les f NR wl pin L — FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1951 CONTINUED. FROM PAGE ONE Yankee warmongers to make their criminal, murderous war against the Korean people a ‘stepping stone to open all-out war against People’s China, is a threat to the basic interests of British imper- ialism. The depth of the con- tradictions between the aims of U.S. impérialism and the poorer imperialist states such as Britain and France for example, is illus- trated by the British government’s public demand that the peace treaty to be offered Japan must provide that Taiwan (Formosa) be restored to China and that the Chinese People’s government shall participate in the peace confer- ence. ~ While the ousting of MacArthur reflects the pressure of opposition to the murderous and hateful poli- cy he advocated, it would be a serious mistake to assume that it represents a change in the de- cisive aims and policy of USS. imperialism. The aim upon which the imperialists of Wall Street and Washington are set is world domination. The tug-of-war, varied from time to time by shadow boxing between those who advocate the conquest of Asia as the best way to destroy the socialist Soviet Union, and those who favor concentration upon Europe, is a byproduct of ‘their main aim—not the source of it. ‘Bring Pats home, seat China in UN’ A war for world domination is the aim of the U.S. imperialists and of their government, the Tru- man administration. The removal of MacArthur became .necessary to them in pursuit of that aim. The great decisive lesson for democratic, peace-loving people is that the firing of MacArthur shows the irresistable power of or- ganized popular action for peace. Without the pressure of the surg- ing world-wide peace movement and its impact on politics in gen- eral including governmental poli- cies, MacArthur would: not have been removed. By the same token it is’now quite evident that the force which toppled the mighty Mikado MacArthur can be strengthened further to stop the war in Korea. To peace-loving Canadians who were relieved or elated by the news, the removal of MacArthur is also a challenge. It challenges all of us to fight even harder: @ For the seating of People’s Chine in UN. f, @ To bring back the Princess Pats frém Korea and withdraw the new Special Brigade. @ To press the St. Laurent government to call for a Pact of Peace between the Five Great Powers. War can be prevented if the people take the cause of peace into their own hands.. First peace pact canvass Saturday Vancouver campaign to gain support for the World Peace Pact petition begins int earnest this Saturday, First street canvass of the new campaign will be held Satur- day in one of the city’s busiest suburban shopping. areas—the 2400 to 2600 blocks East Hastings, B.C. Peace Council announces. Canvass will be Held from 2 p.m, to 4 p.m, with" canvassers meeting at 1.30 p.m. for briefing at the Clinton Hall, 20$5 East Pender. ‘ “We appeal to all peace workers to turn out for this most important canvass, said Ray Gardner, executive secretary. “Our task is now a simple but compelling one: the gathering of thousands upon thousands of signatures in the shortest possible time. “It is urgent that we act quickly and effectively. The war crisis in the United _ States demands that we not delay one minute in hitting the street with the petition. Our lives and the lives of our children depend upon how this new task.” No quotas are being set for the new has been set for-its conclusion. Results of the campaign will be reviewed by the National Coun- cil of the Canadian Peace Con- gress on July 2.. It will then be . decided whether to present the petition to the government at once or to continue the campaign. “We have ten weeks in which to_ mobilize all the people of British Columbia for peace,’ Gardner said. ‘We cannot afford to lose a single minute or a single sig- nature.” : “That thousands of people who never signed the Stockholm Ap- peal will sign the World Peace Pact Appeal has already been proven to us. Persons who are bitterly anti-Soviet in their out- iook have signed because they want peace and believe that a meeting of the Big Five to con- eciude such a pact would contr- bute greatly toward the cause of peace, On the other hand, of course, hundreds who believe the war danger lies mainly in Wash- ington are signing the petition. “One elderly woman, aged 83, collected more than 40 signatures within the first few days of the campaign.” UNITED MINE WORKERS JOURNAL SAYS: | U.S. should ‘find way to end bloody mess’ in Korea a SNE WoOYORK The American people are still mystified “how the war in Korea came about” and the Truman administration should find “a way to end this unjustified bloody mess,” the United Mine Workers Journal declares in an editorial in its current issue. The official organ of the union headed by John L. Korea is a “stalemate” and “can- not be settled on the battlefield.” The editorial was among* the first top-level expressions from a major union outside the group of lefted unions, critical of the Tru- man war policy and suggesting peace negotiations to end the war in Korea. The UMWA Journal undoubted- ly gives expression to the well known peace sentiment in, the coal fields, although some of the language in it is drawn from the familiar line of former President Herbert Hoover whom Lewis has long admired. The editorial on Korea says in part: “The majority of American peo- ple are still mystified at the end of nine months as to how the war in Korea csame about. ‘ “As open as accusations have been of American statesmen’s stu- pidity and their being taken in by foreign diplomats into the division of Korea in the first place and pledging all-out U.S. protection, the people just can’t come to un- derstand that our leaders were just plain dubs in the first place. “After suffering 56,000 American casualties, General MacArthur de- clared the conflict a stalemate. “There has been a stalemate in the UN on what to do and how to do it for many months past. “Casualties will continue to pile ‘up in the game of accomplishing ‘nothing and gettMg nowhere... “The decision of what to do and when to do it rests with the Ad- ministration’s diplomats — and it is up to the Administration to find a way to end this unjustified bloody mess.” i : TORONTO Silby Barret, dierctor of Cana- dian District No. 50 of the United — Mineworkers of America stated this week that he was in complete agreement with the editorial views of the UMWA Journal that “it is up to the administration (U.S.) to find a way to end this unjustifie bloody mess” in Korea. : “The war in Korea,” said Bar- rett, “has been a godsend to Am- erican profiteers, but not for the more than 50,000 United States, plus other soldiers, who have died on the battlefields of that coun- try.” : The UMWA leader pointed to the recent anti-labor attitude of the St. Laurent government in re- ference to the brief on price con- trols presented by the Canadian Congress of Labor, and stressed: “St. Laurent’s attitude make it clear that democracy is limited in Canada; what is left is based on the Korean war and what profits can be made from it.” Lewis declares that the war in conscientiously we perform petition campaign and no_ strict deadline CONTINUED MacARTHUR “Now, when the collapse of Wl Street’s Far Hastern policies. is obvious, -President Truman has decided to relieve the general who was beaten and com- promised more than once from his posts as commander of American troops in the Far East and as commander-in-chief of the inter- ventionist armies in Korea. particularly “The enormous losses’of Ameri- can invaders in Korea and their repeated defeats at the front showed the worthlessness of Mac- Arthur’s alleged military-strategic pjans and his inability to take care of the Korean situation. “Ridgway succeeds MacArthur. By removing the bankrupted gen- eral Wall Street does not intend to renounce its adventurous policy. “That is precisely what the White House meant when it said MacArthur’s removal does not signify a change of American policy in the Far East. Neverthe- less, the replacement of the com- mander of American armed forces in the Far East is convincing tes- timony of confusion in the den of American warmongers. “The aggressors are . clearly seeking a scapegoat Yor their re- verses. However, the policy of aggression, no matter who con- ducts it—MacArthur or his sguc- cessor, Ridgway—can only result in shameful fiasco.” CONTINUED DUPLESSIS Workers Union, said that the trade union movement “‘is called upon once more to protest anoth- er shameful attack on the labor press.” Haddow declared the ac- tion of Duplessis “is an attack on jobs, social security, civil liberties and peace — on everything that labor stands for.” Gui Caron, provincial leader of the Labor-Progressive party, said the attack on the Canadian Tri- bune “follows the shameless pad- locking of ‘the French language progressive paper, Combat.” He pointed out that Combat, despite padlocks, is again appearing, and predicted that “the Tribune, des- pite Duplessis” persecution, will double its circulation in this prov- ince.” Hail dismissal of MacArthur as new chance fo end war NEW YORE ' In a telegram to President Tru- man: the American Peace Crusade hailed the firing of General Dous- las MacArthur as a “new opport unity to end the bloody Korea? conflict.” The telegram termed the action “long overdue” and urged Tru man to withdraw U.S. troops from Korea and begin immediate 1& gotiations for peace. Coalition roundly (bed) panned A “hospital picket line”. in front of the hanging out the win and government employees pickets marching up and d premium hikes or re: tinuing. t . p parliament buildings in Victoria last Monday - the ore taba ran to have «ct look. Thousands of citizens saw 1 ut copies of an “open letter” LPP provincial leader Nigel Morgan, calling on the Coalition's “Byes” The legislature prorogued on Wednesday, but the fight against BCHIS rates had MLAS to Premier Byron Johnson from to withdraw hospital insurance js com PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 20, 1951 — Page 4