2 i “Write into the Charter that if any People try to defeat — : their reactionaries and tuke possession of thes . é country weil bomb, blast and beggar them ...... v. ASED on an article in the July 29 edition of The Saturday Evening Post by Joseph and Stewart Alsop, a Vancouver News-Herald editorial in its July 31 issue, entitled “Something Very Wrong in Wash- ington” merits the study of all serious-mind- ed Canadians. On numerous occasions during the course of this U.S.-inspired “cold war” and its con- sequent results in Korea, Formosa and else- where, the Pacific. Tribune has referred to Washington and its governmental denizens as “atomaniacs”, whose power-mad megalo- mania, (a mania caused by delusions of erdndeur) poses a threat to the peace and well-being of all mankind.” It is therefore something of a pleasant surprise to have such staid journals of bourgeois respectabi- lity as the above, arriving at much the same ~ conclusions, even if a little belatedly. Yet it shouldn’t come as a surprise to people capable of seeing things as they are. The government of Hitler's Third Reich suffered from exactly the same mental neu- rosis — extending into every state organ, from top to bottom. The first evidence of this governmental. neurosis is the “spy” phobia — probing into every action of your immediate colleague. Checking the books he reads, his social ac- quaintances, his litical or religious views, what he thinks about, or of, anything and everything. Tapping his telephone.’ check- ing his mail, listening to hts wife’s social chatter. Secrecy “. . . first equated with security, and the secrecy becoming an end in itself,” as the News-Herald quotes from the Alsop article. This “spyitus” with all its psychopathic . manifestations, does not, despite current sewer press. opinion, arise from a fear of so-called “Soviet agents”, but from’ power- mad fear and its attendant corruption, which marks bourgeois society in the dying stages. Fear, cold stark fear, of your fellow man, “a miasma of neurotic fear and internal sus- picion”, engulfing a nation’s capital, and _ seeping down into every facet of national life! The neurosis of the modern “police state”! ~ No loss - - | YUMPHREY MITCHELL. 55, federal _ BAminister of labor for the past eight years in the King and St. Laurent govern- _ ments, died Thursday this week at Ottawa. During his. years of office, Mitchell ach- ieved the unique accOmplishment of merit- _ ing the public condemnation and repudiation at one time or another, of all sections of | the Canadian labor movement, right, left, and center. ae "Whom the gods would destroy’ TUN MARSHALS AID FavertiFes': A, . | oun " Tere “Internal distrust and suspicion . . . is everywhere, slowly poisoning the relations between the executive branch and Congress, between one department and another, and even between friends” says the News-Herald. This stifling atmosphere, created by the applied technique of the political smear — the Big Lie — against friend and* foe alike, not only impels high government officials, like the late U.S. secretary of defense, James Forrestal, to leap out of 16-storey windows, but produces another manifestation of a sick mind, affecting the nation and the individual — homo-sexualism. The discovery of no less than 91 sexual perverts in the U.S. state department reveals a higher ratio than the fate Hermann Goer- ing was able to achieve. Today, in Wash- ington, when an American citizen tells an- other he works in the state department, the information elicits little more than a com- miserating knowing grin. “It is a rather disturbing picture that is presented,” says the News-Herald, “not- ably at this time when the U.S. is assuming the responsibilities of leadership for the democracies of the world. Happily, Canada and other Commonwealth countries have been spared such political deterioration.” | The picture is “disturbing” enough, but we cannot feel as sanguine as the News- Herald that Canada has been “spared” from the foul evils of this Yankee madness. With a foreign policy, designed in Washington by netfrotics, psychopaths and sex perverts, a new leadership “for the democracies of the world” is not only necessary — but essen- tial to the survival of sanity and civilization. Independently, Canada can give that lea- dership. The St. Ldurent government did so in 1948 when it opposed Korean partition. It can do so in 1950. The Post and News- Herald comments point up this need, long underscored by the Pacific Tribune — that of Canada taking an independent lead in the Struggle for world peace. in ‘the banning of all atomic weapons,.in severing the Gordian knot that ties this country and its nearly 14 million people to the war-mad evil neuro- sis of Yankee imperialism. There will be many official han dite” shedding crocodile tears from the ranks of those vested interests he served so well — even long before his advent to the labor ministry. There will be very few genuine mourners from the ranks of labor. For the working people — and the unemployed — the death of Humphrey Mitchell is of Jess moment than last week’s stock quotations. _ Labor never pretends to mourn some- thing it hasn’t lost. > ‘tion, held in Toronto in 1942, further underlines the TOM McEWEN As We See lt E AIM to replace the present capitalist system, with its inherent injustice and inhumanity, by a social order from which the domination and exploitation of One class by another will be elimin- ated)...” “Canada has a vital interest in world peace. We propose, therefore, to do everything in our power to advance the idea of international _ cooperation .’. . but we believe that genuine international cooperation is incompatible with the capitalist regime which is in force in most countries .. .” “We stand resolutely against all participation in imperialist wars. Canada must refuse to be entangled in any more wars fought to make the world safe for capitalism.” These are excerpts from the Regina Manifesto, the statement of CCF principles adopted at its first national convention at Regina in 1933. The CCF resolution “For Victory and Recon- struction”, adopted at its seventh national conven- Regina Manifesto: : We must make it clear that the present strug- gle against international fascism is part of the peo- ple’s revolution to usher in a new era of brother- hood and security for all the peoples of the world.” “The indictment of capitalism made in our Re- gina Manifesto of 1933 is even more apparent to- day; and the remedy more urgently needed.” The 1950 national convention of the CCF, held last week in Van- couver, wrote a new set of CCF “principles’—the kind of “principles” which not only do violence to every socialist ideal set forth in the Regina Manifesto, but which make treason to the common people a cardinal “principle” of CCF national policy. ; ° The CCF convention supported American armed aggression in Korea (on the hollow pretext that it is the UN rather than the U.S. that is intervening) and called for greater Canadian participation in “collective” subjection of the Korean people. Despite the protests of E. E. Winch and others who fear the effect upon thousands of socialist-minded supporters in B.C., the CCF top leaders are determined to eliminate the tattered Regina Manifesto from their “socialist” repertoire. In practice, they have already done so. Their anti-Soviet, hate-laden oratory far surpassed the rabid im- perialists in the atomaniac war camp. 1 On seating of the true representatives of China in the UN in place of the discredited Chiang Kai-shek stooges of Wall Street, Coldwell, Winch and company were more emphatic than Dean Acheson and Harry Truman in shouting “No”. In an earlier press conference Cold- well had already approved Yankee intervention in Formosa—by ceding that island and its inhabitants to Japan, hence to the U.S. occupation. The Stockholm Peace Petition, already signed by 200 million of the worlds peoples, was branded by the CCF convention as “a Communist- front organization”, and the management of the Hotel Vancouver, where the CCF convention was being held, was called upon to eject members of the Vancouver Peace Assembly soliciting signatures for the petition. In a press interview Coldwell repeated the lie that the “Stock- holm peace appeal is a ruse to assist the Soviet Union in disarming the peoples of democratic countries, in order that the Russians may | continue their aggressive tactics”, adding further that “it is only being circulated outside the Soviet Union. It is unfortunate that it is not being circulated in Russia too.” When the Canadian Peace Congress brought to Coldwell’s atten- tion that the Stockholm Appeal was being circulated in the USSR, that it had “already been signed by leaders of the Soviet government and 100 million Soviet citizens”, Coldwell cynically brushed the matter aside as “a cruel deception which the CCF cannot approve.” In her pre-convention writeups in the CCF News, Grace MacInnis had much to say about the “democratic procedure” governing all decisions on CCF policy. We could write a book on that one, but for the moment a paragraph will do. Retiring national secretary David Lewis appointed himself a one-man thought-control Un-CCF Activities — Committee to scan the reading material available to CCF delegates. — He spotted a pamphlet in the convention literature display entitled, Is Labor Government the Way to Socialism? “We must not stand for the sale of this literature,” screamed thought-controller Lewis, “It is an attack on Britain’s labor government—our sister socialist govern- ment.” “And,” added Lewis, “the B.C. group is pushing it.’ He forth- with ordered the pamphlet removed, precipitating an uproar in the convention, ; The fact was that the pamphlet in question was a Trotskyite pub- lication, and the CCF member in charge of the literature stand was Mrs. Evelyn Smith, who with her husband, Don Smith, was vociferously active in promoting Trotskyite propaganda within the CCF in the thirties. It was typical of the hysterical. witch-hunting atmosphere injected into the CCF that there was no debate on the pamphlet itself which would just as surely have led to its rejection, but instead machine-like dictation of policy that characterized the entire conven- tion. Serving notice through the medium of the capitalist press—as in all other matters of major CCF policy—before it got to the convention floor—Coldwell swept out the few remaining crumbs of Marxism from CCF philosophy, declaring that from now on, “CCF socialism will more closely approximate the teachings of great religious leaders.” Thus a “double-barrelled” machined resolution “reaffirmed its faith in the Regina Manifesto”—and instructed the National Council to draft a new manifesto of “socialist principles” for the 1951 conven- tion, to be applied “to Canada and the world.” ; _ ‘The 1950 CCF convention chalked up one achievement—it wrote its own obituary as a Published Weekly at 650 Howe Street PUBLI ‘By THE TRIBUNE SHING COMPANY LTD. Telephone MA. 5288 sd aed eh Matin eee peer Serve Editor i. B.C. Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Mon .35. Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe Sirest: veReaent Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept. 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