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GEORGE HOME PUTS
FINGER IN DYKE

The Canadian Labor Con-
gress held a January meet-
ing in Ottawa of the heads
of unions — international
and Canadian — to discuss

_ the proposed new political

party.

Opposition was expressed. by
the majority present at the
way the CLC leadership has
narrowed down the Winnipeg
Resolution to a ‘support, the
CCF” proposition. They point-
ed out that “their member-
ship,’ while keenly aware of
the need for broad all-inclusive
political action, would not fit
into the political straight-
jacket being fashioned for
them by the CCF- oe leader-
ship.

This produced a_ request
from the CLC brass that those
who opposed the form of the
new party kindly keep their
mouths shut at the coming CLC
convention, so that the illu-

Sion could be created that;
there was unanimous approval. | :
| ed by the monopolies, problems

Against this background,
George Home, Political Educa-
tion Director of the CLC ar-
rived in. Vancouver last. Sun-
day. to address a seminar of
the delegates. to the coming
CLC convention on the subject
of the new party. . :

An uninspired 35 Geteeates
(mostly CCF union leaders—
mute testimony to the lack of
enthusiasm of trade unionists
to the CCF-CLC bill-of-fare)

listened to” an outline which |

began in Newfoundland and
ended in B.C., then returned to
Saskatchewan, where a eulogy
on-government automobile in-
surance left the listener with
the. impression -that this was
indeed the most . singular
achievement of Canadian _ his-
tory.

Home managed such a tour
without a mention of the word |
peace. No reference to the one

thousand seven-hundred mil-}

liom dollars being squandered
on ‘war machines.. Not. a soli-
tary mention of monopoly or
state-monopoly. Not a word on
the despicable actions of the
South African government or
the grand struggle of the Negro

CKLG station stops
disarmament talk -

A ‘radio broadcast by Roy
Samuelson, Burrard Commun-
ist candidate, which was to be
made April 8 on CKLG on dis-
armament and jobs, was can-
celled by the station.

The day before a tape was
to be made the election com-
mittee was notified by station
of the cancellation, When ask-
ed whether further considera-

tion would be given to the pre--

vious committment of the sta-
tion;-the answer was no.

. . and Strachan is defeated.

people.

The world he divided into
three political spheres. On the
left Sweden, New Zealand and
those like himself. On the
right, world capitalism and
still further to the right, the
900 million people building
socialism.

The united front was dis-
missed by the simple explana-
tion that it is not in the Cana-
dian parliamentary tradition
and the Queen only allows for
government by political par-
ties. (Perhaps he forgot the
right wing coalition that gov-
erned B.C. for years.) A fed-
erated farmer-labor people’s
party went down the drain be-
cause the CCF tried that in
1932 and it didn’t work. Mem-
bers cannot be. a member of
any other political party be-
cause this party must be
“ideologically cohesive.”

According to this theory
Canadian workers, farmers
and intellectuals cannot solve
the common problems present-

of peace, unemployment, de-
clining incomes, education, cur-
tailment of civil liberties, until
they have become an “ideolog-
ically cohesive” party.

The. political gymnasium that
trains acrobats of the Home

‘variety specializes in training |

people to stand on their head
while looking in a mirror: Thus
they have an unswerving abil-
ity to see things both upside
down and only after they hap-
pen. Only such a training
could condition one to ignore
the fact that it is precisely
around the broadest possible
struggles for the mose imme-
diate needs of the widest sec-
tions of the people that unity
can be won, ideological or
otherwise.

Home and his associates are

‘sadly trailing the needs and

sentiments of Canadians. This
is why their narrow plans for
Canada‘s labor movement are
meeting with growing opposi-
tion. Opposition from ~ within
the CCF, where a major re-
bellion
throwing out the last preten-
sions of socialism from their
program. Opposition from the
trade unions to the proposition
of becoming the milk-cow for
a new-named CCF party.

This fact explains Home’s
fire-brigade national tour. He
is lobbying the delegates to the
CLC convention in the hope of
warding off a major split that
would force the CLC back to
the path indicated in the Win-
nipeg resolution.

All progressives in the labor
movement, CCF, CP, or else-
where, should throw them-
selves into the battle to see
that the spirit of the Winni-
peg resolution is carried. out
and the line of Knowles, Home

is shaping up over|

‘Action urgent after
Paget report —Morgan

Deal on Libby.
warned against

Gen. A! GL. MacNaughton,
chairman of the Canadian sec-
tion of the International Joint
Commission, last week said if
the U.S. insists on building a
dam at Libby, Mont., Canada
should develop its section. of
the Columbia River basin on
its own.

He told the Commons exter-

‘nal affairs committee the pro-

posed Libby project:on the
Kootenay river would ~ be
wrong anda gift of Canadian
resources to the USS.

MacNaughton said if Libby is
built Canada will lose forever
its opportunity to divert the
Kootenay into the Columbia
and produce nearly three times
as much power as Libby at
about one-third the cost. The
key to the entire development
of the Columbia, he said, is di-
version of the Kootenay into
the Columbia.

GEN. A. G. L.
MACNAUGHTON

Considerable importance’ is
being attached. by people in
the know to this statement by
MacNaughton last week. It in-
dicates that U.S. pressure for
the Libby project is consider-
able and that MacNaughton’s
statement is seen as a warning
on this issue.

The ‘B.C. Communist Party
has consistently opposed the
Libby project as a Srenvey
to the U.S. :

Labor blasts MRA

The Canadian Labor Con-
gress regards Moral Re-arma-

ment as a fascist right-wing’

organization, Henry Weisbach,

-CLC Ontario education direc-
‘tor, told an institute organized-

by the Hamilton and District
Labor Council last week.
Weisbach described Moral
Re-Armament as a group fin-
anced and supported by em-

> » ployer Boe eeuons:

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“The Bennett government’s power policy is going to
cost this and future generations millions upon millions of
dollars unless it is stopped,” Nigel Morgan, B.C. leader of

‘the Communist Party, warned this week in.a statement to

the Pacific Tribune on the Paget Report on Peace River

power development.

“They’ve sold out  lock-
stock-and-barrel to the foreign
controlled power monopoly”
Morgan charged; ‘“‘The govern-
ment deliberately blocked ex-
amination of their policy at
the last Session because they
had made up their minds to

proceed with the giveaway to.

Wenner-Gren — regardless of
all costs. One “tenth of the
land surface of B.C. — equal

to a belt 12 miles wide stretch-
ing all the way from Halifax
to’ Vancouver — with untold
riches in natural resources
that belong to the people of
B.C. is being surrendered for
good measure.”

“But that isn’t the worst of
it, because development of the
Peace ahead of the Columbia

‘}means instead of lower light

and power rates, we’re going

4 to have to pay more,” he said.

“One thing that Paget’s Report
makes abundantly clear (as
Mainwaring did earlier in one
of his less cagy moments) is
that Wenner-Gren power can

only be marketed provided no
other major resource develop-
ment, either hydro or thermal
is allowed to absorb part of
the market. That means delay
in development of the genera-
tive capacity of the Canadian
side of the Columbia until
1976, which of course plays
right into the hands of US. in-
terests who want to utilize the
Columbia for U.S. storage; de-
cisively undermines the public
power system, and places the
whole ef the province at the
merey of exhorbitantly high
B.C. Electric - Wenner- Gren
rates,’ Morgan claimed.

“It has been officially esti-
mated Columbia power could
be made available at fifty per-
cent lower rates — four mills
per kilowatt, as against six
mills for Peace River hydro,”
he stated. “If this is so, the
Peace River power is so far
away;-why do U.S. interests,
(and the Bennett government
that has so faithfully obeyed
their - every command in the
past) seems to be delaying set-
tlement and development of
the Columbia? The answer is
to be found in the U.S. scheme

to get the Columbia developed
solely for U.S. ‘storage purpos-

es. And then they have a
scheme under way to make
B.C. consumers pay the cost of
Peace transmission to the U.S,
similar to that by which they
get our natural gas cheaper
than we can buy it ourselves,

A warning of this was Un-
wittingly given by a Prof.
Marts: who placed the USS.
case when he addressed the re-
cent government - sponsored
B.C. Natural Resources Con-
ference and said ‘If such a
transmission line is built, it
must be used at high load fac-
tor to repay investment. It
might be necessary to sell
power to U.S. at lower than
normal rates . ... in which’ case
the U.S. might again be in.
volved, where the Canadian
energy consumer appears to be
the victim of discrimination.

“Tt is quite clear where the
present disastrous policy is
leading,” Morgan stated. “We
should make our stand known
before it is too late. We should
press the Bennett government
for an end to these foreign
giveaways; insist on priority
being given to development of
the Columbia and that its Can-
adian generative capacity be
fully utilized; and call for
esablishment of one province.
wide, publicly-owned power
grid to provide energy at cost,
in which the vast potentialities
of the Peace and other hydro
sources will be fully harness.
ed for the benefits of the
peole of B.C. rather than some
foreign trust,” he concluded. —

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