Lay of the laud By JOHN WEIR ANTICIPATING the election, a couple of months ago we asked our readers to contribute quips, songs, skits, etc., to help carry the fight for people’s policies to the electorate. We received a few items: * = ¥ EINAR NORDSTROM of Thunder Bay sent a list of LPs for Pro- gressive People which could (and should) be played at election meetings. Among them are Talking Union, Songs of Joe Hill and records of other songs (Vietnam, Cuba, Angola, etc.) and speeches. So take the good advice and warm the audience up with recorded music. on * * SING ABOUT IT is the title of a song book just put out by the Young Communist League in Metro Toronto. Here are the words of 71 songs, old and new favorites, including the Internationale, Wobbly and labor songs, freedom songs, anti-war songs, civil rights songs of various kinds, quite a number of them Canadian. The young folks are apparently too shy to advertise their goodies, but we think you can get a copy from Metro Toronto YCL, 24 Cecil St., Toronto 2B, Ont. There are at least some people in every locality who know the tunes and they can lead off a darned good sing-song. * * * P. O’MINU offers an election verse which warns of the old raz- ‘ zle-dazzle of old party electioneering, the first stanza being: Oh see what’s in the mix With exciting politics, Spellbinding some into a fix— Watch for all the antic tricks! * * * IT MUST HAVE been a piecard artist we know (a type who lives off and at the same time sells out the workers) that inspired the following philosophical comment: “People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.” * * * BACKWARD, oh backward turn time in your flight . . . I read and can hardly believe my eyes. Is this Toronto in 1972 or Calgary in 1933 . . . The same pitch, the same cure-all. Major Douglas is not mentioned, Bible Bill Aberhardt has been gathered to his fathers, the Social Credit regime in Alberta has been followed by Tory rule, while Wacky Bennett’s Socreds in B.C. have been boot- ed out and the NDP takes over in Victoria . . . The “funny money” origins, the A plus B theory, have long been forgotten . . . Yes here it is: “Canada produces more than people can afford to buy. Our stores are full of food, medicine and clothing. The poor need these things, but they go without because they do not have money to buy what is available. So we pay farmers not to grow food. We give foreign countries inter- est-free loans so they can buy our surplus medical sup- plies. Canadian poor people go without. “Obviously the amount of money available in this coun- try should equal the amount of goods our farms, mines and factories produce. To make this possible, last year there should have been 40 billion dollars more in Canada than there were. If the extra money had been created to balance our economy, the surplus could have been distributed to the poor. In this way, poverty’s problems could have been eased without raising anyone’s taxes.” Easy, isn’t it? Why has nobody thought of it before? * * * SOCIAL CREDIT never-never talk ignores the fact that the goods are produced by the workers, by society as a whole, but are owned by private capitalists, who won’t sell unless they can make a profit. It isn’t for want of a gimmick, in this case printing: extra money, that we are in crisis, Every bit of redistribution of the na- tional wealth has to be won literally by tearing it out of the maw of monopoly. And of course the long-term remedy is to take the plants, banks, railroads, etc., from the monopolies and give them back to the working people who created all the wealth there is. Socred gimmicks are just a will o’ the wisp to keep the people following illusory visions while they are being robbed. fo Ss SORRY.-- BST 1 AM DISCHARGING You AS A PATIENT-- os '@ oF v You WAVE CONTRACTED A DISEASE’ WHICH YOU CANNOT RSSIBEY PAY FoR! =——s ~) — — y > Ke ? a PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1972—-PAGE 8 Scene of the crime Whole vill By JOHN WEIR It was the hottest summer on record, people said, but the farmlands didn’t look dried out and people could be seen at work gathering the crops as we motored along the excellent highway to Busk (literally the Town on the Bugh River) east of Lviv. We stopped in at the Regional Council offices and got directions to the villages we wanted to visit, phoning ahead to notify the people we wanted to talk to. The country was so pleasant and peaceful that it seemed in- credible that a quarter of a cen- tury ago it was the scene of fiendish horrors. As we drove I got filled in on the background. The Organization of Ukrain- ian nationalists was centred in Hitler Germany and specialized in espionage and terrorist activi- ties. It organized underground groups, so-called “security” units inside Ukraine where it could. Dmytro. Kupiak was re- cruited to such a group in 1938 (that part of Ukraine was under Polish rule then). He was of a poor peasant family but had his ambitions . . Ukrainian nationalists were fanatically anti-Semitic, anti- Polish and anti-Russian, but their victims in the main were Ukrainians themselves. When the. Soviet Army shielded Western Ukraine from the Nazi forces in 1939 (later that year the people elected to reunite with Soviet Ukraine), the OUN nationalists either remained deep under- ground or slipped over to the Hitler-occupied territories where their leaders and bosses were, and where they underwent spe- cial training for the “job” which they were told they would soon have to do. On June 22, 1941 the German forces invaded the USSR. The Ukrainian ‘ nationalist -leaders were taken along with them in the first wave of the invasion; they expected Hitler would re- ward them by giving them pup- pet rule over the Ukraine. They actually installed a ‘“govern- ment” in Lviv for a few days before the Nazis told them they didn’t need it. But the OUN “security” agents were para- chuted in ahead of time (Kupiak Norman Bethune Centre in Gué! GUELPH — This town, where the founding convention of the Communist Party took place 50 years ago, witnessed the official opening of a new Norman Be- thune centre. The centrally located centre includes a well- stocked bookstore, a_ library, and a meeting room for the pro- gressive workers and students that live in the nearby area. A small but interested group of townspeople came to the opening to hear speeches by Wil- liam Kashtan, leader ‘of the Communist Party of Canada, and Gareth Blythe, the candidate of the Communist Party in Welling- ton riding. Wm. Kashtan opened by con- gratulating those who worked on the centre for their choice of Norman Bethune as a name. Be- thune, he reminded the audince, is a genuine Canadian hero, who, because he ‘was a Communist, was able to analyze what was * aor age d © et) a #, _. there wes nothing left but ashes and a week prior to the invasion, I was told) to strike in the back. Just as soon as Hitler moved, the OUN gangs also struck, their first victim being “Soviets” (this meant any soldier or ‘of- ficial and local persons who favored the USSR against Hit- lar) and people of Jewish nation- ality. On the first day of the war Kupiak and his gang were charged with killing two Soviet Army men, and arresting and torturing two local Jews. Kupiak headed the OUN “sec- urity” force in the whole area during the war, although he was also at one time active in Lviv. During this time about 5,000 Jewish men, women and chil- dren were rounded up to be ex- terminated. A reign of terror was maintained over the entire population. When the German fascist troops were hurled out of Ukra- ine, the OUN bandits either fled with them (later to switch al- legiance to the Western powers) or stayed to continue the ter- ror in the expectation that with Germany defeated the Western allies would turn the war against the Soviet Union and they would be called upon to repeat the service they had rendered to Hitler. Calling themselves the “Ukra- inian Insurgent Army,” they came out of woods and cellars at night to terrorize the popu- lation. They applied the old ruse of inciting to national hat- red, wiping out not only fami- lies but entire villages inhabit- ed by people of Polish national- ity (they had lived there side by wrong with the society that sur- rounded him and was able to do something about it. In Can- ada, and later in war-torn Spain and China, he sacrificed what could have been a_ lucrative medical business to help in the cause of introducing the idea of operable socialized medicine at home and the defeat of fascism abroad. “It is good that the Canadian government is finally giving Be- thune the recognition that he deserves, but it is indeed un- fortunate that the recognition only came as Canada saw the potential for trade with the People’s Republic of China,” he said. Kashtan then turned to the upcoming federal elections and told the audience that despite Trudeau’s claim that the sole is- sue of the elections is the “integ- rity” of Canada, “most Cana- dian working people are con- cerned with unemployment, the Ni ; ie vetles" side with Ukrainians / ries in friendship, | riage, etc.), But whil@ edly killing “Poles, | and Communists” ve. local Ukrainians thems® were the chief victims ft on charges of killing i, people, including inl? Kupiak and his gang Wi (he in absentia) ant guilty. : We stopped at 4 Ja enterprise. : “The village of a once near here,” I W 4 was inhabited by Po completely obliteratee Kupiak gang. would talk to an eyewitne I certainly would granddaughter took house of Anastasya © ~ women in her sixties: “We lived aside fi lage,” she told m& we saw Adami in 4 didn’t dare come © shelter. In the me was nothing left 1 corpses lying aroup feasting on them. é men, children, all Be burned to death. y managed to run _@Y "ccf in the woods. pas! Poland and no on€ © rebuild the village oi The awful sight is my eyes .-- a She wept, ne salt old girl beside