IS LETTER setback for > ree Truman doctrine and the ce tie coalition suffered a et © setback in both the recent Tench national election and the nia municipal elections. This eRe unquestionable fact which ob not be concealed by any man- Pulation of statistics, What, in fact, was the airi of : €rican electoral. strategy in ere In France as well as in Ag it was aiméd, if- not i € immediate smashing of” as “Se Communist par- hen at least at their sub- , Stantial weakening. ues ‘Cartier, correspond- zi or the pro-American maga- zine Paris Match, pointed out in Be erie from. Washington: that Ds eg votes must be reduc- to at least three million ‘in to satisfy the United “a . Four to five million votes oan for the Communists, Cartier © Would be regarded by Wash- ae Strategists as a “grave “minis to the U.S.; more than five On votes cast for the Com- qariets however, would be con- : he a “disaster.” In such an tbla, ieee French journalist was fee he U.S. government would antic por be able to justify At- policy before Congress, as 'S would be clear proof that e Marshall ‘Plan millions were Nvested in vain.” Ss proof has indeed now See given! The Communist _ pole. received more than. five | arg votes out of a total of 3,013 votes cast, and remains me strongest party in France. — e right-wing Socialists, who been entrusted with the “selling” the Marshall a and anti-Soviet war prepar- ‘ns to the workers, have fail- eee They’ have not boguile th in their attempt to le the French working class “false false claims and equally ‘ae Promises. On the contrary, Y have lost 650,000 votes in Seperison with 1946, when they ee French election” outcome U.S. policies had already lost one million votes compared with 1945. However, the French: ruling class has for some time been under no illusions about the abili- ty of right ‘Socialists to attract the masses. Big business now prefers the heavy hand to the chatter of the Social Democrats. Despite their zeal, the repressive measures of Defense Minister Jules Moch and Police Minister Bugene Thomas are no longer adequate for curbing the. work- ers. .French big business which supported Petain during the oc- cupation, now finances the neo- fascist enterprise of General de Gaulle, just as the Ruhr barons helped Hitler to power 20 years ago. The would-be dictator’s dema- gogy succeeded ‘in obtaining four million votes for his party, the -RPF, mainly from the Catholic “Popular _ Republic Movement,” - (MRP), which itself lost 2,500,000 votes. These voters, mainly among the middle classes, want- ed, above all, to protest against the policy of the Socialist-Clerical- Conservative coalition which, in four years, has brought France to the brink of economic and fi- nancial catastrophe. To win their confidence, De Gaulle had even to pretend to condemn the policy of subservience to Amer- ica, while at the same time offer- ing his services for an anti-Soviet war to Washington. In addition, he succeeded in winning over former pro-Nazi collaborators. The electoral fraud enabled the government parties to rob the Communists of 72 seats in the French National Assembly, but could not rob them of their five million voters—nearly all indus- trial workers, small farmers in central and southern France and — large numbers of prbfessional people. ally-conscious and most active section of the population — the avant garde of the nation. - We carte attack cas @penly - so we just Va | keep shouting this.., This is the most politic- : CHARLES SIMS Canada, as Pacific power, vitally concerned in real Japan treaty - pperal Japan struck with hideous force in December 1941. On December 7 Pearl Harbor was blasted, the U.S. Pacific Fleet was crippled. On Christmas Day the troops of Japan smashed Hong Kong’s defenses: 2,000 of the Winnipeg Grenadiers and the Royal Rifles of Canada were killed, wounded, or herded into terrible prison camps. Not a survivor of the fall of | Hong Kong enjoys normal health; strong men’s bodies were shat- — tered by the tortures of the Jap- anese prison camps. Mackenzie King, George Drew and M. J. Coldwell declared that Canada would never forget Hong Kong, would always remember the fate of the Royals and Win- : nipeg Grenadiers. x But. now, unless Canada’s peo- ple ‘will otherwise the ‘St. Laur-. ent government is going to OK a US-dictated “treaty” with Ja-_ pan come September which will — revive Japanese i Si militar-_ M EL COLBY Canada’s two largest labor con- 4 ventions are scheduled to meet : September at Halifax and aes The Trades and La- r or of aber representing all ladian CIO locals will meet in Ouver September 17. Dele- : ares ~~ & million Canadian workers. both conventions representa- tion io? is expected to be consider- abl = ae: smaller than former years Of CCL and TLC membership is in cut, East, thus making it diffi- in a Most cases, and impossible any, for the local unions ye Tew ee the necessary funds to 5 Atlant © coasts. \ tact bite this, and dpapite the “Ns t most progressive unions fom. b Stigatio, & Peete oth congresses at the in- n of the right-wing, it is d that rank-and-file oppo- stron n to current policy will be ti - At the Halifax TLC con- Te Tank-and-file opposition a up around the question xs en May wages, layo at the two conventions will | ent nearly three-quarters — © the fact that the majority u delegates to the Pacific and . been’ expelled or suspended) — ; ’ Questions of union democracy ffs, face congresses : “of admitting Nee strike-breaking Seafarers’ Taternations|. Union to. the Congress. . On this issue opposition e com- ing from “unexpected quarters, from unions which the TLC ex- ecutive cannot classify as “left.” The official “publication of the Ocean ~Fallg local of the Pulp and Sulphite and Paper ‘Makers uni on has already editorially ask- ed “by what _magic formula a scab becomes a good union man?” in connection with SIU activities in assisting the “government and shipowners in breaking the legiti- mate Canadian Seamen’s, _ Union. Connected with ‘the Siu issue is that ‘of. jnner-union | ‘democracy and in turn, the big ‘in the TLC, : “fight which mus ti be! | waged around the fact that the civil liberties of all union and nonunio dangered by recent amendments to the ‘criminal co! for inner-union — demécracy will necessarily be 1 other battle. At both “conventions aie sHngor “issue facing delegates will be that of p In the 12 months that — since the last con- — of peace. have passed. : ventions, AE taeouls in locals - layoffs, Canadians, “both n, are how en-— de. The fight inked with oe \ . % wae aah affiliated to the TLC and CCL have had this question raised sharply by the Five Power Peace Pact ‘Petition. Added to the peti- tion has been ,the facts of lite? a war economy taxes, credit restrictions and unemploy- — ment as a result of decreased, trade with friendly countries ready to trade with Canada. At the CCL convention the UE’ and Mine-Mill will be missing and Fur and Leather will be appeal- ing its expulsion. But the gains in wages and conditions these : progressive-led unions have won for their membership will be in the minds of most rank-and-filers; and it can be expected that the right-wing leadership will be ask- ed: why not unify instead of — raids? Why not the 40-hour week ‘and increased wages angiead of seonleicne a: 24h 1 At the TLC convention ee Vancouver Civic” Employees’ Un- jon will appeal their expulsion. Delegates will hear the appeal after a year of review of the un- ‘ democratic constitutional changes ‘that’ were rushed through the Montreal witchhunt wathorieg, of 1950. — \ ism — this time armed by the US. Every thinking Canadian in 1941-42 could recognize that Jap- anese troops would have easily landed in British, Columbia, Cali- fornia and Australia if not for i two factors; the heroic resistance of the Chinese Red Army and the fact that Japan’s crack Kwantung Army was held im- mobile on Manchuria’s borders by the poised Far Eastern Army of the Soviet Union. The whole Pacific, the coasts of America, Australasia would have ~ been easy pickings for Japanese militarism if not for China and the Soviet Union. U.S. General “Vinegar Joe” Stilwell and even MacArthur had to admit this. But now, the Truman. regime . ‘declares it will impose a “peace treaty” on Japan in September; mit Yankee imperialist terms or also be barred. And what does this “treaty” provide for? The handing back of power in Japan to the militarists who massacred Canadians at Hong Kong, who drenched China and the South Asian lands in blood, (including — the blood of thousands of Ameri- can boys), who enslaved Korea and Formosa for decades. rata FOSTER DULLES, President Truman’s special am- bassador, who was in Korea a few days before’ the Syngman Rhee forces launched their at- tack across.the 38th parallel on June 25, 1950, was the evil man — chosen by Truman to put this ’ Made-in-U.S.A._ across. doze (He was able to bull- Britain into agreement. ed.) . : The” St. aanaa: government “peace treaty” has already approved the treaty published earlier this month. The plan is to have Canada OK it officially in September and then confront the people and parlia- mént with the accomplished fact. The “treaty” provides for re- militarization and rearmament of Japan plus the continued occu- pation of that country ‘by U.S. troops. The U.S. will take over the former Japanese islands in the Pacific, and no doubt also — looks forward to permanently oc- — cupying Taiwan (Formosa). It also has @ provision to enable the © U.S. to bring troops from Can- ada and other satellites in to Japan as part of the occupying force. PLAINLY, the Yankee imper- -ialists calculate that from Ja- pan’s. 80 million people they will ~~ be able to muster many divisions ‘that China will be excluded; that — < the Soviet Union will either sub- — of cannon fodder. The, complete © collapse of their insane schemes “around the puppets Chiang ‘Kai- shek and Syngman Rhee: have taught them little. But such a “treaty” with Ja- pan will never be worth the paper it is written upon, for all China, all Asia, the Soviet Union, and the majority of Japan’s peo- ple oppose it, and will oppose it all along the line. For there is only one road ahead for Japan: the road of democratization, de- militarization and peaceful co- operation with her neighbors. — That is the way to peace in the Pacific and Asia. Canada, as a Pacific power, has a vital interest in the fight for @ genuine peace treaty: with Ja- pan. The Truman-Dulles “treaty” must be condemned root and. branch. It must be rejected by — Canada. We thust keep faith _ Britain wanted People’s China re-~ . presented and Formosa! -return- with the sons of Canada who per- ished at Hong Kong because of imperialist greed and. rivalries. — Never again!. : Warlord’ Se prayer he ise was contebated: by a reader of. the Tribune, y Our Uncle which are in W. canbe Sam be thy name, Thy atom bomb come, — Give us this day our Marshall Aid, And deliver us our lend. lease, F orgive us our Un-American activities For, MacArthur is the glory, Dulles the power Forever and ever G-men. ae ee oe Ones Sydney, Australia, and appeared in that progressive axon | Till all the people on earth are blown io ‘heaven, And ‘we will forgive you your American activities against “us,