Peace is HE. seventh convention of the British Columbia- Yukon Labor-Progressive party will open its sessions this week in Vancouver. Unlike the political get-togethers of the classical parties of capitalism, which usually contrive to sidestep basic social and economic problems facing the people, the LPP con- vention will dedicate itself to resolving and giving a lead on these issues. In these days, in any convention genuinely con- ‘cerned with the real interests of Canada and the Canadian people, the issue of peace must have top priority. The fight to preserve peace is the touch- stone around which all other issues are resolved. Extended, Canadian trade with all countries will- ing to deal with Canada, and freed from Yankee dol- lar restrictions and dictatorship, is inseparable from the fight for peace. Jobs must be found for Canada’s growing army of unemployed in the long-range perspective of peace- ful development of our country’s industry and re- sources, rather than in the preparations for another war, from which big business will extract its super- profits at the expense of our living standards and To speak of greater social security and bigger H-bombs'in the same breath, as Yankee imperialism the issue and its satellites do, is to insult and defile all that is decent and fine in humanity. A greater and more determined fight for peace is the only guarantee of greater social security. Even the preservation of Canada’s independence as a sovereign nation hinges upon how soon and how effectively the Canadian people can mobilize and unite for peace. How soon we can compel our elect- ed representatives to break the dollar chains that bind our resources, our territory, and the destiny of our people to the atomic war plans of power-mad Ameri- can imperialism: To the extent that the people are - successful in “imposing peace” upon the warmongers, to that extent is Canada’s independence preserved and enhanced in the eyes of our world neighbors. These are only a few of the problems facing the LPP convention—problems which can only be re- solved in a Marxist-Leninist examination of their cause, and a bold and courageous presentation of their solution, embodied’ in five simple words: strengthen the fight for peace. The Pacific Tribune extends warm greetings to all delegates and visitors to this historic convention. We are confident its deliberations will be fruitful, and that the cause of peace and human wellbeing will be materially advanced. Your fight to = National Council of the Canadian Peace — Congress has issued a stirring call for the con- = of a great peace congress, to be held in oronto, May NEbe - Truman, key spokesman for aggressive Yankee - imperialism, gives the go-ahead order for the mass production of the H-bomb, mightiest weapon of mass murder and destruction yet devised by man. Se _ Dr. R. H. Montgomery, leading America | atomic scientist, speaking of the A-bomb and its Wiacecel on-in 1947, said: “We could wipe out 75 million Russians and not lose 100 men. If Peres le Das Haar et Phat was before the Yankee nite ad- admitted, or perl.aps’ even were aware, they no longer had their “monopoly” of A-bomb superiori- ty. Now, other great powers, dedicated to social- = ism and. peace, possess the “know-how” of atomic " necessary, for stopping the new Hitlerites of dollar ~fions of war dead all peeebiy yet President ‘ prevent war energy for aia wellbeing ‘and progress and, if imperialism. Hence the go-ahead signal for the H-bomb, with its awful possibilities of disintegrat- ing whole cities aoe Es oatane in one white-hot — This. race ores pars and more destructive atomic bombs is a race for mass slaughter, a race in which the warmongers, with the desperation of madmen, are preparing to impose their rule—or mass ruin upon the wor Id’s peoples. The call to the Second Canadian Pats Con- gress is a call to all decent Canadians, as individ- uals or organized groups, to take an active part in the Congress; to work for the largest delegations from every province and from the basic. sections of ‘the people. Canadians who are ready to say with the mighty voice of Canada, and in unison with the great French scientist, Frederic Joliot-Curie: “We are not here to ask for peace, but to impose peace on the advocates of, war.’ ‘ aco line to alan | yrmour benefit of a crystal ball, scores of = Vancouver’s ill-fated straphangers would have bet their last strip of three-for-25 car tickets, that the Public Utilities Commission’s ten-cent “interim” - Fare hoist for the BCElectric would, in the fullness ‘of time, become permanent. This ‘week Gihtialk of the BCElectric transit squeeze were “advised” by the PUC that the ten-cent ‘pein fore granted last ae hes now become ecu _ Dating Seater of lat yeas ou NaePuead city fathers appointed a two-man “‘fact finding” board to investigate the fare hike. BCElestie politics being Sek tar ste bdo Rice coeate Be: “hoard” should find the dime hoist “justifiable.” Whit woul be itereing to ow i, how much di See eee - the ‘ \ so, and the likes of T. G. Norris set up a howl about “communism” to detract the attention of the victims, citizens had better look out. It is now the fashion, set by our best “free enterprisers,’”’ to have all * *“inter- ir” loot ‘‘fixed” for keeps. “Two-faced ‘champ’ ee HE CCF News of March 15 hails Be Young asa “champion debater,” winning his spurs on rmative: “‘Resolved that communistic antnity be made a criminal offense in Canada.” pa ed by the Canadian Tribune’ in Or TL ~tawa, M. J. Coldwell and other CCF top brass dis- claim any “‘official’” CCF approval of the arguments advanced by Young in his nation-wide red-herring junket with the Canadian University Debating As sociation. ate Thus the CCF have a “champ” red-baiter, worthy of front-page adulation but, since his line of argumentation smells to high heaven and places him in the dubious category of the Sullivans, Hladuns and Gouzenkos, the top leaders of the CCF mingle their nods of approval with well-feigned deprecation. That | Young can argue. both * “negative” aaa “affirmative” on such cold-war subjects is merely another tribute to the Trotskyite ss of ea BGs Windy: oe oe ? TOM McEWEN- As We See lt OW much energy, devotion, suffering and blood goes into thi building of a fighting trade union? In the great historical reco of trade unionism there is no one answer to this question. y The Tolpuddle Martyrs of England 110 years ago were banish ‘to the penal settlements of Van Diemen’s Land (Australia) for dari: to organize their fellow men into a workingman’s association. In North America, the Knights of Labor, the early Ameri Federation of Labor, the Industrial Workers of the World and othe! lesser bodies, have fought to build unions undef | the guns and prisons of the coal, steel, textile railroad and all the other multifarious trusts 4 monopolies whose answer to genuine unionism wad | always cold-blooded brute force and violence. the struggle to build the CIO was no walkover, d spite the readiness of Philip Murray and his lie tenants to reduce it now to an appendage of t# U.S. state department. Much, very much, goes into the building a fighting union; years of imprisonment; black - listing;. the individual and collective sacrifice men and women—all are interwoven in the pat of a union charter. . How much, or how long does it take to bust a union? A milli dollar fund supplied by the Manufacturers’ Association, earmark “B and.O” plan, or ‘Project X” of the Marshall plan, “acording the times, to “subsidize” disorganization. A handful of corrupted union “burocratS and their social democratic side-kicks, complete cynical or shamefully demagogic in their abandonment’ of the @& mentary and fundamental principles of trade unionism—and a pio! fighting union which has struggled and won for over half a cent) can be crippled overnight. The haircut Delilah is said to have give Samson was an amateur job compared to the shearing of the M tant unions by the swivel-chair burocrats. During the latter half of the last century ena well into th twenties of this ond, the trade union fakers engineered many “blitze against progressive thought and action. In the “red hysteria” of the early twenties the AFL expelled thousands: of “leftists,” 1 the charters of hundreds ‘of local unions, and even: wrote off wh? trade union federations from the parent body, all because they fused to obey the dictates of monopoly capital. The burocrats also reasoned, as they are doing again, that if th got rid of the “left” the “Reds” or what-have-you, that the unio! hating monopolies would deal more kindly with trade unionism a whole... that they would be accorded easy “recognition.” relations under capitalism do not permit such amenities,. despite frothy oratory of a Bengough or a Conroy. As recruiting sergeants for Wall Street’s atomic war on socialis) they use the cry of “communism” to hide their treason to lab And in their organized disruption of trade union unity, they, © _ to the most barefaced falsehoods to cover up their infamy. - Back in December, 1948, these union wreckers met in London EX land, to set up a new “international” in opposition to the 70Q-mill strong World Federation of Trade Unions: This they baptized the high-sounding name of “International Confederation of Free T Unions.” A “free” trade union world center, founded upon disunity, fi hood and distortion. “Free” from what? Progressive ideas? There had to be some semblance of progress $0. give this IC plausible face in union -affairs. TLC president Percy Bengough, CCL abot nies “Dr. Pat Conre AFL president William Green, and similar top level representall for the CIO wrecking crew, together with their select .delegatio? sat and listened while J. W. Bowen, chairman of London | ge) * Council, told this gathering of international union busters tha‘ first steps towards ‘international trade union organization . taken in London, where, in 1864, the International Asso ciation of ‘Work ing Men was founded. Its fundamental aim, like yours, (?77?) union of working men of all countries for the emancipation of bor.” (Canada Labor Gazette, February 1950, p. 74.) As the radio script lads would say, any similarity between - resentatives of this “free” trade union conference and genuine be unionists (living or dead) is purely coincidental. The International Association of Working Men, known: in tory as the “First International,” gathered under the historic sl0 propounded by Karl Marx and Fredrick Engels: “Working mem ‘all ‘countries unite’—not to support a Wall Street war on socia but to settle the historical class ee -with the class Wall S / represents, Moreover, it was this eee conference in 1864 that _ missioned Marx and Engels to write the deathless Communist festo,.so that the International Association of Working Men know exactly who, and for what, they were fighting. - But in 1948, eighty-four years later, at the insistence of the department of Yankee imperialism, a “free trade union” ce international union wreckers, draping about their shoulders the tle of the First International, band themselves together to help # warmongering bosses detroy the historic perspectives conta the immortal charter of a new world—the Communist Man To “coordinate” their efforts in pushing Wall Street’s “cold intervention against socialism. ; In London, Vancouver—or Trail, the technique, pattern, and jective are the same: smash fighting unions. “Project X” will 5 the finances needed, the union burocrats will supply the wrec® and the unions will bear the brunt. 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