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_ gardless of the theories of Com-
‘munism,
_ come the greatest tyranny the

- control of many and diverse peo-

@::: nations, with the deliber-
te intention of thus rendering

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in practice it has be-
world has ever known.

eee hm the
‘mareh; it has captured large ter-
ritorial areas and has gained

ples. In five years.it has grown
from an agency supposedly rep-
resenting 200,000,000 people in
area of 8,000,000 square miles
territory, until now it can
complete overlordship of
13,0000,000 square miles of ter-
ritory, and somewhere between
700,000,000 and 800,000,000 peo-
ple in the largest land mass on
the earth.

In pushing its campaign for
world-wide domination, Com-
munism has employed every
weapon known to man through
the ages, It has built up the

Big Business

Supplementing its traitorous
claims in all nations, Commun-
ism has built up the mightiest
military force in the world, while
at the same time, . preaching
peace and advocating the reduc-

of the military arms of all

them defenceless.

Is our world meeting this chal-
lenge? The answer is no! In
the main, the people are con-
fused and leaderless on this is-
sue. Narrow and selfish think-
ing, or “Business as usual” takes
the place of basic and necessary
policies. The evidence of this is
everywhere,

Our leading institutions—capi-
tal, industrial and finaheial—and
for the most part, our daily news-
papers, reflect this confusion.
Whether they do not understand
the nature of the challenge, or

GREED

greatest, most centralized and co-
ordinated agency in history. It
has replaced truth and morality
by their opposities.

It has applied a ruthlessness,

the like of which has never yet
been seen. It has applied every
diabolical and devious method in
pursuing its ultimate goal. It
has set up a Fifth Column in
every nation, consisting of de-
voted fanatics, ready at all times,
to forswear allegiance to their
own countries and give their’
loyalty to one agency-world-wide
Communism.

This Fifth Column has polluted

every institution into which it
has -penetrated, and has sought
to dominate every organization
it could reach.
continue to sabotage every na-
tion where it has been estab-
lished,

Wrong Man

their economic interests prevent
them from desiring to under-
stand its nature, is a question for
their conscience.

It has and will

They want to liquidate Com-

munism, and yet to continue ex-
ploiting the mass of the people.
In short, they want to have their
cake and eat it too. It just can-
not be done.

In other fields of thinking,

various cures are prescribed to
meet the challenge.
holds that military defence is
sufficient. Another holds that if
people stop sinning,

One school

Commun-
ism will wither away., 4

Yet another believes that if
enough attention is given to ma-

terial things—a higher standard
of living — military defence by
our world is unnecessary, despite
the mighty armaments and pois-

onous Fifth Columns of the Com-

munist world.

Bread For The Hungry ;

We believe that none of these
prescribed cures is enough in it-
self. They must be made to fit
together into a co-ordinated wea-
pon of material, military and
moral might, if the peoples of
the world are to be sufficiently
armed to meet the greatest men-
ace of our time.

The first prerequisite in fight-
ing this dictatorial tyranny is a
concentrated dedication to the
material well-being of our own
and all other people. We must
nail on our masthead the slogan:
“For the needy instead of the
greedy”.

We must demand the abolition
of the age-long miseries and ex-
ploitation of the masses in the
colonies and the backward’ na-
tions. We must aim at something
more than a mere boyl of rice
for the Asiatics.

We must demand land for the
landless; bread for the hungry,

and a stature for the least of
these peoples that should be
worthy of the greatest.
must be made a reality, and not
left as a promise,

This

We must demand and insure a

discontinuance of the abuses of
international capitalistic exploi-
tation. Imperialism, whether ca-
pitalistic or

communistic, has
Bot to come to an end. This is
mankind’s fight, and as it is won
in other lands, it will be won in

Canada.

We in Canada have made some
progress but we still have a

long way to go. We still have
the homeless, workless, and those
who are otherwise insecure. De-
pressions still haunt’ our econ-
omy and our
charity, taking in an estimated
$100,000,000 a year, is one of our
outstanding industries, and is
evidence of a cancerous sickness
of our society.

life. Organized

Homes, Not Banks

We need at least 600,000 new
homes, while bowling alleys,

fet and exploitation continue
built when people are home-
less. We have an increasing and
growing inflation that is an un-
wanted guest in every home in
the nation. It is depriving chil-
dren of food and clothing and
poe shelter, and even educa-
ion.

In the face of such inflation,

tps average man and woman has
ittle or no meaning. If it has to
banks and other monuments to | ha’ f

thing more than the mere exter-
nal forms of change. We must
get to the root causes of domestic

ve a meaning, if it must have

@ purpose in terms of human sur-
vival, satisfying the needs of the
people in all of the fields men-
tioned must be the primary. ob-
jective of our country. and all
other countries as well.

We must also deal with some-

cline. Per cay
Jabs. Soeds, ts

standards inevitably de-
ita consumption of
falling steadily.

Health is red because of
the inability of many of our peo-
by doctor and hospi

age, for the majority,
comes a comparative night-
Our elderly men and wo-

and a happy life that may be
won.

stand up in confidence and with
Mpa conscious and satis-

and world-wide misery. We must
substitute for a meaningless and
frustrated existence, inspiration

Give the people a chance to

that they have something to

after a lifetime of service

fight for. In doing this, we will
provide them with a moral pur-
pose. Bring Andee to the people
as a substitute for injustice.

a measure of happiness as
as itute for frustration.

Communist-controlled unions

said: “The Executive Council sh:
any union which, in the opinion

tion, subject to an appeal to the

Convention support for the
amendment followed a rejection
of an appeal by the United El-
ectrical, Radio and Machine
Workers against their expulsion
for non-payment of per capita to
the Congress.

The UE appeal was made ina
84-page document which required
an hour and 15 minutes to read.
A major part of the document
was an attack on the Canadian
Congress of Labor, the Marshall
plan, and Canadian foreign pol-
icy. This directed the debate in-
to a broader channel than the
matter of non-payment of dues.

Get Out—Stay Out!

Secretary-Treasurer Pat Con-
roy in a brief but pointed reply,
charged that leaders of the UE
were “slaves, prisoners, and com-
plete vassals of the Communist
party of Canada and the United
States. They have sold their
workers down the river to serve
the Communist party”.

“There is no room for you in
a moyement of free men,” he
said. “You are out and you are
going to stay out.”

The same thread of debate ran
through discussion on a_resolu-
tion. supporting United Nations
action in Korea,

“Jn international. affairs, our
Communist friends have always
lined up with the enemies of our
nation,” Conroy said. “During
the war they lined up with Hitler.
My friends of the Communist
party, and other woolley-headed
fellow travellers, too, this resolu-
tion represents the thinking of
the Canadian trade union move-
ment,”

47 Varieties

In Ashim, Saudi Arabia, oil
workers surprised American su-
pervisors by demanding a union
contract that would give every
worker a day off on every Mos-
lem, Jewish and Christian holi-
day. The total holidays amounted
to 47,

FROM_COL. 2

Give the average man and wo-
man these things, and you liber-
ate their minds, and their souls
as well. Into these minds and
souls you let the light of a vision
—a vision in which there is a
place not merely for the needs of
the body, but for every aspect of
the human personality.

This is the fight that must be
fought. Secure the material wel-
fare of the people, and by doing
so, provide them with a moral
purpose to fight and live. Having
once possessed such moral pur-
pose, the people will arm them-
Selves militarily and every other
way to bring into being, not
merely a world that has con-
quered the brutal menace of
Communism, but a world that is
the rightful heritage of every
man, woman and child.

The Canadian Congress of La-
bor believes that the barbaric
and persistent challenge of Com-
munism to our civilization can be
met only by a co-ordination of
the efforts of the democratic in-
stitutions and the freedom-loving
individuals in every land, willing
to make whatever sacrifices may
be necessary, not merely for sur-
vival, but to progress towards a
social order which will provide
economic security and social jus-
tice without losing the basic
rights of freedom. If this is
done, there is reasonable ground
for hope that the challenge of
Communism can be met and the
future of the human race made
secure.

To this end we dedicate our-
selves, and call wy all other
democratic institutions to join
with us in i rt

Conroy to Communists:
“Get Out and Stay Out”

have no place in the Canadian

Congress of Labor, an overwhelming majority of delegates to
the Tenth Anniversary CCL Convention ruled. The convention
gaye sweeping support to a constitutional amendment which

all have the authority to expel
of the Council, is following the

prineples and policies of any Communist or Fascist organiza-

next convention”.

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been made to the British Colum-
bia authorities, and while they
have not as yet shown any dis-
position to remedy this wierd
concept of administrative respon-
sibility, we hope that the inequity
of the situation will shortly be
recognized and remedied.”

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TUC UPSETS
WAGE FREEZE

When 900 delegates represent-
ing nearly 8,000,000 British trade
unionists met at the annual con-
ference of the Trades Union Con-
gress at Brighton for five days in
September, they defeated the
wage restraint policy advocated
by the Labor Government, and
their own General Council, by 3,-
949,000 votes to 3,727,000.

Although this was a setback to
the leadership it is not expected
that trades unionists will wreck
the British economy or the Labor
Government. with a widespread
outbreak of strikes to press un-
reasonable wage claims. Most of
them are far too sensible to do
anything like that.

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