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Seoul free again.

Thousands of Seoul citizens, like those shown above, were forced
by U.S. military authorities to leave their city on the eve of its
‘ liberation—for the second time in six nionths—by advancing People’s
Army troops. But already they are returning to begin anew the task
of clearing the destruction left by the fleeing Americans.

CONTINUED FROM FRONT PAGE

Raids makePyongyang
‘city of undying fires’

‘broke under determined attacks
of the Korean People’s Army,
military convoys ruthlessly shoved
civilian refugees off the roads
‘and raced ahead. “The Americans
seem to be obsessed with the fear
of being cut off in their rear,” a
‘Chinese correspondent wired his
paper in Peking.

i Two companies of Australian
infantrymen were left to fight a
delaying action covering the with-
drawal of the U.S, 24th division
in one sector, repeating the prac-
tice established in the forced
withdrawal from North Korea
when Turkish forces were cut to
pieces covering the retreat south-
east of Kunuri and British troops

were used to hold up Korean~-’

People’s Army Units pursuing
US. forces below Pyongyang.

(In Turkey there were demands
for resignation of the government
because of the heavy casualties
suffered by Turkish troops in
Korea.)

One correspondent described the
“nightmare scene” at) Seoul’s main
airstrip as shells screamed over-
head, plane engines roared and
“scattered groups of GI’s stood
around waiting to get out.”

It remained for a correspondent
of the British Reuters agency,
however, to provide the most re-

vealing insight into the flight y

from Seoul.

Some of the “scattered groups
‘of GI’s” at the airstrip were
“bumped” from one of the last
planes to leave ‘the strip by a
brigadier general. The general
wanted the space for his pri-
vate bathtub,

All across the front Korean and
troops, supported by
tanks, punched great holes in !U.S.
lines and drove’ through to
threaten the American rear. -
PEKING
. “Pyongyang today is a formid-
able witness of monstrous atro-
cities perpetuated and still being

_perpetuated in Korea under the

United Nations flag by the Ameri-
can and British interventionists

and their Syngman Rhee hench-
men.” This is what a correspon-
dent of Pravda writes from lib-
erated Pyongyang in a dispatch
reprinted by Chinese papers.

He reports that the Americans
strove to paralyse the life of the
city completely, by demolishing
electric supply lines, destroying
substations, blowing up the water
reservoir dam and damaging the
water main. “From morning till
evening the attack planes hover
above the city, firing at every
cart and every pedestrian. Ameri-
can air raids against the city are
so intensive that today Pyongyang
may be called a city of undying
fires, although there is not a
single military objective in it
any more,” he writes.

On the morning of December 5
American authorities ordered all
the residents to evacuate the city
on pain of death. Women with
children on their backs, old men
carrying their belongings and
young people with suitcases went
to the reinforced concrete bridge.
Within a few hours there were
so many people gathered at the
bridge that there was no place
to take a single step. And when
the last group of people under
escort had arrived, the briage was
blown up and thousands of
Pyongyang residents were buried
under the debris, Those who acci-
dentally escaped death were
tommygunned on the spot by the
American soldiers. ~

Stating that “despite terror and
cruel persecution, the people of
Pyongyang did not cease struggle
for one minute,” the Pravda cor-
respondent tells how, at the be-
ginning of November, prepara-
tions were under way for a ban-
quet to be held in the building
of a store in honour of Syngman
Rhee’s arrival in Pyongyang. The
celebration did not take place.
Half an hour before the beginning
of the banquet, a mine planted
by the guerillas exploded in the
main hall. The traitor to the Kor-
ean people left Pyongyang very
soon.”

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Labor Board ruling |
‘most anti-labor
act ever committed’

Action of the Labor Relations Board of Canad
adian Seamen’s Union as bargaining agent for
from two powerful B.C. unions.

a in cancelling certification of the Can-
Branch Lines has drawn sharp protests

Marine Workers and Boilermakers Union sent a scalding letter to federal Labor Min-

ister Milton Ff. Gregg, terming the board’s
ted by a government body.”
signed by secretary William Stewart.

The letter,
“The trade union movement of
all affiliations has always fought
consistently for the right of
workers to belong to a union of
their own choice, Long before’ the
LRB or the Industrial Relations
and Disputes Investigation Act
were ever contemplated, organized
labor had established this prin-
ciple.
“The workers employed by the
steamship company in question

‘had freely chosen to be members

of the CSIU and until they and
they alone choose to leave the
CSU, no government board has
the power to destroy their barg-
aining rights ..., This judgment
is an attempt to smash a trade
union at the behest of the em-
ployer.

“On behalf of the Marine
Workers and Boilermakers In-
dustrial Union, Local No. 1, we
petition you to immediately re-
scind this action and compel the
LRB to reverse its anti-demo-
cratic and illegal action.”

An editorial in the Mine-Mill
Union News blasts the LRB de-
cision and asks:

“What point of law is there
in the Dominion Act that gave
the board the authority? What
precedent is there? None at all!
We have heard the minister of
labor, Hon. Milton Gregg, solemn-
ly declare that Canada will have
no Taft-Hartley Act, which was
reaffirmed by Prime Minister St.
Laurent, yet this action has been
taken.

“Tf on these grounds (alleged
communist views of its officers)
unions can be decertified as the
Labor Relations Board of Canada
sets out, then any time an em-
ployer wants to decertify a union
all he has to do is apply on the
grounds and charge any of its
officers with having political
views that he does not like, and
the workers are denied a union
they want and support.’

“Every person, every local un-
ion should protest this completely
undemocratic and dangerous rul-
ing” (the revocation of CSU certi-
fication by the Canada Labor
Relations Board), is the editorial

‘warning of the Fishermen, official

publication of the United Fisher-
men and Allied Workers Union.
The UFAWU, which is affiliated
to the Trades and Labor Congress
of Canada has approximately
7,000 members.

SUDBURY
The official publication of the
13,000-strong Mine-Mill Inco Local
598 said editorially in its current
issue that the action of the Can-
ada Labor Relations Board in
revoking the certification rights
of the Canadian Seamen’s Union
“must be challenged by trade
unions across our country.”
Pointing out that “no trade
union is safe so long as such a
precedent remains on _ record,”
the Mine-Mill publication went on
to say: “The revocation was a
unanimous Board decision, in-
cluding A, R. Mosher, president of
the Canadian Congress of Labor,
ahd was based on the claim that
the CSU participated in an in-
dustry-wide strike and on the
alleged politieal beliefs or offil-

iations of the leaders of the

union.”

Seat China in the UN!

move. “the most anti-labor act ever commit-

went on to say, in part:

fo speak in city

Vancouver citizens will have an
opportunity to hear Joseph Zu-
ken, well kn¥wnJewish labor
leader and Winnipeg school trus-
tee, on Thursday, January 11, at
8:30 p.m., in the Jewish Com-
munity Center, where he will re-
port at a mass meeting on his
recent trip to the Warsaw Peace
Congress and his visit to Israel.

CONTINUED

DEMAND

The ‘Cease Fire” Committee of
the UN, of which Lester Pearson
is a member, is a U.S. attempt to
prolong the crisis. There is on-
ly one way to end the invasion
of Korea:

1, The withdrawal “of foreign
troops;

2. The seating of Pedple’S China
in the UN.

8. A policy of non-interference
in the internal affairs of Korea.

Continuation of intervention can
lead only to more bloodshed, to

Canadian casualties, to a spread- |

ing of the war in the Far East,
to its extension to a world war,
which is what MacArthur wants.

Canadian responsibility in Ko-

rea is plain; to make a start in |
the direction of peace by bringing ©

home the units of the Special
Force which are now in Korea
and preparing to go into battle.
The independence struggle of the
Korean people will not and can-
not be defeated. All Canadian
soldiers will do is to be the pawn
of MacArthur, human sacrifices to
his mad scheme to enslave China.

Let no Canadian blood be spill-
ed in this criminal tmperialist

' venture. Let no more Korean men:

and women and children be
slaughtered.

Peace, by withdrawal of our
troops and letting the Koreans
run their own affairs — that is
the only sane and democratic po-
licy consistent with the spirit and
letter of the [UN charter.

Bring the Princess Pats home!
Stop the
interference in Korean people’s
affairs,

Tell the government this, fel-
low Canadians!

CONTINUED

NEW YEAR

aims and policies of the power-
crazed monopolists and militarists
of Wall Street and Washington.

‘They pretend that Canadian econ-

omy depends upon the U.S. war
program, In international affairs
they are making the official voice
of Canada a shield for U.S. ar-.
rogance,

They are undermining Canadian
democracy at home by unscrup-
ulous methods which in some
cases are brazenly illegal—for ex-
ample, the recent denial to Great
Lakes seamen of the right to
bargain through the union of
their own almost unanimous
choice, the CSU. The drive to
integrate our country and its

“aims and policies in the U, S.

drive to dominate the world, en-
dangers our land, our lives, our
country’s independence, the ele-
mentary rights as well as the
hopes of every Canadian.

But because the overwhelming
majority of democratic Canadians
want peace, want to keep our
ocuntry out of war, great and
far-reaching posibilities are open-
ing up before the progressive
movement. It is possible to take
our country out of the war camp.
It is possible to make Canada
an active, positive force for peace

and for the peaceful co-existence’

of the socialist and imperialist
sectors of the world. It is possible

“to mobilize democratic public un-

ion in strength sufficient to com-

pel the St. Laurent government |

to recognize and establish diplo-

matic relations . with People’s
China,
The tasks confronting the

working-class movement are mul-
tifarious: to maintain workers’
and farmers purchasing ‘power
in the face of the growing infla-
tion, to defend democratic rights
in the face of the fascist aims of
the monopolists, to strengthen
and extend the demand for res-
toration of the legality of the UN
by honoring its Charter—these
and all the multitude of tasks that
they characterize are, today, all
pant of the all-pervading issue of
peace or a third worid war,

The - Labor-Progressive party
enters 1951 under the banner of
the struggle for pea¢e. We will
join hands with all peace-loving
forces in joint action to defeat
the imperialist warmongers and
keep our country out of war. The
five hundred million signaltures
to the historie Stockholm petition
is our guarantee that the camp

of peace is the camp of the over-

whelming majority of mankind;

that, and the sharpening contra-

dictions of national interest be-
tween the imperialist powers, is

.conclusive evidence that a third

world war can be prevented; the
monumental achievements of
socialist economy in the Soviet
Union and the People’s Demo-
cratic Republics since the war
is our absolute guaranittee of the
final victory of socialism,

Forward in the fight for united
action!

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