ONDAY, July 31, will be an historic day in Canadian pol- ities, marking as it will the open- ing of the founding convention in Ottawa of what has come-to be _known as the New Party. Much has already been written’ .and spoken of this New Party, Which aims to unite organized Jabor, farmers and all forward- looking Canadians into a mighty -anti-monopoly organization, cap- . able if all its potential forces were mobilized, to sweep Tory, Liberal - and Socred henchmen into the ash- can of political oblivion. The founding of such a political organization as the New Party is - indeed an historic event in Cana- dian politics; and must be so assessed. Not upon what its right- Wing and opportunist trade union and CCF leaders hope to make it, but what, in the course of the Struggles ahead facing organized ’ workers, farmers, and the people ~ generally, fed up to the gills with “\ partisan monopoly-dominated L£ov- “ernment, will themselves: make of “it. Therein lies the vital signifi- ‘cance in this founding convention; ‘ to bring into being a political or- '“ ganization of the broadest masses, dedicated to anti-monopoly re- - forms, a greater economic and cul- ‘tural well-being for the common man. And more important of all, “ despite the waverings of its CLC- - CCF sponsors, and the lack of firm ~ determination in its draft pro- ~’ gram, its broad general dedication to policies of peace and against the’ ~ horror of nuclear war. - ._The deliberate disunity and diy- ision in labor’s ranks, fostered by the right-wing CLC-CCF sponsors _ of the New Party by the exclusion of large and _ influential unions which don’t happen to be affiliates of the CLC or accept the political dictums of the CCF, can have no _ other result than a decided weak- ening of the political action and 'elan of the founding convention. Similarly with the exclusion of ... Communists and the Communist Party from the politica] delibera- tions of the founding convention; an exclusion based on the foul and disruptive poison of McCarthyism, utilized by CLC-CCF opportunists - to keep the New Party “respect- ’ Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN ut Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH Business Mgr. — OXANA BIGELOW Published weekly at 4 Room 6 — 426 Main Street sf Vancouver 4, B.C. Ff Phone MUtual 5-5288 Subscription Rates; One Year: $4.00 Six Months: $2.25 5 Canadian and Commonwealth . countries (except Australia): $4.00 _, One year. Australia, United States and mtg all- other countries: $5.00 one year. (°% Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa. Unity the keystone able” and more pliable to their own aims and_ ambitions. History is replete with the dis- astrous examples of such “respect- ability” bought at the price of dis- unity. As a guest speaker at the founding convention of the New Party, Mr. Hugh Gaitskell, leader of the British Labor Party, may make a fine speech, as did the Attlees and Ramsay MacDonalds before him. But the recurrent de- feats of the British Labor Party by the Tories flows directly from the disaster (to labor and the people) of an overdose of this bourgeois “respectability” with which the Gaitskells are afflicted. Thus the founding convention of the New Party must speak out strong and clear, for unrestricted all-inclusive labor-farmer-peoples’ unity within the New Party. For peace and an unqualified break with NATO-NORAD war entan- glements with U.S. imperialism. For an independent and sovereign Canada free from U.S. domination. For drastic anti-monopoly reforms and undertakings, which will spell economic prosperity for Canadian industry and agriculture, Stop thi is this raw deal there are no echoes: of Diefenbaker dema- g0gy on “native rights”, either in South Africa or North Vancouver. It is simply a matter of big busi- ness with Tory government back- ing, pulling off a barefaced land- grab without any advance notice, consultation, or “by-your-leave” of the rightful owners. : The land in question is Native Indian Jand, the property of the Squamish. - Band’s. reservation in North Vancouver. With little jus- tice, but with lots of “technical legality” on its side, the Diefen- ‘baker government granted a “Jong- term lease” of “reclaimed” land to two Vancouver business firms, B.C. Blacktop and Deeks-McBride, cement products purveyors. Ottawa claims the Squamish Indian reservation lands only go down to some (long ago defined) “high-water mark”. The Indian people claim, and rightly so, that their reservation lands go down to “low water”. There are also other historic and aesthetic factors which Tory land-grabbers prob- ably never heard of and care less. To make matters Worse and fur- land steal : {his ther outrage Indian feelin’ 4.01 big cement plant to be ¢ré stones Indian lands is scarcely, 4 rie throw away from the hist) is year-old twin-spired St: x sit Indian Church, a Jandmat? = the birth of Vancouver. a t This land steal must becO™ oie concern ofall, Indian ane jose alike. In this case at least 1 jel of Indian “rights” can, Be lie on something more solid the 22 moth-eaten question of Yo jiqg0t chase and consumption by Native Indians. of rk Last Saturday further gy {he the site was halted becat sal ye protest. But the fight fi b al won. A strong united effo: tiple of citizens through their mu the ot ganizations, and especia . dis ganized labor movement, peotlt solidly with the Indian g thei against this sequester lands, can halt this stea “h nil Not only that, but such ers gh support to our Indian bree { this issue would prove bs Whites are cursed with ment ; tality of a Tory gover age! cement baron, or an Ind! political appointee. pe or. Tom McEwen NE of the “Four Freedoms” O specifically set down in the historic Charter of the United Nations is “Freedom from Fear.” That “freedom” was placed there by the UNO founding convention in San Francisco after the war to assure mankind that the nightmare: of Hitlerism, with its evil men- tality which lived and thrived upon ‘fear’, would never again arise to. enslave humanity. 3 “Freedom from fear”, Sounds good. But it is one of the stark facts of this era that capitalist “democracy” so-called, could not survive without the enlistment of “fear” as an aid to survival. A few examples will illustrate. On June 8 the Toronto Daily Star ran a lengthy editorial entitled, “Run, Rabbit, Run”, It appears an Home and School Federation, sen- sing that nuclear war might be unhealthy for their children, de- cided to try and do something about it. Other organizations, in- cluding trade unions and so-called. “left wing” movements decided to assist NHSF in this worthy. cause. Then it happened. ‘Fear’ of the organization known as the National _ tain of “communism” or “left” sent . ‘NHSF racing to its “respectable”. - burrow. Better that.“any children of Home and School parents will die pure,” said the Star, “without taint of ‘pink’ in the event of a nuclear holocaust’: ‘Run, Rabbit, Run! : : : The case is not without its paral- lel in almost every Canadian com- munity: Radiation Hazards, Cana- dian Peace Congress, Voices of Women, etc., etc. There isn’t an or- ganization nor an individual dedi- cated to the outlawing of nuclear weapons and war, which has not been assailed and branded with the “branding reproach of commu- nism’’, But happily, they. don’t all follow the NHSF “rabbits” into. their burrows, Fact is, as we have’ said, our “free way of life” could not oper- ate without “fear”, RCMP intimid- ation of foreign and native-born Canadians, trade unionists, univer- sity and high = School students (which Justice Minister Davie Ful- ton thinks is quite proper), social welfare recipients, jobless work- ers, small business people, almost - every stratum of society, subjected to the process of organized, stimu- lated “fear’, : : Fear of the ultimate -- conse- quences, Fear of the loss of job or livelihood. Fear of the loss of “so-- cial” status. Stimulateg “fear” against reading Progressive or communist. literature, To be told, as an RCMP agent recently told a reader of this paper: “If you know what’s good for you, you'll -stop reading that ‘Red’ stuft”, “Freedom from Fear”? Right up _ betual state of “fear”, ott Pe - quarantined, Joe Morris might ? ois- in the highest. circles of boure™,, politics the veiled threat of iG works wonders, “Bank of Can! by board of directors are “advised *, _ Tory finance minister “Flim-F. e ? Fleming: boys, the party: exP this you to do your duty, and 12 bs case your duty is to vote Banke ut Canada governor James Coyne | asl of his job. He cramps our pol ct. style — or words to that ef ei ei The party has spoken, and its git uage is the same as Hitlers: ~ language that commands confo™ Z ‘ity by the “fear” of worse to co™ Freedom: from Fear’? Sou, good, especially when the hin ue apologists of imperialism cont to din in our ears how “free Bi: : “free way of life” is, and who } off such yarns with “fearful” tales © | how thé millions “behind iron a 3 bamboo curtains” live in a P What they carefully conceal # that the social system they on ; with its recurrent crises and W4?”- its “big stick’ philosophy, corr? tion, monopoly - domination, wa ! bery and graft, wouldn’t last OVE night if a genuine “Freedom a Fear” existed..Then the bank © rector could tell Fleming to 20 Fe hell, the H-bomb maniacs could ? able to lead a union, and the a ity soup recipient tell Dief oe - face: “Try this slumgullion, ee. 54 you made the goddam stuff, 1! you eat it!” - “Freedom from Fear” 1s only won by the readiness to sae I ive is “Run, Rabbit, RU: alternative is Run Ra ——| “,