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Korea ‘massacre’ exposed

FAKE ATROCITY STORIES.
AIMED TO BLOCK PEACE

The vicious charge that thousands of US. and
other troops have been “‘murdered”’ by ‘Korean and
Chinese soldiers, made last week by Colonel J. M.
Hanley in Pusan and given huge banner headlines
in Canadian and American newspapers. stands ex-
posed today as a grim and provocative lie.

Authentic photographs and messages from pris-
oners of war in Korea (such as the document repro-
duced on the left “and photos on pages 3 and 12)
prove that U.S. and British POW’s are well treated.
and that many of.them are now demanding an end
to the war being waged against the Korean people.

Hanley’s false charge was made with a deliber-
ate purpose: to disrupt the Korea peace negotiations
and to provide the Yankee warmongers with ammu-
nition to demand the dropping of atom bombs on

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BC Electric seeks new
34 p.c. profit grab

BCElectric went before a Pub-

lic Utilities Commission hearing -

in Vancouver on Thursday this
Week to apply for\the right to
Soak its customers one-third more
than they are now paying for
transportation, electricity and gas.

The giant monopoly, raking in
Millions of dollars in profits an-
Nually, is seeking permission to
raise the limit of profit it is allow-
ed by the PUC from 5.8 percent
to 7.5 percent, a boost of 34
Percent in net profits.

Should the application be

granted, next action of the BCE
will likely be the hiking of transit
fares from a dime to 15 cents
and_a comparable hoist in electric
and gas rates.
If the PUC agrees to raise
the BCElectric “fair return” from
5.8 to 7.5 percent, the company’s
et profits will skyrocket to more
than $1 3,000,000 in 1952..
Championing the cause of B.C.
citizens who are being mercilessly
exploited by BCElectric, Elgin
Ruddell will appear at the hear-

ing’ to challenge company figures
and financial statements. He will
present a brief showing how BCE,
profits are concealed in the com-
pany’s annual financial statements
and made to appear as losses,
“BCE, which is making astron-
omical profits, tries to create an
illusion of soaring costs,” said
Ruddell. “In 1948 BCE,  se-
cured in profits $110,000 more
than they were entitled to, at a

time when they were publicly
making a big noise about deficits.”’

Korea and China:

and to divert public attention

from the eye-witness report of U.S. atrocities in

Korea published by the Women’s

Democratic Federation.

Mission ).

International

(Mrs. Nora K. Rodd of

Windsor was chairman of the

fact-finding com-

The Hanley charge was a planted propaganda

stunt. It was followed immediate-
ly by a clamor from U.S. Con-
gressmen to use the A-bomb in
Korea, to attack China across the
Yalu River and to call off the

cease-fire talks.

Fight days before Hanley
made his provocative charge, the
Red Cross Society of China had
lodged a strong protest against
the bombing of a POW camp
by a U.S. plane in Northern
Korea on October 13. One U.S.
prisoner, two Chinese soldiers and
four Koreans were killed: British
prisoners and Korean civilians
were among the 14 wounded.

Available to every Canadian

newspaper since shortly after the
start of the Korean war have
been hundreds Of letters from

'W’s — complete with name,
unit, address and rank — telling
of the fine treatment they are be-
ing accorded by their Korean or
Chinese captors. Their chief pro-
test has been against the contin-
uance of the war and the bomb-
ing and strafing by U.S. planes
of POW camps.

Premiums gone
but subs soar

Although the Pacific Tribune’s
premium offer of the Carters’ best-
sell, We Saw Socialism, has now
been withdrawn, the subscriptions
and renewals continue to roll in.
This week the metropolitan area
outstripped the province, 68 subs
to 32, for a grand total of

} Sale aera,

“This is the third week -that
our sub total hit the 100 mark,”
said PT business manager Elgin
Ruddell. “Can we make it four
in a row?”

Top mress clubs were: North
Vancouver, 10; West End, 10;
New Westminster, 7; Philip Hal-
perin, 6; Freiheit, 4; Hastings
East, 4; Ship and Steel, 4; A. E.
Smith, 3 and Grandview, 3.