HERES THE CAUSE... "| ° b is strange indeed that, n Appeal art © few, the United e Re Mews and comment... eee Cross, the churches, boards spitals, the school . pond the universities are \ ieeificantly dependent wi ze hard work of volun- Om the business com- Muni ‘ : iit. And yet the public mind e that hex fails -to recognize Be aa Usinessmen who are to Ip ned for their dedication bot’ ving their corporate pre the very same peo- a Beem all the vital eben Ncies are largely forty dent to assist those less Ote or those i Proper @ aie seeking a Clarence D. Shepard, chair- aa Gulf Oil Canada Ltd., : fea dinnipeg Chamber of eee a | , ; 1776 COMMUNIST Repagy senator Mark Hatfield, Pressed ah of Oregon, ex- Potting ©ep concern in re- Ameticg that 73 percent of Verseq Nn servicemen at an to Sign: military base: refused Omble te Portion of the pre- tlon of 0 the historic Declara- » ‘Ndependence of 1776. a _ Was pot the men thought it thought peeralve and some tion Communist. The por- _ hn to 252 Americans at ‘dined n West Germany con- these words: “We hold e ave tuths to be self-evident, al , that i men are created equal, oe @ ri Ore fonts: that among these Suit o e ; ed eanent was conduc- $ Onn - ty of Marya a the Univer ) Western Producer. es HALLS OF MONTEZUMA tha *lson Rockefeller has been Se | Amerieg out of much of Latin thoch, ie reaction might be a8 as eluged as we are’ by teg a how much the Uni- Part mes is doing for that the world. Our second, its many agencies, STORM WARNING! ant more valid, response should be “sympathetic understanding of Latin American’ objection to the visit. Rockefeller himself explains the riots in-terms of broken .U.S. promises over the past tew years. It’s more than that, how- ever; it’s the whole long his- tory of Latin America’s domin- ‘ation by outside political and economic powers. ; South and Central America , have always been outposts. of great economic empires—first the Spanish, then the British, finally the American. These re- lationships shaped national economies based on one or two exports, producing the conditions of underdevelop- ment today. Export income rarely found its way to the producers, the peasants and the miners them- selves. Instead, profits which might have financed social progress and industrial devel- opment went to foreign invest- ors or to import luaury goods for the tiny Latin American élites. The centres of economic em- pire held the other end of the stick. The U.S. economy, for example, has thrived on Latin America, making billions from investment there, selling sur- plus products for high prices to ECCLES (British Daily Worker} Don’t answer back, Smith! Who. do you think you are—ime?”?" PARY WDRLP the local élites, and obtaining cheap sources of raw material Economic domination has been matched by political con- ‘trol and military intervention. The United States intervened in the Latin countries some 60 times before 1933. The inva- sion of the Dominican Repub- lic in 1965, and the U.S. poli+ tical and military support given right-wing dictatorships indic- ate that little has changed since then. Not by chance does the U.S. Marine hymn speak of, the Halls of Montezuma, in Mexico. Editorial— Toronto Star NATURE OF THE BEAST A growing group of U.S. Senators believes that the big- gest problem facing the United States is how to keep the mili- tary from dominating the na- - tion. Among the developments. they cite are: —The tremendous waste in the military budget as indicat- ed by the $2 billion extra Lockheed cost of building the C-5A. These padded costs are nonchalantly added to the budget without the knowledge of Congress at the same time the job-training and poverty programs are scratching around for a few millions to prevent crime in the cities. —The fact that the military have produced enough nerve gas, without the civilian branch of the government knowing it, to kill every person and animal in the United States. —The admission by military men, belatedly, that the United States has padded its man- power requirements in South’ Vietnam and that 50,000 troops could be spared without weak- ening our strength one iota, This comes shortly after the Pentagon was demanding more troops. : 16 NG OO REO GI_bS9IU: “Drew Pearson | "to hell with facts! very feet. Donald MacDonald, president of the Canadi- an Labor Congress, held a press conference last week where he held forth on the sanctity of anti-communist clauses in union constitutions, While what he said could hardly be regarded as enlightening, it was revealing. For instance: “The International Woodworkers of America might have been spared coming under commun- ist control in the mid-nineteen forties if the union had then had a bar against communists.” Really, Mr. MacDonald! It was communists who led the campaign. ° which organised the workers in the logging camps and mills in British Columbia. It was - communists first and foremost who built the . IWA. They led it until the anti-communists, in — complete collusion with the logging bosses and lumber barons, ganged up' during the cold war to witch-hunt them from their earned positions of leadership in that union. Even more revealing, however, is Mr. Mac- Donald’s admission that anti-communist clauses are relaxed when the communists offer no threat, but activated when they gain any posi- tions of strength in the labor movement. This is exactly how-the capitalist state deals with the labor movement. As Hs as it stays in. its PIODEE place, it is allowed to flex its muscles and carry on with limited restrictions. When, however, it begins to challenge the economic decision-making and power of monopoly — in come the restrictions, economic and political. Mr. MacDonald carries the bosses’ divisive tactics into the trade union movement. His aim is to disunite the left by robbing it of its most. essential component, communist membership. Behind Mr. MacDonald’s hysteria lies his real fear of the young militant section of the trade union movement which must number more than half of the present Congress membership. This driving, MESES seeking turbulent force is not represented in the seats of power of the CLC or most of its member unions. It is feared by the labor establishment because it does not accept the staid terms of reference fixed by CLC offi-. cialdom for trade union activity and objectives. Both the Rand and the Woods Reports seek to give assistance to the labor establishment, to deal with this growing force in Canadian trade unions. Through a combination of government " legislation and restrictive clauses in the consti- tution of the ee and some of its member unions, it is hoped to keep the militants under control and provide “responsible leadership.” ‘It is the fear of the labor establishment that this developing movement will look to the left -and communists for leadership which causes them to reactivate the anti-communist provi- sions at this time. The recent anti-Rand demon- strations in Ontario, organized, it must be said, in spite of the top leadership, were properly read and understood by them. It is indeed encouraging to note that there are ° sharp differences in official circles of the labor movement on the question of anti-communism. The ‘United Automobile Workers, the second largest affiliate of the CLC, has called for the scrapping of the anti-communist clauses in the UAW constitution, as they affect Canadians. A majority of trade union leaders polled by local newsmen showed less than enthusiasm for anti- communism in the labor movement. We think these trade union leaders, being closer to the membership, realize that anti-com- munism is no longer acceptable in place of argument and analysis. This is a lesson the leadership of the CLC will either learn, and. quickly, or it will be swept aside by the fast moving developments shaping up under their T SOPACINCTRIBONELIND