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Tom
McEwen’

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Moscow,” and the New York Daily News
charged that Russia is trying “the same
old Soviet sucker game on gullible West-
sas erners.” One Wisconsin editor named
, John Chappie, sounding off in real Mc-
smarthy style, referred to these editors
seeing the facts for themselves as “the
editorial jackasses of the century for
falling for this Soviet peace trickery.”

A PT reader in California sent us a
raft of newspaper clippings from the
pen of one of these small town editors.
This editor, Jane Mclllvaine, just could-
n’t forget that the world didn’t revolve
on its axis, but on Yankee Doodle Dol-
lar Dandy. Try as she would, and for
one week in Moscow she did “see” a lot
of things very uncomplimentary to So-
cialism, she just couldn’t avoid saying
these other basic things that the U.S.
State Department and powerful subsidiz-
ed monopoly press don’t like.

“It’s a woman’s world in Russia — if
she wants to be a steel puddler, run
cranes, handle mine detectors. There
is no glamor. There is equality. Every-
where I went I saw women working at
man-sized jobs. They were operating
derricks,’ driving streetcars and loco-
motives, planting tfees and putting up
puildings. Women are the backbone of
the Soviet Union.” :

Tut, tut, Jane, even without benefit
of the state department’s “brain wash,”
those are not the things you were sup-
posed to see. According to high priests
of the anti-Soviet press, McCarthy, Chap-
pel or Henry Luce, that is pure mush.
The least you could have “seen” while
there was “why Stalin died and why
Malenkov is slated for replacement by
Beria and warn us of the coming in-
tensified attack upon our civilization”!

And for editors Wick and Simon to
write that they “could move about free-
ly” through’ the main streets and “even
back alleys” without anyone bothering
them, and worse, to write that “the
Russian people do not want war” — such
ideas must just not be encouraged. Why,
if all our editors ‘wrote what they saw,
instead of writing what the U.S. State
Department and its press hacks insist
they “saw,” we’d have chaos and an-
archy. Better accept our made-in-the-
USA dictum and admit you have been
“led around by the nose.” And at the
moment that is precisely what is hap-
pening. This group of editors is hav-
ing a “brain wash” at home to “soften
down” what they “saw,” so that it dove-
tails with what official Washington in-
sists they “saw.”

For run-of-the-mill American. editors
to say that there is “equality” in the

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JS the first days of the Korean POW
“gyrate, an event in itself which
for o2, Wat-Weary world renewed hope
Peace in Korea, the U..S State De-
tho €nt suffered a new attack of war-
. Hering delirium tremens. This new
noised? found expression in a loudly
si claim. that many of the POW’s
aff :: Teleased by “the enemy” were
i ed with “communist ideologies.”
Dartmeokesman for the U.S. State De-
tion ‘te fave a semi-official explana-
and te how this had been accomplished
filing © yellow press did a bang up job
oth In all the details.
month, Process, it would appear, takes
impree of intensive concentration on
Minis wane the “victims” with “com-
Estiyg Ideology.” Endless hours of sug-
Ndlegg Interrogation and questioning;
Cal hours of intensive “psychologi-
the ioPaganda, designed to show up
Tels Geb sts as black-hearted scound-
and ch no honest person will deny)
earth ( Communists as the salt of the
ee is becoming self-evident
Calist d moving rapidly towards a so-
Ro Oclety)! i
Cal» hha months of this “psychologi-
a Ritie ment, supplemented with many
Of the + tte POW is said (in the words
had a « ‘S. State Department) to have
Not brain wash.”
booteg long ago other U.S. diplomats,
inter ct Of People’s China for their
 Waineg <Volutionary activities, . com-~
of about being given numerous
Chines, tue Word Medicine” by the
Nagic a fter a few injections of this
Wrote Tum,ethese Yankee Ananiases
Hany mene Personal impressions on
UnAmen as John Foster Dulles, the
like tan witch-hunters and such
Udia oe in the U.S., they readily re-
all they had written, blaming
Worg» ne effects of Chinese “true
4 €dicine.
“ aise technique attributed to the
wate Denard designated by the U.S.
“uireg pment as a “brain wash,”
der a oe deal of time in order
Partme job, according to these

Showe yet “experts.” ; Soviet Union, or that the Russian peo-
u » MeCart vim ailing “1 it ple desire peace, is akin to treason to
Viditieg Well as to its unexcelled stu- the American “way-of-life” as expound-

ed by Eisenhower, Dulles, McCarthy and
company. :

These American editors got an all
round press lynching for their loose use
of the terms “equality” and “peace.”
The ‘brain wash” of Washington only
allow one definition and one source of

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ing 1953 — and keep the ‘brain washers”
cut of our community and _ country.
We're still quite a long way from the
objective — and we’ve got to make it!
Many of the letters and donations that
have come into this column from old-
timers, pensioners, and veterans of long-
standing in the. struggle to keep a fight-
ing labor press alive, are heart-warming
in the extreme, and our deep and sin-
cere thanks to all of them. In the next

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“Hey, don’t you think you ought to reconsider your attitude?”

March on May Day

:

Wit the passing of each year May Day assumes a new significance and import-
ance, Symbolic of the world-wide solidarity and friendship of the peoples,
each May Day sees new victories won, new horizons beckoning.

Far back in the mists of antiquity, May Day was celebrated in semi-religious.

ritual, heralding the birth of new life.

The ice breaking on the rivers, the forests’

awakening from their long winter sleep and donning the green garb of spring.
All Nature pulsing with new life and purpose.

Now the international day of the toilers, thanks to the North American labor-
movement of 1886, May Day has become the symbol of labor's struggles for a
better world. This May Day, as a result of the mighty unity of the peoples of all
lands, the banner of peace in war-torn Korea and other theatres of imperialist ag-

gression has been raised even higher.

The dollar-warmongers here and elsewhere

are being compelled by the unity of the people to “talk” of disarmament, world
trade, and the settlement of all differences b peaceful negotiation! Greater unity
will replace talk with action, and the signing of a Pact of Peace between those powers

capable of unleashing war.

On this May Day too, the world sector of socialism, under the leadership of

the great Soviet Union, marches forward to universal peace, and the building of a
new social system, based upon the age-old dream of “from each according to his:
ability, to each according to his needs.” The gréat projects of peaceful reconstruction

in the USSR for the economic, social and cultural advancement of the Soviet people °
can no longer be hidden. On the contrary, these achievements become an inspira-

tion and a hope to millions of people everywhere, striving for a greater measure of

independence, self-government and true democracy.

In Canada, as labor reviews the struggle of the past year, the betrayal of the
St. Laurent government must be brought into clearer focus. The suicidal policies
of the St. Laurent government, destructive of Canada’s independence, economy,
trade, dignity and wellbeing, must be reversed. [The sequestering ‘of our rith
natural resources, our civil liberties and freedoms (Bill 93); the turnjng over of
Canada to the financial and industrial royalties of Wall Street and the making of
this fair land into a hinterland for the war plans of Yankee imperialism. These are
only a few of the grave problems Canadians on this May Day must resolutely face,
and through the medium of a great democratic coalition of all progressive forces,

resolve to end.

In 1886, the May Day struggles of the workers was cehtred around the

demand for the eight-hour day.

In 1953, the key struggle of Canadian workers

is to win Canada for its people; to break the stranglehold of the Yankee trusts and
the Canadian monopolists, whose suicidal policies are depriving Canadian producers
of markets and trade, and/a whole people of social security and peace.

Canadian workers and farmers, all who love and desire peace and who cherish
their independence as Canadians, should march on May Day in defense of this price-.
less heritage, being wilfully squandered by those who have hitched Canada — not
to a star, but to the atomwar chariot of Yankee imperialism. ee

March on May Day for jobs, social security, democracy and peace!

es Who's demoralized

E of the biggest radio and press

fanfares in support of Yankee top.
brass strategy in the Korean war is now
being sounded, It appears that the
U.S. military command in Korea has
ordered tons of multi-lingual leaflets to
be scattered over North Korea and
Chinese territory in recent days.

Issued by U.S. General Mark Clark,
these leaflets offer any “Red flier $100,->
000 and sanctuary in a free country”
who will deliver one of the famous
MIG planes intact; to all other Chin-
ese or Korean pilots who may follow,
there will be a “bonus” of $50,000,
plus the “sanctuary” of our free West-
ern “way-of-life.”

It is reported the U.S. Congress has
voted this “plan” as the best yet devis-
ed to “demoralize the enemy.” The

Yankee radio networks whose warmon-’
gering poison spills over into Canada.
hourly, have declared the scheme “a.
very sound investment . . . making our.
money work for peace.” :

So far there have been no takers for :
this typical Yankee “bonus” nor are.
there likely to be, but that won't stop
these dollar propagandists for “peace” -
from trying. With millions of dollars °
voted for “Project X" — for,espionage, *
sabotage, treason and counter-revolu-
tion — these “bonugs” are bargain-:
basement prices on ‘the Pentagon’s!
“peace with honor” sale, as announc- ‘
er recently by Presidgnt Eisenhower. :

We don’t think there will be any!
“rush” to collect but the “offer” does :
provide a yardstick for measuring the!
“sincerity” of their talk about peace.

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