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50 eT CTIMIZATION OF
, BERNARD MARKSON

The employing class do not
felish having their hypocrisy ex-
d. They do not enjoy having
their methods of extracting pro-
Ae joi bare. In fact, they get
Bo a purple rage when a work-
i lass paper scratches their
By skin and reveals them for
ie Potten aggregation of exploit-
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: ckroaches are a >
social CO an Ontario

bor-sweaters in
arse town called Peterboro,

-. industrial inferno they

fee cceeded in crushing out
of existence the last waigsive
of labor organization and have
reduced workers to almost a

i istence-
enc, Comrade Bernard Mark-
son, in February, made use of
these columns to acquaint _the
’ working class with conditions
there, he was promptly arrested
at the behest of the indignant
employers and bound over for
trial, which resulted, of course,
in a verdict of “guilty with a
sentence of two =e one-half
’ imprisonment.

ae Ace rable conditions
must not be written of iby a
worker — the bosses don't like

. it, you . know. These parasites
want a cheap supply of labor
waiting at their sae aed in

keep prices down.
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LPP GREETS ARAB-
JEWISH COMMUNISTS
The LPP has cabled greetings
to re-united Jewish and Arab
Communists now together again
in the Communist Party of Is-
rael after a five-year interrup-

tion. :

Tim Buck cabled as follows:
“The Labor-Progressive Party
greets with enthusiasm your
achievement of the organic unity
of Jewish and Arab Communists
in Israel in one monolithic Com-
munist Party. In the name of
our National Committee we con-
gratulate the leadership and
membership of the Jewish and
Arab sections of the Palestinian
Communist movement upon
their proletarian statesmanship.

“Your achievement is a body-
blow to the imperialist scound-
rels and against their lying pro-
paganda that Jews and Arabs
cannot unite. It will multiply the
strength of the toiling people in
the struggle for the freedom and
genuine independence of your
country — for the establishment
of independent Israel and Arab
states in Palestine. It gives flesh
and blood to the stirring idea of

' Jewish-Arab cooperation in the
struggle for social: progress and
development.

“The brotherhood of Jewish
and Arab toilers is the key to
victory in the struggle for peace,
democratic progress and sociali-
ism.” Tribune, Nov. 8, 1948

“The old workman, who drove,

ture.
ats ‘Mine!’ he cried, his face a

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Business & Circulatio

lacitic Tribune

West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune:

Worth quoting:

held the wheel in one hand, while

with the other he sweept the far-gleaming capital in an exultant

Il alight. ‘All mine now! My Petro-

~—as heard by John Reed, November 13, 1917

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‘Unity key to labor's struggle

The Canadian Tribune greets the
Ontario Federation of Labor which is
meeting in Annual Convention in Tor-
onto on November 12 to 14. This meet-
ing follows similar conventions which
have just concluded in B.C., Alberta,
Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

Each of these gatherings, as will no
doubt be the case in the OFL, has been

confronted by serious economic -and
social problems brought about by mono-
poly domination of the life ‘of this
country.

Beginning with the immediate prob-
lems of their member unions locked in
battle with the giant corporations for
a larger share of their product, each
of these conventions have been forced
to grapple with much broader ques-
tions than collective bargaining, or leg-
islative proposals only related to the
trade-union movement.

Inflation and unemployment are the
two main concerns of the Canadian
trade union movement. The struggles
against these twin evils of capitalism
is at the very heart of the class strug-
gle in Canada today.

Monopoly is determined that the
working people shall shoulder the cost
of the crisis which the system is ex-
periencing. In this strategy they have
the full support of the Liberal govern-
ment in Ottawa and the Tories at
Queen’s Park.

The working people have one weap-
on with which to face this combined
state monopoly offensive — unity and
struggle. United struggle of the work-
ing people can shift the burden back
where it belongs, on the big corpora-
tions. It can protect and extend the
living standards of all Canadian pro-
ducers, industrial and agricultural as
well as small businessmen whose backs
are to the wall.

Monopoly’s position is clear — drive
down wages and increase prices. La-
bor’s position needs to be equally clear
—raise wages and drive down prices.

Such a rallying call from this con-
vention, meeting at this crucial time
would strike a spark in working peo-
ple of Ontario who are watching the
deliberations of the OFL Convention,
hoping it will help to unite and streng-
then their struggles for a better life.

Greeting the USSR
on its 36th birthday

Fifty-six years ago, .on Nov. 7, 1917,
the workers of Russia took state power
into their hands and opened a new
chapter in history. Out of this victory
the first country of socialism was estab-
lished, the various nations of the old
Russia formed a new kind of federa-
tion, in which the sovereignty of each
is combined with the joint sovereignty
of them all together — the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republics.

The first act of the Soviet govern-
ment was to issue an appeal to all the
governments and people engaged in
World War I to immediately cease
fighting and to negotiate a just peace
without indemnities or annexations.
Instead, the imperialists of both sides
sent their armies to destroy the young
workers’ state. But revolutionary
events in their own countries and world
public opinion brought an end to the
war, while the Soviet peoples ousted
the invaders.

Through the years of boycott and
hostility by imperialist governments,
refusal to agree to collective security
against the fascist menace to peace,
later under the full weight of the Hitler
onslaught, the USSR fought the good
fight for its own security and a world
at peace. Through the years of cold
war and aggressions in Indochina, the
Near East and other parts of the globe,
the USSR doggedly pursued the two-
sided policy for peaceful coexistence:
collective action to prevent or halt ag-
gression, and all-out support to all who
are fighting for their liberation and de-
fending themselves against aggression.

Canada has profound cause to streng-
then the bonds of good neighborly rela-
tions with the Soviet Union. Our coun-
try’s prospects for our own peace and
security depend on it, to a great extent,
as well as our chances to extend profit-

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It is good to see Canada-USSR rela-
tions being promoted on the govern-
ment level, with business and scientific
circles becoming more and more in-
volved. There is every reason to believe
that the attempts of anti-Sovieteers to
halt or hinder that development will
suffer defeat.

It is good to see exchanges of delega-
tions by trade unions, the Canada-
USSR Society and other groups in-
creasing. The people have the greatest
stake in peace and social progress, and
the people must be the guardians of
Canadian-Soviet good-neighbor rela-
tions which are indispensable for the
achievement.of that world of peace and
friendship for which Canadians, like
people throughout the world are long-
ing.

Warm greetings to the USSR on the
56th anniversary of the Great October
Socialist Revolution!

Attention, Mr. Lewis

Elsewhere in this issue we reprint an
editorial that appeared in the October
24 issue of The Commonwealth of Re-
gina. It is notable because this thought-
ful, sober approach to the Middle East
prokies by an NDP paper is complete-
y at variance with the position taken.
by NDP leader Mr. David Lewis, who
is flying with the Israeli hawks. Apart
from denoting serious reconsideration
of their policy by at least a section of
the NDP, it is indicative of the grow-
ing attitude of Canadian public opinion
as a whole, despite the bellicose propa-
ganda via the mass media and the “in-
congruous” (but actually pro-Israeli)
stance of our government.

The Middle East crisis once again
points up the need for Canada to adopt
a firm independent foreign policy based
on our own interests and the preserva-
tion of peace. The NDP would be per-
forming a signal service to our country
and to world peace if it stood at the

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