THE very fact that there are
___ differences between the Big
: ee Powers demands that a

act of Peace must be signed be-

_ Ment of these differences by war.

This central feature of the fight

for peace is often lost sight of
; by well-meaning people who see

the proper conclusions.

If humanity were to be per-
‘Suaded by false advisers to wait
for peace until all differences are
Wiped out, it would be millions
Who could be wiped out and not
the differences, for there can be
no thought of the socialist world
Siving up its “differences” with
‘Capitalism, or of capitalism vol-
—Uuntarily “giving up” its differ-
énces with socialism. Such a de-
cision could not be made by either

_ Peoples or states.

_ The more numerous the differ-
ences are—the more the socialist
World develops and the moré

Capitalism strives to preserve its
Tule—the more urgent it is that
War as a means of settling con-
~ flict be outlawed.

. The Big Lie which is fired at
he People says that because
there are differences of political

Oi and social system, there
Must be war. :

If this Big Lie has enough
‘Power to confuse and mislead
People it can Tead to cataclysm
_ Just as the Hitler Big le about

“Communist aggression” led to
Catastrophe.
®e
“i Likewise, if peace must wait
Upon political ‘agreement as to
the future of mankind the atom
bomb wil be upon us. This is

he ghastly alternative to the

Proposal for a Five-Power Peace
Pact, a

/

N

o These are ne important idbas

ie in the World Petition for a Five-

Power Pact of Peace which are
88 yet imperfectly understood.

The wording of the Petition is

_ Very simple arid. its meaning is

on Profound as its simplicity.
“To fulfill fhe hopes cherished
a Millions throughout the world,

tween them ruling out the settle-

the differences but do not draw

—_ demand signing
of Five Power Peace Pact

regardless of their views as. Ory

the reasons for the danger of
world war...” This is the mag-
nificent way in which the Petition

se the Big Lie about political

differences making var _ inevit-
able, or the fatal notion that fhe

war that is planned is between
capitalism and communism in-

stead of between @ handful of
warmongers and the peoples of
all countries.

“~phis Pact to be open to all
countries”,
by this wording it replies to any
suggestion, no matter how sin-
cerely put or how hypocritically,

that action by the Big Five

Powers Would be “undemocratic”.

“Refusal by the Government of
any Great Power to meet for the
purpose of conducting such a

> Pact would reveal aggressive de-

signs on the part of that Govern-
ment,” declares the Petition. This
is based squarely on the lessons
of history. The test of aggres-

sive intentions is refusal to ne-

_gotiate.

“The Petition does not go into
the details of the Pact and quite
logically so, because the Pact

would entail a world- wide dis-

cussion by peoples and cover an
enormous territory of agreement,
disagreement and compromise. It
emphasizes the refusal to “meet”
fo- the purpose of concluding a
Pact as the criterion of aggres-

sive intentions.

The original signatories of the
World Appeal put the issue as
one for all people—“all men and

women of goodwill, all organiza-
tions that hope for peace”’—a new

idea in new world conditions. It
was not Utopian but a call x0
action.

The Petition is the most hu-
man and all- embracing document

‘ the world’ has seen precisely be-
cause it avoids all aggravating

details and differences and goes
to the root of the matter. It isa
big idea for peace because the

danger is so great.

ARILES SIMS, editor of the

_ Canadian Tribune, has reach-
ed the half-century mark. He
Celebrated his 50th birthday on
ey 31,

Cordially greeting editor Sims,
his fellow-members of the Na-

tbor-Progressive | party, led by

‘Tecord,

e “Our dear friend and comrade
‘Charlie Sims has reached 50 years
‘Of *“life,” said the LPP message,
‘ak “but. knowing Charlie as we do
_ We are sure that this half-century
Mark is only the beginning of
new contributions to the cause

: s the people, of peace and social-

“Charlie is a coal-miner, from

d labor and self-education led
im as a young man to the party
BoP eocisdian: Reckea inthe work-
ing Class and knowing their daily
Problems and hopes as few others

_ for socialism, and strives day
after day to bring that political

tional ex ttee of the
ecutive commi leader who won h

m Buck, paid tribute to his
Ster ing qualities: and exemplary

- foal-mining stock, whose life of —

do Charlie also dreams and works,

Canadian Tribune editor
honored on 5 Oth birthday

consciousness to the workers’
Beers without ‘which they can-
not win through to a new social

order based on justice and de- ‘

mocracy for the people.

“Charlie is marr and respected

by working

ada. As an organizer, writer and

is spurs in the
great Toronto free speech fight of

e early 30’
ay HgAe to city council, he
has given — “unstintingly _ to the
cause of -socialism.
“We can. all lear’
how to be close to the people;
how. ‘to ‘root everything in faith
in the people. Sturdy indomit-
able love of peoP

n from Charlie

life and

through Charlie Sims’ ;

lighted the path for ee of us.
has a big heart. ‘ 4

Heveye hen, in the

es We) Charlie Sims t
name of many thousands of his
comrades and friends and s-
pecially for . his co-workers on
the Trib, ‘pirthday greetings, and
the confidence that he will reap
the fruits of his Jabors in a Can-
ada at peace and inee. from the

rule- of the ae

says the ‘Petition and -

oe 2 eee |

Drawn by Gabriel re the London Daily W orker on the occasion a ihe U.S. July 4 parade in.
London, the theme of this cartoon is applicable also to Canada which will see in the weeks to come a@

succession of visits from Yankee brasshats.

SULT Ph i

people’ all over Can-

$s and. went from that

le has shone Y

STANLEY B. RYERSON

U.S. would-be colossus too late,
world grab is bound to fail ~

DMIRAL Sherman, who ne-
gotiated the infamous deal
with Franco, has died of a heart
attack. Before going to confer
with the Spanish hangman, the
Admiral had been vociferous
advocating a blockade and naval
operations against China. This
breadth of interest — from Ma-
drid to the Sea of Japan — re-
fieéted the worldwide preoccu-
pations of his employers. The
earth is their oyster—they hope.
While the late Admiral plot-
ted in Madrid, Mr. Averill Har-
riman was plotting m Teheran.
If Spain is a strategic base of
operations for war against peo-
ples revolutions in Europe and,
simultaneously, a vantage point
for the seizure of Africa—tIran,
for its part, ‘also has strategic ap-
peal, oil, and opportunities for
those interested in getting ‘hold
of the Middle East and the rest
of Asia—or as much as can be

grabbed.

Mr. Harriman is no mere mes-
sage-boy of Wall St.. he is part
of it himself. He heads the in-
banking house of
Brown Bros. Harriman & Co.,
the American - Hawaiian Steam-
ship Co., and has controlling in-
terests in the Union Pacific Rail-
road. From the plunder of
‘Hawaii and the Philippines to
the plunder of Iran is fhe a BRED:

ternational

ge St. bestrides: thei globe.
And yet— ani

There's a catch.

The set up isn’t quite perfect.

There’s a heel to this Achilles:
a most vulnerable one...
© :

When 17,000 oil workers went
on strike at Abadan: last April,
they were making history. They
exemplified the merging of the
proletarian struggle in monopoly
industry (foreign owned, of
course) and the mass, millions-
strong struggle of the oppressed
nations of colonial and semi-
colonial Asia. The liberation of
the colonial world from the
Harrimans and their ilk is head-
ed by the militant proletariat.
The general strike at Abadan is
followed by the mass popular de-
monstrations in Teheran. The

rival gangs of British and Ame- —

rican oil magnates find a sudden
(though most unstable!) solidar-
ity, when faced by an entire
people in revolt against the for-
eign occupationists. .

The Achilles’ heel of the new
pretenders to world mastery is
the existence of peagples newly
awakening to consciousness, on
a scale never before. experienced
in history.”

e

The case of Spain, far from
being an exception, underscores
the’ point.

Unsure of the firmness of its
foothold in France and Britain,
Wall Street turned to fascist
Spain, Here, surely, were guar-

antees of “firmness” in dealing

with unruly masses, guarantees

of fervor in warring on com-

munism. (“Our” J. S. Duncan
has repeatedly lauded the qual-
ities of Spanish fascism, sensing
unerringly the affinity of morto-

*

‘Paris and London — a frightful

_ vention of the Communist Party

‘ist hegemony is a sign of weak-

‘of the whole capitalist system,

poly and unlimited political re- :
action). The US. imperialists
figured that the gain in strength
to be anticipated from a bloc
with Hitler’s spawn, by far out-
weighed the political inconveni-
ence of so blatant an advertise-
ment of the fascist character of:
their war aims. j

And yet—,

After working on this, project
for several years, conniving in.
Rome as well as in Washington,
manoeuvering and negotiating in:

flaw appears.

In March and April “of this
year, just as the “deal” was near-
ing. consummation — an earth-
quake. Mass popular revol
erupted in Franco Spain. The
general strike in Barcelona was

followed by general-strikes im

Bilbano, Pampluna—and Madrid?!
The working class stood forth as

the foremost champion of democ-

racy and national independence.
6

he would-be colossus came too
late.

. Wherein lies its faljJl flaw,
William Z. Foster pointed out —
plainly in his letter to the Con-

of the U-S.A., last winter, when
he said that American imperial}

ness in world imperialism, all the
other major imperialist rivals
having, been shattered or very
gravely weakened’ in World War
II; and that the US. bid fer
world domination is being made —
in the midst of the general crisis

and is further deepening — that Me
crisis. as

U: sa 1951

“on: Yodertadease! Day with a

“Said one:

reading the text:

~ Uncle Joe Lincoln: o ie
A - MADISON, Wiss Capital Times reporter callild £ fuk

- of excerpts from the Declaration of Independence and Bill of ©
Rights. Of 112 persons he asked ‘to sign it, WW refined ide
asked the reporter if he was a Communist. _ sae

“Yu can’t get me to sign haem Be ae
‘to get loyalty clearance for a ‘government job. Veccee

Said a woman who was “waiting for the Rowoeks* ‘eit
“This may be the Russian Declaration. of
Independence, but you can’t tell me that ‘it is ours.’

“Bhid an elderly man: “I see you are using an old Coie
irick, putting Saad 's name on a radical petition.” *

ae PS Nagel Guardian, New York.

“‘petition’’ consisting exclusively

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