Harvey Murphy makes the appeal while Nigel Morgan throws another handful of bills on the growing pile at Tim Buck's great meeting at Exhibition Gardens last Sunday evening. Picture (right) shows Buck at the microphone. The crowd of 2,500 donated $1,326 in response to Murphy's call for “more dollars to meet the rising cost of propaganda for peace.” “The Truth About Korea.” LPP LEADER NAILS LIE USSR PREPARING FOR WAR Literature salesmen sold 880 copies of Buck's pamphlet, ar against poverty ily ie IG il mal] : aun, ee ae auereraceeninll idiit | / MM i oe TE : HENS NaasvessodthFtvesetliuveente Htintneininlllhe Friday, September 29, 1950 Civic Workers demand Congress respect rights te tt ee Viet Nam successes alarm French gov,{ Continuing successes of the Viet. Nam People’s Army, cul- minating im fall of the French fortres of Donghkee are alarm- ing the French government and army chiefs. French observers note that the Viet Minh troops are now fully trained and armed with modern weapons, includig artillery. They concede that present Viet Minh attacks made mark the beginning of the an- ticipated. “general counter of- fensive. PCL only war Canada should be in, says Buck “The only war Canada should engage in is the war agaist poverty, the war against insecurity, the war against the war- mongers who would destroy the peace.” Stormy applause. from some 2500 people who turned out on a wet night to hear him greeted when he concluded a fighting plea for peace. : When the LPP national leader last spoke in Vancouver, in March 1948, the corrupt Chiang Kai-shek regime still held sway over the greater part of China, and the US. had not yet succeeded in firing the powder trains of the “cold war” to explode in bloody conflict in ~ Korea. Tim Buck had harsh things to say of Canada’s role in Asia, which did not sit well with the editorial writers for Vancouver daily papers, one of whom, in the Van- couver Sun of September 27, sne€r- ed that even Tim Buck “has drop- ped the hopeless task of trying to tell Canada that the South Kor- @ans attacked the North.” _ But at the meeting last Sunday, Buck brushed aside as “sheer propaganda” the pretense that U.S. and other forces in Korea “are helping the people of South Korea against North Korea.” He declared: “Even the daily Press has been forced to admit that the overwhelming majority of ° Koreans—South as well as North —are opposing American interven- tion.” The St. Laurent government, Buck charged, had put Canada in the position of having declared war without stating which coun- try we are at war against. “Which side should Canada be on—the side of American imper- ialism or the side of the Korean people? Not one MP asked this question, the real question for the Canadian people, at the recent ses- sion,” he declared. - What the people of Asia wanted, he continued, was fulfilment of the promises made in the Cairo and Yalta agreements—freedom for their countries, independence and self-government for Malaya, Tim Buck at Exhibition Gardens here last Sunday speech with this impassioned Burma, Indochina, the Philippines. “The peoples of Asia cannot achieve independence except through people's governments,’ Buck stated. “But do these gov- ernments mean less democracy? Would the Chinese people fight as they have if the new people’s government meant less democracy than they had under Chiang Hai- shek or the Korean people be so united if the people’s. government meant less democracy than they had under Syngman Rhee? To ask this question was to ar- rive at an obvious conclusion, said Buck, stating: “The new peaple’s governments are giving the people democracy such as they have never known before. '“ The most President Truman can accomplish even if he suc- ceeds in cenquering Korea is to make the U.S. the country most hated by all Asia. Even Nehru cannot support Truman in Asia. And the fact that Truman is making the UN the instrument of the U.S. in Asia weakens, not strengthens, world peace. If Canada shares in this policy then we too will earn the hatred and not the friendship of the peoples of Asia.” Reporting on his visit to Eur- Ope earlier this year, Buck told his audience: . “IT have seen what the people’s governments are doing for the peoples of Europe. Their policies are not dictated by the multi- millionaires. They are determin- ed solely by the people’s interests.” The LPP leader related how he had gone to some trouble to obtain an interview with the Czechoslovakian minister of for- eign trade because he wanted to discuss the possibilities of re-es- tablishing Czech-Canadian trade. But, he said, the minister told him not to lay too much stress on this “because our government has spent three years trying to per- suade your government to make such trade possible and we have got nowhere.” Canada , under U.S. domina- tion, did not want trade with the people’s democracies, even though they provided markets which might keep Canadian industries humming with peace- ful production. So, Buck contin- ued, the people’s democracies were developing their own pat- tern of trade among themselves and building new industries to produce the things Canada re-- fuses to sell them, (Telling of reconstruction in Europe, Buck contrasted the ex- tensive destruction still visible in Britain and France with the pro- gram of reconstruction being undertaken in Poland and others of the people’s democracies. “During the blitz, German bomb- ers levelled all the buildings for a block around St. Paul’s cathedral in London. The area has not been rebuilt. But they serve tea to the American tourists who come to see the ruins,” he said. He found the British people in- creasingly fearful of war and bit- terly resentful of the fact that the 'U.S., with big bomber bases, was transfarming their island into “an unsinkable aircraft car- rier.” “As one man said to me, ‘The Yankees won't listen to us and the Russians won’t believe we haven’t anything to do with it,’ he con- cluded. The huge sums the British and French governments might spend on reconstruction were going for war purposes, Buck said, remark- ing that it was only when he reached Czechoslovakia that he saw what might be done. “In Czechoslovakia and. the other people’s democracies a trans- formation is being worked,’ he ‘ said, “New industries—entire new -towns—are being built. The ruins are still there, as in Warsaw, for it will take many years to obliter- ate such destruction as the Ger- mans left behind, but they are dis. appearing in the surge of new building.” Buck saw in the reconstruction and new construction projects of the peopnle’s democracies and the USSR refutation of the “ab- solute lie’ that they were pre- paring for war. “You only have to see these immense projects, many of them long-range undertakings. which will take years to complete, to realize that the peoples of the USSR and the new democracies are working earnestly, with all the power of their hands and hearts, for peace.” he declared. He spoke of huge new hydro- electric projects, of rivers being changed in their courses to trans- form deserts into fertile lands where the new seven-eared “branched wheat” and gelf-colored cotton —“real socialist achieve- ments’—might be grown, and re- peated for his audience a question which had been put to him by a woman worker in the Soviet Un- ion: “Are we rebuilding our homes, our farms, our cities, destroyed by the Germans, only to have them destroyed by another enemy?” Buck’s reference to the desire of the people everywhere in Eur ope for peace—“in the east work- ing and building for it, in the west longing and fighting for it” —drew tumultuous applause. The meeting unanimously en- dorsed the Stockholm Appeal after Buck had concluded his Speech with a reference to the forthcoming World Peace Con- gress at which, he believed, there would probably be 500 million signatures—“‘one quar. ter of all mankind united in the fight against the warmongers.” PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 29, 1950-PAGE ¥ “We do hereby demand that the Trades and Labor Congress of — Canada recognize the right of all affiliated unions to elect their delegates and officers in accord- ance with their constitutions.” A petition, addressed to the executive council of the TLC and containing this one demand, is be- ing circulated on every job by Vancouver Civic Employees Un- ion, Local 28, whose two delegates to the recent Congress conven- tion in Montreal were excluded by an executive ruling. Meeting in Pender Auditorium last Sunday, civic workers voted by an overwhelming majority to protest the arbitrary action of the TLC executive. The petition campaign is a follow-up move, in a campaign to restore democratic rights to all trade unions. A letter is being sent to every AFL and TLC union in British Columbia, asking endorsation of the protest of ‘local 28 and sup- port of the civic workers in their fight for trade union democracy. “We do not regard it as a per- sonal matter that we were locked out as delegates,” said union busi- ness agent Donald Guise and sec- retary Jock Phillips. ‘It was our union that was locked out. We freely applied for our present charter in 1917 and we have been in good standing and paid all our per capita tax for over 30 years. This is the first time the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada has presumed to tell us who .wé can elect as our representatives. “Last Sunday’s meeting proves that the membership of our local are not in favor of such _ high- handed and unconstitutional actions. Our fight is not merely 2 fight for inner trade union dem- ocracy in local 28. It is a fight for democracy in the Canadian trade union movement.” PEACE PACT The’ General Assembly at the same time declares that the gov- ernment that first uses atomic weapons or any other means of mass annihilation of people against any country commits crime against mankind and will be regarded as a war criminal. 38. The General Assembly pro- ceeding from necessity to consoli- date peace and considering P@! ticular responsibility of the Pel manent members of the security ‘Council in securing peace expres Ses unanimously its desire: (a) That the United States of America, Great Britain, France — China and the Soviet Union unit® - their peaceful efforts and conclude among themselves a pact for th® consolidation of peace; (b) That these great powers duce their present armed force® (ground forces, military aviation? of all services, naval forces) i2 the course of 1950 by one third their effectives and submit ques tion of further reduction of arm® forces for examination at one ° the earliest sessions of the Gen eral Asembly. ; re-