a TF wesicen troops threaten Britons Here is a photographic evidence of the real Iron Curtain. story see Frank Gullett’s report from Innsbruck, Austria, 27 was forced to editorialize on what it termed an “ have already received many protests, : on page 4.) American troops are shown, threatening young Britons on their way to the recent Youth Festival in with fixed bayonets Berlin. (For the full The Toronto Daily Star on August unpleasant incident” and U.S. consulates in Canada cy The Appeal for United Labor Mine-Mill to the workers and the messages of federal Labor Minister Milton Gre Brig. Géneral Gregg calls on the right wing i divisive policies: precisely those policies which le and the rise of Hitler fascism. ' Green calls for an end to the class struggle and urges labor to col- laborate with big business which is out to weaken and destroy the trade union movement, However, contrary to these wish- ful policies, the rank-and-file mem- bers of the unions are forging unity in action in order to defend and advance their living stand- ards. j The strike of the coal miners in Cape Breton; the steelworkers in Algoma; the militant walkout of _tobacco workers in Montreal; the election of a progressive slate in Ford Local 200 to the CCL con- vention—these are not only ex- pressions of the ceaseless class struggle, they are also expressions of the growing fight by the rank ‘and file for exactly those policies for which UE and Mine-Mill were expelled from the CCL. As the appeal states: ‘Mine- Mill and UE fought hard at con- ventions of the CCL for a program which would fully protect the rights and interests of Canadian workers. The leadership of the CCL opposed the program advanc- ed by Mine-Mill and ‘UE, a pro- gram which called for a policy of uniting all Canadian labor to fight _for wage increases, and social se- curity financed through taxing the profits of industrial and financial _ corporations, and government poli- cies dedicated to: preventing war through peaceful cooperation be- tween the great powers. “The CCL leadership, rather than consider such a program €ssential for the welfare of the] working people, resorted to the em- ployer device of red-baiting and forced through the expulsion of Mine-Mill and UE from the Con- gress.” - After detailing the bankrupt poli- cies of the top CCL leadership the appeal goes on to state: “On the basis of the experience of some 60,000 Mine-Mill and UR workers in Canada, we urge the Mine-Mill-UE appeal _ _ for united action gets _ rank-and-file support | By WILLIAM KASHTAN i ~ y Hck FOF ORONTO Action to Raise Living Standards, issued=jointly by the UE and delegates of the CCL convention, contrasts sharply with the Labor Day gg and AFL president William Green. n the trade unions to continue its suicidal red-baiting d to the destruction of the German trade union movement CONTINUED TREATY Sakhalin Island. Two other Asian powers, Burma and Vietnam, are also not repre- sented at the conference. Burma has joined India in refusing to ac- cept the !U.S. draft treaty and the. People’s government of Vietnam is recognized only by the Soviet Union and People’s China. At San Francisco this week the countries of Western Europe, the Americas and Australasia are go- ing through the motions of giving formal approval to an American dictated treaty with a+ completely subservient Japanese government. But the main countries of Asia, representing more than 1,000 mil- lion people, whose future i# vitally affected by that treaty, remain outside it. The peoples of Asia see the Jap- anmese treaty not as a means of securing of peace but as an in- strument of war. They see the retention -of U.S. troops in Japan and the growing revival of Japan- ese militarism as a threat to their own security. The press of the Soviet Union and People’s China is unanimous in this view and the press of India hardly less so. All Indian newspapers have con- demned exclusion of People’s China from the conference. Président Truman, in opening the conference, made much of his claim that~Japan itself wanted the treaty. He should have qualified his remarks to mean the Japanese .|monopolists and militarists who stand to gain from it. The Japanese Patriotic Overall Peace Movement Council, includ- ing representatives of the Japanese Labor Federation, the Japanese Peasants Association, the recon- struction group of the Socialist party and the Communist party, has denounced the treaty. It calls instead for a peace treaty by agree- ment between the Soviet Union, People’s China, the U.S. and Brit- ain, opposes rearmament and re- tention of foreign troops, and calls for friendship and trade. with China. Pulp workers wi Strike planis for pay boost : dew Striking for higher wages an@ other concessions, 300 millworkers tied up Canadian Boxes Ltd. at Industrial, and Pacific Mills, a of Campbell Avenue. The ore are all.members of Pulp, sup and Paper Mills Workers, in ver Converters Local 433 (ABi™ TLC). a Picket lines were thrown ae both plants at 8 a.m, Wednes' os this week. In a government ee vised vote last .Friday the are had voted 87 percent for st? action. Last minute efforts | Labor Relations Board mens failed to bring the union and © panies into agreement. 40- Union demands are for 4 eo) cent hourly pay hike, three eX" statutory holidays with pay, a cost-of-living bonus of one © 2 for every 1.3 rise in the COL index: — Leaders in fight against layoffs - named delegafes ‘By CYRIL PRINCE . WINDSOR © Ford plant No. 2 workers ss delegate elections to the CCL oe vention have chosen those wh® the fight in Windsor against B2 Truman-St. Laurent war pele responsible for mass layoffs 12 © auto industry, ae Eleven out of 14 on the PrCer sive ticket in the election W z fa elected from the big Canadian ie plant, which has squeezed $50.00" 000 out of labor of Canadian work ers in the past four years. it to 50 percent of the profits went big Yankee shareholders.. BG sir The progressive ticket in ne ning for election called for ie launching of a national wage Ct ie paign to -beat high prices, 3 doubling of unemployment ane ‘ance benefits and a strong St@?_ at the convention for peace 4 trade to provide world marke and jobs. : workers of the CCL unions to de- mand that their leaders initiate a program of action that will pro- tect and advance your interests as working people, a program such as the following: @ Not words, but action for immediate and substantial wage increases, @ Oppose the speedup in ' plants. Take the profits out of profiteering by demanding gov- ernment tax policies to limit profits. @ Reduce sales and _ excise taxes on essential goods and raise the income tax exemption level so ‘that more wage earners are freed from this heavy tax. . @ A full-scale campaign to or- ganize the unorganized and bring them into the trade union move- men. ® Assure trade union democ- racy and the right of all unions, within the CCL, with full free- dom to determine their own poli- cies and leadership through their own membership. ; @ Demand government guar- antee of political, religious and civil rights for all Canadian work- ers through\ the adoption of a Canadian Bill of Rights by par- liament. ® Demand government action to protect Canadian jobs through expanding world trade. Demand that Canada take a Positive lead in calling a meeting of the great powers to negotiate differences, arrive at a peaceful settlement and assure the reductions of arm- aments.” The appeal ends by stating: “It is not too late! You, the working men and women, can still change the course now being followed by the COL leadership. You can ad- vance the struggle for labor unity by insisting that the delegates from your local union to the CCL convention demand the adoption of a program such as proposed by Rashin, north! Mine-Mill and UR.” \ U.S. provoking disrupt of Korean tru LPP leader The statement continues: g -“Cver 500 million people have dense that the U.S. Shvernik in the name of the So- viet Union—to sit down and_ ne- gotiate a five-power pact to outlaw war. The U.S. imperialists, hell- bent for atomic war, spurn the peace demands of the millions, reject the hand of peace and friend- ship extended by the Soviet ‘Union . and send bombing planes up to the very borders of the USSR. “On Saturday, gugust 25, the town of Rashin in North Korea was bombed by a mass flight of Yankee B-29's. This was deliber- ate provocation against the Soviet Union. It was part of one pat- tern with the repeated American bombing and strafing of the Kae- song ‘negotiation zone.’ } “On May 23, U.S. General Brad- ley told the U.S. senate: ‘The State department objected to the bomb- ing of Rashin because of its being 17 miles from the Russian border,’ On May 28, U.S. General Marshall backed Bradley’s opposition to bombing Rashin. . es “State Secretary Acheson testified to the Senate: ‘Rashin is not an important supply point.’ There is no direct railway line south from and no direct railway line U.S. government is deliberately provoking that by so doing it is gravely imperilling WwW? declares in a statement issued here this week. TORONTO the rid 1 : é t accept the offer made by P resident “Canadians must realize that the bombing of Rashin is a coldly-cal- culated war provocation on the part of the American government. “The Americans are now de- manding an armistice line north of the 38th parallel in Korea. But, on June 26, State Secretary Acheson told the Senate that cease-fire at the 88th parallel would be ‘a suc- cessful conclusion of the war.’ The New York Herald Tribune of Aug- ust 15 revealed that the U.S. gov- ernment decided to accept the 38th parallel as the cease-fire border at a White House conference attend- ed by Acheson, Generals Bradley and Marshall and the President. “Yankee imperialism is double-° crossing the peoples with its at- tempts to torpedo the proposal for cease-fire on the 38th. t “Because of mass world-wide de- ‘mand for peace in Korea the U.S. government was forced to — fire ‘Butcher’ MacArthur and to agree to take up the cease-fire proposal of Jacob Malik, the UN delegate of the Soviet Union. Today, the U.S. government is actually carrying through the universally condemn- ed MacArthur war plan—to prevent: e wat mon So- peace in Korea, to spread th to People’s China, to instigate strous provocations against the ips viet Union, the consistent and f°" most champion of peace. “Canadians from coast to coat must, by mass meetings, by 4 [5 gations to their MP’s, by dema? upon the St. Laurent governme”. _ protest and condemn this the imperialist double-cross of Korean cease-fire negotiations ES “Canada must never allow 2 self to-be dragged into \a imperialist war of aggres® against People’s China and Soviet Union, ‘ Bh “The Canadian governme?” | must be compelled to dissoc# Canada from Yankee policy | Korea and the Far East. Can@ must speak out for cease-fire ce Korea at the 38th parallel. ©# a ada must demand that our CO” adian boys be brought home fF Korez, immediately. \ ; nee “Cease-fire, peace in Korea }§ ae é to “ first step towards the securiné a Five Power Pact of Peace — outlaw war.” \ ; PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 7, 1951 — PAGE \ . ' on cetalks, declares “Canadians must awaken to the harsh truth that the disruption of the Korean. cease-fire negotiations; and peace,” Tim Buck, LPP national leader, jon i .