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Vol. 10. No. a5 Vancouver, British Columbia, August 31, 1951 EGER 28 RICE FIVE CENTS

JAPANESE REARMING —
CAUSES WORLD CONCERN

Alarm over U.S. determination to conclude a treaty permitting
Japan to rearm is spreading throughout those Pacific and Asian coun-
tries which only six years ago were fighting Japanese aggression.

§ As the September 4 date set for opening of the treaty conference
at San Francisco nears, powerful protest movements, even within Japan
itself, are voicing their objections to the treaty drafted for the U.S.
by the arch-reactionary John Foster Dulles,

Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has announced that India will
not be represented at the conference but will sign a separate treaty
with Japan later. U.S. threats to adopt a “tough” policy toward { r |
India in retaliation reveal the big stick methods of American diplomacy
to compel signing of the treaty by British, Canadian, Australian and
New Zealand governments, all of which are under pressure to change
treaty provisions from various trade interests fearful of Japanese com-
petition as well as from the peace movement, trade unions and other
organizations.

Following is a summary of opposition to the treaty in the countries

Continued on page 7 — See TREATY :

Labor’s gains
are menaced by
war= Tim Buck

TORONTO

“Greetings to Canadian working people on Labor Day. The
producers by hand and brain are the salt of our country. Wa5thout
their labor, there would be no Canada.”’

So opens the Labor Day message of Tim Buck, national leader
of the Labor-Progressive party. Text of his statement continues:

“Today, in critical 1951, workers have a heavy responsibility,
greater than at any time since the working class was formed by capital- Hd
ist production. Labor’s fruits are menaced by imperialist war; all
that labor holds dear is threatened by the drive of U.S. monopoly

* capital to a war for the domination of the world.

““We in Canada have a special reason to know the nature of the
Yankee monopolies, for they have virtually taken over our country
and dominate the policies.of the Canadian government. Extend this
policy to the rest of the world, make all countries bow to Wall Street
—such is the warlike aim of the U.S. trusts.

“On this Labor Day, when the trade unions are more numerous
than at any time past, when insecurity of employment and danger of
atomic war hang over our heads, when we see what modern war can
do to Korea, every working man and woman must take stock, every
union local must stand on its own feet to defeat the right-wing trade

Continued on back page — See LABOR

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® Vancouver Labor-Progressive :
Party organizer Sid Zlotnik | { ;

(left) ana provincial organizer
Alf Dewhurst (right) are i
Shown picketing the U.S. i

Consul General’s office in
“4riné Building here follow-

ial a & &
ing presentation of a demand
that arrested Communists lg ( YY A
4nd other political prisoners

in the U.S. who are victims

°f the infamous Smith Act

be raleaced. “(Stow on pace a STORY ON BACK PAGE