McEwen ~ We ‘ anch HEMT Tom tiny 3 , : UNM Henne ne Ge [ is said that during the crucifixion of aa lowly carpenter nearly two cen- Wiles ago, “darkness covered the face mete earth.” Since then the world has 5 N much moral darkness, but never 4S it darker than on Friday, June 19, Tuli, when two humble Americans, dician and Ethel Rosenberg, were ju- on ally murdered in cold blood by a *Wer-mad ruling caste. a every land millions of men and ‘ Men of all races and creeds felt this Eepole moral darkness grips their hearts a it became known that this husband Wife, father and mother of two Small sons, had been burned to death in the electric chair; a human sacrifice ce the hate, brutality and. arro- Tul ce of the sub-humans who today ue the United States and, aping Hit- ‘Ter, ho i ’ e by le: st worl ne by such actions to rule the 0 lat Q picket vigils before U.S. consu- €s In many lands, men and women Le in anger, frustration, and fear for Dar mre, when the news of this un- cd horror became known. They a een taught, each in their own.way, alw Justice, decency and mercy would i eval over blind hate and tyr- dee Wight D. Eisenhower and his Mur- a Incorporated government ‘destroyed ‘ Precious concept when they des- yed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Ssining—Sing Sing! In the language ston © once proud, Iroquois, “stone upon ‘ €.” With untold millions of peoples oe stones also wept at the crime of ear done in the name of justice. Rat? During the last weeks of their 4 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg de- aye magnificently where the otry of their “crime” lay. Hysteria, big- eect fear produces its own verdict. could ¢ of that hysteria, the Rosenbergs KG face death with a tranquility and . an dignity totally alien to the mur- Tavings of their executioners. Catig, mower: the militarist, the ‘“edu- nalist,” the man who shared with opera Douglas MacArthur the “honor” erg? Shing the jobless “bonus march- a Md the ‘Hungry Thirties, won ful- its Beane’ from the yellow press for ich ility at outwitting two small boys, ae and Robert Rosenberg, aged the yond six years. Picketing before hite House in a vain attempt to 8a : a the lives of their parents they Bobi Eisenhower with a moral nd Re oe to avoid two small boys? ene € yellow press splashed the ans- é Over acres of front-page space — door President “ducked in at a side sc sehaway Korea we can burn count- est 1 Ousands of children with our lat- into jel. bombs—but we cannot look meri € pleading eyes of two small x can boys. : Nd the U.S. Supreme Court, that as . upon which the concept of jus- and ened to hold fast under any ‘ circumstances. In some matters, : like’ SO infinitely slow and painstaking, Bring proverbial mills of the gods, i aha slow and exceeding small. But in di jal atter of carrying through the ju- the rf instructions ‘of the Pentagon for ~so lurder of two steadfast Americans th Shamelessly fast and coarse. Even in * Ncouver Sun, itself no weak voice Which Ipping up the cold-war hysteria killed the Rosenbergs, was com- pelled to ask editorially, “What was the rush?” t The question is superficial. With three justices out of nine holding sub- stantial doubts on the Rosenberg con- viction and sentence, reason should have , prevailed against committing a crime outraging the conscience of man- kind. But the killers, armed with the foul weapon of McCarthyism, turned their Supreme Court into a judicial ve- hicle for murder—and haste was ne- cessary lest world opinion rob them of their victims. The murder of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg establishes beyond all cavil that the ruling caste of America re- spects nothing except naked and sav- age power. Period. The deal offered by the U.S. Justice Department to Julius and Ethel Rosen- berg—that they could save their lives if they “confessed” proved two things: their innocence and the government’s , own, complicity in framing them to feed the fires of its war conspiracies. Even’ on the day of their murder, “two FBI men stood near the couple all afternoon, waiting for them to break. - But the break — their absolute hope of escaping the chair — never came.” In- nocent of the crime alleged in their frameup, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg had nothing to “confess.” The Rosen- bergs, man and wife, stand out like mighty pillars of human strength, dig- nity and grandeur, before whom| the pygmies of dollar imperialism look shrunken and rotting. - On that “last mile” a New World walked with Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, and at their side too walked Sacco and ~ Vanzetti. And while the world stands aghast at the horror of it, the strong, soft-spoken’ words of Vanzetti rise above the gathering storm: : “tf it had not been for this thing I might have lived out my life among scorning men. I might have died un- marked, unknown, 4 failure. This is our career and our triumph. “Never in our full life can we hope to do such work for tolerance, for jus- tice, for man’s understanding of man, as now we do by accident.” ; And Ethel Rosenberg replies with the mighty strength of a world being re- born: “we will not help purse the foul record of fraudulent conviction and barbaric sentence. .- - Our respect for, trust, conscience and human dignity is not for sale. Justice is not some bauble to be sold to the highest bidder. If we are executed it will be the mur- der of innocent people and the shame will be on the government of the United States. _ History will record — whether we live or not — that we were the victims of the most monstrous frame-up in the history of our country.” Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. > * Phone: MArine 5288 Tom McEwen, Editor — Hal Griffin, Associate Editor Subscription Rates: Canada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia) One Year $3.00 Six Months $1.60 X Australia, United States and all other countries One Year ‘$4.00 ‘ Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 5 Six Months $2.50 50 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa re . Rhee -- puppet provocateur QNCE again, hopes for an early peace in Korea have received a serious setback. This time it is the provocative action of Sygnam Rhee, U.S. puppet president of South Korea, in releasing 25,000 or more allegedly “antiCCommunist” POWs from South Korean prison camps. This, when the POW issue had reached a stage where final settlement was in sight. Only the most gullible persons can believe that top U.S. military and govern- ment brass were not prime movers in engineering this latest obstruction to peace. It is well known that ever since the Panmunjom peace talks began, US. military brass, masquerading in UN guise, have devised every obstacle they could to prevent successful conclusion of these long-protracted peace talks. With Syngman Rhee, the U.S. ignored the Geneva Convention to make the POW repatriation issue the greatest single obstacle to peace. And the brutal terror- ization and massacre of defenseless North Korean POWs insisting on their rights, at Koje, provded the foundation for this obstacle. Now, with fine words by U.S. spokesmen about “UN authority” and “siening a separate peace treaty,” the people of this country are asked to believe that the Pentagon is “indignant” over the “‘breach of faith” committed by Rhee, the U.S. _ Stooge. Who is this little Korean gangster Syngman Rhee, this carbon-copy of dollar imperialism’s Chiang Kai-shek? If the UN (read US.) really*wanted peace to come to Korea, does any gane person believe that a puppet who holds his power by virtue of U.S. arms and’ dollars would be permitted to stand in the way? Of course not! Hence, dollar imperialism in a “favorable” light as an advocate of peace, while its subsidized Korean gangster engages in new provocations for pro- longing the war, The turning loose of thousands of North Korean POWs also serves another purpose. It makes the problem of ascertai ning how many such POWs have been murdered in cold blood by Rhee’s gangsters, or shot to death by U.S. troops in the so-called POW camp riots, where scores have been shot to death for such “offences” as singing, parading, celebrating May Day and so on! Turning these POWs loose: to suffer further terror and starvation “so lves” these problems for the U.S. brass. One of the key issues in this federal election must be the demand (placed by the electorate in terms no Liberal politician can misunderstand) that Canada must be immédiately withdrawn from this conspiracy against peace; that Canada’s armed forces in Korea be brought home forthwith, and that our country, as a free and independent voice.in the UN, speak up for the imposition of peace in Korea, regard- less of Syngman Rhee’s trickery—or the fine words of his U.S. paymasters. Strikebreaking at bargain prices AST Saturday morning at 9:30 a.m. the Vancouver Civil Defense staged its first “Operation Beware” exercise in a mock air attack. The press hailed the effort as a ‘“‘great success.” Some of the more enthusiastic of the war. panic- ‘mongers described this provocatively labelled “Red Alert” as being just like the “real thing”. Other citizens, whose prime concern is in securing the peace so that the taxpayers’ money can be spent. to. more constructive purposes, had different views. One reason for their attitude was the action of Slade and Stewart, large-scale dealers in. fruit and vegetables. Slade and Stewart apparently regarded the alert as a splendid opportunity to do a spot of strikebreaking. For the past ten days the firm’s plant has been strike- bound. A strong picket has been main- tained by the Retail, Wholesale and De- partment Store Union (CCL) to win its wage demands: How better to smash a picket line than to offer ‘bargains” in potatoes, bananas, fruit and other vegetables? What if both the TLC and CCL unions had urged the boycotting of this “‘bar- gain sale’? What if the “sale” tore to shreds all the elaborate flummery of “Civil Defense”? Smashing a picket line of union men is defense of big busi- ness in its drive to ride roughshod over the rights of organized labor. The shameful stampede was less con- cerned with people walking off with loads of unpaid goods than they were with engendering a mob spirit against a striking union, Slade and Stewart help- ed to advance the mob ideology of the bulk of the shoppers from Shaughnessy Heights that only pickets stood between them and tremendous “bargains.” While we are not unduly concerned with defending the wasteful and pro- voeative stupidity of our existing Civil Defense setup, the Slade and Stewart incident points up one lesson, that sec- tions of big business will even scuttle their own “civil defense” exercises in order to.smash a union picket line, andj seek to turn public opinion (incited to mob hysteria on “bargains”) against _union men. It is the responsibiltiy of the trade unions of Greater Vancouver, in sup- port of the Retail, Wholesale and De- partment Store Union, to see to it that Slade and Stewart has no more strike- breaking “bargain” sales of a like na- ture. And we shall watch with interest to see what action, if any, Civil Defense officials take with such “bargain” pro- moters who defy constituted authority at a time when the rights of the rest of the citizens are under drastic curb. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 26, 1953 — PAGE 5 i ial aha liael i "ene ore ee , “rey wry arene a iia Mtoe italia ei worn ileal aehee Aimeatebin haem la