ABOR DAY of 1961 marks the
67th year since its origin in
Canada. Two prime ideas gave rise
to its birth; one, the “recognition”
by a capitalist government of the
“dignity and worth” of safe-and-
sane labor as an entity in the na-
tional community, and secondly, to
provide a counter alternative to
May Day with its disturbing con-
cepts of international labor unity,
solidarity and struggle.

Time doesn’t stand still however,
and the burgeois hopes which gave
birth to Labor Day have gone
down the drain with a lot of other
capitalist ideas on the seduction
of Labor.

The rise of. a mighty Socialist
sector embracing nearly half the
world’s peoples, plus two world
wars (and a third in embryo) have
made deep imprints in the ideology
and organization of Canadian
Jabor. The class collaborationist no-
tions accompanying the birth of
Labor Day (and since) have not
destroyed the class consciousness
and fighting elan of Canadian
labor, nor its desire for interna-
tional solidarity and fraternity.

Hence we see organized labor
on this Labor Day of 1961 chalk-
ing up its gains and losses, and
*girding’ its loins’ for the great
battles ahead. And these it may
be added, will constitute some of
the stiffest battles Labor has ever
had to face up to.

_ The all-important fight to pre-
Serve peace, to stay the bloody
hands of the nuclear warmakers,
itching, as in their manufactured
“Berlin crisis” to unleash the de-

vastation of nuclear war upon _

mankind.

The fight to rid Canada trom

the disastrous war alliances _in-

volved in the. NATO - NORAD. |.
“partnership” with U.S. imperial- .
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ism, Lea eee
_ To-win complete independence
from U. S. domination
ef Labor’s. struggle to win inde-
pendence and autonomy in-the con-

~ Pacific Trib
Editor — TOM McEWEN
Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH
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The formation m 1961 of the
New Democratic Party as an al-

ternative to the partisan govern-
ments of monopoly capital and
agents of U.S. imperialism, was a
tremendously important step for-
ward by Canadian labor. The real
battle however, is still to be joined;
the battle to win the all-inclusive
labor-farmer unity.

We salute British Columbia and
Canadian labor on this statutory
day of review, confident that as in
the past, and despite all difficul-
ties and obstacles, history will re-
sound with its achievements, as
Labor Day of 1961 marks its re-
newed determination for peace and
human advancement.

Editorial comments .

N THE continued absence of any
i immediate public benefits to
the people from their publicly-
owned BC Electric, and with the
same old gang running this new
‘Crown Company’, a question be-
gins to project itself: Did the So-
cred government ‘take over’ the
BC Electric, or the BC Electric
(with a new moniker) ‘take over’
the Bennett government?

Or perhaps Mr..Bennett, who
prides himself on never ‘missing
a shot’, feels there’s more votes to
be had when such “benefits” are.
handed out just prior to election

time.: The next ‘Socred merry-go-

round slogan could. well be “Free
Transit in'a Debt, Free Province’.
That ought to wow the electorate
—and take their thoughts off So-
cred power Sellouts.

* * *

R. MIKHAIL KLOTCHKO
please note. Last week the
Bank of Montreal issued a writ
against one Igor Gouzenko for
“accumulated debts” of some $2,-
000-dollars ‘Gouzie had managed
to wangle out of one of its Toronto
branches.

While successive Liberal and
Tory coldwar’ governments to-
gether with their RCMP have been,
more than ‘generous’ to this. ho-
oded warthog, it- is now obvious
‘Gouzie’ has become more of a lia-
bility than an asset, the inevitable
finale of all such. vermin.

We wonder if the B-of-M will
insist the hood comes off the

‘hooded hoodulm if as and when

they get him into court? Of will

. Songs of Solomon’, wherein #

Dief pick up the tab as usual, am
charge it to our “national sec!
ity”? : |

HEN the 76-year-old lum

,.. tycoon H. R. MacMillan P
licly voiced the opinion that ;
italism is on: the way out,
didn’t hail the announcemett
a great discovery, but simply
unlooked-for admission of the
vious. ;

Reminded us somewhat of

legendary personage, having $!
ed on to everything in sight dw
_ his: -lifetime, including
scores of wives, gave out wit
earlier version of the aged-i"
wood MacMillan dirge.

“All is vanity” moaned SO
when the years had cooled
blood in his veins, and capital
is kaput says HR when cat
millions out of wood (and Wo”
workers) no longer inspires.

eit se te

*

R. HUGH KEENLEYS!
B.C. Power Gommission che

man and former chairman OF
Canadian Committee for Com,
of Radiation Hazards put the
in a nutshell for all Canae
when he said, apropos of the ©
lin crisis’: ae

“Mr. Diefenbaker should ™
it clear that he will have no
of this kind of criminal nonst
and that the whole of Berlilt,
not worth the life of one Canadl
soldier.” ee
Well said, Dr. Keenlyside. ?
now up to all Canadians to ul!
ly apply that evaluation OF
Washington-Bonn war conspl!
in West Berlin.

Bes
|

Tom
McEwen

ss HAT do you know about Dr.

Mikhail Klotchko?” a read-
er asked us this week, ‘Shave we
got another Gouzenko?”

What. we know about the “de-
fecting” doctor can be summed up
in two words, absolutely nothing.
Happily we are not one of the
doctor’s confidantes. :

But was can offer a few opinions
-on the subject.-

First, delegations from  so-call-

'«wHether’ scientific, cultural or
ee ject to° pressures, . enticements,
_ bribery and ‘so on by a particular

West” country they are visiting.

-cajolery is infinitesmal, but as the
coldwar sky-pilots say, “there is

over the return of one lost sheep”
@tc., then if a whole flock had
gone astray.

There’s a lot of truth in this if
one contrasts the ‘red (?) carpet”

the sour reception given'a délega-
tion of jobless workers, or a like
delegation of poverty-ridden ‘farm-
ers, demanding jobs and parity
prices in order to survive their
“freedoms.”

Next, as each new coldwar crisis

ed “iron” or “bamboo” countries, -

» what-have-you, are invariably. sub-

specie of “official” in the “Free -

The percentage falling for such .

miore joy in their bourgeois heaven.

hurrah given Dr. Klotchko with:

gets “hotted up” (as the present
“Berlin crisis”) what better than
a new “refugee”? from behind the
curtain? Especially one who can
shout “I choose freedom” with a
fair amount of gusto?

If the Gouzenko incident at the
end of World War II, or the
swarms of Gouzenkos dredged up
by the FBI since prove anything
at all, it proves that there” is
nothing like a good anti-Soviet
dime ‘thriller to sweeten-up an
otherwise stale diet; to have an
“ex-communist” cook in the bour-
geois propaganda kitchen posing
as an “expert.”

Whether Dr. Klotchko in his
choice of “freedom” will measure
up to the hopes of Dief, Fulton,
Fairclough, Harvison and company
is still uncertain, It may be taken
_for granted however, that in re--
turn for such “freedom,” the Tory
donors will expect substantial re-
turns in the form of good pre-cook-
ed anti-Soviet stew. -

We surmise also that Dr. Mik-
hail Klotchko’s hour of glory
_ basking in his new-found’ “free:
dom” will bé short-lived. Nowa-
days the emergence of-a Gouzenko,
Pasternak et al, are no longer a
_ “seven-day wonder.” Their stock
anti-Soviet vaporings are forgotten
sooner than Dief’s election prom-
ises, or. lost in the daily impact
of life’s realities. The mighty ad-
vances of Soviet science, tech-
nology, industry and. progress re-
duce such “freedom” hunters to

insignificant pigmies.

Moreover, in case the subject
has been overlooked by these new
recipients. of. a: special brand of

coldwar “freedom”, Canadians _

themselves are engaged in an
ever-growing’ struggle for free-

- as the English poet Shelley pe

dom and, unlike Dr. Klotchko, t
fuse to accept the spurious for the =
real. But perhaps Dr. Klotchk a
hasn’t heard of the struggle ©”
Canadians for independence 0%”
neutrality, for the sovreign £re@”
dom of a nation to develop its 9
social, economic and peaceful a
fairs, free from the dominatlo
and dictation of U.S. imperialis™
Or of the sell-out of their count’
by Tory, Liberal and Socred £a*
buck salesmen? te
Frankly we don’t envy Dr. M! a
hail Klotchko. For the brand © |
“freedom” he has chosen he @
to sell his soul, his country 2?
his people — a very high price ie
a badly abused garment. In oll
own country a Socialist society e
abled him to become a scientist ie
citizen of substantial knowle@?,
and ability. In his new “freedom
as a protege of Tory reaction a
coldwar his scientific abilities Woy
become secondary. He will eit
become a good anti-Soviet stooe,
as else — farewell to “freedo :
The RCMP will see to that. | av
Well as the saying goes, et :
man to his taste.” For ourse “it

in Queen Mab, we have “. «+
learned to prefer Hell’s free
to the servitude of Heaven,
a Tory “heaven.” Being a ne eo
man possibly Dr. Mikhail aan
will get around to seeing it 40
way too—after 4 prolonged die
Tory “Freedom?” ee
de maliilion Canadian jobless "
savored it during the past % oe
and it doesn’t taste good. ber
for those who come to our § i
with Black: or Colored skins : a
ing a home, it smells worse “115
a Tory caucus discussing lice
virtues of hoodwinking the P¥ .

E—Pa

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