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HE Camp David atmosphere
created by the friendly talks
between President Eisenhower and
Premier Nikita Khrushchev, which
did much to break the coldwar ice
jam in U.S.-Soviet relations and
ease international tensions gener-
ally, is in a fair way to being push-
ed back into the deep freeze.

These talks, and the Soviet pre-
mier’s visit generally, went a long
way towards stimulation of a uni-
versal hope — that of a Summit
meeting between the big powers to
talk disarmament and peace and
the lessening of coldwar tensions.
World wide opinion was hopeful
that a minimum of time would
elapse between the Eisenhower-
Khrushchev talks and the conven-
ing of an East-West summit to
advance the cause of disarmament
and peace, as outlined by the Soviet
premier in his historic address to
the United Nations Assembly.

Now it appears that; under pres-
sure from intransigeant coldwar
quarters this hoped-for Summit
meeting has been postponed until

next March or later. In its place .

we have the announcement that a
pre - Summit meeting will take
place in December, arranged and
announced, not by President Eisen-
hower as spokesman for the “free
West,” but by Konrad Adenauer of
West Germany and President
Charles de Gaulle of France; each
equally determined to safeguard
their own national atomic arms
build-up, unhampered by the moral
deterrent of a Summit conference.

Yearning for national “great-
ness,” the neo-fascist de Gaulle
wants to pursue nuclear bomb tests
in the Sahara, and is prepared to
render disarmament and peace
talks more difficult. by adding to
the world tensions with more nu-
clear explosions. -

The West German government,
announcing the pre-Summit con-
ference, has also served notice that
it is “not disposed to accept the
results of a Summit conference
which does not serve German in-
terests.” These German “interests”

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to the Summit

are already well known; the build-
ing up of a new West German
Wehrmacht, armed with atomic
weapons, trained and schooled for
a new atomic war of revenge upon
the USSR and the new socialist
democracies of Central Europe.

Despite Washington’s silence
and its lack of initiative, and the
consummate arrogance of the
Adenauer - de Gaulle disregard for
the peace wishes of the world’s
peoples, by their manipulated post-
ponement of an early Summit
meeting, dedicated to disarmament
and. peace, the people must act to
stop this deliberate attempt to
wreck such a vital and urgent
meeting.

When asked by an American
press correspondent during his
recent U.S. visit, “what. magic
power allowing them to solve inter-
national problems was possessed
by meetings of the heads of gov-
ernment?” Soviet Premier Khrush-
chey replied, “All the magic lies in
the will of the people for peace.” _

To preserve the Camp David
“thaw” leading to lessened ten-
sions and hdpes for disarmament
and peace, this “magic” must be
turned on now’ — and in greater
volume than ever before.

HE union splitting and disrup-
tion current on the Vancouver
waterfront, in which the Seafarers
«International Union (SIU) and the
Canadian Brotherhood of Railway
and Transport Workers (CBRT)
are the prime contenders for
“jurisdiction” can only be deplored
_ by all workers concerned with the
preservation and extension of
urgently needed labor unity. In the
final analysis such inter-union dis-
putes serve no one except the ship-
owners.

Ever since the Canadian Ship-
ping Federation, backed by the
Mackenzie King - St. Laurent Lib-
eral government, brought the
gangster-led SIU into Canadian
lake and coastwise shipping to
break the militant and democratic-
ally operated Canadian Seamen’s
Union, the SIU ‘hierarchy have
ruled - their membership with a
racket-ridden gangsterized type of
“leadership.” The most elementary
rules of trade union democracy
have been trampled underfoot. Ex-
orbitant fines, assessments, job
-Jevies,’ compulsory organized
scabbery, etc.; these are only a few
of the vicious: practices imposed
upon SIU members by their Tam-
many-style appointed leaders.

Then the CBRT stepped into the

The SIU and CBRT™

picture with its promises of inner
trade union democracy, its “auton=
omy” for Canadian seamen, US
“rank-and-file” unionism and 80
forth. basic principles which, in 18”
long history the CBRE (before ©
became the CBRT) was never €5-
pecially noted for. ; BS

~ Running true to form, the SIU
has attempted to meet this split
ting crisis with all the anti-commuy
nist expletives and slanders of @
red-baiting Joe McCarthy. It at=

cuses the CBRT of being “commtu>

nist-ridden,” and the Communists
of seeking to destroy the SIU.

Over the years the Communists

have made it crystal clear that
splitting or raiding of an establish=
ed union is not the path to greater
autonomy, but on the contrary
makes monopoly exploitation eaS=
ier, whether they are shipowners,

mine operators or timber barons.

In the present jurisdictional dog=
fight between the SIU. and the
CBRT the prime problem for B.C
and Great Lakes seamen is’ not
which is the “best” union, but how
best to unite all Canadian seamen,
so that together with their fellow
waterfront workers they can bet-
ter meet the economic and political
onslaughts of a powerful monopole
ized. Shipping Federation. —

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Tom
McEwen

OMMENTING on the proposals

for total disarmament and

peace made by Soviet Premier

- Nikita S. Khrushchev to the UN

Assembly during his U.S. visit, Dr.

Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of

Canterbury told the British Coun-
cil of Churches last week:

“J am surprised that no Chris-
tian body has made any comment
about Mr. Khurshchev’s .disarma-
ment statement . . . no Christian
body has yet come out to say, well,
at last somebody has said what
every Christian has been praying
for for years . . . total disarmament
and full control...” . .

As with unfortunate drug ad-
dicts, the virus of coldwar and
anti-Soviet prejudice is hard to get
out of the system, particularly
when there are powerful forces—
and less powerful ones who ape
them, intent upon keeping the
coldwar virus well fed.

Take the current yarn about 150
Hungarian teenagers, allegedly ar-
rested during the U.S.-inspired

counter-revolution in Hungary in
1956, and who, according to Asso-
ciated Press moguls and sundry
Hungarian “freedom fighters’ are
going to be “executed” when they
reach the age of 18 years. ~
CBS-TV “star” Ed Sullivan, in
his efforts to “save” what doesn’t
need saving, disregards the sover-
eign state of the Hungarian
Peoples Republic, and would have
all the pressures possible put on
Soviet Premier Khrushchev to
“intervene.” :

Closer to home the UBC “So-
pron” Forestry Division (Hungar-
ian DP’s) would have UBC faculty
and student body engage in an
“urgent appeal to the body of
world opinion’ to have these
alleged ‘‘executions” halted. UBC’s
president Norman MacKenzie is
reported to be “deeply concerned.”

We respectfully submit that
UBC’s chief could direct his con-
cern to matters closer to home on
the campus, rather than permitting
his high office and prestige to be-
come a pawn of Hungarian emi-
gres in “Sopron” or elsewhere, in
their latest anti-Soviet coldwar
chicanery.

It naturally follows that such
elements, whether they be Hun-
garian, Ukrainian or other counter-,
revolutionary nationalist emigres,
will “celebrate” each passing year
with an expression of their
“hopes” for the restoration of the

est tribute you can pay to those

.ing the fires of anti-Sovietism, ac-

rule of nazis, capitalists and land- —
lords in the Socialiist lands which
spewed them out. The emigre dregs
of Tzarism have been doing it now
for 42 years.

When, however, prominent Can-
adians in high official positions —
grace such “celebrations” with
their presence and their “sympath-
etic” speeches, that is a course |
which does not lead to peace and
the lessening of coldwar tensions,
but on the contrary, to coldwar
provocations and interference in
the internal affairs of other peoples
and states.

‘When, for instance, Vancouver’s
mayor Tom Alsbury tells the
“Hungarian Social Club,” as quot-
ed in the daily press, that the 1956
Hungarian counter-revolution ‘‘was.
one of the most important events
in the cold war .. . and the high-

who lost their lives is to carry
‘on where they left off,” our versa-
tile mayor is paddling in muddy
waters.

So also are those Tory, Liberal
and Socred chieftains who periodi-
cally bring “greetings” to like
bodies for a ‘free: Ukraine,’ a
“free Hungary” and so forth. All
these gentlemen are doing is fan-
ning the embers of coldwar, stok-

tivities which may win a few votes,
but are scarcely likely to advance
the cause of world peace.

November 6,

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