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trusts. The government is organizing a state-capitalisi-
war economy in the service of imperialism. To maintain
the fantastically high profits of the monopolists at the
expense of the people, while in a three year period
diverting a minimum of $5 billion of materials
and labor power to preparations for war, the govern-
ment is introducing measures to reduce the real in-
comes of wage and salary earners and farmers, through
an inflation created by the deliberate restriction of the
production of consumer goods and civilian construction
in favor of war material.

In 1949 there were maturing in Canadian economy
all the elements of a cyclical capitalist crisis. At that
time the 3rd National Convention of the LPP warned
of that development, pointing to the symptoms high-
lighted by rapidly growitig mass unemployment.

The crisis did not then break out because of the tem-
porary distortion of the economic cycle by government
spending for war. But war economy is essentially crisis
economy, the method by which Hitler gave the German
people “full employment” and an illusion of prosperity,
guns instead of butter. It is the method of pyramiding
the contradictions of capitalist economy, of basing the
capitalist system itself on preparations for war, which
will inevitably lead to economic crisis.

War economy, bringing about the drastic reduction
of consumers’ goods while their prices soar, is an at-
tack upon the people’s standard of living, on the shorter

work week and decent wages, on farm income, ‘on the’

incomes. of the middle classes and on sections of: indus-
try which do not directly share in war production. On
the other hand, it is the source of super-profits for the
monopolies. oe Vs

Hand in hand with the drive to war goes the drive
to fascism. Part and parcel of the Yankee militarization
of Canada are the vicious and increasingly open ‘attacks
on the democratic rights of the people.

Intimidation of the peace movement, harsher attacks
on the right of petition, the importation into Canada
of avowed fascists from the Nazi Storm Troop bat-
talions, encroachments on the rights and practices of

the trade unions, the breaking of the railway strike by

a. Special session of parliament, growing propaganda in
favor of outlawing the LPP, and the threat now to take
away citizenship from Canadians who disagree with the
government—all these are a pattern of fascism which
accompanies the drive to war. :

The monopolists strive to intimidate, gag and sup-
press all opposition to their war program.

The people are fighting back—
build people's unity for. peace!

* EVER greater numbers of Canadians recognize -

the supreme moral issue at stake in the question
of peace or war, they are facing up to their responsi-
bility—to unite and act for peace. A grass-roots move-
ment of Canadians is developg on many differen:
issues, all of which contribute to the fight for peace.

As the imperialists’ war crimes grow in number, Cana-

dians are rallying in opposition to the whole plan for’

war. The sending of Canadians to Kaqrea is opposed by
masses of Canadians. The majority of Canadians, are

“Masses of CCF members are
disqusted with their leaders and
are bringing pressure to bear on

them. They are prepared to come
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into a great progressivé upsurge
against right-wing control. Unity
between LPP and CCF workers is
in many instances the key to a

Peace in your hands!

“against war with China. They are speaking out agains:
the rearmament.of Germany and Japan. The move-

ment against the threat of conscription grows with
every passing day.

Workers, farmers and middle-class people are indig-
nant against continually rising prices and the imposition
of new war taxes, :

Labor is restless and militant.in a number of indus.
tries—the supreme example of which was the general
railway strike of 1950.

Objective circumstances, and the militancy of the
Canadian people, combine to create an increasingly
favorable condition for the rejection of the govern-
ment’s war program and its sale of Canada’s indepen-
dence to Wall St. :

There is especially widespread and deep-going oppo-
sition to involvement in Yankee wars in French Canada,

where the. wide response to the Stockholm Appeal by:

mayors and councillors dismayed the Duplessis and
St. Laurent governments. It is significant that the only
voices raised in the House of Commons against involve.
ment in the aggression against Korea were those ot!
three MP’s from French Canada.

In Quebec the issue of peace is interwoven with the

fight of the French-Canadian people for theirenational —

rights and the determination of their own national
destiny—including the right to decide as the French-
Canadian nation their own stand on any question
which involves peace or war. ae)
People’s unity for peace can defeat the drive to take
our country into a Yankee war for world: domination. _

Such a people’s unity for peace can grow into a great

people’s coalition for progressive policies at home and.

abroad.

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flood of united front actions.
Every Communist must adopt as
his or her personal slogan: 'The
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The essence of developing a wider and better orga-
nized people’s unity for peace is to take the initiative
on every issue affecting peace, in every locality, in every
industrial enterprise; among women, young people,
farmers, veterans; among French Canadians, on *the
special issues before them. ‘

It means to give greater support to the efforts of
the Canadian Peace Congress to build an organized,
national peace centre to which the most active defend-
ers of peace can belong.

It means to create peace committees, to start peace
action$, on the issues and in the ways the people them-
selves' raise and to which they will respond, , without
trying to impose preconceived forms of the united front
upon them. :

It means to develop the spirit, and the habit, of
unity in action, initiating specific action on specific 1s-
sues. The place where each defender of peace must
start is wherever he or she is, and the issues on which

_to start are those on which his neighbors and fellow-.

workers. are willing to act.
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"THE LPP regards the development of united action:

for peace as the No. One public work of every mem-
ber of our Party. Our special contribution to building ”
the people’s unity for peace should be to stimulate
action around the following issues, adding to them at
each stage those which are thrown up by fast-moving:
history ; Say nee

A. The Sheffield-Warsaw Address to the UN, which
contains the Nine Points for World Peace, should be-
taken into the ranks of the people. and become the
subject of wide discussion and representations to the
government, | aed

B. Win back the independence of Canada by arous--
ing a patriotic opposition right across our country to
the military, economic, political and cultural subservi-

-ency to Wall St., which is the St. Laurent path to the

involvement of Canada in Yankee imperialist wars for
world domination.

C. Withdraw our troops from Korea, recognition of
People’s China by the government of Canada, and 1.
the UN. ° ‘ i

D, No rearmament of Germany or Japan, the de-.
militarization and democratization of these two former
enemy states along: the lines of the sacred wartime
agreements.

E. No conscription of Canada’s youth for the Yankee:
war machine. Active support for the growing move-
ment of the Quebec people, the farmers, the women.
and yeung people across Canada against conscription.
Action against the militarization of the schools, and
universities. Stop the war propaganda in the comics.
and movies. pa ey

F. Friendship with the peoples of the world, trade:
with the peoples of the world. /

G. Jobs through production and trade for peace, not
for war. Markets for farm products in a peaceful world,
and the shipment of Canadian food to all peoples. not

as now under the stranglehold of the U.S. |

H. Defend the right to speak, to act for peace; pro--
tect the democratic rights of Canadians, step the grow-.
ing tendency to fascism.

2. Working class unity in the fight for peace —

Defeat the right-wing misleaders

HE working class and its organized labor movement

have the primary responsibility. to bring about a
change in the relationship of forces in Canada in favor
of peace, democracy and economic welfaré, and to de-
feat the war, fascism and economic slavery which is
the program of big business. : sg
v To the extent that the working class takes up class
struggle policies against the effects of the war economy,
and in defense of its economic interests and for peace,
to that extent will the Canadian people move decisively

and rapidly to change the program of the government,

and eventually the government itself. -
This cannot be done without a change inside. the

labor movement to bring about the defeat of the influ-

ence of the right-wing CCF leadership, and of the right-

wing trade union bureaucracy, who act as the agents,
_ of the monopolists inside the labor movement.

This has been shown above all when the right-wing

_ CCF leaders and the trade union bureaucrats fought

for the criminal policy of the invasion of Korea and its
underlying motive—the invasion of China by U.S. im-
Perialism.

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They. seek to divide the labor and farm movements
through red-baiting; they are the megaphones for the

Hitlerite Big Lie of “Communist aggression.” “As the ©

capitalist staté apparatus is being geared for fascisin

and war, the right-wing CCF leaders become more and

more fully integrated with it!
They.are the American war party in the ranks oj
organized labor. They work overtime to get Canadian
union workers to give up the democratic right to govern
themselves. They try to destroy, international working-

class solidarity by disrupting the World Federation of.

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Trade Unions and setting up a servile anti-working: ”
class “International” dominated by U.S. imperialism.

The right-wing CCF leaders and the trade union
bureaucrats endorse the war economy of the St. Laurent
government, accept positions and support the govern-
ment aims on advisory councils set up by the govern-.
ment to regiment labor, try to keep off the union floor
the issues of peace, sell out the railroad workers at the:
orders of the warmongering monopolists, and are pre-
paring to surrender the hard-won gains of the workers,
such as the 40-hour week, at the behest of the “guns,
not butter” politicians. ;

Build, defend, unite the
trade unions! |

HE working class and its organized labor movement
must build the trade unions, defend their rights and
unite them in a great labor opposition to war and war-

_ economy, for peace and an economic program of peace,

It is on this ground that the right-wing’ CCF and the
trade tee bureaucrats will be defeated, so that
working-class instincts and solidarity can come into full.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 2, 1951 — PAGE 12.