EDITORIAL |
The time is now

early seventy years ago, on November 11, 1887,

August Spies, one of the four Haymarket Martyrs and
founder of May Day, spoke these farewell words, not from a
park soapbox, but from a seaffold: “The time will come when
the voices you are strangling today will rise to haunt you a
millionfold...”

Those prophetic words not only heralded the birth of May
Day as the Day of the world’s toiling people, but the eloquence
of today’s marching millions for peace in Vietnam, and an
end to war and violence by the same U.S. power-drunk monop-
oly which murdered August Spies and his fellow martyrs be-
cause they fought for an 8-hour working day, with its inherent
right to ‘‘life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”.

In this long struggle towards the goal of working-class
emancipation and peace, labor has seen the earth saturated
many times with the blood andtears ofits fellow humans, It has
seen the folly and futility of two worldwars: the horrors of the
Hitlerite death camps and crematoria — whichtookthe lives of
six million Jewish people alone, together with untold millions
of Russians, Polish and other European peoples, It saw 40,000
Jewish workers perish, with unmatchable heroism in the furnace
of the Warsaw Ghetto — a short 24-years ago,

It sees too the rising revolt ofits Negro brothers and sisters
in the ghettos of monopoly-dominated “free” America, herioc-
ally struggling for the simple and elementary right to equality
and life,

It saw the Nazi destruction of Liddice andthe wanton killing
of every living soul in that little village. Today it must see
the smoking ruins of a thousand Liddices in Vietnam by a U.S,
imperialism, more savage, more barbarous, more inhuman
than the madman of Nazi Germany.

And in the U.S, escalation of its war of genocide against
the people of Vietnam, the renewed bombing of Haipong and
other North Vietnamese centers, labor and the people must
see in this thetorchofaruthless and desperate war incendiary,

a readiness to set the whole world aflame once more to impose

its arrogant rule.

“There will come atime... ’’ said August Spies from the
scaffold, That time is NOW, Today, on this May Day.

For seventy years labor the world over have joined in
solidarity and celebrated May Day as a day of review, a day to
evaluate its victories and defeats, its gains and losses; to re-
member its martyred dead, and to pledge itself anew to the
struggles ahead, :

On this May Day three short words epitomise labor’s
supreme task — compared to which all else is econdary — to
win peace in Vietnam, To that end the “sleeping giant” of
labor must be awakened to face this survival task,

In its numbers. and strength it holds the key to victory —
to impose peace in Vietnam and in the world. To join its
millions with those who march for peace, not as a ‘‘token”
gesture, but as a power endowed with a strength capable of
disarming the U.S, madmen, silencing their apologists in
Canada and elsewhere, and winning peace for Vietnam — and
all humanity.

Tom
~McEWEN

: days gone by the nosey

interest shown by the

Thus society has now advanced
to the point where the “poor”

“upper clawses’’ in where and
how the “lower orders” surviv-
ed, used to be defined as ‘‘slum-
ming’. This vocation provided a
lot of female dowagers and “so-
ciety” ladies of the idle rich with
something to do other than sit
around all day and most of the
night preening their feminine
feathers, Moreover it gave them
a most virtuous and christian

feeling, and which.as rumor had ~

it, a lot of them badly lacked,

Over the years, like most
everything else, all that has
changed, That is not to say ‘‘the
poor ye have always with you”
are no longer poor, They are,
but in a new setting, and more
of them. Their poverty, like the
production of cars or garbage
cans, comes directly off monop-
oly’s production belt, But unlike
all other commodities it produc-
es at a fat profit, and for which
it must assume some little re-
sponsibility, as for instance de-
fective goods, its “poor” can be
sluffed off onto the tender mer-
cies of an organized “charity./\.

are well herded in with a “fixed”
welfare income fence, over which
they can neither jump nor crawl
under, A fence for which a mon-
opoly-directed ‘‘charity” puts the
“ding” on the public to build and
maintain . . . and doles out its
“‘orants-in-aid” from the pro-
ceeds to what it considers “worthy
of support,” and what not,

Just recently a United Red
Feather Appeal press circular
was widely distributed in B.C.
announcing appointments to the
Womens Division of the 1967
United Appeal, This circular. is
issued by general campaign
chairman, Mr, C, A. Specht, who
also happened to be the president
of MacMillan and Bloedeél Ltd.,
B.C.’s top lumber monopoly oc-
topus,

Of the two dozen or so Mes-
dames so ‘‘appointed” under the
chairmanship of Mrs. E, H.
Chave, with Mrs, Austin C, Tay-
lor as honorary chairman, there
is not one solitary workingman’s
or.trade*unionist’s. wife,in the lot.

“April 28, 196Z-+PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page, 2.

IMPORTANT NEW BOOK

CIA link with top U.S.
labor leaders exposed

(THE CIA AND AMERICAN LABOR, by George
Morris, International Publishers, New York. 159 pages.
Available at Co-op Bookstore, Vancouver).

The Central _ Intelligence
Agency (C.I.A.) is sometimes
referred to as the invisible gov-
ernment of the U.S.A. Recent
disclosures have indicated the di-
mensions of the paramilitary role
of the C.1.A., but much more
remains to be revealed.

This book clearly points up the
involvement of top American la-
bor leaders in the sinister cloak
and dagger work of the C,LA,
It proves, beyond fear of contra-
diction, that the dominant ma-~
jority of the A.F,L.-C.1.0, Exec-
utive Council has consistently
supported the foreign policy of the
U.S, government and collaborated
with the C.LA.

Morris traces this involve-
ment to a consistent pattern of
reactionary policies, domestic
and foreign, going back to the
beginning of, the century, When
Truman created the C.I.A, as an
instrument of the cold war, that
body turned to the top echelons
of the labor movement for willing .
tools in their international dirty
work, Their value as agents
lay in their labor connections
and their: credentials as labor
representatives,

The book illustrates how the
most reactionary labor leaders
in respect to foreign policy were
equally reactionary in opposing
the rise of the C.I.O. in the
thirties, They connived against
the Soviet Union during the war
against fascism, conspired
against the World Federation of
Trade Unions and failed to give
constructive leadership to win
full civil rights for Negroes,
These are the men who have will-

ingly collaborated with the C.I.A.

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This “oversight” is not acci-
dental nor does it arise because
of any deep concern that Mrs,
John Doe may be already over-
burdened with domestic worries

on how to make the family budget”

stretch to meet the familyneeds,
and therefore has no time to chase
around putting the charity “ding”
on her neighbors, The reason for
the ommission may liein another
direction, Having turned in a
good day’s “collecting” Mrs. Doe
might want a voice in the distri-
bution of the proceeds; a voice
for an awful lot of fenced-in poor
who need something more than a
bare welfare mean-tested hand=
out — but don’t get it, so let’s keep
the business in the family.

(Mr, Austin C, Taylor it may
be remembered was one of B.C.’s
Big Business tycoons in Cement,
Royal Trust, Home Oil, B.C.
Packers, B.C. Forest Products,
Independent Acceptance Corpora~
tion and other inter-locking phil-
anthropic enterprises.) A fairly
average sample of “who’s who”
in the charity business.

Since the turn of the century
and before, the public have been
repeatedly pried loose from their
charity dollars to “save the
heathen’? in some far off land,
unmindful ofthe monopoly heathen
buggering up their own economic
and social wellbeing in their own
country. Also, and moreover, if
the overseas heathen got ten cents

out of ever\dollér Collected for.

Morris makes the point that the
C.I.A, is not above and beyond
the control of the U.S, govern-
ment. It is a special agency
created to do the international
dirty work which the government
itself cannot do because of pro-
tocol, Its board of advisors
reads .like a who’s-who of big
business in the U,S,A., along with
an impressive number of top mil-
itary men, No labor leader has
been permitted to enter the inner
circle,

Examples are given of the
special role assigned to U,S, la-
bor leaders, in Europe, Asia,
Africa and Latin America, the
classical one being that of
Guyana, In the case of Guyana,
the C.I.A., British Intelligence,
the I.C.F.T.U., the top officers
of a U.S, trade union and Guy-
anese reaction joined to topple
the Jagan government,

The London office of the Public
Service International (an I.C.

F.T.U, affiliate) put up $5,000

and the C.I.A. $695,000. The Am-
erican union opened an office in
Guyana, but it was staffed by an

convert indeed, The monopolized
heathen at home ate up the other
. 90-cents,

Similarly with apparently end-
less bumming campaigns to feed
the hungry in foreign lands —
now hungrier than ever before in
their increasing millions, be-
cause it is considered highly
christian to provide them with a
cup of milk rather than send them
a herd of milk cows, Or better
still get off their backs. so that
their stomachs could (and can)
be well-filled by their own labors
—if left to determine their own
salvation.

Thus under our so-called
“Western civilization” the poor
themselves, whether in Canada,
Vietnam, Latin America, the
United States or elsewhere, are
transformed into a highly profit-
able commodity; the victims of a

agent of the C,I,A. not CO
with organized labor. ¥
a labor front, the C.LA. ©
have subsidized the 80-8):
that led to the down

Jagan government, Thal
had nothing incommon

imate trade union objecti¥

Morris argues that th
and what it stands for 4
products of cold war PO
that to eliminate the ©
American people must?
these policies with a mo
istic approach, ‘

The sinister role of Jay
stone, ex-communist tH?
C.I.A. agent, is clearly ©
mented, As personal forele™
icy advisor to George Me™
reports directly to the
controls. the A,F.Le
spending of $2,000,000 4
on international affairs 4
to channel much large? 4
from the C.I.A, into Lait
erica, Africa, Asia, prope
other parts of the world.

As Morris puts it: “Tey
and its fronts do not nee
A.F.L.-C.1I.O, money.
want its credentials, and
the field who can parade #°
resentatives of labor.”

When the full story
collaboration between the
and top leaders of the
C.1,0. is known, Canadia?
ers will learn to what ol
this partnership was inv
in some of the major
and schisms which have P
Canadian labor since 194%

This book is a good re
ment for those who wall
better informed on the ” a
and for those who seek a bal d
appraisal of the America?”
scene,

erty.

Thus with a magna
charity towards its victim
mainly with public dollar 5,0
ized monopoly ae
whether to hand out 2
bread to feed the poor
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maim them — and. makes
profit on both operations
“charity.” 5

To some of our reader
may appear to be ove
cious, but when we Se®
isees of monopoly privilege
ing the ‘‘alms bag
the poor, we get the id!
is high time the poor to? a
in it themselves — bY f© e
for good the monopoly: 08
their poverty, distres®

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