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India vores U.S., UN

The Indian government formally informed the U.S. and the
United Nations this week that unless it receives full cooperation in
carrying out the Korean POW agreement its task there will become

impossibly difficult.
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The statement followed provocative threats by
South Korean regime of Syngman Rhee to send its troops to

drive the Indian troops out of Korea because it. regarded their in-

sistence on adherence to the agreeement “pro-Communist.”
a Chinese who has decided to return to China is shown at

militarized zone.

Above,
the de-

NY Times map shows
U.S. threat to world

Graphic proof of the charge
that the United States is increas-
ing its far-flung network of air,
naval and military bases through-
out the world — bases not only
aimed at the Soviet Union, but
at the national independence of
the countries in which the bases
are maintained — came to light
with the publication of a map
pinpointing the bases, published
in the New York Times Septem-
ber 20. (See map on front page).

(The Pacific Tribune has made
one correction to the map. The
Times significantly omitted Can-

ada in its listing of troops on
foreign soil. Actually, the US.
has a minimum of 5,000 troops
stationed on at. least six major
bases in Canada.)

On September 21 in the UN
General Assembly, Soviet dele-
gate Andrei Vishinsky charged
that the creation of these U.S.
bases “has strengthened the
threat of a new world war.”

A five-point Soviet resolution
put before the Assembly called
for the Security Council to “take
steps to imsure the elimination
of such bases.”

Civic Reform spurs
phone probe drive

Civic Reform Association is
circularizing trade unions, rate-
payers organizations and other
organized greups urging them to
demand a. probe into the combine
set-up of the B.C. Telephone Com-
pany, CRA president Effie Jones
told the Pacific Tribune this week.

Factual evidence establishing
an illegal combination in viola-
tion of federal legislation was
submitted in July to the federal
commissioner by Sidney Zlotnik,
representing the CRA, but an
acknowledgement from the com-
mission promising that the mat-
ter “would be looked into” has
not been carried out.

“The problem of telephone ser-
Vice and rates is once again be-
fore the public as a result of a
motion introduced in the legisla-
ture by Robert Strachan (CCF,
Cowichan-Newcastle),” says the
CRA letter. “Strachan’s charges
about control of BCT by a ‘Chica-
go joker’ are substantially the
same as those made by Zlotnik at
the public hearins in Vancouver

last February, and in his request
for a probe in July.

“Strachan’s charges have al-

_Teady received support from two

Social Credit and one Liberal
member of the House, and he
has given notice of a motion to
establish a provincial telephone
commission.

“This opens up an opportunity
for the citizens of B.C. to do
scmething about telephone ser-
vices in this province.

“I—We would ask that you
send resolutions to the federal
government and to your MLAs
and MP’s asking that they: de-
mand from the federal commis-
sioner action to investigate the

BCTelephone Company.

“2—We would ask your organ-
ization to send resolutions of
support to Robert Strachan.”

Copies of the official complaint,
giving full information on how
BCTelephone is violating the fed-
eral statutes, can be obtained by
writing to Mrs. Effie Jones, 5038
Sherbrooke Street, Vancouver.

Buck urges labor —

to protest threat —
to British Guiana —

TORONTO —

Continued

RIGHTS

of arrested strikers was shifted
to New Westminster. Prior to
their being tried, Judge Ho-
way gave an interview to the
press in which he stated that
the miners were “nothing short
of monsters, destitute of all mer-
cy and devoid of all human in-
stincts.” '

A warning to the labor move-
ment and to citizens generally
that police action in seizing and
transporting Doukhobors could
pave the way to like actions
against other groups of indivi-
duals was sounded by Vancouver
branch of the League for Demo-
cratic Rights this week, in a let-
ter from the LDR to Attorney-
General Robert Bonner urging
repeal of the sentences imposed
upon the Sons of Freedom.

Text of the LDR letter, signed
by executive secretary Jack Phil-
lips, reads:

“The members*of our associa-
tion are seriously concerned be-
cause of the way in which the so-
ealled Doukhobor problem has
been handled.

“When men and women are
seized by police officers and
transported to a city hundreds of
miles from the scene of their
alleged crimes, there to stand
trial, a dangerous precedent is
established.

“Should such a practice become
common in B.C., any citizen, or
any group of citizens could be
charged with an offense and then
quickly whisked away to stand
trial where it is most difficult to

have local defense witnesses in .

attendance, and impossible to
have a local jury if the defense
so desires. We are certain that
the organized labor movement
will recognize the danger to labor
inherent in this arbitrary change
of venue.

“The daily press reports that
the presiding magistrate, Graham
Ladner, referred to the accused
as ‘vicious enemies of society.’
We can only construe such re-
marks, after the way the arrests
and trials took place, as an ex-
pression of bias.

“We respectfully urge that you
repeal the sentences imposed on
the convicted Doukhobors; and
that you return all Doukhobor
children to their parents. Public
opinion is deeply shocked at the
cruel and unnatural separation
of these children from their par-
ents. ~

“We earnestly recommend that
after repealing the sentences,
which are out of proportion to
the offences the | Doukhobors
were charged with, you institute
discussions and conferences with
a view to the amicable settlement
of all outstanding grievances.

“The so-called Doukhobor prob-
lem is not a new one. Force
was used on previous occasions.
and failed. We are certain that
force will not solve the problem
of today.”

Protest against the British government's “interfer
in the internal affairs of British Guiana’ has been f
by Tim Buck, LPP national leader, in wires sent to he
General Sir Archibald Nye, British high commissions 4
Ottawa, and Prime Minister St. Laurent. ap
his protest with a call to the Canadian labor movement tt

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Buck cou}

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all democratic Canadians to speak up for the rights of

people of British Guiana.

“Despatch of -warships and
troops and the threat to abrogate
the constitution of British Guiana
constitute aggresssion upon the
democratic rights of the people
of that country and their consti-
tutionally elected parliament,”
Buck declared in his protest to
Nye. He called on St. Laurent
to raise the issue in the UN as a
violation of the UN Charter.

'Meanwhile, reports from
Georgetown, capital of British
Guiana, of “calm but tense” con-
ditions belie wild claims of an
impending “Communist coup
d’etat” inspired by the British
government.

There is every indication that
the British government has been
preparing for some time to act
against the growing movement
for independence, not .only in
British Guiana, but in British
Honduras, where democratic
leaders have been tried for “sedi-

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Progressive party, led y
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ham, who is also Se
British Guiana TUC, Sarg
the 24 seats in the first Hour
Assembly elected under 4 itself
constitution and pledge 3
“to the task of winning orking
independent Guiana, ° nw
out a democratic feder@ Or hose
the Caribbean colonies, wld be
federal constitution sh? .
written by a constituem
bly.”

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limited powers hecal uppet
only two seats m itis!
house, appointed by ie a8
governor, and all legislal yetO:
subject to the governor?

on Endicott’s home —

Three serious attacks were re-
cently made in Toronto upon the
Canadian Peace Congress and the
home of its chairman, Dr. James
Endicott, B.C. Peace Council .re-
ported in a press statement this
week.

“We have requested the Justice
Minister, Stuart Garson, to take
immediate action to put a stop
to this violence and to apprehend
the criminals,’ said Ray Gard-
ner, council chairman.

On September 30, two hand-
made bombs were placed at the
front and back doors of Dr. En-
dicott’s home, creating a suffo-
cating smoke and setting fire to

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