TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA et Bilas Business Manager. ge & Published weekly by the Tribune Publishing Company Ltd. at Room 6, 426 oS Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. - MArine 5288 Canada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia), 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.60. Australia, U.S., and all other countries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50. Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Comment Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa ene TOM ALSBURY, president of the Van- Couver Trades and Labor Council (TLC-AFL) who requires an extra union “ard to sit in the TLC, has been appoint- €d to represent the Trades and Labor mgress as its only fraternal delegate at the forthcoming convention of the British Trades Union Congress in Bright- °n, England, September 6-10. In our young days fraternal delegates {2 Such congresses used to be“ elected their fellow unionists in convention asembled. “Appointments” now seem ¥ take the place of these old-fashioned ages, probably in order to make doub- Y Sure that labor is fully misrepresented. Be that as it may, it appears from local Press reports that CCF’er Tom Alsbury 'S Preparing himself a busy itinerary. ‘While over in Old Blighty, a highly com- Rendable objective to say the least. Not Satisfied with this however, Tom has “thounced the kind of speech he is. g0- to make to those trade union blokes : Brighton. “In my speech at the con- fence | intend to say what | think about trade union and international "Ssves whether delegates like it or not!” eet Sounds ominous—and truly Als- an. In our recollection if there was 4nything Grandmother hated worse than ae, reminded of her venerable old s&, it was some young whipper-snapper “oming back to the family roost and Presuming to instruct her on how to Suck eggs, wy nnowing Tom’s anti-Communist phobia Which clings to him like burrs on a ep dog, we can almost anticipate his nee h from this distance.. The menace city ommunism . . . how it stalks on the ae dump, on the hustings, in the union, lino Where, sleeping and waking. Krem- f Plots to take over unions that’ re- to be wrecked; plots that even ac- “Use his. own provincial CCF) with hav- » Teady to. reach for the Alsburian and reducing his vote for CCF ent to the level of its own. Communist ‘plots and machinations ae to regale Britain’s labor peers— en leave its millionfold rank-and-file Oking on their pint of “alf-and-alf Ey “ they are relieved by the next order Scalp, Presid nomy, Bus. Projected Alsbury oration to the oritish Trade Union Congress along ame another hair-raising story from Ot- vn’, John Blackmore, Social Credit ‘in 20% Lethbridge, Alberta, wants to NOW from Justice Minister Stuart Gar- ‘nn Just what sécurity measures are be- we taken to stop “90,000 Communists in Mtish Columbia from taking over: in citing the U.S.provoked disturbances inequatemala, Blackmore said “he imag- ded the Communists had all that plan- are five years ago, and I just hope they adgnet Planning British Columbia next, ‘ling as a sort of Mephistophelian “ting that “the Communists certainly bi ve the stage all set for British Colum- Mareh» and they’ré probably all on the a Vouldn’t that yarn of Social Creditor the Kmore’s of “90,000 Communists on Alshereh” in B.G.\recited with full Cong w#2 gusto before. the Brighton Won knock the boys fora loop?” It ahada 4 a.sensation. It would also put Of a bani the forefront as an exporter a sq, Tand of “humor” which is already °ss leader” in Old Blighty, mainly “use the than they Reed of it y have much more “©, More than 50 ex-communists in its ~ Usiness—how to break the Yankee-- Urchill-Attlee stranglehold on Britain’s _ gust when we were recovering from . HE United States has won a a cowardly victory over Guate- mala, resembling Hitler’s coward: ly victory over Austria and Czechoslovakia. 7 Tt has also demonstrated to the world that the United States has no use for the Ge Nations ex: a pliant tool for its impert ae ore Whenever the Charter of the United Nations conflicts with U.S. purposes, it is calmly disregarded. : “The whole disgusting business is. accompanied by the usual nauseating hypocrisy which hangs like a foul smell over all US. itics. ae the very moment that the democratically elected president of Guatemala was being forced to resign, the president of the Unit ed States was signing a declara- tion of peneipirs which, among hings, said: oe ane the principle of self-government and will earnest- ly strive by every peaceful nea to secure the independence of a countries whose people desire and ‘are capable of sustaining an in dependent existence.” i This was subscribed to within hours of U.Smade napalm ae dropped by US--financed mercenaries from -USS.- made planes on the civil population of la. Cae course of this black- dly attack on the Guatemalan ae however, the United States administration proclaimed that no people in the ee isphere has any right be a government which the Unit: ed States dislikes. - This took the form of intimat- ing that no Communist govern: ment would be tolerated in the Western hemisphere. It does not matter to the Un- ited States whether the govern: ment is freely elected by the peo- ple or not. If the U.S. bosses say that’ it is a Communist gow f coward's victory ernment, it is a proper object for hostility and can be destroyed forthwith. In point of fact, the political parties which ruled Guatemala were parties of capitalist reform. ‘Their program aimed at eliminat- ing the half-feudal conditions on the land and at reducing the pow- er of the big U.S. monopolies, So, in future, any reforming government in the Western hemi- ‘sphere which the U.S. does’ not like, may be smeared as Commun- ist and overthrown. This, of course, is in clear violation of the Charter of the United Nations. The United States claims, however, that the UN Security Council has no right to investigate the warmongering of the U.S. and its stooges in the Western hemisphere. 5 The US. claims the right to intervene anywhere in the world. It has a chain of air bases circling from Iceland, through Britain, Spain, North Africa, Greece, Turkey, Pakistan, Siam, the Phil- ippines, Formosa to Japan. Fortunately the great revolu- tion against feudalism and foreign oppression which is taking place in Central America, as elsewhere, can only be halted temporarily by the bribed ruffians of the Un- ited States. The people in South and Central America will find means of resuming their march to freedom. ae So now it should be evident to all the world that by freedom and democracy the U.S. rulers . mean the bullying of lesser states ' to do the will of the U.S. generals and millionaires. That is the policy they are applying in Europe, Asia and Africa as well as America. For that reason U.S. im perialism today is a threat to the independence of all peoples and to the peace of the world. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 9, 1954 — PAGE 5 Hal Griffin [" is 20 years since I had by-first glimpse of Guatemala, and it was no more than that, at San Jose. But when you know something of a people’s story a glimpse can tell you a great deal. I did not have .to be told that the United Fruit Company virtually owned Guatemala and that what it did not own outright it controlled. The big swarthy man who sat at my table on the boat going down to Panama and drank too much and talked too much boasted about that. Sure, Guatemala was a “banana re- public.” If it weren’t for American en- terprise and the United Fruit Company, the country would collapse. ,And that went for most of these countries. You had no idea of the ignorance and ‘illiter- acy of these people. When you did try to educate them they got too smart for their own good and went around trying to upset the government. Hell, they couldn’t run anything themselves. The big man talked plausibly of his ex- periences in Guatemala and other coun- tries and his failure to convince me must have irked him. When we went ashore at San Jose he made a point of introduc- - ing me to the man who met him, a smil- ing, impeceably dressed individual who said he had heard I was a newspaper- man and would be glad to show me around. I know what that meant—a few drinks at the club, a few introductions to peo- ple who could’ tell me all ‘about the country and I would leave convinced that their impressions were my own without haying seen anything. They were quite disappointed when I refused. My lasting impression of San Jose was one of utter poverty. There was no con- trast, as for instance, in Panama, be- tween the trim, red-tiled villas, the lux- uriant gardens and well-kept streets of Barboa and the dust and sqalor of Panama City. Here, in San Jose, there was only.dust and squalor, stark and un- relieved as the harsh sunlight itself. ; As the big man had said, you had no idea what the United Fruit Company had done for Guatemala. -The people were unable to do anything for themselves. But the people of Guatemala did do something for themselves. Despite ali the intrigues of the United Fruit Com- pany and its natural allies among the big landowners, they threw’ the cor- rupt Ubico regime and installed a re- form government. a: Bod boa Now, and precisely because the U.S. considered what the Guatemalan people were doing for themselves too dangerous an example to the other peoples of Latin America, the old regime has been reim- posed. upon Guatemala—the old regime with new faces. AE : As US. Major General Smedley D. Butler once said of himself: *“. ..I helped make Mexico and especi- ally Tampico safe for American oil in- terests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a:decent place for the National, City Bank to collect revenues in... I helped purify Nicaragua for the inter- national banking house of Brown Broth- ers in 1909-12. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Hon- duras ‘right’ for American fruit com- panies in 1903... .” Guatemala has been made safe again for the United Fruit Company. But for how long? The flame of independence does not burn less fiercely in British Guiana because it has been suppressed. Nor, fed by the memory of a decade of national achievement, will it burn less fiercely in Guatemala.