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‘Fame is the spur’
for Hareld Winch |

By LESLIE MORRIS
Harold Winch has come the long way round since I

first heard him speak on the night of Bloody Sunday in,

Vancouver, that sunny June day in 1938 when the RCMP
tear-gassed and clubbed the unemployed out of the Post
Office. He has paraded as a “left” CCF’er, a product of
“struggle.” But he never had the labor spirit of Ernie
Winch, his father, the veteran member of the B.C. legis-
lature. Harold is right out of “Fame Is the Syur.” If ever
he had the Sword of Peterloo in his hand it has long since
been dropped into the soft carpets of the House of Com-
mons.

You will remember that a few weeks ago Harold

finally doffed his “young rebel” toga. He came back from

a “world tour” (which did not include countries where
the workers rule) and announced that wages were too high
in Canada and that the workers must learn to cooperate
with. the bosses to blast our way into the markets of the
world by producing more cheaply. :

_ Of course Harold, the sly dog, made it clear that the
boss must be ready to lop a few thousand off his profits
(leaving him with still the highest rake-off in history) if
John Worker could be persuaded to rub along on what he’s
getting now and not to go after that new wage increase.
(That is the old horse-and-rabbit pie recipe: horse and
rabbit in equal proportions—one horse to one rabbit.)
And he said nothing about labor productivity, which has
little to do with wages.

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Winch must have been talking to that bright young
British Labor Party man, Anthony Crosland, a close friend
of party leader Hugh Gaitskell; who told the International
Socialist Conference in Holland the other day that “nation-
alization is outdated.” The trade unions are now a “polit-
ical liability” to the Labor Party, said Tony. “The very
name Labor is beginning to lose its appeal in Britain. As

_ people move up the social scale and acquire a bourgeois

outlook, they come to dislike the image and connotation of

the words ‘labor’ and ‘working class’.
. . This is also the argument of Fred Zaplitny. once the
CCF MP for Dauphin, who was defeated in the Tory elec-
tion Sweep. Zaplitny figures the way back info the House
of Commons is for the CCF to come out for free enterprise
and to stop trying to be the party of the poor.

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Tony Crosland went on to tell his assembled right-
wing Socialist colleagues from West Germany, the Low
Countries and Scandinavia:

“Indeed, a majority of the population—so far from
sSympathizing with the trade unions as the protectors of
@ downtrodden class—now actively fear that’ they wield
excessive power in the community and are responsible for
both the continuous rise in prices and the periodic dis-
ruption of the economy by unnecessary strikes.”

That puts it better than Harold Winch did. But then,
Crosland and Gaitskell have more experience in selling
the workers down the river. After all, the old-school tie
boys of the Parliamentary Labor Party, with their plump
allies in the trade union executives, have made their
policy “work.” The Tories have won the last three elections
precisely on Crosland’s “platform” and because Gaitskell
has followed the “new line” of blaming Labor’s reverses
on the greediness of the workers who pay the Labor Par-
ty’s bills. “You never had it so good,’ was Macmillan’s
victorious election slogan: Crosland and Gaitskell agree.

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When Crosland was speaking in the Socialist confer-
ence, among his audience were West Berlin Social Demo-
crats. Two of their leaders, Knoringen and Brandt, recent-

_ ly boasted that their new social democratic program is now

“a ae program against communism.”

denauer in, West Germany, Macmillan in Britain
Ditfenbaker in Canada; and behind them Knoringen,
Brandt, Gaitskell, Crosland, Winch and Zaplitny. =:

It is time for us left-wingers to work much harder.

among the followers of these men, to show them that
right-wing socialist policies lead to Tory victories. We
must help to revive the militant labor spirit. which gave
wise to the very parties these false leaders are now b

| waiting for the results of any

By DENNIS OGDEN -

‘one-third of the present total of 3,623,000 in all services.

1,200,000 armed forces slash
sign of Soviet will for peace

Supreme Soviet here last week, Premier Nikita Khrushchey also reaffirmed that’
Soviet Union would not resume nuclear tes ts if the Western powers did not. :

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Announcing this to t

The huge reduction of armed
forces, Khrushchey said, would
take from one to two years and
would be carried out without

disarmament talks.

The Soviet armed forces will
thus be smaller than the 2,-
497,834 of the United States
and fewer than the figure of
2,500,000 first proposed by the
Western powers during the
1956 disarmament talks.

The cuts were outlined in a
three-hour speech ’ covering
Soviet internal ‘affairs, foreign
policy and. the international
situation, delivered to the
opening session of the Supreme
Soviet by the premier. “

“In taking measures to re-
duce our armed forces,’ said
Khrushchev, “we say to the
Western> powers: let us reach
agreement on disarmament, let
us do everything to prevent
war, let us compete not in
building up armed forces and
‘armaments, but in -reducing
them, in desiroying the weap-
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“No country contemplating
an attack on another nation
or group of nations would ven-
ture to make a unilateral. re-
duction of its armed -forces, be-
cause: it would not. only have
to use its fire power, includ-
ing nuclear weapons, but also

have to increase its army’s :
strength.” re-geared to a considerable

The resultant annual saving, degree to rocket and nuclear
of some 16 or 17 thousand{ Weapons and that they would
million roubles would help to| 8° 0M perfecting these weapons
increase Soviet economic until they were outlawed.
strength, further improve the| “The central committee of
standard of living, build more|the Communist Party and the
homes, and reduce the work-| Soviet government are able to
ing day. inform you,” he added, ‘that

Khrushchev assured his lis-| though the weapons we now
teners, in whose memories the| have are formidable weapons
grim consequences of Soviet} indeed, a weapon we have to-
unpreparedness in 1941 still) day in the development stage

NIKITA KHRUSHCHEV

Union would still have ade-
quate means for defense.

The Soviet Union, he said,

‘stockpiled the necessary atomic
and. hydrogen ‘weapons, and

is reached it will be compelled
to continue producing them. —

Aircraft and surface war-
ships were losing importance,
Soviet bomber production had
been cut and may be complete-
ly discontinued.

Khrushchev said that the

had powerful rockets and had}

until international agreement,

Soviet: armed forces have been}; -

more formidable. 4

“The weapon which is bé
developed and 1s, as they s@
in the portfolio of our sé
tists and designers, is a fan
tic weapon.” g

He welcomed the agreem
to hold a summit meeting,
noted that it envisaged @
the Paris meeting in 1]
would be followed: by a Séi
of top-level meetings.

He listed complete and 1
versal disarmament, a Ger
peace treaty and the quest
of the establishment of a |
city in West Berlin, the f
ning of tests, and Easi-V
relations as the - issues
Soviet Union would above
others like to see on the §
mit agenda. <

His talks with Eisenhe
and Macmillan gave grou
for hope that a spirit of
ism, frankness and c :
tion would prevail at the SI
mit talks. 4

(President Eisenhower ©
nounced this week that
would visit. the Soviet Un
next June 10-19). 4

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January 22, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pa