af Seals VOL; 13:.No: 2 ‘ype Go WaT ACTA PEL Vancouver, British Columbia, January 15, 195 <> * PRICE TE la N CENTS / / Linked with Bill 7 ROMP USES McGARTHY “And now, Mr. President, how about helping to clear up the mess” Pact to ban A-weapons key to peace in 1954 MOSCOW- The most important step to- wards world peace that could be taken in 1954 would be a firm international agreement to outlaw atomic, hydrogen and other weap- one of mass destruction, Prime Minister G. M. Malenkov declar- ed here in a New Yeat’s state- ‘ment. The Soviet premier made this statement in reply to four ques- tions directed to him by Kings- bury Smith, European general manager. of International News Service. The questions and answers as broadcast by the Soviet news agency Tass, are as follows: Question: “What are your ‘wishes for the American people for 1954?” Answer: “From the bottom of my heart | wish the American people happiness and a peaceful life. | wish the American people success in developing friendly re- lations with all peoples, and force- ful results in the noble cause of the defense of peace against all attempts to violate it.” Question: “Do you hope that the new year will be marked by strengthening of the bonds of friendship between the people of America and Russia?” Answer: “First of all it is neces- sary to desire improvement of re- lations between our countries. | consider that there are no in- Vancouver Sun champions one victim -- ignores other trinsic barriers preventing that in the new year relations between the Soviet Union and the United States shall now .be improved, and that traditional bonds of friendship between our countries Continued on back page See MALENKOV PATTERN IN SPY YARNS The RCMP is resorting to the methods of the FBI and the McCarthyites in its attempts to influence public opinion. This week a spy scare yarn on the McCarthy pattern —‘'3.000 Soviet-Trained Spies in Canada’’—was blown up into screaming headlines across the country. It was neatly timed to coincide with the opening of parliament and the political struggle to defeat Bill 7 (the revised Criminal Code), with its U.S.-dictated clauses which have been termed “‘the Canadian version of Mc- Carthyism.”’ A Brockville, Ontario, business- man, vouched for by the RCMP as “the genuine article” was pro- jected into the headlines on the basis of completely unfounded and unsubstantiated claims that he believes “there are 3,000 Rus- sian-trained saboteurs living un- derground in Canada.” The man, a Capt. J. H. Degraff, who claims to have been a major in the Russian army and to have worked for MI-5 (British Intelli- gence), drew a picture calculated to delight U.S. Senator McCarthy and his would-be Canadian imita- tors. He found Communists. every- where “continually passing infor- mation to Toronto or to the inter- national headquarters hidden somewhere in Chicago.” A self-admitted spy, he drew on his imagination to justify his at- tacks on the Labor-Progressive party and the Canadian Peace Congress—and the daily news- papers published as “news” as- sertions they would have thrown out if made by any other non- entity. This is the pattern of McCar- thyism: Make unfounded state- Its purpose was to foster hysteria. ments, smear them in the head- lines, inflame public opinion and accomplish an end that other- wise could not be attained. To defeat McCarthyism in Can- ada the end it seeks must be de- feated and this means the defeat of the anti-democratic, anti-labor elauses of Bill 7. PT TE Et Tin i City rally against Bill 7 this Sunday “Keep McCarthyism out of Canada” will be the theme of a concert-meeting to be held in Pender Auditorium this coming Sunday, January 17, at 8 p.m. With parliament now in session and Bill 7 high on the agenda for final reading, the rally will prov- ide Vancouver citizens with an opportunity to protest against Bill 7. Featured speakers will be Harvey Murphy of Mine-Mill and Miss Elspeth Munro, local bar- rister. SUT ECT ee vd ant er ter Pa Por Te tn TT TOT B.C. aroused by instances of McCarthyism British Columbia has had two clear cases of political discrimin- ation in the past two weeks, but the treatment they have receiv- ed in the Vancouver daily press both bares the hypocrisy and il- lustrates the danger to civil rights. : Under the heading, “Kill Mc- Carthyism in B.C.,” an editorial in the Vancouver Sun on January 12 voiced the popular sentiment, “We don’t want McCarthyism to creep into British Columbia.” The Sun was referring to the case of Bruce Woodsworth, a son of the late J. S. Woodsworth, founder of the CCF, who resign- ed as school principal at West- bank and. transferred to a teach- ing position at Rutland, at the re- quest of the deputy minister of education, after a petition had been sent to the department of education. The petition, signed by 137 persons, complained about the ' “astoundingly high” number of failures among students at West- bank’s George Pringle High School taking a social studies exam and asked for Woodsworth’s dismis- sal. The* deputy minister pro- posed that Woodsworth transfer to a teaching position at Rutland, across Lake Okanagan from West- bank, Defending himself, Woodsworth said that the social studies exam had included a new Canadian history course and that the num- ber of failures throughout the province had been high. Apart from the fact that his statement revealed a deplorable situation arising from the lack of import- ance attached to teaching of Can- adian history in the past, his claim generally was borne out by department officials, who said Woodsworth was “a very compe- tent teacher.” Woodsworth, who contested North Okanagan as a CCF can- didate in a provincial byelection in 1945, charged that the ma- Continued on back page See McCARTHYISM