Rechivs S.A. snares cova or =r talk’

HE Sharpeville massacre in
South Africa over a year ago
forced the “apartheid” (race seg-
regation) policies of the Verwoerd
government into the world spot-
light.
The “vote” in South Africa,
restricted to whites only, to form
a “Republic” regardless of the
will of the vast majority of the
African people, Negro and white,
with of course the Verwoerd gov-
ernment’s expressed “desire” to
remain a member of the British
Commonwealth, also had its reper-
cussions.

Then came the Commonwealtn

prime ministers’ conference and
the. flow. of demagogic Tery ora-
tions on the evils of “apartheid”,
a game in which Diefenbaker of
Canada and Menzies of Australia
starred with pretentious brilliance.
This despite the shameful “apart-
heid” imposed upon Canada’s Na-
tive Indian peoples and the abor-
igines of Australia.

When the Commonwealth con-
ference ended South Africa was no,
longer a member, but, despite their
fine show of “indignation” at
Verwoerd’s “apartheid”, these
Tory orators made sure their
views on
affect trade relations.

In short, don’t permit South
Africa’s racist terror, mass mur-
der, brutality and shameful Negro
“pass” laws to interfere with our
profitable trade balances. Typical
capitalist “morality”.

This week the Verwoerd govern-
ment “celebrates” the official
founding of its racist “republic”.
To reduce opposition to a min-
imum by the South African people,
tens of thousands have been ar-
rested during the past few days,
thrown into prison compounds,
brutally beaten, and in many
cases, murdered. A virtual police
state of terror and fascist bru-

tality. Freedom of speech, assem- |
bly and organization is banned, °

and the Verwoerd “republic” turn-
ed into a veritable prison-house of
nations.

Months ago, following the
Sharpeville massacre, large sec-
tions of the world labor movement,
including the Canadian Labor Con-
gress and the BCFL, in protest.

against S South African racist t pol-

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“apartheid” would. not ~

icies and persecution, endorsed a
boycott on the sale of S.A. prod-
ucts in Canada.

This has considerable import-
ance in B.C. in view of the fact
that the B.C. government, through
its Liquor Commission, is one of
Verwoerd’s best import wines cus-
tomers, while the shelves of many
of our larger chain stores. bulge
with South African jams, dried
fruits and other staple products.

Today however, with the police
state of Verwoerd’s “republic”
being erected upon the ruthless
oppression of its native Negro and
Colored peoples, a new appeal
comes. to Canada from the South
African peoples, through their or-
ganizations, and from countless ©
prison compounds; make the moral
and economic boycott of the Ver-
woerd government, tight, effective

~ and total.

Organized labor in B.C. choad
demand of the federal and B.C.
governments, no truck or . trade
with South Africa, until its “re-
public’ is purged of ‘apartheid’.

Resurrect the boycott — and
make it stick until “apartheid”: is
ended. Dief “ended” it—in words.
It is the international duty of or-
ganized labor to end it—with. com-
plete boycott action.

N anxious world, tense with the

mounting crisis of nuclear
threat and imperialist aggression,
looks hopefully towards Vienna
and: the scheduled meeting be-
tween Soviet Premier Nikita
Khrushechey and U.S. President
J. F. Kennedy this weekend.

U.S. press, radio and other
propaganda buildup agencies are
busy headlining Kennedy’s deter-
mination to “taik tough’ to Mr.
K.; that Kennedy will “tell”
Khrushchev that “the U.S. is de-
termined to resist all those who
seek the destruction of freedom”,
that the “silent guest at the con-
ference table will be the freedom
of man”, and so forth.

In the wake of the Cuban coun-
ter-revolutionary invasion, or the
“Freedom Riders” of Alabama,
Mr. Khrushchev could ask Mr.
Kennedy “what freedom?” But

_ such debate would scarcely be con-

ducive to the lessening of world
tensions.

In certain U.S. circles the. opin-
ion is also held that the Khrush-
chev-Kennedy .meeting is purely
“a tactic” designed by U.S. cold-

_war braintrusters to calm public
- fears and tensions while the U.S...

continues with its aggressive pol-
icies in other spheres of cold-cum-

hot war activity.

Whatever may be the final
come of the K. and K. meeti
Vienna, the most positive

heartening feature at the mom
is the fact-of its taking places?
fact that the heads of the w®
two most powerful states a
meet personally around a
And most important of all ®
growing determination of milli
of the world’s peoples for a chal
in’ Western policies; a change le
ing towards ‘peaceful .coexist

If there is to be any “toes
talk” in Vienna it- must come fr
the common people of all land
a stepped-up demand for pe
and not from the press and PE
aganda hacks of U.S. imperial
or its Pentagon spokesmen.

It is one thing for Presid@y
Kennedy to whet the appetites
a Democratic Party fund- rales,
banquet (at $100 a plate) ™
“tough talk” about or to the
ers of the Socialist world.
something entirely different iW
heads-of-state meeting, where
vital question of peace and hum +4
survival is the issue. Then se
rather than “tough talk’,
predominate. It is with -ad
hope that the world looks towel
Vienna.

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Tom
McEwen

EST we forget.” Today’s
events in South Korea de-
mand that we don’t.

When U.S. imperialism, with the
late John Foster Dulles at the
helm, launched the Korean war,
and conspired to have this gshame-
ful aggression enacted under a
United Nations flag, many hun-
dreds of thousands of young lives
were sacrificed, including some
1,557 dead and wounded ‘in Can-
ada’s “contribution”. of _ 29,066
men.

For ‘‘freedom” the trained: seals
of U.S. imperialism screamed; ‘to
“halt the Communist menace in
Asia”, to “safeguard the Asian out-
‘posts of our democratic world’,
ete, and ad nauseum. What didn’t
they say in their attempts to cover
up naked aggression and interfer-
ence in the internal affairs of the
Korean people? They were as loud
in their proclamations’ of this lying
propaganda -as they were in their
denials of resorting to deadly germ
and bacterial warfare against the
Korean people.

This ‘free world " democracy”
hokum was symbolized in the cor-
rupt, gangsterized and dictatorial

‘ their back,

government of U.S. puppet Syng-
man _ Rhee.

In the year 1960, however, de-
Spite the continued presence of

_ massive U.S. occupational forces

in South: Korea supporting the
Rhee regime, and despite the mil-
lions of U.S. dollars as “aid” to
keep this grafting dictatorship .in
power, the South Korean. people,
undaunted by. U.S. bayonets. in
swept Rhee and his
gang out of office, and unsuspect-
ingly elected another U.S. puppet

clique, under the leadership of
“democratic” .Premier - John M:
Chang-Myun,

Chang-Myun proved to be a sec-
ond Rhee, well schooled in graft
‘and corruption,. and under U.S.
tuition and protection, equally as
ruthless as Rhee as far as the lib-
erties, rights and well-being of the
South Korean people were con-
cerned.

After nine months in _ office;
which saw tremendous demonstra-
tions of protest involving millions
of people in all key Korean cen- -
tres, it became clear. (and first and
foremost to the U.S.. overlords of
South Korea) that something had
to be done and done quickly. The
situation as far as Chang-Myun
was concerned was getting out of
hand. :

What was done the Peking Daily
News put in a nutshell; the May 16
coup in South Korea “is a military
fascist’ coup, stage-managed by
Us - Unperialism. Md

- sively

_Do Yung,

Thus, while the North America? —
press and Pentagon Charley. M¢ ~
Carthys were “deploring” the couP ©
of its South Korean military-fascist
junta, and insisting that the “qdem0- ~
cratically elected” Chang - Myv2”
government should be maintained ~
Pentagon: strategists were already —
getting sét to “recognize” thet
fascist junta, and invite its chief, |
General Chang Do Yung to Wash :
ington for “talks.” But not before —
that military - beribboned U.S: ‘
stooge had issued a decree outlaw |
ing all political movements ™ |
South Korea, and launched an i —
placable reign of terror, brutalitY ,
and arrest against all South Kor ;
eans suspected of “communism. » apt

In the course of a week’s “rule jh
this gang has run up an impres ya
“democratic” scoreboards Tr
the establishment of tight “marl® 1]
law,” the enforcement of a com
plete ‘news-blockade” on the Sou™ “Thy
Korean people, and, as of May 23 t
mass arrests totalling 3,550° P i
sons, charged ‘with being ~ “Ps a

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communist.” |
This, in the Gian of US.

imperialism and its ‘‘free west’
henchmen is what is known ®
“democracy.” This the UN flag ® |
used to cover up. And “lest we £7
get”, this'is what 1,557 Canadia®®
bled and died for. :
_U.S.. imperialism’s Synghmah- §
Rhee, John M. Chang-Myun, Chant ‘
“Treecom fignters’” 2 a

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June 2, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—P3™