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Freedom for Cyprus

FXILED to the Seychelles Is-

lands over one year ago by

Rot British Conservative govern:
F’™ent, Archbishop Makarios,

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Spiritual leader of the struggle

Of the Cyprian people for inde-

Pendence, has been released. His
Telease, however, does not per-
mit his return to Cyprus. :

For years the British have
been fighting a losing and costly
battle to hold Cyprus in colon-
lal bondage. Martial law, impris-
‘tment, executions and mass
Penalties have not weakened the
determination of the Cypriot
“People for independence and
Nhity with their national home
“nd, Greece. By the arrest and
‘Sxlling of Archbishop’ Makarios
the British Colonial Office mere-
ly compounded its difficulties.
Even before his official re’
lease from the Seychelles, Arch-
bishop Makarios made it clear
'0 Britain that: he would refuse
9 negotiate any settlement of
the Cypriot demand for inde:
“Pendence, unless and until he

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was returned to Cyprus.

Like the Bourbons, the Bri-

tish Conservatives learn noth-
ing — although the lessons of

the Irish and- Indian struggles
are clear , that the struggle of a
people for freedom cannot be
denied.

ESPITE rising world protest
against Britain's projected
hydrogen bomb test at Christmas
Island in the Pacific, Prime Min-
ister Harold Macmillan, fresh
from his Bermuda talks with
U.S. President Eisenhower, has
declared that the H-bomb test is
“essenial to Britain’s defense and
must go on.”

The Christmas Island testing
ground is only a little more than
200 miles south of the densely
populated island of Java, and
only a little farther from Sumat-
ra, while the “danger zone’ is
stated by British authorities to
be within a radius of not less
than one thousand miles.

The people of Japan have pro-
tested strongly against this H-
bomb test and proposals for a
“peace navy’ (volunteers who
will sail into the H-bomb areas
as a protest) are widespread in
a country which cannot afford
to forget Hiroshima and Naga-
saki.

Ban the H-tests

‘Essential to defense!’’ Every
country engaged in these horror
tests can advance the same argu-
ment, and especially the Soviet
Union which has had some bit-
ter experiences with imperialist
intervention, war and devasta-
tion during the past 37 years.
But there is no “defense” against
strontium 90 resulting from nuc-
lear tests,

The British H-bomb _ test
should be banned by the power
of world moral protest. That
achieved, the United States and
the Soviet Union would be com-
pelled to follow suit, and all
mankind could. breathe easier in
a world gradually returning to
sanity.

The only real ‘defense’’
against H-bombs is to outlaw
their manufacture, testing, and
use. And the only power strong
enough to enforce that ban is
the power of united world opin-
ion.

Tom
McEwen

pA CELEING with union
funds is an old American cus-
imm. Many of the top brass of
the old American Federation of
Labor were quite adept at the
business, as some of their “es-
tates” revealed when death had
closed the book.

In the old days, the profit-
grasping monopolists, themselves
playing the grab game without
regard for moral codes or ethics,
weren't too disturbed when some
union bureaucrat dabbled in real
estate, the stock market, confi-
dence games~ or bawdy houses

with the funds of the union he’

controlled.

Then the big free enterpris-
ers were more concerned on how
best they could smash unions by
trickery, violence and Pinker-
ton agents. Money was no prob-
lem in the business of union
smashing, and courts, judges,
police and goons were bribed or
hired to do the job.

To scab was held to be the
highest “patriotic” duty of every
freeborn citizen looking for a
job. “Freedom to work” was

rated equal with freedom to steal
—legally.

Todayit is a little different
... but not much. The hue and
ery in the U.S. after Dave Back,
international president of the
Teamsters’ Union, is not because
the big boys of the National Man-
ufacturergs Association are “mor-
ally outraged” that the Team-
sters’ leader and a few of his
chief lieutenants may have done
very well by themselves in the
use (or misuse) of union funds.

The real reason for jumping
on Beck is not because that port-
ly official has played the game
a bit fast and loose. Having
abandoned all morality, the mon-
opolists are scarcely in a _ posi-
tion to moralize on the failings
of those who follow their ex-
ample, It is necessary to look
deeper for the reason.

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The attack of Beck is basical-
ly an attack on organized labor
—to destroy the confidence and
trust of ‘millions of workers in
their unions.

In certain areas of darkest Am-
erica the labor “spy” has become
a top-ranking official. Teamster
union organizers and others who
have gone into unorganized areas
to bring unionization to under-

.paid workers, become the im-

mediate targets of “labor spy”
groups.

Ex-FBI. stooges, armed with
lapel cameras, tape recorders,
microphones, all the paraphan-

alia of spy and snoop, dog every
hour of these union organizers,
awake or asleep. When one spy
comes “off shift’” another goes
on. Not a few strike up an acquain-
tance with their union victim.
Should he manifest any weak-
ness for “wine, women or song,”
he is a gone goose. The spies are
supplied with plenty of funds to
advance any weaknesses the un-
ion organizer may have — mean-
while building up a damning do-
sier for reference (and smear)
later on. This is the new monop-
oly technique, of which the
teamsters and other unions are
the targets.

I hold no briefs or sympathy
for union brass of the stamp of
Dave Beck, and have no doubt
that in the long run his own
membership will deal with him
as he deserves. But when hund-
reds of FBI labor spies are turn-
ed loose on a union to provide
smear ammunition for a U.S.
Senate committee on which the
infamous Senator Joseph Mc-
Carthy is one of the be-
lowing anti-union virtuosos, then
I’m prepared to sink my dislike
of Beck for the larger job ahead,
that of defending the integrity,
rights, and union of a million
anda half workers.

The Teamsters’ Union can deal
with its Becks, but it takes a lot
of unions and a lot of unity to
deal effectively with the FBI-
Pentagon sponsored un-Ameri-
can smear department of the 20th
Century union busters.

APRIL 5, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 7