Back rarlwaymen,

says LPP

leaflet

Pointing out that the Canadian Pacific Railway has

collected $312 in profits over

the past five years and “can

afford to meet the just demands of the workers” without
any further increase in prices, a leaflet issued this week

by the Labor-Progressive party

, and signed by Maurice Rush,

provincial labor secretary, urges full public support of strik-

ing railwaymen, in order to
to meet their demands.

Seamen fell of
U.S. deserters
hiding in Japan

Canadian seamen returning from
Japan on the SS Lake Manitou re-
lated to the Pacific Tribune this
Week some of the problems faced
by Yankee imperialism in its ag-
gressive venture in Korea, as seen
by the average “neutral” seaman
ashore. . s

In the Japanese port of Muji,
MacArthur’s jumping-off place for
Korean invasion, Chinese and Jap-
anese crews for the Yankee LSTs
(landing ships) are virtually press-
Zanged into service at gun-point.
White seamen ashore whose papers
may not be fully to the satisfaction
Of the American military police are
also shanghaied into this service.

Relations between Japanese pol-
ice and American military author-
ities is one of polite non-coopera-
tion.

In such an atmosphere, deser-
tions from the American army are
Said to be mounting rapidly, with
the Japanese assisting deserters
to head for the hills rather than
embark for Korea.

Canadian seamen have been told
by Japanese waterfront workers
‘Sympathetic to the Korean people
that no less than 400 American
Negro and White GIs are already
hiding in the hills around Myji,
Tetaining their arms and deter-
Mined not to be used against the
Korean people.

Scattered incidents

Ose .around Muji may explain
MacArthur's censorship and_ in-
creasing repression of the Japan-
€se working people and their or-
Sanizations.

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The leaflet states that “no labor
organization can afford to stand
on the sidelines in this fight” and
warns that the government may
try to utilize the occasion to place
further restrictions on _  Jabor’s
rights unless it is restrained by the
force of public. opinion.

“Parliament is being called into
emergency session, The time to
speak up is now,” declares the leaf-
let in making the following pro-
posals:

“Let Ottawa know that the peo-
ple back the striking railworkers.

“Demand that parliament compel
the railway companies to meet the
just demands of the workers.

“Demand that the government
refrain from strikebreaking acts.
The ‘internaitional situation’ must
not be used as a pretense for
smashing the labor movement,
starting with the rail unions.

“Send a letter to your member
of parliament backing the strikers’
demands.

“Have your union pledge support
to the strikers. Wire or send a
delegation to your local member
of parliament urging that he stand
by the rail workers’ demands.”

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before board Sept. 7

Application of Trail Local 480
and Kimberley Local 651, Inter-
national Union of Mine Mill and
Smelter Workers, for joint certi
fication at Consolidated Mining and
Smelting operations will be heard
by the provinical Labor Relations
Board in Vancouver on September
4

The board has notified the raid-
ing Steelworkers that while it has
‘no standing in the matter as an
interested party,” it will neverthe-
less hear its representations.

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Buck demands
punishment
of assassins

TORONTO

Immediate punishment of “the
criminal agents of Belgian and

world reaction” responsible for the ;

assAssination of Julien Lahaut, 65-
year-old chairman of the Belgian
Communist party and hero of the
wartime Resistance, is demanded
by Tim Buck, LPP national leader,
in a statement addressed to the
Belgian consulate at Ottawa his
week.

The statement read:

“Canadian workers learn with
horror and indignation of the
brutal assassination of Jules
Lahaut, president of the Belgian
Communist party, hero of the
Resistance movement and fore-
most fighter for peace, and of
the valiant struggle of the Bel-
gian people today against the
fascist-Nazi collaborationist, Leo-
pold. We - demand immediate
punishment of the criminal agents
of Belgian and world reaction.

Assassination of Jules Lahaut is
the latest in a series of terroristic
acts in a number of countries dir-
ected primarily against Communists
and obviously deriving their en-
couragement from a common cen-
ter and policy.

Lahaut was shot to death on Fri-
day last week by two men who
drove up to his home in Liege.
Both escaped and police have so
far failed to capture them.

Leaders of militant Belgian
unions have demanded that the
government capture and punish the
murderers, warning that the unions
will take action “to prevent the
installation of fascist and Hitler-
ie methods” in Belgium.

Lahaut’s body lay in. state in
Liege Communist headquarters un-
til the funeral on Thursday of this
week, attended by thousands of
workers answering the Belgian
Federation of Labor’s call, and
flags flew at half masf over Com-
munist party quarters throughout
the country.

Only a few days before Lahaut
was assassinated, bombs were toss-
ed into Comunistic headquarters in
two cities, one in Belgium, the
other in France. .

Across the Atlantic, in Argen-
tina, Jorge Calvo, a member of
the council of the World Federa-
tion. of Democratic Youth, was
recently assassinated by six
police agents. :

The WFDY has sent a cable to

Argentine President Peron de-
nouncing Calvo’s murder and de-
manding immediate arrest and

punishment of the assassins,

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“STRONGEST SUPPORTER OF PEACE’

What the American soldier
was told” about Russia. before
the cold war began makes in-
structive reading now, as a re-
cent copy of the Anglo-Russian
News Bulletin, published by the
Anglo-Russian Parliamentary
Committee, reveals. The copy
was brought into the Pacific
Tribune office this week by a
reader.

Extracts are quoted from an
Information Bulletin issued by
the U.S. Armed Forces Institute
in August, 1945.

GIs ard their officers were
then told things like this about
their allies: :

“The USSR, like the U.S., is
opposed to the fundamental fas-
cist ideas on which Germany
has operated: (1) The master
race; (2) The State is all-impor-
tant; (3) Lebensraum (living
space); and (4) Desire to dom-
inate the world.

“If the U.S. is a ‘melting pot,’
then the Soviet Union is an elec--
tric mixer. Scientists have
counted 189 ‘races’ in the USSR.

“Under the Tsars, many of
the racial minorities were perse-
cuted; today in the Soviet Un-
ion there is no such thing as
racial discrimination in prac-
tice or in theory.

“The people of each ‘race’
have been encouraged to retain
their own language, customs
and individuality, and to educate
themselves and develop the

What GI’s were told
about USSR in 1945

economic wealth of the area in
which they live.”

To people who profess to see
strong likeness between the So-
viet and Nazi forms of govern-
ment, the Information Bulletin
gave the following illustrations
of the “fundamental differ-
ence”:

“The Soviets have encouraged
trade unions; Hitler destroyed
unions.

“Russia adopted the eight-
hour day and later reduced it
to seven (until the danger of
war was immediate); the Nazis
lengthened the working day long
before the outbreak of war.

“The Soviets granted equality
to women—they work as farm-
ers, engineers, heads of indus-
tries; the fascists compelled
women to give up jobs on the
theory that women’s primary
job was to produce children.

“The number of Soviet men
and women in high schools and
colleges increased greatly from
1914 to 1937; in Germany, college
enrolments alone decreased by
more than,50 percent from 1932
io ASST

Finally, the bulletin recalled
how “the Soviet Union became
one of the strongest supporters
of cooperative action to preserve
peace.” °

That was all true then, and
it is so today.

secured the
MP, will

East Kootenay
Byrnes, — Liberal

ledge of the opposition of most
working people in his constituency
to Canadian involvement in Ameri-
can intervention in Korea—in di-
rect contradiction to the St. Laur-
ent government’s policy of “creep-
ing” participation until the full ex-
tent desired by the Truman ad-
ministration is reached.

Decision to organize the labor
delegation to interview Byrnes and
ascertain his position on Canadian
involvement in the Korean war,
was reached at a public meeting
here addressed by Alf Dewhurst,

attend the
parliament opening.this coming Tuesday with a full know-

‘asks MP

Delegation:

~

state stand on Kerea

CRANBROOK, B.C.

If a delegation representative of organized workers in
James —

interview it sought,

special session of

LPP provincial organizer, last Sun-
day.

Included on the delegation were
to be: Sam English, president, Un-
ited Mine Workers, Michel; John
Ogburn, president, Carpenters and
Joiners, Cranbrook; Magnus Elias-
on, school trustee; and Charles
Saunders, president, Woodworkers
Industrial Union, Cranbrook.

The meeting unanimously en-
dorsed the world peace petition, as
did other meetings at Michel, Fer-
nie and Kimberley addressed by
Dewhurst.

NANAIMO

Insurance
is func-
as a Yankee propaganda
and also as a recruiting
for Wall Street’s war
Korea.

The Unemployment
Commission office here
tioning
agency
agency
against

_On that part of the main counter

where information for claimants
is displayed, there is placed a ser-
ies of folders sponsored by the
Kiwanis International,

The current folder is No. 4. In
it, the writer, who conceals his
lack of national pride in anony-
mity, tells how, walking from the
Peace Tower of the Parliament
Buildings at Ottawa “we saw a
handsome building, with the Stars
and Stripes flying from the flag-
staff ...the flag which our good
friend and closest neighbor calls
Old Glory.”

Then he gets to the point of the
matter: “It’s Great to be-a Cana-
dian because of where we live ..
right next door to Uncle Sam. We
call him Uncle, but really, he is

more like a brother—a big brother!

Nanaimo UIC office serves
as U.S. propaganda outlet

... It’s Great to be a Canadian
because of the people, many thous-
ands of them, who come to visit
us from the United States ...
Think of the difficulties of cross-
ing some of the world’s borders.
You see how lucky we are... . It’s
Great to be a Canadian and to
have such a great and friendly
and strong neighbor.”

Alongside this servile depiction
of a Canadian are two drawings,
One showing flowers growing
around a signpost labelled “Ameri-
can Canadian border” and the oth-
er showing barbed wire and an
armed guard, labelled “Russian
border.” .

Perhaps it was merely a coinci-
dence that when a young worker
asked a UIC employee what jobs
were available, he was told, “Well,
there’s always the army.” The
worker, a veteran of the last war,

-| gave the clerk a long, cold look.

He noted that the UIC man was
a big, young person of military
age.

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