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This little coal mining center
‘ie the outskirts .of Nanaimo,
has an enviable record in la-
bor history: More than once
in the past 50 years its mining
population, men. women and

Coal center signs up
97 percent for peace

Ninety-seven percent of its
entire population signed ‘the
Stockholm peace petition for
banning of the atom bomb and
branding the first country to
use it a war criminal.

“Extension is’ only a small

place, and maybe not so im- |,

ed up for peace the same way,
act went be so important
there’d be no question about
peace.”

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2 Withdraw foreign

troops from Korea,
city rally demands

Withdrawl of all foreign troops from Korea and adoption by Canada of the “Nehru

plan”

for settlement of the Korean crisis

were unanimously adopted at a rally held last

Sunday on Powell Street Grounds here, at which William Kardash, LPP MLA for Win-
nipeg North, contrasted the aid given to Manitoba flood victims by the federal govern-
ment with huge military expenditures,

Addressing the rally which was
attended by some 700 people, Kar-
dash, .a Spanish war veteran,
warmly thanked Vancouver citi-
zens for their splendid aid to
Manitoba flood victims, stating;

“Your aid was very welcome be-
cause the government will not
compensate the people for loss
of personal property or income
Consequently, while thousands
are moved back in their homes,
the loss of everything that makes
up a home is tremendous.”

“The federal government only
made a grant of 12 million dol-
lars,” said Kardash, “little more
than the price of one of the new
super war planes now being built.
This, in spite of the fact that
scores of Manitoba municipalities
will have no crop revenues this
year.” Kardash also pointed out
that the Manitoba joint federal-
provincial dyking commission has
thrown the cost of adequate dyk-
ing back onto the municipalities,

“We have unlimited money for
war purposes, for construction of
costly engines of death and de-
struction,” stated Kardash, “but
no money for the pressing eco-
nomic and social needs of the
people.” .

Kardash made a strong plea to
his hearers to help stop the im-
perialist aggression in Korea and

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elsewhere, and thus head off plans
to develop the Korean crisis into
full-scale world war. “This can
best be done at the moment,”
said Kardash, “by adding new
thousands of names to the Stock-
holm peace appeal,”

Nigel Morgan, LPP, provincial
leader,
halting imperialist aggression in
Korea which were unanimously

submitted proposals for’

endorsed by the meeting. These in-
cluded an intensified campaign for
thousands of signatures weekly
for the Stockholm peace petition,
seating of the true representa-
tives of People’s China in the
UN; immediate withdrawal of all
foreign troops from the Korean
war theaters and adoption by Can-
ada of the “Nehru plan” for set-
tlement of the Korean crisis.

Rail unions set
strike deadline

Canadian -
August 22, as

Tague workers have set 6. a.m. Tuesday,
ne deadline for strike action unless the Rail-

‘way Association concedes the major portion of their 1950

wage and other demands.

All unions affected have turned
in an overwhelming strike vote
in reply to offers handed down
by their respective conciliation
boards,

Rail -workers are demanding
a uniform 40-hour week in place
of the present 48 hours, with no
reduction in take-home-pay; a
wage increase ranging from 7 to
10 cents an hour, and checkoff of
union dues,

Rail workers are still resentful
over the 17 cents accepted by
Frank Hall, chairman of the AFL
unions’ negotiating committee in
1948, when they backed their de-
mand for 25 cents with a strong
strike vote, and they are in no
mood to accept the “compromise”
already offered of a 44-hour in-
stead of a 40-hour week, nor to
scale down their wage demands.

PEACE MOVES BLOCKED IN UN

By

victory for imperialist reaction in the Security Council of the
United Nations ori Tuesday, August 1. Mobilizing the repre-
_ sentatives of its dependent governments it defeated, by a

_ vote of 8 to 3, the ruling of President Jacob Malik that the

‘representative of the discredited Kuomintang clique had no
right to occupy the permanent seat assigned'to the govern-

ment of China.

United States: move to reject that
ruling.

The character. of that vote is

illustrated. by the fact that two- of.

_ them, the governments of Britain
and Norway, have withdrawn re-
cognition from Chiang Kai-shek
and the Kuomintang clique; and
have officially recognized the Peo-
ple’s government’as the sole gov-
ernment of China. The fact that
they continue to vote in favor of
_ recognizing the representative of
_ Chiang Kai-shek :as the represen-
tative of China .on the Security
Council illustrates the depths to
which Marshall Plan dollars and

- “umity against the advance of so-

cialism” has brought the “honor”
of the capitalist countries. That

depth was emphasized by the unc-/

tuous hypocrisy of the British de-
legate. He “emphasized” he was
_ voting for the United States pro-
‘posal because he did not approve
of “parliamentary. trickery”. The
real parliamentary trickery was
practiced by himself and Warren
-_—— against the Chinese peo-

An the enormous resources of
the capitalist press and radio were
: concentrated during Tuesday and

Seven governments, through their represen-
tatives, obediently supported the |

Wednesday in a propaganda drive
to delude the people of the United
States and Canada into believing
the U.S. had achieved a great vic-
tory for democracy. There is no
doubt but that a very large num-
ber of democratic people were vic-
tims of the hoax. But while U.S.
distortion of the issue in the UN,
British “explanation” as to why the
representative of the United King-
dom supports the 'U.S. position, and
“the barrage of press and radio
misrepresentation, may succeed
temporarily. in confusing public
opinion, it does not and cannot af-
fect the fundamental fact — which
must eventually be decisive.

The fundamental fact is that the
people of China. constitute more

than a fifth of all mankind and
the seat reserved for China is the
one permanent seat assigned to an
Asiatic people who, combined, con-
stitute half of all the people of the
world. Without them the U.N. is
not and cannot be a world orga-
nization. The only government
that represents China today is the
People’s government. The key to
& peaceful settlement of the con-

flict in Korea is the seating of that
government’s representative. Ev-

TIM BUCK ,
Without Asia the UN is not a
world organization.

ery day that the Truman adminis-
tration insists upon excluding that
government, it is contravening
a specific provision of the United
Nations charter and rendering il-
legal every so-called “decision”
made at Warren Austin’s behest.

The “victory” achieved by
Warren Austin and his dutiful
supporters August 1, had one thing
in common with the “achievement”
of President Truman when he gave
the official order to launch U.S.
armed aggression against Korea,
against People’s China, Viet Nam,
ete, on June 27. The real “ach-

ievement” in each case was only

_ Used as rubber stamp | o okay aggression

TIM BUCK

The Truman administration achieved another pytrhic }

to push further the process by
which the Truman administration
is transforming the “United. Na-
tions” from a world association of
states into an organizational cen-
ter for the U.S. and the govern-
ments associated with it in imper-
ialist war against the spread of

‘| socialism and against the strivings

for national independence of the

1,000 million people of Asia.

The extent to which that reck-
less process has been carried al-
ready is illustrated by the fact that
among the seven governments
which voted against president Ma-
lik’s ruling August 1, not one re-
presented a nation or country
of Asia. /The representative of
Chiang Kai-shek did not represent
China — nor eyen the people of
the island of Formosa. Those'sev-
eh governments which so obedient-
ly voted for the stupid but dan-
serous reactionary proposals of the
U.S. represent countries which have
a combined population of less than
300 million people and they mis-
used their parliamentary majority
in the council to make of the Unit-
ed Nations an instrument hostile
to the peoples of Asia — half of
all the people of the world. It is
inevitable that such “victories”
should be pyrrhie victories, Half
of all mankind js not going to
permit a continuation of their na-
tional servitude to be maintained
by parliamentary trickery.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—AUGUST 4, 1950—PAGE 12

In the meantime, the struggle
to re-establish the legality of the
Security Council by seating the
People’s government of China, to
stop the spread of war by ending
U.S. intervention in Korea, to out-
law the atomic bomb and commit
all govdrnments to the position
that the government which first
uses it will be branded a war cri-
minal, goes on, It goes on in
every mine, mill and factory, in
every place of work, in every
méeting and on the street, as well
as in the Security. Council,

The Sop in the Security Council
on August 1, is a warning to all
democratic’ people that much
stronger efforts must be made if 4
third world war is to be prevented-
Even as this is written, press re-
ports announce that the St. Laur-
ent government may yield to U.S.
pressure and the pro-fascist dema-
S0gy of Prime Minister Menzies of
Australia and turn its back upoD —
its public assurance that no Cana
dian ground forces will be sent to
Korea. The reaction of all defen-
ders of peace and of the Charter
of the United Nations to the AU-
Sust 1 vote in the Security Coun-
cil must be to press the fight for —
peace to still wider circles and still
higher. levels:

@ No Canadian ground forces
to Korea; call back the Cana- |
dian destroyers: and planes
now there!

© Re-establish the legality of the

Security Council. Seat Eeens
China,

@ Don’t let the War in Korea
Become a Third World War!
Stop U.S. Intervention Now.