First step to general
dirarmament reduction
of all armed forces

The “final goal of all defenders of p? Dace.’
tions, adopted by the Warsaw World Peace Congress,

says. the
“is general and complete disarm-

Address to the United Na-

ament.” And the first step on the road to this final goal is the reduction of the exist-

ing armed forces. Without

Of such simplicity—cutting like a
hot knife through butter—is the
peace program adopted by the
spokesmen for the majority of the
two billion people of, the human
race when they gathered in strick-

en but triumphant Warsaw.

The 9-point program of peace
adopted there on November 23,
1950, has to be taken to’every man
and woman in Canada. It is a
mighty job, but one without which
peace cannot be imposed on the
warmakers.

It is because the threat of world
war is so grave, that the peace
movement has become so strong.

I appeal to every reader of the
Pacific Tribune to. make these 9
points his or her personal property.
They were not “handed down” to
the 2,000 delegates from- 80 coun-
tries who met in Warsaw. Each
point was debated and discussed.
Not every delegate succeeded in
having each: point adopted as he
would have liked.

Flexibility between Mohammed-
and and Christian, socialist, Cath-
olic, Communist and liberal; col-
‘onial liberationist, advanced so-
cialist builder, American and
Korean, Canadian and Brazilian
—all combined, compromised, ar-
gued and sought to establish one
common language among 80 na-
tions, one common idea amidst a
myriad of ideas, to produce the
9-point Warsaw Program which
can bring peace by transforming

the UN int)p what it was meant |

to be, influencing their own par-

liaments, organizing the “will for

peace” instead of talking only
about the need for peace.

This was a people’s united front,
a great people’s coalition transcend-
ing. frontiers and languages and
creed. It was not a Communist
Congress.

None were so flexible, none so
cooperative, as the most advanced
Communists in the world, the 65-
man Soviet delegation. They, for
example, had at their own Soviet
Peace Congress decided to propose
a list of warmongers for proclama-
tion at Sheffield and Warsaw, Sens-
ing that this would perhaps not, at
this' time, be unanimously. agreed
upon, the Soviet delegation refrain-

modern armaments there can be no modern warfare.

ed from making the proposal al-
though, quite naturally, they them-
selves must have felt it was a good
idea,

And so it went, throughout the
week of long meetings, close discus-
sion in commission, to produce the
most clear-cut, unambiguous docu-
ment—a world document on peace
free from double-talk and going
straight to the point.

PT readers, among the best Can-
adian fighters for peace, should re-
alize that the peace movement, as
distinct from the best organized
peace front—the Canadian Peace
Congress—goes far beyond the Con-
gress itself. Anyone who sincerely
works for peace, any group which
takes up honestly, on its own terms,
the fight for peace, no matter who
or what that person or that group
is, contributes to the peace move-
ment.

It is for those who most ener-
getically desire peace, those with
the best will for it and the best
conviction that it can be achiev-
ed, to take it up everywhere, in
every church, union, fraternal so-
ciety, no matter where—so that
the idea ‘of peace cah be driven
home.

Every PT reader belongs to some
association. It is there that the
question of peace must be raised—
not only through the Peace Con-
gress, but by individuals no matter
where they may. be. That is the
kernel of the ‘broadening and
‘deepening” of the peace movement
which Warsaw called for.

Peace is nobody’s monopoly. It
is everybody’s business!

The Warsaw nine points are the
best and most effective peace pro-
gram, but even then, it is not nec-

essary for peace fighters to adopt:
them altogether—but to use the,

points most adaptable to each group
of people—whether it be recogni-
tion of China, war propaganda, the
rearming of Germany, disarma-
ment—to bring the greatest num-
ber of people into action. There
is the flesh and blood of peace
unity.

The nine points are magnificently
placed. Here are the headings—
and you can readily see how applic-

able they are to governments, to
the UN, to people’s organizations
of all descriptions, to all churches,
to every individual and every fami-
ly:

1. End the war in Korea by
withdrawing all foreign troops
and seating China in the UN; end
the intervention in Viet-Nam and
Formosa (Taiwan).

2. No rearming of Japan and
Germany; peace treaties with
both, and remove occupation
troops.

3. The right of colonial peoples
to independence, free from vio-
lence, intervention. -No racial
discrimination.

4. Aggression is committed by
that state which first employs
armed force under any pretext
whatsoever, against another state,
and such aggression must be re-
garded as an international crime.

5. Passage of an act by all
parliaments to make it a crime
to make pilopaganda for war.
(Hungary and Czechoslovakia
have passed such laws since the
Warsaw Congress.)

6. An international court to ex-
amine war crimes, starting with
the responsibility of MacArthur
in Korea.

%. Work for complete and gen-
eral disarmament, starting with
cutting arms by one-third to one-
half in 1951-52, and banning all
terror weapons, inspecting and
controlling this decision by the
UN, even where existence of these
weapons is suspected.

8. Normal trading relations be-
tween all countries.

9. Better and freer cultural re-
lationships between all countries
to promote world friendship.

These are not academic demands;
they are being put before the UN
by the new World Council of Peace,
on which Dr. J. G. Endicott and
Arthur Wray, MLA (Alberta), sit
for Canada. They are suited for
presentation to the parliament of
Canada, at its 1951 session. Surely
we have here the Program for
Peace. What we need is the will
for it, by everyone, everywhere, no
matter where men and women and
young people gather.

Strange allies for ‘peace’

Are these Nazi troops, reconstituted as a West German army, to be
the new defenders of “democracy” in Europe? Are the Atlantic
pact powers, having taken for themselves Hitler’s anti-communist

slogans and increasingly adapted

his methods, now to take over

his armies? These are the questions facing the Canadian people
¥oday as a result of the recent Brussels meeting. As 1951 opens the
Canadian people find themselves committed by the St, Laurent
government to fighting peoples who were their allies in the war
against fascism and to alliances with ahi Se whose fascist armies

were so lately their foes.

Civic Employees seek
master certification

Civic Employees’ Union, Local 28,| Bergers” jis shrinking week by

will finalize 1951 wage demands and
elect a bargaining committee from
the floor at a union meeting in
Pender Auditorium this Friday
evening, January 5.

“Contrary ‘to what we were told
early in 1950, prices have not
levelled off,” a union bulletin issued
to the membership pointed out this
week. “Value of ‘our pay cheques
has gone down, and that’s why

we're going after more wages in|

1951.”

While Local 28 is organizing to
win higher wages and better work-
‘ing conditions for all outside civic
workers, Trades Congress Vice-
President, Carl Berg’s rump union
continues.to “throw dirt” at the
leadership of the legitimate group,
but puts forward no wage program

itself. Membership in the “Carl-

week.

What strength Berg’s splinter
group has is concentrated in a
couple of departments; everywhere
else its few adherents are isolated.

Local 28 has applied for a master
certification to replace the five
certifications it now holds, thus
bringing ithe following groups in
one bargaining unit: Beard. of
| Works and Water Works, Park
| Board, School Board, Exhibition
Board and Air Port.

“A master certification would
speed up collective bargaining and
improve relations between em-

ployers and employees,” said Local
| 28 officials. “From the union point
| of view, we want one big family of
outside civic workers, and no
splinter groups.”

LPP LETTER TO TIM BUCK ON 60TH BIRTHDAY

Victory for peace and liberty now

Following is text ‘of a letter
greeting to Tim Buck, national
leader of the Labor-Progressive
party of Canada, on the occasion
of his 60th birthday, January 6,
sent him by the national execu-
tive committee on behalf of the
entire party membership.

* a *
Dear Comrade Tim:

We are happy and proud indeed
as we grasp your hand in hearty
greeting on this, your 60th birth-
day!

Hjong life and good health to
you in the years ahead—the years
that are going to see the grand,
full victory of the cause of the
working class, for which you have
worked so mightily, as our leader,
teacher, comrade and friend!

These sixty years, which you
carry so lightly, with such strik-
ing youthfulness, have been the
time of the greatest changing of
the world. At the time of your
birth Frederick Engels was still
at work, completing the mighty
foundations of scientific social-
ism; Lenin was just embarking
on the struggle that was to be
crowned, within less than a quar-
ter century, by the great socialist
victory of October.

Two world wars, the “hungry

thirties”, the defeat of the Fas-
cist Axis, the triumphant upsurge
of socialism in the USSR, the vic-
tories of the peoples’ democracy
in Europe and China—of all this
massive world cuange are you
contemporary; not as\ onlooker,
but as participant, as ‘the great
builder of the working class move-
ment in Canada,

Our cofntry too has changed,
in these sixty years, from colony
to imperialist power; its produc-
tive powers have grown and press
against the constricting bonds of
finance capitalist monopoly; the
country’s safety, its people’s wel-.
fare and sovereign independence,
their very lives, today with world
peace in the balance, depend on
the victory pf the people’s camp
over the betrayers of the nation,
the henchmen of the Yankee
trusts—and in all this struggle,
your strong, clear voice, your
teaching and wise leadership, in-
spire the Canadian workers with
confidence, direct them on ‘the
historic path to the ending of ex-
ploitation, poverty and all oppres-
sion, th the winning of socialist
victory.

Looking forward with confi-
dence to the great struggles and
great victories that lie ahead, we
and the whole party pledge to

learn and apply the profound les-
sons of leadership that your work
_ holds for us.

Outstanding among them are:
Communist integrity, unwavering
adherence {9 principle, ardent de-
fense at all times of the funda-
mentals of Marxism-Leninism,
and the utmost skill, flexibility,
tactical power, in leadership of
mass political struggles; you com-
bine practice with theory mag-
nificently, because you are able to
unite the broadest, most living
contact with Canadian workers
and farmers “from sea to sea,”
with tireless study of theory,
mastery of Marxism-Leninism,
creative application enrichment
of theory in relation to all the
major problems of our country.

We pledge to strive constantly
to make our own the precious
lessons that there are in the quali-
ties you display in leadership,
the boundless enthusiasm and
capacity for work, approaching
each task or problem whether
small or great with the inspired
consciousness that it is part of the
struggle for working class vic-
tory; your warm love of and con-
cern for people, summed up in
your love of Canada, your deter-
mination to win for it the condi-
tions of happiness and human

| dignity; your love of all that is
best in mankind, embodied in the
working class movement in all
countries, in the liberation move-
ments, in the camp of peace, head-
ed by the Soviet Union and the
great Stalin.

Your spirit of youthfulness,
patience and modesty, critical and
self-critical app#oach, your range
of vision and selfless devotion to
the working class and to Canada
—all these are dear to us. Above
all, though, we love and honor
your high courage, your daunt-
lessness in the face of diciculty or
danger—the proud expression of
your ever-present sense of historic
responsibility as the leader of
the party of Canadian Commun-
ists, and a leader of the world
working class movement.

We greet you on this happy
birthday, dear Comrade Tim, as
a truly great Communist, great
Canadian, great leader of our
people in French and English-
speaking Canada alike! We greet
you at a moment when the spring-
time of humanity is at last in
sight, when victory in the struggle
for peace and liberty everywhere
in the world is drawing near!

Under your leadership, our
cause will be victorious!

National Executive Committee,

Labor-Progressive Party.

in sight

TIM BUCK

“

. .. @ truly great Communist,
great Canadian, great leader of
our people in French and English
speaking Canada alike.”

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