Parliament

Gnd the people

BY LESLIE MORRIS
spi ament, under the control of the old-line parties of
in sm, tends more and more to be alien to the people and
in eaey interests. The parliamentary institution, which
and Ime was a vehicle for democracy, has fallen into the

S of the great monopol%es\ and their political spokesmen.
ment " task of modern, labor democracy, is to bring Parlia-
Of the © the hands of the people, to make it an instrument
ee ouler will and one of the means of changing the

8Nd social system.

To those who are closely watching the present scene on
Parliament Hill these political axioms are
brilliantly illustrated right now.

* * *

The days slip by since the June 18 elec-
tion and the country plunges deeper into
that financial crisis which reflects the

dian economy yet Parliament does not
meet.

The government goes on. The Treasury
the Wir officials go into huddles with the bankers;
ges. re between Washington and Ottawa buzz with mes-.
Which € Prime Minister, speaking only for the Tory party,
the aa Only one-third of the popular vote, announces ‘“‘in

ee of Canada” a new American mortgage on the
thd on €conomy to the tune of a thousand million dollars,

§ Canadians that prices are to be inflated still further

buy. : :
Parliament does not meet.

* * *

Own the line—but Parliament does not meet.

T ‘ aes
ae $18 billion of American money invested in Canada
Canagi S its pound of flesh, torn from the living stands of

89s—and Parliament does not meet.

“Onditi ° see only Parliament and to lose sight of the real
| Worge Ons of life of the people, conditions which have become

Since election day.
* aK oe

Monae” €conomics of capitalism still operate, to the full:
itvelop Y extends its control; the new taxes bear down on pay
Y

Dine pect crisis; the majority of Canadians are feeling the
*onomic Worried and concerned more than ever about their
Seen i © futures. The real politics of the country are to be
loekey: € pay envelopes, not in the back-stage political
#8 Which consumes the time of political leaders.

4 tat is required now, while Parliament is at a stalemate,
he €conomic realities of the situation shotild break
ati Orkers should protest the wage-cuts caused by
‘ho ‘On and the emergency financial decrees; consumers
4 Protest the rise in prices; the people in their organiza-
ie elsewhere should speak up, and let their voices

* * *

Non: oe
Hho ting Would be better designed to shake up the political
Ven Still further, unfreeze politics still more, make them

ey a fluid, or compel Parliament to meet to discuss this
“em eck On living standards than public protests and
‘ations,

:

Le a
eden the voice of the people be heard by the political

Ct :
the People bring their protests to bear on Parliament.

t .

eae Political intervention of the working-people,
i Rot pen On June 18, continue to even higher levels and
aig) thing be left to the back-room politicians or to
Ment which does not meet.

ne

perer to Alberni recently. ;
aie and Island: iron ore and coal and limestone

deep-going structural crisis of the Cana- '

Tight
i mo i lashed:
Nght q ney means tighter belts and wages are s hia enact atthe

s and farm incomes; unemployment is being extended:

WHAT'S BEHIND ECM?

World trade: two roads

by BORIS IZAKOV

The recent conference of
representatives of the Com-
munist and Workers’ Parties
of member countries ‘of the
Mutual Economic Assistance
Council (MEAC) reaffirmed
the view taken by the social-
ist states to international as a
road towards stronger world
peace. The socialist states are
for wider trade contracts de-
void of discrimination, with
all countres, including capi-
talist countires.

Meanwhile EEC, or the
Common Market organiza-
tion, takes an entirely dif-
ferent approach. Its architects
are knocking together a
closed customs and economic
bloc and they build com-
mercial realtions with non-af-
filiated countries on open dis-
crimination or a _ concealed
customs war.

EEC’s aggressive character
is patent already in the fact
that from the very outset it
was made to serve the con-
solidation of the military
NATO bloc. It was precisely
Common
Market that Field Marshall
Montgomery noted the other

AS SIMPLE AS...

This article which appear-
ed in the June 21 edition of
the Soviet News Bulletin
deals with a timely subject:
World trade, the European
Common market and its al-
ternative.

day in the London press. Ob-
jecting to Britian’s subscrip-
tion to the Rome treaty of
the Common Market six he
wrote: “The Rome - treaty.
hides other intentions ‘that
mean more than the Common
Market . . . This ‘something
more’ is a political union, a
federation of the U.S. type

If we sign the Rome
treaty, in the event of a crisis
our armed forces, the navy,
the army and the air force,
will have to obey orders from
Europe, orders that might be
issued by a German general
whose country violated peace
twice in the last 48 years—
in 1914 and 1939.” .

Indeed, the West German
monopolies which have risen
up the yeast of American sub-
sidies, loans and investments,
play first fiddle in the Com-
mon Market. According to
statistics for 1961. Federal

ECCLES (British Daily Werker)

Persecution of Hoffa |
real threat to labor

By GEORGE MORRIS
(Abridged from the U-S.
Worker)

If the department of jus-
tice would put half the force
and efforts against racist vio-
lators of the law that it is
putting into its drive to jail

James Hoffa, our civil rights _
picture might be much dif-

ferent than it is.

At the moment at least 14
grand juries are examining
the affairs of Hoffa or other
officials of the International
Brotherhood of Teamsters or
its locals.

Hoffa himself is scheduled
to go on trial Sept. 10 on one
16-count indictment. Ob-
viously not so sure of the
outcome of that case, because
Hoffa has beaten some more.
dangerous earlier attempts
to jail him, (Attorney Gen-
eral Robert) Kennedy back-
ed up that case with another.

But as the Wall Street
Journal says in a summary
of the war against. Hoffa to.
date (June 11), neither of the
cases seems to be strong
enough to do the job the gov-
ernment wants to do.

So WSJ says a third in-
dictment is expected to come
out against Hoffa -“shortly”,
and indicates it may come
out of the current examina-
tion of the investments of the
union’s welfare

fund = re-
serves.
(A most important factor

in this persecution) is the be-
lief among many who want
Hoffa jailed that success
against him would weaken
and possibly break up the
1,700,000-member union into
several pieces as _ various

unions make their jurisdic- |

tional claims. That would be
a very serious blow agains’.
labor as a whole.

Germany accounts for 44.7
per cent of EEC’s industrial
output and 39.3 per cent of
its exports. The command
posts in EEC have tbeen
seized by the West German
monopolies, the bosses of
such giant concerns as those
of Flick, Krupp, Siemens, the
IG Farbenindustrie and AEG,
which under Hitler were
guilty of monstrous crimes.

Affairs of these concerns
are still bossed by people
who, in the recent past under ~
Hitler, were known as the
Weharwiertschafts - fuehrers,
or the leaders of war econ-
omy. Among the directors of
West German concerns are
more than 200 of these one-
time Wehrwiertschafts - fue-
hrers and a whole gallery of
such Hitler generals’ as
Milch, von Schoenbeck, Mais-
ter, Bodenschatz, Manteufel
and Holland.

These concerns and these
men are trying once again as
they did in the old times, to
sukordinate West Europe to
the monopolies of the Ruhr
and the Rhine. And though
attempts are being made this
time to establish the Euro-
pean “New Order” under the
signboard of the Common
Market, this does not change
matters in the least.

Bonn is coming to dictate
more and more in the EEC.
Besides the Bonn _ govern-
ment’s’ constant economic
and political pressure on its
EEC partners, Adenauer is be-
having very licentiously to-
wards his patrons in both;
Washington and London. He
is dictating to Britian his own
terms of a Common market
entry and at times: even re-
sorts to customs sanctions
against the U.S.

We know only too well
what kind of political aims
West German cartels are try-
ing to achieve in Europe.
These are aggressive aims.
Bonn is opposing to the so-
cialist camp a solid “‘cold
war”’ front.

As for its attitude to other
continents, EEC is trying to
ensnare in the web of neo-
colonialism the young Afro-
Asian and Latin American
states which only recently
won national independencé
and are still economically
weak. The tycoons of EEC
want to compel these coun-
tries to open their markets to
duty -free European goods
and, meanwhile, to fix the
prices for their raw materials.
This in the long run would ob-
struct the build-up of nation-
al industries in the under-de-
veloped countries and pre-
serve there the old type of
colonial economy.

Sundry plans for the exten-
sion of the Common Market
have been discussed of late
in the Western capitals. One
of these plans was put ‘for-
ward by U.S. President Ken-
nedy. Its gist is to unite com-
peting Western economic
groupings into one single
bloc directed against the
socialist camp and providing
a tool to exploit the under-
developed countries in com-
mon. It goes without Saying
that the establishment of such
a “holy alliance’ of the
capitalist states would only
augment international ten-
sions and represent a tangible
threat to universal peace.

July 6, 1962—PACIFIC ‘TRIBUNE—Page 7