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In the name of “containing Communism”, Thailand is becoming a
U.S. satellite. Here an American vomper, the United States’ top-priority
export, is being taken up-river by barge to a new base constructed

under U.S. direction.

American churchman
speaks at Vancouver
"End Korean war’ rally

An American churchman’ who spent seven years as a
missionary in Korea will be the principal speaker at an

End-the-War-in-Korea rally to

day, June 24.
Methodist Church, Tacoma.

British Columbia Peace Coun-
cil, sponsor of the rally, an-
nounced that Rev. A. Rowe, Un-
ited Church minister of Haney,
will also address the meeting on
how to stop the killing in Korea
now. i

The meeting, to be held in the
Electrical Workers’ Hall, 111 -
Dunsmuir, will climax a week of
Special activity by the peace coun-
cil around the itheme, “Stop the
killing now,” Sine

In accepting the Council’s in-
vitation to speak in Vancouver
Dr. Bass said he had been op-.

. posed to the Korean war since
its outbreak.

“I told them it was ~ sheer
folly,” he said. “I told them they
would lose 100,000 men, within a
_year, that they would bog down
in a hopeless mess and that they
would destroy Korea in the pro-
cess. And that is exactly what
has hannened.” i

Dr. Bass, /although American
born, spent many years in Alberta
and British Columbia ‘in his
youth. “I virtually grew up
there,” he said. In 1923 he went
to Korea as a missionary, spend-
ing seven years there. On his
return he took his doctorate in
Far Eastern studies.

Rev. A. Rowe, who also speaks
on June 24, is a life-long pacifist. .
He is now chairman of the Haney
Peace Council and a member of
the B.C. Peace Council.

Rail centre captured
RANGOON

Viet Nam People’s Army units
» took Ninhbinh, important rail
centre south of Hanoi, on May 30
after wiping out a French bat-
talion. Lieut. Bernard de Tas--
signy, son of the French com-—
mander-in-chief in Indochina, was
' killed during the fighting,
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be held in Vancouver, Sun-
He is Dr. Harold J. Bass. of St. Paul’s

CONTINUED

would be dragged

TREATY —

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“It can be clearly seen that
should a peace treaty with Japan
be concluded along the lines of
the American draft treaty, Japan
into a new
war,” the paper stated.

“The U.S. would engulf all of
Japan, which would then become
a full-fledged American colony.
The territory of Japan would be
completely turned into a gun em-
placement, the people of Japan
would’ become cannon fodder, the
resources of Japan would become
munitions of American aggres-
sors, and the Japanese militarists,
who once spread desolation over
Asia and Australasia, would take
up their role as the gunmen of
American aggressors.

“AS a consequence, the people
of Asia and Australasia, as well
as the Japanese people them-
selves, would be faced with a' new
threat.” — Ne ;

Conclusion of an overall peace

treaty swith all nations who took
part in the war against Japan, on
the basis of “the just and reason-

able formula put forward by the -

Soviet Union and supported by
China,” the paper points out, will
provide a guarantee of the genu-
ine independence and sovereignty
of Japan and ensure development
of her peaceful economy and
trade.

A note sent by Chinese’ Foreign

Minister ‘Chou En-lai to Soviet
ambassador to China N. V. Rosh-
chin on May 22 charged that the

U.S. government “has acted ar- |

bitrarily on its own and prepared
alone a draft peace treaty with
Japan and, under the pretense of
consulting the views of the gov-

ernments of other statés concern- |

ed, is forcing the other allied na-
tions to support it.” |

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Eleven Communist
leaders su

in re-hearing

The 11

‘have gained new

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Lafayette and an honorary
descendants. _De Chambrun,
of the “Comite Lafayette,” a
group of distinguished French
arlists and scientists.

In New York, workers of the
fur shops organized action to sup-
port: the intemationa!. executive
board of the International Fur and
Leather Workers which urged a
rehearing for the Communist
leaders.

The National Council of the
Arts, Sciences and Professions,
which includes some of the most
famous names in these fields of
endeavor, has also voiced its sup-
port for a rehearing.

Attorneys, meanwhile, explain-
ed the tangled legal situation and
court deadline as follows:

The six attorneys for the Com-
munist leaders, whose contempt
conviction the high tribunal re-
fused to review, have ‘petitioned
for a stay: of execution in their
own case,

The attorneys have filed their
petition with the circuit court of
appeals. The attorneys seek a
stay until the Supreme Court dis-
poses not only of their own petition
for rehearing, but also thé petition
of their clients.

For the 11 Communist leaders,
the timetable is. as follows:

Their petition for rehearing
must be filed by June 19, 15
days after the Supreme Court
handed down ‘its ruling. If the
court turns down the petition,
then they will go to prison on or
shortly after June 29.

The Supreme Court opinion, up-
holding the convictions, is to
reach the lower courts-on June
29, 25 days after it has been ren-
dered. The lower court then
porceeds to order the execution
of the sentence.

The high tribunal is “in recess
until October. However, al-
though in recess, the justices could
be polled by the Chief Justice and
could reject the rehearing petition.

Alternately, the court could put

_ off consideration of the petition

until it convenes formally in Oc-
tober. In that event, a stay of -
execution until the matter is dis-
posed of would be of tangible

_ significance- ‘

The 11 defendants are Eugen
Dennis, Gus Hall, Henry Win-,
ston, John Williamson, Benjamin
Davis Jr., Irving Potash, John
Gates, Jack Stachel, ‘Robert
Thompson,’ Gilbert Green and
Carl Winters. A\ll face five-year
_ prison terms and $10,000 fines,
except Thompson who was sen-
tenced to three years because he
bears the Distinguished Service
Cross. f

The attorneys facing prison are
Dennis, who acted as his own
counsel, Richard Gladstein and
Harry Sacher, six months each;
George W. Crockett Jr. and A. J.
Isserman, four months, and Louis

+ McCabe, 30 days. .
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Communist leaders Whose ‘conviction was upheld by the U.S. Supreme
support in their demand for a rehearing.

From Panis, France, their petition was supported by Gilbert de
USS. citizen under a special law bestowi

ported |

u ng such citizenship on all Lafayet
a progressive Catho lic deputy in the French chamber, joined in a protest

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LPP will campaign 2
for peace in Korea
week of June 18-

A three-months intensive
of thousands of names to the, petition for a Five-Pow®
Peace Pact was launched by the national committee 0 ,
Labor-Progressive party, meeting here last week in a three

day. session.

“We have reached a decisive
stage in the fight for peace, mark-
ed by the gravity of the danger
of war, and the remarkable up-
surge of the organized sentiment
for peace throughout the world.
In cooperation with all the grow-
ing peace forces of our ceuntry,
our party will step up its work
for the pact of peace petition,”
said Tim Buck, LPP national
leader.:

“It has become clear that the
pact of peace campaign can turn
the balance in favor of world
peace,” Buck continued, “No
longer ‘peace’ campaigns in gen-
eral, but the compelling of speci-
fic negotiations between the Five
Great Powers, is the task before
all peace-loving veople, in all
countries, without regard for
their political or other beliefs.”
' The LPP national committee,
‘a press release stated, critically
examined its work for peace and
laid heavy stress on the possi-
bilities of greatly broadening and
deepening the popular peace
movement, particularly in indus-
try. It gave unreserved support
to the work of the all-inclusive
Peace Congress.and called on all
its members to give at least one
night each week for canvassing
of houses and street corners for
names to the petition, asking each
to collect a minimum of 100
names. i

“The three months, June, July,
August, will be a,testing time for
our party’s ability to go among
the workers and farmers as fight-
ers for negotiations instead of
war, and as examples to thous-
ands of defenders of peace in
how to go among the people with
a message of confidence in the
ability of the people to beat the
warmongers and impose peace-
ful policies on governments,” said
Leslie Morris in reporting on the
peace. work of the LPP.

The national committee placed
.great emphasis on the necessity
for full clarity on the issue of
*peace or war, especially on the
necessity for each LPP member
to grasp fully the principle of
peaceful coexistence of the capi-
talist and socialist sectors of the
world. ice, oo ean ee

“Our party must conduct in-
tensive educational, agitational

and propaganda work for the en- :

lightenment of ourselves and the
working people in this basic
idea,” said Stanley Ryerson, re-

porting on the party’s work. “We
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campaign to secure hundreé

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s ae
must root out all fatalism, hat
ful ideas about the ‘inevitability
of war’ and replace them a
action, clarity and conviction f°
with confidence in the ability 0 —
the peace forces to conquer t
imperialist forces who want Wal
J.B. Salsberg, MPP, reported Me
_the economic struggles. of tee
workers. The meeting adoptee
a set of five proposals to gover®
/ the work of the LPP on the en
nomic front—highér wages,
fight for peace in ‘the factorie” ;
the stimulation of a progress
rank and file movement for
union democracy, the encoures’
ment of the present rising male x
‘tancy of the workers in the W4 od
battle, and greater participati?
by left-wingers in the stru
for correct working class role
‘ The week of June 18-25 w@5 re
aside for LPP. campaign noe :
peace in Korea on the first # ibe
versary of the outbreak of is
Korean war, A special leaflet *
to be distributed from coast
coast, public meetings are
held and resolutions sent t0
government demanding th#
act to initiate a cease-fire in ae
rea, a conference of the count jp

the

concerned, withdrawal of gos
troops and recognition of P
Ble’s China.

Seek donations —
fo defense fund —

The defense committee root
ly set up to aid Mrs. Glady5 ™.
land and Verne Carlyle repo 0
that donations are beginning it ;
come in, but stresses the Ut? ‘
‘ need for financial assistance. ort
Hilland and Carlyle face “088 é
action arising from the — nal

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Most trade unionists feel ete
the time has come to unite ’ of!
woodworkers under the banner it ;
. the IWA, and. to seek settlem’
of the Hilland-Carlyle cas? — 4
others by negotiation, rather ™ ;

court action, — : a
Donations ‘to the defense
Should be mailed in care of ‘i :
Birchard, 1631 East S&
Avenue, Vancouver. 2