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Neutrality means jobs

UCH of the current debate on
the subject of Canadian neu-
trality centres around the ideology
of war, hot or cold. Some argue
that Canada just cannot be neutral
and at the same time maintain
any semblance of effective “de-
fence,” forgetting that even now
with billions down the arms drain,
- we have none.

_ This negative approach to the
Subject of neutrality probably
_ Stems from the fact that in U.S.
imperialist war circles, Canada is
already accorded the “most favor-
_ ed” expendable nation in U.S. de-
fence. On that score there need no
longer be any doubts. Hence the
necessity of estimating the neu-
trality question from other angles.

With a million unemployed and
the outlook far from bright for
those who still have a pay envel-
ope, a study of neutrality from the
standpoint of jobs brings up some
positive conclusions.

Enjoying a status of neutrality,
that is, independence from the dic-
tates, demands, interference and
' resources grabbing of U.S. imper-
ialism, Canada could adopt domes-'
tic and foreign policies, based en-
tirely on the concept of peace,
international friendship, and ex-
panding market and trade rela-
tions with all countries.

Such policies, geared to peace
and expressive ef a positiive neu-
trality, would win a more stabiliz-
ed and healthy economy, open up
vast new markets for Canada and

_ provide millions of new jobs for

Canadians.

In our present position with the
Diefenbaker “government, as did
the Liberals before them, serving
as the echo of U.S. warmongering,
aggression, “free world” division
and provocation, our peace, econ-
omic security, and national self-
respect are sold down the river.

Prohibited from writing our own
domestic and foreign policy tickets
for peace, friendship and trade
with other countries, we not only

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lose our national self-respect, but
our markets and jobs to boot.

Washington tells our Liberal
and Tory yes-men governments
whom we must “recognize”, and
who not; where we can sell our
products, and where not. They
even regulate much of our basic
industries, opening them up or
closing them down at will, as U.S.
war circles dictate. Thus Canada
has not only become a “powder-
monkey” for U.S. imperialism, but
its white “Jim Crow expendable”,
if, as and when U.S. aggressive
provocations burst into full-scale
nuclear destruction.

Even the absence of a militant
independent Canadian neutrality
reaches down into the ranks of or-
ganized labor to a point where
Canadian workers in their own
Canadian unions cannot earn a
livelihood in their own country
without the permission of a U.S.
resident burocracy, which invari-
ably takes its cue from the Dulles-
led Central Intelligence Agency
and the FBI.

Seen from the standpoint of jobs -
and peace, for the security and
self-respect of an independent
Canadian nation, neutrality for
Canada is a “must”.

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. Comment -

P-A union with whom?

‘WO decades Or more ago when
_the issue of Pan-American
Union was being kicked around in
Washington and Ottawa, the late
and unlamented Liberal chieftain
Mackenzie King took a “dim view”

- of the question.

With the Royal Bank and the
Holt monopoly interests harvest-
ing fat profits out of Cuban trac-
tion, sugar, finance and other
sources of exploitation, crafty
Willie didn’t choose to disturb
such a happy arrangement by be-
coming an advocate of Pan-Amer-
ican Union. Thus, after due con-
sultation with the spooks in a
lengthy seance, cautious Willie
gave out with a lusty “no” for
Canada.

Much has happened in Cuba and
all of Latin America since. In Cuba
the people have told the monopol-
ists, “‘here’s your hat,” and taken
over themselves. Directing their
own destinies, choosing their own
friends, inviting their own guests,
and keeping a close eye on U.S.
hostile interventionist intentions.

Discredited in Cuba and other
Latin American countries, and
highly “alarmed” at the projected
visit of Chairman Nikita Khrush-
chev to Cuba, the U.S. imperialists

now call upon its Ottawa satellites
to do a tub-thumping job for Pan.
American Union.

Not of course to assist the peo-
ple of Cuba or of all Latin America
to win peace and economic and
social progress for themselves, but
to make sure that “a Communist.
type of people’s democracy” does
not “catch on” in the western
hemisphere.

Thus renewed interest in Ottawa
on Cuban and Latin-American af.
fairs does not stem from any
humanitarian motives of peace and
friendship, but simply as a stooge
for U.S. reactionary circles, with
the job of seeing to it that “a Com.
munist beachhead in this part o¢
the world’ does not happen?

On Dief’s visit to Ike the U.g.
press may not have given his
demagogy many column inches
but it is now becoming obvious the
Pentagon boys gave him a goog
briefing on how to run interfer.
ence for U.S. imperialism in Latin
America. Hence we may take jt
that having been inoculated with
U.S. “alarm” over K’s visit to
Cuba, Dief will do his best to echo
U.S. demands for “Pan-American
Union” — with Canada again the
loser.

Tom
McEwen

“w= VERYBODY was happy.” .So
runs a Cutline item below a
group picture of CCF top’ brass
at the recent Montreal convention
of the Canadian Labor Congress
in the current edition of the CCF
News. ‘ :

The source of this social demo-
cratic merriment is already pain-
fully ‘evident. The machined vote
on the CLC political action reso-
lution to move ahead with the pre-
natal preliminaries of the “new

the CLC Winnipeg resolution but
on later “study papers referred to
therein,”
hurdle successfully cleared. “Study
papers ...” in the form of a draft
program and constitution for the
“new party,” primarily designed to
garner labor votes and finances for
the CCF. To make the CCF “it.”

- Hence: “everybody was happy,”
i.e. everybody but the vast ma-
jority of organized labor represent-
ed at the CLC convention, who
were tricked into thinking they
had voted for a “new party’” when

. foundation ‘to build upon,

party,’ not on the broad basis of.

represented another

in actuality all they had voted for
was a priority claim on their-votes
and finances by the CCF.

Trickery and deception as every-
one should know, is a very shaky
and
especially a new all-embracing
farmer-labor political alliance,
capable of challenging and defeat-
ing the political henchmen of big

_ monopoly.

It follows therefore that much
of this CCF top brass “happiness”
may turn’sour faster than a quart
of milk in a hot sun. On the other
hand the only people with real
cause for ‘happiness’ will be the
monopolists and their Social
Credit, Tory and Liberal janis-
saries, who will regard this CCF
caricature of a “new party” as
being no threat to their political
regimes. Something to jibe at, but
not worry about.

__Pat O’Neil, secretary of the B.C.
Federation of Labor, speaking in

- Courtenay, told his CCF colleagues

that ‘‘now, more than ever before,
the CCF is in a position to win a
provincial e¢fection’ or words to
that effect. We don’t know what
vintage of brew Patrick used to
produce such hallucinations, but
the hangover is going to be terrific
when the votes are counted.

A “new party” built along the
lines of the Winnipeg resolution
instead of the trick CCF ’study
papers referred to therein’? would

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have been cause for optimism and
_vietory for the people of factory

and farm. As it now stands, the
job of building a united farmer-
labor-peoples’

tarded, rendered more difficult,
but by no means insurmountable.

Between now and the “found-
ing” convention of the new party,
hundreds of trade union locals,
farm organizations, the Communist
Party of Canada and other mili-
tant sections of the people will be
on the move; seeking out ways and

means of transforming the CCF. ~

CLC political abortion into a fight-
ing instrument, capable of deliver-
ing hammer blows at the class
enemy of the people. E

Like all social democratic oppor-
tunists and windbags,
leadership of the CCF are great
“planners.” A “planned” economy,
a “planned” NATO, “planned” re-

plies to “the bluster and threats of -
the Soviet leader,” a la Harold

Winch.

At the moment the greatest
“planning” of all, to make sure
that the political strength of the
workingclass, through the medium
of a genuine all-inclusive political
party shall not be mobilized and
united to do battle for jobs, social
security, and peace. Just provide

the votes and the dough, and the -

CCF will provide the “planned”
oratorial wind.

alternative to the -_
rule of big business has been re. —

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