New stage
in Peace fight

In lieu of Leslie Morris’ regular weekly column, the PT
Ts its readers the following report of a public meeting in
Onto addressed by. Morris a short time ago. 2
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Speaking only a few hours after Soviet Premier Khrush-
had announced his government’s intentions of dismant-
missile installations in Cuba, Leslie Morris said that, by
this statesmanlike and wise action, the
Soviet Union has once again made a tre-
mendous contribution to the cause of
world peace. :

“Anything that contributes to world
peace is no retreat,” Morris declared, ‘‘but
a victory for all mankind.”

Pojnting out that the basic aim of
the U.S. has, for some time, been the de-
struction by force of the new Cuban so-
+ ciety, Morris said:
any country has suffered a diplomatic defeat, it has been
policy of the U.S. government.”

_ Perhaps, after saving Cuba from invasion and. defeat-
Ng the basic aim of the U.S. towards her, the world can
0k forward to a new stage of negotiations in which other
tions can be brought closer to settlement, including the
Perlin and German issues, and a more realistic outlook:
‘Success for disarmament talks.

_ But he warned, there should be no sense of complacency
Ta feeling that everything is now all right and things
uld be left to Khrushchev and Kennedy.

On the contrary, he stated, if victory. can be snatched
the present crisis, the job ahead is to build the peace
Movement and get the trade union movment in the first place

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_ Morrjs quoted extensively from Western news reports
from statements of U.S. President Kennedy to substan-
his assertion that the basic aim of the U.S. has for a
g time been to overthrow the government of Premier
0 in Cuba.
Kennedy, he said, had stated clearly and publicly, only
days after the abortive U.S. invagion of Cuba in April,
1, that the U.S. government would never allow socialism
€xist in the Western Hemisphere and would if necessary
force unilaterally to block such a state.
Cuba had provided an example to the rest of Latin
erica of what can be accomplished once the yoke of
imperialism has been thrown off. Thus Cuba had to be
nated.
The planned U.S. invasion of Cuba was not meant to re-
fe any “threat” to the U.S., but was aimed to crush the
alist revolution there and to warn other Latin American
Ntries not to make any changes that might not please
US.
But the Cuban people had made clear they would rather
than return to\the Batista corruption and dictatorship of
Past, and that is why the U.S. was prepared to murder
Cuban people, with atomic weapons if necessary.
That is why, continued Morris, “I am glad the people of
“tba found a friend to buy their sugar, offer them aid and
them weapons to defend themselves.” :

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Morris, referring to Korea, Vietnam and the Suez.
It was at this point that the Communist leader expressed
hope that out of this latest crisis, however, agreement
d be reached for a German and West Berlin settlement and.
Progress toward disarmament.
Recently the Western press has built up the prospect of
impending crisis jn West Berlin. But West Berlin, Morris
, Cannot continue to be an outpost of aggression against
Socialist world. A German peace treaty is needed, he
"rted.
In answer to a question as to whether the U.S. would
’ press the West Berlin issue, Morris stated there could
No guarantees on U-S. policy. ;
.But he suggested that since the U.S. had been forced to
don its two-year-old policy of invasion of Cuba, it would
Y have to modify its position on Berlin and negotiate this’
e.
‘He said that Kennedy had previously maintained Cuba
hot negotiable, but now the U.S. president says it is. This
'd be the pattern followed with Berlin.
He had earlier answered another questioner that now the
has publicly committed itself to no invasion of Cuba,
Stituting a basic policy change, it would be very difficult
the U.S. to revert back to its pro-invasion policy.

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CPC salutes U.S.S.R.

A cable of greetings to “the -
people of the Soviet Union,
the Soviet government and
the Communist Party on the
45th anniversary of the Great
October Socialist Revolution”
was sent last weekend by the
national committee of the

Communist Party of Canada.

“You are in the vanguard -

of the world-wide struggle
of all people for peace, an end
to the arms race and general
and complete disarmament,”
the message of greeting said.

“You are building the new

w world canifalism sees Nov. 7

How the imperialists have reacted to the existence of the
Soviet Union is portrayed by Herluf Bidstrup, the renowned
Danish cartoonist: from their terror over the success of the
October Revolution in 1917, their dismay after the defeat of
their intervention, their ridicule of Soviet plans for industrial-
ization, their anger following the loss of their A-bomb mon-
opoly, their frustration over the Soviet Union's role for peace,
their shock at the first sputnik, to their despair today over
the realization that the march of the Soviet people to com-
munism can no longer be stopped.

world of communism, where-
in mankind will forever be
liberated from the exploita-
tion of man by man and the
soul-destroying oppression of
imperialism.”

The message hailed “the
strong and principled action
of the Soviet Union in the
Cuban crisis, when it deliver-
ed a severe check to the
United States imperialists
and their aggressive plans.” |

MORGAN

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being attached.

“Notable is the fact brought
out in a recent study by Pro-
fessor Carrothers of the
Faculty of Law at U.B.C., that
90% of all anti-labor injunc-
tion in Canada in the recent
period have been issued in:
this province.

“The time has come to call
a halt to such actions. The
trade unions of this province
are fighting with their backs
to the wall. The government
should take immediate steps
to eliminate the menacing
crisis that is developing, and —
place at the top of the agenda -
for the next Session of the
Legislature removal of such
anti-labor provisions.

The entire labor and pro-
gressive movement of this
province should rally to the
‘support of B.C. trade unions
and insist the government
act now.”

Rail freight carriage in the
Soviet Union last year was
twice as big as in the United:
States. In passenger carriage,
the Soviet Union has sur-
passed the U.S. 5.5 times.

This had not been the first crisis of the past few years,

Only a week to go...

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