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ADDRESSING a meeting of the ~ Canadian Club at Comox earlier this month, CCF national leader M. J: Coldwell told his audience that in Pit eventuality of Canadian recog-

ition of the People’s Republic of

fitina, he had “seen a document” to ‘ that effect. :

Ottawa, of course, promptly Uenied the existence of such a “document,” a denial undoubtedly Mtended to avoid causing John

yp Ster Dulles any undue embarass- ent,

Soltis known however, that the St. @rent-Pearson Liberal

*Putred on by an ever-growing and

regime,

Ympathetic public opinion, came Mlose to such recognition on several “casions. As far as the Canadian People are concerned, there is no Subt it would have become a lity years ago, were it not for the Massive” domination of Canadian Affairs at Ottawa by U.S. cold war Policies, before which both Liberals

“Md Tories have bent a subjective Nee,

Now the issue can no longer be aded or bypassed with Tory lemagogy. The gravity for Canada “td for the whole world of U.S. : “BBtession in China coastal waters ‘all too plain. In the despicable Tle of a bellhop to Yankee im- | Petialism, Canada can become em- ®Olled in an atomic war which, even : Nits initial ‘stages, already outrages World Opinion.

In the role of an independent Vereign nation Canada can become eof the world’s most vital forces a World peace and friendship. To © the first decisive step in this tection, Canada should now be “Ing three things simultaneously. " thould be publicly condemning

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Canada can help peace

U.S. aggression against China. It

should officially recognize the

People’s Republic of China and sup-_

port the seating of its nominees in

_ the UN as the real representatives

of over 600 million people.

And. it should be seeking the res- toration of Taiwan (Formosa) to- gether with the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, as well as the Pescadores Islands to their rightful sovereignty—the People’s Republic of China.

It is not too late for official Canada to repair the omission, but it cannot be longer delayed. Trigger- happy U.S. imperialism has forced . the issue. It is now up to Canada to make a long-delayed decision for peace. for recognition and friend- ship with China, for a final end to the Dulles-Chiang Kai-shek war provocations. The alternative places the Canadian people in dire peril of being dragged “over the brink” by the Dulles-Eisenhower atomaniacs.

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Comment

No ‘dog collar’ for labor

HANGES FOR the worse in exist- ing provincial labor legislation are definitely in the making. All the signs point to that. No trade unionist has to read far between the lines of recent speeches to see that govern- mtnt spokesmen are echoing the ds- mands of big monopoly for “curbs” on labor.

These “curbs” follow two main lines of thought by profit-seeking monopolists and compliant _poli- ticians. They want to insert the “dog- collar” of compulsory arbitration into the B.C. Labor Act, thereby making it easier for them to main: tain profits by holding down wages.

Secondly, the bosses would like to have all trade unions compelled to register as “legal entities,” thereby making them liable for any “losses” a boss or a corporation might claim to have resulted from strike action or work stoppages. And who hasn’t met a boss who couldn’t discover a “loss” at the drop of lawyer’s hat?

Virtually all the restraining in- junctions handed down by local courts during the past six months to “curb” strike actions have been granted because of a well-nurtured class sympathy with the bosses’ “losses.”

The purpose behind these pro- jected changes in the B.C. Labor Act, advanced by Social Credit and sup- ported by Liberals and Conserva- tives, are clear. They are designed to facilitate placing the whole of the burden of the economic crisis upon the backs of labor and the people the better to preserve the maximum profit levels of the monopolists.

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Organized labor should see this latest threat by the Socred govern- ment, not as a gesture towards taking some of the “bugs” out of existing labor legislation in order to facilitate collective bargaining, but as a readiness on the part of the Socred government to comply with monopoly demands, thereby intensi- fying the nation-wide attack of big business upon existing labor stan- dards.

Union delegations, resolutions and briefs should be pouring into Victoria now, making it unmistak- ably clear that organized labor in this province will tolerate no “dog- collar’ or other restrictive laws which infringe its inalienable right to bargain collectively, and to withhold its labor power to expedite

that goal.

Tom McEwe

NTIRELY aside from the his-

torical distortions and brazen effrontery -which highlighted Eisenhower’s radio “message” to the world last week on U.S. war plans against People’s China, a look at his pretended concern for what he calls the “free” world might not come amiss.

If your neighbor’s back yard isn’t as well ordered as you think it should be, don’t start handing out advice about it until your own is in tiptop shape. Otherwise your neighbor may feel like telling you what a recent edition of the Financial Post told these US. atomaniacs, to wit:

“Neither Heaven nor Mankind has given the U.S. the assignment of running all the rest of the world. Uncle Sam’s nose is getting too long for his own good.”

Were Eisenhower and his bil- lionaire cabinet really intent on advancing the cause of freedom, they couldn’t do better than begin right in their own backyard.

Down in Alabama a 55-year old

Negro worker, Jimmy Wilson, has been sentenced by the courts to die for allegedly robbing a white woman of $1.95. Jimmy’s real trouble is not whether he did or didn’t steal $1.95, but that he has a black skin ... a major handicap in Eisenhower's ‘free’ world.

Of course, it may be pointed out by Eisenhower “freedom fighters” that Jimmy had a “trial,” the benefit of law so to speak. For what it is worth that may be something, and perhaps a good deal more than countless thou- sands of other Negro workers have had at the hands of Southern white lynch mobs. The marginal line between legal and illegal murder in Eisenhower’s “free” world has always been drawn very fine.

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Thus, when Eisenhower in- cludes the offshore islands of Quemoy, Matsu, Taiwan (For- mosa), the Arab world and sundry other, areas, of the globe in his “free” world, and with character- istic Yankee bluster opens his atomic arsenal with the announ- ced intention of using it to keep them. “free,” the conscience of the thinking world invariably turns to Little Rock, to Jimmy Wilson, to race prejudiced courts and hooded Klansmen, which become the true barometers. of the vaunted “freedoms” of Yankee imperialism.

Eisenhower can argue that his

“land of the free” is not the only place where freedom has a double standard of values. Too true!

Just last week in South Africa a white-mistress of a white “bass” (a plantation big shot), shot and killed. her African maid because the maid was alleged to be “‘in- solent.” An all-white court “fined” this white female killer $140 for her indiscretion.

Doubtless it would be of interest to the legal profession in more civilized lands to know just what was the “charge” meriting such a fine. Lots of Canadians get more than that for a traffic infraction. Obviously, African maids come cheap and particularly “insolent” ones who refuse to be trodden upon.

These are only some of the “freedoms” which Eisenhower wants Americans (and others) to fight for; to drop H-bombs on the teeming cities of China in. order that such ‘‘freedoms” shall pre- vail.

Since it is estimated that over one third of Formosa’s people under U.S. “freedom fighter” Chiang Kai-shek are in prison, and another third press-ganged into Chiang’s army for U.S. can- non-fodder, it is hardly to be expected that the remaining third enjoy much more of the amenities of Eisenhower’s “free” world than does Jimmy Wilson.

From such a. “free” world, the saints preserve us!

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