PACIFIC TRIBUNE SATURDAY, MARCH i6, 1946 SPECIAL EDITION — PAGE 4 Ce : Published Weekly at ROOM 104, SHELLY BUILDING 119 West Pender Street Vancouver, B.C. by the PEOPLE'S PUBLISHING CO. MArine 5288 <> TOM McEWEN _ IVAN BIRCHARD EDITORIAL BOARD Maurice Rush Minerva Cooper Al Parkin 1 Year, $2.00; 6 Months, $1.00 2303 East Hastings Stceet, Vancouver, B.C. Nigel Morgan i “Subscription Rates: Printed by East End Printers, Authorized as Second-class mail by the post-office dept., Orrawa Sail St TT reo oo TCU RTUAUMANRRUREERA MBE Clear Policy Needed HE Dominion Parliament opens this week. Momentous issues wil] have to be settled. Employment, wage Standards, union Security. . . all these are part of a Labor Code which must be evolved in this parliament to meet the growing need of Labor in every corner of Canada. The National Flousing Act must be reconstructed, so that it becomes a help to every Canadian citizen, veteran and POH Verorein, iA ine suileling OF a home doe Hinsali ane family. These issues can no longer be evaded or “talked out.“ Action must come from this session of the House of Commons. Qs expressed in the issue, and the seem= inly oneness of Purpose of this government with the reactionary Wat-moOngering imperialists of Britain and the USA, is too clearly indicative of the fact that Can- adian foreign policy is not in harmony with the wishes and desires of the great mass of the Canadian people. The interests of the people of Canada, as with the mon people elsewhere, |i i lie in the preservation of unity been turned loose upon the Canadian, in authority are behind this war-mongering hysteria. Drew of Ontario calls openly for war on the Soviet Union; Duplessis resurrects his fascist “padlock law,” to ry SS eyo Fastei—the seed. “espizations of the people oj French Canada, and to Prepare them for a against “communism.” Mackenzie King, by his very silence on these grave developments, gives tacit consent to their being. The National Counéil of the CCF session stated its faith Nations Organizations and continued friendship with the USSR. This is no time for quibbling and argument. In Spite of the many and yaried Opinions expressed by cer- tan CCF leaders, who feel bound to attempt the defense of Bevin’s imperialist policies, we welcome this decision of the National Council of the CCF. Any and every effort to block the machinations of Canadian reaction towards fomenting war and Pfrovecation against the Soviet Union can only be welcomed at this time. We must begin at once to €Xpress our views On peace and war in the strongest terms to our elected representa- tives. We must demand of the government .. . at the opening of Parliament, to make clear and unequivocal its foreign policy. We owe it to Canada’s soldier dead to demand, that the Strings that tie us as a nation to re- actionary foreign policies aimed at scuttling the concords and unity of the “Big Three” be severed at once. - It is the right and duty of the in itS recent iness in any language, and no one blames the govern? ment for acting. But the method clear, that in the process, the exhumation of Hitler’s “anti-Comitern” Pact was the main objective desired. That is where the danger comes in to the peace and well-= being of the People of Canada, and that is why the people of Canada must demand from their representatives and their government, clear and unequivocal declaration of foreign policy. As Canadians, we reject Mr. Churchill as our ambassador-at-large rolling the war drums against the USSR or the peoples of the colonial countries. We and our allies have paid dearly for the military victory over Hitler fascism, and the common People have no intention of seeing another variety of fascist aggression take its place, even if its language is more rhetorical, more poetic, and more hypocritical. = The people must speak with one voice to this session of parliament . continued friendship with the Soviet Union . . . continued Support of the U ation that it will not be strangled by reactionary. im- perialist blocs, as was the League of Nations. That is the foreign policy we must have, because only upon that can we build for progress. lapse Anything goes to heip him forget a ck of in the machinery of the United | P25 ani 3 government to safe-| guard the interests of Canada. Espionage is a dirty bus.| employed has made-it z : : ‘| Spiracy is shaping up to retain atomic i- | ticers, NO, and determin and th NEW YORK, March speech, Winston Churchill modify a single word. I unofficial position to speak Churchill’s Missouri Dust Storm Abates In New York 15.—Speaking in support of his Missouri declared: “I do not wish to withdraw or thought it necessary for someone in an in arresting terms about the present plight of the world.” Churchill denied asking for an Anglo-American “7 asked for something different_ for something more—I asked for fraternal association.” Under pressure, it is obvious that Churchill sought to back- track in his Missouri statements. He spent some considerable time ridiculing the recent elections in the Soviet Union, and while he-made no mention of that country, it was obvious from his frequent ironical remarks what Was meant. Int’l Control Would Solve ‘Atom’ Problem NEW YORK, —(ALN)—Key Am- iQ |/€tican scientists this week struck out at congressional charges that “pro- fessional scientific societies” may be involved in an alleged Soviet spy Ting to obtain atom bomb secrets. The charges, which grew out of an announcement by the House Un- American Activities Committee that it is secretly investigating a “Rus- Siem epy_ring” operating in the atamic “Holy” War |/Preject, were made by two commit- tee members, Representatives John Rankin and Karl Mundt. Speaking for over 4000 workers on the bomb porject, Dr. W. A. Hig- genbotham, chairman of the Feder- ation of American Scientists, em- Secrets are possible eyen under rigid military regulations. He Said that his group has been in touch with fellow scientists throughout che world and added: “We never advyocat- ed turning the atomic bomb over to Russia. We are for international con- trol and if you had that, there would be no security regulations. We pro- pose this because we believe it it to the benefit ot science and the coun-_ 7 Higyenbotham asserted that “the most important problem today is to win the peace by ending war. War has always been immoral, but atomic Wartare is suicide.” He strongly op- posed control of the bomb by the armed forces and stated that “scient- ists inust take the lead in making the faces about atomic energy known to the people.” The threat of military control of science, Higgenbotham said, “is also a threat of military control of labor for it is the begin- ning of fascism. Atomic energy must not get into the hands of Ghose who can think only in terms of war.” Meanwhile, behind the smokescreen of the Canadian spy scare, a con- secrecy despite the United Nations’ decision. Backed by army brasshats who favor~ rigid military control of the bomb and a secret bomb-building Program, the plan has the support of isolationists in Congress, in the State Department and other im- portant places who would use the bomb to further present U.S. foreign Policy and war with the USSR. In the background are the large corpor- ations who have much to lose if atom bemb secrecy is abandoned. Talking advantage of the Ganadian SPY Scare, Winston Churchill’s pro- bosal for a military alliance against the Soviet Union and the general drive for a war on the USSR, the House Military Affairs Committee voted to bring up an atomic energy bill which would vest complete con- trol of the bomb in a few military of- place restrictions on scientists us enable the building up of a Secret army. Maj. Gen. L. R. Groves, in charge of the bomb project, told the Gom- Mittee recently that the $2,000,000,000 tbomb project must be maintained at ized that “leaks’ in vital yomib | it is there. near capacity and that the U.S. must “be prepared to ra inta an 2opressive Wat at the drop of a hat, at some- body’s say So, and without even wait- ing to assemble Congress in special Session because it would take too long.” The army has at the same time tried to block political statements on the atom bomb by scientists. A second atomic energy bill, back- ed by Dr. Robert J. Oppenheimer, the mation’s leading nuclear physicist, Secretary of Comerce Henry Wallace, former Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes and organigations representating 90 percent of the atom Scientists, would provide for civilian contro]. Whether these groups, back- ed by labor, are Strong enough to overcome the hate Russia hysteria | which is being developed on a grand Seale throughout the country, re- mains to be seen. Victoria Prepares For May Day VICTORIA. — The Victoria Labor Council, at its regular monthly meet- ing Monday night, elected a com- mittee to contact all local trade unions and ‘veterans organizations and ask them to Participate in a May Day conference meeting on March 24, 7.30 p-m., at room 6, 1116 Broad St. Organizations will be asked to send a delegate to the meeting, the purpose of which is to formulate plans for 4 May Day mass rally. - The Labor Gouncil Secretary was instructed to extend an invitation to] ~ Harry Bridges of the International Longshoremen & Warehousemen’s Union, San Francisco, to be 4 guest speaker. R. Mezger, Gouncil secretary- treasurer, condemned vigorously the methods being used by the Federal government in dealing yith the Soviet spy enquiry. “Ganadian monopolies are using this spy hysteria to lay a smoke screen over their real desire to ball the trade unions in their efforts to obtain a higher standard of living and a shorter work week,’ he stated. “The old red bogey is being resur- rected once more by frenzied oppon- ents of a rapidly expanding labor movement,” he declared. “Labor will not be misled, however, by these false prophets of decadent misrep- resentation. “May Day will be commemorated by labor this year as a demonstra- tion of the working peoples’ united determination to continue its strug- gle more emphatically than ever for an increasing standard of living and a shorter work week, in spite of all the smoke screens and bogeys that are placed in their path,” stated Mr. Mezger. Continued from Page 1 Let’s Get Back To Sanity impose its will upon the world. Certainly, its stranglehold is being weakened: the colonial Peoptes « of India, IndoChina, Indonesia, the Near and Middle East are striking out for their independence, fer - democratic rights and national freedom; the new People’s governments of anti-fascist Europe are striy-__ ing to win a new and fuller democratic way of life: and the influence of Socialism in the Soviet Union js Spreading among the peoples of the world. a It is these progressive changes that the men of Wall Street, the imperial bankers of London, and. Canadian Big Business, look upon with fear and loathing. And it is in the mad hope of turning back the wheel of history that they are brandishing the atomic bomb, shooting doven those who fight for - colonial independence and whipping up anti-Soviet. hysteria. And it is for this, too, that they are ence again picking up the bedraggled, blood-stained ban= ner of Hitler’s “crusade against Communism.” Canada’s people did not fight the war that hos barely ended, in order to uphold imperialism, and the robbery of the colonial peoples. Our fighting. men Overseas and our war-workers af home looked to high promises of the - acd permit—our country fo be turned into the northern cockpit for an atomic war waged by the United States and Britain against the Sovet Union, on behalf of empire and the profit-system! If we want to save the Peace, we must speak out now, and act together, for the policies that alone can make the peace secure. What are those policies? First and foremost, the re-establishment of the unity of the Big Three. This is the key to world peace and to Canada’s national security. : Qn what basis can this unity be built? On the basis of the existing, signed agreements of the Big Three, for the complete uprooting of fas- many and Japan, and for the destruction of fascism in Spain and Argentina; for the freedom of peoples Proclaimed in the Atlantic Charter; and for eco- nomic cooperation in devastation in Europe ond Asia. These pledged America. ada’s people want. =, rebuilding cartels in Western, Germany, and refusing fo agree fo international t bomb. [t is they who are re- neging on the Big Three agreements. . . . their overwhelming majority, want friendship between ourl country, the USSR. Britain and the USA, in a coalition that will prevent eggression and another war. : Canadians want economic stability through oa government ada needs; employment and no mOre appeasement of the fa- scares” to becloud the is- sues and cover up the broken pledges of govern- _ments. Bie : { } Canadians want to produce cars, radios, houses, clothing, and corn Think these things over, people of Canada. Do not believe every newspaper story you read, publish_ ed by papers which are the subservient mouthpieces of the monopolies. Do not be fooled a second time by the ‘red bogey.” Hitler made it work once—and gj_ most twenty million people died. If it works again jn this atomic age, if atomic diplomacy replaces Big Three coalition, then the war we have just won and the enormous sacrifices made will have been in Vain. The government of Canada, instead of giving aid and comfort to world reaction must strike out boldly on the path of world peace and Canadians, farm Organizations, munity associations; at home, in church, wherever you are—make your views known to the Dominion S°vernment and to your provincial governments, to your M.P.’s, to your your aldermen and school trustees: Canada wants peace!