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 PACIFIC ADVOCATE — PAGE 12 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 (Continued on Page 14) 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 « Nazis in Soviet: terri 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 dom. Nazism did not + people, nor the Sou 3 3 4 3 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. 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