0 nena Li ih Trade policy Aeed for new national policies would give jobless work An ind free from foreign domination could “make Canada prosper- ous in a matter of months, and put our half-million un- ndependent trade policy, employed back to work,” as- neport sub- o ‘Mine-Mill’s. 15th serted tl mitted annual western division con- vention this week. “The Diefenbaker go ment won office on the prom- ise of full employment, elimi- nation of American domina- 1e officers’ ; U in Pender Auditorium tion, and devotion to peace. Already each of these prom- ises has been repudiated,” said the report. Blasting the “stupidity of refusing trade with the nat- ural] market of this western area, China and the east gen- erally,” the union report said these markets could absorb our metals, lumber and wheat. Mine-Mill stated its stand on peace: “Through American military domination and control of our Northland, Canada has become more any other nation, with the possible exception of Britain, to the horrors of nuclear war- fare “Canadians and a duty to refuse to be- exposed than have aright come. involved in such a plan, particularly at this time when there is such a golden opportunity to become leaders for peace.” Guest speakers at the con- vention included international president John Clark, national president Nels Thibault, vice- president Harvey Murphy, and Cedric Cox, MLA (CCF, Bur- naby). challenge to labor, declares Buck | TORONTO—An urgent call to all members of the Labor-Progressive Party to intensify their public campaigning for peace, national independence, and against the effects of economic crisis and the anti-labor offensive was the keynote of the Labor Day weekend meeting of the party's national committee. Tim Buck, reporting on be- half of the national executive directed attention to the changes at home and abroad committee’s last meeting in February which indicate the new possibilities opening up for extending LPP work and influence. The outcome of the Middle East crisis had been an historic victory for the peace forces of the world Buck declared. Al- though the U.S. and British imperialists would still try to hold on in the Middle East, “general war in that area had been averted, Iraq was not in- vaded, the imperialist troops were halted, they will be with- since the drawn.” He pointed out that three times in the past four years (in Viet Nam, the Suez crisis, and the Lebanon-Jordan crisis) the “imperialist instigators of war have been forced to retreat and accept negotiations instead of all-out war.” This was the result ‘of the new tremendous pressure of world opinion opposition to war; the acute contractions be- tween the imperialist powers; and most decisively, “‘the great historic new state power in the world, the third of man- kind united in the camp of socialism and peace headed by the mighty Soviet Union.” 3uck warned that the grow- ing strength of the camp. of peace and socialism is making the imperialists frantic, and drew sharp attention to ‘the need for public actions to halt Monday PT night | sub drive slogan “Make Monday Night PT Night” is the slogan advanced by the Pacific Tribune for the annual circulation drive which begins this coming Monday, September 15. All press clubs are being urged to organize mass canvasses every Monday evening during the drive period. Aim of the drive is to sign up 1,000 readers (new sub- scriptions and renewals, plus credit for paper sales) in a period of six weeks. The idea of holding regular “sub blitz” nights every. Monday will, it is hoped, become a _year- round feature of circulation work. Most of the city and provin- ial press clubs have already accepted sub targets and are making plans for an early start on renewals and paper sales. The Burrard constitu- ency committee expects that its: four clubs (Broadway, Mount Pleasant, Olgin and Point Grey) will be out door- knocking for renewals this coming.. Monday. A _ regular checkup will:-be made by the constituency organizer. Paper “sales will also play an important part in the cam- paign. Press clubs are asked to take bundles for sale at plant gates, and street sales- men are needed to sell the PT in downtown areas. Building community _ paper routes is also a method which some clubs, notably North Burnaby, have used success- fully. the new threat to peace repres- ented by the aggressive actions of the United States in the Taiwan area. “The broader the people’s advance, the more strongly we must fight for peace,” he em- phasized. Turning to the economic situation, the LPP national leader said: “The crisis of relative over- production which struck Can- ada’s economic structure during 1957 is not yet giving place to a new upsurge of capitalist ex- pansion. The confidence which marked the recoveries from the intermediary crisis of 1949 and 1954 is missing today as well as the rapidly expanded flow of new capital investment that the federal government had promised... “Certainly the signs are quite definite that unemployment during the winter of 1958-59 will be worse even than:during 1957-58. It may even reach a total of a million workers un- less the labor movement com- pels governments to open jobs on a large scale.” He stressed that “for Canada peaceful coexistence with the socialist states is both a physi- cal necessity and beckoning prospect of economic pro- Press... . 5 Canada is confronted now, Buck noted, with the necessity of making her choice between two main lines of federal gov- ernment policy. “The policy being pursued today is to deliberately restrict the national aims of the two peoples of this country to pre- serving Canada as a priceless but largely undeveloped reser- voir of industrial raw materials and potential elec- trical energy for the great monopolies in the United States, knowing that such a policy includes the integration of Canada in all United States plans for war and that, under it, United States imperialism will continually strengthen its effective control of our coun- trys 2? “The national policy by which Canadians can develop our country for the benefit of her people in peace, is the policy of national indepen- dence. The policy of the most active economic and ‘political intercourse with the United States but not at the price of cutting Canada off from simi- lar intercourse with any other country the introduction of policies which ‘express con- sidered recognition of the fact that the best interests of Can- ada, and of all mankind, re- quire that the central contra- diction of this epoch, the con- tradiction between the socialist world system and the imperi- alist world system be solved in peaceful competition—not by war.” Speaking of the role of the Diefenbaker government, he said: “Like his dramatic suceess in two federal elections, Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s politi- eal inconsistencies mirror the contradictory interests and currents, the speculations on what the United States might do,-the half-hearted attempts to develop Canadian policies, the contradiction between greed. and Canadianism which is the characteristic dilemma of the capitalist class.” Emphasizing the point that monopoly-capital will not stop U.S. domination of Canada, he said that the “necessity for action to introduce new na- tional policies is a challenge to the labor movement, as well as an opportunity because genuinely independent truly Canadian policies will be intro- duced only as a result of the pressure of the working class and its democratic allies.” “Now is the time for the trade unions to step forward as the organized force to head a great people’s political move- ment. The conditions demand such a movement. The terms of the resolution on political ac- tion, adopted by the Canadian Labor Congress at its Winni- peg convention describe exact- ly such a movement as suits the conditions which prevail today.” Buck pointed out and later discussion from the floor strongly emphasized that the CLC resolution was broad enough to embrace all progres- sive forces, including the Labor-Progressive Party. “It is quite evident that the carefully drafted’ resolution adopted by the CLC conven- tion was not intended to ex- clude communists from the projected new movement either as individuals or as a party, because it states specifi- cally that the forms of organi- zation developed should pro- vide for the broadest participa- tion of all individuals and groups.” The LPP leader voiced a warning that the official propaganda of CCF national officers is “that the executive éfficers of the Canadian Labor a September 12, 1958 — PACIFIC TRIBUN TIM BUCK Congress are planning ud tinue the mistaken credited policy of Canadian Congress of and planning to tie the union movement final for political action to sup of the CCF.” “The Labor - Prog Party” the report emma zed, does not seek any —. party advantage in helP develop such a broadly ‘ farmer-labor alternative Liberal and Conservativ® ties. The building of * movement in an indisP part of the historic ye of the working people ada to political actin pendent of the capitalist i against the strangleho® monopolies and the! . partner, United States ialism. is It is by such a politie that the working class ° two peoples of our — French and English Bi will win their way t0 OG ership of their nation: The report conclud ig proposals for the orgah of critical study of fl draft program, system tivities in defence of P’ contesting of munice \ tions, defence of off against unemploymel4 fi ization of systematic Ph ing to build the ~ Socialist Youth eae” The proposals wel oped further in a debated resolution t9 ? work of the party and national indore ss and against economle Me Fi tween now and the Bf al ing of its national © ott” in Easter, 1959. TBS jie tee also decided + national convention will be held over th? | giving weekend, #* The meeting UP" 4 adopted. a statement a struggle for Mare oof ism among Jewish ~_ (i hat Cedar, B.