World Peace Congress detends UN ‘principles The United Nations Charter pledged that the peoples of the world would disarm to end the scourge ‘of war. Today it is the “Peoples’ United Nations”, the World Peace Council formed at the Warsaw Peace Congress which pledges aca by tie wend s peoples to see that the pledge is honored. J. BL -SALSBERG ) Union ale bile should speak out against NLRB decision on CSU HERE is’a terrible gap between the mass sentiment of the or- Sanized workers of this country against the Canada Labor Rela- tions Board decision on the Can- adian -Seamen’s Union and the concrete expression of that mass Sentiment. It is a shocking situ- ation which aii alert workers must overcome without delay. There is no need to repeat what has already been stated here and lsewhere that the issue is not dne of support- ing or opposing _ the ‘CSU. ‘It cer- ‘ainly ig not one of taking sides for or against one or another anion of Cana- lian seamen. The real issue. transcends the union or section of workers immediately affected by the board’s ruling, for that ruling constitutes a flagrant violation of the existing labor laws—inade- quate and weak as they may be —and, creates a profound threat to the entire trade union move- ment in this country. When the board disqualified the CSU as bargaining agent for Branch Lines, despite the- fact _ that practically all the sailors em- ployed by that company had chos- ‘en the CSU as their bargaining agency, it undermined the most fundamental right of workers— the right’ to belong to the union of their free choice. That decision was the first bold step in the direction of a fascist-like labor front in Canada. If this preced- ent should be allowed to stand, ee : If genuine union will be safe. it is not revoked the elementary ‘rights of trade unionism, Struggled, sacrificed and ‘suffered, / will be lost. That the ro eete of this coun: try realize the danger and threat of that decision is clear. Scores of local unions across the coun- try have adopted resolutions and protests against the board's rul- ing. A number of trades coun- “labor. cils have done the same. The recent convention of the ‘Ontario Federation of Labor (CCL) voted almost unanimously (with only two votes against) to protest the decision and demanding its res- cinding. The action of the co Federa- tion in Ontario is of particular significance since A. R. Mosher, the president of the CCL and a member of the national Labor Board, who voted for the labor front decision, was present at the convention and attempted to jus- tify his action. The British Columbia Federa- tion of Labor (CCL) also voted against the board’s action and called for its rescinding. A fur- ther fact of extreme importance that must be noted is that many of the right-wing CCL-CCF union leaders spoke out and voted against the Dboard’s decision. There is no doubt that the same reaction is to be found in the TLC unions. : Despite this fact, however, there is a sickening absence of organized and effective. mass ac-— tion to compel the government to rescind the illegal, union-bust- ing decision. , I e' The reasons for this impermiss- {ble situation are not hard to find. “In the first place, those who are i part of the red-baiting, anti-Com- munist war hysteria find them- ‘selves in conflict with themselves. ‘Having become enmeshed in the 'red-baiting net they find it diffi- “cult to free themselves sufficient- “jy to oppose the union-menacing ‘decision which is masked behind a red-baiting cloak. In the second nines ‘the anti- tected themselves by lining up the representatives” on the board (A. R. Mosher and J. A. D’‘Aoust) to vote for the decision. As a result, many uni n leaders who are disturbed ee aroused by the board’s action. shrink from the ‘necessary “public action against the decision because it for ‘labor forces (the organizers and ‘directors of the ‘red-baiting, pro- : ‘which generations of labor men tere tyateia) “Have ‘ellfully pro- would bring them publicly into collision with their own leaders ~ and spokesmen, This being the case it is in- cumbent upon the rank and file of the unions — all unions — every- where in the country to give con- crete and fighting expression to the opposition and anger of the masses against the attack on the elementary rights of trade union- ism. 'They must speedily organ- ize mass local conferences which will draw in hundreds of leading trade unionists either as official representatives of local unions or as delegates from departments or branches of their industry or as unofficial spokesmen for the rank and file of their shop, mine, camp or union. Such local conferences could organize effective public campaigns to arouse labor and . the people at large against this attack on trade unionism. They could organize effective pressure on their local MP’s in the form of letters, postcards, telegrams and visits of delega- tions. Such conferences could arrange impressive public meet- ings, radio speeches and send delegations to all local unions in their areas in order to widen the front in defense of trade union right. Nor is there any reason’ why such local conferences initi- ated and developed in each com- munity could not find a way to coordinate their efforts nationally and bring their full pressure to bear upon the government while the House is in session, ‘come the terrible disparity that exists between the feeling and thinking of the masses of work- -.ers and the organized mass action which! should «give expression to those feelings. a8 Failure to act will encourage ‘the enemy of labor to widen that breach and intensify its attacks on the very life and existence of trade unionism in this country. This is an urgent and unpost- ponable obligation which chal- lenges every honest person in the labor movement. PHYLLIS ROSNER Laborites buck war with LONDON HE question of whether Britain will be dragged by the U.S. in- to war with China is being de- bated with renewed vigor follow- ing a statement by Professor G. D. H. Cole that created a sensa- tion throughout the labor move- ment. Writing in the New Statesman and Nation, Cole flatly stated: “If Great Britain gets dragged into war with China by the Am- ericans, I shall be on the side of ‘China, and so, I believe,. will be enough of my fellow-countrymen to make a deep rift in our nation- al solidarity.” He also said: “Looking on the Korean war as a civil war, I want- ed the North to win. The govern- ment of South Korea appeared to me to be a hopelessly reaction- ary puppet affair, which had no chance of survival without Am- erican support, and I could not contemplate any solution of the Korean question that would in- volve permanent American inter-_ vention on the Asian continent.” In its February 10 issue the New Statesman reported it had received a tremendous volume of letters showing “a pentup longing - for a simple, strong anti-war line.”, There were only half a dozen letters, it said, which dis- agreed with Prof. Cole. On the question of preventing ‘war with China, the newspaper said, “the widest measure of uni- ty can be achieved in the labor movement... Mr. Atlee’s message to Pres. Truman must be that the British people refuse to be involv- ed in a war with China.” In another statement which ap- peared in the Manchester Guard- ian, Cole explained: “I want the North Koreans to win, not because I have any love for communism but because, as far as I can see, an American victory would involve the permanent presence of a for- _eign army of occupation in Korea, a permanent artificial division of the country, and permanent threat to the Chinese government, which the American government still re- fuses to recognize. “I want the British people to make it clear that they accept the idea ‘of ‘Asia for the -Asians’ and are not prepared to support any policies which require Am- erican, or so-called United Na- China tions, intervention to prevent Asi- atic countries from deciding their own forms of government, even by civil war if they can find no other way.” — @' e The Tribune, Labor fortnightly) on February 9 carried an editor- ial on “the fight for peace,” des- cribing the “deep anxiety” run- ning through Britain’s labor move- ment and stressing the fact that a new ‘situation. has arisen. “The danger of world. war no longer arises solely from Soviet policy,” it said. “It arises also from the temper which has been aroused in the U.S. and the fool- hardy policies on which the erst- while more progressive govérn- ment in Washington has been launched at the bidding of an ever more raucous and hysteri- cal reaction. “The most obyious instances of those policies are provided by the series of actions jeojardizing a ne-_ . gotiated settlement with China... by the pressure for the rearma- ment of Japan and the equipment of Chiang Kai-shek’s forces in Formosa; by the failure to put any curb on MacArthur; by the attempt to rearm Germany before - negotiations are held at the 4- power meeting. .. .” The Tribune summed up the “historic service which a Labor government in Britain can now perform” as the prevention of “an irreparable folly being committed by U.S. policy and thus to keep open the possibility of genuine negotiations with the Chingse age the Russians.” Release by American B48 ties of Nazi war criminals such as” fet ‘Krupp and others has used great disgust among — a = tish people. A number of members of parliament have pre- pared questions on the matter de- manding that the government not take similar action with leading Nazi criminals imprisoned in the British zone. . Labor MP C. H. Poole will ask: “Whether the government pro- poses to carry out a review of sentences imposed on Nazi war criminals similar to that recently undertaken by the American au- thorities. Is it aware that any appreciable reduction in these sentences to those guilty of these crimes will be keenly resented?” ‘SHAMEFUL BUSINESS’ OTTAWA San ciwaewis Pouliot (Lib. Temiscouta) of Quebec in a slashing attack on conscription moves by Canadian Legion brasshats, and Ford president Rhys Sale, recently charged in the House of Commons it was ‘shameful’ business men should ‘defend conscription, the kill- ing of people .. . for the benefit of their Companies. He demanded dissolution bf 4 the ngwly-organized National This is the only way to over- — ‘Advisory Council on - Man- power, designed as a major step for military conscription - and introduction of a forced labor scheme. SOR A He said he was “sick and tired of hearing the repetition of the speeches made by the Mars and Thors of both wars.” .-“I may tell the Legion right now that if they were looking after their own disabled mem- bers they would serve their members much better than by telling MP’s what to do.” He criticized Rhys Sale — president of Ford Company of Pouliot blasts