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Vancouver, British Columbia, May 30, 1952

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FRENCH, GERMANS RISE
AGAINST BONN WAR PAGT

Signing of an “interim peace treaty’’ by the United States,
Britain, France and West Germany at Bonn on Monday this week,
followed by the signing of a “‘Huropean army treaty’? on Tuesday
has heightened the danger of a third world war and caused a revolt
of peace-loving people which is.spreading throughout Europe.

Miners
On strike
at Alean

oe to 600 miners went on
© at the Alcan development
: eee this week, complete-
tine oe work on the giant
‘ Job for the second time
8S year,
it of four men who pro-
&« against working with a
job ae who did not know his
to the hy considered a danger
Ciditat Safety of the miners pre-
shite nS the walkout. When a
Maing 9088 fired the four, re-
hed of the shift crew signed
Tha, 0 protesting his action.
Y, too, were fired, and when
©f this reached other min-
f¥ery man downed tools.
( SeMP removed three men
Nappy! Scott, Martel and Mc-
hee 4nd sent them to Vancou-
08 dae officials: attempted
bag PSuade the miners to go
bain Work. but the miners
dl 'Y refused.
ney te? highlights in the labor
lS week included these:
of mek Henham, vice-president
Boye rer Vancouver Labor
COUGH: (CCL) revolted against
Com Vs official support of the
acy’ declaring: “In my opinion
he » Han has a right to vote as
Nishes.” The CCF-dominat-

Worg

hig SXPCUtive may oust him for
Stang. :

long Fed G, Jackson, a working
the, teman and member of
Out OP tor 16 years, was read
Say at that party because, he
Whi, ‘Trefused to make a ‘deal’
Prop Would give the CCF cheap
Saige noe material for use
Vangie the Labor candidate in
Myer Centre.”
Rota) ome 500 employees of
8a...’ *2Couver have set June
Win Mi date for strike action to
baa bor week and wage
ar Miternational Woodworkers
Stra tea are getting ready for
Des, ction June 14, when their
hte ct Contract expires. ‘‘No
*» NO work,’ is the IWA
ey
dain; Vancouver carpentérs and
°tigy, S have voted for strike
he, 'f Wage demands are not

® The picture above shows a
British Royal Marine Com-
mando smiling as he (poses
with the severed heads of
Malayan patriots. In his right
hand he holds the head of a
Malayan girl, The British
government has admitted the
authenticity of the picture
(after first denouncing this
and other pictures published
in the London Daily Worker
as ‘‘fakes”’) but states that no
action will be taken, H. Hop-
kinson, Minister of State for
the Colonies, told the House
of Commons May 21: “Since
orders have only recently
been given prohibiting de-
capitation of bodies for iden-
tification purposes, no ques-
tion arises of diciplinary
action in the few cases that
have appeared.”

Just prior to the signing of
the treaties Premier Otto Grote-
wohl of the German Democratic
Republic declared that the sep-
arate “peace contract” the U.S.
bloc planned to sign with the so-
called West German government
at Bonn would “bring Germany
‘into the immediate neighbor-
hood of civil war and a new third
world war.”

Grotewohl added: ‘“‘This hour
of national emergency makes it
necessary that ‘the people of
the German Democratic Republic
raise their own national defense
forces.”’

The United States, eager to use
‘West German soldiers as shock
troops in a war against the So-
viet Union, adopted a West Ger-
man proposal] that Germany con-
tribute 12 divisions to the pro-
posed Buropean army,

“Deutschland uber Alles,’’ old
German anthem which Hitler’s
armies sang across Europe, was
officially proclaimed West Ger-
many’s National Anthem on May
5. The announcement was made
by West German President Theo-
dor Heuss, who as a member of
the Reichstag in 1933 voted for
full powers for Hitler.

The President’s Chancellery
announced that all three verses
of the song would be sung, in-
cluding an aggressive verse
which calls. for a Germany which

stretches in the east as far as
the river Memel (in the Soviet
Union and over 300 miles east of
the present German frontier)
and in the south to the river
Adige in Italy, nearly 100 miles
from the nearest point in Ger+
many.

No sooner had the treaty been
signed that enraged French
workers took to the streets to
demonstrate against the revival
of German militarism as an ally
of American imperialism and the
arrival of General Matthew B.
Ridgway as European command-
er. In Paris, tens of thousands
marched in protest, fought back
bravely when attacked by more
than 20,000 police.

Paris police arrested more
than 1,000 demonstrators Wed-
nesday, seized the entire editions
of two newspapers which had
condemned the Bonn war pact,
closed the headquarters of three
large trade unions, and took
Communist Party leader Jacques
Duclos into custody.

In West Germany a mass
movement against the ‘‘General
Contract” and the policies being
pursued by Chancellor Konrad
Adenauer of plotting to split
Germany permanently in grow-
ing rapidly. Street demonstra-
tions called for ‘‘A Peace Treaty
instead of the General Contract.”

‘What the LPP proposes’

First appearance in B.C. of the national leader
of the LPP on the new party program for
Canadian independence and people's
democracy.

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