oF ie ‘GENEVA PROVED LPP POLICIES WERE RIGHT’ throu ~ SF peace are still in the today External Affairs Minister _“4tson sounds as if he were biting “ta lemon when he gives his Pinions about Geneva. The Liberal Party's leaders, King and St. Laur- of Were foremost in launching fe cod war in the 1946 “spy ” At every step since then : have made this country a in Mm the hands of the discredit- Dulles and his’ fantastic line “wy : of Massive retaliation.” @ eee Price Canadians have paid der Liberal perfidy is the indepen- ae of their country, which has _ en prostrated before the U.S. qeety machine. Under cover of _jghting” the Soviet Union in a fold war and preparing for a shoot- me var, the St. Laurent govern- st has permitted the U.S. to ®ccupy Canada. tne, Tories have led when the trea Tals seemed to hesitate in their Chery to Canada. ee CCF leaders wore Liberal is and Tory pants in the foreign ley debates. choot Low and Social Credit ‘red the anti-Soviet orgy from Sidelines of the House and the ber for Lethbridge, John etpore, hammered incessantly [PP record alone ear, honorable ae LPP’s record alone is bright Clear, honorable and patriotic. a It denounced the “spy trials” as. i € Political manoeuvre ag ‘oOndemned the Mdtshall Plan “ Omen 228 of destroying the econ- milits Of nations in return for US. terns Y bases on the sovereign “Ories of other people. We Abbott Plan and USS. air © e a 8 across Canada. mice Canadian Communists ex- of th the atom bomb blackmail 2 cM US. State Department and aboy; L,t0 believe the fairy tales which US: d innocent people to be- ‘ not peat the Soviet Union would ®ve the bomb for 20 years. nate’ UPP, and first of all its the Jl leader, Tim Buck, showed Us onsequences of supporting tegrat et Soviet policy — the “in- Indyec@” of Canadian with U.S. “ity, the loss of our sovereign- ge € U.S. military, the push- ilitar Canada backward to be a @ US Taw resources reserve of > and the loss of our in- the men in the political Year, cll through ‘the miserable Oy, Of the cold war, have forced the;, CURtry to pay dearly for ton ap uPidity, imperialist ambi- Yet Peo Criminal folly. We have z Count the cost. Colg war leaders ad not escape Teayiile there is a great need to “Ontong ‘ny things unsaid in the ‘SSen oe between states so as to ho . “ational tensions, there heed in the inner poli- “Scientific supremacy” | »| unable: to meet and defeat the By LESLIE MORRIS National Organizer, Labor-Progressive Party The Geneva Conference has proved. that the Labor-Progressive party was right all gh the eight years of the cold war, and all the other parties were wrong. And it is Tight today when it couples its happiness about Geneva with a warning that the guarantees hands of the people. The governing Liberal party’s foreign: policy has been bad all through, and even It must never happen that the political leaders who coldly and cynically organized and led the cold war are ever let off and their crimes forgotten. Geneva has not restored the in- dependence of Canada. It has not brought .victory to Canadian eco- nomic independence. It has not removed U.S. military bases from Canada. It has only improved the conditions for doing them. Men like Finance Minister Walter Harris, who not so long ago said that Canada’s destiny lies in the “liberation of Poland’* and who still hobnobs on weekends - with disgruntled and _ vicious “libera- tion” elements, must not be allow- ed for a single moment to forget these things — nor is it likely that he will change his tune now, be- cause -of Geneva. Not political truce within country One of the principles of peaceful co-existence, for which the Soviet Union has fought patiently—and at times alone—for nearly 38 years, is that there,should be no interfer- ence in the internal affairs of one country by another. That is the true and tried prin- ciple of living together as between states. : ‘ The reactionary cold war organ- izers try to make it appear that this means a political truce, in their favor, within the country. Not at all. Geneva is not a political truce within Canada or any other western country. Geneva is the victory of socialist foreign policy over imperialist war policy, and those within our countries of the West who have been respon- sible for the disastrous’ foreign policy, with all its blood in Korea and Indochina and its cost to the economy, the policy which has been given a severe blow at Gene- va, must answer to their people. In Canada, that goes for Lib- erals, Tories, COF right wing lead- ers and Social Credit chieftains— with the conservative trade union bureaucrats and the bad leaders of the farmers included. LPP line of peace is proven correct The LPP’s line of peace and op- position to the U.S. was policy, its championship of new foreign policies of peaceful co-existence, which are in the national interests of Canada — this line has been proven correct, workable and vic- torious. ‘The ruling circles have been forced to accept at least a part of this position, not because they have become socialists overnight, but because they were increasing- ly opposed by the people and were glorious foreign policy of the So- viet Union and the People’s De- mocracies. They have been forced to change their tune because they have suffered defeat after defeat— in Korea, Indochina, India, Yugo- slavia, at Bandung, now in Malaya, lite “Ake of Canada. This could have been all along It would be wrong to think that people will not draw conclusions from Geneva and the thaw of the cold war. : We can expect things to happen — politically, scientifically, mili- tarily, culturally — which were undreamed of up to now. We have become so “acclimat- ized” to the cold war that is hard to remember now what. the world was like for a little while after the victory over Hitler in 1945, _ We shall soon see what it can be like In the new climate the ideas of the LPP will grow and flourish more abundantly. | ae And we have to remember that it could have been this way all along! We could have been spared the cold war and the atom bomb terrors! We could, in Canada, as in Britain, France, Italy, have re- tained a larger measure of our national freedom and independ- ence. And we would not have an economy, a “boom,” as we have today, which draws most, of its strength. from armaments. We could have readjusted our econ- omy to the new world which fol- lowed the defeat of Hitler—and this we still have to do. : That we have lost eight precious years is the fault of the monopoly capitalists and their leaders—who were wrong in the cold war as they were in the Munich period, as they were in 1939-41, and as they frequently were during the latter years of the war, when even in alliance with Russia they gave up the Soviet army for lost time out of number, and. prepared se- cretly to deal with the Germans against the Russian people. No, these things will not be forgotten. In the efforts we shall all have to make to adjust our- selves to a new period in human history, and to keep up the fight for peace as Tim Buck warns in his statement—and these are the main things to be done—we shall not, and we must not forget who were responsible for the cold war, and we must let the people know the truth, ~~ We shall have many opportuni- ties. to do this, in elections, in the unions and farm organizations, in the plants and mines, and on the streets. . In the meantime, all honor and glory to the LPP members who kept the flag of peace, democracy, ‘socialism and independence flying all through the bitter cold war years. e . We remember the hard-fought campaigns and the temporary de- feats, the door-to-door canvassers, the petitioners for peace, the hot arguments in the factories, the times when it took real courage to stand against the stream. We remember the millions of words that have been written—in the gallant Canadian. Tribune, in National Affairs Monthly, the val- iant youth paper Champion, Que- bec’s Combat, the Pacific Tribune, in pamphlets and books. : We salute the men, women and young people who refused to be stuck to their guns and maintain- ed and built the Communist move- ment in the face of the avalanche of red-bogey lies and calumnies. And we ask those who for one reason or another left the move- ment in the wintry years of the cold war, to come back now. All honor to the Canadian peo- ple, who refused to fall prey to McCarthyism or be stampeded by the hateful war propaganda, but instéad showed in a thousand ways their growing national democratic consciousness. | The mighty Soviet people’s poli- |! cy of peace won a great victory | for world socialist opinion at Gen-! swept away by the cold war, who] ® ‘ Peace still in hands of people eva. The imperialists have re- ceived a setback, their bloody plans of atomic war have been thrust aside by the people of the world. — We have a glorious opportunity in this new climate to build the LPP, to bring young people into the National ‘Federation of Labor Youth, to get readers for our press, and to take the truthful and im- pressive LPP program to the peo- ple in great numbers. The LPP’s program has been proved by the Geneva Conference +6 be the Charter of the Future for Canada. Big sub push. Starts in September Dear Reader: Club of the Month awards for good work on the circulation front were won in July by Point Grey press club in Greater Vancouver, and Nanaimo in the province. Our annual subscription drive will begin in September, and press clubs should begin making plans ‘to clean up their 1955 sub targets during the two-month campaign. A check on overall figures to date shows _. that city clubs, ~ on an objective ; _ of 2,400 subs for the year, have brought in 1,070 (paper sales credits included) while provincial points, aiming for 2,615 have accounted for 1,260. It must be stated that the sum- mer slump has affected our cir- culation. Only a real effort in September and October will en- able us to register an overall cir- culation gain for the year. Rita Whyte Yes, DAL RICHARDS’ BAND 12.30 - 2.30.p.m. . memorable day for you and you'll agree with u fun and entertain We’re expecting you! we've done everything we can to make this o your family. And we hope s thet this picnic tops them all for ment, 14th ANNUAL LABOR PICNIC | Confederetion Park — Sunday, August 7 — 11 a.m PROGRAM BINGO HOT DOGS HAMBURGERS TRACK & FIELD EUROPEAN DISHES CHECKERS WATERMELONS HORSESHOES FRESH CRABS PRIZES GALORE 7 ek %. ICE-CREAM — TEA — COFFEE KIDDIES SWIMMING — RACES — PONIES. MERRY-GO-ROUND — SLIDES — SWINGS ae. FREE BALLOON S IN CASE OF RAIN: ‘picnic will be held at: Ukrainian and with more to come. 805 East Pender Street . Hall Russian People’s Home 600 Campbell Avenue PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 5, 1955 — PAGE 7