... AND NOW- - TEDL REE U'S. engineered military dictatorship in S. Korea a By BERT WHYTE Pacific Tribune Correspondent tion PEKING—The overthrow of the Chang administra- In South Korea was “a military fascist coup stage- Pig by U.S. imperialism,” says Renmin Ribao, central 8an of the Communist Party of China. ne wetibing the sufferings of! to military fascist rule. This munist .contribution to that ha oth Korean people under|py no means indicates its the hee and Chang. cliques, tide Paper declared the rising ia the people’s wrath _ the U.S. to engineer la Soup, “The ~U:S. © has‘ at tr S$ . t discarded all. democratic *Tappin prised e South Korea in an attempt , nate itself from a situation lary 1S daily becoming more Ming,” said Renmin Ribao. ‘Ws Dieq: (x : §s to set up an undis- imperialism. has occu- “0uth Korea for 16 years t -€Stablished there an .ex- Teme] Teg; “Y reactionary and -dark People have ice thousands of y lack, HS: baat Symgman’ Rhee .and South ‘Myun, but the heroie Korean people have re- US. 5 Unconquered... Now ~ ‘MPerialism has resorted Military fascist regime) “have ‘been slaughtered | imperialism: and. its’ | strength, the contrary, it shows |precisely ,its weakness and | bears witness to the utter ‘bankruptcy. of its aggressive | policy towards South Korea: | The paper gives a detailed i report of a mass rally of 200,- 000 people in Pyongyang, -cap- ital of North Korea, protesting against this new U.S. crime. An editorial in the Korean paper Roddong Shinsoon en- titled, ~“US. Imperialism Plunges South Korea’ Into the Hell of © Military . Fascism,” points out that in recent weeks popular discontent fad reach= ed the boiling point in South manding ‘unification of the country as the only way out of their present situation. In desperation the U:S. engineer-: }ed the military coup d'etat: ( Calgary Woman Fired After Speech on Visit to Cuba Reson control of Canadian. oil Va gn cost. 26-- year - old Gratton Smith her. job. as a Yeys tas for Midwest Sur- haq. “td., Calgary, after. she of ao a favorable report @t. . °° Week visit to Cuba She Usiness men’s. club. .' Stated that there was AC ain -Strimination between Te Ont of speech, press .and treegs aCe and color and that! religion prevails in Cuba. Following these remarks: she was uncerimoniously fired: by the -Midwest Surveys: Co. which relies: on U.S.-controHed oil companies for. 90% ofrits business. © ectate) Meanwhile the matter has taken on national proportions with . Valerie Smithis.; .case peing aired on a national tele- | vision show this. week. < Korea and the people: were’ de-/| B.C. Communist Party convention report Party meeting in: Vancouver One hundred and fourteen delegates, fifty five of whom were trade unionists, gave consideration to a main. pol-- itical report, organization re- port, reports on work in in- dustry, cultural. work, work amongst women, youth, farm- ers, literature, education, as well as’ a host of resolutions submitted by clubs and a con- vention resolutions committee. They. elected a new 25-man ‘| provincial . committee to act for the next two years and unanimously re-elected Nigel Morgan as provincial leader. From the opening report to the convention to the rapping of the gavel which wound up the deliberations Monday af- ternoon, the urgent issue. of world: peace dominated the discussions. Almost half the main re- “port was given to analysis of the peace struggles and pro- posals to intensify the Com- movement in B.C, ‘Nearly every one of the sixty-five -delegates who spoke at the convention had some- thing to say about peace. The main report by Nigel Morgan opens with these ob- servations: “More and more people are joining in the strug: gle to prevent thermo-nuclear war, to» get away from> war alliances, te achieve disarm- Condemn S. Korea Military Coup ~~ ~ _A Special resolution adopted by the B.C. convention of the against the military coup in South Korea and. the com- _tary dictatorship ‘now imposed “on this unhappy country. . Korea; that: the UN: undertake through a representative com: mission to re-establish the .uni- fication» of Korea; and that the rright of the Korean peoples ‘be restored to determine. their ‘own forms of government, na- fional unification’ and sover- eign: way of life.” ; Communist _ P arty hit out) plicity of the U.S, in the milf | - ‘The resolution proposed that). “hig convention demands of! the .Federalb government’ that): >| all U.S: military: personnel be promptly: ‘withdrawn from .S;). over the holiday week-end. ament and independence from U.S. imperialism. to open the way ‘%o peaceful coexistence with all nations. 2 “The question. of prevent- ing the outbreak of another world war is the most press- ing task facing us, in common with all mankind; today. It has become the basic question of policy:for ali levels of gov- ernment_in all countries. It is a matter of life and death for tens of millions.” Quoting from a resolution adopted by the National Com- mittee of the Party last spring, the report states: ‘“‘The urgent need. of the mement is the ex- tension of the national move- ment for peace, independence, neutrality; active suppert~ by larger numbers of Canadians for new national policies, and the defeat of the policy of cap- itulation to U.S. imperialism in the political, economic and military. fields. To help ful- fill this aim is the central task of this convention of our party in- B:C.” Taking note of the growing opposition to the Celumbia River Development treaty ne- gotiated between the U.S.A. and Canada, the delegates to the convention expressed their confidence that the proposed treaty, which would lose, per- haps forever, the hydro re- sources of the Columbia to the U.S.A., could be defeated. The convention took a stand against ratification of the pre- sent treaty. It called for scrap- Take over of B.C. Electric aim of B.C.—wide campaign “A great, mass public campaign to bring the B.C. Electric under public ownership, * reduce power rates in the lower mainland and Victoria areas, and subsidize rural elec- trification” was decided. on.by the 14th convention of the British Columbia Communist | ‘Canada and Latin America Hitting out against U.S. President Kennedy‘s proposal that Canada join the Organiza- tion of American States, the B.C. Communist Party conven- tion said: “The path to greaier friend- ship and mutual goodwill be- tween Canada and Latin America is not through mem- bership in the OAS, but as a hemispheric partner with Latin America in the struggio to free our respective coun- tries from the domination . . . and interference by U.S. im- perialism and its OAS. development of B.C. hydre. It urged early action en an east- west grid and for banning of large scale export ef power vored the McNaughton plan for the Columbia based on: the Dorr Diversion. : Drawing attention te Prem-: ier Bennett’s statement at the last segsion of the Legislature that “consideration” would be given to investigating the tak- ing over of the B.C. Electric, the: keynote report said: “The people of B.C: want ‘to end the political and eccnem- ic stranglehold on this prev- ince. by the B.C. Electric. No provincial issue can soe decis- evely affect B.C.5s future. the Communist» Party last by the delegates, Nigel: Morgan, shown addressing the: B.C. convention of weekend, was unanimously re-elected provincial leader and given a. standing. ovation May 26, t961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 3 ping ofthe treaty and a fresh: approach by Victoria and Ot- tawa based on all-Canadian’ to the U.S. The convention fa-"