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Attlee warns U.S.

on Formosa

for an

incial leader,
aturday,

Picture shows Attlee (right)

Clement Attlee, leader of the British Labor party, told reporters when he arrived at Montreal
eight-day speaking tour of Canada under CCF auspices that the U.S. would have to go it alone
Many war with China over Formosa.

with Arnold Webster, CCF prov-

at Vancouver Airperi during his last visit here. Attlee will speak im Vancouver this

U.S. cultural invasion meeting
Strong resistance, LPP notes

TORONTO

pote resistance of Canadians to
€ cultural assault on this coun-
mee the United States is the
the Significant development in
i arts, letters and sciences in
Nada, Charles Sims declared at
tee fourth national cultural con-
yale of the T.abor-Progressive
chan, here last weekend. Sims,
comeman of the LPP’s cultural
981 wission, made his report to
ld
eading creative artists in
theatre, music, painting.
ce,

of There has been a new surge
erm. ocratic Canadian cultural
le vession: festivals, concerts, bal-
oa t €atre,” Sims said. “In many
on eects the cultural expressions
1s democratic Canadianism , are
eae than the expressions of
inate resistance to U.S. dom-
and 10M the fronts of economics
Politics,”
Outer, P2!d tribute to the many
Standing Canadians, who “have
Plished great things,’ among
Roger Lemelin, French-Can-
an star, who in reply to
the a] Solent challenge of a Mon-
Cana CBC producer's negation of
e dian talent, not only produc-
Tadioy Plouffes (a hit on TV and
has Put also declared: “Canada
Youn € opportunity now. for
crazy Canadians We would be
He to go anywhere else.”
tinetiy Canada possessed “dis-
Ures th and strong democratic cul-
ater pat Teftect the national char-
i t French and English-speak-
strug ee forged in the people’s
Neg; * to conquer the wilder-
ang i, ° build our great railways
to n UStries, to create our farms,
Childre, (0, the heritage of their
forg, + Of the next generation;
le... 22d tempered in the strug-
againe inst reaction at home, and
threats foreign dictators who
history Ned Canada down through
ta Yes, there is a strong, vib-
acta, N pedian character; a char-
Shockey @ has more than once
Pri Canada’s foes and sur-
te Re © world. It is modest,
a Us, tough, unafraid of ob-
Who {2 Character of people
brace *t, things done without
Sging.”

Does :
ee sTeatness of Canada’s
the Tle Speaker counterposed
Whick 128 Class of the country,
and spins. always been miserly
tures Meless on questions of cul-

elegates and observers, among

that the government had failed to
implement the report of the Mas-
sey cultural commission. As an
example of the miserliness of the
government he cited thé fact that
during the entire year of 1953-54
the National Galery spent only
$3,275 for six Canadian paintings.

Sims had high praise for the
great contributions to the devel-
oping Canadian culture by many
art workers in the labor movement.
He called upon the entire LPP
for greater effort to get more
vigorously into the cultural strug-
gle, to assist cultural workers to
advance their craft to ‘higher
levels, and to produce more.

The conference decided that
the LPP should submit a brief
to the federal government on
cultural issues,’ including de-
mands that arise out of the Mas-
sey report. It also proposed
establishment in every province
of a ministry of culture.

: * Be hs Ie
A co-report on cultural devel-

opment in French Canada was
read to the conference by Harry
Gulkin on behalf of Pierre Gelinas,
editor of Combat, who was absent
‘because of illness.
In his report Gelinas discussed
in detail the developing movement
among the French-Canadian masses
against the Americanization of
French-Canadian : culture.

“The resistance to Americaniza-
tion is woven into the national
consciousness of our people,” Geli-

+“ pointed to the fact

nas emphasized. “The emergence
of the working class as a power-
ful and growing social and politi-
cal force has posed the problem
of national survival and of our
cultural future in a new way.”

Gelinas scored the policy of the
Duplessis government which stifles
cultural development in Quebec.
The subsidies cf the provincial
government to aJ} branches of
education, he showed, have gone
down from 22 percent of the pro-
vince’s revenue in 1943 to 17 per-
cent in 1951. -

Duplessis’ sellout .to the U.S.
trusts extends also to the cultural
domination cf the province, the
speaker pointed out. He denounc-
ed the Padlock Law as the enemy
of culture.

“Culture cannot flourish in a
climate of fear and intimidation,
and it is precisely this climate
which the Padlock Law jis in-
tended to engender.”

*. x *

Special contributions to the con-
ference were given by Mrs. Edna
Ryerson on the Crisis in Canadian
Education; John Weir on the con-
tribution of national groups to
Canadian culture; John Stewart,
editor of the Canadian’ Tribune,
on the U.S. assault on Canadian
culture and by Mrs. Margaret Fair-
ley, editor of New Frontiers, on
the Canadian heritage.

Tim Buck, national LPP lead-
er, spoke of the need to link the
fight for democracy to the rising
tide of Canadianism. The arts
cannot flourish otherwise. He
was critical of those who failed
to recognize the _ contribution
that action on the cultural front
is making and must make to
the struggle for peace and na-
tional independence, pointing
out that cultural work wase not
a compartment, but part of the
whole activity of the LPP.
Leslie Morris, LPP national or-
ganiser, said the “cultural front
is a political front” and urged
leading committees to give “more
precise help” to workers in this
field of activity. The LPP, he said,
would become known to the peo-
ple as the champions of demo-
cratic Canadianism.

Greetings to the conference
were received from William Z.
Foster, chairman of the U.S. Com-
munist, party; from Harry Pollitt
on behalf of the central committee
of the British Communist party
and from the central committee of

jin St. Charles College.

Gostick
union

St. Charles College in Sudbury on
Palm Sunday.

Featured among the free litera-
ture given out at the meeting was
a scurrilous pamphlet by Gostick
called “The Red Architects Behind
the World Communist Conspir-
acy.” This is Gostick’s version of
the infamous torgery “Protocols
of Zion,’ which has been a root
source for anti-Semites, for Nazi
racism, and for all fascist groups
in Canada and the U.S.

Gostick came to Sudbury for
meetings with business and pro-
fessional leaders. The city’s Jew-
ish community knew nothing
about the series of meeting held
in churches over the past month.
The Sudbury Star attended the
gatherings, but did not report
them. It did, however, carry an
editorial supporting Gostick’s de-
mand for a ban on the Labor-Pro-
gressive party.

Sponsors of Gostick here are

not known officially, but it is
known that St. Charles College
does not operate a public hall.
Its facilities are normally reserved
for church functions. ”
A large number of the staff of
St. Charles attended the meeting
including Father Mulcahy, head of
the College, . Father Regimbault,
head of the Catholic Youth Org-
anization, who has just received
an assignment from the Bishop to
organize all parishes in a cam-
paign to oust the present leader-
ship of Mine-Mill Local 598.

Chairman of the meeting was

E. O’Brien, a former Intelli-
gence officer, who is now work-
ing at Creighton Mines. O’Brien

is a leader of special “study
groups” in “trade unionism”
among the miners. In these

courses, corporation or clerical
fascism is the main basis.

It is also reported that James
Kidd, a one-time president of Lo-
cal 598, suddenly “demoted” from
shift boss by INCO to place him
back in the bargaining unit, has
met with this group, which met

.In the group which surrounds
Gostick is to be found a large num-
ber of former Canadian and U.S.
Intelligence officers. Gostick him-
self boasts that he spent five years
as an “Intelligence operative.”
Other cronies are Robert H. Wil-
liams, former. U.S. Intelligence of-
ficer and Commander R. N. Carr
of the Canadian Navy.

A typical fascist forgery is used
by Gostick to fool Catholic work-
ers in. Gostick’s pamphlet.

Hé quotes “The Encyclical Let-
ter of Pope Pius XI, Divini Re-
demptoris” in such a way as to
make it appear that the Pope en-
dorses his charge that there is a
“World Jewish plot” against Chris-
tianity. According to Gostick the
fact that the Soviet Union “declar-
ed ‘anti-Semitism’ a crime against
the state (is) a tacit admission that
the Communist state is Jewish,

tries

-busting

By HAL PROCTOR

SUDBURY

A call for an atomic war against China and the assurance
to “Christians” that they have nothing to fear from being
burned up in an atomic hell for “when they leave here they
will face a better life,” featured a Palm Sunday diatribe here
from Ron Gostick, would-be Canadian feuhrer.

He spoke at

of Senator Joseph McCarthy. At
the meeting he urged bis audi-
ence to read McCarthy's writ-
ings. He also distributed “Fact
Forum Weekly,” a publication of
the Texas millionaires who are
McCarthy’s financiers and among
whom is Clint Murchison, back-

er of. Trans-Canada Pipelines
Ltd.
Aim of Gostick’s sponsors at

this stage is evidently to avoid
any public issue which would run
against the democratic sentiments
of the people of Sudbury. Gos-
tick was brought here subrosa in
order to whip up sentiment for the
campaign they hope to launch
against Mine-Mill Local 598 dur-
ing coming negotiations.

* ~ ~

INCO needs such a campaign.
The record profit of $65 million,
plus an addition:l special tax re- °
serve of $8 million, is a powerful
argument for the workers who
are demanding a 10-cent wage
boost, pensions lowered to 60 years
and other important gains.

Last. year INCO stated that
while it could afford to pay it
would not break the no-wage
‘boost edict of Canadian big busi-
ness. The fact that the Ford and
Massey-Harris workers compelled
big business to retreat has cut
the ground out from under this
declaration. Thus INCO seeks
other ways to hack the demands of
its workers—the old game of di-
viding and weakening, a familiar
one for INCO.

In pre-war .days INCO ‘hired
stoolpigeons through the Auxili-
ary Company of Canada to secure
lists of workers and fire them.

INCO’s spy system has a long
and notorious history, and it has
always aimed at keeping Sudbury
an open shop town.

In the hopes of creating a force
against the union INCO imported
thousands of workers, ineluding
at least two war criminals. This
fell apart when these workers
realized that the union was their
most reliable protector, ;

Today all the dark forces at
INCO’s disposal are making their
appearance.

Behind the scenes it is Ron Gos-
tick to whip up a McCarthy-type
hysteria and anti-Semitism among
the business and professional peo-
ple.

In the union it is the organiza-
tion: of so-called “study groups”
to foster the idea of company
unionism and be a rallying centre
for a drive to smash the. union.
from within.

One of the reasons Gostick
was brought to Sudbury is te be
found in INCO’s failure to turn
the majority .of Catholic work-
ers against their union. Catholic
and non-Catholic workers are
standing together in recognizing
“the eqorts of the Sf. Charles

Gostick is ah ardent supporter

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