- Tom McEwen Mahia Mia LUCE eM MM Mee eee eT oe lare different yardsticks for i can success. We have seen un- aa te workers tossed into jail be- public + Stange “success” in arousing Ve he @nation over, their demands. 3 urlemployed citi other more comfortably ices: citizens rewarded for their Working in clipping coupons—and the lic Pic. appointment to pub- the ae \bbott s budget, which places Cessit of 4 © merit of w “ndemned, de di at Coupons 0 orking is to be praised or pending on whether you +e r work for a living. ae ee for instance, the Pacific Tri- annual Ue on March 1 is launching its 0 contin tpaign to raise the cash needed a ata publication through 1953 — if we an cannot be less than $17,500, before ae Satisfy our printers and keep - -€Vents of r readers the history-making yn a world being reborn. : Bee ns who scribble the stock in- : would Popa in the commercial press Usiness . ily agree that, as a successful Bo0d «a nterprise, this paper is not a Ro eypent risk.” No dividends Pealing a would say, and always ap- as lone’ ae: financial aid. In fact, not Ot the Roo one of the hired inkspillers mancial Post had us slated for aN eg P , Poe omer: All that the Post blurb Now the ers, ima Sn a MG ae : Pensio ells itself to the highest bidder. ners pt eee c fay a - trade unionists, housewives, nan Aas men and women from hemselyec 1 o°! this province, depriving “Sely Send ¢ Yes of other things in order to Pp Tom McEwen, Editor — as that it didn’t and still doesn’t . all depends from which side © coupon clipping above © of the common people above all , Pacific TRIBUNE 7 a “ublished Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone: MArine 5288 me that the commercial press, like the inter- ests who pay the shot and call the tune, is opposed to labor on all fundamental issues. ‘ This truth is universally recog- nized, and proof is given daily in every edition of every monopoly sheet publish- ed in every capitalist country where ex- ploitation of man by man is regarded as a heaven-bestowed provision of our dog- eat-dog “way of life.” Back in October, 1942, when the first issue of The People appeared to fill a gap caused by the RCMP’s suppression of The Advocate two years earlier, the vet eran labor joufnalist and fighter, “OV Bill!” Bennett, wrote in his column: “That is why I am writing this col- umn; because I am satisfied that unless we, with our allies—whoever they may be—destroy fascism, fascism will destroy us. There is no longer any in-between, no halfway house, no middle-of-the-road, no fence to straddle. It is the people’s tomorrows, versus a return to a, fascist- designed dark age.” Tt is now over three years since death claimed that grand old veteran who gave all of his years to the building of a strong, fighting, and fearless labor press. But his words of ten years ago have a deep significance when considered in the light of today’s events. The fascist danger Ol’ Bill warned against darkens our horizons again. Now it is Yankee imperialism rearing the foul spawn of fascism. The Nazis saved from the gallows, the executioners of Greece and Spain, the ineredibly corrupt rem- nants of the Kuomintang, are depicted in the daily press as our “allies” to keep the world safe for capitalist exploitation. In.our own ‘land and our own province this evil penetrates into every facet of our social, economic and cultural life. _ While the people seek. only peace, the imperialist cutthroats and their dollar- branded satellites conspire for war. The liberties and rights so dearly won by the people are in hourly danger of being de- stroyed. Emergency Powers Acts, Bill 93, secret Orders-in-Council—these are the sinister weapons of repression to gag and silence and destroy the fighting or- ganizations of the people, all to the end that the dastardly war plans of atomic madmen may proceed without mass op- position! OV Bill’s whole life was dedicated to the building of a labor paper which would speak out, frankly and fearlessly against the war conspirators and exploiters of the people. His columns in the ‘Pacific Tribune remain as a brilliant example of the pattern he set. “Our paper, like good books,” wrote Ol’ Bill, ‘must have as its aim the raising of a worker’s con= sciousness and scientific understanding of life around him, to know what ‘side of the tracks’ he lives on, and why; to teach him how to fight his class enemy collec- tively... .” That is the yardstick by which - the Pacific Tribune measures its success; how well it adheres to the high standards set by the pioneer and veteran fighter, *O) Bill” Bennett. That is why this column appeals: ‘to all our supporters, readers, press builders, and old-timers in this great British Columbia labor move- ment, to rally once again and help us reach the objective of $17,500 to keep the PT in the forefront of the battle for peace, progress, brotherhood and human decency. Our fight for racial equality and justice, as in the Clarence Clemens tase, is of equal importance with our fight for peace and human dignity. | To win either, this paper must ‘be maintained. We know from past experiences, the peo- ple of B.C. will meet this minimum ob- jective — $17,500 by May 1, and the PT financially assured for 1953. Hal Griffin, Associate Editor Ca Subscription Rates: nada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia) One Year $3.00 Six Months $1.60 Australia, United States ‘and all other countries . c One Year $4.00 . EE Rute by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, BC. : + “NtRorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Six Months $2.50 MARTE | el oo CRIWESE: PEOPLE ‘Rich man’s war budget’ 8 le much-touted budget brought down last week by Finance Minister Douglas -&& Abbott is, as Tim Buck, LPP national leader, corerctly describes it, “a rich - ‘man’s war budget.” It throws a few crumbs to those with low and medium incomes and hands a loaf to the big corporations. This budget provides for a $4% billion tax gouge in 1953-54 — half of it to be squandered for war purposes. The $136 million dollar gift in tax cuts to big corporations will be made up from other sources, mainly from the majority of the people who gained little or nothing. It is an election budget of a special kind. For an outright gift of $136 million, to say nothing of other less obvious concessions, the financial tycoons of St. James and Bay streets will be only too happy to swell the Liberal slush funds. _ But for the majority of the people, desperately in need of relief from excessive taxation and seeking a health plan; for small wage earners looking for homes at rents they can afford to pay and pensioners existing on a pittance, the budget con- tains nothing — not even hope. On the contrary, it requires every man, woman and child to contribute a minimum of $150 each to pay for the St. Laurent govern: ment’s Made-in-the-U.S.A. war policies. The only good thing about this bud which Abbott will saddle the Canadian and in the U.S. A people united at the get is that it is likely to be the last with people on behalf of the war trusts at home polls, determined to get rid of the St. Laurent government, can be far stronger than bribed’ corporations, as last year’s HE debate in the House of Com- mons on the St. Laurent govern: ment’s move to extend the Emergency . Powers Act points up the stark fact that the supremacy of parliament is be- ing steadily undermined by order-in- council rule, directed from Washing- ton, taken without the knowledge of the people, to whom parliament is re- sponsible, and without reference to parliament, to which the government is responsible, Even’ the leading Tories in the ' House, themselves old hands at in- fringing upon civil and democratic rights, are moved ‘to protest the dic- tatorial powers the St. Laurent gov- ernment is arrogating to itself. On the pattern being established by the U.S., such repressive measures as _ the Emergency Powers Act and Bill 93, now before a parliamentary com- . mittee, are introduced on the pretext of “safeguarding” the country. But Nanaimo paper incites violence — LSEWHERE in this issue-is a re port of a meeting held in Nanaimo by Dr. James G. Endicott, chairman of the Canadian Peace Congress, at- tended by “younger business men. — from the Victoria Chamber of Com- merce,” of whose kind the Irish: poet, — Oliver Goldsmith, wrote: “And fools, who come to scoff, remained to pray.” What cannot be too sharply drawn to public attention was the effort of the Nanaimo Free Press to incite viol- ence at this gathering. Under the ominous heading, “Anything Can Happen at Endicott Meeting,” the paper gave front page prominence to an item detailing the anticipated at- tendance of those “not favorable to the doctor and his friends,” including provincial elections in British Columbia proved. Restore supremacy of parliament — where is the Bill of Rights to safeguard the liberti¢s of the people that the St. Laurent government is in the process of destroying ? The fact that Justice Minister Stu- art Garson denies the police state character of the government’s meas- ures does not alter the reality of the secret actions taken by the govern- ment under the Emergency Powers Act nor the powers the government seeks through Bill 93. The nation-wide campaign to strike out the anti-democratic clauses of Bill 293 is the first battle that must be won to halt this dangerous encroachment upon the people’s rights. And, in the months leading to the federal election, the fight must be to oust this govern- mentgof the American party in Can-— ada and replace it’ with a people’s coalition pledged to restore the inde- pendence of our country and respect the rights and interests of its people. — ‘ two bus-loads from Victoria Chamber of Commerce. This was nothing more nor less than a hope and an invitation for violence. What must concern all progressive, people, and first and foremost the pro- gressive citizens of Nanaimo who have experienced a great deal of press-incit- ed violence against labor, is that the editors of a paper which parades as the champion of democracy have taken to wearing jack boots. That nothing — did happen was to the credit of the people of Nanaimo, who regard it as. their democratic right to hear and to agree or disagree/ with Dr. Endicott or any one else, regardless of the would-be petty dictates of the Na- naimo Free Press. a PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 27, 1953 — PAGE 5 __ ene ee