5 Fes ee ee Does it divide one city — or separate : TWO worlds? ~ government of East Germany. day”. , On the _ labor front (Continued from last week) ensure useful and crea- tive employment for the : more than a_ million new additions to the labor force will require an annual _ growth rate of six percent. Clearly, then, without mas- sive state intervention direct- ed to ensuring work for all who wish it, a growing pro- portion of the young people entering the labor market work. Furthermore, the growth of the labor force does not take into account the effects of technological change on these presently + So-called free enterprise or monoply is not likely to _solve these basic problems, except in ways advantageous to it. It is not interested in a “complete reform of the economy”; its concern is dir- ected to strengthening its - eontrol over the economy. ee * This is all the more reason a8 BERLIN ,EPRODUCED above is a . front-page headline that ee in the Nov. 15 _ issue of “Morgenpost”, one of _ West Berlin’s main newspapers. _ The paper used the occasion of “Memorial Day” to attack the _ “Memorial Day”, celebrated annually in November in West Germany and West Berlin, ori- _ ginated in Germany in 1923, as eee Day”, to honor the German heroes of World War I. _It was resurrected in 1951 when the powers that be in West . Germany decided to polish up militarism and make it look res- _ pectable again, then they shamefacedly dropped the “hero” and called it “memorial will find themselves without — By MAX REICH Tribune Staff Correspondent Now, it appears, the German “hero” of World War II is to be resurrected — not the man‘who fought the nazis but the soldier who fought in the nazi armies. Under the pretense of “rever- ence for the dead”, the Morgen- post headline read: “Pankow refuses a last rest-~ ing place for the fallen”. (Pankow is the term used for the East German government). Another big story, carried on the last page, was headlined: “German soldiers’ graves in the Zone decay.” (‘‘Zone” stands for East Germany). The leading editorial was also devoted to this topic. If you read the articles, you find that actually the graves are being cared for, but that the East German government re- jects the idea that any hero cult be attached to those who died in an unworthy cause and who © at best are misled victims of their own barbaric nazi rulers. The subtitles of the front page and back page stories give away the real intention of the West Berlin paper: “Memorials and cemeteries only for Red Army men”, “Instead, heroes cemeteries and monuments of honor for the Soviets”. Two big pictures contrast simple crosses on German soldier’s graves with” the elaborate Soviet war me- mmorial in the East Berlin dis- trict of Treptow. This is the idea which the Morgenpost is implanting into the minds of its readers, mis- _mies. ‘monuments to their heroes — using their. feelings of pity for the dead: “Our soldiers died for the fatherland. They did their duty. They are heroes. ‘The Russians died for their father- land. But they were our ene- Let the Russians erect we must honor the memory of ours. The East German govern- ment refuses to do this. It is un-German. Worse, they honor the enemy. They are traitors, tools of the enemy.” The Red Army fought in al- liance with the American, Brit- ish, French. On the Eastern front, it was the Red Army men who died. Thus the Soviet war memorial is at the same time a monument to all the heroes of the anti-fascist alliance against the nazis. The spirit that emanates from the Morgenpost is the spirit official West Germany. Y they are also against Hitl they cannot forgive him th he lost the war. This is the meaning of the West German — government's recent decision to let the na crimes lapse. It is anoth chapter in the rewriting of cent German history. Were n those who are now called na criminals people who simply d their duty, under orders, for fatherland? Let us be lenie Let us forgive and forget. - And what did the front pa of the East Berlin newspap “B.Z. am Abend” carry on No 16? Its banner headline read: “Nazi crimes can never laps On structural reforms (2) By WILLIAM KASHTAN why the labor movement needs to intervene with its own program, directed at the reconstruction of the econo- my in the interests of the - people. But to accomplish this the labor movement needs to be united or at least agree on a common program, so that it can make its inter- vention effective. If the trade union move- ment works at cross purposes at this time or lays down conditions (as for example that “organic unity’ must first be achieved or that the - CLC and its affiliates must . . first break all ties with the AFL-CIO and the interna- tional unions) it will miss the boat. The first thing that needs : to be done is to agree on what structural reforms are necessary or “what a com-- plete reform of the economy” entails. Let the trade union movement, all parts of it, unite behind such policies, - policies which are inherently anti-monopolist and there- fore also directed at U.S. control of Canada’s economy, ~ and, by the nature of things, this will open the door to the resolution of internal trade union matters, or at least make their solution easier. * * * An agreed approach is all the more imoprtant in view of various proposals emanat- ing from governments and monopoly. There creasing effort to show that the interests of monopoly and of the working class are . identical, that labor should forego the right to strike and agree to an incomes policy, one which would tie labor to the average rate of pro- “ductivity. This approach, based on the idea that the working class should bail monopoly out of its difficul- ties and: subordinate its in- terests to the monopoly pro- fits, is not what the working class is interested in. On the other hand, there are those who believe that — the trade union movement is an in- © should not concern itself with such problems as econo- mic development. Such a position in effect leaves the door open for monopoly to dominate the situation and strengthen its position at the expense of the working class and other sections of the — population. | * * * Neither a_ policy ‘of class collaboration nor of passivity will help the working class. What is called for is a most active intervention by the trade union movement with respect to: the economic development of the country but it needs to be interven- tion around an anti-mono- poly. program and for the kind of planning which will be of benefit to all those af- fected by the policies of monopoly. Labor’s intervention in the economy, its demand for economic planning must be directed to making the eco- nomy work in the interests “December 18, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page of the people, lead to expan: sion of democratic rights and ensure a voice~for labor in all questions that concern welfare of the people. Labor is not interested planning profits for mon poly; what it is interested is social and economic plat- ning that ensures useful crea tive work, a higher living standard and a cultured life for man. * * * Which leads me_ back the dialogue between t CLC and the CNTU on united labor movement. may take time to achie organic unity on a_ ba which conforms with the r lity of a two-nation sta There is no time to was however, in coming to al - agreement on a program 0! structural reform so labor can speak and act wi one voice in this period great challenge and _ great change. If conditions are n yet ripe for a united lab movement they are ripe fact over-ripe, for a u labor voice on all questio of concern to the work people of Quebec and of - rest of Canada. It is toward the achie ment of this that the en - gies of the trade union mo ment ought to be directed.