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_ Strange company for labor ILLIAM GREEN, president of the American Federa-

tion of Labor has been authority on communism—in

WILLIAM GREEN

elevated to the position of an Canada. Testifying before the House of Representatives committee on ‘un-American activities’ (a committee of inquisition would be a more appropriate name), Green cited the growth and influ- ence of the Labor-Progres- sive Party as evidence of the ‘communist menace’ in Canada. Green’s ‘evidence’ followed that of the notori- ous pro-fascist reactionary, William C. Bullitt, former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, who is quoted as_ saying before the same committee that ‘if Russia had the atom bomb it would already have been dropped upon _ the United States.’ Green gave tacit endorsation to this pro-

vocative and unwarranted assertion, by arguing that the best way to deal with”the ‘communist menace’ in ‘Canada and the USA, is not by putting it under the ban of illegal- ity, which would give the communists a ‘desirable marty- dom,’ but for the good old USA to ‘keep plenty of A-bombs

on hand,’ -

_ Green’s interference in the political and economic af- fairs of Canadians is not without precedent, nor do they en-

hance his stature as a leader

of labor. His chatter about not

making ‘martyrs’ of the communists by ban and imprison ment is also not original. But his advice to keep ‘plenty of A-bombs on hand’ places him in the category of reckless warmongers who would foment war upon the Soviet’ Union under the guise of ‘combating communism,’ using Canada

as a battleground for their i

When Green aspires to

mperialistic adventures.

provide real labor leadership.

commensurate with his high office, Canadian workers, whether in the AFL or CIO will accept it without question.

When he stoops to cheap Canadian workers will reject home-grown products of a

redbaiting and warmongering him as they reject their own similar school, whether their

names be Green, Sullivan, or Mosher.

Atom bombs in the hands of imperialist madmen have

nothing in common with the

hopes and aspirations of labor,

and the communist witch-hunt in which Green has joined in full voice, is merely the search for a pretext to use the bombs. Sections of Canadian labor have scored President Mosher of the CCL for ‘congratulating’ Sullivan on his sellout. Similar attention must be given President Green for his maniacal urge to use the A-bombs on a mythical ‘enemy’ which exists only in the fevered minds of those

who profit by war.

Lobby results showing

Canadian Press dispatch from Victoria reports a ma-

jor behind-the-scenes battle in Coalition circles on the new labor bill. It is reliably reported that Labor Minister

Pearson refuses to move second reading unless the clause

for government-conducted strike votes is struck out.

Even with the full story still to be told, some import- ant points can be deduced from the Coalition caucus im-

passe. First, had the forces Opposition to the restrictive the worst CMA spokesmen

of labor been fully united in measures proposed, not even in the Coalition would have

dared to speak openly in favor of such legislation. Second —and we are informed that this is Pearson’s view—the ‘Supervisory clauses as they now stand cannot be adminis- tered in the major sections of industry.

Pearson would seem to be one of the very few (if not the only one in the cabinet), who fully realizes that in carrying through any labor legislation successfully, a mea- Sure of cooperation between government and labor is essen- tial. He at least seems to appreciate labor’s refusal to co- operate in its own destruction, the primary aim of this

CMA-inspired legislation.

A more united Labor Lobby

would have made the job easier for the minister, easier for labor, and a whole lot more difficult for those who play

the CMA game. FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 1947

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As we see it

MERICAN imperialism has de- clared political war on com- munism. <A new ‘anti-Comintern

‘pact’ has been evolved by Anglo-

American reaction to serve as a smoke-screen for retrogressive policies at home and abroad. As this is being written the For- eign Relations Committee of the U.S. Congress are debating pro and con a one billion dollar ap-

‘ propriation to ‘save Greece, Tur-

key and Korea’ from ‘totalitari- anism’—the new language of atomic diplomacy. There are minor differences among the big shots of Wall Street and their yes-men in Congress as_ to whether. the billion dollars should be in the form of a loan, a sort of lend-lease grant, or an outright gift. Some are of the opinion that the cost of hold- ing the line against communism is going to be a costly enterprise for the American taxpayers. All

are agreed, however, that the bil-:

lion will not go to feed the hun- gry in Greece, Turkey, Korea or elsewhere, but to create new armed forces against ‘comunism.’

In the realm of foreign policy Anglo - American imperialism, with the Yankee partner in the dominant role, has struck out on the path of war. It has by- passed the UN, just as German fascist-imperialism bypassed the League of Nations a decade ago, inorder to reach its objective with a minimum of opposition. It has fabricated an ‘enemy,’ and it is no accident of history that com- munism has been chosen. One has only to turn the nob of a radio or scan the press headlines to find confirmation of what Marx and Engels wrote in the opening chapters of the Commun- ist Manifesto 100 years ago: “Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition ‘that has not hurled back the branding reproach of commun- ism against those more advanced opposition parties .. .?”. Today the imperialist wolf pack, to- gether with their social demo- cratic mongrel following are in full pursuit of ‘communism.’ :

The stage has been set and the actors are being versed in their roles. The sinister nature of

these roles are being obscured by many fine words about ‘se-

-to progress,

curity,’ ‘freedom,’ ‘democracy,’ ‘equality,’ and so on. Those who utter them are masters of hypoc- rasy. ' An espionage witch hunt with star-chamber inquisition, aimed primarily to generate political hate against an lleged ‘enemy.’ he RCMP and FBI un- arth new ‘com-

of former tory- inspired _Zino- viev forgeries or Reichstag fires Purges. The civil serv- ‘ice in Canada and the USA to be gone over with a fine tooth anti-commun- ist comb. (Every individual, group or movement sympathetic held suspect of ‘communism;’ Democracy sub- verted in the name of ‘democ- racy’ in order to prepare the stage for war on the USSR and communism, : e.

Ye tough’ is the new watch-

word of the new Truman policy, ‘Get tough’ with the Soviet Union and the new demo- cratic states of Europe. A basic prerequisite of the ‘get tough’ pol- icy in foreign affairs is the need to ‘get tough’ with labor at home. ‘Communism’ serves Anglo- American reaction in this re- spect, as it served the rise of Hit- ler fascism, : :

Labor leaders are singled out; men like Harvey Murphy of the IUMMSW; Harold Pritchett, of the IWA; ine Workers and other unions— all are singled out as targets for a concerted barrage of slander, misrepresentation and villifica- tion by the commercial press and the organs of Big Business. The startling discovery is) made that

Tom McEwen

strikes do not occur by the col-_

lective will of a union member- ship, but simply by ‘communist agitators’ saying ‘you must strike’. Together with this is the well-cultivated idea spread among the union membership that the communists have taken over the leadership of the union “undemo- cratically’ and against the wishes of the membership.

leaders of the Mar-.

AOA By Tom Mc Ewen

Stool pidgeons and traitors in the ranks of labor are selected and bought — some for large amounts like J. A. ‘Pat’ Sullivan, others for very little. The boss loggers and other sections of the CMA set up elaborate labor e& pionage agencies working in col- laboration with the RCMP, to s@- sure ‘inside dope’ on union ac- tivities, and especially on the actions and behaviour of trad® union leaders who are regarded

as ‘reds’ x this dirty business, social de- mocracy plays a vile role, just as it did in aiding Hitler to power by creating ideological disunity within the political and economic movements of the workers. When a rat like Sullivan sullies the cause he espoused—for a price. he wins the plaudits of reaction. That is easily understood. But when men like A. R: Mosher, president of the Canadian. Con- gress of Labor and C. H. Millard, Canadian representative of the United Steel Workers, hasten to offer ‘congratulations’ for trea- son, such an act is in itself trea- son. to’ labor. When Mosher writes in the CBRE journal (re- produced in the CCF News of March 13.) using the same lan- guage as a Sullivan, a Gouzenko, an Esselwein, or a Bullitt, and

does the job gratis for Big Busi-—

ness, he gives encouragement to the enemies of labor and renders the latter an ill service. Similarly, when A. T, Alsbury, past provincial president of thé CCF, and chairman of the Trades and Labor Council presg commit-

tee, acquiesces in the raids of

certain AFL unions upon the

in the Okanagan—because the latter are alleged to have a ‘com> munist leadership,’ he plays the insidious game of reaction and besmirches his own organization.

* The opposition of the CCF lead-

ership to the recent labor lobby stems from the same concept— shared‘ by every reactionary in the coalition, viz., that labor had no need of a lobby,’ but if one did materailize, it could only be be- cause the communists wanted it to ‘embarrass the government.’ Labor’s legislative program is quite forgotten in this new in- terpretation, which fits in pel- fectly with reactionary policies at home and abroad.

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