Do editors of News-Herald read own warmonsering headlines? The Vancouver News-Herald, whose war- mongering headlines are anticipated only by ‘Milton Caniff’s blatantly anti-Soviet “Steve Canyon” strip in the Vancouver Sun, this week discovered what it held to be a “re- “freshing note” of such importance that it merited editorial comment. “A Russian violinist, Mikhail Goldstein, has.jwritten to the Moscow paper. Trud com- plaining bitterly that really good concert vio- lins aren’t being made in Russia any more,” the.. News-Herald writes, Traditions of old violin-makers are being lost in present-day Russia, says Goldstein—and Trud agreed with him. : .-» “This is refreshing news out of Russia, simple and unimportant as it may seem. It shows the Russian people are not only in- terested in war-making, as some people (sic) would have us believe. It is good to know the people of the great land and romantic capital 9f the Soviets can get worked up about the juality of violin-making.” ‘ Apparently Kenneth Drury, editor of the News-Herald, has not been reading his own headlines, for no Vancouver daily paper has more unscrupulously tried to create the im- _pression that the Russians are interested only in war-making. What the Russian people are really interested in the News-Herald never gives its readers a chance to learn. It is “too busy trying to convince peace-loving Can- adians that they are threatened by peace- loving Russians, depicted for its purposes as “a menace to our democratic way of life.” _ The proof of this is set out in the News- Herald’s own headlines over the past two weeks: July 19: Show of force studied to end Berlin deadlock. Americans urge showdown now. July 20 _mans seeking treaty. weakens West Allies. Western Union, tenaced. July 21: U.S. Red clean-up on. arms on move. July 23: Soviet air maneuvers heighten Berlin crisis. July 24: West rushes air bases to step : ee clash nears. West Ger- French cabinet fall ERP Allied 9 up Berlin lift. 5 July 26: Russ launch war manoeuvers. Vast war. tests or Baltic. Then, between publication of the pink and home editions on July 26, the readiness of the United States and Britain to consider four-power talks on the whole of Germany, as the Soviet Union had proposed from the outset—a fact the News-Herald virtually ig- nored—necessitated a change of note. Still depicting the Western powers as the force for peace, it triumphantly headlined: West ready for Stalin talk on German isues. Big Three to yield on currency to preak deadlock. . On July 27 it followed this up with: Al- lies to ask Molotov for four-power parley. Hope to effect high-level talks. . ‘All this was to conceal the salient facts that the Western powers violated the Pots- dam agreement by setting up a separate western Gcrman state and thereby rendered the Potsdam agreement on Berlin untenable. If at any time the News-Herald is con- cerned with informing its readers on the real interests of the Russian people it could do no better than take any issue of the Moscow News and reprint its headlines. This is what it would have found in the June 18 issue: Close ties of science, industry, promote technical progress. Socialist society affords every opportunity for applying scientific achievements. : Soviet people observe Gorky anniversary. Builders of great circuit on Moscow's subway hit fast pace. Greater mechaniz- ation is feature of present complex construc- tion job. The forest marches into the steppe. Shelter belts plus scientific crop rotation turn desolate area into region of high yields. The Soviet school teacher. Profession is held in high esteem; pedagogues enjoy many privileges. These are not headlines of a people inter- ested in war. They are the headlines of a people concerned in repairihg the dévastation of the last war and building a socialist so- ciety for peace. Canadian youth delegates ve out peace pledges in Europe. —ON BOARD THI PEACE TRAIN. Coalition backs threat of shutdown in gold industry The Coalition government has in effect joined in the operators’ threat of a lockout in most: of the gold mining industry rather than see gold miners removed from their present degraded position in comparison to other industries. Labor Minister Gordon S. refusal of the demand of the Inter-]_ national Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers (CIO-CCL) for setting up of an industrial disputes inquiry commission to enquire into economic conditions in this indust- ry relative to the present wage dis- pute. Three conciliation boards have already recommended appointment of such a commission. Silbak-Premier mine has already commenced a lockout and there are reports fhat Sheep Creek has done likewise. Wismer this week announced The two thousand. men whose livelihood is involved help, through the wealth they, produce, to main- tain 16,000 other workers in British Columbia. Mine-Mill’s district secretary Ken Smith recalls that in 1946 when the Copper Mountain threatened a shutdown some of the miners had their furniture crated with wood from their homes before it was dis- covered the mine had a five-year contract with the Tacoma Smelter. WAR BILLS COME HIGH Subsidized vs. subsidized housing aggression The 1948 Beaver Brigade, Canada’s youth delegation on the peace tour of Europe, has passed through the iron curtain Washington built and is personally delivering thou- ‘sands of peace pledges from individual Canadians to individual Europeans, The pledge, addressed simply, “To the People of Europe,” reads as,follows: “Just a note to let you know that like you I want peace. J] am determined to do everything in The planes shown above are jet fighters, part of the RAF flight which recently took off on a goodwill tour of Canada and . _By order of U.S. ’. The Marshall Plan took anoth- er big bite into Canadian economy last week when Ottawa banned exports to almost all European and middle eastern countries ex- cept under government permit. The Marshall Planners hold that trade with such countries is “inconsistent with ‘the national Commented the B.C. Lumber- worker, voice of 27,000 IWA mem- bers: “Here is imperialism at work in its world-dominating role.” ; my power.as 4 citizen of Canada to work for peace. Through this mes- sage I want to extend my. hand in friendship to folks like you. Your Canadian Friend, a The Canadian delegation is now taking part in the Festival and In- ternational Conference of Working Youth at Warsaw, along with the youth of around 60 other countries, after visiting Paris and joining in the Bastille Day celebrations en route, Two members of the 1948 Beaver Brigade, Dick Allen and Robin Den- ton, attended Britain’s National Youth Parliament as fraternal dele- gates from Canada. Two hundred delegates representing a million young workers, came from all over Britain for the big weekend confer- UNA TS }ence in London. Vancouver Office 501. Holden . Building 16 East Hastings Street MArine 5746 ; STANTON & MUNRO BARRISTERS, SO LICITORS, NOT Nanaimo Office Room 2, Palace Building Skinner Street ; 1780 : The parliament ‘by overwhelming vote declared its support of the World Federation of Democratic Youth and passed a Young Work- ers’ Bill aimed against depressed conditions of British youth and to- wards raising living and working standards. ; Peace pledges are being distrib- uted in Vancouver for signature and forwarding to Europe by the National ‘Federation of Labor Youth, 339 W. Pender St. Pledge contains an additional short letter to be detached and forwarded to the Canadian government reading, “Sirs: I have just sent a message to the people of Europe telling them of my desire for peace. This mes- sage will be delivered by. the Can- adian peace train. I’m letting you know about this because I fee] that it’s about time the government be- gan to take into account the real feelings of ordinary folks like me. We want Peace! We’ve just gone through a war and we feel that we've had enough. We are deter- mined to remain friends with all people of Europe. We have made this pledge and we intend to stick ‘by it.) : the United States. guarding democracy, fignt for peace? , But look them over carefully. Pretty soon you, as a taxpayer, will be paying for many more like them—all-weather, two-seater, long range interceptors intended “to meet any diversionary attack, the only immediate threat seen on the defense horizon,” in the neatly calculated words of Defense Minister Brooke Claxton. The bill for these jet planes, two squadrons of them, is only @ small part of the larger bill you are being called upon to pay for Canada’s involvement in American preparations for a war no working Canadian wants. That bill comes high, very high, when you consider its payment is your well-being, your living standards. St, Laurent considers subsidized housing a threat to democracy. But subsidizing Wall Street’s war plans in represented as safe- The bill, if those war plans succeed, will be the sum total of Canadian liberties, the flower of Canadian youth. : Discuss this with your neighbors, with the men and women on the job, and ask them: Can you afford not to be active in the . ——— ALWAYS MEET AT Excellent Acoustics THE PENDER AUDITORIUM Renovated—Modernized—Hall Large and Small for Every Need DANCING—CONVENTIONS—MEETINGS Triple Mike P.A. System — Wired for Broadcasting $39 West Pender Street. —— « PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JULY 30, 1948—Page §