i reesnremmmmemeeietsemeee tliat ileal ets Helo ee LLL LLL 6 Continued from page 1 RECOGNIZE CHINA place, both in the U.S. and to- ward to U.S.,” Buck said. Commenting on President Bisenhower’s claim that Que- moy was vital to the security of the U.S., Buck noted that Eisenhower’s reasoning was that if China could take Que- moy, it could take Formosa and it would be difficult then to persuade people that the Com- munists could not take any objective. “What Eisenhower was ac- tually admitting was that only fear of the U.S. held the people of the Philippines, of Thailand, in check and that if this fear were broken down there would be no holding the countries of southeast Asia now under U.S. puppet governments,” he said. Calling for immediate recog- nition of China “as the most constructive step for peace the Diefenbaker .government: can take at this time,” Buck ex- pressed confidence that Can- ada could be kept out of any conflict “because that is the overwhelming demand of the Canadian people.” “Tf the Americans insist on starting a shooting war, then Continued from page they’ll fight the war alone and as they themselves admit, it will be the most unpopular war in their history,” he said. “But I think there will be men who will have enough sense not to go over the brink.” Canada’s national interest as a Pacific power demands that Prime Minister Diefenbaker should do more than declare that this country will not be- come involved in_ hostilities over Quemoy and Matsu, Buck declared. Canada should take a forthright stand for recognition of China and for the seating of China in the UN. : “But if we avoid war, it will not be because the Diefenbaker government has taken a firm stand ‘for peace. “On the contrary, the Diefen- baker government has again betrayed the interests of the Canadian people by the prime minister taking a demagogic position in the House of Com- mons and instructing his min- ister of external affairs to take a different position in the UN. “TI couldn’t discredit Diefen- baker by criticizing his actions one half as much as he is dis- / WORLD allies, saying they failed to ap- preciate his main point which was to “avoid retreat in face of force.” Even the suggestion that his U.S. puppet regime reduce its forces on the offshore islands was too much for Chiang Kai- shek, who sees in a U.S. war against China his only hope of setting foot on the mainland from which the Chinese people themselves expelled him nine years ago. He found the sug- gestion “incredible.” But all around the world this week, millions of ordinary people and _ political leaders responsive to their protests found it incredible that Eisen- hower and Dulles should per- sist in an untenable policy based only on naked force and aggression. In Britain, Labor leader Hugh Gaitskell declared that Chiang would have to go. For- “mosa, he said, should be placed under the UN and a plebiscite held among its people to deter- mine their future. “It must also mean that- Communist China is allowed in and becomes a member of the United Nations,” he said. In this country, Liberal OPINION leader Lester B. Pearson broke sufficiently with the U.S. polli- cies his party has consistently supported to describe Dulles’ arguments as “idle and un- realistic.” The offshore islands, he said, were a Chinese internal affair and if the U.S. had not per- mitted Chiang Kai-shek to build up his forces they could have been quiétly abandoned without threat of war. And in China, Premier Chou En-lai, declaring that his coun- try would not give up “efforts to find a peaceful solution to disputes between China and the U.S. by peaceful negotia- tion,” warned that if the U.S. persisted in provoking war over Quemoy, 600 million Chinese would “bring the U.S. imperialist, aggressive action to final and complete disacter.” Rush to report Maurice Rush, LPP city secretary, will report on his recent visit to -the Soviet Union and East Germany at a meeting to be held Friday, October 10, 8/p.m. in CCF Hall, half a block east of Lonsdale on First Street, North Vancouver. crediting himseif by saying one thing and doing another, there- by proving himself to be an irresponsible demagogue.” Discussing Canadian rela- tions with China, Buck said: “The policy of pretending that China does not exist has not hurt China one bit. The Diefenbaker government, like the St. Laurent government be- fore it, is only hurting this country by doing us out of what could be a flourishing trade. “China has signed 68 trade agreements in the past year. Obviously there’s no blockade of China. But we are blockad- ing ourselves from China. “Canada is the country closest to Asia, the country with the raw materials Asia wants. Provided the govern- ment is prepared to arrange the necessary credits, there’s no reason China should not be- come one of this country’s major markets — a market of 600 million people advancing at a pace unprecedented in his- tory. “The Chinese people are not trying to create industries literally with their bare hands, as I saw the Soviet people do- ing in the twenties. “They are receiving entire industrial plants, whole indus- tries, from the other socialist countries, from the. Soviet Union, East Germany, Czecho- slovakia. And, as Mao Tse-tung told me, China will do the same thing for the other peoples of Asia when they in turn start building socialism.” That, said Buck, is what made the advance of socialism so irresistible. “Bit by bit,’ ’~he concluded, “it’s going to sink into the con- sciousness of every working man and woman in this coun- try that if we want jobs, if we want to maintain our living standards, we must fit our- selves into the new pattern of world trade—the socialist pat- tern — and peaceful coexist- ence.” A resolution passed at the Vancouver meeting, directed to Prime Minister Diefenbaker, demanded that the government “end its present senseless posi- tion of postponing recognition of China and seating China in the UN.” The resolution declared that the government 'could take a forthright stand for peace by recognizing China immediately, establishing trade relations and supporting admission of China to the UN. , Similar resolutions were adopted by the meetings at Nanaimo and Cloverdale. Buck criticizes CG} right-wing leadet NANAIMO, B.C. — The narrow interpretation placed by the right-wing CCF lead- ership on the Canadian Labor Congress’s political action resolution may well lead to re-establishment of some re- actionary Conservative - Lib- eral coalition at Victoria, Tim Buck, LPP national leader, warned at a banquet attended by some 125 people here last Saturday. Tracing the history of trade union political action in this country, Buck noted that the political action resolution adopted by the Canadian La- bor Congress at its Winnipeg convention earlier this year represented the first such move since the old Trades and Labor Congress passed its Morgan to make tour of Interior Nigel Morgan, LPP provin- cial leader, will leave this coming week on a three-week tour of the Interior, it is an- nounced. His itinerary will be: Ross- land-Trail, October 7; Nelson- Castlegar, October 8; Fernie, October 9; Crows Nest “Pass (Alberta), October 10; East and West Kootenay, October 11; Michel-Fernie, October 12; Cranbrook, October 13; Cres- ton - Wynndel, October 14; Nelson-Castlegar, October 15; Trail, October 16-17; Vernon, October 18-19; Salmon Arm, October 20; Notch Hill, Oct- ober 21; Kamloops, October 21-22. political action resol 1917. g “The old Communis urged such political the trade union : from the time of its : welcomed all moves = direction and was_Pp4 Canadian Labor Pat! twenties until that P destroyed by *the Federation of Labor, ? Criticizing the nart® cept of political ach? vanced by right-wine leaders, that labor work for election of government, Buck dé ‘These leaders are to a concept which t repeatedly tried 10 upon the trade uniol ment without succes® elections in this 4 parts of the county shown that the labor. splintered by’ this nat cept and that a bro@: cept is needed if it ® united. “Such speeches a& ie by George Home Ss of the B.C. Feder Labor) at the Abbot bor-CCF conferences the that the purpose of ference was solely labor support for thé d not only distort the ™ the CLC resolutio® a may well enable thea lishment of some tive-Liberal coalitio® |g toria by preventing’ | ergence of a unite farmer movement Mee be the popular alter™ Social Credit.’ Don‘t Miss— —a forum of opinion and exchangé a periences from twenty countries on a topic of urgent interest— IN THE SEPTEMBER ISSUE OF WORLD MARXIST REVI PROBLEMS OF PEACE AND SOCIA The Theoretical and Information Jo¥ of Communist and Workers’ Partlé OBTIAINABLE IN A CANADIAN EDIT” from “ECONOMIC CRISIS . AND THE WORKING CLA? f LIS §. 110 on PROGRESS BOOKS, 924 KING ST. WEST, 10h Please enter a subscription for WORLD MARXIS? © for one year. I enclose $3.50. ons October 3, 1958 — PACIFIC qeiBuNe>