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Sesame changes vital-
ly affecting Canada have
taken place since parliament pro-
rogued last July 18. The test of
the new session opening Thursday
will be the extent to which the
MP’s and- the government take
these changes into account.

Since July 18 Premier Khrush-

chev has carried his message of.

peaceful coexistence directly to
the American people (and to
Canadians as well through exten-
sive radio and TV coverage). Be-
fore the United Nations he chart-
ed the Soviet Union’s plan for
ending war forever through total
disarmament. As a result of the
peaceful initiatives of -the Soviet
Union, international agreement
has now been reached that on May
16 a summit meeting will open,
and that on March 15 work will
begin. on disarmament in the 10-
nation committee of which Can-
ada is a member.

The Canadian people have wel-
comed all these developments with
unqualified enthusiasm. Among
important sections of Canadian
capitalists there is a fast growing
realization that all the policies
based on the cold war are now
bankrupt.

If our parliament is to measure
up to the challenge of this new
situation, it should respond to the
appeal of the Supreme Soviet to
all parliaments by adopting a reso-
lution which speaks out clearly for
peace through total disarmament,
and which will constitute an in-
struction to the Canadian delega-

tion at the 10-nation disarmament
committee.

At the same time, it should
firmly rule out the stationing of
U.S.-controlled nuclear warheads
on Canadian soil, or the armament
of any section of our forces with
these deadly weapons. It must end
those policies which in the name
of “defense” put our country on
the road to suicide.

Every aspect of ‘government
policy needs to be brought into

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line with perspectives of peaceful
coexistence, to put an end to the
evil fruits of cold war.

Canada needs policies which will
break the growing stranglehold of
U.S. monopolies-over our economy.

Canada needs an end to stalling
in Ottawa on a new Soviet trade
agreement; the recognition of
People’s China and the opening of
wider trade relations with that

vast country.

A very special responsibility
will rest upon the CCF group in
parliament, Small as it is, it can
make a profound impact on the
great developing debate around
national policy, by giving voice on
the floor of the House of Com-
mons to aspirations and hopes of
the working people and farmers.
Its usefulness will depend on how
it rejects the pro cold-war, hold-
the-line, anti-labor policies of Har-
old Winch and is guided by the
views now expressed by M. J. Cold-
well “that there is no defense save
the abolition of war itself.”

Finally, and decisive, of course,
will be the pressure of the people,
especially the organized labor and

_farm movements, for new policies

firmly in line with the reality of a
fast-changing world.

yppeTTe reappraisal’!

ANADA’S two key cabinet

ministers, Finance Minister
Donald Fleming and Trade Min-
ister Gordon Churchill, are off to
Paris, despite the fact that Par-
liament also opens this week.

The urgency of this occasion, a
trade conference between the
“inner six” and the “outer seven”
European nations to consolidate
the market interests of both trade
blocs; a process which can have
disastrous effects on Canada’s
dwindling European. markets.

The “inner six” nations consist
of France, West Germany, Italy,
The Netherlands, Belgium and
Luxembourg, while the “outer
seven” or “European Free Trade
Association” as it is sometimes
called, include Britain, Norway,
Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Swit-
zerland and Portugal.

The general economic aim of
these blocs in their Paris confer-
ence is to eliminate all trade bar-
riers, restrictions, tariffs, etc.,
and to bestow upon each other
“the most-favored-nation” pref-
erences in respect to trade and
commerce. The ultimate logic of
such “economic union” is to
squeeze out the “outsider” by

‘trade restrictions, high “protect-

ive” tariffs, and so on.

Hence the hot-foot trip to Paris ©
by Messrs. Fleming and Churchill
to attempt to shore-up Canada’s ~
declining European trade. 3

Too late in the day, our Liberal —
and Tory “economists”: are learn- |
ing about markets that we bypass- ~
ed in the process of tossing all our ©
economic eggs into a made-in-the- ©
USA “integrated” basket. ;

In the economic competition and —
peaceful expanding world. trade
between capitalist and -socialist”
economy, Fleming and Churchill
will not find the'answer in Paris, —
nor in Commonwealth “most-—
favored-nation” preferences. It
can only be found by getting into —
the. steadily rising trade tides, —
released by the building of a new
Socialist world—a world in which —
for Canada, the way has been bar- —

_red to date by Liberal and Tory | E
subservience to dictatorial US.
imperialism.

Meantime the “inner six” andl
the “outer seven,” shoring up 3
their respective economies, may
hit upon a fundamental law of cap-
italism, viz., that they cannot at-
tain prosperity simply by taking
in each other’s washing — even if

“integrated” Canada is excluded
from the European washtub.

Tom
McEwen

OME years, ago when one of
B.C.’s top labor fakers was
selected as.the most-likely-man-to-
succeed as front man for the big
monopoly contractors, we didn’t
adopt that “I told you so” attitude.
We simply said that it was the
logical sequel to a labor faker who
had put his former RCMP train-
ing to good use in short-circuiting
the labor movement ‘he presumed
. to lead. -

Having been thus “emancipated”
labor now meets its erstwhile de-
coy duck on the other side of the
bargaining table, talking like a
Chamber of Commerce executive,
and bemoaning the ‘“unreasonable-
ness” of those he fattened on like
~a leech—until the bosses retrieved
him as one of their own.

Over on Vancouver Island there
was another loud-mouthed faker
who managed to keep his fellow
trade unionists in that state of
mind which produces the maxi-

“mum. inactivity and “respect-
ability” on any and all issues. In
due course, as the political hacks

say, this windbag was also ‘“eman-
cipated” as front man for a big
B.C. construction enteprise.

On rare occasions when we
have the opportunity of mention-
ing either of these two specimens
+6 some of their former trade
union colleagues, we note that the
latter would: much sooner talk of
contageous diseases in their own
family than dwell on such painful
subjects. Such honesty and retic-

- ence is commendable—but only if
some lessons have been learned;
the basic one being the need to.
rid the labor movement of all such
cuckoo’s eggs long before they
hatch into monopoly-hired hawks
to prey on labor.

The past week we note another
“appointment” which, whatever
else it may do, isn’t likely to bring

whoops of joy from IWA rank-and- |

file workers; the “appointment” of
A. J. (Tony) Poje as ‘Industrial
relations supervisor” for the
Crown Zellerbach timber barons.

Back in 1952 during the IWA —

strike, as business agent of Local
1-81 (Duncan) Tony did about five
weeks of a three-month sentence
in Oakalla jail for alleged -viola-
tion of a court injunction prohibit-
ing picketing during the strike.

‘Since Tony doesn’t possess any
of the finer and more subtle ‘quali-
ties of the professional labor faker,
we can only hope that his “‘eman-
cipation” by Crown Zellerbach

eases of “emancipation,” labor has _

f

doesn’t go to his head. On the
other hand wher powerful mon-
opoly timber barons like CZ ap-
point “militant trade unionists” to
front for them in labor relations,
they invariably do so on the hard-
headed profit motive assumption
that the “laborer is worthy of his
hire,” otherwise why hire him? ©

In monopoly’s long struggle to
crush and bend organized labor to
its will (aided in this by govern-
ments at all levels) there has been ©
a growing awareness in the top
ranks of industry that one of the~
most effective ways to achieve this '
is not through head-on, attacks—in
which it can’t win, but by system-
atic and planned corruption of the
upper echelons of organized labor;
the “emancipation” of this or that.
trade union careerist and oppor-
tunist to positions. of ‘responsib-
ility” as the profit gougers inter- - |
pret that term.

With swarms of the top leader-
ship of present day trade union- °
ism steeped in reformism, “sweet
reasonableness” and coldwar, as.
well asin the high-salary brackets —
in their own organization, there is
no scarcity of “labor front” cand- _
idates to draw. from. Right here
in our own. bailiwick we have
many such, some with a highly de-
veloped ‘‘job’’ instinct.

‘History shows that in all such

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been the inevitable loser.

January 15, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Pag

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