German people say ‘No’

“Soldiers — what for?” reads this poster-slogan in a Frank
furt demonstration against German rearmament; the point is
Srimly underlined by the “1945” placard. In another Hamburg
demonstration German women carried a banner with the words
“We demand a plebiscite on the Paris agreements.”

U.S. goons endanger
_ Canadian labor gains

“The series of attacks now

being carried out by U.S. labor

bureaucrats and their Canadian stooges against the officers
8nd members of local unions in B.C. is arousing a storm of
Tesentment,” Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, declared
™ 2 press statement this week.

4 @ purpose of this offensive
'S to destroy the hard-won rights
of the Canadian memberships of
these international unions, to
bind and gag the membership
So that it is helpless in the face
of the ‘get-tough” attitude of the
big companies.

“It is an attempt to import Mc-
Carthyism directly from-the U.S.
into the Canadian locals, to accom-
Plish through the unions what the

~ lant trusts and monopolies have
been unable to do in Canada, that
IS_to destroy traditional British
€mocratic procedures by the hys-
terieal U.S-style witch-hunt.

“Instead of a bulwark of de-
Mocracy, the trade unions would

© converted into a spearhead
against democracy. This would
Pave the way for the U.S. corpor-
ations, now seizing our natural re-
Sources, to exploit Canadian work-
*Ts at will. -

b ‘The reason LPP members have
hee attackd so bitterly is because
f € LPP fights consistently for
Tade union democracy ‘and against
He Plot to transform the unions
re a labor front for the employ-

* “But the attack is not confined
© the LPP. It is aimed against
all progressive trade unionists,
all who oppose U.S. dictation in
any form, as was shown by the
jurse of the CCF-led Victoria |
peal of the International Broth-
thood of Electrical Workers not
S° long ago.
A ‘Communists are not strangers
faa newcomers in the B.C. trade
ion movement. Our members
Bia been amongst the most active
ne ders of the trade union move-
ae for the past 30 years. LPP
_ poets in the unions are deter-
‘i ty to continue their activities
cnn igher wages, better working
= itions, trade union democracy
th Or unity. They will continue
‘S aie ocate the right of the Can-
ae Members to choose their
ae _ Officers, decide their own
‘cies and take charge of their
wn funds. ,
4 ae Labor‘Progressive party as
Bey recognized political’ or-
yp lzation will fight for its mem-
ers. to enjoy the same rights and

privileges, as well as the respon-
sibilities and duties, including the
holding of office, as members or
supporters of other political par-
ties.” =

‘Morgan expressed his confidence
that the trade union movement
was alert to the danger confront-
ing it and would defeat the attacks
of “U.S. labor goons” upon its
rights and achievements.

“FALSE WITNESS’

which the anti-Communist hysteria
of the last decade has rested.
The story of Harvey M. Matu-
sow, 28-year-old FBI informer who
is now informing on his own bene-
factors, would be fairly banal if

Jit were not so typical of the way

anti-communism, like so much else
in a business civilization, has be-
come a racket.

An obscure member of the U.S.
Communist party for a few years,
Matusow began supplying infor-
mation to the FBI in 1950. The
party soon discoverd and expelled
him.

Then he joined the..U.S. Air
Force, hoping to realize ‘his life’s
mission by napalm - bombard-
ments in Korea, but why risk one’s
life, he soon asked himself, when
such fame and fortune could be
made in the “boom” of ‘“defend-
ing democracy on the home
front?” :

‘He was personable, and- clever
and soon became an “expert on
communism” for the U.S. depart-
ment of justice. The pay was not
bad — $25 a day plus expenses.

The publicity and prestige were
flattering. He was soon featured
on television, spoke at business-
men’s luncheons, and gave a
worthy example to the youth at
high school and college forums.

It is characteristic that one of
Matusow’s first investments, he
now admits, was: to subscribe to a
“clipping service,” so that he could
lhave a record of the many times
and places his name was mention-
ed in the press.

His rise was meteoric. In the
fall of 1952, Senator Joseph Mc-

FBI informer bares
record of frameups |

By JOSEPH STAROBIN

i

NEW YORK

A major political sensation has broken here by the confession of a former FBI ‘‘star
witness’ that his testimony against 180 prominent American liberals and radicals over a
period of three years has been false — and that his lies were fabricated with the collusion
of high government officials and intimate associates of Senator Joseph McCarthy. “‘L’af-
faire Matusow’’ has fallen like a bombshell, uncovering a whole system of falsehood on

Carthy even placed a plane at
“young Matusow’s disposal (it
was paid for by the Republican
party’s national committee so
that he could campaign in Wis-
consin for McCarthy’s re-elec-

tion.) r .

Matusow became an intimate of
Roy Cohn, McCarthy’s assistant
and the government attorney who
later boasted of his role in mur-
dering the Rosenbergs.

There was even a marriage (tem-
porary, of course) into the “smart
set” which travelled fast between
Texas and Washington.

Matusow knew everything about
everyone.

He accused the prominent Pro-
testant leader, Bishop Bromley
Oxnam, of “Communist sympath-
ies.” :

He told a Senate committee
that the well-known scholar, Owen
Lattimore, was 4 “follower of the
Communist line,’ and on these
grounds, the government is bring-
ing suft to imprison Lattimore.

%on Matusow’s word, Clinton
Jencks, trade union organizer for |
the independent Mine-Mill union, |
was threatened with prison.

at trials, and Senate and House
cominittees.

Exactly how Matusow became
bored or frightened with his
career should become more clear
when his book, False Witness ap-
pears in March. It is being issued
by the independent progressive
publishing house, Cameron and

.|Kahn, to whom Matusow brought

his documents, letters, and all the
proof of How the actor was in faet
a puppet of -more powerful forces.

One of the. most conservative
newspaper columnists, Stewart
Alsop, who has read the manu-
script, wrote last week that Matu-
sow’s confession “may cause major
explosions’ and should “initiate
a sericus investigation of this new
post-war profession of the inform-
er.”

-So far, the U.S. Justice Depart-
ment has remained silent, al-
though all week long, Matusow has
appeared on television and radio

Four of the 13 U.S. Communist
party leaders who have just gone
to jail were accused by Matusow
of “conspiring” to “overthrow the
government by force and _ viol-
ence.” .

But now he explains how Roy |
Cohn conspired to fabricate Mat-
usow’s testimony. Scores of
other individuals and groups
were treated in the same fashion

Appeal against A-war
launched at Toronto

At a ceremony in Toronto’s Walker House hotel last Saturday, members of the na-
tional council of the Canadian Peace Congress signed the World Appeal against the Prepara-
The ceremony symbolized the launching of an intensive effort in all
sections of the country to solicit signatures
circulated in most countries of the world.

tion for Atomic War.

The appeal is conceived, de-
clared Dr. James G. Endicott, con-
gress chairman, as allowing “all
mankind to speak with one voice
for survival.’

It was first launched in a similar
cermony in Vienna, Austria, on
January 19, at the conclusion of
an emergency session of the execu-
tive of the World Council of
Peace. There 80 prominent per-
sonalities ‘from many countries of
East and West, following discus-
sion of an urgent warning from
famed atomic scientist Prof. F.
Jolit-Curie, joined in drafting the
appeal and then added their signa-
tures. Among them was Dr. En-
dicott. ;

Dr. Endicott presented the ap-
peal to a meeting of the national
council of the Peace Congress here.

Following discussion and endor-
sation, council members, led by
Mrs. Eva Sanderson, added their
signatures to the appeal.

Mrs. Sanderson, well known
throughout the country for her
championship of liberal causes, is
a member of the World Council of

Peace and vice-chairman of the,

Canadian Peace Congress.

to the appeal,

TORONTO

which ‘is being endorsed and

B.C. Peace Council
to meet this Sunday |

B.C. Peace Council will - meet
this Sunday, February 13, vat
Pender Auditorium here in all-
day session to discuss and
launch a new signature cam-
paign against atomic war, Ray
Gardner, council chairman, an-
nounced this week. The meet-
ing will open at 10:30 a.m. and
conclude at 4 p.m., and is open
to the public.

The meeting decided that the
opening: of the mass soliciting of
signatures from the public would
be signalized by a national dis-
tribution of several hundred thou-
sand copies of the text of the ap-
peal on Saturday, March 5,

Meantime, as an essential part
of the preparations for widespread
public discussion, it will be drawn
jto the attention of many person-

alities and organizations, and an
invitation extended to endorse it.

During the discussion it was
stressed that the appeal was a
product of the meeting of minds
of many viewpoints. Thus it is
eligible for the signature of all
those concerned about the dang-
er of war and a nuclear holo-
caust. This applies no matter
what the views of the signer are
as to who is responsible for the
danger of atomic war.

“Tt can be signed with a clear
conscience by supporters of every
political party and religious faith
in Canada or any other country,”
said Dr. Endicott. :

Public figures in every walk of
life will be invited to sign the
appeal. >

The bulk of the signatures are
expected to be gathered by several
thousand volunteer canvassers who

and talked with’ the press. He is
now being called before publie
‘and private hearings of the Senate
and other government agencies.

The chairman of the House un-
American Activities Committee
has tried to cover up his embar-
rassment by suggesting that Mat-
usow must have remained a Com-
munist in the disguise of an anti
Communist. But this alibi has
not impressed anyone.

The New York Times says that
the justice department now must
re-examine all the cases in which
Matusow’s testimony played a
part. Lawyers for Jencks and for
the four Communists have already
succeeded in getting ~ hearings
early in March on the basis of
the Matusow affidavits.

The Times urges the govern-
‘ment “to defend its integrity,”
and it’s obvious that a much
bigger scandal may develop. For
it is well known that four or five
of the chief government “ex-
perts,” who have been over and
over again in every kind of per-
secution, have been shown to be
liars and perjurers.

URE

SLAT

will knock on doors in all parts
of Canada. The petition will also |
be circulated in plants and on|
farms, wherever people live, work |
and gather. The public is being in-|
vited to finance this vast cam-

paign through donations.

7.10 p.m,

LABOR-PROGRESSIVE
POINT of VIEW by
NIGEL MORGAN

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