Peace is the only defense EDITORIAL PAGE —HOY (Havana) A hope for mankind s the United States set off its highly dangerous nuclear blast in space this week with a blinding flash which showed the ominous danger to mankind, in Moscow the largest peace congress in history opened its sessions. The connection between the two is inescapable. One represents the effort to create and increase the arsenal of nuclear weapons which can wipe out mankind. The other _represents the con- scious and growing action of people of all faiths and from all lands seeking common action to halt the arms race and bring san- ity to the earth before it is too late. The hope of mankind, and in- deed its future if there is to be one, depends on the peace forces winning this race and putting a stop to the madness which threat- ens everyone. Survival does not depend on who has the largest nuclear ar- senal. There is more than enough around now to destroy all life. Our only hope for survival rests on Pacific Tribune : Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor—MAURICE RUSH Business Mgr..-OXANA BIGELOW -Published weekly at: Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone MUtual 5-5288 Subscription Rates: One Year: $4:00—Six Months: $2.25 Canadian and Commonwealth coun- tries (except Australia): $4:00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash. péace — there is no other defense. That is why hundreds of mil- lions of people all over the world look to the Congress for General Disarmament and Peace now meeting in the socialist capital. The race for survival can be won through man’s common action for. peace. _ people’s belts, prime Minister Diefenbaker’s continued refusal to call an immediate session of the new Par- liament to deal with the present economic crisis in the courtry is yet another display of the con- tempt of the Tories for the people. The prime minister says he wants a “cooling off” period to give time “for political passions to subside”. What he really wants ‘is time to push through his austerity measures, time during which, he hopes, the people will get used to having their belts pulled in a few notches tighter. ~ In Parliament the Tories would have to face at least some of the public anger and opposition to their proposed austerity measures. They have chosen, therefore, to carry them through now by order- in-council and confront Parliament with an accomplished fact. Another reason why Parliament isn’t being called at this time is because the big monopolists do not see any real threat to their inter- ests in the present situation. They are quite content with Diefenbak- er’s belt-tightening program (the not theirs) for meeting the crisis. Witness how unanimous the spokesmen of big business have been in endorsing it. Their only complaint is that it doesn’t go far enough and that it should be made permanent. We would see how quickly the Tories (and the Liberals) would call Parliament together if it were a different kind of crisis—a crisis that arose from a challenge by the people, one in which the inter- ests of the monopolists were at stake or being threatened. Call Parliament now No, the Tories won’t call early session of Parliament, will the Liberals do much ™ than go through the motions asking for one — for their ® political ends. It is the pa themselves — the big majoril that voted against the Tories ™, their policies—who must dem@® it. This country cannot wait ¥ September or October for Pat ment to meet. With every day ! goes by the living standards our people are being drast! lowered, the country is being @ en further and further into © to the foreign bondholders. is why from every corner of land, from all the organization® : the people — the trade : unit farm organizations, consU m groups and cooperatives—the mahd must go out loud, cleat a insistent to Prime Minister ’ enbaker and his cabinet:— CALL PARLIAMENT NO", @ Canadian MEI EDITORIAL COMME [" amazing how the big busi!" press in Canada is failing | report the growing opposition — Britain to joining the EuroP Common Market. Last week Britain’s 359) strong National Union of RailW men, voted against joining Unions in Britain now opP® ECM total over one million ™ bers. ; Can it be that the reasom silence of the monopoly pre due to the fact that the U.S. § department’s official line is push for Britain’s entry ECM? = = pol Tom McEwen e had occasion some weeks W ago to voice some words of criticism on the rabid anti-com- munist fever which appears to have stricken the editorial sanc- tum of The Western Construction Tradesman, a monthly journal which styles itself as the “Official Organ of International Building Trades Unions’? On the masthead of this journ- alistic distortion of trade unionism, the assurance “to every member the religious and political beliefs of his choice” is set forth in bold type. Its editorial columns however, makes very clear that this ‘‘choice”’ is valid only if it conforms to standard coldwar ideology as set down by the U.S. State Depart- ment and its numerous McCarthy- ized agencies, among which must be counted a whole herd of high- salaried union bureaucrats and “roadmen” to whom McCarthyism: has become a standard manual. The editorial in question is bas- ed upon a “letter-to-the-editor”’ by Wm. “Bill” Page of Local 452 of the Carpenters Union. In a rec- ent ‘“ban-the-bomb” «march ‘in Vancouver, Brother Page “was sorry to see among the marchers . the business agent of Local’ 452 and a fellow carpenter carry- ing a large sign between them, with the printed words ‘‘Carpen-' ters Local’’. : This worthy effort of his fellow carpenters, (exercising their “choice” against nuclear bomb cremation) obviously hurt William no end, who also. declares himself in favor of “‘a justified peace’, but put his peace in quotes in order to differentiate himself from ‘‘ban the bomb” carpenters? From there on ye editor of The Western Construction Tradesman uncorks eight double-column inches of stale anti-communist bile, ranging all the way from Nikita Krushchev to the ‘'‘Red Dean” of Canterbury. Not a McCarthyite trick is miss- ed. If someone talks about ‘‘Trade with China’, “Trade with Cuba’, a ‘Peace Council” or a ‘Peace March” ad infinitum, he (or she) is a ‘Commie’ for sure. Even Dr. Alcock’s ‘‘Peace Research’ is not overlooked in this editorial pan- egyric of anti-communist bilge. And the mere mention of “co-exi- istence’’ just seems to plunge the editor of ‘‘WCT” into a new fit of anti-communist delerium tremens? Just how or where all this red bogey hysteria fits in for the ad- vancement, the peace, or the social and economic wellbeing of build- ing workers or others, isn’t stated? Building workers, like many others, still have the prime job of sos rea .and an end to the rising th wind winning wage and working stan ards commensurate with the we live in, and no amount of red-baiting will or can adva? that cause. And least of all in a jou which boasts itself as being “pledd ed to serve the best interest building craftsmen in Manitt Saskatchewan, Alberta and Brit Columbia.” ed Red-baiting by a brainwash” trade union burocracy is one Bil vice” the carpenters and oth workers in B.C., the prairies elsewhere, can well do with” since it falls directly into the ©” gory of the “service” render ; a hangman’s rope ‘supporting victim? - d al Our hats are off ever a? 2 ways to carpenters, building ce all workers who march for of nuclear destruction. The 8F? unity called forth to win this 5% red objective, is also a vital fa d in winning greater economic ind social standards for the Wore people—including all those ao Western Construction Trades claims to “serve” very badly, if its editorial dia are any criterion. And in the growing cle peace and outlawing of nt 08 weapons, now engaging gre it millions of the world’s peoP!€" would appear as if Brother is going to be afflicted with manent “sorrow”, since Hist and the carpenters will pass by. f pattle ory