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Murder in the Ukraine

By GORDON MASSIE

One of the residents of To-
ronto’s Lakeshore; where I
am the Communist candidate,
brought me a book of 168 pages
and translated parts of it for
me. It made my blood run cold.

It is not a “pocketbook chil-
ler.” It’s the official record of
the public trial in the Ukraine
of a gang of murderers, robbers
and arsonists, who in 1944-45
terrorized an entire neighbor-
hood, killed nearly 200 men,
women and children, Soviet and
Polish citizens, burned down
many homes, razed an entire
village. It presents copious ex-
cerpts of testimony from eyewit-
nesses and from victims who
survived, and also confessions
of five of the criminals, who
were caught and sentenced.

It contains photographs of
Some of the victims, of 12-year
old Maria Machnowska, the ex-
humed skull of 13-year old
Nadia Lizhak with the bullet
hole (and her religious medal-

_ jion), others .

The trial lasted two months,
beginning in October and end-
ing in December in 1969. It had
been postponed because there
were continuing efforts to have
the chief of this Bandera fascist
gang extradited—from Canada.

The book publishes the of-
ficial Oct. 20, 1964 note of the

USSR foreign affairs ministry to .

the Canadian government ask-
ing for the extradition of Dmy-
tro Kupiak, living in Toronto,
to stand trial as a war criminal.
Another official note of June 27,
1965 rejects the Canadian ex-

cuse that there is no Canadian ~

law to compel extradition of
war criminals, cites interna-

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tional law on that matter and
mentions that the Canadian au-
thorities were supplied with the
testimony against M. Kupiak.

But the trial of this person
had to be held in absentia. He
is very wealthy and he has
powerful friends in Canada. In
fact, Mr. Kupiak has_ been
nominated Conservative Party
candidate in Lakeshore riding.

In an interview with the Can-
adian press at the time the de-
mand for his extradition was
made public, Mr. Kupiak was
reported saying that he killed
“only Communists” (which pre-
sumably makes murder OK) but
the published testimony would
tend to deny his “modesty.”
People and their families were
killed’ only because they were
Polish. Nor were victims limit-
ed to adults and children of
Polish nationality. For example,
in 1941 H. Karavan and Meyer
Hotsfried, of Jewish nationality,
were arrested and tortured by
the gang. And many, if not
most, of the victims were Ukra-
inians, killed by these  sup-
posedly ‘Ukrainian nationalists”
because they would not support
Hitler or the Ukrainian would-
be Hitlers.

I’m getting more of that re-
cord translated. It’s not just be-
cause we have the duty to let
the electorate know the back-
ground of all candidates, but
they should face the people and
answer charges in. Canada they
would not answer in the coun-
try where those crimes were
committed.

And it’s a warning of the
types that are being advanced
to the highest offices in our
country by the Conservatives—
and not only the Conservatives.

West Coast edition, Canadian Tribune-

Editor — MAURICE RUSH

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PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1972—PAGE 4

FGETS —

U.S. monopoly destroys
another Canadian town

Ocean Falls, B.C., is the latest casual-
ty in the long list of Canadian com-
munities wiped out by U.S. economic
aggression in Canada.

Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd., all of
whose ordinary shares are held by
Crown Zellerbach Corp. of San Fran-
cisco, is closing down its pulp and paper
mill in this West Coast town, 325 miles
north of Vancouver.

1972 should have been a jubilee one
for Ocean Falls, where pulp and paper
operations have been carried on since
1912. Instead, the jobs of the 300 Crown
Zellerback workers have been destroy-
ed, the town’s 1,500 residents to be
scattered like waste, by a cold, brutal
decision made in a USA giant corpora-
tion’s board room.

The company’s president admits its
Ocean Falls operations were for many
years “a profitable venture.” In fact,
they were one million dollars more
profitable in 1971 than in the previous
year, while profits for this year’s first
quarter were $2.4 million compared to
$1.3 million for the same period in 1971.

Why, then, the decision in San Fran-
cisco to end the town’s survival as sure-
ly as if it were bombed out of exist-
ence?

Because monopoly, in this case U.S.
monopoly, couldn’t care less about the
survival of towns or of people or of
the families of workers. Unless, that
is, their survival serves monopoly.

The Crown Zellerbach Canada Ltd.
president minced no words about this.
Although the Qcean Falls operations
were profitable, he said, “today high
volume production and low unit costs
are essential for survival.”

There we have it, straight! Cut the
unit cost of production — for monop-
oly’s survival, for survival of its con-
stantly rising rate of profit. And be
damned to the workers out of whose
sweat the bosses wring their profits.

An end has to be put to plant clos-
ures. Governments haven’t lifted a fin-
ger to save town after town, plant after
plant, condemned to death, mainly by
U.S. imperialism’s economic policies.

The time is now for a moratorium to
be declared on all plant closures, as the
Communist Party is demanding in its
federal election platform. A united,
firm stand by the delegates to next
month’s Canadian Labor Congress Con-
vention can force the governments of
monopoly to enact legislation decree-
ing such a moratorium.

We see our future

Knaves and fools over the years have
thrown it up to Communists, to any
Canadian who strives for a finer, so-
cialist way of life in our country, that
they are “for Russia” if not “Soviet
agents.” Far be it from us to deny our
fraternity with and admiration for the
peoples on one-third of the earth’s
surface who are building a socialist
society. It is one with our profound
comradeship with all who work and all

who fight for freedom on all the conti-~

nents.
We are proud and glad to record the

Editorial Comment...

woe el “ . moe ee

successes of socialism in the countiiy
where workers hold power not just
cause of our class solidarity with thely
but because their victories show
what we can and will achieve when,
break the bonds of U.S. and Canail
monopoly over our own economy.
We have just received the summaiy
of the advances made by the Sov)
Union in the first quarter of the
rent year. Industrial production has%
creased by 7% over the same pelly
last year, running higher than the pl
called for, and the plan for sales
industrial goods has similarly
overfulfilled. The workers produt)
more without any speed-up, unemplt)
ment or inflation, because there {)
scientific and engineering achievem@),
go to serve the people and not tom"
profits for gouging monopolies. iy
More and more capital invest!)
(by the: socialist society, of course
by non-existent capitalists) is
made in the industries producing “i
sumer goods — and those goods ea
the masses of people, there are no Py
to be left out as is the case in supp
ly “affluent” capitalist countries. ij)
Per capita income in the. So q i
Union is rising by 5.5% this yeu gf
it. is the lower income groups thay @
the main raise. Children. of cours? |
the best that’s to be had. ens}
We take pleasure in reading all
figures, showing the advances mal yy
the Soviet Union, as well as those “yj
by the other socialist countries. cof
shows that the generations of Vig
dians who have dreamed of the (i)
monwealth of toil” were right, ye afl
workers can take over the whee” |
lead the country to a better life. cast
We are glad because we are — ig)
dian patriots and want the best £7)
own country and people. A |

Stop double-dealing! |

When Prime Minister Trudear
Premier Kosygin signed the Canty
Soviet Agreement on scientific, CU
and other exchanges last October
Canadian public applauded, glad %
the thaw in the senseless and inj¥
“cold war” that was thrust 0?
U.S. pressure. Only a few ante
vians, such as Diefenbaker, 4),
right-wing “ultras” and “crazies, ; pil
and ranted against it. The fase :
who attacked the Soviet premie’ gf
treated with contempt and abho™ iii
by both official Canada and the P

What business now has a meri
the Trudeau government, Heal é
Welfare Minister John C. Mu
dressing a $1,000-a-couple dings
“poor” Ukrainian nationalist ul
Toronto, specifically held
money for a campaign agains tof
Ukraine and the USSR, and rol
lish “smuggled” anti-Soviet ma
(these are always “smuggled OF aj
the perpetrators are always % oe
give their names because the
tives might suffer’) in this coun’

That such people, including 4
criminals, should be able to ca
such activity, hurtful to our oa
interests, is bad enough, but th 7
should be aided and abetted by ok
ernment which solemnly unde! y
promote friendship, is imper™

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