1al Committee of the Labor- tty, by a unanimous vote on 2th, expelled Fergus McKean, *ader in B.C. and: member of the @iittee. This action uprooted at Prazen attempt at a conspiracy ading and ultimately destroy- t Party of the Canadian work-

bor-Progressive Party culmin- ‘ment that first made its open ancouver with the publication f the Duclos letter; McKean’s @\usion as a cover for initiating slander against the Party com- @-nsion of Fergus McKean from rship of the Party by the Brit- rovinecial Committee. mean appeared at the National feting under the disciplinary joension and already on record whe policies of the Labor-Pro- He nevertheless was given yrtunity to voice his position. speech on the first day of the ittee meeting, McKean de- n thesis aimed at eliminating : the political life of Canada the fight against revisionism. 2d, he was not concerned -with rrect line for LPP action.

Aug. 12, at the morning ses- onal Committee meeting, W. Svincial leader of the Party in ‘red in the course of his address n conversaticn with him, had S$ im slanderous allegations that S Suck, Sam Carr, Tom McMhwen -had become “agent provoca- | price of their release from pentiary in 19384. He further e policy of the Party was a * cialism and the Labor move- Hf his claim . on the fantastic ‘the leaders of the Party. Im- Hivinge this shocking disclosure hid hatred of Party leadership, ‘smmittee instructed a review -onfront Fergus McKean with me by him in the course of con- © comrades William Kardash calipte ‘

Committee met for five hours mis McKean every opportunity his charges. McKean could -do present a series of irrevelent various sources, including the Agent Provocateur in the ‘La-

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bor Movement” by Johannes Buchner, none cf which bore any relationship to the charges whatsoever. . 4 |

Notwithstanding his obvious and complete failure to substantiate in any shape or form his charges, McKean told the Committee he preferred to continue to believe them. Further- more he declared his complete opposition to the policy of the Labor Progressive Party and declared his determination to continue such opposition.

In view of- the foregoing, the Committee was of the unanimous opinion that Fergus McKean deliberately set out to organize a conspiracy calculated to undermine confidence of the Labor-Progressive Party with the ultimate aim of destroying it as a political organization. The Review Com- mittee therefore recommended the expulsion of Fergus McKean from the Labor-Progres- sive Party, and urged a more complete in- vestigation with a view to determining the degree to which Fergus McKean’s conspiracy permeated the Party in British Columbia as well as Alberta and other parts of .Canada.

- In its report, the Review Committee com-

mended the LPP in British Columbia for its action in suspending Fergus. McKean from leadership at its meeting on July 30th.

The National Committee adopted the recommendation of the Review Committee by a recorded unanimous vote.

Fergus McKean deliberately chose to bring his hostility to the Party in the open under the guise of a fight against revisionism be- cause of the wide area of discussion on this issue now current, in the organization. He hoped to use his warped line of villification *o sow confusion ynder cover of the present discussion of a fight to, uproot revisionism.

. He deliberately chose to propagate a mons- - trous lie against the tried and trusted leaders

of the Party because the circulation of the slander in the bourgeois and other press would be used by the enemies of the labor movement and the Party. :

The National Committee of the L.P.P. warns the members of the Party and the La- bor movement to be on guard against Fergus McKean, as an unprincipled traitor and dis- ruptionist.

The -National Committee directed the in- coming National Executive to take: all mea- sures to assist the Party in British Columbia in achieving full clarity on the Party line and eliminating. completely every vestige of Mc- Kean influences. |tfliur.rnzken

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WAR GOODS

To the Editor:

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It has recently been rumored that many milions. of dollars of war goods are to be put on sale very shortly.

With the crying need for

housing fixtures, it would be °

well if the Federal Govern- ment wold assure a supply of materials usable for houses right here in Vancouver were directed into channels where they could help to relieve the shortage of supplies that at present exists.

There is’ little doubt that if

. this is done, there won’t be any

need to worry about getting rid of it, and it will be put to the most practical use possible, the relief of the shortage of build- ing materials and accessories.

‘The housing plan launched. by the city council seems to have hit a few snags, and it is reas- onable to assume that one of them is fixtures. If the surplus war supplies were directed into essential building, and the city plan falls into that category, at least part of the problem would

‘be solved.

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Koreans .

SOME of the capitalist press playboys are guessing why the Soviet Union came actively into the war against Japan. Guessing is a fav-

orite pastime of theirs and their guesses are generally wrong, like their

prophecies or prognostications, whichever one cares _to call them.

In the Vancouver Province of August 7, one of these people got a spot on the front page, right at the head of the first column. This was in the form of a story telling of reports current in London, that Presi- dent Truman speeded-up tne use of the atomic. bomb only after Winston Churchill ‘and he had learned at Potsdam that Generalissimo Stalin would not enter the war against Japan. Next day, Aug. 8, the Soviet Union declared war on the last remaining partner of the anti-Communist tri- angular axis. We can laugh now! :

The why and wherefore of the Soviet Union’s entry into this phase of the war is a matter which we can safely leave to the good sense of the Soviet government. it need give us no cause for worry.

One thing is certain to come cut of the Soviet Union’s participation —another country is going to be liberated from foreign tyrannical rule which has ground its people in the dust for over half a century. Since 1894, Korea has been ruled by the Japanese war-lords, for the first 15 years through its puppet king and since 1910 when they dethroned him, by a Japanese military governor.

But the Japanese imperialists have not had things all their own way during the years of their occupation. The patriotism of the Kor- eans has expressed itself in an unrelenting nationalist struggle which has become. more widespread and more powerful since the “incident” of the Marco Polo Bridge.

There are more Koreans in Siberia than there are in Korea. When Communism and the Soviet form of government came in Russia, the Koreans among the Eastern people, were amongst the first to accept them. <

In the Red Army which invaded the Japanese occupied territories, there are whole regiments of Koreans, probably a whole army. Like the Polish army that fought side by side with the Red Army in driving the Nazis out of Poland, these Koreans will, undoubtedly have an objective of their own—to place the Korean people in control of their own country.

As surely as the Red Army marched, one result of it will be the establishing of a free Korea. And they won’t need the help of a puppet emperor to accomplish it. *

An Insulting Remark

When we read about race discrimination in other parts of the world, against “Negroes in the Deep South where the well-known “monkey trial” took place and against the Jews in the Fascist countries, we feel indignant if we have any liberal ideas in our make-up. :

But if we look close at home in a discerning mood, we will see evidence enough to convince us that B.C. has its own ample measure of race hatred. For years we have had an “Oriental” question. Although the Chinese are our allies today in the war against fascism, one may hear them referred to every day as “Chinks,” by some self-elected mem- ber of an imagined “superior” race.

I will say nothing there about the demonstration we had this week in the matter of the Negro members of the cast of Carmen Jones, who had to find billets in the homes of local Negroes because the hotels were barred to them. You may read about that in another column.

But I will not pass over the ignorant and bigoted statement made at a meeting of the Poiice Commission last week by Alderman Willard Greyell. The Commission was discussing the prevalence of drinking among the Native Indians and had a proposal from the Native Brother- hood before them. This was a suggestion that a couple of B.C. Indians should be taken on the strength of the police force and detailed for special work among the increasing numbers of Indians living in or visitig the city.

Here is where Alderman Greyell had a chance to show what he is made of. -His contribution was a warning that there might be “a public kick back if an Indian policeman tried to arrest a whit man or woman.”

Anyone whose outlook on life can be summed up in such a warning would undoubtedly have a good chance to become a successful politician in the Jim Crow belt, but in a civilized country he should be rode out of town on a rail.

If a so-called white man was arrested for feeding firewater or rot- gut to an Indian woman and Alderman Greyell objected, the voters of Vancouver would be justified in throwing him out of the City Council because of his unfitness to occupy that position with credit or useful- ness to the citizens.

An Angle on Housing

Who is responsible for this? In one of the houses in the group in which the Chen family lives, whose house which was picketed by the Grandview Club of te LPP, there were four Chinese batchelors living. They were given notice to get out which they did not do until served with eviction notices.

The last to leave was a sick man, Lai Mow, who was in receipt of relief. To find another shelter he had to pay in rent, all the money he received as relief. That left him nothing with which to buy food.

How did he solve that problem? Simple. He drank a bottle of lysol. His funeral took place two weeks ago.

The death of that sick old Chinese must be laid to the people responsible for the housing shortage. But the Chen family are still in possession. :

Brave New World Coming

William Sfoneman, chief of one of the American news bureaus in London, is concerned over the effect of splitting the atom, demon- strated by the atomic bomb. He sees a condition developing when that form of power is applied to industry, in which “revolutionary methods will have to be adopted to prevent unemployment and stagnation from resulting ?

Fine! If Stoneman does not already know it, that is just how they handle such a situation in the Soviet Union. With every increase in the part played by power and machinery the need for human toil becomes less, so they cut down the hours. When atomic energy is harnessed, hours of labor may be.reduced to a few each week and leave more for culture. :

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