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Unity at Victoria

Ree labor lobby to Victoria early this week was one of the largest in the history of the province. This despite the splitting tactics of certain AFL trade union leaders, who sought to sidetrack the lobby and misrepresent (its leadership and purpose. Twenty-two AFL unions, or ap- proximately one-third of the entire lobby participated unit-

edly with CCL unions in its organization and presentation .

of demands to MLA’s and to the coalition government. This fact should not be lost sight of by the Canadian Manufac- turers’ Association (CMA) and their political stooges in the legislature and in some AFL unions. The CMA and its political hucksters had banked upon a badly split labor movement which would be incapable of mobilizing effective opposition to anti-labor legislation, :

The lobby demonstrated that deep down in the ranks of organized labor, including war veterans, old age pen- sioners and other groups, there is a deep and firm bond of unity, capable of giving effective opposition when its social and economic standards are threatened by reaction.

Unlike the Showlers and Gervins who would have labor don its new CMA-fabricated strait-jacket without a murmur of protest, the labor lobby presented to the cabinet—not demands for amendments or amelioration of the repressive clauses in Bill 39, but for their total elimination, These demands include the elimination of penalties upon unions, union membership or officials; the elimination of any gov- ernment-supervised strike votes; elimination of the ‘cooling- off period’—a form of morale attrition; opposition to any ‘preference’ for craft unionism as against industrial unions in labor legislation, and the democratic right of Jabor to elect its own representatives to any boards specified in the bill.

Regardless of what the cynics may say, the labor lobby .

of 1947 was a big event, productive of much good to: labor unity and action. It marked a new stage in labor history— the stage of coming struggles for wage increases and higher standards of life, now beset with new extra-legal obstructions. The clear-cut opposition to repressive labor legislation made by a lobby in which labor unity is still a powerful factor, is the best guarantee that labor will, not be shackled in its forward march to greater progress, That much the labor lobby very definitely established.

Labor's enemies at work

2 apa the thorny path which organized labor has travelled since the days of the Tolpuddle martyrs, many skeletons can be seen, marking the spot where the weaklings fell, victims of treason to the cause they espoused. As each traitor fell the press of his day paid him dubious tribute, not so much in honor of his treason, but in the never-dying hope of reaction that such treason would de- Stroy the trade union or labor movement in which he played a brief role. So it is in the case of J. A. ‘Pat’ Sulli- van, ex-president of the Canadian Seamen’s Union and ex- secretary of the Trades and Labor Congress.

Sullivan was bought over by the powerful Shipping Federation to betray, and if possible smash the Canadian Seamen’s Union, which has challenged their centuries-old ‘Captain Bligh’ regime of semi-slavery on the seven seas. A reactionary coterie of the Catholic hierarchy gave him spiritual encouragement to effect the betrayal. Both groups hoped that the cry of ‘communism’ would frighten the sea- men and the labor movement into easy submission to ex- ploitation. Both are already proven wrong.

Many years ago Marx observed that ‘man makes his own history, but he doesn’t make it out of the whole cloth, but out of which he finds at hand.’ The modern labor move- ment, communist and non-communist develops upon this same premise, conscious always. of the fact that in the jungle of capitalist society it is inevitable that traitors get into the labor movement, and equally inevitable that such are periodically cast out. Those who hastened to ‘congratulate’ the traitor Sullivan failed to take into account that his treason strikes at labor as a whole, was planned and con- ceived by the enemies of labor, and timed to coincide with governmental foreign and domestic policies which threaten the security and peace of labor and the nation.

FRIDAY, MARCH 21, 1947

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The Baruch plan

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As we see it

F it was the prime pur- pose of American imper- ialism to scuttle the rem-

nants of Big Four Unity at the Moscow conference of fo- reign ministers, the speech of President Truman to the U.S. Congress, requesting financial and military aid to Greece and Turkey could not have been timed better. While this his- toric conference now in_ ses- sion grapples with the stupend- ous job of writing a peace treaty for the fourth German Reich, the voice of Hitler is re-echoed by Truman in what amounts to a call for a world crusade against communism.

Truman’s appeal to Congress to “save Greece and Turkey from communism” constitutes a

virtual declaration of war against the. Soviet Union, and

against the new democratic gov- ernments of a number of Euro- pean countries. It also marks the end of American isolation- ism and the full emergence of U.S. imperialism on a _ world scale, armed with the big stick of atomic superiority (it hopes),

and ready to go where, when,

and how it pleases, to ‘save civilization from ‘totalitarian communism’.

The Truman declaration also establishes another change in the world imperial system — a

‘new relationship so to speak.

British imperialism must now take a back seat. While possess- ing centuries of experience in the art of double dealing, di- vide and rule exploitation, Brit- ish imperialism lacks the cash, the industrial potential or the man-power to hold its former priority in the Kiplingesque role of ‘carrying the white man‘s burden’. American imperialism

' will therefore take over the

business of ‘saving’ the balance of the capitalist world for ‘de- mocracy’ (read capitalism), and in this it has the austere bless- ing of the labor government of Britain?

VEN Hitler decided to an- —

nex a piece of territory or bring a weaker nation under the jackboot of fascist barbarism, he invariably argueq that such a nation or territory needed ‘sav-

ing’ from communism. With this line he got unlimited aid from the Munich men of Britain and France, plus the backing of the financial royalists of the’ USA. The new technique of American imperialism differs very little from that of Hitler. Truman’s appeal to Congress to supply

“Men, money and materials ta

Greece is based upon the ‘sav- ing’ of the Greek people. The question of whether the Greek people or people so _ situated,

wish to be so ‘saved’ does not -

enter into the calculations of American imperialism. If it did

they would have been out of

China months ago, since every articulate Chinese movement, group, or individual—with the sole exception of the fascist Chiang K a i- shek and his henchmen, have requested—n ay demanded that the U.S. get its troops out of China. The an- ti-fascist Greek Deople have oresented ita —— British ‘savi- Tom Mckwen ours’ with many similar demands, and these ap- ply with equal force now to the ‘salvation from’ communism’ in

the Truman declaration.

Elevated to the position of spokesman for Anglo-American imperialism because of its finan- cial, industrial and economic superiority and potential, U.S. imperialism pretends to be de- sirous of maintaing friendly re- lations with the Soviet Union, but its every act and pronounce- ment of major importance ir the sphere of foreign policy (and labor policies at home) since the end of the war, stands re- vealed as a new provocation or slander against the USSR.

From the Roosevelt formula— that nations and peoples with

' different ideologies and ways of

life must learn to live in peace, harmony, and mutual under- standing of and with each other,

tee By Tom McEwen

big stick Yankee imperialism now declares that the world i too small for, all ideologies and ways of life which do not con- form to its own interests. Such people must therefore be ‘saved’ from themselves and others, and

the world made safe for—im-—

perialist exploitation. The eS sence of the ‘Baruch plan’ for atomic control—sole U.S. owner- ship of the atom bomb, is t? impress nations and peoples wh? oppose being so ‘saved’ that they had better look to their saviours with due respect and obedience:

VERY act of the Soviet Union

to safeguard the peace and security of her frontiers, or t0 aid her neighbors, is construed by Anglo-American imperialis™ and its kept press as ‘Soviet ex- pansion’, ‘Soviet ‘communist domination’, ete. ete: Every provocation against the Soviet Union — espionage witch hunts, war preparations in the Arctic, big loans to former enemy countries, the bolstering up of quisling and fascist ele ments in the occupied countries against the democratic surge of the peoples of these countries— all are hypocritically projected upon the loftiest of motives; al!

for the ‘good’ of the people con-

cerned.

The Truman speech on Greecé and Turkey puts an end to the necessity of the imperialist wat- Mongers to disguise themselves as the harbingers of peace. Whilé they go to Moscow to discuss 2 peace treaty for the Germans: they openly prepare for wat against the Soviet people and the Soviet system, without whom

' victory over Hitler would havé

been impossible. Anglo-America®

imperialism now seeks its allies

—not among those who carried the brunt of the fighting, but among the quisling, monarchist and fascist elements who aré willing—for a price, to play the

imperialist game against theit —

own people, and upon the rules laid down by Wall Street. That

‘is the essence of the Truma?

speech. It contains evil portenté for Canada. ‘ ‘at

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