f ' * : Nae SUT ny HE TE TTT UE EEE EEE EU us UST as soon as his kangaroo court had Completed its missiom and handed ie ace seven-year sentences at hard »or to the leaders of the Kenya Afri- Union, 62-year-old Magistrate Rans- neg nacker departed secretly and hur- edly by plane for England. The eo had been saved (temporarily eee”) by a 58-day session of mum- aambo, and the white man’s “super- Over all other races once more ite in a Jimcrow court, strongly ; t0rced by police. clubs, bristling Yonets, and naked terror. 1 Jomo Kenyatta and five of his union €rs, all highly educated men (as - spivit ar understands education) were com off to one of Britain’s penal ‘ot pounds, while British troops, oper- : ‘ae from Nairobi, the Kenya capital, yt the forceful eviction of a whole Wation of people from the squalid towns into which the white man’s wes have forced the Africans — in terse Own, their native land. As the ad 1. Port puts it, “hundreds of police order ops swept into the area with ‘ts to evict everybody.” Thus, with hang torch, crudely erected gallows, ] Beare and hot lead, the white ig 1es hi -j B ; able) Biren, is self-imposed (and. profit Gnd Just down across the border in Me Africa, the pro-fascist govern- Was Of Prime Minister Daniel Malan Which US Te-established in an “election” ‘ a Wa acclaims “white superiority” as OMic Y-of-life,” by making social, econ- theig, 24 cultural segregation (apar- Neo. 2 binding law upon millions of S itis colored people; a vicious onan vesPired law, imposed by a mere a of “white supremacists.” thei; May the Malan racists “finger Brith Nose” at the hypocritical chides of Yes? ‘diplomats and United Nations’ Rove They have only to look at Master see a duplicate of their own ogi Trace” theories — being put and eg by the decrees of legal - ALs0 seg itary tribunals. And they can _ Reist the the Belgian Congo, their own the Bae es being translated into Worlg h vicious industrial slavery the 28S yet known. ony it is.the slave trade of the ches, under 20th century condi- «l€ap labor, dirt cheap, where he dom, hite” household can have all Own ee help it requires — at its e Ata Where every industrialist, Slorions foe can experience that: 8 vag 4 cCling of a capitalist heaven— : "eSources asure store of rich natural aes Coupled with a limitless sup- ‘ €ap indentured labor, which ; xploited, kicked, beaten and a Without redress or effective > whole And to the outside world, er the rotten business carried on christig ; pretext of “civilizing” and co vethe ep the “heathen.” Ports of \ Ske Sun, featuring the re- u *s columnist, Jack Scott, on the of that Shana elections, sees the future Sie as something of an “em- express to the Commonwealth, Tight 4, €s the editorial opinion that ua ernment nO great loss if the Malan | Wealth, I Pulled out of the Common- Teht ah n other words, let Malan go ploitation of the native people of South Africa, while we, Pilate-like, wash our hands of the whole affair and thus avoid the “embarrassment” of being party to the perpetuation of a slave empire. That, of course, won’t settle the prob- lem, nor excuse us from the “embaras- - sment” that will result from the civil strife that is bound to follow in the wake of Malan’s ‘apartheid.’ Nor will it save Africa for the white imperial- ists. When Jomo Kenyatta told that decrepit servant of “empire,” Ransley Thacker, “We don’t accept your find- ings,” he was speaking not only for the people of Kenya Colony, but for all the Negro and colored peoples of a great continent — a people stirring and awakened, moving to throw off the tyranny of foreign exploitation, degrada- tion, and racist savagery. ® Of course, as most intelligent people know, this racist disease of “white su- periority” is not an exclusive African phenomena. Like cancer, it penetrates our North American way-of-life in a thousand different forms, from the ex- treme violence of a Klu Klux Klan lynch mob, down to an ignorant police- man on the beat, who thinks it is his “duty” as a superior “white” to insult, — intimidate, threaten, and beat up peo- ple whose skins differ in color from his own. A recent edition of the San Francisco Chronicle carried a column-length story of a young Indian boy scout now on a world motor-bike tour. Mateti Narasimhan, “doing” America on his world “good will journey to carry the message of brotherhood and the greet- ings of India’s young people to other nations” gives some of his views on his U.S. stopover. “T have one main criticism of the United States,’ says Scout Narasimhan. “Tt is here that a dog is treated better than a colored man.” The “wildest” people he met on his world tour, says Narasimhan, were the tribal peoples of Afghanistan, “but they were also the _ kindest. It is highly deplorable that I met the most savage people here in America, a free land. I found trouble because I am dark . . . In any country in Asia, you can knock on any door. But in America — and in Europe as well — if you have no money you are a dead man.” Having prefaced his re- marks with his dislike of Communism, his. surprise at the curt orders of a Florida policeman “not to ask any ques- tions or I'll shut you up inside” merely emphasizes the scope of racial hatred and discrimination on our own conti- nent. Right- here in Vancouver we have ‘people in business, in the professions and public services, who pull a long face and hypocritically “deplore rac- ism,” whether in South Africa, the USA, or right here at home, but who, in their business and social activities, practice the most contemptible and underhanded forms of racial discrimination. Some of them loudly proclaim that their “best friends are Jews” and carry on a hate- ful anti-Semitism behind that noisy “democracy.” Others proclaim they have “nothimg against’ Negroes or Chinese “as long as they stay in their place” “their place” being of course to accept without complaint the . dubious “equality” handed out by these “superior whites.” Racism is like cancer, but much more deadly. While the latter kills a high ‘percentage because our resources and substance is squandered for purpose of war, the former kills nations, morally and spiritually. Racism is a_ slave doctrine, propagated to prolong indus- _ trial slavery and exploitation. | : —~ te = = “super race” ex- , ) Pacific TRIBUNE — Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone: MArine 5288 : Tom McEwen, Editor — Hal Griffin, Associate Editor me c Subscription Rates: _ \anada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia) One Year $3.00 Australia, United States One Year $4.00 . . Six Months $1.60 and all other countries Six Months $2.50 Authorize’ nted by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa The Clemens fight continues FLSEWHERE in this issue is the full report of the out-of-court settlement reached in the libel suit instituted against the Pacific Tribune by Constable Dan Brown of the Vancouver City Police arising out of stories published by this paper on the Negro longshoreman. ‘arrest and subsequent death in Vancouver General Hospital of Clarence Clemens, The overtures for an out-of-court settlement were initiated by Thomas C. Dohm, acting for Constable Brown, and were accepted by the Pacific Tribune as preferrable to the heavy legal expenses this paper would incur under even. the most favorable court award. ‘The Pacific Tribune did not and does not apologize to Constable Dan Brown. On the contrary, this paper considers that it upheld the high prin- ciples of true democracy and racial equality to which it stands pledged and perform- ed a public service by bringing the circumstances of the Clemens case out of the obscurity to which the Vancouver Police Commission would have consigned them and, as a result of popular protest, compelling the attention of the competent auth- orities. All that has been settled is the libel suit against the Pacific Tribune. The — Clemens case is not closed. The fight must continue to secure justice, to obtain a full governmental investigation into the death of this Negro worker and the dis- graceful methods and verdict of the coroner's inquiry. Attorney General Robert Bonner has assured the many trade unions and other’ organizations which have protested the verdict in the Clemens case that his depart- ment will inquire into all the circumstances. further delay. That inquiry must be held without The majority of Vancouver citizens are convinced that there is something very wrong with police administration and methods in this city. The number of deaths in Vancouver City Jail is the proof. And even the generous quantities of whitewash applied by the Vancouver Police Commission cannot conceal the corruption under- neath. A real examination of police methods (as the handpicked coroner's jury in the,Clemens case endeavored to justify them) can help to point up the needed reforms. Eisenhower's phoney peace overture PRESIDENT Eisenhower's “peace” blast has fizzled out. It could not do otherwise since its basic propositions are little better than a new insult, to the states it is addressed to and to the peace-loving people of every country. What prompted it is not hard to understand. The people of the entire world want peace above all else. To them the efforts of the socialist sector, and first and foremost the USSR, ap- pear as sincere and realizable. An ever- growing number of the American peo- ple share this view. Hence the panic of the dollar warmongers, the tremors in their shaky stock markets “and the “peace” blasts of their chief spokes- men. Consider Eisenhower’s propositions: -an “honorable armistice” in Korea to be followed by “free elections.” The napalm-germ traders speak of honor, conveniently forgetting the months they have spent thwarting the peace negotiations in Korea by every trick and suberfuge. They speak of free elections, obscuring the fact that the last “free elections” in South Korea (conducted in an atmosphere of re- pression) overwhelmingly repudiated their puppet, Syngman Rhee, who has been maintained in power by force of U.S. arms. Eisenhower demands an end to “Red Red herring wins GORDON C. Cushing, national secre- tary of the Trades and Labor Con- gress of Canada (TLC-AFL) hit the front pages of our local dailies last week in the best (or worst) style of. the notorious Yankee witch-hunter, Senator McCarthy. According to him, B.C. unions have become a veritable rendezvous for “Communists.” Cush- ing cited fishing, mining, power, ship- ping as key industries in which the unions having jurisdiction are “con- trolled’’ by Communists, As with all labor fakers, Cushing's principal activity is calculated to weak- en and divide the trade unions by his raising the insistent howl of “commun- ism.” The first concern of all these swivel-chair misleaders, doing a job for the U.S. State Department and the home-grown monopolists, is to spread suspicion across the paths by which ‘suspicious in the ranks of labor by trailing a stale red-herring across the paths by which labor can advance. aggression” in Indochina and Malaya. But again he ignores the facts, the shameful record of betrayal and broken promises, The people of Indochina who fought — and won — their strug- gle to oust the Japanese invaders ofi their country were promised their in- dependence by France. The peoples of Malaya fought the Japanese invad- ers not to restore Britain’s colonial power but to gain the independence they were led to believe would be recognized by Britain.. Both in Indo- china and Malaya the imperialists’ honeyed promises have turned to ashes — the ashes of bombed villages, mur- | Eisenhower — dered ‘patriots. What terms “Red aggression” is the’ patri- otic struggle of the peoples for nation- al independence. ; The “unification” of Germany is listed among Eisenhower's terms and the “‘liberation” of the peoples of East- ern Europe from socialism. And when all this has come about, then there is a five-point program for “‘disarma- ment,” designed to elevate Wall Street into the role of world policeman! As a practical approach to peace, Eisenhower’s blast is nothing more — than an arrogant new war provocation. As propaganda to confuse and divide the mighty world movement for peace it is a gigantic dud. no fish markets The wellbeing of union members, the growing mass unemployment, the vital issue of markets and peace, the attack on union rights contained in Bill 93, or the daily violations of hard- won union contracts by Yankee and native industrialists — all these prob- lems are of little or no concern to the Bengough-Cushing fakers. Their dom-— inant consideration is on the order of “rule or ruin” by imposing their dic- — tates upon union locals and member- ships, and when unsuccessful, by con- — juring up the “Red bogey.” Gordon Cushing's interference: in og the internal affairs of the unions he named is a piece of brazen imp ¢ and a fair sample of the McCarthy ideology which now dominates the thinking of TLC top brass. His “warn- ing” like his-anti nist “observ- ations” on Bill 93, will be rejected by ankee cold war tripe served up with sted Pe i PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 24, 1953 — PAGE. :