CF journal attacks
U.S. war aims in Korea;

Strong criticism of U.S. policy in Korea is express-
ed in the editorial columns of the current Saskatche-
wan Commonwealth, organ of the Saskatchewan sec-
tion of the CCF. Making if clear that his quarrel is
with the “iron fist of monopoly capitalism which seems

to direct the major policies of that
country” and not the people of the
U.S., the editor says:

“The daily press reports of what
goes on in Korea have appeared to
be censored, twisted, contradictory
and confusing. One day we are
told that the Communist protests
concerning UN violations of the
peace-talks-neutrality zone are not
worthy of further reply. Next
day we find that the UN command
has admitted two violations, at-
tributed to accidents. ...

“Once upon a time we were giv-
en to understand that the.!United
Nations forces were carrying out
a police action. They were going
to throw the North Korean forces
back north of the 38th parallel,
and make sure that they stayed
there. But that objective seems to
have been achieved some time ago.
Whether or not that was the prop-
er objective was a matter of argu-
ment among the top brass when
MacArthur was in command. But
we thought ‘the question had been
settled when MacArthur was fired.

“Now, however, we find that our
United Nations objective is some-
thing more than the 38th parallel.
It now includes a substantial piece
of North Korean territory. What
is most disturbing about it is that
it is reported that John Small,
chairman of the U.S. Munitions
Board told a group of Congres-
sional leaders that, ‘Retention of
our present position in Korea is
not only important from a military
point of view but it is vital for
our defense program. Ninety per-

cent of the tungsten reserves out-|

side China are located in the area
now held by U.S. forces north of
the 38th parallel. It is of utmost
importance that we retain control
of this sector in order to obtain
the rich tungsten supplies that
abound there.’

“Canadians as members of that
‘United Nations Organization, have
a@ right to know whether or~-not
this report is correct, and what our
real and definite objectives are,
The type of thinking which would
lead any group of nations to seize
territory on the grounds that it
contains necessary, -war material
would lead to nothing but world
disaster.” ; :

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TORONTO
. A three-way conference between
United Electrical Radio and Ma-
chine Workers (UE), International
Union of Mine Mill and Smelter

’ Workers and the International Fur

and Leather Workers Union was
urged at the 15th annual conven-
tion of the Canadian District UE
meeting here by guest speaker Nels
Thibault.

Thibault, who is president of the
big Sudbury Inco local of Mine-
Mill, projected the idea of a three-
way conference between the three
unions for the purpose of issuing
a joint call to all organized work-
ers in Canada around the issue of
a program of action to ‘restore
Canadian living standards.

The opening session: of the SE
convention heard the 130 delegates
representing 26 locals in Ontario
and Quebec go on record in favor
of the following’ program: “Wage
increases which will restore and

substantially improve living stan-|

dards are to be the target in
contract negotiations of all locals
of the UE.”

The delegates emphasized: ‘This
convention categorically rejects
the position that our menibers
must accept reductions on our liv-
ing standards. Corporation profits
stand at an all-time high and
continue to soar; productivity of
labor per man hour has reached
unprecedented proportions; the
economy of our government places
greater and greater taxes on the
backs of our working class.

“We say we will not accept this
reduced purchasing power now .be-
ing imposed upon us.”

The UE in Canada now has al-
most 27,000 members under con-
tract, about double the size of five
years ago, the convention was in-
formed by Organizing Director
Ross Russell. Me

District President C. S. Jackson
presided at the four-day gather-
ing, assisted by vice-president Jean
Pare.

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Maclean’s airs scandal

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ion of how news from Korea is

suppressed and distorted is provided in an editorial
appearing in the current issue of Maclean’s Magazine

reveals how daily press and radio

reports are manipulated to sway public opinion.

Maclean’s complains that censor-
ship kept the “events of March 17”
from the public for more than five
months and that the “full story
is only imperfectly known and at
this writing has not appeared fully
‘in any publication.” ‘

The events of March 17 referred
to, its transpires, are the facts that
that day, “four Canadian soldiers
went blind and died from drinking
a mixture of fruit juice, canned
heat and shoe polish. Five more
were sent to hospital. On _ the
same day a group of Canadians
and British attempted to rape a
Korean woman. Beaten off, they
killed three Koreans with a gren-
ade and wounded four others.”

The editorial points out that Bill
Boss, Canadian Press ‘correspon-
dent, pieced together the story on
March 27.° “Boss filed this story
in the normal way. It never reach-
ed his head office.’ j

“Instead,” the editorial continues,
“the correspondent was subjected
to a campaign of vilification from
United Nations public relations of-
ficers. He was called ‘subversive’
and an abortive attempt was made
to oust, him from the Korean
theatre. +

“The fate of his actual story is
even more peculiar. The chief
censor in Korea cleared it for tac-
tical information but passed it to
GHQ, Tokyo, for reference to the
Canadian Army for ‘public clear-
ance,’ (The fact that there is
censorship in the Far East — in
Korea and Tokyo—is not generally
known: because references to it
have themselves, sometimes been
censored.) In Tokyo the document
was referred to the Canadian
Army public relations officer, a
man with no training or respon-
sibility for censorship. He refused
to have anything to do with it and
the copy was sent on to Army
GHQ. There it reposes.”

Referring to the canned heat
deaths, Maclean’s says: ¢

sk ee . Canadians first learned
of them in a brief reference in a
U.S. newsMagazine in September.
Again, here~ was important. infor-
mation to which the public was en-
titled. Some of the men involved
had civilian records as rubbing-
alcohol addicts and the public had
a right to know that they had
been passed as medically fit by
army doctors during the hasty re-
cruiting campaign of a year ago.
“The final irony was to see three
of them welcomed as near-heroes

summer to Canada.”

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Abbott assailed

Montreal Trades and Labor
Council has unanimously adopted
a resolution calling for “reim-
position of nrice controls and
100 percent taxation of excess
profits.” ’

Council blasted Finance Min-
ister Abbott’s recent statement
that “Canadians will have to
accept a lower standard of liv-
‘ing if they wish to preserve their
liberty.”

Abbott’s proposal to meet ris-
ing prices by “increasing produc-
tion and raising taxes” was
roundly... comdemned. “We are
not able to understand,” said the
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duction. Certainly it can’t be
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ing industries, since these indus-
tries already suffer from seasonal
unemployment that is twice as
long as usual.”

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Silby Barrett
asks special
CCL parley —

Silby Barrett, Canadian director
of the powerful United Mine
Workers of America, is calling for
a special convention of the Can- —
adian »Congress of Labor to deal
with the “internal chaos” arising
from the resignation of secretary
Pat Conroy in the dying hours of
the recent CCL convention in Van-
couver.

Barrett has sent out copies of a
resolution to all District 50 UMW
locals, reading: :

“Whereas the membership of
Local Union —— being members
of the Canadian Congress of Labor,
through District 50, United Mine ;
Workers of America, have learned
from the press and radio of the we
serious and harmful disturbance5
within the Congress which culmi-
nated in the sudden resignation —
of Brother ‘Pat , Conroy,

“Therefore be it resolved that —
we request the holding of a special
convention at as early a date aS
possible so that the assembled dele-
gates shall taks such steps as are
justified in their opinion to re :
establish order based on sound
trade union principles so that the =
present internal chaos arising from
the clash of personalities shall not
be permitted to continue for such
a long time until the date of the
holding of the next annual] con-
vention.” ws

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forwarded a copy of the resolU-
tion to CCL president A. R. Mo- 7
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sessions of the CCL convention, —

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