C GC fe a G i} CG = r Fazal Qurban, leader of the All-India Railwaymen’s Fed- ‘eration and delegate to the ILO declared that poverty, Starvation and inhuman working conditions may combine #0 Aaa revolution to India, unless some _immediate and Master of evasion, Mr King has ever the years perfected a slick formula for backing world im- perialism and reaction while pleading innocence and _ purity. This latest gem on Palestine should fool no one. His BSEUTS for saying nothing is that “rep- resentatives. of the U.K. Cabinet ... are discussing in London with repfesentatives of the U.S. State Department.....the recommenda-— tions by the Anglo-American com- mittee.” To which he adds that the “Canadian Government hopes that the conversations now in progress will lead to a decision which will do justice to the various groups having a legitimate interest in Palestine.” How typical of the man who over the years backed the ad- vance of fascism in Europe, sup- ported “non-in- tervention in spain,” and per- sonally present- ed a moose ‘to Hitler as a gift of peace! How muth like the Munich man who caleld Chamberlain an apostle of peace and flagrantly violated nor- mal. “diplomacy in the “spy investi- gation” to open the flood gates to S0U Sovic Osi: ‘Make no mistake about it! The Liberal government supports Anglo-American policy to the hilt. it is well aware that Palestine is now a police state in which there is one soldier or policeman for each group of 18 people. It con- dones the arrest of 2000 Jews and the virtual state of war which has been unleashed in that country by British forces. Otherwise it certain TSETAS. Oil, Palestine and WSBritish con- trol of the Eastern Mediterranean are apparently important for Canadian big business. Finance, capital hopes that out of the big: world imperialist pot will come a full Canadian dish of gravy. What observers here are em- phasizing is that King’s Palestine policy is part of the pattern. To expect the Bederal Government to advocate the creation of an in- dependent Palestine state based On Arab-Jewish equality is to ex- pect an about turn from grab- what-you-can imperialism. Mr. King, even if he has hypno- tized himself after all these years of double talk, didn’t leave for Paris glowing with nobility of pur- pose. The fact is too that there has been no full scale debate on foreign policy in the House this session. What»better way to get Canada enmeshed in Anglo-Ameri- can intrigue, while denying WLib- eral government responsibility! Two weeks ago our worthy P.M. went out of his way to Financial Post story on Canadian airfields in the north manded by the American Government. At} is no militasy secret in the capitol that King was “protesting too much.” “Canada another Belgium” was the Financial Post headline. No more apt description of King’s direction in foreign policy could be coined. His latest “non com- mittal’ statement on Palestine only reinforces informed ~ opinton that Canadian “independence” Jand “security” has been sold -for a mess of potage. What is perhaps needed “to complete the headline “Canada another Belgium” is—‘Wanted, 12 million Canadian suckers.” Guarantee that the people are source of all power in the gov't By SHAN MACNAMARA PRAGUE.—Preparation of a Gemocratic constitution, solution of the nation’s manpower short- age and loyal adherence to the United Nations are the basic aims of the new Czechoslovak Government, Prime Minister Kle- ment Gotwald told ALN this week. The new constitution, Gottwald said, must guarantee that the people are the source of all power in the government. It must also PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 2 embody a program for nationali zation of key industries and finance, he said. Acknowledging that the planned transfer of German and Hungar- ian minorities from Czech terri- deny & industries. Almost all the strikers have common demands: wage in- ereases, higher cost of living al- lowances and the establishment of a minimum wage scheme. The conditions of the postal employees show clearly what the workers are up against. A postman in Bombay, whose scale is higher than any other part of the country, gets a max- imum of 24 rupees ($8) monthly- Lower grades, like sorters, packers, etc., get at most 10 to 15 rupees $4 to $5.50 per month. The postmen in some areas walk as much as 3@ miles a day, and their pay does not even permit them to own a pair of shoes. Workers get at most two days off per month. ~~ Between Boe “and 1945, the Post Ss BOMBAY.—A mighty strike wave, bigger than ari sweeping the entire country, involving hundreds ot tHousands a warkers in The latest is the week-old strike of postal Wo 000 people since telegraph workers ‘ a complete shutdown of all rail [ was, gemporarily _ postpon d tened: 70 «use _troopssaz made cigatotree rickshaw pullers | - and clerks. : Sat At the same-time, the cost of living has risen 177 percent. Another big problem is mass unemployment: Although during * e minted huge profits through army. contracts, the British rulers of India took Care to see that there gvas_ Tio real andus- trial expansion.‘ Wow, with war orders gone, there are not only mo new jebs for the 2,600,000 demobilized_. soldiers, but the existing labor force is being cut drasticalby< =! ee ee The British-controlled Railway Board, for example, tried to fire 300,000 workers “out of a total of 900,000. This .was,, averted, only when the All-India . Railwaymen’s Federation made plans for strike action, which would have ENOEOE war Midian’ industrialists | By NERGIS BATLIWALA foined the strike on July, Endia ers} Mass strikes in India indicate revolt against low wages, hunger has ever | experi which Dee J 7 14. na R service throughout the country} ‘Of 54 “Strikes in” the pas This = ction forced the. govern weeks involving. more aa: 50- ment §to5-srant workers a. thre: 4 009 workers; 16 sae Zee: the months’ SOAS and to agree to workers, five were lost and Tour arbitration of the projected lay-|are now being arbitrated. 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Deb Vayo - asserted ethato the mian “was ‘odis— cussed in Madrid last Maty-iwith= a out any: attempt, at ..secrecy,; ap- parently becqause= ity he sr es oveos connivance. _ seed ie Has a tories will create a temporary manpower shortage, the Prime Minister Said that labor must make an all-out effort to increase its productivity and that every available worker must be mobil- ized for pressing reconstruction tasks. 8 Nanking to s Determined, but smiling politely, these Ch inese workers carry banners inviting the U-_S. army to go ‘back to your home sweet ho me.” The tally took place a non-partisan delegation left that city for civil strife. Millions of non-partisan Chinese already realize that peace will not be es- tablished in China until U.S. armed forces are somapleisty withdrawn. in Shanghai as eek an end to the nation’s FRIDAY, JULY 26, 1946)