Fight for peace needs spurrin

: vast re-dedication to the
AS: to avert world war
and turn the tide away from fas-
cism was urged on Canadians by
Leslie Morris, national leader of
the Communist Party,

In a speech at the 31st Annual
Labor Festival near Toronto,
Morris declared this struggle
was necessary because of the
emergence of the Ultra-Right
threat and the nomination of
Goldwater for the presidency of
the United States,

“No one worried about the
future could escape being con-
cerned with the nomination of a
man who symbolizes all that is
corrupt and reactionary in
American life,” stressed Morris,

Morris emphasized that “Can-
adians cannot but feel this threat
affects us as it affects those in
neighboring America,”

In the United States “there is
no guarantee as yet that Gold-
water will be defeated,” Many
people said Goldwater couldn’t
win, “And I suppose some Ger-
mans said this before Hitler
came to power,

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_ULTRA-RIGHT DANGER MEANS

“We can hope American labor
will. spring to its duties and
mobilize the American people
against this threat, He can be
defeated if the American work-
ing people and the progressive
people unite at the polls.”

Morris paid tribute to the
Communists in the United States
and to their leader, Gus Hall,
“We can be thankful for a voice
clear and courageous enough to
tell the truth to the American
people,”

Recalling that this was the
50th anniversary of the outbreak
of World War I and the 25th anni-
versary of the beginning of World
War II, the Communist Party
leader asked: “Will history re-
peat itself, as it did 25 years
after the First World War?’

On July 28, 1914, the New York
Times had editorialized: “That
war is too dreadful for imagining,
and because it is too dreadful it
cannot happen,” But a few days
later war began,

Today’s danger has been drama-
tized by British philosopher and

mathematician, Lord Bertrand
Russell, If enough nuclear explo-
sions took place every day to
equal all the explosives used in
World War II, said Russell, it
would still take 146 years to use

‘LESLIE MORRIS

all existing nuclear weapons,

Russell also stressed that
present rocket power, in a state
of emergency readiness, makes a
nuclear .eatastrophe inevitable if
it is maintained indefinitely,

Therefore, “we must pull the
fangs of the ability to make war
everywhere, universally,
throughout the world,” declared
Morris,

All nuclear weapons must be
dismantled and destroyed, Their
extension to any country, includ-
ing China, must be prevented, A
foolproof inspection system must
be established in every country,

These proposals were made by ~
Soviet Premier Khrushchoy, and
the Soviet Union had indicated it
was prepared to take the steps
necessary to make thempractical,

Canadians must “get rid of
feelings of complacency and
well-being,” emphasized Morris,
“Listen to the voice of reason
and science, Rededicate our-
selves to the achievement of this
kind of disarmament,”

SPOTLIGHT ON THE CONGO

Lumumba’s spirit lives in Congolese

By V. IORDANSKY
_ Somewhere in The Congo

he faces of those gathered

around the oil lamp in the
plain, low houses are hardly
visible in the semi-darkness, ex-
cept for the eyes—tired, but
excited, attentive and concen-
trated,

Gathered here are the leaders
of the Council for National Liber-
ation of the Congo, They head
the struggle of the guerilla de-
tachments. in Kvilu and Kivu
provinces, They are men who
would meet the same fate as
Patrice Lumumba if they fell
into the hands of General Mobutu,

Former deputies, ministers,
and rank-and-file patriots are
gathered in the room, They are
experienced men who aspire to
peace and understand how tired
the Congolese people are from
the long civil war,

But they inspire Congolese re-
actionaries with blind fear be-
cause they are still fighting for
Patrice Lumumba’s ideas—for
unity, democracy, the solidarity
of all the Congolese, and for
strengthened national indepen-
dence,

I recalled the Congo in 1963, ©

A placard calling on peasants
to till their lands hung in the
Luluaburg aerdrome in Kasai
province, A doctor in the U.N,
service looked at the placard and

- said:

“J just made a tour of the
province and saw villages razed,
Corpses of peasants littered the
streets—killed by Mobutu’s puni-
tive forces. Do youimagine these
people will.return to their fields?
Placards can’t resurrect the
dead,”

* * *

clubs, people died of starvation
in the African quarters; emaci-
ated children, with their ribs
protruding, stood begging at
street corners,

A member of the liberation
council says: “We came out to
put an end to the robbing of the
people,” He recalls that the
armed uprising that began in
Kvilu was not just a spontaneous
rebellion of worn-out peasants,
but was thoroughly organized,

“All our personal savings went
to buy arms, to build a military
camp and train soldiers, At first
our arms were just spears and
arrows made by village crafts-
men, But then our fighters pro-
cured modern arms,”

He explained that Mobutu’s cut-
throats willingly sold arms they
got from the Americans, During
the battles, the Mobutu men often
threw down their arms and ran,

The Council for National Lib-
eration says that in the guerilla-
controlled districts there is a
people’s administration which
collects taxes, supervises the
schools and other institutions,
The population is well-supplied
with food; there are shortages

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only in imported goods,

“Western propaganda calls the
Kvilu guerrillas Mulelists,” said
one tall council member, a for-
mer minister. *Pierye Mulele is
one of the secretaries of our
council; but our movement is
national and is continuing the
-work of Lumumba,”

One of its goals is to over-
come inter- tribal discords fanned
by reaction, A few days ago a
representative of Gaston Sumia-
lo, the leader of the guerilla
detachments in Kivu, reported
that there were members of all
the tribes of the province in the
Kivu detachments,

There are great difficulties,
Council leaders talk of U.S,
bombers piloted by American
flyers, Belgian officers are
working in Mobutu’s army,

Government circles are also
discussing “reconciliation ” of
rival parties, In reality they want
to form a single reactionary bloc
against the guerillas, against
the people,

But Lumumba’s ideas live on,
They are like sparks covered by

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ashes, A breeze rises and the
sparks turn into a blazing fire,

The breeze has risen and is
growing stronger, Among mem-
bers of the Council for National
Liberation of the Congo there
are no doubts as to who will win,

*

The above despatch from The
Congo points up a fact which is
already known to all of Africa:
the murder of Patrice Lumumba
may have slowed but failed to
halt the march of the Congolese
people to freedom and full in-
dependence, That march moves
ahead with renewed vigor.

But if this fact seems self-
evident to Africa and the rest of
enlightened mankind, the ruling
circles in the United States stub-
bornly refuse to see the hand-

‘alert to the danger of @

He warned Canadians

wing coalition emergill
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general support the Go
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be put in their place; that
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nuclear bases, continue
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Labor Day picni¢

The Vancouver Island Labor-Day Picnic Committee
again this year making final preparations for theil ¢ il!
Labor-Day Picnic & Concert to be held in the Pa!
Community Centre Sun., Sept. 6th.

Chairman Cec Wallace states, “This year’s picnicP
several new features and should be a better attrac eS
ever. In addition to the usual adult and children’s spo? A! !
will be the junior juvenile soccer competition, #
show with rides for the kiddies. Andas last year, the £
ment and the select concert in the evening with some a on
will be drawn from some of the best talent availaP 2

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Wallace also said “The Committee is asking 1
from all Island points to take part in the fiddlers CO” 4:4
that a fine arts and literature display will be pre

The kitchen committee announces lots of 80°
variety, which will be available at reasonable prices:

For the usual Labor-Day Message a number oS
trade unionists are invited to speak. And Old Timer . giti@”
to bring along their union card and take part in the
W. H. Anderson Prize for the oldest union card.

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Despite U.S. interference.in the internal affairs of The Congo which threatens the
people there with a Vietnam-type bloodbath, the liberation movement contin-
ues to grow. Photo above shows General Mobutu's forces terrorizing a group of
peasants.

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The picnic will get underway at 1 p.m, Shaths
wind up with the final concert starting at 6 p.m.

While black-market racketeers
squandered thousands in night.

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August 28, 1964—PACIFIC TRIBUN