on rs One candidate's record : 5 un ie < > & Se BS! yy... a is as aeumlyy Pere sar = GPNON REIN, 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- ei » Pacific Tribune 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 Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 3, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. - All other countries, $7.00 one year Second VINA a aNaag ecoer HOGA WA CTIOS Siatiarg 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™ = 2 = cS: —