Japan blocks militarists,
Communist vote advances

TOKYO — Final returns from
the Japanese general elections
show that the ruling Liberal Dem-
ocratic Party has been further
weakened.

The attempt by the Japanese
_ reactienaries, backed bythe U.S.,
to capture a two-thirds majority
needed to revise the war-
renouncing constitution was thus
once again defeated.

The election results also
‘marked a significant advance for
the Japanese Communist Party.

The Liberal Democratic Party
obtained only 283 seats, which
was 18 less than the last general
election in 1960, although it car-
ried through extensive manipula-
tions to win the election and spent
large amounts of money in the
campaign.

Japanese reactionaries ex-
pected that the Liberal Democ-

cratic Party would capture 312°
seats out of the 467 seats in

‘the lower house, which would have

enabled them to revis® the con-
stitution. The U.S, and Japanese
ruling classes have been defeat-
ed in their attempt to jump over
the hurdle of the constitution and
revive Japanese militarism.

The Japanese Communist
Party won five seats or an in-
crease of two. Despite various
restrictive conditions imposed on
the Communists during the elec-
tion the party polled 1,740,000
votes, which is an increase of
600,000 votes over three years
ago.

Chairman of the Japanese
Communist Party, Sanzo Nosaka,
said the party would continue to
expose the Liberal Democratic
Party as an agent of U.S. imper-
ialism.

Ask freedom for Sobell

The September issue of THE.

PROGRESSIVE MAGAZINE, pub-
lished in Madison Wisconsin,
carries a leading editorial which
says that Morton Sobell was ‘‘con-
victed on disreputable testi-
mony’”’ and urges he be paroled.

“The continued existence of.

Morton Sobell is an offense to
the things we hold dear. The
things we hold dear are peace

Cite more under
McCarran Act

NEW YORK — The Gus Hall-
Benjamin Davis Defense Com-
mittee revealed here Tuesday
Wov. 19) that 10 more individuals
have been cited by the Attorney
General under the membership
provisions of the McCarran In-
ternal Security Act,

They are MichaelSaunders and
Daniel Queen of Chicago, Ralph
Taylor and Betty Mae Smith of
Minneapolis, Marvin Makman and
Meyer Stein of New York City,
Norman Halland and Benjamin’
Jacobson of Portland, Oregon,
and Milfor Sutherland of Tacoma
and Donald Hamerquist of Clal-
lam Bay, Washington.

and quiet.’ Sobell, by his contin-
ued existence, leaves us none.

‘If he were dead and buried
—like his ‘fellow conspirators,’
‘the Rosenbergs—we’d have peace.
and quiet. If he were free, we’d
have peace and quiet and never
hear of him again...

*¢But alive, and thirteen years:
in prison and seventeen to go,

-he torments us,

*«With the Rosenbergs, he was
convicted on disreputable test-
imony—there was no evidence—
at the peak of the McCarthy panic
in the Korean War, They ‘gave
the atomic bombto the Russians,’
said the judge; and now we know
that the Russians had the basic
‘secrets’ in 1940—before we had
them.

**If the Rosenburgs had con-
fessed, they’d be alive; ... If
Sobell confessed . . . he’d be
free and... in clover.

**But the criminals didn’t com-
mit the crime — indeed, as we
know now, nobody did—so they
wouldn’t confess. -And Sobell
won’t . . He was falsely ac-
cused, falsely tried, falsely con-
victed, and falsely imprisoned
all by the due process of law.’’

World Peace Council meets

A session of the World Peace
Council opened in Warsaw last
week with a report from Prof.
J.D. Bernal, chairman of the
presidential council, stressing
the immediate aims of the peace
movement,

He said the main tasks were
to ensure disarmament, reduce
international tension and rally
the peoples of the world for the
complete elimination of colonial-
ism.

The report welcomed the par--

tial test ban treaty and opposed
the NATO multi-lateral nuclear
force, as well as. the spread of
nuclear weapons to other coun-
tries,

Chinese protests against
tributes to President Kennedy
twice interrupted the opening
meeting. The first came when
Prof. Madaule, of France, spoke
of Kennedy’s goodwill in inter-
national affairs, and called for
a moment of silent homage tothe
late president.

A leading member of the Chi-
nese delegation, Tang Ming-chao
went tothe rostrum as the assem-
bly rose to its feet, to say the
proposal was ‘‘improper.”’

Tang made another protest
after Prof. Madaule concluded his
address.

Mass arrests in Morocco

A trial of 102 members of
Morocco’s progressive National
Union of Popular Forces was
adjourned in Rabat recently until
the Supreme Court can rule on
points of procedure raised by
the defence,

The trial had opened after the
accused had been held in deten-
tion for months following mass
arrests of progressives all over
Morocco,

Using the border conflict with

Algeria as a pretext, the Moroc-
can authorities arrested scores
of trade unionists, students,
Communists and members of the
National Union of Popular
Forces,

Also arrested, and apparently
to be brought for separate trial,
are the first secretary of Moroc-
co’s Communist Party, Ali Yata,
and two other members of its
central committee, Abdelsan
Bourquia and Abdallah Layachi.

Above is a photostatic copy of a $55,000 cheque recently received by the Trail local of
Mine Mill. The cheque represents repayment of a loan by the local to the national office,
which was badly in need of funds during the period when Sudbury was withholding its per
capita payments—a Steel-inspired move. The cheque is drawn on the account of Local 598

in Sudbury, to show it’s in ‘‘good shape.”

LABOR ROUNDUP:

Aid, support pile up
for striking miners

A growing wave of labor unity
and solidarity is finding express-
ion in material aid to striking
miners at Reeves-MacDonald
(Remac) in the interior of B.C.

More than $5,700 was sent to
the Remac local from the Mine
Mill district office recently, rep-

resenting donations from fisher-
men, oil worker, loggers, tele-
phone workers, miners, smelter
workers, and so on.

Mine Mill Local 598 (Gudbury)

‘has forwarded $5,000 with a

promise of more to come, the

‘Trail local has consistently don-

“No, | won't give you nuclear weapons. Here's the key of the depot-
take them yourself...”

Uzunov in Strshel (Sofia)

NATO nuclear plan
menaces world peace

A study committee set up the
Western European Union this
week brought down a report onthe

controversial U.S. proposal for

~ creation of a mixed-mannednuc-

lear force of NATO counties

and urged that such a force be ~

created,

The Western European Union,
which is meeting this week in
Paris, is composed of Britain,
France, West Germany, Italy,
Belgium, Holland and Luxem-
bourg.

The plan for creation of aNATO

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mixed-manned nuclear force has
been pressed by the U.S, as a
means of allowing West Germany
and other non-nuclear countries
to get their fingers on the
nuclear trigger,

World-wide opposition exists
against the plan. TheSoviet Union
has roundly condemned it as a

step which would threaten world

peace and allow West German

‘*revanchists’’ to get possession’

of nuclear arms,

West Germany under Adenauer
and now under its new Chancel-
lor Ludwig Erhard, have been
pressing strongly for adoption
of the plan, West German gen-
erals see the plan as a means
of getting around treaties which
now deny Germany the right to
possess nuclear weapons,

Chancellor Erhard is shortly
to visit U.S. President Johnson
and is expected to press for
greater speed in creation of the
nuclear force in which the new
German Werhmacht will take
part,

. hike in dues from $5 to $7 a

_ the United Electrical Workers ~

_ Northern Electric at Bramalea,

. _ Ont.
December 6, 1963—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page

ated $1,000 a week and Kimb- |
erley has‘ kicked in with $1,000 |
a month since the strike began.

December 6 marked the seven
month anniversary of the strike,
which was called to bring wages
of Canadian workers at this oper-
ation into line with their U.S.
counterparts, American workers |
currently receive 47¢ an hour
for similar jobs performed.

The strikers are staying solid
on the picket line, at the same
time as resisting strongly at-
tempts by Steelworkers to raid |
Mine Mill while the strikeison.

* * * 4

A recent issue of the publi-
cation ** Business Week’’ reveals
that membership in the United
Steel Workers of America has
dropped from a peak of 1,212,000
to an average of 861,724 in the
latter half of 1962.

The huge drop was mainly at-
tributed to effects of automa- |
tion.

The answer of top Steel brass
to this problem is a proposed

month, This will apparently be
augmented by continued raiding of
other unions. .

Perhaps someone could sug- —
gest another alternative — such
as going out and organizing the _
millions of unorganized workers?
: eA

Vancouver Labor Council
heard an appeal on Tuesday night
from Roy Kippers, one of 145
striking oil workers at Irving
Refining Ltd,, in St. John, New }
Brunswick. (The company is 50 —
percent owned by Standard Oil —
of New Jersy). F

The strikers have been out
since September 16 and workers
of the same company in Quebec
have recently also voted 95 per-
cent in favor of strike action.

Main issue involved is a de-
mand by the workers for wage’
increases which will bring them
closer to the national level in
the industry. Current wages are
75¢ an hour lower then the pre-
vailing rate,

K. C. Irving, president of the
company, encompassing TVand
radio stations, construction and
transportation enterprises, etc.
company, reputedly controls 2
$300 million empire in Eastern —
Canada, encompassing TV and —
radio stations, construction and

transportation enterprises, etc.
i * * *
The 27th annual convention of

union (UE), meeting in Toronto
last week, heard that 1,200 mem~
bers in 15 new shops have been
added to the union’s rolls in the
past year, including workers at