Of course it’s political

es Industrial Conciliation and Arbitration Act (ICA) Inquiry Board, set up. by the Coalition government to smooth over some of

the most glaringly detrimental features of the ICA Acct, as it affects organized labor, will reconvene its “hearings” November - 5. Tn its previous Vancouver sittings, this inquiry board refused to hear a brief submitted by the Labor-Progressive party, on the grounds that the latter was.a “‘political’’ organization, and hence not qualified to make representations.

This Coalition eyewash will fool no cne. The inquiry board is a highly political entity, set up by the Liberals and Tories (with a “non- political” CCF’er included) to provide a political panacea \ (possibly in the form of recommended minor changes) to a piece of industrial legislation which, in recent years, has been used by the ten machinery of the Coalition government to hamstring organized

“Political” indeed! If arbitrarily decertifying unions and termin- ating contractural agreements, so that the bosses can have the “‘safe and sane” cooperation of union fakers, sacial democratic opportunists, company union advocates, and union raiders and splitters, to deprive workers of the elementary right of organization and collective bar- - gaining, isn’t political, we don’t know what is!

The LPP brief advances four main points as a minimum require-.

ment of labor legislation, guaranteeing the unhindered and democratic

a See These are:

®@ That certification be made completely voluntary, ame giving unions

protective actions against the anti-union uses to which certification

is now being put. .

That conciliation procedures be provided only when Fequested by -aunion. Further, thet conciliation procedures be made available

to any union when requested, whether certified or not.

That an end be put to government interference with the right to

strike by eliminating all forms of government supervision of strike - potes or conditions under which such votes are to be conducted.

Unions to conduct strike votes and to strike according to the terms

of their own constitutions.

Thai all penalties on unions, individual officers and members be

removed and adequate provisions written into the Labor Att restoring the non-corporate status of unions, thus removing them from possible court cctions.

Unions intending to make submissions before this i inquiry board in its coming sessions should study these four points against the back- of their own experiences and fraternal interests. They are _ political in the highest sense. They are also vitally essential to a -ve-modelled ICA, designed to serve the interests, unity, and progress

organized labor, and the Sie unions in Lage

_ YN September 1882, British arms completed the forcible seizure of -&) Egypt and the Sudan. Our school books give us a glowing picture

ef “Kitchener of Khartoun” and Tel-El-Kebir, but carefully omit _ any mention of why British imperialism annexed Egypt by unprovoked

aggression. Today we are: being told that Britain jnust’ remain in Eva as a “bulwark against Moscow.” That is the stock argument to fit all ‘contingencies—and cover up the unpalatable truth. They forget to tell us that in 1882, British aggression in Egypt was originally planned

Moscow - Moscow of Tzarist imperialism. = _

“The business in Egypt,” wrote Karl Marx in a letter to Kautsky, ‘deed London, September 12, 1882, ‘thas been contrived by Russian . Gladstone is to take Egypt (which he has not yet got by

diplomacy a long way. and if he had it he would still be a long way from |

it) in order that Russia may take Armenia, which according would be a further liberation of a Christian country from

ihe Mot bdorecdat joke Sas hlgsiene hone ania Nama . Whether the humbug will succeed will soon be —

pretext. GER tet Reger degre . p. 400, Letter 117.) ime

at least 60 times during the past 69 years! This promise is now kept y a British “Socialist” government:

army in Egypt to 60,000 or more. It is scarcely to be wondered at

ie eer a acing agp ie ae ds cacy

, be % quite transparent in the Near East.

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and again without number, the British have promised to remove their armed forces from Egyptian territory. Egypt’s Foreign — Minister, Saleh El-Din, estimates that such promises have been made —

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As We See It

by TOM McEWEN

(EUG BMM

MBRELLA-TOTING Neville Chamberlain coined :

a@ classic of bourgeois cupidity, when, in tearing up a treaty to defend Czechoslovakia against Nazi

‘aggression, he described it as “a small country of

which we know very little.’ The claimed lack of knowledge didn’t stop Chamberlain from giving (Czechoslovakia to Hitler for a Munich scrap of paper which promised “peace in our time.”

Grabbing or giving away territory which doesn’t belong to it, is one of the outstanding features of imperialism.

However, to get back to our moutons as the French say. If, in the year 1938, Czechoslovakia was a small country about which we were supposed to “know very little,” today it is being made erystal clear that our Munichite imperialist ruling clique is hell-bent on séeing to it that we don’t “know” anything about the achievements of Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union, China, or any of the other big or small countries of Europe’s New Democracies.

Last week the Pacific Tribune reported the “wel- come” accorded a Canadian trade union delegation

to the Soviet Union bade oc it arrived back on Can- —

adian soil.

It was star-chamber stuff. The delegates, men and women, were herded into the locked-up back rooms of RCMP and Immigration authorities, strip- ped to the skin, searched and all their notes, books, letters, photos, confiscated. They were ty Ha to insult and ridicule, held for. four hours and then turned loose—with threats of further intimidation.

‘Communist and non-communist, LPP, CCF, non- . party, all got the same treatment, like criminals © ~entering a penitentiary. Their requests for receipts

for the materials so confiscated was met mith arro- gant ang threatening refusal.

The Canadian delegation of course, registered its “strenuous objection” to such undemocratic pro- cedure, but what the hell? The authorities who commit this outrage upon every working class dele- gation returning from the Soviet Union or the coun- tries about which we are reputed to “know very little’ are not acting independently. They are

carrying out the order and policy of the St. Laurent

eahielaaris ze which in turn carries guy the dictates of Yankee UaDER AMES. ECE

Youth and other delegations who have: “Sisited unas to participate in World Youth Festivals of

peace, or similar events, have run into the same “Iron Curtain”, not in Europe or the Soviet Union, where that classical piece of Goebbels-Churchillian piece of drapery is supposed to hang, but right in

their own homeland with its made-in-the-USA stain-_ less steel blackout: of Clecay. freedom and de-

cency! > | oe : In Britain, a young lad has just pee, of the

hharrowing experiences of the British youth delega-

‘tion and others, on their way to the Berlin Youth

Festival for Peace last summer. Not, in British,

‘put on the American-occupied territories of conti-

nental Europe, they ran into this “Iron Cu Se made up of U.S. bayonets wielded by American GI’s and military police. Ousted from their trains at

bayonet point, lined up on railroad tracks for hours, ere to bodily injury, and forbidden to assist

knowledge must be silenced.

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the injured.. A Yankee “iron curtain’ made up of

Yankee bayonets, to keep British and other youth

_ from demonstrating their fraternal desire for peace.

There was a time when travellers, running into © residential or other difficulties when abroad, could appeal for aid to the consulates of their respective countries. That thought is now strictly old fash- ioned. The consulates of their respective countries, like the governments they represent, have given their sovereignty and independence in hock for Yankee dollars, and with Wall Street on the path of war, the mere mention of peace is heresy, punish- able with the immediate thréat of cancellation of dollar aid. Charlie McCarthy only ayia when Bergen speaks.

'The philistines of the kept press, mouthing the , cold-war propaganda of the warmongers, spill < oceans of printers’ ink making the Soviet Union and the Peoples Democracies of Europe into “an enigma’/. . . countries we “know very little about,” making sure in the meantime that such reports of these countries’ achievements as do find their way

into the cables are suppressed by the foreign news desks here. \

The same with working class delegations. In the Soviet Union their unlimited freedom of move-- ment, plus their very early recognition of the Soviets as a warm-hearted, friendly, peace-loving people, — acts like a cold-war hysteria they have just left behind. They find in the land of socialism a fraternity of inter- ests, beamed upon ‘the wellbeing of the many, in

_ sharp contrast to the predominant class interests

in their own capitalist homelands. But above and

_ beyond all, in the Soviet Union and the New De-

mocracies, they find an almost indescribable aie all-embracing zeal for peace.

That is the danger point, the nub of Maubberaivan ideology in the class manuals of warmongering im perialism. To have trade union delegations return from the Soviet Union to tell Canadians the Soviet Union wants peace, reciprocal trading relations, ex- change of trade, cultural, professional, scientific, | or other ideas that are now strictly taboo—why, it © just isn’t done in the best Wall Street-regulated — societies of today. : And if their memories could be erased by some “secret drug” that would be done too. But damit, only the.Czechs, the Poles, the Hungarians, Bulgarians, Chinese, and so on seem to have a monopoly on this “secret dr business. Don’t they pour our espionage staffs, — ‘which they. periodically catch red-handed, so full -

of good coffees and cigarettes, that they blurt out

the whole sorry truth of their alien activities in the pay of British and Yankee imperialism?

\ Having made these countries the “enemy” we must keep up the pretense that we “know very little” about them. Supplementary to that, any one who may have different views ‘supported by person ‘Hence the outrage at Montreal’s Dorval airport last week, not th first, nor by any means the last—unless the peop! of Canada demand an end, to this latest RCMP out- rage of gag-rule” and thought-control. :

There's no substitute for fresh milk

S THE price of milk rises to a point where shes men will soon be delivering it from armored trucks—but not to working class families—we are subjected to a spate of propaganda designed to

without milk.

If all this balderdash phmibues we may ‘soon

expect to have university “professors,” social work- ers (of sorts), and “statisticians” of one variety or

; another, proving to us that good milk is as harmful

to our daily diét as a dose of cyanide!’ — During recent days a number of these quack

: apologists for the milk profiteers (and. these latter

are not the farmers) have been telling us through

the medium of an accomodating monopoly press, that skim milk is just as good for growing children” _ as whole fresh milk; that powdered n milk, a dubious

mixture of skim-milk powder, whitewash ‘and sun- dry’ other ingredients, will provide a gallon of “milk”, for the price of a aa so really ais US Eigse

A

ics a such a saving,” they warble!

At bottom, all this hu

is bei pated hide the real facts of milk pric ng to

racketeering, the

i é

and less milk for the many. —

is tion. system,

_ production and distribution.

It also emphasizes that, regardless of the situation, even up to and including the fooling of our children, the monopolists can always find hired hacks who will scribble plaus- is “explanations” and wordy apologies—for a Pee

Somewhere along the line, between the

‘producers and those whose health depends upon an

adequate | milk consumption, a gigantic mono] has wormed its way in. That much at least is

plainly evident.

Anticipating | such a tieie when paste

‘consumers alike would be milked by the “free en-

terprise” racketeers, — the Vancouver City ‘Charter carries a provision for a civic-owned milk distribu: In the provincial and federal archi “6 there are also voluminious reports dealing with mi

These tomes, which have cost the taxpayers a lot of money, eaten dust,

but produce no milk.

Now the monopolists are Hiubeeing th cf producers and consumers dry, while their apo sing the praises of ersatz milk, and encourage Wor ing class mothers to lie to their children.

oa It is time the workers and farmers ere” ge together to preserve their dairy herds and!

_ children against the most despicable gang o

robbers that ever raided the nation’s kitchen. penalty, for failure to do 80° is forfeiture of

nation’: s health, ‘ - PACIFIC TRIBUNE - a _ OCTOBER 26, 1951 oe “PAGE

cooling shower upon the psychosis of — ;

So into the back rooms with “them, seize everything.