TOM McEWEN As We See lt _ Montreal elects a fighter Montreal's civic elections this week, ff running as a labor candidate, Harry Bind- er, was elected councillor in the fifth dis- trict of Canada’s largest city. The finan- cial watchdogs of St. James Street and their press are baying at the moon about the “communist menace,” but thousands of the common people in Montreal are jubilant. They have good reason to be. Not since the death of the late Councillor Mi- ‘city hall to air and win redress of their » many grievances. Now they are confident that the great efforts put forward by Mi- cchael Buhay on their behalf will be renew- Binder. Tt was the late Michael Buhay who in- itiated the demand for the “freezing” of rents in Montreal during the war in order _to safeguard those thousands of citizens condemned to live in gigantic slum. areas, and always under the extortionate squeeze- 1 play of chiselling landlords. chael Buhay have they had a voice in the. _ed with increased vigor by Councillor Harry — ~ and enforcement of rent controls, his posi- Slum conditions and their consequent evils are more prevalent-in Montreal than in any other Canadian city. Union Nation: ale politics in’ provincial and civic govern- ment are concerned mainly with the in- terests of big business and the promotion of anti-Communist hysteria. rather than in seeking ways and means of providing decent housing and living standards for low in- come categories of workers. With all re- maining rent controls, weak as they are, scheduled to be lifted March 31, 1951. Mon- treal landlords were getting set for a big kill, with thousands of enforced slum dwel- lers as their victims, Harry Binder’s program for retention tive proposals for slum clearance have been given a sweeping endorsation by the people of Montreal. The election of Harry Binder, an LPP leader, isa vindication of LPP poli- cies for peace and welfare, and a tribute to the good sense of a large section of Mon- treal’s electorate. E plurib = . | Beets Randolph Hearst was one of Hitler’s _ ¥® most ardent admirers. In fact, Hearst was one of the few outstanding American monopolists who was - decorated by Der Feurher for his work in perfecting the commercial press as an instrument for propagating the. Big Lie. Hearst owns a billion-dollar chain of news-. oahers with which to influence public opinion, Like ~ every other financial oligarch, Hearst is vitally aware _ that there are big profits in war. Scare headlines, dis- torted news, bigger sales, super profits. There is a classical story on record testifying to Hearst's ability to distort arid obliterate truth. In one of the numerous Mexican political crises of 30 years ago, Hearst sent one of his star reporters down to _ Mexico to cover the “war’’. In one of his first press dis- - patches the reporter advised Hearst “there no war _ here.” Highly incensed at such truthful naivete, Hearst cracked back from, his New York office, “You “write the stories, we'll supply the war.” ; Sa Today,, as a result of the crushing reverses sustained by the Yankee interventionist forces in Korea, the billion-dollar Hearst press is in full spate. ' Last week the Pacific Tribune drew attention to the Washington Times-Herald’s blurb on Hearst’s characterization of Britam and France as “slacker empires, who prove their utter undependability as -alliés.”” In the December 6 edition of the Seattle Post- Intelligencer,’ another Hearst lie purveyor, on page American Duty®. In case any “paytriotic’’ reader should miss this “Hearst-iric” gem, special attention © is drawn to it in a front-page box lead! _ The gist of “Our American Duty” is first and foremost a loud squeal of protest at gelting a resound- kick in the pants in Korea. That is understandable. - _ dt appears however that all this is a result of “the blun- dering and disloyal foreign policies of the New Deal this country into complete disaster—both mil- itary and economic. Our sovereignty has been im- paired by making us a virtual vassal of the United ations, which disrupts our councils and seeks to fly. ~ Hearst editorial, but ‘not stated in so many words, is “mongrel flag over our public buildings.” Informed public opinion is rapidly coming to. ‘the conclusion that it is just the other way about; that. the UN has become the “virtual vassal” of American Imperialigm, with the UN “mongrel” flag used to hide e nakedness of Yankee aggression in Asia. On one point we are in full and emphatic — agreement with this Hearstian concept of ‘Our Ameri- Duty”, that is where the editorial says, “Firs! | foremost, therefore, this country should withdraw 3 there is an astounding editorial entitled “Our J us unum get our troops out of Korea as quickly as possible.” The splenetic Hearst reasoning for this line of action is worthy of a horse laugh; the “get out of Korea”’ idea is a splendid one. “Secondly,” squeals Hearst, ‘we. should gel out of the United Nations. That organization has not sustained us in the war that we undertook in its behalf.”’ Shades of John Foster Dulles and A-bomb Harry! For ~ the first ume Hearst came dangerously close to telling the truth, that is about “the war. . . we undertook.”’ It seems to us on consultation of the calendar (which _ fortunately cannot be changed to suit Heart’s hallu- cinations that the UN was faced with the fait accompli of Yankee invasion of Korea and, as a result of Yankee dollar pressures, dragooned into giving its machined-majority approval to Yankee aggression, not as a full-scale war, but as “‘police action.” The concluding section of this Hearst hysteria is a masterpiece of humbug. Deeply disturbed at the prospect of having others than stooges of the discredited . Chiang Kia-shek represent China in the UN, Hearst screams in blackface type that “‘the United Nations ‘should let Red China in and leave the United States out. Then let the UN see how it gets along. This couniry has maintained the UN since its inception, with no return in loyalty or gratitude. So let those who RUN » (Hearst's emphasis ) the United Nations PAY to sup- port and supply an ingrate ‘Europe . . Marxist England (pass the aspirins to Bevin, please ) formally recognized — the Chinese Communist government,’ and collaborates with Marxist France in preventing European rearma- ment. This is Europe’s attitude; let Europe look out for iself; and see how EUROPE (Hearst's emphasis) _ geis along.” F Having unburdened itself of the above bilious excretion as a top-priority “American Duty” the Hearst attle Post-Intelligencer, wants to be “alone”, un- trammeled by the councils or problems of others. Hay- ing failed to turn the United Nations into a one-hund- red percent effective tool for picking Yankee ches- nuts out of hot .fires—and particularly after having paid'cash on the barrel head for adequate cannon fod- der which is not forthcoming, the top liar for Yankee imperialism wants a retum to complete ‘isolationism’, where it is hoped the pickings will be easier, the risks less, and “Our American Duty” greatly simplified. : The most important point in this malodorous that the peace forces in America, as in the world, are nipping the thin veneer of pretext from Yankee imperial- ign’s designs on Asia, and exposing it for what it is— a war against the socialist and liberation movements of progressive humanity. ee The Hearst press lying ahd raving against the UN also underscores the possibility, given new mass support, that the UN can still become what the: ld’s peoples hoped it to be, a mighty international cooperative — for peace, rather than a U.S.-subsidized sounding board pox ’'T blame the “Reds”’ Nagasaki and Hiroshima proved that the A-bomb is a' terrible Weapon of mass destruction. All scientists who have not sold them- ators and vest- always use the/t Selves body and soul to reaction tell us the same thing, Wild-eyed sen_ pocket presidents in the camp of the warmongers hreat of the A-bomb as something that can wipe out their opposition in one blinding flash. Even the Vancouver Sun in a November 8 edit orial entitled “Use theBomb If... ” (an editorial already widely quoted by warmongering spouters in the U.S.) declared that “the Abomb is our ace-in- the-hole.” The Sun thinks that the “Chinese could be offered a choice of a cease-fire or an A-bomb on Pei-_ ping, followed by as many more bombs on impprtant centers as it might take to enforce the lesson.” Obviously the Sun’s top political hack wrote this disgraceful editorial as a sort of a “final” solution to the Korean dilemma the warmongers have got themselves into, The A-bomb is our “ace in the hole” shouts the gnome in the Sun Tower, but ventures no opinjon on what might happen to Vancouver if a shower of similar “aces-in-the-hole” were dropped here. But we'll come to that later, The main thing at the moment is that, together with Harry Tru- man, John Foster Dulles, Mikado MacArthur and the financial Yoyalties of Wall Street, the Sun is certain that, “if at any time the United States and the United Nations (note the separation) conclude that the Rus- sian Communist Politburo has directly or indirectly started World War iI with world domination as their objective, then the use of atomic weapons to destroy the centers of Communist war-making power, and the Kremlin itself, would be justified.” j Not long ago the commercial press, of which the Vancouver Sun is a fair example, ran a series of articles intended to promote the hallucination that A-bombs used by “our side” would totally obliter_ ate the enemies of our so-called “free way of life”, while the same kind of an “ace-in-the-hole” tossed back at us, would not be nearly so disastrous. Tons of little booklets, integrated with numerous “disaster plans” now being initiated by a war-minded ruling caste, are being prepared and distributed, giving detailed instructions on what to do and how: to do it in order to safeguard oneself against A-bomb attack. Much of the information contained would doubtless - be very helpful—if the “enemy” would advise us beforehand on the exact time the A-bombs would be dropped! Short of that, A_bombs dropped on Canadians, Russians or Chinese would be equal in their devastation, : Any yarns to the contrary—whether “approved” by “disaster planners” or not, are designed ‘to fool people; to have us think that an _ A-bomb dropped on the Kremlin would destroy that historic site, and with it a world ideal, but that one dropped on Vancouver ‘would cause no more furore than a non-partisan politician making a pre-election speech. : If we take our daily papers as an “authority” it was highly “moral” for General MacArthur to drive north of the 38th parallel, clear to the borders of Manchuria, in his all-out “saturation” campaign to bring the Korean people to the heel of Wall Street. From the same sources, it is now highly “immoral’ for the Korean troops and their / volunteer Chinese allies to drive General MacArthur’s United (States) Nations troops south of the 38th parallel, in their brilliant advance to restore Korea to the Korean people. Bourgeois “morality” is always based on whose ox is being gored, CEP EE 3 When Prime Minister Clement Attlee and President Harry Tru- man concluded their “top-level” confabs last week on what to do aout Korea, they produced an “agreement” that will test the linguistic capacity of most of us to describe, Summed up, they said, “we stand for a free Korea... as we understand freedom.” But that is just the kind of. “freedom” the Korean people are determined shall not be foisted upon them, either by “saturation” bombing or diplomatic @ouble-talk. To top off this “freedom” little Harry Truman abrogated to himself the sole right to determine if, when and where the A-bomb will be used. He did agree to “advise” other in Wall Street’s war camp of his august decision On this vital matter, but that was all. ~ ee Such “freedom” is very dangerous to the freedom of any state or people, regardless of what sort of social system they prefer to live under, At bottom the “freedom” propounded by the U.S. warmongers and their yes-men is a negation of all freedom, — ip ‘ i ‘ Perhaps the greatest abuse of language is that on the issue of peace, Millions of the world’s peoples, represented at the Second World Peace Congress, hold to the simple faith that peace means that diverse mankind, regardless of race, color, or political creed, can work and live © in the same world without periodically attempting to blow each other to kingdom come with all the latest Weapons of mass homicide, That is the social or socialist concept of peace. Py : zn ee - The others, a small powerful minority of capitalist exploiters, always think and speak jf “peace” in terms of war, Of imposing their warped concept of peace, (the right to exploit their fellow men) by - weight and force of arms, the Abomb being their latest “ace-in-the-hole”. weapon by which they hope to win their kind of DERG eer ae ss PUN t Sure, they’re all in favor of “peace”, as the best camouflage for organized, ‘mass violence! When they speak of ‘peace’ they ‘mean war, fi «2 A . ae “to fi | C jluiuineass beers Psi ay (a | y rates PETE nay 2 hivsntevvnscittlll MM aaosecictatvacesinvcai _ Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main ‘Street, Vancouver, B.C. By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. Telephone MA. 5288 : ; Sas : Editor 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. — for war. BS Authorized as second class mail. Post Office Dept., Ottawa s armed forces ‘from the invasion areas. 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