“EVERY LPP MEMBER A FIGHTER FOR PEACE’

Peace or war is the all-decisive
question in all our minds today.
The imperialists gambled in
Korea and the brave people of
that little country are calling
their bluff. There is now the
gravest danger that they will
try ONE MORE GAMBLE, drop
the atomic bomb and unleash
World War III on all peoples
including our own.

_ As we read of the devastation
wrought by war just across the
North Pacific (which we share
with Korea) have we nothing to
do but calculate the week or
perhaps day before the same
death and ruin will be rained
On British Columbia, on Van-
couver? The trigger finger of
the atomaniacs is twitching ner-
vously. We are in mortal dan-
ger. But the warmakers can be
stopped providing we throw all
our strength and enthusiasm,
every single day from now on,
into the drive to win half a mil-
lion Canadians for the World
Peace Pledge. ;

Five thousand signatures a

Morgan appeals for,
5,000 signatures a wee

week is what British Columbia
needs: that is what yet has to
be achieved. Have YOU done
all you can to set up a peace
committee? How many signa-
tures have YOU turned in? How
many members of your LPP club
have not yet been mobilized?
Remember, absolutely nothing
must be allowed to stand in the
way of making every member
a fighter for peace. We cannot
afford to have many inactive
members when WORLD PEACE
Is AT STAKE,

Why does the warmongering
press denounce the Stockholm
peace pledge with such ferocity?
Because their masters recognize
the peace petition as a direct
attack on their war plans. That
is why they seek to halt and
crush it. t is why this peti-
tion achieves such supreme im-
portance at this crucial time.
The frenzied attacks on the
peace petition proves its effect-
iveness. That is why the LPP
national exécutive this week
called on the membership to
“take up the slack and drasti-
cally combat those harmful ten-
dencies which tend to put the

one false reason or another.”
The Korean situation calls for
a redoubling of effort. “The
success of the petition is the cri-

terion of the success of the peace
fight,” states Tim Buck in the
urgent appeal.

At this time when one hates
to think of what another week
may bring, I appeal on behalf
of the provincial and national
committees of the LPP to every
member to throw every ounce
of enérgy into the petition cam-
paign. What the party means
to you and your club will be
registered in how well we work
in these critical days. Support
the peace movement by helping
to organize a peace committee
on your job, in your neighbor-
hood, Take out petitions and
‘distribute them to your friends
and fellow workers. Give un-
stintingly of your time and help
to the peace movement in get-
ting out publicity materials and
in achieving the B.C. Peace Con-
gress goal of 75,000 signatures.
That® is how the warmongers
Wilt be defeated. That is how
the gathering clouds of war can
be dispersed. That is how peace

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petition in the background, for

can be preserved.

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A National Federation of Labor
Youth mystery entry in the Popu-
lar Girl contest of the United La-
bor Picnic is reported causing fur-
rowed brows among managers of
the other popular girl entries, ac-
cording to word reaching picnic
manager Mona Morgan this week.

Entered under the pseudonym of
Miss Demeanor (her manager re-
fuses to divulge her real name),
the NFLY standard bearer for the
Popular Girl honors is said to have
worked out an entirely new ap-
proach to the contest. .(Her pic-
ture, right, gives evidence of an
entirely new conception of what
constitutes feminine pulchritude.)

Competition is keen among the
other 18 beautiful contestants who
are busily gathering votes at gard-
en parties, socials, square dances,
and other affairs, iss Hastings
East and Miss Woodworker, the
first two to enter the contest, are
still in the lead, but judging from
plans of the late comers they will
have quite a time to maintain their
positions. Miss Kitsilano jis in
third place. .

A qualifying contest will be held
at a gala event on August 4 when
all but ten girls will be eliminated
from the August 13 finals.

Meanwhile other plans for mak-
ing this year’s annual United Labor
Picnic the most successful on rece
ord are advancing. Tickets are

‘Miss Demeanor’

contest

“MISS DEMEANOR”

their orders for books of tickets,

Three lucky people will win valu-
able prizes supplied this year by
Forsts Limited — a $359 Westing-
house refrigerator, a CCM bicycle
and an electric kettle,

Scene of the 1950 picnic will
again be Confederation Park, which
lies just one short block from the

selling well and many local com-
mittees Rave already increased

Hastings Street Extension in North
Burnaby.

How anxiously the right-wing
_ CCF leader thanks the warmonger-
_ ing bourgeoisie for using the pre-
tense of UN action and retaining at
least nominal talk about the aim of
peace. Just a few abject words of

But every socialist worker must
see that what the Anglo-Ameri-
can imperialists are doing today
is what they tried to do at Munich
—force us into a fascist war
against the Soviet Union. And it

thanks and then he takes his seat.

the so-called “Socialist” group in
the Canadian House of Commons
at the outbreak of an imperialist
attack upon Korea.

On June 30, he rose again. This
time he uttered eight sentences.
Again he expressed his gratitude to
the prime minister. Not a single
werd of independent socialist
thought! Not a single word against
the imperialist record of aggression
and war upon the peoples of Asia!
_ Not a single word about the fact
_ that President Truman ordered
_ military intervention in Korea
hours before the rubber stamp
_ Meeting of the UN Security Coun-
_ cil! Not a single word against com-
-mitting Canada to a war in support
_ of the imperialist stooge, Syngman
_ Rhee! And this is hardly surprising
when it is Temembered that on
March 10, 1948, M. J. Coldwell show-
ed he was to the right of St. Lau-
rent on the Korean issue. At that
time he objected to the fact that

in parliament have to
Say is a meek “thank you” to the
bourgeoisie for retaining the hypo-
critical pretense of acting through

socialist traitors away back at the
outbreak of World War I, they will
rely on the power of the capitalist
dictatorship to force “universal ac.
ceptance” of their lie about who
started the war. The crudest form

This is the disgraceful conduct of |

would have been a good thing in
1938 if the Czechs had fought
Munich as the Koreans are now
fighting.

Of course, the right wing in the
CCF must be fought every inch of
‘the way with the concrete facts
about Korea, the 600 raids of the
Syngman Rhee forces on North
Korea, the evidence of their inva-
sion on June 25, the presence of
Wall Street’s incendiary of war,
John Foster Dulles, in Korea just
five days before.

What socialist worker does not
know that for over three centuries
there has not been a year or a day
when the peoples of Asia were not
under the whip of imperialist ag-
gression? What worker with an
ounce of socialist consciousness can
fail to see that U.S. intervention in
the Korean civil war is a new on-
slaught of “white imperialism”
against the colonial peoples of Asia
who have free China at their head?

‘There is a yawning chasm be-
tween the socialist convictions of
CCF workers that capitalist greed
causes war and the effort of the
CCF right wing leaders to dress up
Wall Street gangsters in the dis-
guise of policemen, defending law
and order. The sooner this conflict
comes out into the open in every
factory and industry and is the
topic of full and contiuing discus-
sion among all CCF and other
workers, the better it will be for
the whole labor movement.

This conflict has broken into the
open in a partial way over and
over again. Perhaps the best éx-
ample of this is seen in the resolu-
tions adopted at conventions where
Some degree of rank-and-file influ-
ence is still apparent in contrast to
the official utterances of Mr, Cold-
well. One June 14, the Regina Con-
stituency convention of the CCF
adopted a resolution calling for
peace, the promotion of trade with
the Soviet Union and the New De-
mocracies and urging “our govern-
ment to cease contributing to the
continuance of reactionary regimes
and instead give encouragement to
democratic and progressive forces

of this lie is the “No Munich” alibi.

| Even the editor of the CCF organ,
The Canadian Forum is compelled
to admit in his June editorial that:
“It-is true that noe organized group
of people in Canada are preaching

peace with the same earnestness as
the Communists.”

This fact is having a profound
influence on the CCF rank and file.
; Basically the CCF members and fol-
lowers are partisans of peace. The
deepest motive of most workers and
also middle class people in their
original support of the CCF was
undoubtedly a desire to work for
peace. J. S. Woodsworth was
known, above everything else, for
his pacifist stand against the war
of 1914-18. Now that the CCF leaders
have become hand-maidens of the
imperialist camp there must take
place a far-reaching conflict and
shift among the CCF masses. And
we Communists have every right
and duty to discuss these problems
with our CCF friends and neighbors
because here again on the basic
issue of peace we have more in
common with the CCF rank and file
than they have in common with the
CCF leaders.

momentarily stemmed the tide of
anti-right.wing sentiment.

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Now the Korean war serves to
bring the issue to a head and ex-
pose the abcess of collaboration
with the warmongering monopolists
that has eaten through the whole
leadership of the CCF. The CCF is
entering a profound crisis. The
genuine left-wingers must fight
against the war and therefore
against the right wing CCF. In one
form or another those who stand
and fight for peace in the CCF are
sure to find themselves thrust for-
ward as leaders of all that is demo-
cratic and progressive in the CCF
and all that upholds the basic so-
cialist convictions of the CCF rank
and file. :

This healthy new development

everywhere.”

CCF must take stand for peace or war

and struggle on the issue of peace |
in every factory and industry. It
will grow out of the vigorous and
healthy exchange of views between
the Communists and the CCF’ers.
It will grow out of the fight to es-

tablish the peace front in every
plant and industry in the form of
a growing agreement and under-
Standing between the Communist
and CCF workers in support of the
Peace Petition of the Canadian
Peace Congress and the actions for
peace that must now play a decisive
part in the struggle to keep Canada
from being embroiled in the Korean
war, Signatures to the peace _peti-
tion represent the building of the
united front from below between
the workers in every plant and in-
dustry. The discussion of the sign-
ing of the petition is the broadest
forum for the struggle for unity.

We on our part must recognize
that the outbreak of imperialist in-
tervention in Korea imposes upon
us the duty to apply the united front
tactic in a new way and fight for it
with greater zeal and determination.
All tendencies to identify the CCF
rank and file with the leadership,
tendencies to “separateness” from
the CCF workers or to a stereo-
typed and a stiff doctrinaire ap-
proach to the CCF can only hold
back the development of the peace
forces in the CCF. We cannot rely
on spontaneity to bring forth a
peace wing of the CCF. We cannot
regard the organization of the dis-
cussion of the great issue of peace
among the CCF as outside of our
province. Rather we must regard
it as the first essential of our fight
for working class unity in defense
of peace. ©
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Our perspective is the develop-
ment of the broadest people’s front
for peace, which must embrace the
great masses of CCF’ers who stand
for peace. Such a broad united

around the overriding peace issue,
are linked also the issues of the
€conomic interests of the workers
and the defense of democratic
rights. Every issue of common in-
terest to the workers and the peo-
ple must be the basis for building
and strengthening the united front
and must serve to bring new forces
to the struggle for Peace. It is on
this path that every socialist work-

will grow out of active discussion

front can only grow rapidly if b

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play his part in the fight against
the right-wing opportunism of the
leadership and their flagrant bet-
rayal of the socialist convictions
which they pretend to uphold.

The fact that great masses of
the CCF must and will be won for
the peace camp is basic to the pers-
pective of the people’s front against
war and fascism in Canada, In ev-
ery large industry and in every
factory of any importance, the
working class is seriously split. In
most industries and factories, the
majority of the workers are still
caught in the trap of the red-bait-
ing propaganda of the right-wing
CCF . leaders. Now the Korean
events and the sharpening danger ~
of world war and fascism must re-
sult in a break with the top offi-
cialdom on the part of many CCF
workers and open the way to a new.
stage of the peace ‘movement of

the broadest people’s front charac-
ter.

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This “break” will not take place
automatically, spontaneously. It
must be fought for every inch of
the way, bringing into being
agreements between the CCF and
Communist workers in every in-
dustry and factory for the strug~
gle against’ the war and in de
fense of the economic interests

and democratic rights of the work-
ers, 4

Kor the CCF workers in Canadian —
factories and industries, socialism is

@ very serious conviction. The glar-.
ing disloyalty of the right-wing
CCF leaders to the basic convictions

of socialist workers is now forced
more than ever into the open by -
their support of U.S. imperialist _
war, aided and abetted by Canadian
imperiailsm. Support of imperialist
war by right wing social democracy,
Starting with 1914, has produced
Successive crises and ever new
break-aways of socialist workers.
CCF support of imperialist war can
€ No exception. The more we in-
tensify our fight against the war
Policy of the Coldwell leadership,
the more we help the peace force@e |
within the,CCF, The more we fight -
daily for the united front with the
CCF for Peace, the easier it will
be for the peace forces to assert”
their independence within the CCF:
Above all, we must establish the
closest cooperation with every

er in the CCF will be enabled to

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worker or functionary or organiza-
tion standing for peace. ;