TESTYN GRIFFITHS, PUBKEEPER ae By LESLIE MORRIS Three cheers for Iestyn Griffiths, pubkeeper .in. lovely Pembroke, South Wales. “The thought of German jackboots trampling this beautiful part of the country appals me,” he said. Mr. Griffiths will not serve the men of the West German military who have made a peacetime invasion of Britain to ‘take tank training on a British Army firing range at Castle- martin, near Pembroke. “T have nothing against the German people,” said the out- spoken Welshman. “I won’t use persuasion against any who come into the tavern. They will be told bluntly to leave.’ * * * ~ Under the North Atlantic Treaty Organization the - mili- taristic government of West Germany and the militaristic gov- ernment of the United States set up their army and = naval forces in Britain. The American army and air forces not only are scattered throughout the North of England and in East Anglia, but have Polaris-armed submarines in Holy Loch near Glasgow, with their floating base, the Proteus. The independence of Britain is insulted and flouted. What the German general staff could not.do in the Battle of Britain, they are able to do in peacetime: * % * Not long ago a British tank regiment was host to a West German panzer group on Salisbury Plain. The men of the British regiment were lined up to greet their guests. The British colonel made a little speech of welcome to his allies — some of ‘whom were in Rommel’s army in North Africa 17 years ago. To seal the alliance the British colonel presented to the West Germans a nazi tank captured in North Africa. The swastika was still painted on it. : “We are true friends,” said the colonel. “We are bound together as allies in a holy and just cause.”’ He sounded like John Diefenbaker. % * * Let us not be pious about this. Under NATO, West Ger- man air crews are trained in Canada. U.S. forces occupy the Strategically important parts of Canada. Our Canadian forces in West Germany are under the command of a nazi general. ‘We are exactly in Britain’s position. eo * * * _ ,_ There you have the reasons for the manufactured Berlin crisis, in a nutshell. The primary aim of the Western powers, since the end of World War two, has been to make an armed and powerful ally of the West German militarists and -their political counterparts for the purpose of ultimately repeating what was attempted in World War two, and failed; the military suppression and de- struction of the Soviet Union. The NATO war alliance makes no sense, otherwise. Why arm your enemy of the two world wars? Why train his troops on] ' your own territory? Why finance his industries? Why take the | risk, as a result of that, of being pushed out of your traditional trading areas, as Britain is now being pushed out of Europe? Why restore his economic power? Why agree that the majority of his generals be the same nazi crew bloodied Europe 20 years ago? ; ~ * & All of this is appeaserment of a resurrected, reactionary military power. Adenauer and the German trusts and military clique are being appeased just as Hitler was, just as Franco ‘was, just as Mussolini was. Step by step the West German army is being restored to pre-war strength; step by step the navy is being rebuilt. The military cadres are back where they. were. And when the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic (founded on the great socialist traditions of the_Ger- man working class, the oldest socialist working class in the -world) demand a halt to this, demand the conclusion of a peace treaty, the demilitarization of the danger zone, the neutraliza- tion of West Berlin and its establishment as a free city under the United Nations, with all the guarantees that the West Ber- liners want that they can keep their flashy neon-lit way of life if they want to — the peace plan is denounced as criminal and evil by the very criminals and evildoers who are doing their best to repeat their obscene appeasement of Hitler fascism in the 1930's. : 3 ‘ _ So, 1,500 more U.S. troops are sent to West Berlin and the Vice-President of the USA comes from President Kennedy to speak to his militarist and nazi cronies who clustered around him and sang the old chauvinist and militarist songs. * * * But this is not the year of Munich, gentlemen. This is not the year of the umbrella. This is not the horrible world of 1939. This is a different world altogether. The Soviet Union is mot isolated now, as you succeeded in isolating her then. Eastern Europe is not now ruled by corrupt landlords and mili- tary popinjays, but. by the people. ‘ And, dear sirs, you have an insurmountable propaganda obstacle at home: try as you may, you will not be able to con- vince the people of the west that the same German militarists whom they fought in the two world wars are now their dear, dear friends to be coddled and pampered, and that their Rus- sian ally in the same two world wars is now the Lucifer of dhe nether world, to be obliterated. 2 “Stand firm,” indeed, Mr. Kennedy. Whoever stands firm these days for the rights of militarism stands to be cast aside. Whoever stands firm for peace and human dignity. as Testyn Griffiths, Welsh pubkeeper, did the other day, stands to win. As Joseph Stalin warned you when you were helping to build the Hitler-Tokyo-Rome fascist axis, your plans would end in fiasco. But this time, it is quite realistic to say that fiasco, rebounding on your own heads ‘as it surely will, will not involve the deaths of millions, as it did last time. a % oo History repeats itself, said Marx, first as tragedy, then as farce. en ea hd aa The Mine Mill Union acting under cover of an injunction, obtained from Judge J. M. Cooper, seized the books, re- moved the officers and took possession of the hall. A noisy demonstration in which an estimated 1,500 of the locals 17,000 members ‘took part, re- sulted in an estimated $20,000 damage to the local headquar- ters ang at times threatened the very lives of the fifty representatives of the union barricaded within. It is reported that local police stood by for eighteen} hours while the demonstrators took™such actions as driving a truck into the building in an effort to crash their way in. It was not until the following morning that the sherriff read the Riot Act and dispersed the mob. oe The dispute had its birth in 1950 when the then Cana- dian Congress of Labor read the Mine-Mill Union out of its ranks and sold its jurisdiction to the Steel Workers Union for TOM MORRIS, above, has been appointed acting national secretary of the Young Com- munist League during the ab- sence from that post of Rae Murphy, who has undertaken another assignment, Labour Day Greetings to All from Sid & Hattie Dove LABOUR DAY > SGREE PINGS = i ‘and “congratulations ; to the “PT” ee iZ0nE. = -WHALLEY CLUB CPC ~~ GREETINGS owe te ote Organized Labour from Niilo Makela Club Mine-Mill acts in Sudbur to halt raid by Steel-CL( Acting on a petition signed by more than 6000 members of Local 598 of Mill and Smelter Workers: Union in Sudbury, Canadian President Ken Sm the local under administration last Saturday to ward off a threatened raid byt Steel Workers of America, working in co-operation with the officers of Local a figure admitted by Donald MacDonald, secretary of the CLC as being $50,000. Successive raids by steel on Mine-Mill jurisdiction failed to win at either Sudbury or any other main centres of Mine- Mill strength such as Trail, Kimberley and Pt. Colborne. More recently Mine-Mill, won jurisdiction of the new INCO operation in Thompson, Mani- toba, in a bitter battle with Steel. : - “However, in the elections in Local 598 Sudbury three. years ago, following a long: strike battle with INCO, saw the election of a group uniting con- servatives, Catholic Action, fascist D.P.’s: and right-wing elements of the CCF headed by Don Gillis, president -and Ray Poirier, secretary. This group which was basically hos- tile to the national leadership of the Mine-Mill Union has been reportedly conducting negotiations with the leader- ship. of the Canadian Labor Congress and the Steelworkers Union. since that time with the intention of pulling out of Mine-Mill. : Last week Tom _ ‘Taylor, union trustee, who was recent- ly elected on the Gillis slate, resigned from his position and told president Ken Smith that he had been present at meet- ings between Larry Sefton and William Mahoney of the Steel Workers, Bill Dodge of the CLC and Gillis and other members of the Local 498 ex- ecutive. At these meetings the matter of the secession of Local 598 from the Mine Mill Was discussed. Following this a full page ad appeared in the Sudbury Star on Aug. 21 signed by 215 members of Local 598, includ- ing 31 shop stewards, launch- ing a petition calling on presi- dent Smith of the Mine-Mill Union to take charge of the affairs of the local. This peti- tion was subsequently signed by more than 6,000 members of the union asking action un- der Article 8 Section 11 of the union constitution, which pro- vides that the President shall be given such power when so petitioned by at least 25% of the membership involved. The actual administration was carried through under an- other section of the constitu- ‘told the Pacific TriP ‘Monday night whe? pat tion empowering the: to act in the even officer or local : secede from the P4 The Sudbury Star 23 reprinted photos of two letters, one ed by O. Mancini, U: Workers organizer bertson, CLC rep and was sent to a 5 informing them th has -arrived for 4 calling them to 2 Aug. 10th, at, 81 Sudbury. The second ed under the headiNé, committee. of affilial the United Steel WO asked workers to’ space provided indi agreement with Stee. ing Mine-Mill at : view with both the-»" 4 ers representative 2 dent Gillis of Local no doubt that some + afoot that would hi status of the Mine Smelter Workers J¥ at Sudbury.” a The same story Say official of the CLC they passed on the ? jurisdiction to the ste after considering mé big local a direct the CLC. The reason © is that they did not ® estimated $125,000 © cost to win the work from Mine-Mill. ; An official of the tragedy of the W® is that the big Local ; enter negotiations with He said the whole was timed to disrupt tions and divide the a { ship when they maximum unity. He. predicted that jority of the me 3 would back the actio® national leadership A unity in the union ante the membership of oa! Latest developme™ 08 M. Cooper orderé Mine-Mill hall be V@ that the issue of the, of the national office will be heard before court on September cal Chairman Liu Shao-chi. September 1, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE a mass rally in Peking during a recent tour i © the rostrum with him is Peking Mayor Peng —