The course of ‘justice’

N JUNE 19 the: Vancouver News-Herald
campaigned editorially for one Kuzych

to have “the right to appear before his peers of
the trade union movement . . .” To state his
“side” against the Marine Workers’ and Boil-
ermakers’ Union!

As the Pacific Tribune commented at the
time it was unlikely that the trade union
movement of this province or country would
ever open its assembly rooms to listen to the
Chamber of Commerce-inspired ravings of an
avowed union disrupter, despite the “union
label” hung on him by the News-Herald or
other sections of the kept press.

Noting that the unions had turned a deaf
ear to their pleas to hear this Kuzych person,.
the Néews-Herald tried a new tack. Ina lengthy
editorial in its issue of July 12, entitled “The
Course of Justice” (in which can be noted the
fine hand of some legal scrivener) the News-
Herald does some fancy juggling with the
“yeas” and “nays” of the numerous learned

judges who have rendered opinions on the~

Kuzych case, and came up with the startling
result that the odds are in favor of Kuzych.
' Following this count of legal noses, the
-News-Herald passes on to the next knotty
- point, either with or without the benefit of
forma pauperis, which in legal jargon means
appealing to the Supreme Court of Canada as
a poor person, (and still runs into a bit of
dough) how is Kuzych going to manage it?
“For five years,” wails the News-Herald, “he
has been unable to work as a union man. He
has no funds.”

The conclusion of the News-Herald edi-.
torial must have made many of its trade union
readers reach for the aspirin bottle. “After

years devoted to fighting the proponents of
the Moscow brand of fascism for his civil
liberty and the right to earn his living as a
union man, Kuzych is now practically penni-
less. He can carry his fight to commit White
and Stewart (officials of the Marine Workers’
and Boilermakers’ Union) ‘to the Supreme
Court of Canada only by depositing $1,200,
which he hasn’t got. All fellow-travellers in
Canada will rejoice if he fails to find it.”
Many trade unionists feel sure that those

who have financed Kuzych’s radio “programs”,

designed to undermine and destroy effective
trade union organization and objectives, and
who have kept him on their payroll these many
months doing the odd job of snooping here and

there, will’ manage to dig up the amount re- .

quired (peanuts to them), to help. continue

their anti-union campaign through the medium ©

of this Kuzych person. In fact that is the
whole essence and appeal of the News-Herald
editorial. A “come-on” to the C-of-C Kuzych
backers. :

All trade unionists contacted by the

Pacific Tribune are less concerned as to

whether Kuzych rides to the Supreme Court
of'Canada on a “forma pauperis” or the TCA,
than they are in seeing to it that the trade
unions will not be mulcted financially by this
brand of bosses’ agent, nor deprived of the
democratic right through a court mandate, to

‘say who shall, and who shall not (be, eligible

for union membership. R

‘That is why the trade union movement of
Canada. regardless of affiliation, is supporting,
and will continue to support the Marine Work-
ers’ and Boilermakers’ Union, morally and fin-
ancially. It also explains the News-Herald’s
efforts to make a marty¢ out of a fink.

Peace, Korea, and the CCF -

AJTEXT WEEK the national convention of

Nthe CCF will meet in ‘Vancouver. To
‘the genuine socialist-minded adherents of the
CCF, and to the labor movement generally,
this all-Canada gathering of the CCF is of
momentous import, primarily because of the
Korean war crisis and its grave threat to
world peace. ;

Major issues of socialist policy must
inevitably force themselves to the surface
in this convention, despite the best oratori-
cal and machine efforts of CCF top-brass
to keep these “controversial” problems ob-
scured or buried. The ideals expressed in
the CCF Regina Manifesto for socialism and
‘peace will arise to challenge imperialist poli-
cies (implicit in Yankee Marshall “aid” and
its subsequent war pacts) for what they are,
rather than what Messrs. Coldwell, Scott,

Two key problems confrant this CCP
national convention. First is the World
- Peace Petition which, so far, the. CCF
through its national leaders, has rejected.
CCF opposition to the World Peace Pe
and the desires of millions of the world’s
» peoples for peace, is based on the same false
grounds as those advanced by the war-
mongering governments of estern im-

yerialism, viz, that the World Peace Petition
is “Moscow-inspired”. * ;

= Gt “eat g importance, and underlining
the deep significance of the Peace Petition,

a

is the invasion of Korea by the armed forces
of U.S. imperialism, and the annexing of For-
-mosa, which virtually means a declaration
of war by Wall Street against the People’s
Republic of China. —

~ No amount of red-baiting and anti-Soviet

slander can justify Yankee aggression in
Korea and Formosa. “Let us not dream of
‘fastening our own brand of Western demo-
"racy upon these people,” says a CCF News
editorial in its July 12 issue. “We must help
them to work out their own destiny.” Noble
~ sentiment$ — but scarcely realizable with a

CCF ‘leadership that so far has lent voice
and support to the foreign policies of the
vernment, which in turn gets

crime against the Korean people — in fact
gainst all peoples, whether in Asia or Eur-

Petition -

determination and national sovereignty.

The CCF national convention should

and could adopt the World Peace Congress
Petition as its own and still retain all its
reservations and viewpoints (good or bad)

,on communism. By so doing it would crys-
tallize the deep-going differences within the

CCF, between those who stand for the Re-
gina Manifesto and an uncompromising
struggle against imperialism, and those who

“are out-and-out supporters of the St. Laur-
te 3

ent-Drew war camp.

Yankee invasion and aggression in Korea
is very real — and cannot be side-stepped
by fine oratory, anti-communist hysteria, or
the. latest “No Munich” alibi of Yankee
imperialism for its actions in facing the
people of Korea and an emasculated. UN
with the fait accompli of armed interven-
tion, : pits

The CCF convention could and should
support, nay, even demand, that hostilities
cease in Korea; that U.S. troops, Australian

sonats: “end Canecian: Harileeinis, Lee Ings
sates withdrawn; that the be re-

stored to its chartered dignity Sy seating the

true representatives of the Peoples Republic
of China, thus facilitating a return of the
UN to its ociginal pirnet Te

The CCF national convention should
raise its voice in the universal demand that
the flag of the UN become a proud ‘symbol
for peoples’ peace, rather than turned into
a handy rag to cover up Korean blood on
the hands of Yankee imperialism. .

Along that road the CCF national con-
vention can make a mighty contribution for

peace, and add tremendous strength to the

growing unity, morale and consciousness of
all Canadians fighting and working for

peaces )s<; ae
The CCF News editorial quoted above,
concludes with these words: > Korean
war affords us an opportunity to break with
the past, to strike out into a new course
and to give the world new hope for peace.”
- These are beautiful words. If the CCF

national convention achieves the political ob-—
jective implicit in these words, countless —
thousands of Canadians and Korean workers

will rejoice and will face the morrow with

a new hope in their hearts, a new confidence

that victory over the warmongers has been
brought immeasurably closer.

TOM McEWEN

As We See It

se Bae great German philosopher Hegel believed that all great world-
historical events and personages occur, as it were, twice; that
“history repeats itself.” But, observed the dialectician Karl Marx,
“|. he has forgotten to add; the first time as tragedy, the’ second
as farce.” “e3 ;

As with all comparisons, even those taken from history are never,
and cannot be, completely identical, but th® issue of Korea, as present-
ed by the propaganda agencies of predatory imperialism, presents
a deadly parallel with those of 1919, 1936, 1940, and today!

It will be recalled that in 1919 armed forces of Britain, the U.S.,
Canada, France, Italy, Germany, Japan, together with all the white-
guardist riff-raff these powers could scrape up in Europe, were
invading and occupying Soviet territory, and killing Soviet citizens.
It may also be remembered, (and Winston Churchill has never per-

mitted himself to forget it) that the Russian people,
war-weary, ragged, starving, and ill-armed, drove
every last interventionist imperialist army from
Soviet soil.

In those days, 32 years ago, the imperialist
powers, under the leadership of Britain, France,
the U.S. and Italy, set up and armed and offficially
“recognized” their rump “governments” with un-
seemly haste — and disastrous results! ‘The “Don”,
“Archangel”, and “Omsk governments” followed
the social-democratic Kerensky regime in rapid

. succession into the historical ashcan. Like the
{U.S.-sponsored Syngman Rhee “government” of
South Korea, their existence depended entirely up-
on the finanee and arms of foreign imperialism,
rather than upon the democratic “consent of the governed,”

The imperialists who invaded the Soviet Union in 1919 were only
united on one point — their hatred.and fear of revolutionary. social- _
ism. Beyond that, as in the nature of imperialist exploitation and
territorial greed, there was little unity. Their “advisers” and “experts”
were the discarded Tzarist nobility, landlords,and gendarmerie, just
as Wall Street’s military and other “experts” on the Korean scene
today are drawn from every class hostile to the democratic aspirations
of the Korean people — including former Japanese fascists and col-
laborators. ;

Of course the center of gravity hds changed from the Quai D’Or-
say, Paris, to Washington, D.C. The stage scenarios and the actors
are new, but some of the old lines: are sickeningly repetitious, and
some, if dug up from the Congressional Record, might serve as
a danger signal to the atomaniac interventionists who measure their
democracy by the killing potential of their best super-bombers.

The scene changes. The Supreme War Council is in session in
M. Pichon’s room at the Quai D’Orsay, Paris, on January 12, 1919.
Two Russian “delegates”, a prince and a former Tzarist minister,
fidget uneasily. Like Chiang Kai-shek’s delegates to the UN, who
know they represent nothing, even if the spokesmen for Yankee,
Canadian and other imperialist powers insist they “represent” Peoples
China, the Tzarist delegates claim they represent the latest Allied-

. sponsored “government”, s f

With fine Welsh cynicism the white-maned Lloyd George observes:
“At present the Allies have got themselvs in a fix for the reason that
they had no definite policy in Russia. I have nothing to say against
these people, Prince Lvov, etc. We were told they represented every
shade of opinion. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THEY REPRESENTED
EVERY OPINION EXCEPT THE PREVALENT OPINION IN RUS- °
SIA.” (Emphasis ours, Ed.)

Perhaps the Welshman could sée a little further than Truman,
Acheson, St. Laurent and company. THEY would have us believe
that Chiang Kai-shek represents China to justify their intervention
in Formosa. THEY would have us believe that Syngman Rhee repre-
sents Korea to justify their armed intervention of Korea. To date
they haven’t recognized the “prevalence of opinion” in Korea which
Lloyd George «peering past a couple of tinhorn Tzarist “noblemen”,
could see in the hamlets, towns and cities of the vast Soviet Union,
and which compelled him to add with an oratorical flourish: To say
that we ourselves should pick the representatives of a great people is
contrary to every principle for which we have fought.”

You had something there, George, old boy, but your kind haven’t
grasped it yet!

In 1936 General Francisco Franco, with the aid of Hitler, Musso-
lini, Chamberlain and John Foster Dulles, began civil war against
the: democratically constituted government of Republican Spain. In-
tervention and aggression by an imperialist gang calling themselves
“non-interventionists”, became the order of the day. ‘“Non-interven-
tion” meant obstructing in every way possible, the right and duty of

_ the democratic goyernment of Republican Spain, and all who desired
_to give it aid in such efforts, of defending itself against fascist aggres-
sion and barbarity. :

- Butcher Franco is now classed as a “democratic ally” of Wall

Street, just as Syngman Rhee and Chiang Kai-shek are classed as the

real “representatives” of the Korean and Chinese people. “Democrats”
all! : 4

And who has forgotten the “poor little Finland” of 1940 and our
“great ally” Karl Gustav von Mannerheim? Our imperialists had
A built Finland into a back-door jumping off place for a second try
at Soviet intervention. With our dollars and pounds We built the
_Finns a brand new Maginot line, only we called it the Mannerheim
line. Like MacArthur’s “Kum River line” it was supposed to “hold
anything”. In the final tests it served the yellow press typewriter
eae caee Sagas sues it served the Finns,
who can have forgotten the fervid orato e thur
Meighan and Colonel Georgeous George Drew, Terai oapeactl
for a Canadian “expeditionary” force to “save” Finland for the dem0-
Sree ea ty ee eh ec a
: e n, on Ss e “ ”
plunderbund. 8 3 sensei — Korea for the dollar

‘“The first time as tragedy, the second as farce.” A Missouri

haberdasher for a Wilson; a dollar-created R Korean
freedom. Billions for war — nothing for Stray pare anes

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