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A statement made November |
Headquarters of the Korean People

talks with ex-

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PYONGYANG
6 by the spokesman of the General
*s Army answers the U.S. fabrica-

tions of the so-called massacres of prisoners of war in Korea. It reads

in part as follows:

The statement issued November 14 by James M. Hanley, chief

of the American 8th Army war
crimes branch, alleging that the
Korean People’s Army and the
Chinese people’s volunteers “mas-
sacred” prisoners of war, is from
start to finish a disgusting fab-
rication whose purpose is to con-
coct fresh pretexts for stalling
the Korean armistice negotia-
tions.

Hanley’s inspired statement is
as incompatible with the facts as
water with fire. The Chinese
people’s volunteers and the Ko-
rean People’s Army have always,
in a humanitarian spirit, extend-
ed good treatment to the prison-
ers of war.

Tt is very obvious that if it is
true that the Korean People’s
Army and the Chinese people’s
volunteers did “massacre” prison-
ers of war, why, then, should the
headquarters of the American ag-
gressive army place a ban, effec-
tive since February this year, on
interviews by press correspon-
dents with released war prison-
ers? It was imposed because
these released prisoners of war,
on the basis of their experience,
had time and again discredited
all the lies of the UN Command
alleging that our side executes
prisoners of war.

Quite contrary to these lies, the
Korean People’s Army-and the
Chinese people’s volunteers side
possesses solid, irrefutable evi-
dence to substantiate the fact
that it is precisely the American
“United Nations Force” which has
inhumanely slaughtered thous-
ands of\war prisoners who have
fallen into their hands. As to the
outrageous brutalities of the
American ‘troops in massacring
women, children and the aged in
Korea as well as their systematic
destruction of Korean cities, vil-
lages, industry, crops, civilian
dwellings, schools, hospitals,
churches and various cultural
institutions, these facts are even
better known to the entire world.

U.S. generals extend their mur-
derous slaughter not only to our
officers, men and civilians whom
they have captured, but also to
their own officers and men whom
Wwe have captured. Certain POW
camps in North Korea, for ex-
ample, were bombed five times by
the American Air Forces ‘between
February and October this year;
62 war prisoners were killed or
wounded.

Why have the U.S, generals
instructed Hanley to publicize at
this time the lie that our forces
killed prisoners of war and civi-
lians? What hidden purpose do
they seek to achieve?

Their purpose is, firstly, to con-
coct @ new pretense for rejecting
agreement on the question of
a cease-fire military demarcation
line which is a fundamental con-
dition for armistice, and thereby
to drag out the armistice talks in-
defintely. The United Nations
Forces delegation to the armis-
tice talks has currently been us-

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ing precisely the pretext that
agreement on questions, like the
exchange of war prisoners has
not yet been obtained to refuse
to reach concrete agreement on
the question of a cease-fire mili-
tary demarcation line.

Secondly, they intend by this
means to stir up new war hysteria
in the United States as well as
the imperialist world to counter
the ever-developing anti-war
movement of the peoples of the
world, including the American
and British people and troops—
a movement calling for an armis-
tice in Korea. and reduction of
armaments.

Thirdly, they hope in this way
to cover up flagrant crimes com-
mitted by the American generals
themselves in slaughtering pris-
oners of war and civilians in
Korea, and also to establish in ad-
vance a pretext for continuation
of the obstructive and stalling
tactics when it comes to discus-
sion of the next items of the
agenda including the question of
the exchange of war prisoners.

It is only by dragging out the
Korean armistice negotiations
and continuing the war of ag-
gression in Korea, that it is pos-
sible to go on conscripting peo-
ple of the United States, Britain
and other countries and herd
them to bloody self-destruction
in Korea. Only thus is it possible
to maintain international tensidn,
step up armament expansion and
war preparations and allow the
Wall Street plutocracy to con-
tinue to exact enormous war pro-
fits. Of course, under such a
despicable American policy of
staHing,-the prisoners of war of
American, British and- other na-
tionalities, who had the possibili-
ty of returning home for Christ-
mas, will not be able to realize
their hopes for such early home-
coming. :

Hanley’s concoction is a pre-
meditated scheme of the policy-
makers in the U.S. government.
It is precisely for this reason
that, after Hanley’s statement
was issued, the headquarters of

both Van Fleet and Ridgway pre-.

tended that they had no previous
knowledge of it, while Truman,
American Congressmen and the
American bourgois press immed-
iately pounced on Hanley’s lie
and raised a great clamor.

“You've tried long enough to net

peace by making war, why not ti Ss

get peaca by ese negotiations
now?”

ei ce RESPIR Mn

Victoria parley asks

milk price roll-back, |

producers’ subsidies

VICTORIA, B.C.

A five-point attack to bring the price of milk down was urged in one of the chief resolutions:
presented to the Conference For Action Against High Prices held here recently. The resolution called
for a roll-back in the price of milk and subsidies to the producers.

The conference was sponsored by the Victoria chapter of Congress of Canadian Women to give
city organizations an opportunity to unite their voices against the increase in the cost of living. Some

5 organizations were represented, and observers and citizens’ delegates brought the total attendance

to'95 people.

Speaking by invitation at the
conference, Henry Robinson, sec-
retary manager of the Vancouver
Island Dairymen’s Association,
warned that the recent jumps in
feed costs were forcing the farm-
ers out of business. ‘Production
on Vancouver Island is dropping
even faster than consumption. At
‘present one-third of all the milk
sold in Victoria comes from the
Fraser Valley and it is at least
four days old before it reaches
the consumer,”

The conference opposed the
BCElectric application for an in-
crease in “fair return” from 5.8
percent to 7.5 percent. On mo-
tion of Mrs. May Campbell of
the CCF, the conference went on
record as favoring taking over
of BCElectric by the people of
B.C.

Other resolutions called for an
excess profits tax as a means of
paying subsidies on_ essential
foods; an embargo on beef ex-
ports to the U.S_; revision in the
cost of living index; and rejection
of the recent application of the
BCTelephone for rate increases.

Conference delegates supported —

a motion to set up a Cost of Liv-
ing Action Committee to carry
out the work of combatting in-
flation. _ 4

The meeting was chaired by
Elgin Neish, president of the
Victoria local of the United Fish-
ermen and Allied Workers Union.
Mrs. E. Rawson was chairman of
the resolutions committee and
Mrs. M. Ralston acted as secre-
tary. A

Homeowners back
Mrs. Dorland in
aldermanic bid

Aldermanic candidate Florence
Dorland this week received sup-
port from members of General
Gordon .Homeowners’. Association
in her campaign for a council
seat. At a meeting Tuesday this
week in Killarney Hall where she
reported on the group’s fight to
have an area in Kitsilano rezon-
ed from a one-family to a two-
family dwelling district, members
of the Association decided to sup-
port Mrs. Dorland’s candidacy.

Copies of Mrs. Dorland’s elec-
tion program, now being: distri-
buted in thousands of copies
throughout the city, stress her
key demands on housing and
town planning:

e Low Cost Housing. “Van-
couver needs thousands of new
homes for low income groups,
but we are getting no.action from

the City Housing Authority, the ‘

committee appointed in January,
1951, which to date has failed
to build one single housé.”

@ Zoning and Town Planning.
“Refusal of the NPA-dominated
city council to rezone certain
areas from one-family to two-
family dwellings works great
hardships on both owners and
tenants because of the present
\ acute housing shortage.”

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MRS. RUTH TURNER

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MRS. BATE “MARSH
Burnaby candidates

These two candidates named by
Burnaby Labor Election Com-
mittee are both campaigning vig-
orously for a big “No” vote on
tha proposed plebiscite. asking
voters whether they approve sale
of lands adjoining Confederation
Park and granting of a park
easement to Standard Oil. Mrs.
Ruth Turner (top), of South
Burnaby, contesting the council
seat for which her husband, Wil-
liam Turner. was a candidate last
year, urges setting up of an
elective varks board to protect
Burnaby’s park sites.

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 30, 1951 — PAGE 12

CONTINUED

BURNABY

ton, Texas. They counter the
premier’s own war-minded argu-
ments that the pipeline will elimi-
nate submarine threats to open-
sea tanker routes by pointing out
that they do not want their dis-
trict to become a military target.

Already there are two refineries
in the area, where many state
the oil companies should never
have been allowed to build. One,
Standard Oil, abuts on Confed-
eration Park to the west.
other, Shell Oil, lies between
Capitol Hill and the new multi-
million dollar Westridge housing
project on Burnaby Mountain.
Shell is now reported to be seek-
ing additional land which will
bring its plant virtually on to
the heavily mortgaged doorsteps
of Westridge residents.

All this helps to explain why
Burnaby council, dominated by
the CCF, has found it difficult to
answer ratepayers’ delegations
sent to the hall by protesting
residents. It explains, in particu-
lar, the evasive position of OCF
Councillor George Isherwood,
chairman of the council’ com-

mittee recommending sale of the >

property and granting of the
park easement to Standard Oil.
(He denied to delegations that
Standard Oil had actually paid
in $75,000. Later it transpired that
the oil company’s cheque was re-
ceived last August.) It also has
a bearing on the CCF’s election
slogan: “Bring Industry to
Burnaby.” Had not various com-
munity and other organizations
protested the committee’s refusal
to hear their protests and had
not legal snags forced the coun-
cil‘to put the question to a pleb-
iscite at this election, it is prob-
able that the council would have
completed the deal weeks ago—
and the people be damned.

Now, it is understood, a big
campaign for a “No” vote in. the
plebiscite is being planned by pro-
testing organizations
Confederation Park from being
hemmed in on two sides and
eventually absorbed piecemeal by
the oil companies.

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