7 i uf U.S. PUSHES WORLD TC 5. VIETNAM Massive U.S. intervention in South Vietnam is pushing the world dangerously close to the brink of war. (ts Eat VOL. 22, No. 13, FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 1962 a VANCOUVER, B.C. YANK IN SOUTH VIETN AM. This is a picture of U.S. “aptain Harold Rose shown here giving orders to the Puppet troops during a recent “mopping up” operation. "PEOPLE DON'T WANT BCE PRIVATE MONOPOLY AGAIN Following on the announcement last week that the “C. courts had appointed former B.C. Electric president arry Purdy as receiver of the utility, B.C. Communist arty leader Nigel Morgan said on a radio broadcast Sun- dav night that “the people of this province don’t want the C. Electric operations turned back to the private Monopoly.” i agorean said that NDP-CCF his - Robert Strachan and fight ous should be Ry ng to see that the al- betes Poon coupon clip- one the B.C. Power Corp., simer bleed the power con- - ke B.C. any more than falling ready have, instead of r § In behind the Liberals he the politically-ap- courts superior to the elected representatives of the people. He said the NDP-CCF mem- bers should be making their voices heard to insist that the full benefits of public owner- ship are passed on to the people without further delay in the form of lower light and gas rates and improved tran- See BCE, pg. 3 Argentine call for unity to defend people’s rights Calle to elect th mand that i=} SPect the people’s will.” action advise a Coa milit Orker NV S ma CWS Service. BUENOS AIRES — The Argentine Communist Party has d for the widest unity in defending the rights of the people eir own representatives, and urged everyone to the government and the chiefs of the armed forces de- The statement pointed out that the Party called for united Of the popular forces and recalled that the Party had d electors to vote for the Peronista lists. It described the attempts by President Frondizi to form lition as “a military palace coup” designed to set UP & 8rty or military-civilian dictatorship. — British Daily This fact emerges from re- ports of large numbers of U.S. troops taking part in military actions against S. Vietnamese in open violation of the 1954 Geneva confer- ence which ended the war in Indo-China. It is reported that the U-S. has 5,060 men in S. Vietnam and this force is being built up to 7,000. At this moment the chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, is in Saigon meeting with officials of the discredited Diem clique. This week he announced that the U.S. will supply whatever materials and men are needed. Meanwhile, from Peking came the second warning in a month that no peace-loving country can remain indiffer- ent to U.S. intervention in S. Vietnam. A broadcast statement said American ac- tion posed a grave threat to peace in South-east Asia. Also a few days ago the Soviet Union renewed its plea to Great Britain for a joint Anglo-Soviet call to the U.S. to end its “undeclared war” against the people of S. Viet- nam. The Soviet Foreign Minis- try statement charged that contrary to the 1954 Geneva agreement on Indo China, of which Britain and the Soviet Union were co-chairmen, the U.S. is stepping up. ship- ments of men and arms to S. Vietnam. Canada is one of the three members (together with India and Poland) of the Interna- tional Control Commission set up to help implement the Geneva peace agreements of 1954. In fact it was through its insistence, over Poland’s protest, that in 1960 the ICC allowed a US. “advisory group” to stay in S. Vietnam. For Canada to keep quiet now is to condone U.S. inter- vention and make Canada a party to Washington’s aggres- sion. Canada should have its rep- resentative on the ICC speak out against any and all for- eign interference in S. Viet- nam. ‘CLOSE-UP’ PROTESTED CBC program ‘worst type of McCarthyism’ Last Sunday’s CBC-TV program, “Close-Up” was branded as being in the “worst style and tradition of Mc- Carthyism” in a letter.to the CBC by the National Execu- ‘tive of the Communist Party of Canada. Signed by its general secre- tary Leslie Morris, the letter said: “Although the program purported to deal with the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, it actually passed judgment on the Communist Party in the worst style and tradition of McCarthyism. The Mine-Mill Union speaks for itself. In this letter we speak for the Communist Party. “You used a turncoat, a stoolpigeon, to smear the Page 2 Communist Party, and you used all the tricks of televi- sion technique to make Wal- ter Kaczmar appear in the guise of a public-spirited citi- zen while all others were made to appear, by the same camera and directional tech- nique, as enemies of the pub- lic good. “Your interviewers were interested only in embarras- sing and harassing their sub- jects. In fact, the program gave all the appearance of a Steel promises more disruption kangaroo court with the C.B.C. in the self-appointed role of a prosecutor utilizing all the cheap tricks of exam- ination; it also appointed it- self as judge and jury, pass- ing judgment on the replies of the “witnesses”. The only court character not present was a counsel for the defense. “The C.B.C. set out to. give the impression that the Com- munist Party, through con- Spirational means, has the aim of ‘controlling’ labor organizations. This is straight out of Senator McCarthy’s handbook. The Communist Party ‘controls’ nothing but See “CLOSE-UP”, page 12 THE MINE os ? @ fae liners’ Voice Room 203 -536)4 Main St., Winnipeg 2, Man, Published by District No. 6—United Steelworkers of America LARRY SEFTON—Director—1i0 Adelaide St. E., Toronto 1, Ont. Printed by the Garry Press Ltd.—Winnipeg 2, Man. Er @ Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa, and for payment of postage in cash, will win Sudbury Steel Drives at Climax As the Miners’ Voice goes to press we are confident the Steel Union jowever, even if we should lose in one ers need not. apologize for the massive oyees a choice to leave and Thompson. or in both locations, the Steelwork bid to give thousands of disenchanted INCO emp Mine Mill. If the Steelworl:ers «'n, Mino Mill can never recover from means over. the blow. Should by chance Steel leaders wil Severel ) another round Above is a section of an editorial which appeared in “The Miners’ Voice,” a publi- cation of the United Steelworkers in which the Steel raiders hold out the promise, win or lose in the present fight, to continue disruption. It boasts of having “severly” National Mine Mili i the Steeiwor undermined the Mine Mill Union and that ose, Mine Mill’s problems are by_n have on their nas od it is “always ready for another round—to administer a knockout.” mention of the huge amounts of worker’s dues money being used for such cannibal- istic actions. (See Mine Mill convention story, page 11). It makes no ponent nin ne