In the Soviet Union and the
eople’s Democracies, Ryerson
found the zest of youth —the
SPirtt of the young Czechs shown
ere celebrating May Day —
nd the tremendous creative drive
°f socialist construction. . . .

N the course of a month in

Western Europe, in- Britain,
France and Italy, living for
nearly five months in the lands
of socialism—in the USSR, and
the People’s Democracies of Po-
land, Hungary, Rumania, I was
Able to witness the workings of
WO profoundly contrasting po-
licies __ that of the U.S, war
Camp. and that of the peoples’
‘amp of socialism, people's de-
Mocracy, and peace, What does
the comparison show?

In Britain, France and Italy
there is developing a major crisis
of U.S. war policy: economic and
Political,

tn Wales they are actually dis-
Mantling steel plants, aS a re-
Sult of the workings of the policy
dictated by the American trusts.
0-thirds of the cotton textile
Workers of Lancashire are out oi
®bs. In France, as a result of
the Schuman Plan, 77 coal mines
Ave closeq down. In France
. 8nd italy the armaments pro-
Sram —_ doubled in one year in
France, and combined with the
*ffects of the disastrous winter
floods in Italy — is straining al-
Tady weak economies to the
breaking-point. On impoverish-
ed Countries, which are far from
®ving restored all their war-
“image, there has been thrust
{1 unbearable burden of billions
or war. What looms is —
Sankruptey.

pr olitically the Yankee war:

"Ogram igs generating mass
ener. Shortly before I arrived
ee aris, an “‘incident’’ had oc-
aie which illustrates
Uation, In the town of Melun,
h © driver of a U.S. Army truck,
UD by a traffic jam, wheel-
Onto the sidewalk. Just at

t
ant Place workers were picket-
ine 4 strikebound plant. The
2 careened ‘through the

monet line, crushed one of the
inet against the brick wall,
a Mg him—and drove on with-
tt Stopping.

ipa French authorities read-
ha 8reed that the French courts
0 jurisdiction over the kil-
hopeays in order to avoid (they
on ¢ ) @ protest demonstration
tines) Occasion of the worker’s
of &, officials of the ministry
Dinite interior stole the body,
of a. % it away to another part
the © country for burial; while
the cal officials apologized to
> Occupation authorities
ey embarrassment”’ creat-
Y the “incident”!

T q
wee Scandal did not go unan-
®d; and the wave of healthy,

Daty;

‘ing of hands on a watch.

the .

oti P ;
Ue anger it evoked is an

\
augury of rising storm.

The U.S. plan of war rests on
a colossal miscalculation.

In answer to the _ sordid,
brazen betrayal by the ruling
rich and their right-wing social-
democratic toadies, there is com-
ing into being majority support
for the main policies of the Com-
munist parties of Italy and
France,

In answer to the attempts at
crippling parliamentary demo-
cracy and representative instit-
utions and reaching for the
bloody club of fascism, working-
class majorities, led by the Com-
munists, are uniting the nation
for a new. advance — for far-
reaching reform of the economic
and social structure, through re-
jection of the U.S. war program

and the winning of governments ~*

of peace.

_In the main theatres of peo-
ple’s struggle in Western Bur-
ope, momentous decisian are in
the making. The key to advance
is unity—the uniting in action
of patriotic majorities already,
in fact, in being. f
e®

To pass from West Europe to
East is to move from the realm
of reaction (challenged, but still
holding power) to the realm of
democracy triumphant,

Time itself undergoes a
change—by more than the mov-
For
here the upsurge of creative
labor sets a tempo of forward-
pressing life that gives a new
quality, a new sense, to living.

In People’s Hungary, for in-
stance, economic development
which before the Liberation took
a year, now is being accomplish.
ed in twelve days. In the USSR
which in the years since the First
World War increased its indus+
trial production by more than
six times as much as did the USA,
and in the years 1928-40 multi-
plied its national income by 130
times more than did the USA—
the tempo and. sweep of the new
“storming of,the heavens’ that
is the advance to Communist so-
ciety is ilustrated in the follow-
ing fact: in the course of 7,000
years of man’s struggle to bring
water to the land for the raising

’ of erops for food, he has organ-

ized the irrigation of some 200
million acres. An area -equal to
one-third of that will be irrigat-
ed in five to seven years in the
Soviet Union,
Plan of Communist construction
and refashioning of nature!
The upsurge of creative labor
in the new world that’s a-build-
ing is the result of the winning
of the battle for democracy —
the conquest of power by the
working people. Masters, thr-
ough common ownership, of the

‘mighty tools of modern labor,

the working people are thereby
at the same time the masters of
their country and their. destiny.

Standing at the switchboard

under the Stalin .

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of life -

. . . But in the countries of Western Europe Ryerson found the
fear and insecurity of people compellel to live in the impoverishment
caused by their governments’ attempts to create a war economy — al-
though the ruins of the last war have not yet been erased.

and controls of the battery of
new open-hearth furnaces in the
Koscinsko steel plant, old steel-
maker Danysh, his eyes twink-
ling, spread his arms wide and
exclaimed, “It’s all ours, boy!

— all ours!”

When the means of modern
labor are the property of those
who work, the stature of man is
increased, and he treads |the
earth with a new dignity and
self-respect.

Peaple are happier — and bet-

ter off! — in a country where
there are no employers.
e é

In the free, socialist world a
dual process is taking place at
breathtaking speed. Countries
hitherto the most backward in
Europe are being lifted to a level
of prosperity and _ industrial
strength that will soon have by-
passed that of the ‘advanced’
West European states in their
best days. And while the Peo-
ple’s Democracies are building
the foundations of socialism,
mightily aided all the way by
the machines, technique and
skills of their Soviet comrades;
the land of socialism victorious
is blazing the new pathway for

mankind to the high, sunny pla-
teau of the loftiest stage in) hu-
man civilization — Communist
society.

The constant upswing of peo-
ple’s prosperity and wellbéing is
reflected once more in the new,
general reduction in prices, the
fifth since the war’s end. These
price reductions are not a ‘cam-
paign,” but a fundamental law
of. growth of socialist economy,
whose rising productivity means
better living for'all who labor;
and they represent, in fact, one
of the forms of approach to the
realization in life of the Com-
munist principle, ‘“‘to each. ac-
cording to his need.” —

Life under socialism is good—
and getting better all the time,
More of the good things of life
for all! — this is no yain wish,
but a fact‘ of everyday‘ living.
“Bread and roses,’”’ the good and
abundant life, is the happy con-
quest of liberated labor.

e

Rich men in America, last
representatives of the dying class
of exploiters of labor, look on’
the future with crazed and
bloodshot eyes.~ ‘The “mission”
they set themselves — and us —
is the physical destruction of the’
new world in birth.

or death

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“A showdown with Russia—a
build-up of preponderant
strength — in 1954 — oy ’53 —~
or ’52—_!” This is the timetable
of death, in weird, inhuman con-
trast with the timetables of the
new world:

“Have the new power stations
at Kuibyshey and Stalingrad in
full operation by 1955 and "66;
open the Main Turkmenian Ca-
nal by 1957, and the South Uk-
rainian and North Crimea canals
in the same year; open the new
Moscow University, largest and
most beautiful in the world, in
the Fall of 752! .. .”

The Yankee warlords’ policy
is based on g brazen, monument-
al lie, and directed to infamous
ends. Under the -pretense of
“arming to defend democracy,’”
and the demand to “accept lower
living standards to maintain our
“Way of life’” (chief ingredient
of which is alleged to be high
living Standards! )—they are out
to destroy democracy, step up
their racketeering exploitation of
the comnion people, trample na-
tional independence, Plunge the
world in war.

It is up to us to reject their
timetable of death, and win
through to the timetable of life.

It is up to all who love Can-
ada, to end the foul shame of our
country’s commitment to the
policy of preparation for war
against the Soviet Union and the
socialist world, and extricate
our country from the machina-
tions of Wall Street’s “Murder
Incorporated.”

' Do it we must—and can.

The path ahead, to save Can-
ada from war and national dis-
aster, is that set forth in the
Labor-Progressive party’s pro-
gram, Canadian Independence
and People’s Democracy: the
path of united, patriotic strug-
gle now.

The hunger of the worlg’s
peoples for peace can and ‘will be
satisfied. The camp of thievery
and lies and war is bound to faik
—Provided we do our utmost,
combining our efforts in defense:
of peace with the tens, aye,
hundreds of millions of} men
and women at whose head march.
the builders of the new socialist
world, guided ang taught and lea
by the strategist of victory over
itaziism, the strategist of vic-
torious struggle for peace, Jos-
eph Vissarionovitch Stalin!

’

No force on earth can stop the
floodtide of the awakening peo-
ples. Peace will triumph over
war!

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 28, 1952 — PAGE 9