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There is no entry fee. judged on basis of correctness, neatness, an Three members of the PT editorial staff will act as All readers of Send completed puzzles st, Pacific Tribune, Vancouver 4, B.C. to: Room 6, 426 Main St., ‘Man of people... manok peace,’ says McEwen | Stalin memorial meet in city attended by 1,500 people ‘In thousands of cities and towns in all countries meetings like this are being held tonight,” chair- man Nigel Morgan, LPP provincial leader, told an audience which filled Pender Auditorium to capacity on Monday night this week in an impressive tribute to the memory of Joseph Stalin. “Stalin was the most loved—and the most hated—man of this epoch-making century,’ said Tom McEwen, editor of the Pacific Tribune, who delivered the memorial address on behalf of the B.C.-Yukon ‘section of the Labor-Progressive party. F “Joseph Stalin, a man of the people, was loved by all who aspire to freedom, peace, opport- unity, the end of exploitation of man by man,” continued McEwen. “Je was loved by all who toil and are robbed of the fruits of their toil. His loss is a terrible blow to all progressive humanity. “Yet Stalin was hated; hated by a class that is already doomed; by a class that lives and fattens upon the blood, sweat and tears of others. A class that conspires against peace and seeks to pyra- mid its profits and prolong its ex- istence by fomenting new wars, a class which, because of its pow- erful monopoly control of the re- sources of society, seeks also to black out democratic usages and ideas — to poison the minds of- the people, to divide their ranks, to stoop to every infamy to hold on to its vested power and pelf. “Erom the hour of Joseph ’ Stalin’s sickness until the hour of his death, and after, the mon- opoly press, truly mirroring the class for which it speaks, has reached new depths of degener- acy. Never before, nof even in January of 1924 when Lenin @died, has the monopoly press reached such a pitch of insult, provocation and slander against : a people bowed down with grief, as it has done with the illness and death of Joseph Stalin. ‘The capitalist press has offer- ed ‘condolences’ to the Soviet people, ‘condolences’ wrapped’ in threats: President Eisenhower kept his ‘condolences’ strictly within the limits of protocol — d places his hopes in Project X, o ae full advantage of the death of Stalin in order to interfere in internal Soviet affairs, in the hope that the Soviet people can be once again restored to the rule of land: lords and capitalists.” Capitalist hopes of overthrowing the socialist system are doomed to failure, McEwen said, recalling | how previous attempts were smashed. “Twice in the past 35 years ' Joseph Stalin personally led the armies of the Soviet Union against terrific odds—and won through to brilliant victory.” “In the imperialist intervention of 1918-23, when the Soviet Union , ‘was invaded by the armies of 14 nations, Stalin was the leader in the field who, with his war-worn and famine-stricken Red Army, smashed the invading enemy on every front. “Tt would take many volumes to tell the saga of the Soviet people’s struggle against Hitlerism in the second world war — a struggle led by Stalin. Who can ever for- get what the name of Stalingrad signifies? Who can forget the terrible sacrifice, devotion and courageous unity implicit _in Stalin’s ‘scorched earth’ policy, which left the enemy nothing more than a mirage of his dreams? Who can forget the partisans, the men, women and children who fought our battle? | And the man, Joseph Stalin, whose leadership made victory over Ger- man fascism not only possible for the Soviet peoples, but for the peoples of all democratic lands whose finest sons were fighting as comrades-in-arms with their Rus- sian allies? “yet there are many who would like us to forget these historic events. Has not President Hisen- hower said publicly, in his mad desire to recruit all the dregs of the Hitlerite and Japanese forces into his new NATO army, that ‘we should let» bygones he _ by- gones’?” “That is precisely the purpose ‘of the growing intensity of im- perialist hostility towards the Soviet Union — to break if they can, the deep feeling of love and respect which the thinking peo- ple of all countries hold for the Soviet Union, and of the man that was Joseph Stalin. “They think they can set the Jewish people of the world against the Soviet Union by inventing the canard of ‘Red anti-Semitism’ to cover up the crimes of traitors and Project X agents, caught at their work of sabotage and assassina- tion.” ! “They think they can drive a wedge between the Soviet peoples and their leaders by depicting a struggle for leadership in the Com- munist Party of the Soviet Union. At best, they only mirror their own stupidity and depravity. A’ gangster always judges other peo- ple by his own gangster stand- cards.” These plans will fail, declared McEwen. Joseph Stalin’s- last great work was to set down the thesis for the further growth and development of a new world socie- ty—already well advanced towards communism on one-sixth of the earth’s surface. “His great bequests to the So- viet people in the enrichment of the science of Marxism-Lenin- ism is our heritage too,” McEwen concluded. “It is therefore fit- ting that we join with the Soviet people in their sorrow because we too have suffered a heavy loss in the death of Joseph Stalin, the outstanding world statesman and leader of his time.” A telegram, endorsed unani- mously by the audience, was sent to Soviet Premier Malenkov ex- pressing “our deep sorrow to the people of the Soviet Union in this hour of grief.” The wire contin- ued: “Premier Stalin’s invincible lead- ership of the war against fascism, and his inspiring role in mankind’s struggle for peace and friendship between peoples will always be remembered with deepest grati- tude. “His death is a profound blow to all progressive mankind who feel deeply the loss of one of the greatest men of all time. We share your grief and rededicate our effort to carry forward to a victorious conclusion the struggle for peace, independence and, friendship between all nations. “The name of Joseph Stalin will live forever in our hearts. His memory will never fade.” A large drawing of Stalin, drap- ed in a black mourning cloth and flanked by massed flowers, was placed at the front of the stage. Members of the LPP provincial executive were seated behind the chairman and speaker. : First duty to defend peace, Gardners’ reply to Goode’s charges — Ray Gardner, secretary of B.C. Peace Council, and his wife Kay,. who accompanied him to peace conferences in Peking and Vienna last year, have branded as “utterly irresponsible” a charge made by | Tom Goode (Liberal, Burnaby-Richmand) that they are “Russian spies.’” Goode told the House of Commons external affairs committee that people like the Gardners, who are in the Canadian Peace Congress, attend international peace parleys and then come home to “spread their propaganda about germ war- fare” among Vancouver school children. “There is no doubt that. they are spies for Russia,’ he claimed. “Instead of lowering the pres- tige of the House of Commons in > this way, Mr. Goode should pat- riotically’ serve the true inter- | ests of the Canadian people by. defending our country against the disaster of war,’ said the Gardners in a signed statement replying to the Liberal member’s “malicious accusation.” “He—and, for that matter, all members of parliament — might best do this by insisting now up- on an immediate cease-fire in Ko- |. rea. “Our reply to Mr. Goode then, is: Defend peace and defend Canada by supporting the world-wide de- mand for an immediate end to the killing in Korea as the_first guar- antee of preserving peace. “We are determined to continue to serve the cause of peace, ac- cording to the dictates of our con- science and with all the power we can muster. We deem this to be our first patriotic duty.” Companies block strike settlement . Refusal of five major terminal elevators to grant wage and fringe demands of 200 strikers, members of the Grain Workers Union, con- tinues to block efforts to end the strike, which is now in its fourth week. Bernard Wilson of Ottawa, offi- cial of the federal conciliation | branch of the labor department, — said: “I have conferred with both parties, but they are too far apart.” _ The strikers are asking a 12%4- cent hourly wage hike and fringe benefits, but the companies are trying to impose their own de- mand for last year’s wages and conditions. | ‘Everything in Flowers” FROM .... EARL SYKES 56 E. Hastings St. PA. $855 Vancouver, B.C, PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 13, 1953 — PAGE 7