Phillip
Writes:
Tread with some interest the
Teview of Abella’s Nationalism,
OMmunism, and Canadian
abour by Tom McEwen. I was
Hg that someone who lived and
Ought through that period was
Teviewing the book, andas well
ad decided to polemicize with
ack Scott and John Stanton, the
eft and right opportunist expres-
Slons of anti-communism in
ancouver,
To he reason I was glad that
a had-decided to take Stan-
alee Scott to task, was the
: that both these men have
°nsiderable influence at
‘mon Fraser University among
tim Regents and so it was
ae y that a prominent Com-
Aa ISt replied to their charges
Ry zed with the aid of
Pha al analysis and facts the
a of their opponents.
ee” I share Tom’s
ees about Stanton and
rticle Vas disappointed inthe
7 €, not because of the task
f aa out todo, but because
hae that by labelling them
< ive ele communists” full of
ive bilge * in lieu of a con-
ae analysis was going to be
ible to the wider readership
lettin, Tribune is a mistake. It
nents €impression to our oppo-
of awe to students ignorant
oa Le that the Communist
the y as played in Canada, that
had °mmunist Party analysis

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Rankin, Vancouver

a

4

“Wh ‘Wooden nickel.”’

Map trying to say is that
eMec ella and others parrot
a 7 arthyite nonsense about
Meir, S from Moscow”’ or the
OY the eh of the working class
ch. oOmmunist party, surely
inconsistent can expose the
€ncies and omissions in-

ae merely namecalling.
Muniste 1° thing, the Com-
bolo . have done nothing to
Stanten for in the charges of
Public and Scott, and there, the
and supporters should

Nothing more to offer than ”

know the principles and achieve-
iments of the party during the
period.

The ultra-left ideologues will
often resort to omission and dis-
tortion to misrepresent the Com-
munist position, but a careful
explanation of the Communist
Party’s principles and tactics
will stand above the distortions.

It should have been pointed out
that it is false to equate inter-
national unionism with conser-
vatism and Canadianunionism
with militancy. It should have
also been pointed out that it was
the bosses and their repre-
sentatives who tried to prevent
the C.I.0. from organizing Cana-
dian workers not the workers
themselves who had been aban-
doned by the Trades and Labour
Congress.

Let the anti-communists know
that it is true the Communists
and the Canadian working class
built the C.I.O. unions and for
doing so the Canadian Manufac-
turing Association cried about
‘foreign agents’ with many of the
same attitudes and reasoning
as our present day ultra-nation-
alist bourgeoisie committee
who find expression in the
committee for an Independent
Canada. Let the ‘“‘left critics’’
also know that Canadian trade
unionists were not guilty of
narrow national chauvinism
and realized the necessity of
solidarity with workers in the
US. : :

Let Jack Scott and John
Stanton know that the Workers
Unity League was more con-
cerned with the possibilities of
unity and extension of indus-
trial organizations and there-
fore was correct in disbanding
itself and merging with the
mainstream of the labour move-
ment because it realized, unlike
the would-be revolutionaries of
today, peace and progress could
be won only with a united move-
ment of the working class and
not won by someshort termradi-
calism built ona foundation of

Yen 50th anniversary
-Selebrations planned

tan Zabeth Hill, General Secre-
rie the Young Communist
ddres » Will be in Vancouver to
sary B e League’s 50th Anni-
te anquet Slated for Sep-
5 in the Fishermen’s
Oberst banquet will mark the
across country tour
a Snationalleader,as
a. Sathers momentum
4 Culminate in the 18th
Convention, October 6-
of Ae.
Wil] hs B.C. YCL the banquet
ichtsovlight a period of
€d activity in which
‘Campaigns to
ireulans Membership, boost
: 1on of the Young
» 2nd to raise over $2,000
a ie to the conven-
ently €ing carried on

Leg
a
V

3 y.
Major - the banquet will be the
ctiviti €nt ina series of public
Public 3g designed to win
Cognition of the fact
Feue isoneofonlya
ere youth organi-
boast; y the most stable,
ng a quickening

growth rate. Response to a
national program that touches
every facet of youth life has seen
the British Columbia member-
ship more than double in the last
year.

Other public events lined up
are the YCL labor day picnic,
September 3rd, and the con-
tinuing series of public educa-
tionals sponsored by the
League, beginning again on Sep-
tember 10th also at the Fisher-
men’s Hall.

Tickets for the banquet, which
will be addressed by Maurice
Rush, Pacific Tribune editor
and past Provincial Secretary
of the YCL, and Paul Bjarnason,
the present secretary, will go
on sale this week at the Co-op
Bookstore, the PT office, and
through YCL members.

The fifty years of YCL
struggle since its founding in
1923 have left behind a rich and
militant heritage for YCL’ers
to carry on. The League has
issued an open invitation to all
ex-YCL’ers to attend.

narrow nationalism.

Let them also know thatit was
precisely in those unions where
Communists played significant
roles that real autonomy was
achieved. As Phyllis Clarke
wrote in her review of Abella’s
book in the July issue of The
Canadian Jewish Outlook that
Abella fails to recognize the
consistency of the Communist
position.

‘‘In 1925 Tim Buck wrote Steps
to Power for the Trade Union
Educational League. . .among
the proposals he named the
organization of the unorgan-
ized, the amalgamation of the
craft unions, Canadian trade
union autonomy, and inter-
national trade union unity. . .”

These were the kind of prin-
ciples that remained the basis
for the activity of the Com-
munists, not as Abella has put it
with the over-worked charge
that the ‘‘decisions in Moscow
formed the basis upon which the
Communists formulated their
tactics:”’

In conclusion when Com-
munists write polemics or
answer charges from their oppo-
nents let the real history answer
their attacks and leave the name-
calling to those who have nothing
else to say.

Hiroshima

cont'd. from pg. 1

Hiroshima was America’s in-
troduction to the world of
‘nuclear diplomacy.’ It
heralded a qualitatively new
stage of military might to be
used as a club and a shield for
imperialist aggression in South
East Asia and around the world.

‘Hiroshima was,”’ as Bill Will-
mott told the assembly ina brief
address, ‘‘the opening gun for
an American campaign to go
into Asia ina big way. . . to
attempt to make an American
Asia providing a_ bulwark
against the Soviet Union and
China,’ That campaign con-
tinues today,’’ Willmott said,
referring to the carpet bombing
of Cambodia. ‘‘It is a mark of
the same inhumanity that they
should now be stepping up the
bombing to beat the August 15
deadline.”

Concurrent with the political
motivation behind Hiroshima—
to establish American military
supremacy in the Cold War
which the U.S. had already engin-
eered— wasracism. ‘“‘The bomb
would never have been dropped
in Europe, on European civili-
zation,’ Willmott added, “‘it
was the same racist mentality
as The little Jap’ comment that
rocked ‘the Watergate hear
ings.” P

Much has changed since Hiro-
shima ushered the United States
into the nuclear age as the lead-
ing world power. Their nuclear
weaponry, a thousand times
more powerful than the atom
bomb used at Hiroshima, 1s now
matched by the Soviet Union.
France and China have alsoac-
quired the bombs and race to
catch up. The mentality of Hiro-
shima has not died; itpresents
itself daily in South Africa, Viet
Nam and Cambodia. But the
world has changed. America’s
nuclear arsenal is no longer the
instrument that can cold the

The Vancouver Peace Action League marked the anniversary of the
bombing of Hiroshima last Friday evening at the courthouse. Photo
shows Professor Bill Willmott speaking on the meaning of Hiroshima.

—Sean Griffin photo

Day commemorated

world into submission to her
imperialist aims.

‘‘Remember Hiroshima Day,”
this year followed by only one
month the agreements on the
prevention of nuclear warfare
that climaxed the summit meet-
ing in Washington. Signi-
ficantly, thetheme of the vigil,
‘no more Hiroshimas’”’ for the
first time since 1945 within
reach. :

Ina leaflet distributed by the
Peace Action League, sponsors
of the vigil, three major
demands were placed for Cana-

dians to remove Canada from
the orbit of ‘‘nuclear di-
plomacy’’ and to add Canadian
pressure to the mounting world
demand for complete nuclear
disarmament. They included:
withdrawal of Canada from
NORAD and NATO and the estab-
lishment of a non-aligned for-
eign policy such as exists in
Sweden, astrengthening of the
United Nations with greater
interest and respect to be shown
for U.N. resolutions and deci-
sions, and, Canada’s uncondi-
tional halting of the export of
armaments.

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