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Hall splitters routed

TLC BACKS BENGOUGH
SUPPORT OF SEAMEN

“The question is: ©
protection of that right,

i that
Does this Congress agree
president Percy Bengoug

he opened its largest convention since

1919 in Victoria this week.

Scbinecs should be free to organize and insist on
h of the Trades and Labor Congress declared as

—VICTORIA, B.C.

“Winston Churchill does not

Speak for the British people. He

Speaks for reactionary interests.

War can bring only disaster and

death. The leadership in the fight

for peace must come from US,

trom trade unionists all over the
world.”

‘ This is what William Pearson,

Labor must lead fight for peace,
British leader tells convention

national executive member of the
British Federation of Miners, rep-
resenting the British Trades Un-
ion Congress as a fraternal dele-

gate, told delegates to the Trades
and Labor Congress of Canada
after they had welcomed him to
their convention here with an

ovation.

“The imperialists of the world
are trying to frighten the people
with their exaggerated strength,”
he declared. “We must cooperate

with all nations and depend on
none. Let us march forward in

unity to build a world free from |

disaster, a world of free and con-
tented people.”

At Paris, London and in the relatively’ obscure Welsh
town of Llandudno, the pattern of Western imperialism’s
desperate drive to a third world war became very clear this
week. And, in conventions meeting at opposite. ends of the
continent, at Victoria-and Toronto, the fight. of Canadian
labor. to save the peace, to save the living standards of the
people from the drain of war expenditures, was marked
both by victory and defeat—victory in the Trades and Labor
Congress’ refusal to bow to big business dictates and defeat
in the Canadian Congress of Labor’s shameful capitulation
to big business’ war hysteria.

These were the developments that linked to form the
pattern, for between Winston Churchill’s speech at I.lan-
dudno and the foreign policy resolution adopted by ‘the
CCL majority there was no difference in principle, only
a difference in the words used:

@ In the United Nations’ political committee, Andrei Vish-
insky accused the Western powers of using “poison, in-
sinuation and slander” to “prove what you cannot piove
—that the Soyiet Union opposes any and all kinds of
cooperation, that the Soviet Union wants to wage war
with the whoie world.””. The truth, he declared. was that
the Western powers wg¢re themselves trying to foment
war against the Soviet Union. “Yau tried to make sec-
ret agreements with Hitler,” he charged. “You tried
to get Hitler to attack the Soviet Union instead of you.
We already have shown your true role—the role of your
Chamberlains and Daladiers, and the United States which
stood behind the Chamberlains and Daladiers,” :

@ At Llandudno, Waies, Winston Churchill stated in thinly
veiled language that the Western powers would never
be satisfied until the Soviet Union abandoned socialism
and threw open its resources—and peoples—to capitalist
exploitation. “Above all, let them (the Soviet Union)
open their vast regions on equal terms to the ordinary
travel and traffic of mankind,’ he stated.

@ At London, the prime ministers of the Commonwealth
countries, including Canada, discussed new measures to
bolster their anti-Soviet alliance and considered an Am-
erican plan for maintaining the weakening imperialistic
grip on Asia.

@ At Toronto, the CCF-dominated Canadian Congress of
Labor, adopting its foreign policy resolution over the
opposition of the progressive minority, condemned
“Soviet imperialism” in terms that drew lavish praise
from the big business press, called for an anti-Soviet
Atlantic war alliance and ordered its members to accept
the big business warmongering policies of the King-St.
Laurent! government.

Against the frenzied red-baiting—an echo in labor’s halls
of the red-baiting of governments—that is absorbing the CCL
convention and diverting it from labor’s real problems of

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