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ADDRESSING a meeting of the
~ Canadian Club at Comox earlier
this month, CCF national leader M.
J: Coldwell told his audience that in
Pit eventuality of Canadian recog-

ition of the People’s Republic of

fitina, he had “seen a document” to
‘ that effect. :

Ottawa, of course, promptly
Uenied the existence of such a
“document,” a denial undoubtedly
Mtended to avoid causing John

yp Ster Dulles any undue embarass-
ent,

Soltis known however, that the St.
@rent-Pearson Liberal

*Putred on by an ever-growing and

regime,

Ympathetic public opinion, came
Mlose to such recognition on several
“casions. As far as the Canadian
People are concerned, there is no
Subt it would have become a
lity years ago, were it not for the
Massive” domination of Canadian
Affairs at Ottawa by U.S. cold war
Policies, before which both Liberals

“Md Tories have bent a subjective
Nee,

Now the issue can no longer be
aded or bypassed with Tory
lemagogy. The gravity for Canada
“td for the whole world of U.S.
: “BBtession in China coastal waters
‘all too plain. In the despicable
Tle of a bellhop to Yankee im-
| Petialism, Canada can become em-
®Olled in an atomic war which, even
: Nits initial ‘stages, already outrages
World Opinion.

In the role of an independent
Vereign nation Canada can become
eof the world’s most vital forces
a World peace and friendship. To
© the first decisive step in this
tection, Canada should now be
“Ing three things simultaneously.
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Canada can help peace

U.S. aggression against China. It

should officially recognize the

People’s Republic of China and sup-_

port the seating of its nominees in

_ the UN as the real representatives

of over 600 million people.

And. it should be seeking the res-
toration of Taiwan (Formosa) to-
gether with the offshore islands of
Quemoy and Matsu, as well as the
Pescadores Islands to their rightful
sovereignty—the People’s Republic
of China.

It is not too late for official
Canada to repair the omission, but
it cannot be longer delayed. Trigger-
happy U.S. imperialism has forced .
the issue. It is now up to Canada to
make a long-delayed decision for
peace. for recognition and friend-
ship with China, for a final end to
the Dulles-Chiang Kai-shek war
provocations. The alternative places
the Canadian people in dire peril of
being dragged “over the brink” by
the Dulles-Eisenhower atomaniacs.

* EDITORIAL PAGE

Comment

No ‘dog collar’ for labor

HANGES FOR the worse in exist-
ing provincial labor legislation
are definitely in the making. All the
signs point to that. No trade unionist
has to read far between the lines of
recent speeches to see that govern-
mtnt spokesmen are echoing the ds-
mands of big monopoly for “curbs”
on labor.

These “curbs” follow two main
lines of thought by profit-seeking
monopolists and compliant _poli-
ticians. They want to insert the “dog-
collar” of compulsory arbitration
into the B.C. Labor Act, thereby
making it easier for them to main:
tain profits by holding down wages.

Secondly, the bosses would like to
have all trade unions compelled to
register as “legal entities,” thereby
making them liable for any “losses”
a boss or a corporation might claim
to have resulted from strike action
or work stoppages. And who hasn’t
met a boss who couldn’t discover a
“loss” at the drop of lawyer’s hat?

Virtually all the restraining in-
junctions handed down by local
courts during the past six months to
“curb” strike actions have been
granted because of a well-nurtured
class sympathy with the bosses’
“losses.”

The purpose behind these pro-
jected changes in the B.C. Labor Act,
advanced by Social Credit and sup-
ported by Liberals and Conserva-
tives, are clear. They are designed to
facilitate placing the whole of the
burden of the economic crisis upon
the backs of labor and the people
the better to preserve the maximum
profit levels of the monopolists.

yt mt os

Organized labor should see this
latest threat by the Socred govern-
ment, not as a gesture towards
taking some of the “bugs” out of
existing labor legislation in order to
facilitate collective bargaining, but
as a readiness on the part of the
Socred government to comply with
monopoly demands, thereby intensi-
fying the nation-wide attack of big
business upon existing labor stan-
dards.

Union delegations, resolutions
and briefs should be pouring into
Victoria now, making it unmistak-
ably clear that organized labor in
this province will tolerate no “dog-
collar’ or other restrictive laws
which infringe its inalienable
right to bargain collectively, and to
withhold its labor power to expedite

that goal.

Tom
McEwe

NTIRELY aside from the his-

torical distortions and brazen
effrontery -which highlighted
Eisenhower’s radio “message” to
the world last week on U.S. war
plans against People’s China, a
look at his pretended concern for
what he calls the “free” world
might not come amiss.

If your neighbor’s back yard
isn’t as well ordered as you think
it should be, don’t start handing
out advice about it until your own
is in tiptop shape. Otherwise your
neighbor may feel like telling you
what a recent edition of the
Financial Post told these US.
atomaniacs, to wit:

“Neither Heaven nor Mankind
has given the U.S. the assignment
of running all the rest of the
world. Uncle Sam’s nose is getting
too long for his own good.”

Were Eisenhower and his bil-
lionaire cabinet really intent on
advancing the cause of freedom,
they couldn’t do better than begin
right in their own backyard.

Down in Alabama a 55-year old

Negro worker, Jimmy Wilson, has
been sentenced by the courts to
die for allegedly robbing a white
woman of $1.95. Jimmy’s real
trouble is not whether he did or
didn’t steal $1.95, but that he has
a black skin ... a major handicap
in Eisenhower's ‘free’ world.

Of course, it may be pointed out
by Eisenhower “freedom fighters”
that Jimmy had a “trial,” the
benefit of law so to speak. For
what it is worth that may be
something, and perhaps a good
deal more than countless thou-
sands of other Negro workers
have had at the hands of Southern
white lynch mobs. The marginal
line between legal and illegal
murder in Eisenhower’s “free”
world has always been drawn
very fine.

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Thus, when Eisenhower  in-
cludes the offshore islands of
Quemoy, Matsu, Taiwan (For-
mosa), the Arab world and sundry
other, areas, of the globe in his
“free” world, and with character-
istic Yankee bluster opens his
atomic arsenal with the announ-
ced intention of using it to keep
them. “free,” the conscience of the
thinking world invariably turns
to Little Rock, to Jimmy Wilson,
to race prejudiced courts and
hooded Klansmen, which become
the true barometers. of the
vaunted “freedoms” of Yankee
imperialism.

Eisenhower can argue that his

“land of the free” is not the only
place where freedom has a double
standard of values. Too true!

Just last week in South Africa
a white-mistress of a white “bass”
(a plantation big shot), shot and
killed. her African maid because
the maid was alleged to be “‘in-
solent.” An all-white court “fined”
this white female killer $140 for
her indiscretion.

Doubtless it would be of interest
to the legal profession in more
civilized lands to know just what
was the “charge” meriting such a
fine. Lots of Canadians get more
than that for a traffic infraction.
Obviously, African maids come
cheap and particularly “insolent”
ones who refuse to be trodden
upon.

These are only some of the
“freedoms” which Eisenhower
wants Americans (and others) to
fight for; to drop H-bombs on the
teeming cities of China in. order
that such ‘‘freedoms” shall pre-
vail.

Since it is estimated that over
one third of Formosa’s people
under U.S. “freedom fighter”
Chiang Kai-shek are in prison,
and another third press-ganged
into Chiang’s army for U.S. can-
non-fodder, it is hardly to be
expected that the remaining third
enjoy much more of the amenities
of Eisenhower’s “free” world
than does Jimmy Wilson.

From such a. “free” world, the
saints preserve us!

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