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VER since it was known that
he Soviet Premier Nikita Krusch-
chev would attend the United Na-
tions sessions, there has been a
rising cresendo of anti-Soviet cold-
war slander and hate let loose.

Originating in the Pentagon and
fanning out through all the power-
ful media of press, TV and radio
propaganda, this hate-Russia hys-
teria reached unprecedented
proportions. Even the oft-repeat-
ed suggestion of “assassination”
has not been omitted.

An editorial in The Province of
September 15 entitled “Open Ses-
sion in Manhattan . ” takes it
for granted. that “There must be
hundreds in the New York melt-
ing pot who would welcome an op-
portunity to draw a bead on men
such as Hungary’s Janos Kadar,
Cuba’s Fidel Castro or Poland’s
Wadyslaw Gomulka . .. ” etc. not-
ing also that this urge for “assas-
Sination” is “U.S. official reason
-.-.to keep the No. 1 Russian
alive.”

By inuengo and inference The
Province merely repeats what
other equally ‘reactionary press
and TV agencies have been slyly
suggesting. U.S. “restrictions” on

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of Socialist. and
state, which are
nothing short of a deliberate
insult to the millions of peoples
they represent ,are primarily de-
signed to fan cold-war hatreds and
violence against powerful voices
for disarmament and peace.

the movements
other heads of

What these ‘respectable’ provo-
cateurs of U.S. imperialism point-
edly ignore is that the United Na-
tions isn’t the U.S.—at least not
yet, despite all the efforts of the
Pentagon to make it so. Conse-
quently the “restrictions” and
other coldwar incitements' to vio-
lence against UN delegations op-
posed to Yankee war provocations
and policies, are in essense at at-
tack upon the UN itself and its
Charter obligations to all> human-
ity.

The disturbing and dangerous
prelude to the present UN sessions
point up one basic need in the
struggle for disarmament and
peace; not as some have suggested
that the UN be moved to more
‘neutral? and friendly territory,
but that Yankee imperialism be
taught a simple basic lesson by the
UN itself; viz, that the United Na-
tions is not the United States.

Peace vs stocks

New York and Toronto Stock
Exchanges, a bit jittery in recent
weeks because of worsening econ-
omic conditions, took a real nose-
dive Monday of this week with the
opening of the 15th session of the
UN Assembly.

The arrival in New York of Mr.
K. and other heads of great Social-
ist states (described as “trouble-
makers” by Ike) to wage a deter-
mined struggle in the U.N. for
disarmament and peace, sent our
steck exchanges hurtling down-
wards, in the N.Y. Stock Exchange
to the tune of $8 billion in one day.

To those speculating and profit-
eering in war productien, the very
idea of peace spells disaster. As
the stock exchange barometer
heads downwards, we may expect
to see an increase of war specu-
lators looking for 16-storey win-
dows from which to follow the
falling barometer.

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N the welter of rumor and coun-
ter-rumor coming out of the
Congo, as dished out by the ‘news’
manufacturers of the monopoly
press, one single fact is shaping
up; that the imperialist colonial-
ists, making the most use they can
of the UN to push their plans for-
ward, will permit no form of goy-
ernment other than a “pro-West-
ern” anti-Communist regime to
survive.

This is already seen in the open
interference by UN civil and mili-
tary forces in the internal affairs
of the Congo Republic; activities
not authorized by the Security
Council mandate of July 14, which
specifically stipulated giving the
Lumumba government all assist-
ance required to discharge its re-
sponsibilities.

UN seizures of communication
and airport facilities in key Congo
areas and denying the use of these
to Premier Lumumba, the while
making such available to every
anti-Lumumba stooge and _ pro-
Western “strong man” they could
dredge up, makes clear the aim
sought; to retain by intrigues bor-
dering on civil war, the “right” of
western imperialism to hold onto

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hindrance

the resources-rich Congo, and fi

the material for a so-called “pl

Western” government to facilila
that objective.

Thus the week-end’s UN resd
tion to confine “all aid to the @
go through the UN” sounds hat
less enough in itself, but obseu
in its fine words the foul brea
of coldwar anti-communism 4
the continued ruthless exploitall
of the Congolese people, if not ¥
der Belgian imperialism, then 4
der similar imperialist robbers
ing other flags of “freedom.”

Only in this setting can t
fiendish howls of glee by
coldwar maniacs at the
of Soviet diplomats from
ville by “strong man” Colonel Jé
eph Mobutu be understood.

Doubtless these vital Cong®
sues will be voiced in the UN 4
sembly this week and while U.
‘diplomacy’ is already shuffling!
phoney deck in an effort to win 4)
Congo jackpot for the “free Wes
other voices for truth, decency |
peace, will also ring out loud 4
clear, for the right of the Cons!
lese people to UN aid, instead "|

obstruction.
—

Tom
McEwen

OMMENTING on a press inter-
C view with Communist Party
national leader Tim Buck during
the recent B.C. elections, (and
which by the way, the monopoly
press and the CCF did a fine job
of distorting), CLC President
Claude Jodoin is reported to have
said:

“The Canadian Labor Congress
and its affiliates operate under the
democratic system which Mr. Buck
knows nothing about,” meaning of
course that Mr. Claude Jodoin and
his CLC-CCF colleagues are super-
democrats, while Mr.- Buck the
Communist ‘knows nothing” of
such. democracy?

Without getting too statistical it
may be said that “under the demo-
cratic system” as ‘practiced by
CLC-CCF top brass and Mr: Jo-
doin, some 24,000 trade unionists
in B.C. alone have been “democ-
ratically” oozed out of CLC affilia-
tion, and their ranks “democratic-
ally” raided by CLC authority and
approval.

It may also be observed that in

the “democratic”? conniving,
scheming and conspiring to make
the trade unions a CCF milch cow
and voting machine, a la the ‘‘new
party,” that every CLC trade un-
ionist, regardless of his political
beliefs or color, has the ‘demo-
cratic” right to be a_ standard-
bearer for the “new party,” pro-
viding he or she accepts the CCF
dictum (revised Winnipeg edition
please) without question or cavil.

Such “democracy” staggers the
imagination, and it is no wonder
Mr. Buck and tens of thousands of
others “know nothing” of its in-
tricate operations. In this sad state
of ignorance, we cordially invite
Mr. Jodoin to elucidate in greater
detail.

Just recently, as a typical ex-
ample of Mr. Jodoin’s “democratic
system,” some 800 CPR employees
were arbitrarily transferred from
their parent union to one of Mr.
Jodoin’s. choice, without so much
as a by-your-leave of the union’s
membership.

Unaware of CLC’s “democratic
System” these CPR workers ap-
parently held to the old-fashioned
idea that workers should belong
to unions of their own choosing.
But Mr. Jodoin and ‘his “democ-
ratic” raiders said “no” and in-
sisted upon imposing a new union
upon these workers, with wage
reductions and cancellation. of
other fringe benefits included.

Naturally these CPR workers :
went on strike, joined by theif
wives and families on the picket
line, while the B.C: Federation of
Labor and the VLC (aided by CPR
injunctions), did their best to eR .
force Mr. Jodoin’s “democratic sy
tem,” which Mr. Buck: ‘knows’
nothing about.” :

For the trade union movement
such “democratic systems” are #
costly business. In the per-capita
building empire on which the CL@
CCF leadership have embarked,
the working people are the vie
tims, the monopolists the ben®
ficiaries. No matter how fancy #
lable Mr. Jodoin may tag onto 7
union cannibalism or “raiding,
can destroy overnight what. it ha® —
taken workingmen and wome?
years of effort, sacrifice 3?
struggle to build. ;

A “democratic system” which
has no other end product than U2
ion splitting, division and disruP”
tion, makes a mockery of uni0?
organization and collective bak
gaining, and renders organize”
labor impotent against the une?
ing attacks of organized monopoly?
regardless of whether such atta©
are launched on the economic ?
political fronts. ane

What griped Mr. Jodoin and 2
“democratic system’ was that ™) || —
Buck and countless thousands ® || _
others, know too much of its |}

structive consequences. . ar

September 23,

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1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P