Morris says Soviet leaders oftered Canada new invite for peace, trade LONDON Soviet leaders offered our government ‘‘a new invitation for peace, friendship and the re-establishment of a world market” at ' the historic 19th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Meeting this offer half-way will save Canada from ‘national — * * ad and social disaster. This was the message Leslie Morris, national executive member of the Labor-Progressive party who attended the recent Moscow congress as an observer, brought last Sunday to 1,500 citizens attending a Massey Hall celebration of the 35th anni- versary of the first socialist state. ei 5 [mm ll aod Dh a, ) i wu" 1ESSETINIEY t{Yeavasecandl etl FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1952 (emi ) ih, W Piri nn editorial re - Pertinent questions RTINENT questions are always in order and especially prior to election day. With the hustings ringing in Similkameen and Columbia, this might not be a bad time to pose a few. ae What is the stand of the Social Credit party on union-raiding and disruption? Wilk it , instruct its Labor Relations Board to abandon those policies which tacitly aid and abet the splitting and disruption of trade unions? If the LRB held firmly to the purpose for which it was originally intended, the trade union bureaucrats ‘and the social democrats would find the business of union-wrecking much more difficult! The pending application for certification in two departments by the Berg-Alsbury splinter “union” of Vancouver civic workers is only one example of how the LRB can be involved in union- busting by the trade union bureaucrats. While they are on the hustings it might also not be a bad idea if CCF’er Tom Alsbury, president of one of these “Carlberger splinter “unions,” together with M. J. Coldwell, Harold Winch and other CCF top leaders, were to make their position on union-split- ting and raiding a little clearer to the union men in Similkameen and Columbia whose votes they are soliciting! ee If this were forthcoming it might explain how the CCF candi- date in Similkameen, H. S. Kenyon, a building contractor in private life, was one of Hon, C. D. Howe’s and the bosses’ most ardent sup- porters in the hold-the-line “front” against wage increases this year. (Thousands of CCF members and supporters, together with ‘many United Steel Workers locals across the country, were deeply ashamed of the Millard-Mosher CCL-CCF union raiding and dis- ruption at Trail, which continued for nearly two years until Mine- — Mill members completely routed the raiders in a union referendum vote. As is the case in all similar raiding carried on by the trade union bureaucrats and the social democrats, the union-raiding at Trail was carried on under a made-in-the USA red smear campaign, and designed to destroy an old-established militant union of the hardrock miners, the Mine-Mill.) - When Joe Klein, the hardrock miner who is contesting Similka- meen as a Farmer-Labor candidate, was asked his stand on these issues, his answers were short and to the point. : “f despise union raiders whatever .their politics,” he said. “Unions aré too hard to build to be wantonly destroyed by cold war politicians. And the LRB should keep itself clear of union . affairs that are strictly the business of the membership. Working - men must always have the right to form and join unions of their ‘ewn choice, to bargain collectively .and-to use their collective strength to win the best conditions for themselves. If Tom Alsbury or other top CCF leaders aré doing the same job of union-wrecking in Vancouver that Bert Gargrave and his lieutenants tried to do to my union in Trail, and the LRB is lending a helping hand, then I think it is time that both the CCF and the Socreds in this election ‘made some explanations to the electorate whose votes they seek!” ‘That was how Joe Klein, Labor--Farmer candidate in Similka- meen, stated the case. The electorate would like to hear from the Coldwells, Alsburys, Winches and Bennetts on these questions! CL EL LCE In a stirring address which brought w ings of the congress and its vital meaning for Canadians. arm applause at frequent intervals, Morris outlined the proceed- Directly addressing himself to the St. Laurent government, he warned that a government of the same political party now in power “led us into a trap” once before. “Let not our country again make the mistake about Spain, Czechoslovakia, Hitler and non- intervention, when a Liberal party government aided the building and rearmament of German mili- tarism and shipped scrap iron to it. Let us not allow our government to lead us into another trap, by following the policies of another man with the German name of Eisenhower. “If we permit the government to do this we shall risk disaster and we would not win the war. If the Canadian people elect the kind of a government we are demanding, free of U.S. policies—a people’s government—we shall instruct our diplomats abroad to open new talks of friendship and understanding with the Soviet Union.” d Posing the question: “What did the 19th Congress mean for us in _ the West?” Morris replied: “We in the West, including the Canadian government have to ac- cept the fact that the Soviet Un- ion is here to stay and that noth- ing that is known to the minds of western capitalism will ever destroy it.” He repeated Georgi Malenkov’s appeal to the peoples and govern- ments of the western capitalist world made at the congress: ‘Tf anyone meets us half-way we shall extend our hand for a new kind of world trade and world peace.” : Explaining why the LPP had sent an observer to the great Con- gress, Morris said: “It was done because our country never had a more serious decision to’ face than’ now — to decide its attitude to the USSR. On_that decision de- pends the future of our country.” Later he declared it was “true : Canadianism” to send an observer because “we cannot begin to talk about Canada without talking about the relations of Canada and the U.S.; Canada and the United ‘Kingdom; Canada and the Soviet Union; Canada and China.” Before Canadians lay the most important job of all — changing the foreign policy of our govern- ment, and independently taking up the offer of peace and friend- ship extended by the Soviet lead- ers. Describing the gathering as “a most amazing congress of a most amazing party,’ Morris told how thotsands of talks had preceded the formal sessions of the 1,300 _ delegates elected by secret ballot. In Moscow alone there were 110,- 000 organized discussions of the issues before the congress in the ‘days preceding its opening. “Marshals of the Soviet Union rubbed shoulders with working‘ people. The great Timoshenko sat next to a farm woman delegate. Zhukov, the conqueror of Hitlér, sat near me along with a coal min- er from the Donbas.” Malenkov’s report, he said, “was a story ofi stewardship” over the period 1939 to the present day... But not only did he tell the story of reconstruction after it Jost 20 million of its citizens in war, it also “set for itself the man... audacious goal of achieving com- -munism in the next 10 years.” Mankind’s eternal dream of con- quering the forces of nature so that men, women and children would have enough to eat, be properly housed and clothed was the problem before the congress, he added, noting that the congress presented facts and figures which showed that the Soviet people to- day enjoyed the fruits of an eco- nomy which had forever van- quished hunger, and provided a full cultural life for its peoples. “The congress confirmed that the philosophy and policy of the Communist party had proved that ‘conscious. man was achieving things formerly undreamed of. Never again would any citizen in its 16 republics want for food. The maintenance of food supplies has been guaranteed forever in the Soviet Union. “T.iving standards have doubled in the last 35 years, and will be doubled again in the next five. Industry will be on the highest technical level by 1955. ‘Agricul- ture will double its production and produce new crops never before known to man. Every child is guaranteed a full 10 years of edu- cation with the most wonderful polytechnical and university train- ing to follow. A chain of 318,000 libraries across the land and the perspective of a five hour day, to permit men and women to pursue a varied cultural career were re- ported on.- In a tribute to Stalin’s leader- ship Morris said: “He is a wise and sophisticated person. His leadership is such that he says the right thing at the right time.” He referred to the new monumental work of Stalin dealing with the political economy of socialism, just published, describing how the laws of society can be made to work for man. (Later he. said, “Stalin has been right. He has never let his people down. Ha loves them and fights for them.” “Tt was a congress with sup- reme confidence in the soul of ; what a contrast to the pessimism which haunts the west- ern capitalist world, with its fly- ing saucers, its balls of fire an its degeneracy.” . : Contrasted to this was the de- termined popular will for peace expressed everywhere. - years, However, he added, “they are not afraid of war. They know what it is,” _recounting the destruction visited on the Soviet Union’s great cities ° in the Second World War. That it would never suffer a similar catastrophe was contained in the fact that unlike its isola- tion in 1989, the Soviet Union now had 10 “good neighbors” on_ its frontiers, from Berlin to Viadi- vostock and from Southern China to the North Pole. Out of the Second World War the Soviet Union has arisen stronger, not - weaker, “morally, spiritually, and - physically.” Its prestige in the world today was higher than ever “since VOL ty ; Charting of its new path to communism had a meaning for Canadians, It was that ‘we do ‘not have to be victims of blind fate . . . the philosophy of death! has been overthrown in the Soviet Union.” : Even while the Churchill gov- ernment ‘boasted of its newest — bomb, the Soviet Union was pre- — paring to give every man, w0- man and child enough of every- thing they needed in the next ten eThe things of life were being taken as a matter of human right in the Soviet Union. For Canadians the congress meant that the socialist world was growing ever stronger before our eyes and we must learn to live at peace with it. ‘ Its lesson to our government was to change its war policy oT be thrown out of office. It meant > compelling the press to cease its poisonous campaign of lies and — print the truth about the Soviet — Union. Businessmen must be told of the appeal for one world mar- ket. j For the workers of Canada, it meant that their great interna tional responsibility was to sup7_ port the first state in history rul ed and led by workers. ; For socialists, OCF’ers and Communists alike,. the congress means the need for the closest study of its deliberations. { “This congress was. a victory for the ideas of Marx, Engels, | Lenin and Stalin. The Commun- ‘ists have found the solution to the evils of mankind.” ——— Mane eee FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 28-8 p.m. emember the 1952 Book Festival _ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29-2 p.n. : HASTINGS AUDITORIUM . 828 EAST HASTINGS \ L PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 21, 1952 — PAGE 12