British destroy village

.

.. To the British troops who bulldozed this road through the
Village of Kafr Abu Amr it was a “security measure.” To the
Syptians whcse humble mud huts were demolished it meant
destruction of homes by the forces of a foreign power
holding their rights in contempt. ;

Winners

to the following:

Kuo
Chi

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Mo-jo, president of the
ese Academy of Sciences;

PIETRO NENNI

: ma gels IWA
Post in close vote

PORTLAND
Woodworkers
tl America (CIO) announced

International

View eek that Al Hartung,
ae nee esident | of the union
a 1947, had won the presi-
rE. 2. & contest with James
é ling. Hartung’s victory
: - turel m announced prema-
allot in December before all

© Were counted. Final

don non confirmed his elec-

of 1951

Stalin peace
Prizes named

The International Stalin Prize Committee has decided to award
1 Stalin Prizes “For the Promotion of Peace Among the Nations”

Pietro Nenni, member of the
Italian parliament; Ikuo Oyama,
member of the Japanese Diet;
Anna Séghers, German author;

and, Monica Felton, British peace
fighter and author.

The entire, Soviet press on
December 21 carried articles on
this event. Pravda in its leaping
article wrote: :

“The winning of the Interna-
tional Stalin Peace Prizes is an-
other vivid manifestation of the

ful policy. It wlil inspire all
ue a8em 0} [[IMpoos yo e[dood
even more active and organized
struggle against the threat of
war and for preserving and
strengthening peace.”

Jorge Amado, Brazilian author; |

Soviet Union’s consistent. peace- | #

Following is the’ text of the
New Year message sent to Kii-
shi Iwamoto, editor-in-chief of
the Kyodo Agency, by Premier
Stalin.

The news agency also asked
President Truman for a mes-
sage. Truman did not reply.

- Stalin’s greetings to the Jap-
anese people stated:

“T have received your request
to send a New Year’s message
to the Japanese people.

‘Tt is not a tradition with
| Soviet leaders that the premier
of a foreign state should - ad-
dress his wishes to the people
of another state. However, the
profound sympathy of the peo-
ples of the Soviet Union for the
Japanese people, who are in
difficulties owing to foreign oc-

cupation, impels me to make an
exception from this rule and to
meet your request.

“Please convey to the Japan-
ese people that I wish them
freedom and happiness.”
wish them full success in their
gallant struggle for the
pendence of their homeland.

“In the past the peoples of
the Soviet Union themselves ex-
perienced the horrors of foreign
occupation in which Japanese im-
perialists also took part. There-
fore they fully understand the
sufferings of the Japanese peo-
ple and deeply sympathize with
them and believe that they will
achieve regeneration and _ inde-
pendence of their homeland like
the peoples of the Soviet Union
have achieved in the past.

that I}

inde- .

“I wish the Japanese workers |”

Stalin wishes Japanese
people success in fight
for peace, independence

deliverance from unemployment
and low wages, elimination of
high prices of mass consumption
goods and success in the struggle
for the preservation of peace.

“I wish the Japanese peasants
deliverance from _ landlessness
and land shortage, elim: — of
high taxes and su in the
struggle for the preservation of
peace.

“f wish the entire Japanese
people and - their intelligentsia

forces of Japan, the revival and
advance of the country’s economic
‘life, the flowering of national cul-
ture, science and art, and success
in the struggle for the preserva-
tion of peace.

“With respect,
“J. STAIAN.”

Ami go home’

Europe,

a public newspaper wallboard.

2
In cities and towns throughout the countries of Western
wherever American troops are stationed, cne slogan
is heard today—“‘Ami, go home!”

Here it is scrawled across

Giant Soviet suction excavator
does work of 20,000 laborers

PRAGUE
Visitors to the construction site
of the Kuibyshev-hydro electric
station are struck by the sight
of what seems to be a‘hugh plant
floating on the Volga River—the
new suction excavator “‘Pyatilet-
ka” (Five-Year Plan), produced
at the Krasnoe Sormovo Hep
in the town of Gorky.
The height of this giant ma-

n by a close margin.

chine is that of a seven-storey

building, a Pravda correspondent |
writes to his paper. and it takes
a steam engine of 800 horse.
power to start the chain of
scoops, each of which has a capa-
city of 1.2 cubic metres. ©

The excavator, replacing the
normal manual labor of 20,000
workers, is being used now for
digging a trench in the stony
bottom of the Volga River where
the foundation of the hydro elec-

tric building will stand. The
trench dug by the “Pyatiletka”
will be 140 metres long, 30 metres
wide and 15 metres deep. This
means digging up tens. of
thousands of cubic metres of
gravel in a short period. ~
“Soviet designers and workers
have constructed the most ad-
vanced machine which does not
have its ‘equal in the whole
world,” the correspondent writes.

RELIEF FUND CLOSES DOWN ON FOOD DISTRIBUTION

ae KINGSTON
bth aay from starvation face’
“AW tyes of hurricane’ sur-
ne S who are housed in tent
yi Need ithroughout the storm-
es parts of Jamaica.
centration hunger in these
eh ation camps is giving
awe to outright starvation.
7a the Wake of the August
Jona ane which blotted out
houses oP and ruined 30,000
Banter and huts in the south-
Se N part of the island, the
laren and the aged are dy-

in
The according to reports pub-

the Kingston daily and week-
ly. newspapers.

The governor’s relief fund
has practically closed down
on food distribution. Food tic-
kets, good for a dollar’s worth
of food to last a family a
week, have been discontinued
when the father or mother is
able-bodied. But with a fourth
of Kingston’s population un-
employed, there isn’t much
chance for the concentration
camp victims to find casual
work, even at 10 cents an
hour.

On the outskirts of Kingston

Jamaica hurricane victims face starvation

ags of spoiled flour in sight
of hungry people.

s a squalid slum called Trench-
town where hurricane surviv-
ors are housed in tents. There
the bodies of babies are daily
consigned to little pine boxes
to be taken’ out to potter’s
field. The bigger boxes hhouse
mothers who have also died
from starvation.

Threatening demonstrations
have been held at sessions of
parochial boards to which the
starving appealed ‘for relief.
At Spanish Town, near King-
ston, police were called out
when the authorities dumped

colonies have also asked for
medical assistance for fever-
torn children, but the authori-
ties say there aren’t enough
Joctors to go around. There.
*s only one doctor for every
10,000 people in Jamaica.-

‘hat the peasants in the hills
‘re eating what remains of
Se ‘hanana cron,
sending them down to King-
ston to be shipped to Britain.

\
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Delegations from. the tent

Exporters are complaining

instead of

South African
dailies score
ban attempt

CAPE TOWN
. The attempt of the Malan goy-
ernment to suppress the Guard-
ian — progressive weekly news-
paper published in Cape Town —
is strongly criticized by several
English-language newspapers in
South Africa. The Rand Daily
Mail refers to the “Star Cham-
ber” procedure against the
Guardian.

“The Guardian is first convict-

why it is innocent . .. The pro-
cedure certainly has. no parallel
in our system of justice and if
it gets any kind of vogue, must
destroy utterly the safeguards
which protect the citizen against
the perils of a médieval prosecu-
tion.”

The Cape Times of Johannes-
burg writes that the “arbitrary
banning of the journal in these
circumstances will be an act of
authoritarian censorship indistin-
guishable in principle from the
manoeuvres which put the Prensa
out of existence .. .”
tina.

The Johannesburg Star editor-
ially condemns the Suppression

of Communism Act (under whose
terms the Guardian is being
prosecuted). “Drastic action in-
volving the liberty of expression
and the livlihood of individuals
can be and is being taken on
evidence which is not open to
examination and requires no
proof in a court of law.” Such
action, the Star continues “can
and is being taken ‘because of
offences alleged to have been
committed in the past at a time
when they were not offences.
Both these procedures are con-
trary to the principles of justice,
and no enactment of parliament
can make them otherwise.”

(The Pacific Tribune, over
signature of its editor, Tom
McEwen, has already sent a
cable of protest to the South
African government, and the
Canadian Tribune has sent $25

IS in almost every issue of

to the Guardian’s defense fund.)

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY li, 1952 — PAGE 3

full victory of the democratic”

ed, and then invited to explain.

in Argen: -

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