re ign FOR CANADA, PEACE AND DEMOCRACY! AGAINST WALL ST. WAR AND FASCISM! — The Draft Resolution of the National Executive of the Labor - Progressive Party — I. THE DRIVE TO WAR AND FASCISM ANADA is in danger. The threat of horrible atomic war hangs over our country. : The Third National Convention of the Labor-Progressive Party, critically reviewing our policies and record since June 1946, must set the course for stronger, militant action to organize and lead the working class of Canada forward, in battle against the warmakers, to save our country and its peoples from the ‘hell and suffering of atomic war. Who are the warmakers? A handful of zich men, bankers, generals, industrial tycoons—the men of Wall Street who, upon the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seized control of the U.S. government, These are the men who drive America to war to save their profit system. Peace, and our country’s national security and independence are imperilled by this pro- fit-emad drive of U.S, imperialism for world conquest and overlordship — and by the shameless betrayal of the national interests by the Canadian monopolists who are willingly and slavishly subordinating Canada to the men of Wall St. in the reckless conspiracy to wage atomic war against the Socialist Soviet Union, and New Democracies of Europe and the valiant millions of peoples in the Far East whose struggle has brought them to the threshold of freedom. e e e HE St. Laurent-King government has opened the door to the establishment on Canadian soil of ‘aggressive war bases of a 8 foreign power; permitted the occupation Oh strategic points by foreign troops; and econ- omically as well as politically, embarked on policies which make this country a satellite of the Wall St. imperialists. Following the examples of Hitler and Goebells, they are utilizing the “big lie” technique to “soften up” the Canadian people in preparation for their atomic assault on the U.S.S.R. ; As an essential part of this war conspiracy the monopolists of Canada are moving stead- ily twoards the police state and fascism, A joint attack by government and big business is being waged to destroy civil liberties and the labor movement, to break the resistance of the working class and the people to this program of reaction. The RCMP, the courts, the government departments — and | their agents and stool pigeons—cooperate with big business, with the Boards of Trade and the Chambers of Commerce, to undermine and smash the trade union movement. In one generation, two world wars have saddled Canadians with a national debt of $19 billion, on which the rich collect $400 million a year in interest. Now the Canadian people are paying as well for armaments for World War 3: a million dollars every working » day, raised through crushing taxes, high prices and declining living standards. ee eave 'N RETURN for the prospect of ever bigger » profits, the monopolists and their govern- ment are operating policies which will disrupt Canada’s economy, wipe out much of our export trade, reduce the country to a source of raw materials for U.S. industry and gear it for war as an air and military base of Operations. ; Lower living standards, destruction of civil liberties, fascism and war: this is the murder- tion fights to save a system that is doomed by its own insoluble contradictions. The camp of peace and progress counts in its ranks the democratic, anti-monopolist forces in the capitalist countries; the colonial and semi-colonial peoples battling to be free of the imperialist yoke; the countries of the New Democracy, establishing socialism; and, at its head, the bulwark of democracy and peace, the Socialist Soviet Union. _ This camp is strong, and growing in strength. In it is the great majority of the peoples of the world. The camp of imperialist war and reaction counts in its ranks the surviving cohorts of ' Nazidom, in Franco Spain, Greece, Western | Germany, and Japan; the temnants of dis- lodged feudal Jandlordism and _ capitalist oligarchy from the lands going over to the building of socialism; the ruling capitalists of Western Europe and elsewhere, sunk to the role of hirelings of Washington; and, at its head, the profit-glutted power of big business America, the new aspirant to domination of the world. This camp, brandishing the atomic bomb, threatening to blow up the earth, is not so strong as it appears: its attempt to launch an atomic war is a policy of desperation, it can, must, and will be defeated, if mankind is to survive. ‘ I. U.S. IMPERIALISM'S © AIMS Cy JUNE 5, 1946, the Labor-Progressive — Party, at its 2nd National Convention, warned Canada of the war perils: “Powerful forces have launched an of- fensive in a desperate effort to disrupt Big Three unity and turn back the course of history. American and British Se ieee with the eager collaboration of the Canadian monopolists, are systematically undermin- ing the unity of the United Nations. They are reviving the very practice which was the immediate cause of the war — conspiracy and intrigue calculated to align all reaction- ary forces against the people’s governments of Europe, the colonial liberation move- ments, and the Soviet Union. ” “Their drive to make Canada a cockpit of World War 3 “would bring about the subjugation of our country and its demo- cratic institutions to a foreign imperialist military system —the triumph of North American fascism.” Events have proved the correctness of that warning. - U.S. imperialism came out of the war militarily strong, with Wall Street the domi- nating force in the capitalist world. The unevennéss of development of the capitalist countries was intensified by the war. Basing itself upon the atom bomb and its swollen military power, taking advantage of the weak- ening of Britain, France and the rest of the _ capitalist world, Wall Street’s supreme aim is to maintain its monopoly profits at their - record levels ($28 billion in 1947 as compared to $6.5 billion in 1939). U.S. imperialism has undertaken the job of enslaving Europe, taking over Canada, South America, and the British Empire, and making ‘in. history: the all nations and peoples subject to its will. These are the reasons why the Truman-Mar- . shall Plan concentrates upon rebuilding West- ern Germany as an aggressive war base; upon the support of fascist monarchists and clericals in Greece, Italy and France and Franco Spain, and the corrupt reactionary Chiang Kai-shek; upon building a chain of 489 war bases in every part of the earth. These are the reasons why U.S. imperialism incites civil wars and the assassination of working class leaders, why it takes the side of the oppressors, against the common man, in every struggle. Striving to hold on to its monopoly markets grabbed dur- -ing the war, Wall Street is ruthlessly bent upon battering down all resistance, including British attempts to resist United States dollar domi- nation, and feverishly prepares for atomic war. e e e LL THIS is done in the name of “defend- ing democracy against Soviet aggression”, of “saving Western civilization from Com- munist totalitarianism.” Here is the new, Wall Street version of the Hitlerite Big Lie. Just as Hitler undertook world conquest to “‘save the West from Bolshevism”, so now the U.S. banker-generals drive for world domination and war on the Soviet Union, the New Democ- racies and the colonial peoples—in the name of a “crusade against Communism”. The United States delegate in the United Nations rejects the Soviet proposal for mutual , partial disarmament on the pretence that U.S. security-is threatened by Soviet “anta- gonism to capitalism”. ; It is under this’ smokescreen that the Morgans, Duponts and. Rockefellers, the Forrestals and Harrimans, and their kept press, radio and other instruments of propa- ganda, are plotting the most monstrous crime starting of atomic. war to “save” the capitalist system! e e oe T IS in helping to put across anew the Hitlerite anti-Communist | lie, that . the Right-wing social-democrats in Canada as elsewhere, render the most precious service to Wall Street: and brand themselves with renewed betrayal. Acting as an American war party within the labor movement, they help U.S. imperialism in its systematic at- tempts to split the trade union movement in Western Europe, to smash the World Feder- ation of Trade Unions, to prevent or disrupt Communist-Socialist joint action. In power in Britain, they play the part of Wall Street’s first lieutenants in mobilizing the machinery of the Empire for anti-Soviet aggression. Right-wing social democracy is the most important single agency of Wall Street in holding the last positions of capi- talism on the continent of Europe. IV. THE BETRAYAL OF CANADA 1 OUR own country, big business, in servile partnership with Wall St. drives towards fascism and war. They have placed the country at the disposal of a foreign pow- ear. They are out to smash the trade unions, illegalize our Party, throttle democracy, be- LPP convention Jan. 21 _tray and snuff out our national independence. Their $300 million military budget is part of the U.S.-directed war preparation, mili- tarization and peacetime conscription scheme —for war across the North. They are sup- porting the U.S. attempts to wreck the United Nations; they are vociferous.in their advocacy of a war alliance against. the Soviet Union and the New Democracies; they are “{ntegrating” Canada in U.S. war plans; they refuse to recognize the new state of Israel; they provide sanctuary in Canada for con- victed war criminals fleeing from justice in France. Anti-labor legislation is introduced in the provinces, while mob violence against the labor movement is publicly condoned -and encouraged. In Quebec, near-fascist re- pression of the Left is combined with open support to the revival of fascist organization and activity. V. THE VAST MAJORITY WANT PEACE — UT the Canadian people, and the world’s people, want peace. They do not want the replacement of the Roosevelt Atlantic ~Charter of thé Four Freedoms by a “North Atlantic Pact” which negates both the spirit and the letter of the United Nations Charter. Opposition to the warmongers is wide- spread and profound. Canadians will not readily accept the transformation of their land into a U.S.-occupied warbase for ag- — gression across the North. The Canadian people want peace—and economic and social justice. They are actively engaged in strug- gle against the program of economic and social reaction of the monopolists. : %* In the epic battle of the Great Lakes seamen against the CSL is mirrored both wees %& In the call of the Trades and Labor — Congress convention for peace and economic aid to the war shattered nations of Europe through the United Nations, is reflected the true sentiment of the vast majority of orga- nized workers in both AFL and CIO unions. %& In the great movement of the house- — wives against profiteering and for price con- trols is splendidly expressed the healthy ° democratic, anti-monopoly sentiment of, mil, lions of Canadians. * The struggles of the Canadian people A . for peace, security, and democratic liberties are part of the forward surge of the masses in the world democratic camp. e e e ROM every quarter of. the globe, Wall Street’s war policy calls forth the growing — ee opposition of the majority of the world’s peoples. Democratic Canadians see assurance of victory in the continuing and ever-extend- ing triumphant advance of the people’s forces all over the world, by the inspiring post-war achievements of Socialism in the U.S.S.R. Within the United States, Henry Wallace, fighting for American-Soviet friendship, voices the will to peace and social progress of millions of Americans; labor battles the Taft-Hartley, red-baiting onslaught against trade unionism; mass democratic opinion is stirred by the fighting defense put up by the Communists of their constitutional rights. In England and Western Europe the ruthless — exploitation and enslavement of their coun- tries by U.S. imperialism arouses the resis- tance of ever greater masses, headed by strong Communist Parties. Seagal ek The struggles of the colonial peoples for national freedom are extending, gaining ~~ ground. In China the armies of the new democracy sweep forward irresistibly. The days of the U.S.-backed regime of repres- _ By arrangement with the Canadian Tribune and Pacific Tribune, the National Executive of the Labor-Progressive Party publishes this Draft Resolution for the 3rd National LPP Convention which takes place in Toronto, January 21-25, 1949. Furthermore, this arrangement provides for the publication in both papers, every week, of discussion and. com- ment on the Draft Resolution. ‘Clubs and members of the LPP, and all active workers of the lebor sions, corruption and national betrayal, head- movement are invited to send in their comments, criticisms and pro- ed by Chiang Kai-shek aré numbered. — posals on am Dratt ene to ensure that this discussion on Canada’s a. a Se roblems will strengthen all aspects. of the struggle for peace, progress oe / yee end democracy, and steel the Canadian labor movement for fhe sity Riese sce: segues a ae ‘tasks ahead. i ee ees ism, vast strides in peaceful reconstruction All discussion articles should be sent to William Kashtan, LPP have been taken, thanks to the operation of National Office; 73 Adelaide Street West, Toronto. planned adorned the cooperative labor of | eee ous prospect held out by the men of the trusts for Canada’s people! - is ie Democracy and Peace: this is the answer | of the true defenders of Canada, the working — | class and its allies, battling for higher, wages and decent living standards, for housing, hospitals and health, for peace-and Canada’s independence. , Il, THE CAMPS. AND WAR | “HE world today is split in two camps, locked in struggle. In one, the majority of mankind surges forward on: the road of _. liberation; in the other, finance-capitalist reac- OF PEACE PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 5, 1948 — PAGE 5