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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