> “I’ve been through all the papers, there’s absolutely no trouble at all on the Isle of Wight!” ECCLES—Morning Star LABOR DAY STATEMENT OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY Looking back over the past year it can be said that while labor has made significant advances in the economic in social fields, it could lose these gains in the legislative ield. In the economic field new sections of organized labor _ went into action to advance their interests and in a major- ity of cases achieved significant breakthroughs. Wage parity for auto workers has opened the door for wage parity for other workers. The battle the postal employees waged, to be treated as human beings will likewise help other workers. In all these struggles the workers showed a rising spirit of militancy, of unity and solidarity in English and French Canada alike. ' But gains won could be lost, because on the political front as seen in the results of the June 25 Federal elections, the working class was not yet united on the need to elect a sufficiently large progressive group to prevent a Liberal majority government from being elected. One of the first acts of this government was aimed at imposing wage guidelines on the working class while al- lowing prices, profits and rents to soar. Now the govern- ment may press for legislation to undermine labor's right to collective bargaining and to strike, exactly the policy wanted by monopoly. The working class will have to fight hard to defeat such anti-labor and undemocratic legislation. Workers need more democracy, not less. But to do so will require ever greater unity in its ranks and agreement on the need to strike for new goals, new objectives in this era of abun- ~ dance. For this new policies are needed on the economic and social field including the struggle to weaken U.S. domina- tion over our country. Above all, labor needs to press for a new direction in Canadian foreign policy, withdrawal from NATO, for an unconditional end to U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, the withdrawal of U.S. troops from that country and the right of the people of Vietnam to settle their own affairs without outside interference. The working class should not be taken in by those reac- tionary forces who, using confusion on the events surround- ing Czechoslovakia, wish to ‘hot up’ the cold war, and use the situation to break up the growing trend towards unity of the progressive forces of our country, Communist and non-Communist unity alike. Monopoly is not interested in socialism but in preserving and restoring capitalist style rule wherever it can. It is in the interests of the working people of our country to prevent this, to strengthen ties of friendship with the working people of all countries, as it is in its interests to strengthen the unity of the trade union movement, of labor. and democracy for the attainment of a better life for the people of our country. Make Labor Day this year a day for setting such new objectives and aims as will help realize it. ; Central Executive Committee, Coremunistapart of Congas views and comment... AMEN! After the opening invocation at the Democratic convention here, a member of a southern delegation said to a colleague: “That prayer wasn’t much.” “That prayer,” his friend said, ‘was left-wing.” —Toronto Star DEFINITION OF A DEMOCRAT It is almost impossible to de- fine a Democrat without resort to absurdity. In convention, as he will be seen in Chicago this week, he conjures up images of the primeval chaos, the leading edge of the hurricane, the morning after the earth- quake, the shell game, the St. Valentine's Day massacre and the night the bed fell down. . ... He is a compound of dove and hawk, lyncher and lynchee, working stiff and labor baiter, fat cat and pauper, parson and hypocrite, egghead and bully boy. —Russell Baker, New York Times BENNETT SPREADS HIS WINGS Premier W. A. C. Bennett plans to make an_ extensive tour through Communist coun- tries next year. The premier said in an inter- view that his trip may take him - to Russia, Bulgaria, Czecho- slovakia, Yugoslavia and Poland. His aim will be to “spread good will, something Canada is very good at because we are not powerful militarily. So no country fears us.” —CP dispatch DEFOLIATION The Green Berets: John Wayne's film about the war in Vietnam provides some good reasons for considéring the de- foliation of Hollywood. —Macleans WHAT KIND OF MAN? The important underlying issue, of course, is not whether Humphrey can be his own man, but what kind of a man he is. | tried my best to find out on a five-day preconven- tion swing through Salina, Kan.; Salt Lake City; Los An- geles, and San Francisco. In the course of the trip—accom- © panied by his wife, his doctor, his chiropractor, assorted rela- tives and staff, Walter Reuther and Trini Lopez (who said he is for Humphrey because “Frank Sinatra’s for Humphrey and Frank is the greatest’’)— —Victor S. Navosky New York Times There's two Nixons now _ With the decision to uphold the Administra- tion’s past policy on Vietnam the Democratic Party convention went down the way to great- er conservatism and to the nomination of Pre« sident Johnson’s picked successor, Hubert Humphrey. The majority position called for a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam only “when this action would not endanger the lives of our troops in the field”. It also rejected as unaccept- able encouragement of a coalition government in South Vietnam, which would include the National Liberation Front. This of course received the wholehearted ap- . proval of the main architect of present U.S: Vietnam policy—President Johnson. He sent word to the Convention that he hoped the no- minees of the Republican and Democratic par> ties “will not be too divergent” in their views . “so the world will not have to wait until No- vember to pick the softest spot”. : A other words, not one Richard Nixon bu wo! ; The minority position had four main feat- - ures: unconditional cessation of bombing of North Vietnam; negotiation of a phased mutual withdrawal of U.S. and North Vietnamese forces.from South Vietnam; encouragement of a government broadly representative of all elements in South Vietnam and a reduction of offensive operations to enable early withdrawal of a significant number of U.S. troops. In other words, a choice between the major parties in November for the voters, assuming that the candidate would carry out the policy. But this Americans were denied. \ But the crisis of America is the crisis of its Vietnam policy. And even two Richard Nixons fighting a sham battle will not prevent the well- ing up of the tide of the Keren people against the present and all future administra- tions who will try to maintain (and indeed even escalate) the U.S. war on Vietnam. For the youth of America who believed they should come off the streets and into the halls of “great democratic institutions” the profes- sional political control of “Fort Democrat” made a mockery of democracy. But one can be sure that the youth will not stop their fight. Nor will all those other Americans, black and white, young and old, who have embarked on the path of changing the course of history in their country. And as they continue to fight to end this | monstrous war so too will all men of peace throughout the world in words and actions press upon the U.S. government for an end to the war. For Canadians, only weeks before the open- ing of a new Parliament with a new Prime Minister, the path is clear—to dissociate Can- ada completely from the U.S. war on Vietnam.