This is the historic Sahin village of Namu on Vancouver Island

Wicks and labor

When the mayors of Nanaimo,
Courtenay and Port Alberni offer-
ed their services to help terminate

the seven-week IWA strike, they -

were merely assuming a _ public
duty of vital importance to their
respective communities; to apply
the public pressure necessary to
set the wheels of collective bar-
gaining in motion, wheels that

1 have been spiked by Forest Indus-

trial Relations, ably assisted by

the Socred government and its Bill

43 in an effort to starve the IWA
membership into settling on the
bosses’ terms.

Socred Minister of Labor Lyle
Wicks, coasting along on his Bill
43 anti-union juggernaut and pre-
dicting dire calamity for the IWA,
is said to be incensed at the action
of the three Vancouver Island
mayors. The minister claims it will
“delay” settlement of the strike.

What probably brought on this

. ministerial outburst is the fact
that the mayors were attempting

' what the Bennett government has

' failed to do: bring pressure to bear
upon FIR to get to the bargaining
table in good faith.

_ Not to settle on the “12 cents”

_ Bennett suggested the FIR could
“afford” nor because of the pre-
mier’s crocodile tears on the dis-
pensation of IWA strike relief, but

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because the wages of lumber work-
ers rather than the profits of the
timber monopolists, are the prime
mainstay of the communities the

- mayors speak for. :

(At press time it was announced
that the Bennett government has.
appointed Prof. John J. Deutsch,
recent head of the department of
economics at UBC as “mediator”

in the IWA strike.)

‘fense (Winch means

Cold warrior Winch

N THE introduction to his speech
| in the House 0f Commons on July
2, 1959 on “What Should Be Canada’s
Defense Policy.’ Harold E. Winch,
MP (Vancouver-East), speaking for
the CCF group in the House, stated:
“When the Leader of the Opposition
(Hon. L. B. “Mike” Pearson) spoke I
wondered if he had read my speech
or if I had read his...” An apt ob-
servation, illustrating the close ident-

- ity of viewpoint between official Lib-

era] and CCF policies on the crucial
issues of peace and war!

Outlining three possible choices be-
fore Canada at the end of the Second
World War, Winch ticked these off as
follows: first; a state of “neutrality or
some variant thereof”: second, “’an al-
liance with the United States,” and
third, “an alliance with the USSR...
the latter ... admittedly and obvious-
ly rejected by all thinking Canadians
as being morally abhorrent.”

In his more soker moments it would
appear Winch classifies himself as a
“thinking” Canadian; one who gears
his “thinking” to the specifications
of U.S. cold war architecture as it is
applied in Canada, as he adds, “The
most obvious threat . . . comes from
the Soviet Union, directly in a mili-
tary sense, but as time goes on it will
be more and more an economic of:
“offensive’’)

which will affect many of the fre
nations of the world.”

The CCF Member forgets thal
scores of prominent Canadians (the
leader of the Liberal Opposition
among them) who were ready a
willing to sell their country short fot
a fast U.S. coldwar buck, are noW
“thinking” there’s more chance of
survival — and profits — in peat
co-existence with the Socialist sect
of the world, than in nuclear or one
ventional” war against it. Thinkin)
has taught them they can’t win. |

Very timidly Winch speaks of out
vanishing “status as a sovereign
tion” and the lack of any fo)
policy of our own making. Ag Fl
very least, honorable gentlemen, ©
basic aim of this country’s foreidl j
policy ... must be the national sit”
vival in the broadest sense of
term.”

Like ourselves, Winch voices hi
opposition to U.S.-triggered miss
bases and nuclear warheads on Call®
dian territory, but the similarity si
there. “Let us,” says Winch, * "remail
a member of NATO for any furthél
Soviet advance in-Europe must be®
our disadvantage.” To Winch it

“socialist” the real danger is not US
subversion of our national indepen
enes and sovereignty with Canada "s
a radioactive graveyard,” but the fe#

of triumphant Socialism! ‘

Tom
McEwen

couver Sun’s “‘expert’’ on mat-
ters ecclesiastical and proper Brit-
ish deportment (ye olde English

So months ago when the Van-

large-scale panhandling in Canada
by prominent Jewish organizations
and personnel on behalf of Israel,
he touched upon a very delicate
subject.

So delicate indeed as to incur
the risk of being branded an anti-
Semite. To avoid such a hazard the
Sun's doctor of assorted philosophy
fell. back on the most: polished

_anti-Semitic cliche of all, viz., that
“some of my best Seats are
Jews. 4}
> 2It is indeed a asimate ‘question,
Flas may be Seen from. the current
‘edition of the Jewish Western Bul-
- letin and its coverage of the recent
ee World Jewish Congress ‘assembly
“in Stockholm, Sweden.» >
' Quoting _ extensively from Dr.

‘Nahum Goldmann’s address to the

WJC assembly we note from: the

Bulletin Dr. Goldmann’s warning

mode) dedicated his column to the '

“that assimilation and. disintegra-
tion may follow the generally suc-
cessful fight for equal rights for
Jews as citizens.” Thus if Jewish
communities or individuals become
fully. assimilated or integrated as
citizens of full equality in the
USSR and other Socialist lands,
that, according to Dr. Goldmann,
is something to be avoided. Hence’
the WJC president’s “warning.”

Dr. Goldmann propounds a new
objective for world Jewry: “.
the great problem of Jewish edu-
cation and creativeness and the
participation in the pbuilding of
Israel.”

Dr. Goldmann raps the Soviet
Union on the knuckles, (gently of
course) because Soviet Jews and
the Jéwish people of other Socialist
lands do not participate in the un-
savory politics of international
Zionism. ‘“‘We do not want to be-
come participants in the cold war,”
says Dr. Goldmann, “but the Soviet
government cannot’ expect us to
keep silent and to refrain from
reiterating our demands.” :

And what are these “demands?”

That» Soviet citizens of Jewish
origin and similar citizens of other
socialist countries, willy-nilly, be-—
come active in all WJC activities.
Dr. Goldmann puts it very blunt-
ly: no Jewish community can be
regarded as “genuinely emanci-
pated, or ‘free if its right to par-
ticipate in ‘the. organized life. of

‘ghettos, in which the Socialist

- perialism—the prime enemy of the

—

the Jewish people as'a whole is
abridged or denied.’ The Doctor
doesn’t recognize the right of
Soviet citizens of Jewish origin 10
decline such “rights”? as defined by
the WJC and himself. On the con-
trary, like a good Zionist, he “de
plores” the situation which sepal- |
ates ‘“‘about 9,000,000 Jews in the
Western World . . . from their
brethren behind the Iron Curtain.”

“Steer clear of anti-Soviet posk
tion but press demands for Russian
Jews,” says the. Jewish Western |
Bulletin headline over Dr. Gold-
mann’s_ statement, carefully Ob: ~
scuring the fact that to “press de
mands” upon a Soviet citizen 0.
place his ethnical status above his”
socialist objective is basically ant —
Soviet.

In our book the worst form of —
anti-Semitism is the Zionist at
tempts to foster and build coldwar

citizen of Jewish origin must sur-
render his citizenship equality _ to.
preserve his Jewish identity.

Even Jewish communities and
congregations, and there are-many —
of them in the USSR, will politely —
decline such a “right,” to become —
“builders”. of an Israel under the |
Ben Gurion government —a_
government: which’ chooses to be-
come a catspaw for Western im- ~

world’s peoples, Gentile and Jew
alike. ioe

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