ik ak La Ae ALAA GS ald inh Lin th me Rae PtseLi Aceh ces Ten eae Hadas bese iene , ‘ 5 aa , ele es se Ulihees cbs eel ee HN | WH ve MTs TAN Oy AREA Td Vancouver, British Columbia, October 27, 1950 hbtonnat vy te ee Price Five Cents bac a i ALLA ali UAH | Threat to world peace - MACARTHUR BUIL U.S. ARMY OF JAPANE bans establishment of a Japanese army, navy or airforce. EXCLUSIVE General Douglas MacArthur recommended to Premier Poshida in the middle of September that the ninth article should be revised or totally annulled. More recently the deputy-chief of MacArthur's staff, General Fox, openly told a group of American officers that the background to MacArthur’s demand ‘is the desire of United States armed forces commanders to form former Japanese soldiers into strong infantry, paratroops and marine units, to be incorpor- ated into the United Sates Far East armed forces. Fox added: “In fact, it will be an American army composed of Japan- ” > At the end of September the chief of the government section in the staff of American occupation forces, General Whitney, presided over a meeting with the Japanese cabinet and leaders of the Liberal and Socialist parties. The meeting agreed that Yoshida would present “as early as possible” a recommendation in the Lower House for revision of the ninth article. Ineiro Asanuma, general secretary of the So- cialist party, promised at this meeting that Socialist parlia- mentary deputies would support Yoshida’s proposal. Without waiting for the measure to give it legal force. an approved personnel plan for the new Japanese army has already been drawn up, and preparations for full-scale recruiting have been made. Continued on back page—See MacARTHUR “WON'T SURRENDER UNION’S RIGHT TO RUN OWN AFFAIRS Civic workers fight TLC disruption Under the battle cry, “Stand Up and Fight! Defeat the Dis- rupters!’ the executive board of Local 28, Civic Employees Union, is rallying its 1,500 members to halt Trades and Labor Congress interference with the union’s in- ternal affairs, and end the detri- mental activities of a small anti- union group operating in the local, Carl Berg, TLC vice-president, has been in Vancouver for three @ Civic Workers are fighting back against dictatorial TLC attempts to oust Local 28 leaders Don Guise (seated) and Jack Phillips, shown in picture above. weeks, organizing opposition to the elected leaders of Local 28 and preparing to do a “hatchet job” on union organizer Don Guise and secretary Jack Phillips. As a result of Berg’s under- cover machinations, newly-elect- ed Local 28 president Sam Lind- say tendered his resignation to the executive board of the union on Wednesday this week. In giv_ ing his resignation, Lindsay ad- mitted that he was now on the Congress payroll, and further stated that he was being paid by the TLC to whip up a big meet- ‘ing to get a vote in favor of Berg’s proposals on November 3. Next regular meeting of the union takes place November 3. Berg’s proposals, refered to above, call for the union executive board to resign and new elections to be held. “The executive board is call- ing upon every last man in the union to fight against all at- tempts to take away from the union the right to elect its own officers,” said Don Guise. “We got along with Congress for 23 years,” he continued, “and we can continue to get along with Congress providing officers of the TLC clearly understand that our members have’ certain basic rights which must not be inter- fered with and which we will never give up.” ‘ “The most basic of these rights is the right to run our own af- fairs and elect our own officers by free and secret ballot. (The “Stand Up and Fight!” statement of the executive board pointed out that the present officers were elected in Septem- ber in accordance with the union constitution, “The demand of Berg (in asking for resignations) is totally out of keeping with established trade union practice. The Congress has no right to in- terfere on behalf of a disgrunt- led minority within the union.” The executive then places its fighting positon squarely before the membership: “We, the duly elected officers, have no right to violate our own Continued on back page See CIVIC ING SE HONGKONG The Japanese constitution is being “revised” by American imperialists with the assist- ance of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshida and renegade labor leaders to provide legal justi- fication for building of a Japanese army, which has been proceeding for some time. Main target is the ninth article of the Japanese constitution, which condemns war and CANADIAN TOTAL Peace appeal signatures af 300,000 TORONTO Number of signatures to the Stockholm Appeal tabu- lated at the Canadian Peace Congress office has reached 101,840 as of October 17. Ad- ded to the signatures on the Ban the :Bomb petition al- ready in circulation when the Stockholm Appeal was issued, this means that over 300,000 Canadians have now signed to outlaw atomic weapons. Here are the Stockholm Appeal signatures by provin- ces: Ontario 47,957; British Co- lumbia 22,127; Quebec 11,206; Saskatchewan 10,105; Alberta 5,807 3 Nova - Scotia =2123; Manitoba 1,588; other prov- inces and NWT 68. Also recorded are 681 sig- natures of Quebec mayors and councillors, and 102 ministers of the church. Figures by centers are as follows: Toronto 34,154; Van- couver 15,974; Montreal -10,- 165; Regina 3,317; Edmonton 2,312; Welland 2,011; Saska- toon 1,756; Timmins 1,720; Lakehead 1,575; Glace Bay 1,481; Sudbury 1,091; Wind- sor 1,057; Moose Jaw 957; Prince Albert 885; Victoria Shi :=Ouebec City. 78¥: St Catherines 759; Winnipeg 755: Hamilton 582; Simcoe 560; Newcastle 475; Kam- sack 470: Oshawa 378; Na- naimo 332; Armstrong 332; Thorold 272; Kitchener 225; Sointula 224; Vilna 203; Kirk- land Lake 201.