- Ne of them remarked,

STANLEY RYERSON...

‘New humanity of higher
Civilization of socialism

™MALK with some of the young
Canadians.who took part in
the World Youth Festival at
_ Berlin, and you can’t help but be
Struck by something, not easy
to define but exceedingly signifi-
cant. It’s not only the fact that
they’d been on a great journey,
taken part in a demonstration of
tremendous power, met other
young fighters for peace ‘from
“Scores of different countries; not

Only the fact of experiencing the »

full meaning of ° international
Solidarity and peoples’ friend-
Ship; not only the impact of find-
‘ing confirmed on a heroic scale

the correctness of the mass policy ~

Of the united front for peace...
All that, of course, is in it, and
©f no mean importance!

But all of it’s heightened and
accented by something else.

They made contact with ther
People of a new world—with the .

_ Kew people of the higher, socialist
_ Civilization—the new humanity.

‘And in varying measure, this
Contact did something to the
young fighters for peace who
‘Went from Canada. In the dig-
_hity, the modesty and tremendous
Sense of confidence of the young

Seneration of socialism, our dele- |

Bates glimpsed something of the
Mankind of the future; and were
hot unmoved by it! “Afterwards,”
“our peo-
Ple seemed to stand higher than
before,”

“It made us better Canadians,”
Said another. “Something was
added to our feeling about our
country—our pride in Canada and
@nd love for it were deepened.

_ The new, free people of to-
Morrow who will build socialism
in our country are taking shape
in the struggles of today.

Earlier this summer I talked
With a young worker-organizer,
Who told, almost casually, of how
during the winter he had spoken
date one night atone camp, and

oust

in
‘ag whll be at war with Russia
Member to the next in the cloak-

looks, that whisper went from one

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me ade us Sind a visit with Admiral Hiden

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tation heads up American spy and secret service errontt
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countries,

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tn which to tare their -poopl

then set out after midnight to

walk 21 miles through the bush,

to. another, at 28 degress below
zero. He made it, all right. Peo-
ple with that kind of stuff in
them, don’t flinch at' the worst
that a dying gangster-society can
threaten us with, in violence, lies
and filth.

' The new kind of eae grow
in the struggle for peace and
better wages, for the needs of the
neighbourhood and democratic
i Ss.

bea most important change
that takes place in them is a
change in their consciousness.

It is the task of scientific _

socialism, wrote Frederick
Engels,
sciousness of the now oppressed
class, the conditions and nature
‘of the act which it is its destiny
to acomplish.” “By this act, the

‘ending of the rule of capital,

.“Man, at last the master of his

own form of social organization,
becomes at the same time the

lord over nature, master of him- -

self—free.” (Socialism: Utopian
and Scientific, conclusion).

Between tearing away the en-

meshing web of lies that are spun
by the warmakers, and pointing
the path to united action in de-
fense of peace, and spreading the
system that
breeds war for profit, there’s a
live connection. | ;
The working-class, farm or
middle-class family who become
for the first time readers of the
Pacific Tribune, get a new slant
on things, a new understanding
of Canada and the present-day
world and the direction of to-

morrow.

The winning of readers—new ,
subs and. renewals—is a mighty

important part of the struggle
against war, for people’s unity
in action in the plants and the
communities, and for socialist

consciousness.
Let’s not underrate it!

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LETTER FROM MOSCOW

By CHARLES FINE

‘Come back in five years-whole

T WAS in the Stalingrad Trac-

tor Works as we watched the
new sturdy-looking tractors roll
off the assembly. line at the .rate
of one every two minutes that
we realized fully how the labor of
the Soviet people was devoted to
the cause of peaceful production.

In the midst of the roar and
humming of giant machines "I
talked with many of the workers

_ who had shed their blood defend- -

ing their plant. They had seen it
shattered into a twisted hulk of
steel and brick, and then with
boundless hope in themselves and
in the future of their land, re-
turned to build it up brick by
brick, department by department
so that tractors might again roll
off the Jogo lines into the
sehictae? é

Time after time T asked myself,
“Are these the people, so dedicat-
ed to peace, that St. Laurent,
Truman, Acheson say we must
inevitably fight?”

It’s only half the truth to say
that the Soviet people display a
tremendous surging vitality and
joy in their labor, in their daily
living, in their great construction
works of communism,
our first and obvious impression.

After dozens of lively discus-
sions with workers, engineers,
artists, students, Stalin prize-
winners and collective farmers,
we were struck with their pro-

found optimism and confidence —

that the struggle of the peoples
for peace ‘would be triumphant.

In Moscow, we saw this con-
fidence reflected at every turn.
We viewed Moscow University—
magnificent and breath-taking
monument to the culture of the

"new socialist man—in its final

stages of construction. Hundreds
of young workers who have built
it, the bricklayers, electricians,
technicians, will be among the
first to pass through its doors and
enrol in courses of higher educa-
tion. ue

“This” showed us in a-dramatic
way how the division between
manual
labor is being steadily broken

- down and moving towards a com-_
_plete unity in each eas citizen. _

a:

Peter Belov, one of our os

. preters, whose ambition was to

be a historical scientist and who
lost one of his brothers in the

anti-fascist war, said to me on.

our tour through Moscow: “Come
back in five years and the whole
skyline of Moscow weal fa
changed.”

Then he added, as if in ehowar

to the questions the people of —

North America -are ei them-

This was

labor and ‘intellectual —

: selves, “Try to find one man or
woman who wants war! There is
not one family in all our country
who has not lost a brother or a
father or a sister or 2 mother—
not one!” These words under-
lined each of the many activities
of our 24 days touring Moscow,
Stalingrad and the many dozens
of people we were to meet.

I though how similar in spirit
was the enthusiastic National As-
sembly to Save Peace held in To-

\-tonto in April, 1951, with the Uk-

rainian Conference of Defenders
of Peace which we saw in Kiev,
on September 16.

As the Soviet people fined up
to put their signatures to the
petition for a five power peace
pact at the conclusion of the con-
ference, my thoughts turned back
to the evening on Parliament
Street in. Toronto’ when dozens
of the working youth had lined
up in: front of a neighborhood
theatre to sign my petition—in a

different language perhaps, but —

all the same the universal JERS"
uage of peace. ,

I used to. wonder sometimes
when I heard the expression, “The
unanimous Will of the Soviet peo-
ple for peace.” Now I’ve seen it,
and it’s a thousand times true.
Every man, woman and child we
met has the word “Peace” on
their lips because the dream of
peace is in their hearts.

There have. been other notable
things done by the Soviet gov-

ernment. Try to imagine what it
_ feels like to look forward to a 10
to 25 percent decrease in the price

of lamb chops or furniture or but-
ter or pianos, and every year!
Galya, one of aur interpreters,
told me: “We used to have great
holfdays with dancing in the
streets every March 1, because of
the tremendous price reduction.
Now the people are just taking
it for granted that every March

1 the prices will come down, so
‘we don’t bother celebrating it as

a special event any’ more.”
, it’s not enough to say that the
food and- departmental stores

Moscow skyline will be changed‘

were stocked with a great abun-
dance and variety of goods and
that people were crowding in to
snap them up.

In our last few days in Mos-
cow we visited some of the tex-_
t@e, glassware and handicraft
shops, stores that in Canada we
would call high-priced shopping
areas, in ‘many ways similar to
Bloor Street West in Toronto or
‘Granville Street. in Vancouver. |
The men and women, many still
in their working clothes or peas-
ant garb, were standing four and
five deep, eager to buy beautiful
Ural vases, fine textiles and ex
quisite handicrafts.

The streets of Moscow are as
jam-packed with long lines of
cars as the streets of Toronto or
Vancouver. The great majority
are late-model cars. Who buys
these cars? As one example,
was told that most ,miners are
able to buy these: beautiful new
Pobedas or Moskviches. oe

None of. us will ever forget the
profoundly stirring effect that
Stalingrad had on us. This
hero-city (adopted by Toronto in
the Second World War) which is
becoming a lovely garden city,
showed us the heart and the
courage of the Soviet péople, and

the peaceful perspectives of their os

creative labor.

We spent most of a Sunday i
a boat-ride down the Volga, ond

later swimming and talking, with
the young workers and students
of Stalingrad. They showed in- |
tense interest and a deep sense

of brotherhood for us as repre- :

sentatives of the Canadian youth. —
It was here in Stalingrad that I

realized how rich and wonderful —

it would be for the flower of

peace and friendship to bloom

between the Canadian and Soviet _
people. ,

-@ Charles Fine was a Canadian ;

delegate to the recent World ©
Youth Festival for Peace in
Berlin and a member of the
youth delegation which after- _
wards visited the Soviet Union
end seme of tin) Semen Eee

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intention of confiscating the passport of Frank Hardy, novelist, —
and his wife. Hardy is the author of Power Without Glory, |
which has already been translated into 12 languages. On a tour —

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