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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.

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HE St. Laurent-King government has
opened the door to the establishment on
Canadian soil of ‘aggressive war bases of a

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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.
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'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.

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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!
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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-

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_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.

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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-
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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

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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

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