Vancouv BL Teer pe pe psy WEL AEM EI GIT Lig Oy Uhr nN) Hy Uh f th yee MATEY EY er, British Columbia, August 29, 1952 M 7 OAM as eanavaveravsvenenen MUM ueeNeu|neeevanevereueuaneve:isueletiauetereieneneveveaneie Labor Day Edition The challenge of Labor Day by Tim Buck page 9 The Soviet Union’s pension plan by Ralph Parker page 4 Mine-Mill’s Yukon local page 10 iT E ICICI een het OOO Tee HE Tn TOT ST UST ET RTT ET Ho e e ~°rrors of napalm bombing Wig Kim Chol Yun, a 10-year-old boy (seen above, left, with his Owed mother) hasn’t been able to shut his eyes since he was Palmed in Kaesong by the Americans on November 21, 1950. oy Can Sleep fitfully in a darkened room, but always with his eyes »~Mrs. Kim Yang Sun (right) was napalmed on May 29, 1951. ] face, hands and back are horribly. scarred and she can only tae for about half an hour at a time before being awakened by Ta Day, 1952 Qin, Labor . By TOM McEWEN « 4 very common theme in the current Labor Day Messages’ of professional politicians and trade union URirs is to repeat the old hackneyed phrase about ; pai Bis nets eye ed assuming “‘the responsibilities of recognition. Beving “recognized” labor (as though they could “St without it) these custodians of capitalist ex- ce itation presume to lecture it on matters of class duct! is rely aside from such “mess- with thelr standardized Reet Of labor’s “responsibili- Ma. Labor Day. of 1952 pro- : & timely opportunity to o¢ '8 the progress and set backs ty ® past year, and for labor at ake a g00d responsible look thes © big struggles looming tq a That there will be big Ye, decisive struggles in the Sg: future is a foregone con- Yenc The mania of the t) “© warmongers, seeping in- Of Bet threatening every facet Yr political, economic and social life, is a danger signal which Canadian labor and the people generally can no longer fail to recognize or’ disregard. Events of the past. year not only show the U.S, State Department laying down the lines of overall national policies to the St. Laur- ent government, but they also show the tentacles of that war- mad oligarchy with its Federal Bureau of Investigation reach- ing into the highest councils of organized dabor in Canada. i Continued on Page 2 See LABOR DAY TANKS RENEW MURDER OF PRISONERS ON KQJE ISLAND Intensifying their prepara- tions to extend the Korean war and break off peace talks, the American military leaders in Korea are renewing their killing of POW’s on Koje Island as part of their campaign to end armis- tice negotiations. Finding that their increasing- ly vicious bombing raids on civ- ilian targets had failed to make Korean truce negotiators leave the parley table, the Americans ordered General Hayden § L. (“Hot Dog’’) Boatner to renew his ugly “little war” against the prisoners on Koje Island. ’ The brutalities ‘of Boatner and his troops last June when, in the words of the New York World Telegram, ‘‘tough Amer- ican paratroops whipped 6,500 Communist war prisoners into sukmission today. in a savage battle of tanks,’ bayonets; flame throwers and bare fists against spears and arrows” are’now be- ing repeated on a stepped-up scale. f “Singing and marching’ by POW’s is the excuse used by Boatner to start a new round of killings, The U.S. Highth Army boast- fully recorded this week that guards ‘“‘met every challenge”’ . with maximum force, killing four prisoners and injuring 64. An Highth Army spokesman cynically observed: | ; “In the last few ‘weeks pris- oners and civilian internees in their new 500-man compounds have tried out the nerves of UN personnel, making trouble to see what force would be used against them, On every occasion we have used maximum force. We have met every challenge.” General Nam II, senior Ko- rean negotiator at Panmunjom, forced the American high com- mand to give this ‘“‘explanation”’ when he cited instances of new American atrocities at Koje Is- land and other POW camps run by the Yankees. Last week Alan Winnington, London Daily Worker corres- pondent in Korea, brought to light the worst recorded mas- sacre of Korean POW’s at the American camps at Koje. It took place in January of this year and 170 prisoners were killed. It was never reported by the Americans and Winning- ton learned the facts from in- terviews with American-employ- ed secret agents dropped behind Korean lines and later captured, In January the Americans 2 wanted to screen prisoners in Compound 61. The prisoners resisted, made paper banners de- manding their return home.and sang a popular song. The Americans and the Syng- man Rhee troops moved in with armoured cars and machine-guns and fired into the compound for half an hour. Later work par- ties from Compound 72 were sent in to bury the dead, There were about 170 killed, but it is not known how many were wounded since they had been re- moved beforehand. The ground was saturated with blood. General Boatner is -the man who, when he took command last spring, told British troops how he intended to adhere to the principles of the Geneva Convention: “We don’t want tto kill pris- oners. If you get into a fight, Slash him, use the butt of your rifle and give him the knee in the groin. . . .” But when the bloody massacre of June 10 took Place (the death toll was 40, the wounded 164) General Boatner, watching from a safe vantage point, glee- fully yelled: “Hot dog! ‘em run.” Hot dog! See ' |