THE NATION By TIM BUCK Titoism, cosmopolitanism-- new cloaks for imperialism E: must expose and completely discredit the war- mongering propaganda by which the imperialists are seeking to delude democratic Canadians into beliey- ‘Ing that Tito is a Communist: that he is in conflict with all the other Communist parties in the world only because he refuses to subordinate Yugoslavia to the Soviet Union. _ That propaganda is absolutely false and its falseness 1s easy to prove. But we do not explain the facts suf- ficiently and, therefore, the majority of our party mem- ‘bers fail to refute lies about Tito and Yugoslavia. We must make known to all democratic Canadians the startl- ing facts revealed during the trials of the traitors Rajk and Kostov in Hungary and Bulgaria. Those facts ex- posed Tito and the clique around him as double-dealing adventurers, trotskyite traitors to the working class movement, several of whom were sent into Yugoslavia by Hitler's Gestapo. The record shows that the Tito clique of double-dealing adventurers was deliberately bartering away Yu- goslavia and the future of the Yugo- slav people through the U.S. state department while they were still pos- ing as ardent champions of the camp of peace. Tito, in the service of the Anglo-U.S. imperialists, was the center of a treacherous conspiracy to overthrow the people’s governments in Hungary and other countries - and to reduce the countries of central and eastern Europe again to puppets of the imperialists and springboards for an imperialist war. The Tito clique has now reduced Yugoslavia to a Marshallized country, with a fascist state apparatus, completely dependent upon the imperial- ists and their plans for war. 4 ® An increasingly important weapon in the war prep- ~ arations of the imperialists is their insidious campaign to confuse progressive people with the demoralizing propa- — ganda of cosmopolitanism — the pretense that national Sovereignty is an “‘obsolete concept” which obstructs progress. We must arouse the entire working class against that poisonous lie. The lieutenants of U.S. imperialism in Caada pre- tend to believe that we have arrived at the stage of “world Citizenship,” that the key to economic and political prog- \tess is the “American Way of Life’— which means in Practice the subordination of all weaker nations to the cultural, economic, military and political domination of U.S. imperialism. They foster the lie that defense of National’ sovereignty contradicts internationalism. In Europe’ the imperialists exploit the propaganda ~ Of cosmopolitanism to facilitate their campaign for a “Parliament of Europe”— which Lenin characterized in advance in 1915, when he pointed out that the only Condition under which a “United States of Europe ‘Would be established by the capitalist class would be for the purpose of jointly suppressing socialism in Ew- pe, of jointly protecting colonial booty. . - - Such is the pretense of “world citizenship” by which — imperialist warmongers, assisted in Canada by numer- ous spokesmen of the CCF, seek to undermine the na- tional consciousness of the working people. 3 _ Cosmopolitanism has nothing in common with pro- xy Operation North Mole | WASHINGTON — (AP) _— Sir Hubert Wilkins, the Arctic explorer, said Meaty night that submarines carrying guided missiles an airplanes under the Arctic ice might be the most effective means of conducting an offensive against ussia. ‘ ; ~~" __Mancouver News-Herald, March 14, 1950 Come now, Sir Hubert, you mean ce e, 4 don’t you? \\ Nemes - $6000 quacks Some Hon. Members: Sit Down. Some Hon. Members: Quack, quack. Mr. Pouloit (Lib. Temiscouata): Quack, quack. _ Mr. Drew (Prog.-Cons. leader): “A quack quack here and a quack quack there, here a quack, there a quack, everywhere a quack quack.” —Hansard, Vol. 90, No. 20, p. 780. Too much old Macdonald’s Nightcap probably. letarian internationalism. International working class sol- idarity against capitalist exploitation, against imperalist oppression, against imperialist war, is also, and essentially, the love of liberty, of economic freedom, and the demo- cratic national sovereignty of one’s own people. Cosmopolitanism, on the contrary, does not oppose capitalist exploitation, imperialist oppression, or war, but facilitates each of them. Cosmopolitanism betrays mna- tional economic interests, betrays national security, betrays national cultural development, betrays even national sov- ereignty, under the cloak of a fake “‘universalism’” which is in fact only an acceptance of U.S. dictatorship in all spheres of - life. The LPP rejects and condemns the nihilistic propa- ganda of ‘‘cosmopolitanism” and its “‘universal’’ subservi- ence to U.S. dollars. We fight against bourgeois nation- alism—which is reactionary and anti-working class... The LPP. proudly holds high the banner of democratic na- tional sovereignty and independence! There is no contradiction, but the most complete harmony between the fight for genuine progressive Cana- dian independence, and working class internationalism. The LPP fights against U.S. attempts to dominate the economic cultural and. political life of our country, against the United States’ war program within the Canadian labor movement, and to make more ardent true devotion and patriotism to Canada. We do this because we love liberty and’ national and economic freedom, which is the essence of the international solidarity of the working class. @ Final excerpi from the main report given by Tim Buck to the recent meeting of the national committee of the Labor-Progressive party. Confirm Duplessis’ role in archbishop's ouster eral ONFIRMATION of the Pacific Tribune’s analysis that AS the ousting of Msgr. Joseph Charbonneau from his position as Archbishop of Montreal was engineered by Premier Duplessis because of the former’s support of the Asbestos strikers, received indirect confirmation last week from the Tablet, a leading British Roman Catholic weekly. i _ Handling of the removal of Archbishop Charbonneau, said the Tablet, was not “satisfactory.” “As all govern- ments know, the removal of archbishops is not so easily obtained,” the Tablet stated. “Why was it only Msgr. Charbonneau whose dismissal ‘asbestos magnates’ secur- ed when Msgr. Desranleau (Bishop of Sherbrooke) in particular played a more prominent part in the strikes and used stronger language in defense of the strikers? But Bishop Desranleau still remains in his see. Clearly the situation is not a satisfactory one. .. .” At the time of Archbishop Charbonneau’s “resigna- tion” some weeks ago the Pacific Tribune pointed out that pressure from Duplessis, ably assisted by the Ameri- can owners of Canadian Johns-Manville and the U.S. state department, had caused his removal by the Vatican. Premier Duplessis and American big money are now gunning for Bishop Desranleau. Said the Tablet: “A resignation of that kind is a very unusual happening; speculation was inevitable. If it could not have been avoided by more careful handling, it should be more fully explained.” LABOR FOCUS By J. B. SALSBERG ‘Union men be bold’ for peace OST Canadians desire lasting peace and cooperation between the socialist and non-socialist parts of the world. This desire is nowhere stronger than among Canadian working men and women. We must, however, acknowledge that it has not yet found its corresponding powerful mass expression, : It would’ be wrong, of course, to say there is no fighting peace front in this country. Such a front not only exists but is growing stronger every day. Nor ‘ would it be correct to say that Can- adian labor is not an active part of this peace front. Labor is, in, fact, the keystone of the Canadian peace movement. The LPP and its support- ers are in the forefront of the fight for peace; tens of thousands of trade union members give direct and in- direct support to anti-war and anti- imperialist policies on every impor- tant occasion- (union conventions, ban-the-bomb petitions, etc.); con- siderable sections of the CCF and its supporters offer open resistance to the CCF official foreign policies which coincide with those of the Liberal and Tory parties. But the trade union movement as such and the million-strong rank and file of the unions are not yet involved in sufficient numbers in the active and con- scious struggle for peace. Why? The reasons are not hard to find. The madmen in the U.S. atomic, war camp have ' unloosed an unprecedented campaign of confusion and ~ * intimidation in their country. They inundate the Ameri- can people with lies and misrepresentations. They have brought forth all sinister, reactionary, fascist, labor- hating, Negro-lynching, anti-Semitic scum and have given them free rein. They adopted the union-busting Taft-Hartley law and now seek thought-control, legis lation. They have removed every independent-thinking commentator from the air and hound the best writers in the film industry. They fire professors who dare sup port Henry Wallace, and remove from libraries such mildly Hberal journals as the. Nation. : In their drive to destroy every opposition and every independence of thought, the Wall Street crowd suc- ceeded in lining up the support of dominant sections of the trade union burocracy. CIO secretary James Carey, for instance, openly shouts that in the next war he will join hands with the fascists against the Com- munists. : This cold war hysteria has been brought into Can- ada by our own ruling clique who are completely sub- _ servient to Washington. Here, too, attempts are made — to brand the advocacy of peace as a crime. Labor agents of the U.S. state department arrogantly interfere in Canadian union affairs in order to try to smash all labor opposition to Wall Street’s plots. Little wonder that the savage drum beats from be- low the border and the shrieks of “our own” press, _ government spekesmen and labor burocrats has caused confusion in the minds of honest, peace-seeking people and has disarmed masses of workers. On a world scale the U.S. warmakers have suffered staggering defeats, Even the !U.S. big busimess press admits that the people of Europe are pressing their — ‘governments to pull out of the cold war. China has joined the global struggle for peace. While the Mar-— shall countries experience mounting economic difficulties. and rising unemployment, the Soviet Union and the Peoples Democracies ‘record impressive advances. The — appearance of U.S. warships at Saigon brought about tremendous demonstrations of Viet Nam people that . forced their hasty departure. The anti-war front is truly becoming global in proportion. In Canada, too, the luster of U.S. influence is tar- nishing. The crippling effect of our government’s U.S.- dominated foreign policy on Canadian trade is stirring Canadian workers and farmers from coast to coast. The _ 500,000 Canadian unemployed are demanding a trade — policy to open world markets for Canada. The influen- — tial Ontario farm paper, the Rural » is ask- ing Ottawa whether it works for U.S. manufacturers or Canadian farmers. Not since the reciprocity days of — ‘1911 has there been so much open anti-US. talk in the House of Commons and in the provincial legislatures. The revulsion of the Canadian people to Wall Street’s. hydrogen: bomb threat and to Johnston’s “We'll lick Joe Stalin” outburst was so great that even External Af- oral Minister Pearson was compelled to oppose “such What is necessary now is for Canadian labor to _ boldly declare its resolve to fight for Canadian inde- pendence and for peace. Yes, this should be done cour- ageously and even defiantly. Let the warmongers and oe their stooges in the ranks of labor be put to shame. It is they who betray the best interests of Canada and © the world. Those who expose the plotters of war serve _ the people of Canada, and they have every reason to stand proudly in the fight for peace. Enough of intimidation and brow beating! See Take the Ban-the-Bomb petitions into every fac ‘tory, mine and mill and ask your fellow workers to sign | it! They will, if you approach them and explain things _ patiently. ee ee: Raise the question of sending delegates to the fort coming Canadian Peace Congress in your local union! If your burocracy should hinder you then see to it | _ that your rank-and-file elects its own delegates to join with hundreds of other trade unitm representatives at that Congress in forging an unbreakable Canadian front | for peace! : : oe oe Go to it with courage and confidence! PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 31, 1950 — PAGE 9 _