ANADIANS were happy to
learn that on two major issues
of world peace, External Affairs
Minister Howard Green had almost
lived up to their expectations; his
forthright opposition to France’s
provocative plan to explode an
atomic bomb in the Sahara Desert,
and his proposal in the United
Nations Assembly for a world-wide
study of atomic radiation, now a
matter of grave and pressing con-
cern to all humanity.

The minister’s contention, with
which all reasonable people must
be in agreement, was that it would
be absurd and futile to study the
hazardous effects of atomic radia-
tion, if France (or other big pow-
ers) weré to continue testing and
exploding these weapons of de-
struction (even in peacetime).

What doesn’t make sense, how-
ever, and explodes the fine reason-
ing anent the foregoing decisions,
is the startling information releas-
ed last week by Defence Minister
George “Blimp” Pearkes; that

“agreement” had been reached
whereby nuclear warheads, manu-
factured, imported and controlled
by the United States, will now be
stockpiled in Canada at the Bomare
missile launching bases now under
construction at North Bay, On-
tario, and Mont Laurier, Quebec.

The minister is quoted as saying
_ that these nuclear warheads “will

be under U.S. control, but Cana-
dian. permission will be necessary
before they can be used.”

By this latest act of gross in-
sincerity the Diefenbaker govern-
ment has well demonstrated its
tongue-in-cheek “peace” dema-
gogy. While the uselessness of the
Bomarc missile as a weapon of “de-
fence” is already conceded in cer-
tain U.S.~> military circles, its
Jaunching sites on Canadian terri-
tory under U.S. control, make
these areas a “sitting duck”—and

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now a target with deadly nuciear
eggs in storage, to be triggered by
alien hands, if, as and when it suits
their diabolical purpose, and with
Canada’s “permission” (by the fact
of their storage) already conceded.

Surely “Blimp” Pearkes won’t
try to tell us that once having per-
mitted a notorious gunman to take
up his abode in our bagkyard, with
his arsenal at the ready, our “per-
mission” or lack of it is going to be
any deterrent to his homicidal ten-
dencies? ’

This base act of permitting the
storage of U.S. nuclear warheads
on Canadian territory all but can-
cels out the policies advanced by
Howard Green to halt France’s
planned holocaust. in the Sahara
and its consequent immediate dan-
gers to the African peoples. It also
nullifies the proposals for a world-
wide study of atomic radiation —

“since the country moving that fine

and timely proposal, has itself now
become a storehouse of these dead-
ly weapons for future U:S. use.

The voice of Canada’s: people.
must be heard in one resounding -
roar from the Atlantic to the Paci-
fic, and north to the Arctic — No
he warhead. storage in -Can-
ada!

Heading

ANCOUVER EAST constituen-
V cy, presently represented fed-
erally by Harold Winch (CCF) and
provincially by A. J. Turner (CCF)
and F. M. Sharp (Social Credit)
held a “CCF-Labor get-together”
over the past weekend. At least
that’s what they called it, with
CCF provincial president Grace
McInnes adding the grand touch by
describing it as “an historic meet-
ing of the CCF and Labor at con-
stituency level.”

What actually took place was
just another in a whole series of
such “historic” get-togethers be-
tween top-brass CCF professional
politicians and their hand-picked
counterparts in the trade unions,
both intent upon a single objective
— that of churning any and all ex-
pressions of independent labor pol-
itical action into CCF votes and
election funds.

With a continuation of such

‘historic CCF-Labor get-togethers,

a broad people’s unity expressed
through independent labor-farmer
political action to effectively chal-
lenge. the rule of big business, as
envisioned in the Canadian Labor
Congress resolution, becomes pret-
ty well scuttled.

Already, as a result of such
“historic” confabs, the civic field

off unity _

_is being abdicated in favor of NPA —
Tory reaction, on the old McCar- —
thyite bogey of “communism.”

This most recent CCF-Labor —
“get-together” in Vancouver East —
can only serve to provide the Ben- —
netts and Diefenbakers with addi-—
tional assurance that they have —
nothing to fear from the emer- —
gence of any broad political alter- —
native — at least not if the build-
ing job is left to the CCF. :

Farm crisis

In this week’s edition of the PT
there.is an analytical article on the
Diefenbaker government’s “defici- —
ency payments” program for Can- _
ada’s egg producers. This, the first
of a series of such articles being” >
prepared: by the farm commi ;
of the Communist Party, we com-
mend to our readers for study and
comment. With a similar “deficien-
cy payments” program applied to ~
hog producers early in 1960, it will <4
be readily evident that neither the.
high price of ham-and-eggs nor the
production costs of the egg pro- —
ducers will benefit from —
“deficiencies.”

The Pacific Tribune will wel-

come readers’ comment on this i im- —
portant farm series.

Tom
McEwen

and Friedrich Engels put their

finger on the disease. In the open-

ing paragraph of their historic

_ Communist Manifesto the question
is posed:

“Where is the party in opposi-
tion that-has not been decried_as
communistic by its opponent in
power? Where is the Opposition
that has not hurled back the
branding reproach of Communism,

AS back. in 1848 Karl Marx

tion parties .. .?”

Over a century later the Socreds
in this corner of the globe loudly
proclaimed that they had ‘‘saved”
British Columbia from CCF ‘“so-
cialism”’ while the CCF in turn,
whether on the hustings or in the
trade union assembly, is equally

hell-bent in “saving” all within its
reach from ‘‘communism.”

Labor always has good cause to
direct the maximum strength it
can mobilize against any and all
reactionary anti-labor legislation.
But one fact it should never over-

against the more advanced opposi- -

look; that the worst anti-labor
legislation ever enacted by any
capitalist government, whatever
its partisan label, riever did half
the damage to labor’s morale, pur-
pose and resolution, as has the
anti-communist coldwar bug.

At decisive moments it destroys
labor unity; injects confusion
where clear thinking is needed;
breeds suspicion and distrust in
situations where the paramount
need is confidence and solidarity,
and, upon occasion, transforms an
otherwise normal-thinking work-
ingman into a gibbering idiot.

In quite recent Vancouver labor
history we have seen the spectacle
of one alleged labor ‘‘leader” en-
gaging the services of a private
detective agency (at union expense)
to dig up the “communist” back-
ground of his contending opponent,
with the latter doing a similar
spot of fishing for a like brand of
“information” on the _ political
background of his adversary. (One
of those rare cases in which both.
were equally right in their con-
jectures—and both equally wrong

in so far as the wellbeing of labor\ Bad as it is, that can be ‘readily —
“femedied as the Northland strike

‘was and is concerned).

Those who care to probe deep
enough in search of the real ob-
stacles which stand in the way of
united laber political action in to-
day’s “final conflict’? with the old-
line parties of monopoly capital
and their agents in the ranks of

labor, will have little difficulty at |
getting to the nub of the problem. [

The “spectre of communism”
which “haunted” Europe over a
century ago, (and now no longer a _
“spectre’’) now haunts those social
democratic and trade union re- —
formist circles, paralyzing them J}
with fear; a fear that stems di- ~
rectly. from the awesome (to them) —
power of a genuine all-in united
labor political action on the hust-
ings, challenging the misrule of
monopoly class government.

So how better to do a “job” on
genuine labor political action and |
unity around fighting labor can- |
didates and programs, than apply
the old coldwar anti-communfst
poison; and particularly since .
many of our so-called labor mis-
leaders with Liberal and CCF |.
affiliate labels not only pride |
themselves, but have openly boast- _
ed that they can “hate” commu-—
nism much better than the monop- —_
olists and their parllamentaaae
stooges do. :

Anti-labor legislation such as —
Bill 43. puts leg-irons on labor. =

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illustrated. Coldwar poison propa:
gated by CCF and trade union ~
bureaucrats’ puts shackles on

labor’s thinking for unity and pro- ~

gress — a crime not so-easily >
remedied, except by reason < ands:
united-resolve. — va os

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