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AST week’s defeat at the polls of Australia’s
44 Labor government, hard on the heels of a similar

defeat for the New Zealand Labor government, -

should prod Attlee, Bevin, Cripps and their fellow
British “Socialists” into some serious thinking. They
were elected on (and got a mandate for) a “program
of socialism” in 1945: They have followed instead
a foreign policy dictated from Wall Street, the con-
sequences of which have been felt in every domestic
reform. ; as. cere
_ _ In Canada as elsewhere, the monopoly press is
~ playing on these Labor defeats with all the stops
out. In both elections they say ‘“‘free enter-
 prise’” valiantly triumphed over “‘socialism’’.
What shadow-boxing, what shyster trickery!
Socialism means a new social order, where the
means and machinery of production and distribution
are owned and controlled by the people and for the
people. Not even M. J. Coldwell will dare to argue
that such a social ownership existed in New Zealand,
Australia, or exists in Britain today. So what is
_ non-existent can hardly be “‘defeated’’, even by such
a hydra-headed force as “free enterprise”.

But the tragedy of it is that socialism might have -

been established in these countries under a different
and sincere leadership because labor had the machin-
ery of government in its own hands to implement its

~ China has

TT is going to be a bit difficult for the “free enter-
prisers” and the “old China hands”’ to appreciate

just what President Mao Tse-tung of the People’s ©

Republic of China meant when he uttered those pro-
_phetic words at the constituent. birth of a new nation:
“China has stood up.”
U.S. Consul-General Ward probably under-
Stands it better today thart he did twelve months~ ago.
_ The consul-general is reported to nee demonstrated
om more than one occasion the characteristics of a
~ plug-ugly when any of his Chinese ‘houseboys hap-
pened to forget their menial status in the august US.

“presence.
Then something changed. A new form of gov-
ernment, representing millions of downtrodden and
_ exploited Chinese, appeared on the scene. Shooting,
maiming and flogging Chinese workers—a mark of
_ “foreign superiority” under the old order of Chiang

Kai-shek, became a punishable crime under the new.

China had stood up, and in the process pitched U.S,

The flusher flushed

POSITIVE accomplishment of voters in the
‘& Nanaimo civic elections last week was the de-

feat of Mayor George (Flush Them Out?) Muir.
- Commenting on the event, a prominent Nanaimo labor
spokesman told the Pacific Tribune: ‘Aside from
ing our own candidate, we had one big job to

ido and we did it. We ‘flushed out’ laboy-hating

Muir. We don’t like chief magistrates who demon-
‘strate their willingness to break the miners’ strikes or

_. who chaperone well-known fascists on the pretext of

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- “fighting” communism.” :

‘During the miners’ strike last summer

? “Ugh! Look! Barbarians?”

and in his"
collaboration with Zorkin’s activities, Mayor Muir ~

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socialist program. But the Chifleys, Frasers and
Atlees betrayed the socialist platforms of their parties
for the atomic-dollar policies of Yiankee imperialism
—policies which mean contiriued high-profit levels for
the vested interests, and the perspective of endless
“austerity”, hunger, and war in place of peace and
social progress for the masses.

Wherever the foundations of socialism are cour- |

ageously and’ firmly laid, in the Soviet Union; the

march, triumphant, invincible.

What has been defeated ‘‘down under” is merely
the kernel of social reforms, rotting and brittle, be-
‘cause the social welfare of the common people could
only be advanced to the extent that it did not infringe
upon the profits of the big monopolists, many of which
showed a fatter balance sheet under a ‘‘Labor’’ gov-
ernmen than under one made up of their own breed.

Those who interpret the defeat of Labor in New
: Zealand and ‘Australia, with a possible encore in Brit-
ain, as the defeat of socialism, are in for some bad
jolts.
ready drawing the correct conclusions, as will the
British workers—the need to replace the social-demo-
cratic lackeys: of capitalism, with genuine fighters for
socialism. Her ;

-Consul-General Ward into the local hoosegow to take

an initial course in the study of racial and national
equality. eae bo :

-pondent Poats tell’ it. Consul-General Ward’s red

beard “turned white’’, and his well-filled paunch con-

tracted five whole inches. As if that weren’t enough,

_ Chinese Communists, armed with tommy guns and

Browning automatics, supplied to the enemies of the
Chinese people by a benevolent U.S., served as a
guard of honor to see Ward and his ‘‘diplomatic’’
entourage aboard ship, homeward bound, unwanted

in China. &

New Zealand and Australian labor are al-

What an “‘ordeal’}, to hear BUP’s ace corres-

-atomic bankers of Wall Street and

hands of its former enemies—Nazi-

~ New Democracies of Europe, in China, it is on the |

_ dangrous foe, it is our duty to keep up the

a themselves from

‘Behind ell the diplomiavie Hote -glamonzed inthe

kept press to mislead and confuse,’ the Ward incident
underlines an important historical fact. China has

' stood up, and can no longer be kicked around.

Prometheus has broken his chains, and the Wards are

but the debris scattered by the hurricane of a free

China. © os

_ not to let go of a “client” whose fortune could put him there. _

adopted a hostile attitude to labor, foie all. the

troubles at the door of the Communists, and calling
upon all and sundry to “flush them out” of Vancou-
ver Island. When protests ‘in the form of leaflets
were distributed in Nanaimo, Muir attempted to put
a ban on leaflet distribution by invoking a civic bylaw
against the Jehovah’s witnesses and the LPP. —

Following a police court conviction the Jehovah’s

Witnesses appealed the case and won the appeal.
_Later Muir ‘attempted to have the Union of B.C.

Municipalities convention back him in his leaflet ban.

The UBCM voted down his proposal as ‘“‘undemo-
cratic’. Tae ey oo)

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according to which the war was the

and to paint our adversaries in the darkest colors, laying on their

‘schemed to postpone and delay their inevitable defeat? NOw he

are anathema to everything Medina and _ his class stand for, has
brought him a measure of

TOM McEWEN —s

NE of the first jobs undertaken by Premier Jawaharlal Nehru
on his return to India, following his recent junket with the
Ottawa, was the suppression of

the All-India Peace Conference, scheduled to be held in Calcutta
on November 24-27. ‘

In addition to passing a death sentence on 30 Hindu citizens
for peace activities, Pandit Nehru has thrown 21 ‘members of the.
Hindu committee of the “Partisans of Peace” into prison. Lauded
by our “free press” as_a great “man of peace” for Asia, it becomes
obvious that any genuine efforts for peace under- |
taken by the Indian people are régarded as. “sub-
versive” by Washington's Man Friday in India, and
dealt with accordingly, i i

To those who may have been temporarily hyp-
notized by Nehru’s “peace” propaganda during his
recent visit to this continent, it is well to remember,
aside from this latest ban on peace activities, that
approximately \35,000 ‘or more ‘Indian trade union-
ists, Communists, intellectuals and others, rot in
Indian prisons, hundreds without even the bare
formality of a trial. To these can now be added
all those who work for real peace—as distinct from
_ the spurious goods wrapped with a Marshall label.
How well some Indian working class leaders.put it when they say,
“Nehru has already surpassed British imperialism in the art of
suppression.” ; ‘

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In its program for World War III “against communism,” Yankee
imperialism is busy washing out the war guilt which Stains the
Germany and fascist-imperialist
Japan. The Bonn “government” of Western Germany, with its made-
in-the-USA trademark; becomes the instrument for a rejuvenated
Nazi war base against the Soviet Union. And eight years after Pearl.
Harbor (December 7, 1941), we find Yankee imperialism resurrecting
the Japan of Hirohito as a fascist Spearhead against the great anti-
imperialist movements of colonial Asia. : , /

It is an interesting study, this business of “war guilt.” —

Following World War I, some of the “statesmen” of the day
wrote voluminiously in their “memoirs” on the subject of “war guilt,”
For instance, Italy’s Francesco Nitti said: j Bite ae
‘I cannot say that Germany and her allies were solely responsible _
the war which devastated Europe. That statement, which we
made during the war, was a weapon to be used at the time; now
that the war is over it cannot be used as a Serious argument.” -

But that is not all; Nitti, with great frankness, continued: “All
thesé meaningless phrases which were brought out during the war,
decisive struggle between the -
forces of autocrasy and liberty, between the dark forces of evil and —
violence, and the radiant powers of good. Today all thése causes
provoke nothing but a smile. Such things are just speechifying,
and banal at that.” : .

Nitti even stated why such falsehoods were necessary: “When —__
our ‘countries are engaged in struggle and we are at grips with a —

; morale of our people,

Shoulders all the blame and responsibility of the war. But after
the conflict... it is absurd.” « ;

What a lot of people had to suffer and die for such “absurdities”!

Came World War II. Do you remember the fine artistic hate
with which Winnie Churchill used to snarl out the ‘words ‘the
Naarrrzies” in his innumerable radio broadcasts ... even while he.

donates good English pounds to help top Nazi butchers defend —
n the enormity of their fascist crimes against hu-
manity. : i , i wie

Yalta and Potsdam clearly established Nazi war guilt, but Yankee as
imperialism, having taken over Hitler's mantle of “Deutchland uber
die ganze Welt,” and remodelled it into the “U.S. over the whole
World,” must now transform their erstwhile Nazi enemies into |
“allies,” and the valiant ally, the USSR, into an “enemy.” And the
old Nitti formula of painting the “enemy” as “the dark ‘powers of —
evil and violence,” with Yankee imperialism and its dollar-purchased _
satellites as the radiant powers of good...” is being dished Guts) 7
Jibérally;. : ea wey ee,

The time to deal with “war guilt” is before the professional ©
killers get a war going. In the mouthing of today’s “statesmen”
and the “memoirs” of those of the past, it is an insult to the living
and a crime against the millions of war dead. ee 5

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There is a story in the New York Daily Worker. by Art Shields,
on how Judge Harold R. Medina, the judge who presided over the
Foley Square “trial” of the eleven U.S. Communist leaders, made _
his “first half million.” It is a sordid story of a 77-year-old woman™
being gypped out of an estate by a bevy of jackal lawyers, with —
Medina leading the pack. — ba Satya Gael RPM 4
Despite the fact that his 77-year-old “client” tried to “fire” :
Medina several times he stuck like a leech with his two-pronged
“advice”; to surrender a one million dollar claim for $7,000, pO Lea
5Q percent fee agreement in the .event that Medina could wangle —
a complete victory for his “client's” legitimate claim. Having set
his course for the top of the social pile, Medina was determined

From there on Medina’s rise to affluence was rapid. Real estate
was his forte for entry into New York’s” “social register.” His
crucifiction of eleven militant working men in Foley Square, ‘who
“social” recognition—which goes so well
With a half-a-million estate taken from a helpless old woman, — bt

_ With Al Capone, Judge Medina will rate in history as one of the
great “defenders” of Wall Street “democracy.” be ine: sry

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