TORONTO, Ont. —- Before an overfl ow audience in the Labor Lyceum, Sam Carr,
LPP organizer, and Joseph Gershman, LPP national Jewish organizer, presented the po-
sition of the Labor- Progressive party on the Palestine issue.

“The British army in Palestine, which has now spilled Jewish blood on its uniform,
must immediately be removed from Palestine and replaced by a United Nations Force,”

Sam Carr demanded.
“To remove all troops from
Palestine today would be dan-

gerous. Until we achieve friend- .

ship with the Arab people, we
need policing if it is done to
free us. If it is done to repress
us, then that police force is
doing the job of a hangman
and must get out. The. 10,000
British parachutists that de-
scended on Palestine last week
were not required in such num-
bers for policing, but in prep-
aration for a massacre.’

The problem of Palestine
could not be considered as an
isolated question, the speaker
warned. It was. one with the
actions of the British troops in
_Java, “an echo of atomic di-
plomacy.” The massacres. in
Palestine and Indonesia were
inseparable events.

British-owned oilfields in
Tran and Iraq, and American
‘Standard Oil interests in Saudi-
Arabia have made Palestine the
pivotal state in the entire struc-
ture of British-United States im-
perialism in the Near East. Mr.
Carr explained. He reviewed the
role of a weakened British im-
perialism acting as a second fid-
dle to American imperialist ex-
ploitation. British troops were
killing Jews in Palestine with
the same imperialist ‘“disinter-
est’ that they were killing Ja-
vanese and repressing India.

A major part of capital in
Palestine is British owned. The
so-called Jewish banks are still
connected with the Bank of
England and British finance,
despite 40,000 organized Jewish
workers and a large agricultural

and middle class in Palestine.

“Bevin, like Churchill, has
No intention of presiding over
the “dissolution of the British
Empire.’ Attlee and Bevin have
now committed the British gev-
ernment to maintaining colon-
jialism and jmperialism every-
where. We may continue to fight
for concessions, but the Jewish
people must seek other ave-
nues of struggle than simply
delegations to the Labor . gov-
ernment of Attlee and Bevin.”

The White Paper is a das-
tardly; racist document, Mr.
Carr. charged.

“The White. Paper prohibits
Jews from buying lJand.because
they are Jews: it prohibits them
from going into Palestine or
anywhere else. It is nothing but
an anti-Jewish document. As
such we must condemn ‘it.”

Palestine is the pivotel point
of the United Nations’ guaran-
tees of freedom to oppressed
peoples for two reasons; it rep-
resents one of the largest Jew-
ish communities in the world;
and the hundreds of thousands
of displaced people in Europe
today are entitled “to at least
the same humanity and decen-
cy that the Allied Occupation
governments waste on Ribben-
trop, Goering and the rest of
that gang of murderers.”
INVESTIGATORS’

Condemning as an insult to
the whole world the recent Tru-
man-Attlee declaration that an
investigating committee would
be sent to Palestine, the speak-
er demanded:

“What more facts. are need-
ed? There are 6% million Jew-
ish dead in Europe. Is an in-

‘ estigating committee required
to make sure they are dead?
Certainly they will find out
that there are more Arabs than
Jews in Palestine, that the pipe-
line ends at Haiffa and that
1314 millions tons of oil come
out, of Palestine yearly. While
Truman and Attlee demand
further investigations, a British
officer at Nuremburg defends
top Nazi murderers with the ar-
gument ‘of course they killed the
Jews, but after all they were
only the dregs of Europe’s ghet-
toes,’ and the Soviets discover a
new mass grave containing 40,-
600 bodies.”

Mr. Carr charged that the
Truman - Attlee investigating
committee could have but one
purpose—to see that by the time
the United Nations Organiza-
tion starts to function and the
Palestine issue comes before it,
there will be so much disturb-
ance and bloodshed that Britain
will be begged to please look
after Palestine a little longer.

He accused Britain and the
United Statés of deliberately
fostering discord and doing all
in their power to. make impos-
sible any Jewish-Arab agree-
ment.

All the Jewish people left in
the world must realize,. and the
Zionist first, he said, that there
is but one hope for a free Jew-
ish Palestine — unity of Arabs
and Jews in the struggle for
independence. “The cause of

A Statesmanlike

the Russians don’t seem to goa
in for the individual home idea”’.
On his return from Europe,
Robinson took part in the La-
bor-Management. Conference,
called in Washington by Fresi-
dent Truman. “It appeared that
the -President’s conference was
held: to figure out a way for
capital to get labor to lie down
and be a nice quiet lamb”, he
said. “The Truman conference
was. an attempt to retain the
condition. of unity that prevail-
ed..during. the..war, but. the
bosses want: labor to give up its
only weapon, the right. to-strike.
At the same time, corporations
are on. strike. for. higher: prices
and refuse te bargain with la-

bor. so that labor may. have a~™

decent paycheck to. meet the
increased cost. of living.”

Robinson. stated emphatical-
ly. that, if labor is going to win
the peace it cannot rely on any-
one. but -itself. ‘Labor: in. the
United States.is now digging in
to bring about better conditions,
and it is the same in Canada.
Today it is more important than
ever before that we discuss our
problems across the internation-
al boundary”.

“Labor should have put up a
harder fight for Wallace”, Rob-
inson pointed out slanting his

fire at President Truman’s vac-
eilating and -weak- labor
policies: He stressed that. Trau-
man has taken a. stand .on sev-
eral progressive. programs. “He
has talked about the necessity
of. a permanent Fair .Employ-
ment Practice. Committee, . of
labor. législation; .and . other
progressive programs, but.he
has. not, taken.action nor pro-
vided. any .leadership in Con-
gress..in. compelling, Congress
to accept progressive policies’.

His summing up -of. President
Truman was: “Truman. is a
damned. poor substitute for
Roosevelt” He reflected that
Truman’s weakness will
strengthen the hand of Amer-
ican. reaction. :

“Workers .in_._ the. United
States are. girding themselves
for the struggles ahead. The
shock troops _are-already in ac-
tion at General Motors. In other
places labor is preparing. to
take on a_ battle. In Canada,
we have had our first. skirmish
at the Ford plant in Windsor”.

@ .

ROBINSON pointed out that

the trade..union movement
must take the lead. in building
for peace. He stressed that the
were won to secure victories on
the peace front. “The lives of

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Leader

the. men who died overseas were
sacrificed in vain unless:we'can
show. that their contributions
did. mean a better way of life.”
Robinson pointed out that it
is-in the interests of the nation
that jJabor fighs for wages and
security. He asserted ‘that
President . Truman’s proposals
to. -the labor-management con-
ference. -calling -for~the- institu-
tion ofa fact-finding- commis-
sion-and. the implementation of
procedure: similar ~to~ that em-
ployed -in the. Railway ~ Act,
plays into the hands-of Amer-
ican industry. Rebinson stress-
ed. that. while the Railway Act
controls prices -charged.. for
fares, as well as: labor.disputes,
there was no indication of: Tru-
man’s intention to compel--set-
ting of prices .and control. of
margins. of -profit -while -ham-
stringing. labor’s .rights .to.-or-
ganize and bargain. collectively.
. “Big Business is on. strike
today,” -Robinson told PA.
“They held. up war. produc-
tion, and today they are on
strike again. Big business -is
waiting until the first of. the
year ,when-the- excess. profits
tax no longer will apply. »” He

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See LEADER

Palestine requires a united -bat-
tle against Yankee and British
imperialism.”

The Zionists have a heavy re-
sponsibility in the winning of
Jewish-Arab concord the speak-
er explained, because it was-the
Zionist movement in its main
sections that gave the Jewish
peéple of Palestine first a Bri-
tish orientation, then an Am-
erican orientation. “Some would
like now to give them a Soviet
orientation, hoping that Stalin
would intervene and save the
day for them.”

ZIONIST TACTICS

The ‘radical’ Zionist policy of
Jewish migration to provide a
Jewish majority in Palestine
before they -begin to fight for
democratic elections and inde-
pendence, had:-only aggravated .
relationships: between Jews and
Arabs; he explained. There was

_ no hope for freedom of the Jews

in Palestine. as an. anti-Arab
movement. This would mean the
Jews would have to exist in
the centre of an Arab world of
16,000,000, forever depending
for their free lives upon the
guns of British reaction. .

Making it clear that. he was
opposed to the White Paper,
Mr. Carr pointed out that by
centering the fight around the
question of free immigration to
Palestine, a serious mistake was
being made.

‘While we are fighting about
the Jews of Europe going to
Palestine in great numbers, they
die in Europe and we say not a
word about them coming to Can-
ada, the United States, to any-
where else in the world that
they should be free to go.”

The speaker compared the
problem of Jewish-Arab unity
with the problem of unity in
India.

“Who speaks for the Arabs?
The voice of vested interests of
Arab- reaction, the kings and
princes. who are -stooges. of
Standard Oil, living in luxury
in European capitals, while in-
citing their .subjects to kill
Jews as scapegoats. They do
not tell their suffering people
what their problems arise from
—feudalism, landlordism, op-
pression, monopoly interests.
Those of us who grew up in
Czarist Russia- were told: the
same thing. “It wasn’t the Czar,
it was the Jews to be blamed!’
The Arab -world- needs: freedom.
to. fight for the Jewish people
of: Palestine, we must-fight-for
the. freedom of the Arab pee

ple.’ a
‘LET ARABS KNOW iyo

He demanded that the J ew-
ish people - dispense: with. Brit-
ish-and American go-betweens,
and. go to the Arabs them-
selves:

“Let. the Arabs know. that
the Jewish voice is not the voice
of the banks and landlords, as
their reactionary leaders have
told them, but a voice bringing
freedom and civilization into
Saudi:Arabia and Morocco’ and
all those areas of ‘backward-
ness.’

It was-a tone: road, the speak:
er acknowledged, but the. only
road to freedom. for. Palestine.
But for today -he:.demanded a
world campaign to have: Pales-
tine taken. over bya committee

of trustees. In addition to Bri-_

tain and America there must

-tail, he added — the

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at least sit, aaa equa 5
the Soviet Union. —
SOVIET POSITION
“Some: will say, but
viet Union has intere
Near East! Of course, wi
reason; its borders are
Near . East. Its intere
those of progress- and -
not of enslavement.”
The Soviet Union,
lions of Jewish peo
population, and whic
uge to 1% million Ji
Poland, has fought thrg
years for the Jews of
and all -of Europe. E
the-- Soviet’ radio fi
cause of the Jewish
people and -all- the go
people in the world, th
said. Those who demz

devastation inflicted
today in he Ukraine :
25 million people without.
over their heads.-
“Some of us are Co
some liberals, some
tors,’ some nationali
Zionists. All of -us
lize, looking at the ma
is, that we cannot dep
imperialism. We have
lem of safeguarding thi |
in Canada, America, the
Union and Palestine by
izing all the people
those who would dest
peace. The battle for: ;
must be fought for alle 4
onial people, in Palest }
Saudi-Arabia and _Indor 5
the same time. Let us: |
ward with the hope the i
because millions. of pa
still alive to fight fori ! 3
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Let us leave our dif
till the day there. will.
to. debate. them.”
The speaker moved
lution.,of. protest to a :
government. against th’
British troops .. for - ai
the Jewish people in =
The motion was passé
mously. A call. came 3/7
floor for joint demon
between Jewish and
ish ~ co-workers. ~2
massacres in-- Pale
work stoppages, slog”
other - forms — of ue
meetings: % :
NEW LIFE: FOR EV
Mr. Gershman stre |
importance of. rebuildii |
Jewish life in every ¢ |
Europe. He rejected |
of. some Zionist leader: |
vocated the exodus of
ish people from Europ '
_ “With the new_
-governments of Pol
mania, Bulgaria, a
and France,.there is —
a future for ‘the Jew!
ope. Those who remal
ope must be partnel
building of democr
there. To. agree tha’
becomé- non-Jewish W')
that Hitler’s: war ag
Jews was--won. if we
new life for the Jews: |
it will prove that F
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