Review PS _ Some straight ralle: EDRIC COX, CCF MLA for Burnaby, recently unlimbered , Some straight talk on the forma- , tion of the new farmer-labor party. : Despite some illusions voiced by * Cox on the dangers to CCF “social- ism” arising from such a labor- 3) farmer political alternative, the « CCF leader put his finger right on o the nub of the issue, and in so ¢ doing brought down on his head _ the collective wrath of CCF and , ELC top brass. « Such a new party, to be effective a in challenging the political parties ef big business, must, above all 2 else, be based on the broadest % jJabor-farmer-peoples unity. Cox % emphasized this when he said: : “Leo Nimsick (CCF MLA for _y Cranbrook) and myself have been y Outspoken that if there is to be a hew party at all, it must include all ,, trade unions in this province, all ® farm groups, and any other people ‘at all who are willing to abide by : the constitution of the new party. 1 “We violently disagree with _ Strachan (CCF opposition leader .. in the legislature) and Black (CCF ~ provincial executive). What they are doing is only splitting labor’s ‘is ranks in half.” Cox further stated that the pol-_ a icy of CCF and CLC leaders who and said what thousands of ee unionists and CCF rank-and-filers are saying and thinking; that in seeking to tie labor to the CCF political chariot to provide votes and finances, without voice in pol- icy or representation, the Strach- ans, Blacks, Winches, et al, are “splitting labor’s ranks in half, “4 and thereby crippling a golden op- portunity to forge united labor- farmer political action to end the misrule of the political servitors of big business. (Last weekend a constituency conference of the BCFL-CCF “alli- ance” in Vancouver to set up elec- tion machinery to serve the CCF was but another addition to this narrow partisan approach scored by Cox.) Cox may hold some illusions about his party being “socialist” or its “socialist” objectives being jeopardized by the emergence of the projected new party, but he has no illusions as to who is split- ting, confusing, and hamstringing labor’s genuine desire and ability for effective and militant political action to put an end to Socred- monopoly rule in B.C. In this Ced- ric Cox has rendered a valuable service to labor and the people generally. DraggI VENTS crop up almost daily to indicate that the Western powers, by one pretext or another, are managing to delay the holding of a summit meeting. Despite a growing public pres- sure to get on with the business of an early East-West summit to tackle the vital questions of peace and an end to the suicidal arms - race, in keeping with Soviet Pre- mier Nikita Khrushchey’s pro- posals to the UN Assembly, spokesmen for Britain, France, the U.S. and West Germany are doing their level best to rejuveniate the coldwar and poison the atmosphere for an early summit conference. The Hungarian counter-revolu- tion of 1956 is once again dragged onto the UN stage by the coldwar addicts to provide diversion and ob- struction to lessening tensions. France’s de Gaulle, in face of world opinion on the urgent need for an end to nuclear bomb testing, insists on going ahead with his Sahara H-bomb test — a decision tacitly supported by the U.S. and Britain. The ghost of Hitler in the person of the aging Adenauer of West ‘Germany visits Britain and wins Tory MacMillan’s approval that whatever else may happen if and their feet when a_ summit meeting takes place, West German “interests” will be held inviolate; “interests” which include the nuclear rearming of West Germany for a war of revenge upon the Soviet Union and a “redrafting” of European boun- daries. _ These and other reversions to coldwar tensions and provocations — must not be permitted to go un-- challenged, or to stand in the way of a mighty growing struggle: for disarmament and peace.- On the contrary; they must serve as a warning for an end to complacen- ey, and a spur to the mighty forces of labor and the people generally 4 to intensify their efforts and their unshakeable demand for disarm- ament and peace. The mass wili and power of the people, expressed through its broadest sections, must be brought to bear on responsible governments and spokesmen. All the power and — energy of the people must be mass- — ed to win those vital essentials upon which the well-being and sur- vival of the world depends; an end to the testing and use of nuclear weapons, an end to the coldwar, an end to a suicidal arms race which can only terminate in disaster if - continued, and for an early summit — meeting of the heads of state. seek to exclude numerous unions and other bodies from area polit- ical action conferences, can only “have disastrous results” for labor. An opinion with which this paper © is in full agreement. for adoption outrages every code. of civilized behaviour. Even in savagery the cave man and woman fought ferociously to protect and succor their as against in- truders. This is well illustrated in an- other story, this time in the Brit- ish Daily Herald; the story of a white. South: African. mother, -an--~ Englishwoman and her husband, fighting. heroically. to keep their little adopted son of two’ years, Tommy, from the “civilized” sav- ages who rule South Africa with “apartheid” (race _ segregation Jaws)car, : , Tommy, these race segregation- . ists have discovered, is slightly “colored,” so must be forcibly seperated from a white man and. ° woman, themselves childless, who — found Tommy on their doorstep — when he was two days old, and - took him to their hearts to share their great love: Now .the racist S.A. police and _ their aparthied dupes swoop down .on this little home, driving its . the scent of hawthorne in her - occupants into hiding and exile in ~ hair? Forward your application ‘to an effort to hold on to their little © ee Unlimitéd, Herts; Eng- son. And back in culured Cheshire land. a “mother” ‘produces “give-aways” Happily the types who might fit to fill’ U.S. mail order bookings, the above ads and who would re- © while a mother in Capetown tells duce modern family life to the a racist police: “I have nursed level of a rabbit hutch are an in- Tommy. to life. What is his crime? finitesmal minority — but a min- He is not a dog. He is a seins ority whose publicized breeding , child.” quite far in recent years, we scarcely thought we’d live to see the day when British families would be producing children for U.S. adoption. Truly the Shake- spearian couplet, once addressed to Caesar on the decline of his empire, can now be addressed to ‘lower strata of