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Premier Stalin addressing CPSU 19th

Congress

Here. Premier Joseph Stalin is seen as he delivered his closing speech to thé 19th Congress of the
Communist Party of the Soviet Union in Moscow recently. Directing his remarks to fraternal delegates,
Stalin said, “The banner of. zourgeois democratic freedom ha sbeen cast overboard. I thing that you, the
representatives of the Communist and democratic parties will have to pick up this banner and carry it
ahead, if you are to rally the majority of the people around you. There is no one else to pick it up.”

November 7 most important
date in history of world, —
Whyte tells anniversary rally

“The Russian Revolution was the most important political event in history,” said Bert Whyte,
Pacific Tribune staff writer, at a November 7 rally in Hastings Auditorium last Sunday evening.
“Tt tore one-sixth of the world out of the orbit of capitalism and gave birth to the new world sys-
tem of socialism. It smashed the capitalists in Russia, removed from their grasp the means of pro-
duction and made the mills, factories, land, railways and banks the property of the whole people.

It established the dictatorship of
the proletariat, making the working
class the ruling class. It opened
the door to a new era in mankind’s
history—the era of protetarian re-
volutions.” ’

Whyte outlined the struggle of
the peoples of the Soviet Union to
recover from the effects of the
years of intervention by 14 capi-
talist states which tried to crush
the revolution at its birth, and.
Went on to describe the advances
made during the first three Five
Year Plans.

“Befor the Second World War
broke out, the Soviet Union had
completed three Five Year Plans,
which transformed the USSR
from an agrarian to an industrial
country in slightly more than 13
years,” he said. “No other coun-
try in the world’s history has ever

registered such astounding pro-
grss in (so short a time.”
When Hitler sent his armies

Marching across the Soviet bord-

ers on June 22, 1941, the Soviet

Social system faced its greatest
test, Describing how it passed
this test, the speaker quoted from
a speech. made by Premier Stalin
at an election meeting in Moscow
on February 9, 1946.

“As we know, the foreign press.
On more than one occasion assert-
ed that the Soviet social sytem
Was a ‘risky experiment’ that was
doomed to failure, that the Soviet
System was a ‘house of cards’ hav-
ing no foundations in life and im-
Posed upon the people by the
Cheka, and that a slight shock
from «without was sufficient ‘to:
Cause this ‘house of cards’ to col-
apse.

“Now we can say that the war has
refuted all these assertions of the
foreign préss and has proved them
to have been groundless. The war
Proved that ‘the Soviet social sys-
tem is a genuinely people’s system,
Which grew up from the ranks of
the people and enjoys their power-
ful support; that the Soviet social

-system is a fully viable and stable
form of organization of society.”

The Nazis had imagined that the
devastation they had wrought would
turn back industrial development in
the Soviet Union a quarter of a
century. “But the Soviet people
decided. otherwise,” said Whyte.
“They repaired the damages of war
in five years.”

Turning to the dangers of a third

‘world avar, the speaker continued:

“During the first world war Lenin
said that if mankind did not learn
the lesson from that war, then a
second worldiwar would follow, and
if the lesson should still not ba
learned, then a third world war
would take place.

Students hit
leadership
for veto

TORONTO

The veto by top leaders of the
National Federation of Canadian
University students of the move for
student exchange between Canada
and the Soviet Union is being
strongly condemned’ at many uni-
versities. ‘

Students’ Administrative Council
of University of Toronto at an,
emergency meeting ‘voted 15-6 for
a motion to “approve the principle
of a Canadian-Soviet student ex-
change, and look into the feasibility
of this university sponsoring such an
exchange.”

The following day, students at the
University of Saskatchewan voted
48-29 in favor of working with Uni-
versity of Toronto for the exchange.

The next meeting of the Students’
Society at McGill University in
Montreal will discuss a motion re-
commending that McGill support the
exchange plan if nine other univer-

sities go along with it.

united under America’s leadership’

“The lesson Lenin referred to was
that the insoluble contradictions of
capitalism and imperialism inevit-
ably breed war, and that any dream
of permanent peace within capital-
ism, no matter by what machinery,
is a dangerous and demoralizing de-
‘lusion.

“But Lenin was not thereby
preaching a fatalistic doctrine of the
inevitability of a series of world
wars. :

“On the contrary, he was pointing!
out the path of struggle which the
working class and the people must
adopt, the struggle against imperi-
alist war and against imperialism.
‘Marxism has always taught that the
strength of the working;class and
the peoples can check a particular
menace of war, and can in this
struggle and by the time thus jgain-
ed advance in strength to its final
goal of ending capitalism and im-
perialism, which will alone finally,
remove the causes of twar.” —

Terming Wall Street's plans for
a grand alliance of capitalist states

to launch a war against the Soviet
Union “a pipe-dream,” the speaker
said that U.S. policy, which is
squeezing its satellites to the wall
economically, has intensified the an-
tagonisms within the world of cap-
italism.

“The history of politics since No-
vember 7, 1917, is a history of strug-
gle between the old and dying ¢api-
talist world and the new world of
socialism, a struggle which proceeds
and will proceed apace, until the
final victory of socialism,” conclud-
ed Whyte,

“Today the whole world is mov-
ing toward socialism. Nothing will
halt this forward movement of the
peoples. Under the conditions

- existing in Canada today, the path
to socialism leads through the
transformation of our parliament
from the instrument of the capit-
alist minority into an instrument
of the will of the majority of the |

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SPORTLIGHT

By BERT WHYTE

THE PROBLEM facing young people in the trade unions as
regards recreation and all its aspects will be thoroughly discussed at
a meeting November 24, 8 p.m. at the YMCA. -Vancouver and
District Trades and Labor Council (AFL-TLC) and Vancouver
Labor Council (CCL) are sending delegates.

A letter from R. Sargenson, secretary of an “Interim Committee
on Union Recreation,” explains how the meeting was arranged.
He writes:

“A meeting held recently in the YMCA attended by rep-
resentatives from the Community Chest and Council, Com-
munity Arts Council, YMCA, UBC Extension Department,
Provincial Recreation and the Vancouver Park Board and a
group of young seamen, discussed the problem facing young
people in the trade unions as regards recreation.

“It was felt that while there are sports and recreation
programs sponsored by the various trade unions they are not
participated in by the vast majority or are very limited pro-
grams. The result is that most young people look and go else-
where for their sports and recreation.

“The committee feels that a coordinated and organized
program on the part of the trade unions is needed.”

Trade unions are asked to send delegates to this meeting.
further information phone Miss Donalda McRae, PA. 2288.

* ; * * |

MASSES OF MUSCLE will be unveiled at the Gala Strength and
Health Display at Central YMCA, Burrard and Nelson, on the evening of
Saturday, November 15. The event is being sponsored by the British!
Columbia Amateur Weightlifters’ Association and the Amateur Wrestling
Association of B.C. :

» On the program will be Doug Hepburn, billed as “the world’s
strongest man,” and Nick Mohammed, Canadian amateur wrestling
champion and one of this country’s representatives at the recent Olympic
Games.

Other events include a team contest by senior weightlifting champs,
a judo exhibition by the Vancouver Judo Club, amateur wrestling bouts
and gymnastics. =

Admission is only half a buck for adults and two bits for kids,
payable at the door.

* * *

VANCOUVER FOLKS are taking to the idea of a “new deal
Citizens’ Stadium” at Exhibition Park to make the British Empire
Games something everyone can attend. But East End residents are
up in arms over a ‘proposal to construct the much-discussed swim~
ming pool near the War Memorial gymnasium at UBC. They feel
the logical place for the pool is somewhere in the working class end
of the city, where underprivileged youngsters will be able to use it
in the years to come. : :

Our bumbling NPA aldermen have made a mess of the British
Empire Games preparations to date, and this should be borne in
mind when the voters go to the polls December 10. A new city
council could mean a new attitude towards the BEG.

For

people.”

DOUG HEPBURN
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 14, 1952 — PAGE 11

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