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Peace and friendship

OVEMBER 7 will mark the 33rd anni-
versary of the founding of the first so-

cialist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist,

Republics. The first major break in a world
system of capatalist exploitation. The first
great demonstration that human society
not only can live without capitalism, but
can outstrip and surpass capitalism in pro-
viding humanity with the means of life,
liberty and happiness.

. In the lifetime of any nation 33 years
is a very short time indeed. but the achieve-
ments of these 33 years of Soviet power
are stupendous in their magnitude and
scope. During that short time a nation of
190-million multi-national peoples have lift-
ed themselves from a backward poverty-
stricken peasant economy to an advanced
socialist industrial economy which is now
harnessing the atom for even greater peace-
ful progress. In 33 years the Soviet Union
has been transformed from a land of illiter-
acy and ignorance to a land where science
in all its branches is the common property

of the people, to a land where the Stalin |
Constitution guarantees the greatest dem-_

ocracy the world has yet witnessed.
Genuine socialism is ever synonomous

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with peace, hence the‘domestic and foreign
policy of the USSR, as the world’s | first
socialist state, has been one of peace and
friendly relations with all peoples and
states. No matter how loudly the warmong-
ers and their kept press may howl in order
to distort or misrepresent this fact, they
can never be successful. Propaganda can be
forged, but not history. No one can say
that a Churchill hasn’t conspired for 33
years against the Soviet Union, or that
Stalingrad never happened. Socialism eli-
minates the exploitation of man by man
and hence eliminates the bourgeois politi-
cal fungus which breeds war.

We join the Soviet people and the
growing millions in the world camp of
progress and socialism, which, despite the
St. Laurents and the Coldwells, includes
the peace-loving people in Canada, in salut-
ing the 33rd anniversary of the great social-
ist state and its indomitable teacher and
leader, Stalin. We hail this anniversary as
a great landmark in the struggle for peace
and socialism, and as a happy augury for
strengthened Canadian-Soviet friendship
and fraternity in the cause of peace and
human progress.

~ JTail-chasing policy

 $HE B.C. Lumber Worker, which is edited by

the top brass of the CCF, has come up

‘with an editorial “solution” to the burning
problem of rising prices. It does not propose
new and substantial wage increases, now be-
ing discussed. by hundreds of loggers and
‘millworkers, as well as many other unions in

- pasit industries, in order to meet rapidly rising

living costs, but “. .». that prices be rolled
back to the June, 1950 level”.

Just why it fixes the “June, 1950 level”

ae “the B.C. Lumber Worker doesn’t say. It is

. implied however that a big “province-wide

-eampaign” to achieve that goal would be

““welcomed on all sides”. We have ng doubt

oa

such a campaign would be “welcomed” by
the boss loggers, who have never objected to
workers gazing ceilingwards when their pock-
ets were being picked. /

The B.C. Lumber Worker correctly points

out that to date the wage gains of the work-
ers have been wiped out by skyrocketting
prices. Also, and most important, that “‘organ-
ized labor is under mounting pressure to take
emergency action to secure wage adjustments
commensurate with runaway prices”. Having

posed that part of the case correctly, why

sidetrack the workers’ legitimate demands in

‘defense of their living standards. by advocat-

ing “policies” that are on a par with a pup
chasing its tail?

Can it be because M. J. Coldwell and
others of his no longer even nominally social-
ist company, having learned to talk the lang-
uage of the Chamber of Commerce, now pre-
fer to “argue” that “high wages only result in
high prices” (only such “economic planners”
can thus separate the two), so what’s the
sense in going after more wages? Let's
rather concentrate on a “roll back” to former
“price ceilings.” ;

Such a tail-chasing campaign has, many
advantages — but not for the workers. Like
red-baiting, it doesn’t put a single extra sou
in his pocket, but it does help to keep him
busy in a futile runaround for, some bygone
equation point where his income approximates
his necessity to live. It also helps to safe-
guard the super-profits of the “entrenched in-
terests,” casually referred to by the Lumber
Worker’s CCF scribe.

The immediate and pressing solution to
soaring prices lies in substantial wage in-
crease now, not in chasing the CCF-CCL
chimera of “price ceilings”. This is 1950, not

1945!

TOM McEWEN

As We See It

ks sara the last couple of weeks two events have taken place in Van-
couver which, to the casual observer might appear to be totally
unconnected with each other and neither of any great importance.

That's just, why more than a casual scrutiny is required. These
two events have a very close relationship and objective. Let’s spend
a moment to evaluate the political (or,if you like, propagada) object-|
ives of both these odiferous affairs,

First, the Vancouver UN Association’s ‘tribute’ to the fifth anniver-
sary of, the United Nation’s Organization. Instead of an effort to
present the UN as a great step forward on the part of humanity in
an historic effort to settle ideological differences on the basis of reason
‘ and saniy, rather than with long-range bombers,
atom. bombs and deadly bacteria, a mock—in the
full meaning of the word—Security Council was’
staged. i

“All leading participants in this mock council
were selected from what are represented as being
Vancouver’s best “brains”, gathered from the faculty
of UBC, civic government, and the commercial press.

It wag evidently part of the original scheme of
the Vancouver UN Association to have the Labor-
Progressve party “represent” the USSR, and thus .
provide a “Jacob Malik” upon whom this mockery
: of.a Security Council could vent its ignorant anti-
Soviet spleen, and thus precipitate, if at all possible, a “Soviet walkout.”

Apparently the LPP saw through this piece of cheap trickery and
politely declined to participate in this farcial representation of UN
principles and aims. Determined not to be outdone in their efforts to
transform their UN anniversary “tribute” into a real anti-Soviet bur-
lesque, UBC Economics Professor Dr. Joseph Crumb was assigned
the job of acting as the “Soviet delegate’. According to those well-
versed in anti-Soviet slander’and misrepresentation, Dr. Crumb did a
“masterly job.’ After delivering what he fondly imagined to be a
“Communist harangue” on Korea, and emphasizing it with appropriate
hammy gestures, Dr. “Malik” Crumb indignantly stalked out.

“Just like the real thing,” piped the Vancouver Sun, overjoyed with
Vancouver UN Association’s “tribute” to the fifth birthday of the UN.
Incidently the Sun’s Elmore Philpott “represented” India, but unlike
the Indian people or their real representatives on the UN, Philpott
re applauded the crummy performance of Professor “Malik”

rum

Instead of celebrating the fifth birthday of the UN in a manner
that would tend towards recapturing the confidence and hope of the
common. people for Canadian-Soviet friendship and lasting peace, they
turned it into an anti-Soviet rally to pay tribute to the warmongers of
dollar imperialism. “Just like the real thing” as the Sun headlined. Un-
doubtedly, it was with such a cast of performers.
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As is well known, we have had a large influx of “Displaced Per-
son” (DP’s) into Canada during recent years, somewhere in the neigh-
borhood of 50,000 more or less. All these DP immigrants were “screen-
ed” by the RCMP. The main purpose of the “screening” was to make
sure that no DP carried any ideas in his or her mental baggage which __
might run counter to official cold-war ideology. Sider

Since their arrival in Canada numerous communities. have ‘felt
their baleful presence. Organized hooliganism against persons and
property, bombings, threats of violence and intimidation against Can-
adian Slavs, mark their various activities throughout the country.

-Only the other day they threw a murderous bomb into a Toronto hall, -

filled with youngsters and their parents attending a children’s concert.
Thus far no one has been apprehended for this or other similar out-
rages. The authorities and their kept press pass these fascist out-
ages off by presenting them as an “argument between two Slav fac
tions,” conveniently forgetting that for close on 50 years, prior to the
advent of these fascist DP’s, such outrages were unknown in Canada!

These DPs are avowedly anti-Communist and anti-Soviet—the
prime reason for their admission to Canada. They operate under
centralized military direction from abroad. All the documentary evi-
dencé to this effect is already available to the St. Laurent government.
In the absence of any action on the part of the federal government
against these DP fascist bandits, it may be assumed that anti-Sovietism
is a warrant for violence against the democratic activities of peaceful.
Canadian communities and people.

A gang of these Polish and Ukrainian DP’s, masquerading under
the psuedonym of the “Canadian-Ukrainian Committee” staged a, mass
rally in Vancouver on October 22. Following the usual anti-Soviet
tirades that characterize the Hitlerite mentality, this DP rally passed
a “resolution”—a sort of blanket affair which would: outlaw the uPP;
suppress the Pacific Tribune and all “communist literature”; provide a
Canadian “Siberia” for all B.C. communists; establish thought control
tribunals in all Canadian universities and other educational institutions,
and in the civil service. :

There is a Biblical saying, “The tree is known by his fruit” and
no one expects anything better from the Hitlerite DP orchard, although
the colossal impudence of these DP fascists is a bit breath-taking to
the average Canadian, ‘ \

But at this particular rally there was.some Canadian Liberal and
Tory shrubbery decorating the stage with the Hitler DP’s. Ralph C.
Campney, Liberal MP for Vancouver Center, “congratulated” the DP’s
on their determination to “fight international communism.” Arthur
Laing, Liberal MP for Vancouver South said ditto, ditto, and Howard
Green, Tory spokesman for democracy with a small “d” eulogized the
DP’s as God-fearing men, and urged them to stay “in the front line
in our fight against Communism.” Bombs, violence, hooliganism—Tut,
tut, just “communist propaganda.”

_If they don’t serve any other useful purpose, these two closely re-
lated events in Vancouver should make Vancouverites think and think
hard. When we reach the point of making a mockery out of the UN ~
to provide a cheap provocative sneer at our neighbor—and clasp hands i
with Hitlerite murderers to impose our “way of life’ upon others (as ©
well as to catch a few votes), we are reaching a new low in human ©

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