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Time and again delegates at the conventions of the Can- adian Labor Congress have complained that resolutions which called for one thing were replaced by substitute resolutions which moved in an entirely different direction.

The recently held CLC convention was no exception to the rule.

Widespread dissatisfaction with the Congress policy of “liberation,” raiding and union-busting resolutions in over 10 resolutions coming in from union locals throughout the country, all calling for an end to raiding, for organization of the

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unorganized and the inclusion of all bona fide unions into the Congress. ae * *

What came out of the machine-controlled resolutions committee on organization was entirely different.

It commended the officers of the Congress and those of its affiliates which have been pursing a policy of raiding and called for more of the same on an even wider front.

Resolutions covering international affairs suffered the same fate.

Of the 31 resolutions which came in from union locals, the overwhelming number called for world disarmament, op- position to nuclear arms and an end to nuclear tests.

Arising from growing opposition to NORAD and NATO, eight resolutions called for withdrawal of Canada from these military alliances and implicitly took a stand for Canadian neutrality.. Two resolutions opposed Canadian participation in the Organization of American States (OAS). Not one resolution called for the support of NATO and NORAD or favored entry into the OAS.

This didn’t seem to bother the committee on interna- tional affairs at all. It simply ignored these opinions of the union locals and came out flat-footed in support of military regional alliances such as NATO and NORAD and called for Canadian entry into the OAS.

The CLC convention in Montreal two years ago called, for a critical examination of Canada’s committments to NATO and NORAD.” This convention left out the need for a: critical examination of NORAD. In fact it declared that “Canada must continue a positive contribution to regional defense.”

These were not the only instances where the opinions of locals were ignored, emasculated or turned inside out. Many

other resolutions suffered the same fate. a * *

This is, in fact, a sharp commentary on the way in which bureaucratic machine control in the CLC perverts the demo- cratic opinions of the rank and file. It is an area to which, union locals ought to give serious consideration.

But it also points up the fact that the left and progres- sive current in the trade union movement has not yet found the most effective means through which to win the active and organized support of the rank and file for its policies. Until that is achieved the right wing, through its control of the machine and its unscrupulous play upon prejudice and temporary illusions, will continue in the same old way.

However, as Canadian Steel Director Mahoney was com- pelled to state when introducing the international affairs statement, “this is a fast changing world. That is why we should be flexible and adopt a broad general statement.”

It might have been useful were one of the delegates to have asked him whether he was waiting for orders from Wash- ington but, in any case, this “fast changing world” will in- creasingly expose the bankruptcy and emptiness of right-

wing policy. * * *

This process will be facilitated by the fact that there ex- ists a paper like the Canadian Tribune, which is now cele- brating the 40th anniversary of the working-class press.

Through all these 40 years the Tribune and its predeces- sors have charted a course which sooner or later became the property of the trade union movement. That was true yester- day, is true today and will be true tomorrow.

The right wing in the trade union movement never did like the working class press. It attacked it at every oppertun- itye and, true to form, attacks it today as well.

In his opening address to the CLC convention President Claude Jodoin attacked ‘“‘those free advisors and would-be critics” but he could not advance a constructive policy that makes sense in the reality of today’s world; nor could he seriously deny the arguments and positions advocated by the Canadian Tribune over the years.

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ELECTION ISSUES DISCUSSED

Communist Party to campaign for peace and independence

By NELSON CLARKE National Organizer, Communist Party

The Communist Party will campaign in this elec- tion” for those policies which, when they are tak- en up by the Canadian people, will defeat the clique of U.S. and Cana- dian monopolists who run our country today.

Our party is the only party oa in Canada which has socialism for its goal. We never fail to point out # that social- Fism is the long term an- swer to the problems fac- ing the working people, the farmers, the professionals and intellectuals.

But, despite John Diefen- baker, socialism is not the issue in this federal election.

The issue is the winning of new national policies—of far- reaching change in the poli- tical and economic structure of our country which, by end- ing the U.S. big business domination of Canada, wiil make Canadians once again masters in their own home.

This fight for the indepen- dence of Canada has been in the centre of every election campaign waged by the Com- munist Party since the end of the Second World War. The new aspect of Commun- ist policy is that we go into this election with a more pre- cise definition of the main enemy against whom the Can- adian people must unite.

Our 17th national conven- tion last January described that enemy this way:

“The main enemy of the Canadian people against which all the _ progressive forces must unite, is the U.S.- Canadian monopolist olig- archy, ‘one lump’ of big capi- tal, which rules Canada in the interests of U.S. imper- ialism.”’ :

PEACE, NEUTRALITY

The greatest issue before our country, as before all hu- manity, is the issue of peace or war.

The Communist Party stands firmly for peaceful co-existence, for the principle that the differences between nations must and can be re- solved at the conference table, not on the battlefield.

The Communist Party de- clares that the greatest con- tribution that Canada could make to peace and disarma- ment in the world is to dis-

“entangle itself from the U.S.

military alliance. We further declare that if we do not do this, our country stands in the most acute peril of be- coming a radioactive waste- land in a world thermonuc- lear war.

For the survival of Canada we call for a new foreign policy of neutrality. This would mean withdrawing from the U.S.dominated North Atlantic Treaty Organ- ization, from U.S.-controlled regional ‘‘defense” arrange- ments like NORAD, bringing our boys home from Germ- any, refusing the use of our land and our airspace to any foreign military forces, in- cluding those of the United States, and keeping out of the Organization of American States—the arm of the U.S. gendarme in Latin America.

Part and parcel of such a policy is the refusal to accept nuclear weapons on Canadian soil or in the hands of Cana-

'Let's put on a good show!"

That’s what, Tory Diefenbaker and Liberal Pearson seem to be

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/ one and same policy.

saying to one another as they shake hands just two days before the June 18 election was announced. While each one is anxious to come out as victor after the votes are counted, it doesn’t really matter very much who gets in, apparently, because on the real issue of peace, independence and democratic rights the two old-line parties follow the

_May 4, 1962—PACIFI

dian forces.

Many tens of thousands %

Canadians who do not 45

fully agree with all that party says about the need

neutrality have spoken uP

this specific question.

That is why this issue ™

loom so large in the fed

election campaign of 19

‘and why around it peace

ing Canadians have a 9 strike fi

opportunity to

blows against the line of

U.S.-Canadian monopolist

INDEPENDENCE The Communist Party clares that there are over

a million Canadians with jobs in a period of econ?

“upturn,” and that the @ omy is stagnating becausé control of our economy 3 hands of U.S. trusts and

Canadian partners.

We must take back the

justries and resources 2

sountry. The big U.S.-0W

monopolies need to bé tionalized so Canadians decide what they produce.

We cannot allow 4 si

tion to continue where #

reds of thousands of oul * | ple walk the streets, w

they could be at work.

We cannot allow 2 § tion to continue in which

resources are dug uD, ped down and sent 4

the border for processing

be sold back to us if form of expensive fi? goods.

The energy that turn 4

wheels of industry must

‘Canadian hands. This

simple essence of the over the future of thé lumbia River which thé

italist politicians (incl

Social Credit Bennett)

trying to lose in a maz

technicalities and double

The old patterns of a

monwealth trade, in wh much of our industrial agricultural develop™

took place, are being b?®

Now, either we sink 4

into hopeless depend ef

upon the U.S., or we b out into the vast pole new markets open to U* Here the question of W er we are to expand our

with Cuba, or knuckle 4

to pressure from Wash?

assumes vital proportio®

this election campaleaa ¥

PEOPLE vs. MONOPO The Communist holds that great su money can be made av@ to make life better fof people of Canada, to &# disgracefully low level social services in our C° Canada can afford # tional health plan, decet!

age pensions, a big in ya? iv

in unemployment insU benefits, thousands of U® sity scholarships. As 4 time minister of financ®

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“What is physically poss!

is ‘financially possible. But in times of peac® spokesmen for the mone ists do all they can to obs this truth. : The Communist Pa

stands for the unity of |

working class, the unity, workers and farmers 1 | the monopoly offensi

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