THE NATION End hypocrisy of BNA Act- By TIM BUCK adopt democratic constitution AS an integral part of the defense of Canadian de- Mocracy, the LPP proposes a new democratic con- stitution for Canada, including a Bill of Rights and f Rational flag. The time has come to end once and om all the unclarity and hypocrisy of the BNA Act and 2 fight for a democratic constitution which will be the “‘Mbodiment of Canadian national independence and Can- adian democracy, Th the — BNA Act dian ruli Rational : Is an outworn instrument. reflecting itions of colonialism. It is utilized by the Cana- ng class today to block reforms and to perpetuate inequalities among the French-Canadian people. ieee St. Laurent government’s decision to secure legis- _ *Sonvin~ Britain to ‘authorize amendment of certain sec- a key tions of the act in Canada, does not overcome the contradictions in that act and, therefore, will not solve Canada’s . constitutional crisis. It is, in fact, a trick to facilitate the sell-out to Wall Street. The LPP proposes that the fight for a democratic Canadian constitution be commenced throughout the Canadian labor movement, in the farm organiza- tions, among the supporters of the CCF and among the French-Canadian peo- ple. The vast majority of Canadians al Support the idea of a Canadian democratic consti- one which will embody the democratic national interests the English-speaking and French-Canadian nations, or- within a democratically established two-nation to Such a Constitution, to be thoroughly democratic and €xPress the real needs of the Canadian people, must tain the following provisions: eneral social services, such as old-age pen- : i SANKEE PENETRATION sions, family allowances, protection of national health, provision of medical services, pensions for the blind, and similar measures must be the responsibility of the federal government and such services and benefits must be uni- form throughout Canada. @ The federal government must be given consti- tutional authority to legislate concerning employer-em- ployee relations, minimum wages, hours of work, protec- tion of women and young people in industry, etc. @ A Bill of Rights must be written into the con- stitution guaranteeing the fundamental civil rights and liberties of every citizen, making illegal any form of racial or religious discriminaton, and wiping out the age-long victimization of the North American Indian people. @ The guarantees to Quebec written into the BNA Act in 1867 are inviolate and must remain in the new constitution and be honored to the full. In addition, Canada’s constitution must include recognition of the co- equal status of the two people who, combined, consti- tute the population of Canada. The rights of the people of French Canada to national self-determination up to and including the right of secession if they desire it, must be acknowledged. The constitution must provide that : within the two-nation state, in certain well-defined areas of legislative action and administrative authority the people - of French Canada enjoy sovereign powers—aincluding the right to decide for themselves through their own repre- sentatives, what shall be the attitude of French Canada towards issues which involve the question of peace or war. @® Any amendment to the constitution must be de- cided by a popular plebiscite, as in Australia, New Zea- land, the United States and other countries. No amend-’ ment to be enacted which affects specific interests of any province wihout the consent of that province. @ Excerpt from the main report given by Tim Buch to the recent meeting of the national committee of the Labor-Progressive party. ee By W. A. WOOD | ‘ Proposal raised to give _ Australia’s northern tip to U.S. THe official organ of the Victoria Branch of the Re- With nine Servicemen’s League, Mufti, has come out the statement that the top of Cape York Peninsula, “stralia’s northernmost point, should be given to the U.S. _ Tt is far better to give something to a friend in oer than to have it taken away by an enemy in bay ast fafa adding: “From the march of events in he Can months it is clear that the security of Austra ia Mo No longer rest on the strength of the British Com- cath. The Americans should be here now—the uc. 4 ” “Us of a defence or planning force. article is featured) without comment, by the un (Sydney), . Ornton, national secretary of the Federated fae None so blind... LL signs point to Canada being the most the Prosperous country as this century advan (T Seueral manager of the Royal Bank of Canada ah Atkinson) said here Friday. . . - ToL fail to see how we can avoid being the Racine country in the world as time goes : Said,” an Report in Vancouver News-Herald, March » 1950 The Sinday Most There are close to half a million unemployed {nadians who would appreciate something on ac- Count in 1950. ite, eee Ironworkers Association, is among those who’ have con- demned the proposal. The weekly Tribune here comments: “‘It is unlikely that the Victorian Returned Servicemen’s League, a stronghold of brasshats and ‘Liberals,’ would make such a sinister and sensational proposal without higher con- sultation. General Sir Thomas Blamey, is a member of the in Victoria. The former Australian commander-in-chief, RSL “The RSL proposal, if carried out, would turn residents of Cookstown, Cairns and inland areas of North Queensland into co- Jonial subjects and north- eastern Australia into a foreign war base.”’ Quoting section 24 of the Commonwealth Crimes Act which prescribes death for anyone who “‘instigates any foreigner to make an armed invasion of the E. THORNTON Commonwealth,” the Tri- He condemned the proposal. bune states: ‘Apparently ‘treason’ and ‘sedition’ provisions of the law are reserved for defenders of peace and Australian independence and not for those who pub- lically and callously break those laws and insult every worthwhile Australian Tradition.” LABOR FOCUS By J. B. SALSBERG Millard admits cold war role j Aaa was in the early days of the vitamin fad. The papers were filled with harrowing tales of the calamitous effect of vitamin deficiency on the human personality. A popular magazine carried a topical cartoon about this vitamin craze. It showed a tough-looking character seated in the middle of a room Surrounded by cops. The character showed signs of having been roughly handled but there was a broad smile on his face as if he suddenly saw the light. Beneath the cartoon were the following lines: “Will you talk now?” Why d’you do it?” “Yeah, Ill talk. It must have been a vitamin de- ficiency.” I was reminded of that cartoon when I read the reasons Charlie Millard gave recently for his criminal raids on the best organized union local in the country, the metal miner’s locals in Trail and Kimberley, B.C., and Sudbury, Ontario. This is what Charlie said: “Trail, B.C., Feb. 27 (CP) — C. HL Millard, na- tional director of the United Steel Workers of America (CIO) said today in an interview the steelworkers will replace the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union ‘in all locals in Canada’ within a@ year. “Mr. Millard, who is also vice-president of the Cana- dian Congress of Labor, said the struggle for power here between the steelworkers and mine-mill unions was ‘part of the cold war that is being waged all over the world.’ ” There is, however, a profound difference between the character in the cartoon and the one who is re- sponsible for the most disgusting union wrecking ac- tivity in history of Canadian labor. The type in the cartoon, when cornered, tried to get out of his difficulty by falling back on what was the popular notion of the moment even though he didn’t believe a word of-what he said. Millard, though, when cornered by an enraged working class, offers a reason for his crime in which he believes. He cries out his reason because he wants his friends, the big business engineers of the cold war, to hear him and come to his aid against the angry work- ers who surround him. By comparison the cartoon char- acter is sympathetic. .. . e Readers of this column will recall that we labelled as phony the reasons the right-wing CCF-CCL crowd gave for their raiding decisions. They stated that Mine- Mill hadn't organized the workers over which it had jurisdiction. The CCL and later steel, therefore, under- took the burden of organizing the unorganized. The fact, however, is that Mine-Mill has more members in Can- ada than most CCL unions have. We said repeatedly that the Mosher-Millard crowd was fulfilling the role which U.S, and Canadian imperialists expects of their labor stooges, to divide the ranks of labor and to destroy every union which refuses to fall in line with Wall Street war policies. At first the right-wing splitters denied these charges. They protested that all they wanted was to organize the unorganized metal miners. True, they have tens of thousands of unorganized steel workers to unionize, but they displayed a special passion for metal miners and just couldn’t help themselves. It’s almost like vit- amin deficiency... .-. But when Millard sent practically his entire staff into the 100 percent organized mining towns like Trail, Kimberley and Sudbury, the phony excuse of organizing the unorganized was torn to shreds. They revealed themselves in all their ugliness as cold-blooded, cynical raiders and union wreckers. This, of course, aroused not only the metal miners but all other honest workers against them. Millard was cornered. He then gave out with the shrill cry about the cold war. The mask having been torn away by his own deeds he admitted brazenly the real motive of his raiding—to carry the destructive cold war of imperialism into the ranks of labor. It is part of “Operation X” in which the U.S. war plan- ners are engaged. It is the plan to disrupt labor, weaken it and render it subservient to Wall Street’s plot for world domination and Hell-bomb warfare. And they talk about “politics in unions!” They talk about “outside interference” in unions! They now stand exposed, by their own admission, as agents of the cold war crowd in the ranks of labor. It is as such that they should be treated by the workers of this country. Millard’s admission is really an SOS call to big business. He asks for their aid in his fight against the workers who are up in arms against his destructive acts. To the workers of this country, and more especially to the steel workers, Millard’s confession should serve as a signal to the intensification of their struggle against him, his raiders and fifth column work in the ranks of the unions. Behind the Dollar Curtain PHOENIX, Ariz., March 9 (BUP) — Auth- orities rushed emergency food supplies today to a farm labor camp where 100 children were found starving in Grapes of Wrath conditions. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—MARCH 17, 1950—PAGE 9