AS iin HI -of the Kremlin has taken hold... -of the socialist leaders have been the first Winch’s “third force’ a dud |“ his reply: to the Speech from the Throne, Harold’ Winch, CCF opposition leader in the legislature, chose ‘as his thesis. the pop- ular social democratic “third force” nostrum. Thus, according. to Winch in a conflicting . war-crazed world “one group is not wholly good and the other is not wholly bad,” and somewhere in between are millions of peo- ple who, when fully energized with the men- tal vitamins of social democracy, will square accounts with the “bad” in both camps. Winch’s contributon to seeking the. road to peace fell short of Saskatchewan’s CCF leader, Premier T. C. Douglas. Philosophical laments about our inability to recognize “Red China” have little effect upon the dol- lar-squeeze warmongering bloc that shapes and dominates UN. policy. Winch’s “third force,” which he defines as “people,” must be inspired and encouraged to demand from their ‘representatives at all levels of govern- ment and authority that People’s China be accorded its rightful place in the machinery of the UN. This the people are doing, much to the discomfort of the professional war- ~mongers and their powerful propaganda machine, and, let Winch note, despite right- wing Social Democratic leaders such as Prime Minister Attlee of Britain whose “third force” policies are not noticeably different from the unqualified force policies of the Truman ‘administration. Had Winch placed the recognition of People’s China, the withdrawal of Canadian forces from Korea, the burning issue of peace or war as they affect the people of , Canada, in proper perspective in his address, and challenged the Coalition to go to the country on these issues as Douglas did the Liberal opposition in Saskatchewan he would have made a great contribution towards mobilizing new thousands of people in the fight for peace. Instead he delivered a typi- eal: “third force” homily, a political Denver sandwich with all the snide anti-Soviet trim- mings. -Fortissimo: “Now in the CCF... we have no illusions about the nature of the Russian autocracy. We know that it is oppressive and aggressiye .. . that wherever the iron hand the heads to roll. In the last analysis, demiocratic so- cialism which moves with the times, and not capitalism which is behind the times, is the greatest danger to Soviet communism.” — , Tremolo: “I am in full agreement with those who believe that Canada should not have supported the resolution in the UN de- clarng China an aggressor, for as Mr. Lester Pearson himself said, it was premature and unwise, and it makes the~chance of peaceful settlement more remote.’ Winch forgot’ to add _ that Pearson's words and deeds were worlds apart; that he “opposed” this war provocation resolu- tion by voting for it! Winch follows the Pear- son double-talk technique by emphasizing his full agreement that Canada “should... be prepared and armed to meet aggression from whatever direction it may ‘come .. . but the only way to make peace and make it stick is by building up, not tearing down.” CCF workers and others deeply concern- ed about the preservation of peace will find great difficulty in determining just where in Winch's speech in the legislature the “build- ing up” process takes place. Even a small community paper like the Highland Echo in its February 22 issue lists a 7-point indict- ment against the imperalist war: incendiaries which gives emphasis to the “tearing down” process — a process to which Winch’s speech can only lend moral aid, whether intended or not. ‘ A speech that bristles with the language of the war propagandists, shot through with reference to “iRussian aggression” the “Iron Curtain,” ‘our dilemma in Asia” and so forth, and based upon the false and’ misleading theory of the “third force” willeadd little or nothing to the “building up’ of peace, Our new “allies,” the Krupps, Francos. Mieyers, Yoshidas et al, with their colleagues in Wash- ington, Ottawa and London, have heard all that befire and are not impressed. The only voice that can impress them and stay their bloody hands is the united millon-fold voice of the people organized, not as a “third | force” of social democracy to save capital- ism from the evils of its own: atomic mad- ness, but organized for peace. Premier Douglas gave impetus.to that cause. Winch left his audience — the pro- gressive people of this province — still “look- ing . .. for some solution.” No ‘patriot’ to labor | AM. LINDSAY, president of TLC vice-pres-) ident Carl Berg’s rump civic “union” and deserter from. the Civic Employees Union (Outside Workers}, Local 28, came in for some high praise from members of Vancouv- er Parks Board this week.” - é Smarting over defeat of the attempt to wreck .and destroy an old-established union, Lindsay lodged a* complaint with the parks board that park employees are “being brow- beaten and intimidated by Communists.” He -made this complaint in the course of answer- ing Local 28’s demand that he either return to his job with the parks board or suffer dismissal, In view of the fact that Lindsay has devoted his self-termed “leave: of ab- sence” to undermining and splitting the un- ion which has won for Vancouver outside civic workers the best conditions and organ- ization in their history. Local 28's position will be readily understood by every honest trade unionist. The parks board agreed that Lindsay should be given an opportunity to “state his case” against the charges of absenteeism and Lindsay made the most of the opportuni- ty afforded him to further the splitting act- ivities in which he is now engaged. His ‘‘def- ense” followed the all too familiar pattern of wild anti-communist statements in which athere was an echo of Pat Sullivan, T. G. McManus andthe whole sorry procession -of union-wreckers, traitors and renegades who have betrayed labor’s cause: “I had to -choose between communism and organized dabor. I chose the latter.” To Lindsay, the shop and job stewards who do “all the talking’ during lunch hour in defense of their union and against the machinations of himself and his mentor, Carl Berg, are “communists.” Hence, his wild outburst before the parks board. ; The board lent sympathetic ear, in fact a collective Tory-CCF ear, Mrs. Buda Brown, who aspires to be a vest-pocket edi- tion of Madame Eva Peron, presented her: compliments to Lindsay for “being a patrio- tic Canadian.” Not to be outdone, Arnold ‘Webster, CCF board chairman went one bet- ter. “You can trust the board to do the right thing by you, keep yon with the work you are doing.” Reduced to every thy language, Web- ster gave his blessing and approval to union- splitting and disruption, to cheap red-baiting and misrepresentation, to turning the trade unions into playthings for the labor bureau- crats of the U.S. state department operating within the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada. > This, it might be added, is_ Harold Winch's “third force” technique in operation. Such a proposal would have little’ effect upon Madame Buda, but if -Webster were to take a straw vote among the CCF work- ers in Local 28 of the Civic Employees Un- ion, who have steadfastly fought against Berg and Lindsay’s attempts to destroy their union, he might learn that his dubious ad vice to a muddled misguided_Lindsay is just the opposite of what his CCF followers in that union think. Despite Webster’s benediction of “pat- riot Lindsay,” it highly likely that the mem- bership of Local 28, CCFers and others, will “keep right on with the work they are ‘do- ing,’ that of preserving their union for the good of its membership. fi TOM McEWEN As We See lt ‘OST ‘Canadian cities have been getting a preview of one sort or another from their civic “defense” leaders on what to do in the event of a bomb attack. Periodically Vancouver gets some of the same advice on how to “take a powder” in the event of the worst happening. A week ago Alderman J. D. Cornett, vice-chairman of our “civil defense” planners, announced that “evacuation centers in the Fraser Valley and Okahagan for between 100,000 and 140,000 Vancouver citizens” is being planned... The planners will have to excuse us for ° looking over their “plans” with more than a little suspicion. It is asking too much of the people to have them believe that those who now plan mass annihilation by atomic. war, are concerned about the “safety” of their victims. Propaganda booklets with all the peat: to-do in case of A-bomb attack are already flooding cer- tain areas in the U.S. and Canada. School children are being required to perform a, new exercise— that of getting under their desks and clasping their hands on the backs of their necks, as a method of minimizing the hazards of atomic attack. Amid all the wordy pronouncements of these booklets on “civil defense,” beamed to the general : idea that the bombs “our side” drop will be terrific in , thels devnsta- tion while those which may be dropped upon us, won’t be so bad, there is no word to the effect that the best defense against such dan- gers is to see'that the bombing doesn’t happen—that the best and enly defense against war is to preserve peace, ya We Secen a day ‘back in 1941—December 7 when MacArthur's . new ally Hirohito made his sneak bomb attack on Pearl Harbor. The American people sloganized it in the words, “Remember Pearl Har- bor,” but the Yankee warmongers have scrapped the slogan for a. new one, “let bygones be bygones”! Following the Pearl Harbor attack, scads of our “best” citizens, the class that produces the cream of our local warmongers and “defense” planners, lit out for the hills. They loaded their families, and as much of their worldly goods as they could pack into the family limousine, and headed into the interior. No bombs for them, thank you! In near panic the denizens of Kerrisdale and Shaughnessey. cluttered the roads leading out of the city, fearful that Hirohito’s next jump would be Vancouver. The rest of Van- couver, the working men and women who constitutéits bone, sinew (and brain when given the opportunity to have their sayso) gayed put, and Hirohito be damned! : The incident, not unique in such situations, had many parallels in Europe. The “best” people who had promoted Hitler, scuttled at the first signs of danger to their own skins. The Resistance fighters came from the Communists, from the progressive, working people. They it was who fought or died defending their country and their homes against the war incendiaries. - . 3 Alderman Cornett says it will “be a difficult job trying to squeeze between 100,000 and 140,000 evacuees in the reception areas of the Frazer Valley and Okanagan.” It will, indeed. It will also be “diffi- cult” getting them there, before you have to “do any “squeezing.” sf \ During winter travel, or on normal summer holiday excursion, British Columbia’s transport system is seen at its best. A cow on the PGE or Kettle Valley rail systems is enough to throw these transit monuments to capitalist graft and mismanagement out of schedule for hours, But we take all these difficulties’ of transporta- tion in our stride. They are part of “our. way of life’ and we must like them because we continue to hang onto them. In fact, if any old line party hack or government in B.C. held an election or opened‘ parliament during the last 40-years without saying something about the “completion of the PGE” or our fine “highway building program,” we would think that something serious was amiss, 5 But to put forward the absurd idea that well over one-third of Vancouver’s population could be moved in time to escape bombing, is a piece of criminal humbug, lifted from the same war propaganda manual which now makes “democrats” and “allies” out of German Nazi war criminals and Japanese fascists. In short, the “defense” of Vancouver, on a par with the same ideas being propagated in other Canadian centers, is part and parcel of conditioning the minds of the people to acceptance of the “inevitability of war,’ as planned by the warmongers and their “civil defense” yesmen, The burning question for Vancouver’s citizens, in keeping with their fellow Canadians from the Atlantic to the Pacific is not how to “evacuate” their cities and homes to escape the death and devasta- tion of civilian bombing, but how to stop the war instigators and their “civil defense’ planners from realizing their evil designs. It has been said somewhere that “people armed with an idea are invincible.” This is particularly true in this world-wide battle of ideas—the battle for peace, against the conspirators of war. During the months of March and April the Pacific Tribune has a campaign to raise an annual sustaining fund of $17,500, in order that this lone labor paper in British Columbia can continue ,to bring the factual truth of the daily struggle for peace home to the people. The role of the‘commercial press is to distort the truth, to mislead the people, to present the warmongers and their “defense” schemers as pillars of democratic virtue and “peace.” The role of the Pacific Tribune is to bring the plain unvarnished facts home to the people; to advodate united action based on these facts; to inspire the people with the ideal of peace and the realization (tested in every com- munity) that peoples of. different creeds, faiths, and political outlook, can live together in one world without having to resort to mass murder to “prove” the superiority of a “way of life.” The Pacific Tribune carries forward in every issue all the finest traditions of labor and the struggles of the people for peace and pro- gress. This financial campaign is part of this tradition—the common people subsidizing a paper that speaks only in a interests and -giving top priority to the fight for peace. 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