‘Link struggle with
whole of Americas’

—TIM BUCK
TORONTO

“Our battle for the independence of Canada wil! be victorious only as and to the extent that we
make it part of the struggle to win freedom for the whole of the Americas from the domination of the
United States,’ Tim Buck, national ‘leader of the Labor-Progressive party, told cheering delegates at the
concluding session of the LPP fifth national convention here. #

He placed before the delegates what he termed “a grandiose conception of-a democratic front of the

entire hemisphere.”

Crisis laid to
U.S. domination

TORONTO

“In fighting against the economic crisis which is developing in
Canada the trade unions are becoming aware that there is no single
solution, and that they must battle against U.S. domination of our

country, fight for peace and trade

with all countries,’ William Kash-

tan, national trade union director of the Labor-Progressive party, told

delegates to the LPP fifth national

LABOR
BRIEFS

A nickel an hour wage increase
has been won by 900 Vancouver
painters, members of Local 138,
Painters and Decorators Union
(AFL-TLC) in a new contract echich |
raises the basic wage rate to $2.12
an hour.

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Ben Chiste, a rank-and file mem-
ber of the United Fishermen and
Allied Workers Union, was elected
by secret ballot at the recent
UFAWU convention to visit the
Soviet Union next month and dele-
gates contributed more than $200
to help cover his expenses.

This action was taken following
arival of a telegram from the All-
Union Central Council of Trade
Unions of the USSR, inviting the
fishermen to send a delegate to!
the May Day celebrations in Mos-|
cow and remain for a three-week
visit.

. * * *

Al King, president of the Mine-
Mill local in Trail, will visit Paris
this summer as a guest of the
French Metalurgical Workers Un-
ion.

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Ead of coal mining in the
Nanaimo district has forced the
United Mine Workers office to
close its doors after 17 years of
continuous union activity.

x * *

“Why I Think it is Best to Be-
long to a trade union,” is the
theme for an essay contest spon-
sored by the Women’s Auxiliary of
‘Vancouver Civic Employees Union,
‘Outside Workers.

The contest is open to boys and
girls 8 to 16 years of age who are
related to a member of the union.

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POINT of VIEW by
NIGEL MORGAN

conventionehere March 25-28.

“Rising unemployment is a re-
sult of U.S. domination of Canada’s
political and economic life,” con-
tinued Kashtan. “To beat the threat
of depression, Canadian workers
must fight for a change in govern-
ment policy — because it is an
economic and political crisis.”

Monopolies are going over from
1953’s “hold-the-line” wage policy
to a wage-cutting drive this year,
the speaker said. This goes “hand
in hand with attempts at union-
busting.”

The working class movement in
Canada is strong enough to defeat
these attacks and° win wage in-
creases, Kashtan contended. Points
in the LPP 10-point plan to beat
the threat of depression are being
taken up and fought for by many
unions, and there is “a rising tide
of resistance” against layoffs.

“Campaigns for wage increases
are centering around the demand
that workers are entitled to a larg-
er share of the national income —
and that pay hikes must come out
of profits.”

Kashtan predicted that the
time will come “when Canadian
workers will have their own, all-
Canadian united trade union
centre” and labor unions in this
country “will cease to be appen-
dages of unions in the United
States.”

At the same time he warned
against those “who advocate splits
and secessions” but urged a height-
ening of the struggle for Canadian
autonomy and trade union unity
against the developing crisis.

The LPP supports all demands
put forward by unions which could
increase workers’ purchasing pow-
er, including the demand for a
guaranteed annual wage, but
“warns that this demand does not
ensure against layoffs, and, in fact,

takes them for ganted,” Kashton |

said. “What workers need today are
wage increases, a reduction of
working hours with no reduction in
take-home pay. These are the
key economic requirements of la-
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Stating that, “the rising national-
consciousness of the Canadian peo-
ple creates the possibility for rapid
change and progress in the labor
movement” he declared that “the

Canadian working class will event-

ually move over from a class for
others to a class for itself.”

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“We must join with the people
of the Americas in deciding what
is to be the future of this whole
hemisphere,” he said.

“Ts it to be determined by the
policies of John Foster Dulles as
he outlined them at the Caracas
conference — a policy demanding
subservience to the United States
or open U.S. intervention against
rising people’s action for demo-
cratic and economic advance? Or

is it to be determined by the peo-
ples of the Americas?”

The LPP leader said the new
national policy of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party and its new pro-
gram for the building of a na-
tional parliamentary party, for
Canadian independence and peo-
ple’s democracy, together with
the people’s national liberation
movements in Central and South
America and the Caribean,
“charted the path to socialism
for the entire western hemi-
sphere.”

Buck, re-elected as LPP national
leader, told the convention that
“we stand at the threshold of a
new era.” Tens of thousands of
Canadians were being seized by the
“Put Canada First” idea advanced
in the main slogan of the LPP, he
said, adding:

“And there are a multitude of
signs that important sections of
big business are beginning to
doubt the policies of the St. Lau-
rent government of integration of
the Canadian economy with the
United States.”

The convention was one of the
most enthusiastic in the 32-year
history of the Communist move-
ment in Canada. “The great spirit
shown here these past four days
reflects the thought that we’re on
the way towards winning indepen-
dence of Canada from the domina-
tion of the USA.”

Buck warned, however, of the
approaching economic crisis and
the danger of war, despite the signs
of lessening international tension.
Quoting the proverb that “whom
the gods would destroy they first
make mad,” he said the leaders of
the U.S. war camp were becoming
“lunatics bent on destroying their
own world with their hideous Hell-
Bomb in their insane attempt to
destroy the socialist world.”

He called upon Canadians to un-
ite in action to “stop the domina-
tion of Canada by the U.S.”; to beat
back the threat of depression; and
to arouse the conscience of man-
kind against the hydrogen bomb
tests.

“T don’t want a depression any
more than anyone else,” he declar-
ed, “but to stop it, we’ve got to
fight against it now” with measures
that demand the adoption of a
Canadian policy by the government
and that include great nation-build-
ing projects and legislation to meet
the social needs of the people.

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LESLIE MORRIS: “Every new
and defeated.”

domination by U.S. imperialism,”

capital, he said, is to accept the
drive of U.S. imperialism, to, agree
to a “fire-sale of Canada’s re-
sources, an abject surrender of our
national sovereignty” and _ the
abandonment of the national in-
terest.”

The program was adopted un-
animously with delegates giving
Morris a standing ovation.

Morris said the LPP program,
which for two years has been the
object of wide discussion within
the LPP and among Canadians gen-
erally, emphasizes the issue of “Put
Canada First” as the “lever” with
which the Canadian people “can be
lifted out of dependency and into
independence.” It charts Canada’s
road to people’s democracy and to
socialism. ‘

The issues which have to be
fought out in Canada, he declared,
are the existence of Canada as an
independent sovereign state; the
economic and social aggravations
and penalties exacted by subordin-
ation of Canada to the U.S.; the
issue “of whether to ‘Put Canada
First’ or to be a doormat for the
U.S. monopolies.”

The achievement of national
equality by the French-Canadian
people, Morris pointed out, hinges

; | also on the defeat of U.S. monopoly

capital and its invasion of Quebec.

U.S. domination of Canada, he
said, is being realized by Canadians
and there are signs of a rising na-
tional consciousness, national spirit
and national psychology.

The new program, he said
“makes it clear that every new
encroachment, every new hu-

miliating demand of the U.S.

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U.S. encroachment must be fough

LPP parley adopts
Canada First program

TORONTO

Canada is the “most vulnerable of all the victims of the drive for.

; ; ? ive
Leslie Morris, national executl’

member of the Labor-Progressive party, warned 300 delegates atte?
ing the LPP fifth national convention here.

Morris, presenting the LPP’s new program, declared that unles®

U.S. imperialism is “halted by the action of the people it threatens

the very national existence of the Canadian state and nationhood.

j
The policy of Canadian monopoly

upon Canada, must be fought
against and defeated. The 4?
petite of the U.S. for Canada h§
not been satisfied.’’-

It must not be thought, he de:
clared, “that it is impossible P
achieve socialism in Cané
through the constitutional, peac®
ful path, through the struggle ig)
national independence, peace an
democracy as they arise in Canad’

through a democratic nation”
movement in which the work?

class will come , to leadershife
through the fight for supremacy 5
parliament against the bourg©?

destruction of the parliament@ :
system and in foreseeable circ! t
stances, transforming parliam ;
from an instrument of the rule oak
tiny minority of monopoly capi
ists into an instrument of the ort
ple’s power, for the establishint
of a people’s state led by the W®,

ing class — people’s democracy:

“pas
“History,” said the speaker, rai

granted us Canadians the poss’,
ity of a peaceful transition 1? 2
cialism. This possibility has Pee
purchased with the blood and § 0
fering of. millions of people 7 af
are not Canadians—and in the be
place the mighty people of ow
USSR and their party.” The vo
LPP program “defines with 8).
clarity the Canadian road t0

cialism.”
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