Elec-
tric will visit the USSR soon).

An outstanding authority on
power development and distribu-
tion, a la “free enterprise,’ Mr.
Grauer will undoubtedly have the
opportunity of seeing the giant
Soviet “Reddy Kilowatt” at work. -
Not only at work, but delivering
his life-giving strength from scores
of gigantic hydro and other power
stations, any one of which dwarfs _
anything ‘Dal’ has even seen or
imagined. ae ee

Moreover the distinguished
visitor to the USSR. will probably

. learn that Soviet. “Reddy” does. his

job for the householder or the vast.
industrial plant at just about one-
fiftieth the cost charged by his BCH
Electric cousin: This is possible
because Soviet “Reddy” is not —
cluttered up with swarms of bond-
holders, speculators, coupon-clip-
pers or other specie of parasites

_ slavery, Winch’s ‘““restraint” is a ~

tapping the power cables and add-
ing their thefts onto consumer
costs. .

All in all we are happy to see
Mr. Grauer making this trip. If it
doesn’t result in a substantial
lowering of our electric bill, it will
at least enlighten the B:C. Electric
chief that Soviet “Reddy Kilowatt”
works for the people rather than
the parasites.

* * *

Harold Winch, CCF-MP (Vancou-
ver East) has scored again. Last
week when South African govern-
ment racist policies and its result-
ant massacre of Negro peoples
were being discussed in Parlia-
ment, Tory Diefenbaker “thanked”
Winch for his very commendable
“restraint.”

Harold’s restraint helped the
Tories to (wordily) evade a govern-
ment responsibility; that of giving.
voice to the widespread indigna-
tion of the Canadian people at the
brutal murder and ruthless oppres-
sion of the Black African people
by. a Simon Legree minority gov-
ernment of white overlords.

Measured against South Africa’s
murdered and oppressed Negro
victims of apartheid racism and

pretty shoddy article, fit only for _
Tory approval — and workingclass
contempt. ~ : :

ea

May 6, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4