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Sesame changes vital- ly affecting Canada have taken place since parliament pro- rogued last July 18. The test of the new session opening Thursday will be the extent to which the MP’s and- the government take these changes into account.

Since July 18 Premier Khrush-

chev has carried his message of.

peaceful coexistence directly to the American people (and to Canadians as well through exten- sive radio and TV coverage). Be- fore the United Nations he chart- ed the Soviet Union’s plan for ending war forever through total disarmament. As a result of the peaceful initiatives of -the Soviet Union, international agreement has now been reached that on May 16 a summit meeting will open, and that on March 15 work will begin. on disarmament in the 10- nation committee of which Can- ada is a member.

The Canadian people have wel- comed all these developments with unqualified enthusiasm. Among important sections of Canadian capitalists there is a fast growing realization that all the policies based on the cold war are now bankrupt.

If our parliament is to measure up to the challenge of this new situation, it should respond to the appeal of the Supreme Soviet to all parliaments by adopting a reso- lution which speaks out clearly for peace through total disarmament, and which will constitute an in- struction to the Canadian delega-

tion at the 10-nation disarmament committee.

At the same time, it should firmly rule out the stationing of U.S.-controlled nuclear warheads on Canadian soil, or the armament of any section of our forces with these deadly weapons. It must end those policies which in the name of “defense” put our country on the road to suicide.

Every aspect of ‘government policy needs to be brought into

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line with perspectives of peaceful coexistence, to put an end to the evil fruits of cold war.

Canada needs policies which will break the growing stranglehold of U.S. monopolies-over our economy.

Canada needs an end to stalling in Ottawa on a new Soviet trade agreement; the recognition of People’s China and the opening of wider trade relations with that

vast country.

A very special responsibility will rest upon the CCF group in parliament, Small as it is, it can make a profound impact on the great developing debate around national policy, by giving voice on the floor of the House of Com- mons to aspirations and hopes of the working people and farmers. Its usefulness will depend on how it rejects the pro cold-war, hold- the-line, anti-labor policies of Har- old Winch and is guided by the views now expressed by M. J. Cold- well “that there is no defense save the abolition of war itself.”

Finally, and decisive, of course, will be the pressure of the people, especially the organized labor and

_farm movements, for new policies

firmly in line with the reality of a fast-changing world.

yppeTTe reappraisal’!

ANADA’S two key cabinet

ministers, Finance Minister Donald Fleming and Trade Min- ister Gordon Churchill, are off to Paris, despite the fact that Par- liament also opens this week.

The urgency of this occasion, a trade conference between the “inner six” and the “outer seven” European nations to consolidate the market interests of both trade blocs; a process which can have disastrous effects on Canada’s dwindling European. markets.

The “inner six” nations consist of France, West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, while the “outer seven” or “European Free Trade Association” as it is sometimes called, include Britain, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Austria, Swit- zerland and Portugal.

The general economic aim of these blocs in their Paris confer- ence is to eliminate all trade bar- riers, restrictions, tariffs, etc., and to bestow upon each other “the most-favored-nation” pref- erences in respect to trade and commerce. The ultimate logic of such “economic union” is to squeeze out the “outsider” by

‘trade restrictions, high “protect-

ive” tariffs, and so on.

Hence the hot-foot trip to Paris © by Messrs. Fleming and Churchill to attempt to shore-up Canada’s ~ declining European trade. 3

Too late in the day, our Liberal — and Tory “economists”: are learn- | ing about markets that we bypass- ~ ed in the process of tossing all our © economic eggs into a made-in-the- © USA “integrated” basket. ;

In the economic competition and — peaceful expanding world. trade between capitalist and -socialist” economy, Fleming and Churchill will not find the'answer in Paris, — nor in Commonwealth “most-— favored-nation” preferences. It can only be found by getting into — the. steadily rising trade tides, — released by the building of a new Socialist world—a world in which — for Canada, the way has been bar- —

_red to date by Liberal and Tory | E subservience to dictatorial US. imperialism.

Meantime the “inner six” andl the “outer seven,” shoring up 3 their respective economies, may hit upon a fundamental law of cap- italism, viz., that they cannot at- tain prosperity simply by taking in each other’s washing — even if

“integrated” Canada is excluded from the European washtub.

Tom McEwen

OME years, ago when one of B.C.’s top labor fakers was selected as.the most-likely-man-to- succeed as front man for the big monopoly contractors, we didn’t adopt that “I told you so” attitude. We simply said that it was the logical sequel to a labor faker who had put his former RCMP train- ing to good use in short-circuiting the labor movement ‘he presumed . to lead. -

Having been thus “emancipated” labor now meets its erstwhile de- coy duck on the other side of the bargaining table, talking like a Chamber of Commerce executive, and bemoaning the ‘“unreasonable- ness” of those he fattened on like ~a leech—until the bosses retrieved him as one of their own.

Over on Vancouver Island there was another loud-mouthed faker who managed to keep his fellow trade unionists in that state of mind which produces the maxi-

“mum. inactivity and “respect- ability” on any and all issues. In due course, as the political hacks

say, this windbag was also ‘“eman- cipated” as front man for a big B.C. construction enteprise.

On rare occasions when we have the opportunity of mention- ing either of these two specimens +6 some of their former trade union colleagues, we note that the latter would: much sooner talk of contageous diseases in their own family than dwell on such painful subjects. Such honesty and retic-

- ence is commendable—but only if some lessons have been learned; the basic one being the need to. rid the labor movement of all such cuckoo’s eggs long before they hatch into monopoly-hired hawks to prey on labor.

The past week we note another “appointment” which, whatever else it may do, isn’t likely to bring

whoops of joy from IWA rank-and- |

file workers; the “appointment” of A. J. (Tony) Poje as ‘Industrial relations supervisor” for the Crown Zellerbach timber barons.

Back in 1952 during the IWA —

strike, as business agent of Local 1-81 (Duncan) Tony did about five weeks of a three-month sentence in Oakalla jail for alleged -viola- tion of a court injunction prohibit- ing picketing during the strike.

‘Since Tony doesn’t possess any of the finer and more subtle ‘quali- ties of the professional labor faker, we can only hope that his “‘eman- cipation” by Crown Zellerbach

eases of “emancipation,” labor has _

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doesn’t go to his head. On the other hand wher powerful mon- opoly timber barons like CZ ap- point “militant trade unionists” to front for them in labor relations, they invariably do so on the hard- headed profit motive assumption that the “laborer is worthy of his hire,” otherwise why hire him? ©

In monopoly’s long struggle to crush and bend organized labor to its will (aided in this by govern- ments at all levels) there has been © a growing awareness in the top ranks of industry that one of the~ most effective ways to achieve this ' is not through head-on, attacks—in which it can’t win, but by system- atic and planned corruption of the upper echelons of organized labor; the “emancipation” of this or that. trade union careerist and oppor- tunist to positions. of ‘responsib- ility” as the profit gougers inter- - | pret that term.

With swarms of the top leader- ship of present day trade union- ° ism steeped in reformism, “sweet reasonableness” and coldwar, as. well asin the high-salary brackets — in their own organization, there is no scarcity of “labor front” cand- _ idates to draw. from. Right here in our own. bailiwick we have many such, some with a highly de- veloped ‘‘job’’ instinct.

‘History shows that in all such

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been the inevitable loser.

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