serious,
to that threat.

towards a third world war.

J

AR OR PEACE--that_
unionists this Labor Day. , The threat to peace is
But organized Tibor, is not yet sufficiently aroused
The unions are not yet fighting back against
the foreign policy of the King government, which has tied
Canada to the tail of the American eagle and is carrying us
The unions are not yet fighting
back because labor leaders of the stamp of Conroy, Mosher,
Millard, and the right wing of the CCF, who support the
Wall Street-Bay Street foreign policy, are striving to lull
_the workers’ suspicions with false assurances, to prevent
them from organizing to halt the drive to war.

is the key issue for trade

These things are hard to say, but they must be said this

Our country is being pushed.
The fight for peace is a struggle
to prevent Canadian blood from

Whose bank accounts are already
Swollen with the wealth they have
Stripped from our living stand-
ards. But it’s not that alone. Na-
tions prepare for war long before
the actual shooting begins, The
U.S. and Canada are preparing
now for war, and these war poli-
cies are increasingly threatening
Our standards of living, condi-
tions of work, civil liberties and
trade union rights.

Recently, James Forrestal, U.S.

tawa amid much secrecy.

The U.S. war expenditure costs
€ach American citizen $160 a
year; for Canadians it is $20, If
Forrestal has his way, Canadian
workers will be paying more for
America’s war drive,

feated (and there’ is every chance
of doing so if labor fights it),
will cost us one billion dollars
for the first year of operation.
This sum is more than 50 per-
cent of all personal income taxes
at present collected.

Wouldn’t the health and wel-
fare of Canadians be better serv-
ed if this money were used for

homes, social security legislation,

Schools, hospitals, the war against
disease, s
s

Canada’s support of the Truman
Doctrine has already led us to
take sides in one shooting war—
in China—on the side of the cor-
Tupt Chiang Kai-shek govern-
Ment,

Canada's support of the Mar-
Shall plan and America’s drive for
World control of markets is also

hastening economic crisis in
British Columbia.

Under the Marshall and Abbott
Plans, B.C, lumber is being driven
Cut of European markets. In

March 1947 we sold 67 millions of _

feet B.M. to the United Kingdom;
in March 1948 it had dropped to
Millions with the prospect one

_ f further decline. —
This is what the Marshall and

being shed to enrich profiteers |

* Secretary for defense, visited Ot-

The military draft, if not de-

Labor Day, for unless labor gives a lead to the nation in
the fight for peace, no one can predict how many more
Peaceful Labor Days we shall have.

Foreign policy is the business of the trade union move-
ment—we cannot stand apart from the fight for peace: That
1s what organized labor must realize, and, in realizing it,
fight to change the present disastrous course along which

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Abbott plans have meant for B.C.
—loss of markets, threatening
loss of employment and impend-
ing depression,

Canadian bosses are begin-
ning to see the possibility of
using the “war threat” to break
down trade union conditions and
introduce speed uP in our indust-
ries.

Recently Victor Drury, | presi-
dent of Canadian Car and Found-
ry, said in a speech at Kingston,
Ont.: “At present we should be
con
war aspect: the most efficient util-
ization of plant capacity.” Work-

ers know from experience what

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people like Drury mean when they
speak of “efficiency.”

The fight for a progressive
foreign policy is at the heart of

By LESLIE MORRIS

IN terms which the Montreal
Gazette called “extravagant”
- a resolution has been adopted
by the CCF national conven-
tion welcoming the Marshall
Plan. Party Chief Coldwell got
the resolution through with
two recorded votes against it
only by the red-baiting trick
of charging that Communist
opposition to the Marshall
Plan had “‘infiltrated” the
CCF. Hence ,anyone who op-
posed the pro-Wall Street reso-
lution was a “Communist.”

That must have been why
the 40-odd delegates who voted

the plan were cut down to two.
when the final vote came on
the CCF council’s motion.

e :

No doubt millions of hard-
pressed people are deceived by
the Marshall Plan which “re-
placed” the too-blunt Truman
Doctrine. It is the duty of real

what it is.

The Marshall Plan is the pat-
tern by which American mon-
opoly capitalism, which emerg-
ed from the war as the strong-
est in the world, is rebuilding

a reactionary Western Ger-

for an amendment criticizing —

socialists to describe it for

Why labor must
lead the fight
for

peace

|

By
MAURICE
RUSH

the fight for jobs, decent wages
and working conditions, lower
taxes and social secugity.

Labor cannot fight effectively

—CCF and the Marshall Plan

many as the base of World
War 3 against Russia.

It is designed to accomplish
two things: one, to force upon
weaker countries the enormous
surplus product pouring out of |
U.S. factories (at inflated —
prices) and to strangle the
competitive economy of those —
countries (Britain first and
foremost); second, by means
of such world economic domin-
ation to compel the adoption
of a foreign policy by these
countries which fits in with
the world-wide military plans
of the U.S. for war with So-
cialist Russia and the New

The most avid supporters of
the Marshall Plan are the
Coldwell-type of right-wing so-
cialists—Attlee and .Bevin in
England, Schumacher in Ger-
many, Marie of France, Nor-
man Thomas and Reuther in
the U.S., Sarragat of Italy.

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‘Let us not forget some re-
cent history. The right wing
Socialists of Europe smashed
the Socialist revolution in the
twenties and paved the way
for the Nazi attempt at world
domination. Their descendants
are doing the same thing today,

_ no doubt that the “left” at the

for these things while it supports
the King-St. Laurent - Coldwell
foreign policy.

Some top leaders of the labor
movement have sougnt to hide
this truth from the workers, They
have endeavored to tle the unions
hand and foot behind our present
disastrous foreign policy. These
misleaders of labor must be an-
swered by progressive trade
unionists at the coming con-
gresses of labor, and in every
union local. Ze :
_ The organized working class
movement can and should become
the leading force in a great peo-
ple’s movement for peace — a
movement for friendship between
the nations, fora European aid —
program administered through
the UN, for fulfillment of war-
time agreements, for general dis-"
armament and panning of the
atomic bomb.

but with this difference: the
Marshall Plan is a hopeless
attempt to find a way out of a
deepening crisis of the impe-
rialist system which will blow
up into a world-shaking catas-
trophe when two things hap-
pen, as they will: when the
U.S. economy is blasted by its
own inner contradictions; and
when the masses of Western
Europe revolt against the new
aspirants for Hitler’s bloody |

mantle — the imperialists of
Wall Street, ,

Coldwell is leading his party
to the shambles of war. But
the “left” within his party,
and the labor movement of Ca-
nada and the U.S., faced with
the increasingly fierce attacks
of the big monopolies, are get-
ting wise to the facts. It is the
job of the left wing to fight
harder the more the Coldwell-
Lewis - Scott machine score
their machine victories in red-
baiting conventions. There is

CCF convention was weak. But —
it reflected a growing suspicion
that the Marshall Plan sup-
porters are betraying the sin- —
cere desire for peace of many
CCF rank-and-filers.

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