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_ Strange company for labor
ILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federa-

tion of Labor has been
authority on communism—in

WILLIAM GREEN

elevated to the position of an
Canada. Testifying before the
House of Representatives
committee on ‘un-American
activities’ (a committee of
inquisition would be a more
appropriate name), Green
cited the growth and influ-
ence of the Labor-Progres-
sive Party as evidence of
the ‘communist menace’ in
Canada. Green’s ‘evidence’
followed that of the notori-
ous pro-fascist reactionary,
William C. Bullitt, former
U.S. ambassador to Moscow,
who is quoted as_ saying
before the same committee
that ‘if Russia had the atom
bomb it would already have
been dropped upon _ the
United States.’ Green gave
tacit endorsation to this pro-

vocative and unwarranted assertion, by arguing that the
best way to deal with”the ‘communist menace’ in ‘Canada
and the USA, is not by putting it under the ban of illegal-
ity, which would give the communists a ‘desirable marty-
dom,’ but for the good old USA to ‘keep plenty of A-bombs

on hand,’ -

_ Green’s interference in the political and economic af-
fairs of Canadians is not without precedent, nor do they en-

hance his stature as a leader

of labor. His chatter about not

making ‘martyrs’ of the communists by ban and imprison
ment is also not original. But his advice to keep ‘plenty of
A-bombs on hand’ places him in the category of reckless
warmongers who would foment war upon the Soviet’ Union
under the guise of ‘combating communism,’ using Canada

as a battleground for their i

When Green aspires to

mperialistic adventures.

provide real labor leadership.

commensurate with his high office, Canadian workers,
whether in the AFL or CIO will accept it without question.

When he stoops to cheap
Canadian workers will reject
home-grown products of a

redbaiting and warmongering
him as they reject their own
similar school, whether their

names be Green, Sullivan, or Mosher.

Atom bombs in the hands of imperialist madmen have

nothing in common with the

hopes and aspirations of labor,

and the communist witch-hunt in which Green has joined
in full voice, is merely the search for a pretext to use the
bombs. Sections of Canadian labor have scored President
Mosher of the CCL for ‘congratulating’ Sullivan on his
sellout. Similar attention must be given President Green
for his maniacal urge to use the A-bombs on a mythical
‘enemy’ which exists only in the fevered minds of those

who profit by war.

Lobby results showing

Canadian Press dispatch from Victoria reports a ma-

jor behind-the-scenes battle in Coalition circles on the
new labor bill. It is reliably reported that Labor Minister

Pearson refuses to move second reading unless the clause

for government-conducted strike votes is struck out.

Even with the full story still to be told, some import-
ant points can be deduced from the Coalition caucus im-

passe. First, had the forces
Opposition to the restrictive
the worst CMA spokesmen

of labor been fully united in
measures proposed, not even
in the Coalition would have

dared to speak openly in favor of such legislation. Second
—and we are informed that this is Pearson’s view—the
‘Supervisory clauses as they now stand cannot be adminis-
tered in the major sections of industry.

Pearson would seem to be one of the very few (if not
the only one in the cabinet), who fully realizes that in
carrying through any labor legislation successfully, a mea-
Sure of cooperation between government and labor is essen-
tial. He at least seems to appreciate labor’s refusal to co-
operate in its own destruction, the primary aim of this

CMA-inspired legislation.

A more united Labor Lobby

would have made the job easier for the minister, easier for
labor, and a whole lot more difficult for those who play

the CMA game.
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1947

e

ee ST

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ll sees red

AN

As we see it

MERICAN imperialism has de-
clared political war on com-
munism. <A new ‘anti-Comintern

‘pact’ has been evolved by Anglo-

American reaction to serve as a
smoke-screen for retrogressive
policies at home and abroad. As
this is being written the For-
eign Relations Committee of the
U.S. Congress are debating pro
and con a one billion dollar ap-

‘ propriation to ‘save Greece, Tur-

key and Korea’ from ‘totalitari-
anism’—the new language of
atomic diplomacy. There are
minor differences among the big
shots of Wall Street and their
yes-men in Congress as_ to
whether. the billion dollars
should be in the form of a loan,
a sort of lend-lease grant, or
an outright gift. Some are of
the opinion that the cost of hold-
ing the line against communism
is going to be a costly enterprise
for the American taxpayers. All

are agreed, however, that the bil-:

lion will not go to feed the hun-
gry in Greece, Turkey, Korea or
elsewhere, but to create new
armed forces against ‘comunism.’

In the realm of foreign policy
Anglo - American imperialism,
with the Yankee partner in the
dominant role, has struck out
on the path of war. It has by-
passed the UN, just as German
fascist-imperialism bypassed the
League of Nations a decade ago,
inorder to reach its objective with
a minimum of opposition. It has
fabricated an ‘enemy,’ and it is
no accident of history that com-
munism has been chosen. One
has only to turn the nob of a
radio or scan the press headlines
to find confirmation of what
Marx and Engels wrote in the
opening chapters of the Commun-
ist Manifesto 100 years ago:
“Where is the party in opposition
that has not been decried as
communistic by its opponents in
power? Where is the opposition
‘that has not hurled back the
branding reproach of commun-
ism against those more advanced
opposition parties .. .?”. Today
the imperialist wolf pack, to-
gether with their social demo-
cratic mongrel following are in
full pursuit of ‘communism.’ :

The stage has been set and the
actors are being versed in their
roles. The sinister nature of

these roles are being obscured
by many fine words about ‘se-

-to progress,

curity,’ ‘freedom,’ ‘democracy,’
‘equality,’ and so on. Those who
utter them are masters of hypoc-
rasy.
' An espionage witch hunt with
star-chamber inquisition, aimed
primarily to generate political
hate against an
lleged ‘enemy.’
he RCMP and
FBI un-
arth new ‘com-

of former tory-
inspired _Zino-
viev forgeries
or Reichstag
fires Purges.
The civil serv-
‘ice in Canada
and the USA to be gone over
with a fine tooth anti-commun-
ist comb. (Every individual,
group or movement sympathetic
held suspect of
‘communism;’ Democracy sub-
verted in the name of ‘democ-
racy’ in order to prepare the
stage for war on the USSR and
communism,
: e.

Ye tough’ is the new watch-

word of the new Truman
policy, ‘Get tough’ with the
Soviet Union and the new demo-
cratic states of Europe. A basic
prerequisite of the ‘get tough’ pol-
icy in foreign affairs is the need
to ‘get tough’ with labor at home.
‘Communism’ serves Anglo-
American reaction in this re-
spect, as it served the rise of Hit-
ler fascism, : :

Labor leaders are singled out;
men like Harvey Murphy of the
IUMMSW; Harold Pritchett,
of the IWA;
ine Workers and other unions—
all are singled out as targets for
a concerted barrage of slander,
misrepresentation and  villifica-
tion by the commercial press and
the organs of Big Business. The
startling discovery is) made that

Tom McEwen

strikes do not occur by the col-_

lective will of a union member-
ship, but simply by ‘communist
agitators’ saying ‘you must
strike’. Together with this is the
well-cultivated idea spread among
the union membership that the
communists have taken over the
leadership of the union “undemo-
cratically’ and against the wishes
of the membership.

leaders of the Mar-.

AOA By Tom Mc Ewen

Stool pidgeons and traitors in
the ranks of labor are selected
and bought — some for large
amounts like J. A. ‘Pat’ Sullivan,
others for very little. The boss
loggers and other sections of the
CMA set up elaborate labor e&
pionage agencies working in col-
laboration with the RCMP, to s@-
sure ‘inside dope’ on union ac-
tivities, and especially on the
actions and behaviour of trad®
union leaders who are regarded

as ‘reds’
x this dirty business, social de-
mocracy plays a vile role, just
as it did in aiding Hitler to power
by creating ideological disunity
within the political and economic
movements of the workers. When
a rat like Sullivan sullies the
cause he espoused—for a price.
he wins the plaudits of reaction.
That is easily understood. But
when men like A. R: Mosher,
president of the Canadian. Con-
gress of Labor and C. H. Millard,
Canadian representative of the
United Steel Workers, hasten to
offer ‘congratulations’ for trea-
son, such an act is in itself trea-
son. to’ labor. When Mosher
writes in the CBRE journal (re-
produced in the CCF News of
March 13.) using the same lan-
guage as a Sullivan, a Gouzenko,
an Esselwein, or a Bullitt, and

does the job gratis for Big Busi-—

ness, he gives encouragement to
the enemies of labor and renders
the latter an ill service.
Similarly, when A. T, Alsbury,
past provincial president of thé
CCF, and chairman of the Trades
and Labor Council presg commit-

tee, acquiesces in the raids of

certain AFL unions upon the

in the Okanagan—because the
latter are alleged to have a ‘com>
munist leadership,’ he plays the
insidious game of reaction and
besmirches his own organization.

* The opposition of the CCF lead-

ership to the recent labor lobby
stems from the same concept—
shared‘ by every reactionary in
the coalition, viz., that labor had
no need of a lobby,’ but if one did
materailize, it could only be be-
cause the communists wanted it
to ‘embarrass the government.’
Labor’s legislative program is
quite forgotten in this new in-
terpretation, which fits in pel-
fectly with reactionary policies
at home and abroad.

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