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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

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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.

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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”’

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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

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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

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