EW will care to deny that exclusive Yankee control of the atom-bomb . . . yes, even its initial experiment on Hiroshimaand Nagasaki, was and is directed against the’ Union of Socialist Soviet Republics. The record to date is a bit too conclusive to permit denial. Only two weeks ago, parotting the frenzied cry of neo-fascist America and its dupes in Britain, Canada, and elsewhere, columnist Doro- thy Thompson was calling for the atom-bombing of Russian cities now—before the Russians have the bomb. This female Borgia wants to see whole cities and populations wiped out to ap- pease her made-in-the-USA egomania. She, and the warmongering imperialist clique she is hired to write for, are too late. In the course of its researches in the field of nuclear energy, Soviet science has also perfected an atom-bomb. This fact is scarcely “news,” despite the renewed anti-Soviet hysteria which heralds its confirmation in the monopoly press. As far back as November 1947, former Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov declared in the UN that the much-touted “‘secret’’ of the atom ~ bomb “had ceased to exist.” His statement at that time signified that the Soviet Union, in its struggle for world peace, was not sitting idly by while its people and territory were being daily Atom control for peace threatened by imperialist: atomaniacs. Today, as in the past, the Soviet Union leads those nations and peoples demanding de- struction of atom bomb stockpilee—as a con- dition for effective international control of atomic meapons. Yankee imperialism and its dollar-inspired satellites demand international control of atomic development—bui the U.S. reserves to itself the sole right to manufacture and stockpile atom bombs, as a standing and terrible threat against those who refuse to bow down to dollar rule. Possessed by those who defended Stalingrad and fought their way from there to Berlin to free humanity from imperialist-fascist oppression, the argument for the total. outlawing of atomic weapons of destruction is immeasurably strength- ened. And, despite the splenetic outbursts of Canada’s External Affairs Minister L. B. Pear- son, the possibility. for mutual international con- trol and development of atomic energy, for the health progress and wellbeing of humanity— instead of a standing threat of terrible destruction —is now realizable. All that is required is statesmen endowed with common sense reflecting the mass will of the world’s people for peace . . . and quarantining of those possessed with a Dorothy Thompson mentality. Calgary stampede ANK-AND-FILE delegates to the 64th con- vention of the Trades and Labor Congress of Canada at Calgary will have some difficulty assess- ing the constructive results of this nine-day gathering when they report back to their locals. They will have similar difficulty equating the noisy pretences of the right-wingers as the salf-acclaimed champions of democracy with their blatant anti-democratic actions. The rabid anti-Communist hysteria organized by the right wing, and especially the AFL road- men acting on foreign orders, would have provided the appropriate atmosphere for the Chamber of Commerce. It had no place in the TLC conven- tion. The very fact that it was raised to achieve the ends sought by the Chambers of Commerce and ‘to obscure the legitimate demands of the organized workers represented through the TLC exposed it as being directed against all progressive labor. Despite the clashing of gears between the Ben- gough and Hall-AFL sections of the right wing machine, the purpose of transforming the TLC from a tribune of progressive labor into an echo of government policies was largely accomplished, even though the roadmen did not obtain everything they — sought. The “expulsion” nat the’ pile Canadian Seamen’s Union; the “decision” to expel all Com- -munists and “fellow travellers” from TLC affiliates; the move to affiliate the TLC to the Marshall- planned “Free Trade Union” center in opposition ‘to the World Federation of Trade Unions—all ithese “‘decisions” indicate that the TLC has tem- :porarily surrendered its hard-won _ independence, autonomy, and birthright to conform with the dic- tates of dollar imperialism. Such burning issues as wage increases to offset rising living costs (accelerated by deflation), price _controls, social security, housing, which deeply con- cerns every trade unionist and _ his family, and the people generally, were dealt with in typical meat- grinder fashion, without objective discussion or de- cision. Superimposed upon the TLC* obligation to ad- vance the cause of Canadian labor is a new “oath of allegiance,’ designed to clamp a tight thought- control on all future candidates for TLC office. Canadian autonomy, the right of Canadian trade unionists to run their own affairs without in-' terference from a foreign AFL burocracy, suffered a heavy blow. While the AFL meat-grinder was unable to carry its domination all the way, affiliate rank-and-file representation to future TLC conven- tions was cut in half, thus making the job easier for AFL roadmen in future: conventions. : The 1949 Calgary TLC convention will go down, in history as marking a blackout of trade union democracy at top level. Its policies were determined, not by the “properly elected delegates,” as President Percy Bengough boasted at Victoria, but by the powerful interests who speak through “.., a St. James Street controlled press. From here on it now becomes the job, at local union level, to block the disruption and disorganiza- tion formally approved at Calgary, at the insistence of reactionary forces. The bread and butter ques- tion cannot be resolved by shouting “Reds,” but only by united action and working class solidarity which the TLC right wing at Calgary, lige the fatuous King Canute, tried to halt. As the twig is bent N’T let the dollar devaluation get you down. Finance Minister Douglas Abbott tells how | to “beat the racket” in one easy lesson. Last week tht Ottawa Bureau of the scab t Vancouver Daily Province came up with a scoop: = £ 4 . ’ “How to become a minister of waaien ‘with a a : measly $300 capital. Following the First World War, when de- Sedalantion had also clipped the Canadian dollar to + around 80 cents in Yankee currency, “young Doug ; got a job selling tickets at a fair.” Strategically ’ placed, every time Doug got an American $10 bill ' from a_ tourist “he tried—usually . successfully—to give him $9 Canadian exchange.” ' gupped the tourist one buck in every ten. When Doug’s capital of $300 Canadian was * all exchanged for Yankee dollars (the question of aces to the outfit he was selling tickets for doesn’t _ prematurely soured in his “‘socialist”’ That is, he seem to have bothered Doug any more than the business of short-changing his customers in this dual transaction in high finance) Doug’s sister took the money to the bank to collect the 20 percent — premium. Describing this as “‘his first elinita: into the realms of high finance,’ Finance Minister Abbott concluded with a knowing smile, a made about $700 in a week.” On the same day Catstines were Secthns this lesson in ministerial morality, Sir Stafford Cripps, vinegar of austerity, was appealing to: “‘all classes’’ not to speculate, inflate, deflate . . . or otherwise take an unfair advantage of a twenty-shilling pound marked down to the value of fourteen to swell the profits of the Wall Street money changers. And these are the people who lecture Canadian. and British housewives on _ thrift, morality—and the “Reds!” Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe Street, Vancouver. pr TOM McEWEN As We See lt aa COURSE on “Soviet economy” at the UBC under the direction of Dr. Hans Roinmois, based on the Doktor’s thesis that paradise have never seen an ice — cream cone,’ may lack much in the way of basic education, but — at least it will be entertaining. And who enjoys a good horse-laugh ~ “., . children in the workers’ better than. students, In the field of biology at UBC, instruction will be a bit more serious for thinking students. Back in August another “refugee” professor made his “cold war’’ debut in the columns of our “free press,‘ a Dr. Vladimir Krajina, late of Czecho- slovakia. Dr. Krajina is a noted “biologist,” specializing in botany. “lived through a number of hard years. . . first — the Nazis, and then the Communists—forced jina’s claim that he was a great “fighter” for the freedom of the Czech nation, left a number of biological questions unanswered. Soviet bioligists Ivan Michurin and T. D. Lysenko have exploded formal “heredity” in biology and provided “concrete methods for conscious; (directed control over the organic world; has pointed out a way of transforming the nature of organ isms in the direction desired by mam.” Dr. Krajina’s “biological” activities had a Hitlerite motif ‘for “directed control over the organic world,’ which a Prague court fully recognized in November, 1948, when it sentenced him (i! absentia) to 25 years imprisonment for his activities between May 1945 amd February 1948—activities which had little to do with botany, but much to do with counter-revolutionary activities against the people’s government of Czechoslovakia, provocations against the , USSR, and alleged espionage work for certain “Western powers.” From the official documents at his trial—his own and his Nazi protectors—an ugly picture of a “botanist” emerges. Not that of 2 scientist seeking to fathom the moods of nature and direct her ton , greater abundance, but a cowardly Nazi collaborator, ready an willing to send his own people to the Nazi gallows and the firing squad to save his own miserable hide. K. H. Frank, Reichsprotektor of Munich-betrayed Czechoslovakia, with characteristic German methodicalness, kept voluminous notes of his “talks” with “botanist” Krajina. When the Red Army liberated Czechoslovakia in its sweep from Stalingrad to Berlin, — Reichsprotektor Frank and his notes were caught in the net. In ~ Prague’s notorious Pankrac prison—where numberless brave Czech — patriots were tortured and killed by the Nazis, Reichsprotektor Frank completed his diary, hoping, like every base criminal 59 doing, to save his own neck. The Czech press published these notes and Krajina agen ents during the summer of 1948. Reichsprotektor Frank “was especially worried about the cold- According to his story on arrival, he had — him to abandon his work in botany.” Dr. Kra- 4 & blooded betrayal and murder of British parachutists in Czecho- — a slovakia. So: “All I know about English parachutists is that i) connection with the Heydrich affair and afterwards, several English parachutists were caught here and imprisoned. I further know that Dr. Krajina, whom I myself persuaded to give reports on the underground movement, and his fellow workers, and whom promised if he complied with my request, to guarantee his life and that of his wife, handed over important reports on B parachutists, . , . “I can state definitely that he would follow my advice and ee over to the Sicherheitdienst (security police) all the informatio? he had about parachutists in the Czech underground movement. The importance of jina’s information lay in the fact that on the basis of it we could start to organize a well-planned fight by the Gestapo against the parachutists being dropped from England. — On this basis it was possible for the Gestapo to capture parachutists, who, if found willing, could be used to work wie London and betray the other parachutists to be dropped.” We Space does not permit a full resume of the “botanical” re- searches of this professor upon whom the Nazis conferred the honor of “Sgnderheaftlinge” (special prisoner), but Terzin concentration ys camp Commandant Heinrich Noechel-Pinda wrote peevishly in camp files: “I got.an earlier order to prepare a special room fF Krajina with electri light, white feather bedding, wardrobe 204 two beds . . . for Krajina and his wife. During the day : walked around the grounds, lay in the sun, cultivated flowers and— played volley-ball. Yes, he cultivates flowers because . . - he isc? botany expert.” Dr, Bondy, Dr. Fisher, Dr. Kaufmann, Dr. Liska . . -eneit names are legion . betrayed in their struggle to win freedom for Czechoslovakia, didn’t fare so well. They didn’t cultivate flowers after the fashion of “botanist” Krajina. Many of them, like English parachutists, died in the Nazi concentration. camps. — contribution to botany brought to full bloom the si Ves flower ef Czech freedom. Students of eee at UBC should have little aimiculy ; understanding why the Nazis encouraged Dr. Krajina to puts 4 his special brand of “botany”—and why the Communists “force . him to abandon his work.” With the Czech people at least, treaso tHe is not rewarded by granting the Krajinas dies) opportunity 3 io d teach treason with “botany” as a sideline, ‘Daily: press headline: “NOTED BOTANIST COMES TO uBo! dl Chums ae be a finvige neues ClNIE ia Mh hn at{lovavennaad onanevess »| is sevsttffhayouthasraas By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. Telephone MA. 5288 he pa TomMowwen <0. ici be tet eA suEie ess Bditor Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $135. Published Weekly at 650 Howe Street © PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 30, 1949 — . PAGE i