Peace is the important thing the eyes of the entire world are on Korea. The eyes of T those who earnestly seek and work for peace, and those who- scheme and conspire for war. The first great step of -. Jacob Malik’s “cease-fire” proposal is under way. Negotia- - tions between the representatives of the Korean people and the U.S. are taking place in the ancient city of Kaesong. Reo NE press time the first preliminaries were well under way, with the UN (read U.S.) bringing every agency of propaganda into play to present the “cease-fire f negotiations ‘as “a great moral and military victory” for the Western powers.” eke : ‘ : ‘ _ The central point of importance to all peace-loving peo- ples in these negotiations now under way in Korea, is not who manage to “‘save face” or claim a “great victory,” but rather that the outcome shall be peace. That is the prime _ objective sought by decent people everywhere. Peace and an end to the barbarous ferocity of imperialist intervention ahd aggression, geared to the one horrible idea so often expressed by the spokesmen of Wall Street, to “kill, kill, and kill more communists,” is the hope of all civilized people. If peace can be brought to tortured and war-ravaged Korea, that fact alone will give tremendous impetus to the fight for peace everywhere. It gvill checkmate the schemes of the imperialist warmongers to utilize Korea as their springboard for a third world war, and win new thousands ‘of people everywhere to the| realization. that peace can be “imposed upon” those who seek to promote war as the final and most profitable arbiter of human destiny. The common people ‘of all lands are no more concerned about the claims of “military victory” than they were about the noisy arguments about who “started it”. History has the latter query well documented, despite the profuse “ex- planations” of the war camp apologists. What the people are primarily concerned about at this moment is that peace can be won for tortured Korea. That the mass killing stops. That old men, women, and little children may be able once again to look at the Korean skies without fear. That the shame of Korea may be expiated in a world retracing its ‘steps toward civilized sanity and peace. The knowledge that _ peace won in Korea will open wider the vista for world peace. “Whose “face” needs “saving” is a smali thing when > measured against the sacred cause of humanity and peace. With every peace-loving Canadian we join in the fervent that peace will come to Korea. Then, and then only, can we see ourselves emerging from the jungle. ~ Let's damn the idea JT is rumored that the big Guinness brewing interest, which provided the capital for the Lion’s Gate Bridge and the _ British Pacific Properties, are considering another huge pro-— -4ect, that of constructing a chain of locks and dams in place -of.the old Second Narrows Bridge, thus damming off the inlet and closing off the north and south arms of the inlet ~ above the bridge. ‘- eee _ This project will run into millions of dollars and, as in the case of Lion’s Gate Bridge and the “exclusive” British - Pacific Properties, will be financed from the super profits of the Guinness brewing trust. Since neither of these gigan- ' tic enterprises were motivated either by humanitarian reasons cil’s lack of a progressive outlook, it can be safely assumed that due tribute will flow back into the Guinness’ coffers in _.the form of substantial tolls. Vancouverites in their. daily comings and goings aré already well encircled by these med- | ieval toll levies. . aad yi ee It would be much more to the point to begin a mass campaign for the building of an up-to-date toll-free Second Narrows bridge, in place of the present antiquated hazard misnamed a “bridge,” rather than turn over to a multi-mil- _ lionaire brewing monopoly the right to impose furthur levies _ _ for the use of the lands and Waterways of British Columbia. © _. The taxpayers’ money that now goes into useless war production can serve the Canadian people much better if spent — on useful modern ‘utilities, and by so doing it would narrow -down the avenues'of exploitation by “benevolent” monopo- lists like the Guinness outfit which, with the aid of govern- - ments, cash-in on the backward development of this prov- — ince and its.resources. mM mil HI] hi Hil mi mm HL it ni ey i sven ‘ a ae oY sd Ain ‘ bag pty _ ed Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver, B.C. By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. : oe _ Telephone MA. 5288 .— ; Tom McEwen pace ‘Publish a Mat aca oO Sate he ... Bditor Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. tea by Union Printers Ltd. 650 Howe Street. Vancouver, B.C. Post w, Prin _ Authorized as second class mail, Office Dept., Ottawa or benevolent desire to compensate for Vancouver City Coun- — | it CAAA AA Am As We See It by TOM McEWEN AAR Hee Balzac’s “Wild Ass’ Skin” relates a charm- ing legend of the possessor of this tanned donkey hide, which brought him every wish his heart desired, but shrank in size as each wish was ful- filled. There is a parallel between this shrinking donkey hide and the shrinking conscience of the present leaders of British social democracy. On September 3, 1914, Britain’s present foreign minister, Herbert Morrison, wrote a “conscientious” article to the Labor Leader in which he declared: “Your King and country need you. Ah, men of he country, you are remembered. Neither the King nor the country nor the picture papers had really forgotten you. When your master tried to ent down your wages, did you think he knew nothing of your beautiful brave heart? When — you were unemployed, did you think your country had forgotten you? When ‘the , military were used against you in strikes, did you wonder if your King was quite in love with you? Ah, foolish one! { 3 ¥ “Your King and country need you. Need hun- dreds and thousands of you to.go to hell and do the work of hell. The Commandment says: “Thou shalt not kill’. Pooh. What does it matter?) Com- mandments, like treaties. were made to be broken. Ask your parson, he will explain. ‘ “Your King and country need you. Go forth, little soldier. Though you know not what for, go forth, Though you have no grievance against your | German brother—go forth and kill him! Though you may know he has a wife and family dependent upon him—go forth and slay him, he is only a German dog. Will he not kill you if he gets a chance? Of course he will. He is being told the same story. His King and country needs: him”. That was “Our Herbert’, “conscientious objec- tor”, before his “conscience” shrank to. its present small proportions. In fact, before ‘Erbert’s “con- science” started shrinking, it was almost as large as Balzac’s donkey hide, with every inch of it un- alterably opposed to war. The Wandsworth Tribunal “dossier” on ’Erbert’s “conscience” is a revealing document, showing Britain’s foreign mini = igen gn minister de grounds”, and basing his ‘claim for such “as a Socialist and Internationalist”. Good old ’Erbie! But that was 36 years ago, before his “conscience” followed the pattern of Balzac’s legendary donkey hide. Today the Right Honorable Herbert Morrison, “Socialist and Inter- nationalist”, can order out the troops to break a strike, or dispatch them to thé ends of the earth on the orders of Yankee imperialism, to stem the onrushing tide of human progress and socialism, with no more strain on his shrunken “conscience” than tel he were a Churchill or a Truman. _ |The ‘ira’ telephone goe The Federal Board of Transport Commissioners has - feadily acquiesce in its “inte granted the BCTelephone Company a 10 percent rate increase as of July 14. For long distance cally the rate has been hoisted to 12 percent.’ At a further “hearing” slated for October it is reported that British Columbia’s telephone monopoly will go after another rate hoist of from two to five percent. ‘ Ironically enough, the hoist ~, granted by the board is dubbed an “interim” increase. Our own Public Utilities Commission, in doing its daily dozen for the BCElectric, has given British Columbians _ some salutary lessons on the meaning of the word — “interiny’ and the inevitability of its becoming “per- + manent”. only “to him that hath, more will be given”, but that more will be demanded, to swell profits of grasping corporations. —_ The phoney arguments advanced about “higher. labor costs” and rising prices of materials as a. _ warrant for increased phone rates, is sheer hum- bug. In current labor wage indexes, by-far the largest percentage of telephone workers are still — among the lowest wage categories. A glance at the — monopoly octopus, of which BCTel through inter- — ‘locking directorates, is only one of ‘the long sinewy tentacles reaching out and drawing tribute from a score or more basic B.C, industries, will show that | as in the case of the BCHlectric, “prices” of mater- ials are regulated ta monopoly octopus. ee ® In the absence of sufficient. public pressure to block the rate-gouging of BCTel the Board of ' Transport Commissioners, like our facile PUC, could ' freedom from the surfeit .of his folly. But it was _. total exemption on conscientious — ‘There is nothing “interim” in the hoist granted | BCTel by the Board of Trgnsport Commissioners. | — It is already clinched by serving notice that not. the super — suit the balance sheets of this “| @ The record of those bygone days shows another great “conscientious objector”, not so forthright 28 “our ‘Erbert,” but nevertheless determined that wat would: put no scars on his “conscience” no 1ess_ a person than Britain’s present minister of defense, — Emanuel Shinwell. Like ’Erbert, Emanuel manag to evade the draft. Today, 36 year later) Shinwell’s “conscience objections” to war have shrunk to in- finitesmal proportions. He is now Britain’s most ardent booster for conscription to meet the current demands of cannon fodder for dollar imperialism When the legend of Balzac’s donkey hide had shrunk fo the last measure of the last “wish”, it is recorded that the possessor “wished” back his much too late. The donkey hide had shrunk to the hi nothingness of a Morrison-Shinwell “conscience.” © t ’ mm: ) ie _ For a closeup view of the pot calling the kettle — black, listen to Representative Emanuel ‘Celler, New York “Democrat”, ranting about the Canadian -manufacturers of newsprint and their recent price hoist of ten bucks a ton. Celler declares our news" print trust “constitutes a danger to our (U.S.) free press”, and is all for Washington telling its Office of Price Stabilization to take over the job of price fixing in Canada, so that “just and reasonable prices” for newsprint “sold in this country” may be : set to suit the tastes of the National Manufacturers Association and Wall Street. We have no doubts about the need of a closeuP examination of the price juggling monopoly octopus and specifically of. the Abitibi Power and Paper | Company. In fact, a good tight curb on the whole monopolist fraternity who rook the people, would be a splendid move at this time. The pulp am paper trust has managed to boost its prices 0D newsprint approximately one hundred percent in % series of price boosts during the past two years. Bu this examination is a job for Canadians, and 19 the trustified “trust-busters’ of Washington. «— If “Democrat” Celler wants to go to bat on the numerous powerful trusts and price-fixing combines — in the U.S, that is his affair. He can begin with Defense Mobilization Director Charles E. Johnsto® of the General Electric, who belligerently boasts that “every. dollar I have is invested in GE” .- a fact which, in the minds’ of most sane people puts GE out in front at the warcontracts h® trough. — ‘ : \ Any time a trust-encrusted Yankee administré tion sets out to. “investigate” the operations ore Canadian trust, with or without the blessings Louis St. Laurent, it is a safe bet that the common people of both countries will get an addition? squeeze, gabe ‘i “ ‘ 4 rim” approval. Unless this pressure is increased tremendously during: coming months, it is already a foregone conclus that further “interim” rooking of telephone use will follow. Moreover, it is only by a growins volume of public pressure that semi-governmen ; “public” bodies such as the PUC and the Board Transport Commissioners will become anything More than “yesmen” for big business. sy 4 { { i : In fascist | tradi tion Rae Ae eS y BERLIN © HE tradition of German fascist ‘justice which freed the murderers of Luxemberg: | ~ Liebknecht, Rathenau and Erzberger, is still alive,” the Association of German Democrat _ Lawyers declares, protesting against the Wes Berlin Court decision to fine Adolf Knueppel 140 marks for the murder of the worker Loren +e oes ! Ringlemann. = Judge Levy ruled that “‘Ringlemann him _ self had caused his death by displaying sy™ _ pathies for the USSR,” German democrat lawyers demand removal of Judge Levy @ punishment of the murderer. ee PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 13, 1951 = P.