4 ce NE ORE NT” wa as coup WINCH, CCF MP, long regarded as his party’s most vocal “socialist”? has just returned from a three-month “world” tour, missing most of the world en route. Winch’s impressions from his tour, now given wide press and TV publicity, is being hailed by “dis- tinguished” economists and labor exploiters across the country as outstanding “realism.” “We've got to smarten up,” says Winch as he tells organized labor in B.C. and elsewhere that the world “doesn’t owe you a living,” meaning, of course, that the loss of markets and market “stability” is largely due to high prices, and that high prices are indubitably caused by high wages — particularly in B.C. “where you have all the strikes.” Since every Chamber of Com- merce gathering for the past sey- eral years has said the same thing in mounting its attacks upon labor’s standards, the theme isn’t exactly new. It’s just as the TV man said when _ interviewing ‘Winch, “strange to hear an avow- ed socialist expressing such views.” , To balance his “impressions” Winch naively suggested that our monopoly exploiters should also accept a lower rate of profit as a contribution to “stability.” Even Sun columnist Barry Mather went into ecstacies on that one. Their political strategy to entice labor onto the CCF bandwagon getting a severe jolt by Winch’s Chamber of Commerce formula for “smartening up,” CCF provincial leader Bob Strachan made due apologies: “Harold was away for a long time,” quoth Bob, “and he couldn’t have seen the latest on pricing practices of corporations.” Since these practices didn’t just -- begin as Winch took his departure, the reason for the latest Winchian “statesmanship” must be sought further afield. : Harold Winch has been “away” from socialist ideology and aims Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN "Managing Editor — BEAT WHYTE Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Stree? Vancouver 4, B.C. Printed in a Union Shop Subscription Rates: One Year: $4.00 Six Months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth countries (except Australia): $4.00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 one year. Phone MUtual 5-5288 ‘Harold was away’ by spreading confusion, _ EDITORIAL PAGE for a long time. He was “away” when he voted in the B.C. Legis- lature for a renewal of the B.C. Electric franchise—when a major- ity of his constituents together with other citizens were demand- ing public ownership of that power octopus. Harold Winch was “away” at the termination of his office as MLA, when Tory leader R. D. Har- vey sponsored a financial cam- paign .to send Harold on a “rest cure” in sunny Hawaii. Winch was also very much “away” when on July 2, 1959, he delivered a coldwar speech in Com- mons, describing peaceful co-exist- ence with the USSR as “morally abhorrent .. . by all thinking Cana- dians.” Harold Winch has been “away” from socialism for a long time... but always ready to hand when it came to performing the historic function of social democracy: that of serving reactionary monopoly and its subservient governments, doubts and diversion in workingclass ranks, and doing it with a fine (and noisy) pretext at “honesty.” In that brand of “honesty,” the workers always lose. Ike's HEN President Eisenhower’s .ghost writers describe his global tour as a “crusade for peace —with freedom,” the icy chill of cold war breaks through the presi- dent’s warm words on peace. | In New Delhi, India, this icy chill became more accentuated with Eisenhower’s pledge of U.S. “support” to Jawaharlal Nehru’s war provocations against the Peo- ple’s Republic of China on the Tibetan-India border issue. And in Greece, that ancient cradle of culture and democracy, where a U.S.-British sponsored police state regime now governs, with Greece a veritable prison house of its toiling people, Eisen- hower lauds it as a strong “bastion of freedom” in defence of “peace.” Another spot on the president’s “crusade for peace — with free- dom” is-Franco Spain. Even the Vancouver Sun felt compelled to editorially deprecate this “Ap- ‘pointment in Madrid.” To official Washington, however, the butcher Franco has “saved” Spain from Communism, and that alone en- titles him to be recognized as a worthwhile pillar of the “free world.” - Small wonder that the Chinese and other peoples look on much of the Eisenhower world junket as a \ r peace tour stoking-up of coldwar fires in Asia and elsewhere; as an approach to an East-West Summit, not in the true spirit of earnest negotiations to achieve peace, but to argue for “peace” with a big stick. ; ~Twint U.S. General Nathan Twining, chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff on NATO, charged last week that French policies under De Gaulle are “weakening NATO,” and that other NATO countries are not living up to their commit- ments. Then the doughty general paid — Canada a dubious “honor” by em- phasizing that “only the U.S. and Canada” are fully meeting their NATO obligations. The Canadian taxpayer, with no money left for schools, hospitals and other badly needed publie services, knows it only too well. Annually these NATO “obliga- tions” cost taxpayers roughly around $2 billion. Quite a high price to remain a 100 percent U.S. “expendable” with “honors.” French rejection of a U.S. re- quest to stockpile atomic weapons on French soil sparked the gen- eral’s blast. Tom McEwen 7 of the U.S. Labor-Management and Dis- ‘HE — provisions closeures Act of 1959, better known as the Landrum-Griffin Bill does not apply to Canadian affiliates of international unions. At least not yet. Canadian Labor Congress chief Donald MacDonald has so advised all CLC affiliates by letter, add- been most co-operative in this this information. . ed to the press. Congress (CLC) is anxious that their wishes be re- spected and that no publicity--be given .. .” ass Here we have the stuff-of which labor seHouts are made. A_billion- aire National Manufacturers. Asso- ciation government -clamps. a super-Bill 43 on American labor, among other things, requiring it to amend its behavior and con- stitutions to conform to this in -famous Act. Z As the majority of international ing that “American officials have matter ... but have requested that > . not be releas-- union affiliates in Canada are gov- erned by and large by made-in-the- USA constitutions, this Landrum- Griffin act can have far-reaching results. While the CLC executive letter indicates a ‘‘most co-opera- tive” but very dubious absolution for Canada unionists, the request to keep silent on the matter is, in essence, compounding a_ felony upon labor. No wonder big business feels cocky as they put their legal sharks and kept politians to work designing new hobbles for organ-: ized labor. With unions so gagged and hobbled by such “co-opera- tion” they have nothing to fear. * * ? * ; _ If however, our top-brass CLC- CCF burocrats urge the observ- ance of silence so as not to em- barass their American ‘co-opera- tors” they are not sparing with noise or cash when it comes to anti-communist coldwar fulmina- tions against all who advocate genuine unity, struggle and pro- gress. - ; 2 Last summer when the attacks - of. the bosses against Canadian Jabor was a rising crescendo from Newfoundland to’ B.C., the On- tario Federation of Labor publish- ed a leaflet entitled ‘“Sputniks and Luniks and. . .,” edited by one Morden Lazarus, OFL’s ‘“educa- tional’ director. After a lot of social democratic ” “at its weekly get-togethers on how froth which would make MacMil- lan and Bloedel laugh themselves sick at such ‘educators,’ Lazarus tells labor what it must do: “We have to make up our minds about what is important and essential ' and effective in our battle for leadership. against the . . . Com- munists.”’ : Not against the monopolists, mind you, the ruthless corpora- tions, the foreign and home-grown exploiters who rob Canadians of their resources, their jobs, their. independence, security and peace; but against the rising world of socialism and its communist van- guard. eS _ What care we for Sputniks, Tatts niks and the like? Let us convince - the “needy nations of the world”. that we with our great Internation-- al Confederation of Free Trade. Unions can solve all problems with an “urgently needed ... . peaceful revolution.”’ Even Lazarus (not the biblical character) should know that “peaceful revolutions” cannot be achieved by. coldwar anti-com- munist blasting. fs One can almost hear the side- ~ splitting guffaws of Big Business © to put the jinx .on labor. “Gentle- men, what more could we wish? With such educators to keep labor doped, silent and divided, we just can’t lose.” Don’t be too sure! December 18, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4