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“The fight acaince the economic crisis and the fight for peace are inseperable . . Only by

adopting policies based firmly upon peace .. can our national economy be saved from disaster’

a sharp rebuff to the pretence that
the United States was the only
country in possession of an ato-
mic bomb. Of equal importance
for all lovers of peace is the fact
that, having the atomic bomb, the
Soviet Union continues to stand
firm upon its proposal that the
United Nations should ban the
bomb unconditionally, destroy all
existing bombs, and establish an
effective system of international
inspection to ensure that no more
bombs shall be made.

In the meantime the Soviet Un-
ion is demonstrating the tremen-
dous potentialities of the use of
atomic power to enrich the lives
of the people and peace. Instead
of concentrating its use of atomic

_ fission solely upon preparations

for war, the Soviet government
is using it to raze mountains, to
change the course of rivers and
to make the deserts bloom.

A great historic change in the
relation of forces in favor of the
Peace camp took place when the
People of China, under the leader-
ship of their great Communist
party, proclaimed their All-China
eople’s Republic. The victory of
the Chinese people, the unification
of China and the leadership of
the Communist parties of the

other countries, guarantees the
victory of the national liberation
Movements in all the countries
of Asia, The peoples of Asia are
going to be free.

A further extension and
strengthening of the camp of
peace and democratic progress
and a new defeat for the imper-
jalists was the formation of the
German Democratic Republic de-
scribed by Stalin, in his greeting
to Wilhelm Pieck and Otto
Grotewohl , as a turning point
in the history of Europe. As
Stalin pointed out: “There can
be no doubt that the existence of
a peace-loving, democratic Ger-
many, Side by side with the ex-
istence of a peace-loving Soviet
Union, excludes the possibility of
new wars in Europe, puts an end
to bloodshed in Europe and
makes impossible the enslaving
of the European countries by the
world imperialists.”

The growth of the peace forces
and the weakening of the posi-
tions of the warmongering im-
perialists is also illustrated in
striking fashion by the continued
strengthening of the victories of
the national liberation move-
ments, by the growing popular
awareness of the real purpose of
the North Atlantic war pact and
the Marshall plan, and by the
advance of the working class
movement and its Communist
parties. The emergence of the
great World Peace Congress on
the background of these cardinal
changes justifies, completely, the
declaration made by the Com-
munist parties of Europe in the
resolution adopted at the Novem-
ber meeting of the Communist
Information Bureau, that: “Sav-
ing the world from another war
is not a utopian dream but a real
possibility under present concrete
historical conditions.”

4, Defend Canadian democracy

In their drive to coordinate
their home front in preparation
for a criminal, horrible, predat-

ory war against the socialist So- |

viet Union and the people’s de-
Mocracies, the imperialists and
their hangers-on are organizing
€@ Many-sided attack against the
Working class and the progres-
Sive movement as a whole,

In Canada as well as in other
countries, there is a systematic
drive to organize the sinister
Operation X of the U.S. state de-
partment. By unscrupulous pro-
vocation and the use of police
agents within the labor move-
ment, the St. Laurent govern-
ment, in cooperation with mon-
Cpoly capital, is carrying the
cold war’ right into the labor
movement, seeking to confuse
and divide from within the work-
ing class, the main base of the
camp of peace and democracy.’

Assisted by the right-wing lead-
ers of the CCF, the government
fostering a drive—including
fascist violence—against the pro-

Sressive movement in Canada,

particularly the LPP. Seeking
to prevent any development of
opposition to its betrayal of Can-
adian independence and its pol-
icies looking to war, the govern-
ments becomes more and more
openly hostile to labor and the

By their brazen cooperation
With union-hating corporations
against trade unions, their pub-
lic support to St. Laurent’s anti-
working class war policy and
foreign trade policies, and their
Vicious witch-hunt against Com-
munists for exposing
treachery and opposing their pol-
icies, the right-wing social demo-
crats who have secured a grip
On the majority of high offices
in the-trade unions of Canada,
are cutting the heart out of this

great- movement the workers of |

Canada built. They are deliber-
ately and consciously following
the path which they know opens
the door to fascism.

3. Defeat imperia

their

progressive movement. :

It adopts an attitude of bene-
volent neutrality towards the
DPs who perpetrated organized
violence against the properties
and meetings of democratic Uk-
rainian-Canadians. It shields
known collaborators who entered
Canada illegally.

It cooperates with anti-labor
employers in deporting interna-
tional union organizers on the
ground that they are Commun-
ists. It spies upon the trade
unions and the general labor
movement and uses the results
of its anti-labor espionage to har-
ass and persecute democratic
Canadians in efforts to intimid-
ate them. Within a few days of
refusal to give protection to
members of the Jehovah’s Wit-
ness sect from wild mob violence
in Joliette, Quebec, RCMP per-
sonnel was detailed, according to
unchallenged newspaper reports,
to cooperate with municipal and
provincial police in the city of
Montreal in “a concerted drive
against the Labor-Progressive

arty.”

! ihe policies of the St. Laurent
government are developing in the
of fascism as part of

direction
its betrayal of Canadian inde-
pendence and its preparations
for war,

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lism’s agents
Having carried Wall Street's

cold war into the trade unions

in North America sufficiently to.

reduce, and in some cases to
turn aside, their fighting power,
the Green-Murray leadership in
the U.S. is now serving Wall
Street further by splitting , the
World Federation of Trade
Unions. In open cooperation with
the U.S. state department, the
Vatican, and the leaders of the
reviving fascist and Nazi move-
ments in Europe, the top leaders
of the AFL and the CIO are co-
operating closely and publicly
in their effort to destroy the
militant trade unions built by
the working: people of western

Europe and replace them by
“Marshall plan unions”, control-
led by men of proven subservi-
ence to the U.S.

It is a. striking commentary
upon the class loyalties of both

‘Murray and Green that they re-

fused, belligerently, to cooperate
only a few months ago when
the issue was improved wages
and conditions for workers in
the U.S.

6. Expose the splitters of labor

Unknown to hundreds of thous-
ands of Canadian trade union-
ists, the top officers of both the
Trades and Labor Congress and
of the CCL played an active part
in that criminal attempt to de-

‘stroy the militant,’ free working

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class unions of western Europe.
To their organized campaign to
destroy every vestige of Canad-
jan autonomy, to destroy the un-
ity and undermine the fighting
power of the trade union move-
ment in Canada, the right-wing
officialdom has now added the
splitting of the world trade union
movement for the benefit of mon-
opoly-capital and its imperialist
war aims.

Right-wing social democracy,
personified by the top leadership
of the CCF and the burocracy
of the CCL, in the parliamentary
arena and in the trade union
movement, is exposing itself
more and more clearly as the
agent of imperialism within the
labor movement. They support
the Truman doctrine, the Mar-
shall plan, the Atlantic pact, etc.
They have now publicly repud-
iated several of the demands and
proposals which were previously
declared to be fundamental to
the CCF program, They are en-
gaged at present in a barefaced
attempt to split the trade union
movement. In collaboration with
anti-labor corporations, they are
trying to destroy the United El-
ectric and Mine-Mill unions.

Such criminal service to the
monopolists in their preparations
for war undermines the very ex-
istence of the labor movement. It
helps the bosses to open the way
for a general drive against the
trade unions. It opens the way
to ‘national disaster for Canada
as a whole. It is part of the
process of subordinating Canad-
ian economy to the interests of
United States monopolists.

The LPP must expose and
counteract the treacherous role
being played by the right-wing
leaders and trade union spokes-
men of the CCF. Motivated by
hatred of the Soviet Union and
the people’s democracies and.
fearful of the rapidly rising level
of the Canadian labor movement.
they have become the main pur-
veyors of baseless slanders
against the Soviet Union, the
people’s democracies, the nation- -
al liberation movements and the
Communist movement,

Seeking to ingratiate them-
selves with the Canadian lieuten-
ants of U.S. imperialism, they
have become the main purveyors
of unprincipled propaganda to
“excuse” their support for all the
decisive policies being pursued by
the St. Laurent government.

There is nothing of socialism
or of the spirit of working-class
struggle in the position of right-
wing leaders and spokesmen of
the CCF. They helped the USS.
state department to split the
World Federation of Trade
Unions. They pretend to be “in-
ternationalists” when they slan-
der the Soviet Union for its de-
fense of the principle of national
sovereignty but they, led by M.
J. Coldwell, refused to sign the
national petition to ban the bomb.
They refused to protest against
aid to Chiang Kai-shek and they
now refuse to support the de-
mand that Canada recognize
People’s China.

They are the leaders of the

campaign to split the trade union —

movement by raiding unions,
red-baiting, collaborating openly
with anti-labor employers—even
upon occasion assuring the gov-
ernment in advance that they
wouldn’t support a protest if
certain trade union leaders were
deported from Canada.

7. LPP in the fight for peace

The cardinal task of the Labor-
Progressive party in the existing
situation is to strengthen and
extend the fight for peace — to
draw the broadest circles of
democratic people; workers,

farmers, urban middle class peo-_

ple, women, youth, all Canadians
in French and English Canada
who treasure peace, honor and
the national independence of Our
country—into a mighty all-em-
bracing nation-wide movement to
“Take Canada Out of the War
Camp!”

That is the indispensable first
step to stop the betrayal of
Canada’s independence and to
Keep Canada Out of War.

It must be emphasized that
two wrong attitudes have weak-
ened our party's contribution to
the struggle for peace until now.
One is the sectarianism, often
combined with complacency,
which fails to take the issue of
peace and Canadian independ-
ence into the ranks of the work-
ers and all democratic Canadians
regardless of their political views
and beliefs, The other wrong at-
titude stems from the completely
false idea that the cause of
peace can be victorious without
the active participation of the
Communists. Both attitudes are
wrong, both are harmful. Both
attitudes deny the fundamental
attitude and role of the LPP.

The attitude of the Labor-Pro-
gressive party is that the cause
of peace and national independ<
ence can and will unite the
great majority of Canadians, and

that the members of the LPP
must be the most energetic and
consistent builders of the united
front and the united people's
‘movement in defense of peace
and Canadian indepedence.

The fight against the economic
crisis and the fight for peace and
independence are inseparable.
This fundamental fact must per-
meate the entire work of the
LPP. Any separation of the two
—in public work, in trade union
activity or elsewhere—must be
vigorously combatted. Only by a
radical change in Canada’s pol-
icies, only by adopting policies
based firmly upon peace and loy-
alty to the United Nations Char-
ter in place of the present pol-
icies directed to imperialist war,
can our national economy he
saved from disaster.
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In their planned “division of
labor” in the political, economic,
military and ideological prepara-
tions for war, there has taken
form in Canada and in all coun-
tries of the imperialist bloc, an
unholy alliance, against the peo-
ple, of international finance-capi-
tal, clerical reaction headed by
the Vatican, the re-emerging fas-
cists and the right-wing social-
democrats.

Every known means of exert-
ing psychological influence is
utilized: press, literature, radio,
cinema and the church. Un-

bridled lies and slander and rab-.

idly chauvinistic propaganda is
poured upon the masses of the
people from all sides in a system-

atic effort to stupefy them and
render them amenable to the
cold-blooded plans for an aggres-
sive war.

Not a single act of the fom-
enters of a new war, or of their
lieutenants, must be allowed to
go unanswered. Warmongering
propaganda, cultivation of racial
animosities and prejudices, anti-
Soviet lies and slander, all these ~
should be answered with sharp
condemnation from working class
organizations, groups of workers
acting in their places of work,
and so on. The decisive facts are
on our side; we must utilize
the facts to strengthen the battle
for peace.

As part of their brazen drive
to war, the monopolists, their
press and the politicians, in Can-
ada and the U.S. are spreading
the audacious lie that the gov--
ernments of the Soviet Union
and the people’s democracies are
preparing for a war of aggres-
sion because they believe that a
third world war is inevitable.
That is a brazen lie, a complete
and unscrupulous misrepresenta-
tion of the fundamental philo-
sophy, and the aims and policies,
of the Soviet Union and the new
democracies.

It is a striking fact that in
sharp contrast to Truman, Attlee
and St. Laurent, Premier Stalin
emphasizes the fact that the
peaceful co-existence of the so-
cialist. system and the capitalist
system is quite feasible—if the .
will to maintain peace prevails’
over the will to provoke a third
world war, Furthermore, and of
even deeper significance, it is
Stalin and not the other three
or any of their partners, who
calls upon the peoples to halt _
the instigators of a third world
war.
The lie that the government of
the USSR looks to a third world >
war is refuted conclusively in
the following words of Stalin: :

“The horrors of the recent war
are too fresh in the minds of the _
people, and the social forces
standing for peace are too great
for the Churchill disciples of ag-
gression to overcome them and
turn them towards a new war.”

The only source of the danger
of a third world war is finance-
capitalist imperialism and_ its
reckless drive to stop the spread
of people’s democracy—by war...

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The battle for peace and
against the betrayal of Canadian
independence can be won, A
mighty popular movement around
a firm core of working class
unity can be established in Can- —
ada, provided the LPP works —
with might and main to arouse —
the workers and all democratic _
Canadians to the rea] nature of
the dangers and the tasks con-

fronting us. The independence of __

our country, the lives and homes —
of our people and the future of
our children shall not be sacri-
fied to satisfy the ambitions of
a handful of American multi- —
millionaires. si
We welcome the call of the
Communist Information Bureau
for still more energetic participa- —
tion by the Communists in the —
building of a mighty world-wide
movement to defend peace. We
welcome the Information Bur-
eau’s penetrating analysis of the
relation of forces between the ©
two great camps in the present
world struggle—the camp of the —
working class and its democratic
allies fighting for peace, demo-
cratic progress and socialism,
and the camp of Wall Street and —

its dependents and hangers-on,

striving for imperialist a

the’ united front from below, to.
defeat the treacherous right-wing

(Concluded on page 9)

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