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Peace. Then as now he people’s

Slugele 1ur peace Was ueaaea DY

_ the advanced sections of the work-
ing class, particularly by tne party

ot Lenin and Stalin, the Bolshevik

Party. It is a striking fact that,
despite the tremendous pressure Of |:

immediate domestic problems, the
Very first official act of the Soviet
government was to adopt and
broadcast to all governments and
all peoples its famous Decree of
Peace, written and submitted by
Lenin:

“The workers’ and peasants’. g0V-
ernment created by the revolution
on November 7 (October 25) and
backed by the Soviets of Workers’,
Soldiers’ and Péasants’ Deputies
Calls upon all the belligerent peo-
ples and their governments to start
Immediate negotiations for a just
and democratic peace.”

All developments since the
great Russian Revolution have
confirmed the fact that it served
the highest interests of progres
sive mankind; that the maturity
of the contradictions of capital-
ism had already rendered it his-
torically necessary. _ Conclusive
confirmation of that fact is pro-
vided by the reasons for and the -
Conditions of the failure of all
the schemes by which the imper-
ialists have sought to bring about
the defeat and destruction of the
Soviet Union.

Since the very first day the So-
Viet system was established, the
Central and consuming aim of the
imperialists and their governments
as been to destroy it. Winston
Churchill literally “greeted” the
establishment of the new govern-
Ment of the workers and peasants
by pouring out $2,250,000,000 of
Public expenditures in British ef-
forts to bring about its overthrow.

Winston Churchill’s example was
Quickly followed by every imper-
jalist government that aimed at
territorial aggrandizement, or raw
Material concessions at the expense
of the Soviet people. Any counter-
revolutionary, no matter how dis-
Credited, so long as he claimed to
be an aristocrat dedicated to the
overthrow of the government of
the workers and peasants, could

be sure of enormous subsidies from

Britain, France, the United States
or Japan, as well as direct military
assistance from one or more of
the 14 imperialist armies then in-
Vading the Soviet lands. _"

They failed; armies of interven-
tion and subsidized counter-revo-
lutionaries, including the Trotsky-
its spies and saboteurs who served
the imperialists during the 1930’s
Were all defeated.

Their defeat and the amazing
achievements of the Soviet peo-
ple both in socialist construction
and the destruction of Hitler’s
vaunted Wehrmacht, emphasize
the fundamental fact that the
struggle of the Soviet people- to
build their new peaceful socialist
Society, corresponds with the in-
terests and the imcreasingly con-
scious aspirations of the demo-
cratic men and women the world
over. Their course is the course
of democratic progress—of his-
tory. ‘

Today, the advance of the Soviet
people to the great Stalin plan of
construction for the transition to
communism is paralleled by the
Sweeping advance of the peoples
of Asia to national liberation.

Events in Iran and Egypt are
but the most evident signs of the
revolt agianst imperialist exploita-
tion, the fact that the thousand
Million people of Asia are turning
consciously and militantly towards
united struggles for national inde-

pendence is a guarantee that US. |"

imperialism will not succed in its
schemes to impose its own yoke
upon the peoples in place of the
British yoke that US. imperialists
are helping to break.

Today as in 1917, the over-rid-
ing aim of the imperialists is for
war. The over-riding need of
the people is for peace., The best
way to celebrate the 34th anni-
versary of the great, Russian
Revolution is to strengthen still
further the Canadian sector of
the world-wide campaign to com-
pel a meeting of the five great —
powers to negotiate a five power
pact of peace.

Coalition unable
to solve BCHIS ©

crisis, says LPP

Victoria this week over BCHIS is

but another sign of the deep-going crisis besetting the: Johnson-Anscomb
government,” Nigel Morgan, LPP. provincial leader, told the Pacific

“The government flare-up in

Tribune this week. ae will come
province because there is no issue

has been so strong.
“The BCHIS question last spring
provided a chance for Johnson and

Anscomb to show where they stood

—for or against the people’s vital
interests. Their stand showed an

‘arrogant and contemptuous dis-
regard for the wishes of those who
elected them.

“The Coalition must be made to
realize that no amount of double
talk, no sacrificial cabinet head
and not even the fact that Oppo-
sition Leader Harold Winch is re-
ported to be in complete agreement
with his Liberal and Tory col-
leagues on the BCHIS Enquiry
Commission is going to get the
government off the spot.

“Nothing short of a drastic
revision of BCHIS policies—the
dropping of co-insurance, roll-
back of premium rates, elimina-
tion of administrative ineffici-
encies and covering of any defi-
cits by means of a surtax on
industry will satisfy the people.”

as no surprise to the people of this
on which the reactionary character

of both Premier Johnson and Finance Minister Anscomb has been so
thoroughly exposed, and on which public resentment against the Coalition

Peace Assembly
fo hold banquet
for Scoff Nearing

Two functions have been ar-
ranged by Vancouver. Peace As-
sembly for the visit here of Dr.
Scott Nearing, distinguished Am-
erican sociologist and writer.

First is a banquet and dance to
be held 630 p.m., Saturday, No-
vember 10 at the Ukrainian Hall,
805 East Pender, admission to
which will be $1. Admission to
the musical program and dance
following with be 35 cents.

Sale of Christmas gifts made by
members of Vancouver Peace As-
sembly will also be held that even-
ing at the Ukrainian Hall.

Dr. Nearing’s public meeting
will be held Monday, November 12,
at 8 p.m. in Pender Auditorium.
Tickets are available at Vancouver
Peace! Assembly office, 144 West
Hastings.

Support for striking New York dockers is world-wide

it ol meme ell

New York dockers
defy ‘King’ Ryan

NEW YORK

Despite frantic attempts by
“King” Joe Ryan’s goon squads
to break the great walkout of
longshoremen which has complete-
ly tied up shipping in this vast
seaport, picket lines are holding
firm. Only a few ships which have
been given clearance by pickets

Opponents of
will have an opportumity to go: to

“Are vou in favor of extending
the present regulations, which
permit amateur sports, entertain-
ment and cultural events, to also
permit the holding of commer-
cial:

“(a) athletic sporting events

- of all kinds. 3

“(b) cultural events.

“(c) theatre performances on
Sunday between the hours of 2
p.m. and 12 midnight.”

The 1950 “phoney” plebiscite, de-
signed to win a ‘majority of “no”
votes, also listed cabarets, dance
halls, bowling alleys, pool halls,
licensed clubs and horse racing.
Nevertheless, more than 25,000 citi-
zens voted in favor of a “wide open
Sunday” as being preferable to the
present restrictive laws.

packing to the 1951 plebiscite, and
a good turnout of labor on civic
election day will undoubtedly as-
sure its passage.

In addition to the sports plebis-
cite, Vancouver voters will also
cast ballots on a plebiscite on the
adult franchise, and on a $3,750,000
public works bylaw.

This week a meeting of job
stewards of Vancouver Civic Em-
ployees Union, Outside Workers,
decided to recommend to the
next general membership meet-
‘ing of the, union that a public
campaign be carried on around —
the slogan, “Vote Yes, Money

decided this week by a 5-2 margin a
Wording of the plebiscite is as follows:

Labor is expected to give solid’

Vancouver gets chance
December 12 to abolish
Sunday ‘Blue Laws’

Vancouver’s oppressive Sunday “Blue Laws’’—and there are thousands of them—
the polls December 12 and voté for a “sensible Sunday,” city council
fter 90 minutes of heated debate. ’

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Bylaw.” Of the money asked
for, $1,000,000 is for new sewers,
almost $800,000 for water mains,
$1,500,000 for street paving and
improvements, $300,000 for street
lighting and $100,000 for modern
accomodation for workmen in
Cambie yards. :

“Tf this bylaw is not passed,
hundreds of outside civic workers
will be laid off, and the citizens
will suffer.from the lack of much
needed improvements,” a union
news bulletin stated.

Milk Board hearings

Congress of Canadian Women
appealed to Vancouver citizens
this week to attend the Milk Board
hearing which reopens at Peter
Pan Ballroom, 1636 West Broad-
way, at 10 a.m., Monday, Novem-
ber 5.

PENDER

AUDITORIUM

(Marine Workers)

339 West Pender
LARGE & SMALL HALLS
’ FOR RENTALS

Phone PA. 9481

Barristers - Soli
SUITE 515

STANTON, MUNRO & DEAN

FORD BUILDING
(Corner Main & Hastings Sts.)
MARINE 5746

citors - Notaries
193 E. HASTINGS

Socialism subject of
youth debate Sunday

“What is the path to socialism
in Canada?” ‘This will be the sub-
ject of a three-cornered public de-
bate on Sunday, November 4 be-
tween Tony Gargrave, former
president of the Cooperative Com-
monwealth Youth Movement, Glyn

Thomas of the National Federation
of Labor Youth and Manfred |
Schmidt, student at the University |
of B.C. and former member of the)
CCF club executive there.

The debate will be held in Hill-'
crest CCF Clubrooms, Main Street.
and 28th Avenue. |

have sailed and the piers remain
paralyzed, with 116 ships tied up.

Ryan, lifetime president of the
International Longshoremen’s As-
sociation, howls “Communism” and
“Harry Bridges is after me,” but
this “Red” cry has become: the
favorite butt. of jokes among New
York longshoremen.

This walkout, as all previous
walkouts, is caused by economic
issues and the plain truth that
most dock workers, despite the
“prosperity” in the shipping indus-
try, are not» earning even the
equivalent of unskilled workers’
wages. They spend a great deal
of time daily hunting work, actu-
ally get very little. Their insecuri-
ty makes them constant prey of
racketeering job-sellers and kick-
back artists.

What angered the men most is

the pittance Ryan settled for when -

other maritime unions were even
able to get U.S. Wage Stabilization
Board approval for substantially
more. They also know that Bridges
negotiated a 20-cent package re-
cently.

Ryan settled for a 10-cent raise
on the $2 hourly rate in place of
the demanded 25 cents.

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