PREMIER NEHRU

Malan threatens UN

PREMIER MALAN

South Africa's pro-fascist
Premier Daniel Malan, striving
to prevent his government’s
treatment on Non-Europeans
from coming before the United
Nations, this week resorted. to
threats, accusing the Indian
government of Premier Jawa-
harlal Nehru of “interfering”
in South Africa’s internal af-
fairs.

Among those arrested by the
Malan government for defying
the racist “apartheid” laws are
some of South Africa’s most
prominent Indian leaders, in-
cluding Dr. Y. M. Dadoo, pres-
ident of the South African In-
dian Congress, and Nana Sita,
president of the Transvaal In-
dian Congress.

Death of Jack Butler

severs link with days

of pioneer

socialists

One of the few remaining links with Bill Bennett, E. T.
Kingsley and others of the socialist pioneers of this province has,

been snapped with the death of Jack. Butler.

An honored and

loved figure in the progressive labor movement here, the beteran
Communist died in Vancouver General Hospital on sSunday this
week, two weeks before his 74th birthday.

Born into a poor Irish working
class family in Belfast on October
24, 1878, reared, as he himself
was wont to remark ‘on a diet

-of potatoes and sour milk,” Jack
Butler started work when he was
11-years old. From the day he
left school in 1889, until he drew
his richly earned old age pension

he knew hard work and hardship,
lightened only by the comradeship
of the labor movement into which
his experiences led him in his
twenties.

In Ireland he worked as 4a
laborer. Then he turned to the
sea, and there were few of the
world’s great ports that he did
not know. He had sailed around
Cape Horn in windjammers and
followed the tall masts across the
Pacific to Sydney. >

Around the turn of the century
he came to Canada, working his
way across the country to Van-
ecouver. And here, in his barber

“shop in the basement of the
Ivanhoe Hotel, he met “Ol’ Bill’
Bennett, the great pioneer of the
British Columbia socialist move-
ment who died in 1949, and form-
ed what was to become a lifelong
friendship. *

In Vancouver too, Jack Butler
worked as a laborer, becoming an
active member of the Hod Carriers
and Builders Union.. He joined
the Socialist Party of Canada and
was one of those who fought for
a consistent socialist policy, fol-
ljowing the leadership of Bill
Bennett.

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Turning to the sea again, work-
ing as a fireman aboard freight-

‘ers out of Vancouver, he never-

theelss kept in close touch with
developments in the labor move-
ment here. His years of devoted
work embraced membership in
the Workers party, the old Com-
munist Party of Canada and, the
Labor-Progressive party.

Two years ago, at the age of
71, he earned national recognition
for his work in the peace move-
ment by collecting 1,000 sig-
natures to”the petition for a five-
power peace pact.

Equally, almost to the day of
his death, he was a consistent
supporter of the- labor press, as
he had been since Bill Bennett
gave him his first copies of the
Western Clarion and Federation-
ist, and the Pacific Tribune count-
ed him among its most devoted
workers,

Funeral services. will be held
from Clinton Hall this Saturday,
October 18, at 10 a.m.

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McCarran snoops draw blank
in attack upon Mine - Mill;
stool exposed as ‘damn liar’

‘

SALT LAKE CITY ~

‘ A veteran labor leader of the Mine. Mill and Smelter Workers Union took the witness sta
here before the Senate “internal security”: subcom mittee and angrily challenged the assertion any of 3
the union’s strikes were “Communist-dictated.” .

Orville Larson of Miami, Ariz, a Mine-Mill member for 17 years and now a vice president,

spelled out for the committee the
wages and conditions.

Harvey ‘Mutusow, a_ self-con-
fessed FBI spy and free-lance
writer, had told the committee a
lurid tale about how the strike
was some sort of a “Communist”
plot to cripple the Korean war
effort.

John Clark, the union’s presi-
dent, released the text of a state-
ment which the sub-committee
refused to let him read. |

“The first principle I learned
as a’ young trade unionist,”’ Clark
declared in the statement, “‘was
that no decent union man would

which seems to play the game of
stoolpigeon.’”’

Therefore, the said. he was ob.
liged “‘even as an innocent man
to. seek the protection which the
Fifth Amendment affords to all
people.”’ ;

Clark asserted Mine-Mill is
“easily the most democratic un-
ion on the North American con-
tinent.”

“In our union,’ he said, ‘‘we
never make judgments about a
man on the basis of his. skin
color, the church he attends, his
national origin, his political opin-
ions. Such questions are never
raised.

“There is no ‘test’ of ortho-
doxy for membership in Mine
Mill. We certainly do not tol-:

‘erate any ‘political tests’ such
as certain members of Congress
would like to impose on Am-
erican trade unions.”’ ;

Earlier, the four highly-rank-
ing officers of Mine Mill charged
that “the facts make a damned
liar’ out of Matusow.

Matusow had told the McCar
ran committee that he had at-
tended an alleged 1950 Commun-
ist party meeting in New Mexico,
at which international represen-
tative Clinton Jencks had alleged.
At this meeting,
he claimed, discussion allegedly
centred on “ways of hindering
the Korean war effort” by call-
ing a strike under the guise of
wage increases and working con-

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fact that the 1950 copper strike

was a plain and simple strike fot
a

ditions, but actually to cut down
production of copper for the war
effort in this area.

“In the first place, we had no
copper strikes; at all in New
Mexico during the whole year of
1950 and the first half of 1951,”
declared the union’s president
John Clark, vice presidents Or-
ville Larson and Charles Wilson
and secretary-treasurer M. HE.
Travis. -

“In the second place, if Matu-
sow had in mind the strike called
by our Bayard, New Mexico local
in October, 1950, he has his met-
als mixed. That strike was
against an Empire Zinc Company
property, which produces only
lead and zinc. And the strike
involved fewer than 90 workers,
so it‘hardly could be said to have
‘hindered the Korean war effort.’

“Finally, if Matusow had his
years mixed and really meant our
national copper strike in 1951,

‘he’s completely nuts. Our 10-day
strike was called in August, 1951
to uphold a settlement which }
been proposed by the U.S. 80¥
ernment, speaking through Cyrus
Ching, then director of the fed
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Service, after the ‘Big Four’ co!
porations had rejected. the BOG ‘
ernment’s proposal.

“The 1951 strike was called:
as eyery strike in the history of
this union has ben called, only
after a secret referendum vote 9
the entire membership. More
than 85 percent of the members
voted for the strike.”

“We call attention to the im
portant fact that these rigged
hearings have been going on fo?
three days, yet the committee has
been unable to dig up a single
rank and file member of Mine
Mill to testify against the unio?
and its democratically electeé
leadership,”’ the officers declared.

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