Convention proof. of Tito’s betrayal __ Exposing the methods by which delegates were hand- picked, For a Lasting Peace, For a People’s Democracy, weekly journal of the Communist Information Bureau, de- clares, in an estimation of the recent Yugoslav Comimunist Party convention, that Tito and other Yugoslav leaders “un- furled their national anti-Soviet and anti-Marxist banner » completely, sought “to forment hostility between Yugoslavia and the other new democracies” and proved their betrayal of the united international socialist front. Partial text of the review The leaders of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia—the Tito-Kar- delj-Djilas-Rankovic clique — have done everything possible to conceal their betrayal of communism. Ac- tually, however, they merely proved that. they have adopted a position of nationalism and hostility to the united international Socialist front. The fifth congress of the Yugo- slav Communist Party proves this to the hilt. It is now perfectly clear that the composition of the con- gress was hand-picked by the police apparatus under the guidance of Rankovic. So-called delegate commissions were elected. These commissions, directed by people sent from above, selected candidates whom they in- terviewed beforehand. Once the delegate commission was convinced of the “reliability” of a candidate, the latter was recommended to the follows: International reaction has lost no time in supporting Tito on this score. The following day the British reactionary jqurnalist Lindley Fra- ser declared that the Liberation of Yugoslavia was the work of Tito and not of the Red Army. Brigadier General Fitzroy-Mc- Lean declared that Yugoslavia alone expelled the Germans, with the help of considerable British and American air support. Tito asked for these compliments when he stated in his report that Yugoslavia was helped at a critical time not only by Soviet troops but also by the Western allies. > * * * Kardelj, Rankovic and Djilas tried to “prove” that Yugoslavia can build socialism alone, since it enjoys all the necessary conditions for this. Altogether the Yugoslav leaders present ‘the sorry spectacle of peo- ple who are ignorant of the ABC of Marxism, They are so intoxicated ped ‘Our way of life’ ' Tanks, teargas bombs, machine: guns and bayonets were used against members of the United Electrical Radia and Machine ‘Workers (CIO) in their strike at the Univis Lens Company’s plant at Dayton, Ohio. As the company grew more desperate in its attempts to break the strike, the struggle took on the character of a military campaign. Here a Sherman tank (left foreground) breaks through the picket line. A House sub-committee is now investigating violence in the strike, which ended last week with members voting to accept a company offer. The Communist party and the working class will have the last word and will not permit the vital interests of the Yugoslav people to be sacrificed by a clique of traitors. with nationalism that it: does not even occur to them that, however sincere its intentions, a country with a population of 15 millions, and an economically backward country at that, will be strangled meeting for nomination. This “election work” was accom- panied by terror-like repressions against those who were in the least they should be in the party. : | stex party and among the people, Notwithstanding the terror and!many are already conscious of the deception, the verbosity against the} abyss into which the traitors Tito, USSR, and the pharasaical Marx- | Kardelj, Djilas and Rankovic are suspected of being unreliable. After the congress membership had been so well picked, Tito and company could boldly count on re- ceiving its unanimous support. This encouraged them to unfurl thei ist banner completely, . The nationalist position of the Yugoslav Communist Party was the underlying theme in the reports of Tito, Rankovic, Djilas and Kar- delj. This was reflected in their dis- tortion of the circumstances in which Yugoslavia was” liberated. They distorted the Marxist-Lenin- ist principle about the possibility of building socialism in Yugoslavia by claiming again that this can be ac- complished without the help and support of the new democracies, the So Union and the international working-class movement. - Tito lied when he declared that some one wanted to underrate the role of the partisan struggle in the liberation of Yugoslavia. No Com- munist or Communist party would ever dream of underrating the heroism and self-sacrifice displayed by the Yugoslav people. This is how the matter is presented by Tito who, having completely lost his head, is playing on backward instincts and fanning nationalist sentiments in the party and among the people, When Tito declared in his report that the Germans could not con- quer Yugoslavia because the Yugo- slav army numbered 300,000 men, he cut a ridiculous figure. In his ignorance and conceit he thinks he can play the role of a military genius. World War Two was not a of thousands but of millions of men. . : ‘ As is known the Germans had an army of more than 10 million. Tito had to resort to this trick— a most illiterate one from the mili- tary and political point of view— ‘slavia smashed the Germans single- handed and won her liberation without the help of the So ‘Union and the other countries, in the space of a few months by the imperialist robbers if it has not the help and support of the in- ternational socialist front. - The Yugoslav leaders imagine that by means.of a cheap stunt they international working class. The same Lindley Fraser observed that Tito wants to dance at two wed- dings at once, that is, to choose the “middle” way between the imperial- ist and socialist camps. But the more intelligent imperi- alist politicians believe that Tito and company will move into the imperialist camp, at first for the sake of trade, then for credits and finally for political support. Not without reason did the bour- geois commentators point out that there was hardly’ any criticism of the “Western powers” at the con- gress, whereas the Soviet Union and the new democracies were sub- jected to slanderous attacks, The Yugoslav leaders are trying to foment hostility between Yugo- slavia and the other new democra- cies. How else can one explain the statement of Tito to the effect that of all the countries occupied by Hitler Germany only Yugoslavia waged a struggle against the inve- der. . ; * * * And after this the leaders of the Yugoslav Party continue to describe themselves as Marxists. Their de- claration of loyalty to the theories of Marx-Engels-Lenin-Stalin can only be regarded as a pharasaical mask for their opportunism. Tito and his kind have deceived the party and the people. They concealed the that every Com- munist. party refused to send fra- ternal delegates to the congress be- cause the leaders of the Yugoslav party had betrayed the cause of the working class and of socialism. They concealed this knowledge from the membership because they knew perfectly well that its dis- semination would reveal them as traitors, would make it plain to all that things are far from being as 4 63 West Cordova Street - - HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AND WORK BOOTS ’ ) HAND- JOHNSON’ S BOOTS Phone MArine 7612 ist pledges, both inside the gig 6s bitin cae Yugoslavia. \ | Paul Bunyan Day -POWER SAW CONTEST FESTIVAL SEPT. 4, 5, 6 PORT ALBERNI SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 4th CHILDREN’S... SPORTS — RECREATION PARK RACES — CONTESTS — TREATS SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5th _ WATER SPORTS --- SOMASS RIVER LOG BURLING — WESTERN CHAMPIONSHIP Five Man Canoe Race. Five Woman Canoe Race. Upset Canoe Race. _— Hurdle Canoe Race. Two Man Canoe Race. Two Woman Canoe Race Canoe Tug-O-War. 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