‘peace, Binder’s Peace campaign in Cartier byelection jars Liberals % MONTREAL ATIONAL, attention is focussed this week on historic Cartier riding as the June 19 federal byelection enters the homestretch with a straight fight between the LPP candidate for Harry Binder, and Leon Crestihl,* the Liberal candidate for the main party of war here. SEE +7 0m ae, ae c . ee sy 9 ma _ Cay BS ae ig - Peaceful trade with all countries. Tory and CCF éandidates are not in the running, according to all reports. In the general election last year CCF candidate A. M. Klein, who is wellknown in this city, trailed third. He refused to run this year and the CCF has put K. Kaplansky in as a sacrifice vote-splitting candi- date. Maurice Hebert, candidate for the Progres- sive Conservative party, hasn’t a ghost of a ~: ~ - - chance. This leaves the race a straight labor- zovernment fight. The nervous Liberals in their attempts to discredit the peace campaigning of youthful ex- rifleman Harry Binder, brought in War Minister Brooke Claxton: Claxton, who was accompained by Health Minister Paul Martin and Hon. Gaspard Fauteux spoke at a public meeting here,._ but the meeting fizzled out when barely 500 at- tended in a hall capable of holding 2,000. Frank Arnold, Montreal correspondent for the Canadian Tribune, notes: “Listening to Brooke Claxton, the minister of war, ... I was struck ‘by the fact that this man was completely out of touch with life. Pompous and arrogant). ... - 1 es; he had not a word to say about rents, jobs and prices. Instead he rattled the sabre, spat venom against the Soviet Union and the progressive movement. He attacked the United Jewish People’s Order as a ‘red front’ and lined up in approval of Duplessis’ padlocking of the building.” Claxton insulted the,Dean of Canterbury and Dr. J. G. Endicott, eminent peace campa- igners. He said they should not he “put in jail but in glass cages.” Silent contempt greeted this remark. - Highlighting Binder’s “For Peace” candida- ture is his fearless exposure of the fact that the St. Laurent government is a supporter of the policy of re-nazifying Western Germany. : Denouncing the Liberal government as “a government of disaster,” Binder says in a mes- sage to electors: “The Liberals promised us peace. Instead they are stoking up the cold war, spending half a billion for arms. Around Montreal they are building radar stations, and preparing hospitals for victims of atomic warfare. They are bringing the Nazis back to power in Western Germany.” Calling for banning of the atomic bomb, Binder charges the government with finding “plenty of money for anms, but when it comes to raising old age pensions or to starting health dnsurance, they claim right away there is no money.” \ Jobs and homes, not armaments. LPP COLUMN “IM BUCK Enrolment reports have begun coming in: but there are still many areas to be heard from, so the over-all interim report cannot yet be | presented. | Howver, there are some experiences on hand that current and forthcoming issues 0 (are you ‘using it in your club) work?), | adbeast . One point that has struck me in “connection with recruiting experi- “ences and reports has to do with the effect on club life of the ar rival df new members in our tanks ~...an effect which sometimes proves to be something of a suT- prise, Tey ‘ ( ‘ In two different industrial clubs, in different town in Ontario, com- f Bratinnal A jolt. ee ii Sab he ‘ ir main largely of older members, they figured that their problem as regards the new recruit would De ana him the ropes” and teach him the ABC's of po }. His eagerness to learn was apparent. SERN : 5 t+ around couple of meetings, and before thay had: gota to the job of explaining things to him, the new com (| rade came up with some criticism of the work of the club. Not carping criticism—but quite y | sound political criticism, A demand for Ardea hee ter work-in getting out and talking to ponte eee ‘non-party workers on the key issue 0” the momet And a demand for more P jcationa ‘the fight for socialism, as it relates to the BAW AL A tk hh) LW ee ae At first some of our comrades had & ing of irritation: couldn’t this young meweos e until he’d learned a bit more about things be mer Wa : Ne \ nbers ar lik yeast | 3 started criticizing us? After all—! nized: this is what we need—this “jolt” of criticism are well worth noting, A few are written up tee jn’ our work. .The routine, “business.as usual” atmos-_ “phere that our young comrade criticized had come . to be taken for granted, somehow. The criticism wasn’t lishing, through this recruit, with the workers in » his department, with the masses of non-party workers. } e "ing positions in the club were assigned to newly: re-_ rades report an experience that was sumeming QF 2 stance, from one of the big shops on which their ef; But they were a bit disconcerted when, after a of work in the strongest, all-round way; and also — _ responsibility. ublic educational oe ae ; issue 0" __peing of the club that recruits. of a feel re he | ~—- We need more of it. By STANLEY RYERSON | It wasn’t long, though, before the point was recog- by a new member was coming to us. The very fact that no recruiting of new people had taken place for a long time was a symptom of something wrong that of an individual. It was a sharp, fres breeze from the outside world, so to speak. It was an expression of a new, positive contact that we were now estab-— In another instance, the experience took a bit dif- ferent form. Within a very short time, several lead- cruited members. ‘ ~" In itself, there’s nothing necessarily wrong in this. Leadership must combine the older and newer forces, and new forces have to be trained, etc. ‘The thing that was rather noticeable jn this in- stance, though, was the fact that the older members seemed almost in some haste to hand over a whole number of jobs to young comrades who were still getting their bearings. In a sense, this appears to have been a sort of self-criticism: the eagerness and activity of the new members called for recognition, ~ as it'were. So they Were at once given responsibilities. It’s possible that a thorough critical discussion of the | work of the club as a whole would have helped both the older and younger members to raise the quality ‘helped everyone in shouldering his or her share of “Anyhow, in this case as in others, what’s to be noted is the stimulus, the stirring-up of the political ze New members are like yeast. A grand, political yeast, é & mT ey Labor must — fight racketeers Tue labor scene in the country is filled with stormy and dramatic material from coast to coast. Many of these events beg for attention. But two of these issues, which burst on us during the last few days, demand prior- a. 6 By J. B. SALSBERG OR two years we warned the labor movement of the danger which the Frank Halls brought to Canadian unions when they imported the Seafarers’ International Union gun-toting crowd to the country to help the ship- ping companies and the government to smash the Cana- dian Seamen’s Union. We warned that the betrayal of the Canadian sailors and the stab-in-the-back delivered to a fighting Canadian union menaced all labor. After what happened recently no one can doubt tne correctness of our Warning. The Hall crowd pretended that the SIU was “a legitimate union” and some innocent workers believed it. Those who probed a little deeper couldn’t fail to recognize the treacherous role which the SIU mobsters played from: the evil moment they entered Canada. We were confronted with characters who undertook to break a strike, break a Sewer and. under the cloak of “un- ver, the shinging compenes. "The imported goons wer the agent Ss. ment, ment and the Frank Halls. Tee eee eee press, which slandered the CSU, painted these mince Saviors and great labor leaders, i me Now the Toronto Globe and Mail ivi against “ +}. £ ‘a blackjack attempt te force an mateemiant walt the union which so far has no members...” The SIU strikebreakers have revealed themselves as a racketeering outfit. — This is not alone a seamen’s roblem : ) problem. It’ a the whole labor movement. It’s not selveke- aacontaand ee A as aor of labor but one of saving the ‘ me 1 Sonne “4 nt from corruption and disinte. Canadian workers to solve their problems in their own country without men interference, ace from this foul type of US. What’s to be done? Every lo ) “ y local union council must condemn the SIU racketeers er ie that they pack up and get out. The Ottawa government | must be condemned for its share in brin : in and for its collaboration with it. The TC wih outa its credit, has thus far refused to admit the SIU “od ranks, must, in the face of ta vended Getieneatee publicly denounce the racketeers and place them beyond _ the pale of the labor movement. Furthermore. « 0} : re, union in the country should forward a Se Pb coming convention of the Congress condemning the SIU . and asking that-it be not admitted into the Congress or “trades councils. Needless to say, eve: ; : Say, ry decent work every self-respecting labor body should give every Se _ to the legitimate unions of Canadian seamen which are battling this gang of labor traitors, This is the elementary duty of every union member in every union—TLC, CCL or independent. e : J Another development which should cau: se conce: is the one which recently came to light among the rail- road workers. The railroaders are demanding and are * ready to fight for the 40-hour week and ‘aise igh: ar i Victory for the railroaders would help all other erase in their wage and hours struggle. Knowing the sentiment _ of the rank and file the railroad union leader: und 4 ; . 's fo themselves obliged to reject the shameful findings of the conciliation board. Pressure from below also com ; . the leadership to order a strike vote. _ diptetas ‘We saw the strike ballot which was issued by A. R. '. Mosher’s Canadian Brotherhood of Railway Employee: In big type, the workers were asked to vote Worther they are for or against “a peaceful withdrawal fr rvice” in order to gain their demands. But on the aide and in very small type, the ballot says: I further authorize and request the said officers and committee to .. . sign’ any agreement which in their opinion would be satis- factory to the majority of employees concerned.” | _ Ian only repeat what an indignant railroader to me, “What the hell sort of strike ballot is that?” : Now if you will remember that the notorious ake Hall is the chairman of the joint negotiating committee of the AFL railroad unions then you will expect no less, if not something much worse, on the ballot that he will © — prepare. What does it add up to? That the rank-and-file of — the railroad unions should vote 100 percent for strike action and that they should take steps to set up strike machinery from the bottom up to back up that vote. Let — there be no illusions among the railroaders. The govern- _ Mosh- ment and railroad companies know their Halls : ers. They know that these gentlemen will not fight. The wording of the ballot leaves no room for doubt. The railroaders will be robbed of their due unless they take © matters into their hands. They must convince not only their “leaders” but the railroads as well that they mean business and that they will really fight unless they get _ the 40 hours and the wages they need. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 16, 1950—PAGE 9 ‘ question of safeguarding the rights of .