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: "MURDER BY TRUCE’
King gov't evudes
Israel recognition

F new state of Israel is in danger of being
murdered by something called a “truce”.

The “truce” dished up by the fake Bevin
“Socialists” in London in alliance with the oil
bankers and generals in Washington is aimed
to avoid Israel’s plea to halt the Arabian aggress-
ors and get them out of Palestine. The “truce”

_ leaves the aggressor inside Palestine. The Brit-
ish-arined and British-financed armies of Trans-
Jordan have invaded Palestine in flat violation
of the UN decision setting up a new state in
Palestine.

The appeal of the American delegate in the
_» UN for sanctions against the Arabian aggressors
was backed by the Soviet Union. But the Mar-
_ shall Plan satellites in the UN—Belgium, China
and Lritain—-suddenly became bold and voted
against the American proposal—the first time
they have ever defied Washington’s position
. 0n any basic issue. (

And the remarkble thing is that the U.S.
state department, which warned Italy it would
starve if it voted “wrong” and which dictates
to all Marshall Plan relief clients that they must
take political orders, suddenly finds that it is
“helpless” to push its alleged plan to halt the
Arabian invasion.

The Soviet Union alone has stood for block-
‘ng the Arabian aggressors by real UN action.
The “truce” proposition makes both Israel and
the invading Arabian armies “ouilty.” It tells
them both to stop fighting--the victim as well
as the aggressor,

-And what is even worse is the fact that
the “truce” effectively blockades the beleaguered
and invaded state of Israel, but it does not really

blockade the Arabian states which can easily

| . get British and American arms and money‘
“through the “back door.” ‘Thus, the “truce”
which the UN agent in Palestine, Coynt Berna-
dotte, proposes is a deadly trap for the new
State, disguised as an “impartial” solution.

"THE Canadian government, which is represent-

this “murder by-truce.”

The King government has. not yet recog-
nized the new state of Israel. It has not taken
an independent stand, reflective of the wishes of
the Canadian people, but is up to its neck in
imperialistic intrigue. Re

Ottawa will be judged guilty of another
crime against national freedom unless) it _takes
the following measures—

—Recognizes the state of Israel.

- —Stops the blockade of Israel and permits

the Israelites to import arms to defend their

: State 3 ede
°° Demands that the UN military delegation

‘ _ to Palestine includes representatives of all big
Powers, including the Soviet Union, which alone

is backing the new state in the UN. —

oe The Canadian public should. demand justice

“f for’ the new state of Israel. _ pgs

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ed in the Security Council, goes along with

‘Loyalty tests’ protested

—OTTAWA

( jfticials of the Civil Service Association of Ottawa

“ will strongly protest the government edict re-
quiring federal employees to sign “loyalty oaths.”
Indignation expressed at a CSAO council meeting
is to be followed up by a visit to Secretary of State
Gibson.

Loyalty oath questionnaires have thus far been
distributed to three departments cove 23,550
employees. Fwenty-five hundred went to the National
.Research Council, 1,050 to External Affairs and
20,000 to National Defence.

CSAO officials stress that they are not question-
ing the government’s right to safeguard the security'
of the naton. They do object that most of the
questions contained in the loyalty oath form are
irrelevant to the assumed purposes of security.

The CSAC takes objection on four main points:

@ The purpose of the questionnaire has not
been stated and does not appear on the form itself.

@® A large number of the questions seem to be |
ef an entirely persona] nature and irrelevant to the
assumed purposes of security. Such questions as
religion, racial origin, occupation of immediate
relatives (including uncles, aunts, cousins, etc.) do
not appear to be a sound and just basis on which to
assess the trustwothiness of civil servants.

@ Neither the origin of the questionnaire nor
the authority under which it is being issued have
beert made known, i

@ There has been no indication as to the manner
in which the information obtained through the
questionnaire is to be used, nor what action, if any,
is contemplated on the basis of this information.
Much of the information asked for is such as to
raise the danger of discrimination, and no procedure
for the safeguarding of the personal rights of civil
servants in this connection has been indicated. —

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‘BILL OF RIGHTS

~ Canadian authors

see ‘alarming pattern’

_—TORONTO

TT veive Canadian authors have written to

Prime Minister King in support of a Bill of
Rights to protect Canadian civil liberties. The
letter declares: “To us as authors, the right of
free speech and free thought are of special im-
portance.
is to deny democracy. Yet there are unmistak-
able itidications in our country that these funda-
mental precepts are in danger. —

“To cite a few examples: Salemen for Cana-
dian periodicals have been barred at the USS.
border. They were not permitted to attempt to
sell Canadian printed material to a friendly
neighbor. Yet U.S. literature floods our country.

Will our government not fight for the same
right for Canadian publications in the U.S.?

“Our National Film Board, which has done
such internationally recognized work in the pro-
duction of documentary and educational films,

,is undef serious attack from interests seeking to

censor and silence it. ;

“The Canadian Association of Broadcasters

‘resolves to bar from the air speakers vaguely

identified as known leftists.’ This indiscriminate

censorship imperils the whole right of free speech
in Canada. ee ae

“Canadians of Japanese origin, as well as

“Tndians native to our country, are deprived of

- full citizenship rights... .

“These seemingly isolated instances, along
with many others, form an alarming pattern—one
that can no longer be ignored or dismissed as
accidental. If we fail to speak out against them
now, how long will it be before books are banned

- or burned; our press censored; the radio com-
manded to, speak only for one interest? |

“To guard the four freedoms so essential to.

our democratic way of life, Canada needs a Bill
of Rights.
“dians earnestly commend to our government the
‘enactment .of such legislation to guarantee full
freedom and citizenship for all Canadians.”
The letter was signed by Rita Adams, Dyson
Carter, John Coulter, Alan Creighton, Raymond
Arthur Davies, Margaret Fairley, Joan Huntley,

* Leo Kennedy, I
J. S., Wallace, Jim Wright.

“ruthlessly and with violence, to clear the IWW,
Western Federation of Miners, ;

To deny them, or any part of them, _ they igure.) ony destoxgee Aaa MaE Ma Ae

We who write of Canada and Cana-.

Kenneth Leslie, Joyce Marshall,

Red-baiting threat
to all labor’s aims

By BRUCE MICKLEBURGH

ONDERING what's happened to the i948
wage movement? God knows there’s
need for the most powerful and united drive in
Canadian labor history. For example, the
Marine Workers figure real wages of their mem-
bers by three months ago had already dropped
$127.80 from August 1, 1947, even though they

won 123 cents last year. ee

True, Mine-Mill won 17 cents at Consolidated
and the IWA_and other unions are fighting like
hell for 35 cents. eece

But listen to what J. B. Salsberg, MPP, had
to say in Vancouver last weekend. ;

“Why isn’t there the unity of 1946 in the
1948 wage struggles?” he asked. “When Tim
‘Buck late in 1945 called on labor to unite for
wage increases, and when men like Murphy and
Pritchett advanced the idea in their unions, al-
most the whole Canadian labor moverhent went
on the offensive. There was co-ordination, cen-
tral publicity. 1946 saw victories all along the
line.

“Then came the CMA’s red-baiting counter-
offensive to divide and paralyze labor, which
could not stop the 1947 drive from being carried
forward under the impetus of 1946. But in 1948
Charlie Millard settles. for 11 cents in the key
industry of steel, even though the profits of
steel’s Big Three have atta doubled. That
kind of settlement does not help labor or the
people—it makes it harder for workers in other
unions to win decent wages.”) cae

Salsberg has had as much as any other man _
to do with building the great Canadian trade
unions that exist today,'so it’s time to sit up
and take notice when he asks, “How can certain
officials sit down and plan to safeguard wages
and families if the main thing in their minds is to
fight the Pritchetts and-Murphies because they're
IL.PP members?”

When Senator Taft lied that American Com
munists were invading Canadian unions Millard
rushed into print to point to Reid Robinson and
Mine-Mill’s wage drive in northern Ontario. The
CMA official bulletin queted Millard benignly _
for three issues. | a See ere

“The operators fought through the years,

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independent
unions, Workers’ Unity League, and even the
Catholic syndicates out of the northern goldfields.
Now, with Hitler red-baiting national in scope, —

‘Communist agent’ scare. 2:
“When a labor man points that finger, he is”
‘not just getting rid of a.Communist (which —
Robinson 1s not), but is destroying the union and
acting, consciously or unconsciously, as an enemy
of labor. Ee i Sa
‘Some CCF’ers kept quet about Robinson,
but then came Lou Palermo of Amalgamated _
Clothing Workers. ‘Everybody knows I've been
fighting Communists all my life,’ he said, but he
and half his delegation couldn't cross the line. —
It is time for honest CCF’ers to rise up against
red-baiting. “a Pose de
“When I saw the red-baiting resolution of
the local Trades Council I couldn’t believe my —
st.

eyes. - It becomes grotesque, fantastic, to sug s
the main job of labor is to get rid of Charlie
Stewart, Harvey Murphy, Harold Pritchett, Mal-

colm Mcleod, Ernie Dalskog and others who have
organized tens of thousands. If labor gets this as —

its task then the unions will have been destroyed
and the red-baiters in the unions will have ~—

more service to business than the er of
1 Board of Trade could have done
- themselves.” as ons

Commerce and
Salsberg dipped deep into the h
calling now the red4baiting hysteria of tl

Canadian labor to drive home his
twenties led to expulsions and left~the unions
“hollow shells, incapable even of protest, while
‘the bottom dropped out of wages and conditions,
and the full weight of the depression was _
loaded onto labor.” oy ee
He then snapped the whole int
focus: “Labor can set back the mi res

offensive on the economic and _ politica
But to do that we must battle first of all to tear
out by the roots the evil growth of red-baiting
that menaces the very existence of the labor
movement.” ie ee es
That’s a pretty sober warning. | A
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