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Unity at Victoria

Ree labor lobby to Victoria early this week was one of
the largest in the history of the province. This despite
the splitting tactics of certain AFL trade union leaders,
who sought to sidetrack the lobby and misrepresent (its
leadership and purpose. Twenty-two AFL unions, or ap-
proximately one-third of the entire lobby participated unit-

edly with CCL unions in its organization and presentation .

of demands to MLA’s and to the coalition government. This
fact should not be lost sight of by the Canadian Manufac-
turers’ Association (CMA) and their political stooges in
the legislature and in some AFL unions. The CMA and
its political hucksters had banked upon a badly split labor
movement which would be incapable of mobilizing effective
opposition to anti-labor legislation, :

The lobby demonstrated that deep down in the ranks
of organized labor, including war veterans, old age pen-
sioners and other groups, there is a deep and firm bond
of unity, capable of giving effective opposition when its
social and economic standards are threatened by reaction.

Unlike the Showlers and Gervins who would have labor
don its new CMA-fabricated strait-jacket without a murmur
of protest, the labor lobby presented to the cabinet—not
demands for amendments or amelioration of the repressive
clauses in Bill 39, but for their total elimination, These
demands include the elimination of penalties upon unions,
union membership or officials; the elimination of any gov-
ernment-supervised strike votes; elimination of the ‘cooling-
off period’—a form of morale attrition; opposition to any
‘preference’ for craft unionism as against industrial unions
in labor legislation, and the democratic right of Jabor to
elect its own representatives to any boards specified in the
bill.

Regardless of what the cynics may say, the labor lobby .

of 1947 was a big event, productive of much good to: labor
unity and action. It marked a new stage in labor history—
the stage of coming struggles for wage increases and
higher standards of life, now beset with new extra-legal
obstructions. The clear-cut opposition to repressive labor
legislation made by a lobby in which labor unity is still
a powerful factor, is the best guarantee that labor will, not
be shackled in its forward march to greater progress, That
much the labor lobby very definitely established.

Labor's enemies at work

2 apa the thorny path which organized labor has
travelled since the days of the Tolpuddle martyrs,
many skeletons can be seen, marking the spot where the
weaklings fell, victims of treason to the cause they espoused.
As each traitor fell the press of his day paid him dubious
tribute, not so much in honor of his treason, but in the
never-dying hope of reaction that such treason would de-
Stroy the trade union or labor movement in which he
played a brief role. So it is in the case of J. A. ‘Pat’ Sulli-
van, ex-president of the Canadian Seamen’s Union and ex-
secretary of the Trades and Labor Congress.

Sullivan was bought over by the powerful Shipping
Federation to betray, and if possible smash the Canadian
Seamen’s Union, which has challenged their centuries-old
‘Captain Bligh’ regime of semi-slavery on the seven seas.
A reactionary coterie of the Catholic hierarchy gave him
spiritual encouragement to effect the betrayal. Both groups
hoped that the cry of ‘communism’ would frighten the sea-
men and the labor movement into easy submission to ex-
ploitation. Both are already proven wrong.

Many years ago Marx observed that ‘man makes his
own history, but he doesn’t make it out of the whole cloth,
but out of which he finds at hand.’ The modern labor move-
ment, communist and non-communist develops upon this
same premise, conscious always. of the fact that in the jungle
of capitalist society it is inevitable that traitors get into
the labor movement, and equally inevitable that such are
periodically cast out. Those who hastened to ‘congratulate’
the traitor Sullivan failed to take into account that his
treason strikes at labor as a whole, was planned and con-
ceived by the enemies of labor, and timed to coincide with
governmental foreign and domestic policies which threaten
the security and peace of labor and the nation.

FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1947

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The Baruch plan

OUGH POLICY,

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As we see it

F it was the prime pur-
pose of American imper-
ialism to scuttle the rem-

nants of Big Four Unity at
the Moscow conference of fo-
reign ministers, the speech of
President Truman to the U.S.
Congress, requesting financial
and military aid to Greece and
Turkey could not have been
timed better. While this his-
toric conference now in_ ses-
sion grapples with the stupend-
ous job of writing a peace treaty
for the fourth German Reich,
the voice of Hitler is re-echoed
by Truman in what amounts to
a call for a world crusade
against communism.

Truman’s appeal to Congress
to “save Greece and Turkey
from communism” constitutes a

virtual declaration of war
against the. Soviet Union, and

against the new democratic gov-
ernments of a number of Euro-
pean countries. It also marks
the end of American isolation-
ism and the full emergence of
U.S. imperialism on a _ world
scale, armed with the big stick
of atomic superiority (it hopes),

and ready to go where, when,

and how it pleases, to ‘save
civilization from ‘totalitarian
communism’.

The Truman declaration also
establishes another change in
the world imperial system — a

‘new relationship so to speak.

British imperialism must now
take a back seat. While possess-
ing centuries of experience in
the art of double dealing, di-
vide and rule exploitation, Brit-
ish imperialism lacks the cash,
the industrial potential or the
man-power to hold its former
priority in the Kiplingesque role
of ‘carrying the white man‘s
burden’. American imperialism

' will therefore take over the

business of ‘saving’ the balance
of the capitalist world for ‘de-
mocracy’ (read capitalism), and
in this it has the austere bless-
ing of the labor government of
Britain?

VEN Hitler decided to an- —

nex a piece of territory or
bring a weaker nation under the
jackboot of fascist barbarism, he
invariably argueq that such a
nation or territory needed ‘sav-

ing’ from communism. With this
line he got unlimited aid from
the Munich men of Britain and
France, plus the backing of the
financial royalists of the’ USA.
The new technique of American
imperialism differs very little
from that of Hitler. Truman’s
appeal to Congress to supply

“Men, money and materials ta

Greece is based upon the ‘sav-
ing’ of the Greek people. The
question of whether the Greek
people or people so _ situated,

wish to be so ‘saved’ does not -

enter into the calculations of
American imperialism. If it did

they would have been out of

China months ago, since every
articulate Chinese movement,
group, or individual—with the
sole exception
of the fascist
Chiang K a i-
shek and his
henchmen, have
requested—n ay
demanded that
the U.S. get its
troops out of
China. The an-
ti-fascist Greek
Deople have
oresented ita
—— British ‘savi-
Tom Mckwen ours’ with many
similar demands, and these ap-
ply with equal force now to the
‘salvation from’ communism’ in

the Truman declaration.

Elevated to the position of
spokesman for Anglo-American
imperialism because of its finan-
cial, industrial and economic
superiority and potential, U.S.
imperialism pretends to be de-
sirous of maintaing friendly re-
lations with the Soviet Union,
but its every act and pronounce-
ment of major importance ir
the sphere of foreign policy (and
labor policies at home) since
the end of the war, stands re-
vealed as a new provocation or
slander against the USSR.

From the Roosevelt formula—
that nations and peoples with

' different ideologies and ways of

life must learn to live in peace,
harmony, and mutual under-
standing of and with each other,

tee By Tom McEwen

big stick Yankee imperialism
now declares that the world i
too small for, all ideologies and
ways of life which do not con-
form to its own interests. Such
people must therefore be ‘saved’
from themselves and others, and

the world made safe for—im-—

perialist exploitation. The eS
sence of the ‘Baruch plan’ for
atomic control—sole U.S. owner-
ship of the atom bomb, is t?
impress nations and peoples wh?
oppose being so ‘saved’ that they
had better look to their saviours
with due respect and obedience:

VERY act of the Soviet Union

to safeguard the peace and
security of her frontiers, or t0
aid her neighbors, is construed
by Anglo-American imperialis™
and its kept press as ‘Soviet ex-
pansion’, ‘Soviet
‘communist domination’, ete. ete:
Every provocation against the
Soviet Union — espionage witch
hunts, war preparations in the
Arctic, big loans to former
enemy countries, the bolstering
up of quisling and fascist ele
ments in the occupied countries
against the democratic surge of
the peoples of these countries—
all are hypocritically projected
upon the loftiest of motives; al!

for the ‘good’ of the people con-

cerned.

The Truman speech on Greecé
and Turkey puts an end to the
necessity of the imperialist wat-
Mongers to disguise themselves
as the harbingers of peace. Whilé
they go to Moscow to discuss 2
peace treaty for the Germans:
they openly prepare for wat
against the Soviet people and
the Soviet system, without whom

' victory over Hitler would havé

been impossible. Anglo-America®

imperialism now seeks its allies

—not among those who carried
the brunt of the fighting, but
among the quisling, monarchist
and fascist elements who aré
willing—for a price, to play the

imperialist game against theit —

own people, and upon the rules
laid down by Wall Street. That

‘is the essence of the Truma?

speech. It contains evil portenté
for Canada. ‘ ‘at

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