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‘THE old saying, “I saw it in the news-
Th Paper,” doesn’t always hold good.
a Is lots | happening these days,
pe of considerable interest to a lot
beople which never get into the daily
‘Papers. And that doesn’t mean that the

big poohbahs who run these monopoly

sheets don’t know of ‘these events. It
“nply means that some one ‘sitting on

_ ® higher perch has decided that it’s

not in the public interest” for the
Public to know all that goes on.

Beaute recently a great many residents
Sp ancouver and vicinity who are now
: Pan pone time have been associated
‘ progressive movements, cultural

_ ‘ttivities, literature or other advanced
inking, are finding themselves being -

a «. .
ae watched, snooped upon, or
€rwise intimidated by the RCMP
and their agents,

The Symptoms of this.advance notice

of : . :
 * Police state are varied and unique. |

ee instance a certain John Doe leaves
his home in, the morning to attend to
te daily business — strictly legal by
‘nadian standards. An RCMP car with

& couple of well-groomed characters.

pane fellows along at a leisurely pace,
Do € up their parking stance where John
Ene. Works, and remain there until John

>°es home to lunch. Thé same routine

- 48 repeated afternoon and night. Should

a n decide to take his wife to a movie,

eke meeting or an evening chat

i cae Some neighbors, the Dick Tracy
are right on his tail. :

“he is the general routine of sur-
ae. ance seven days,a week. No word
ata no charge made, no law
of en. Just a 24-hour round-the-clock
s Net Plain besetting and intimidation.
eed enough, John is considerably
i dead but it is all part of our “de-
ae program and the freeborn Cana-
1 taxpayer must foot the bill for
end emo bule and two “men” to ride
that On one Canadian citizen. Duplicate
and pyres a few thousand times
a vhak bbott’s annual budget begins to
€ sense of a sort.

hed course, that is only one of a se-
: eo of “police state” events the daily
; ae Clams-up about. Many homes, and
i lcularly those, of foreign-born fami-

S, get a dose of the RCMP-FBI “57

hacties” of intimidation, snooping and,

ae Teats,
ty ray tiddically a bright-looking lad will
on On the door, introduce himself as
© sort of “insurance” agent, and

© in, promptly branch off into a

“
S yaestalk” line of impudent. inquisit-
ness which has nothing whatsoever
Subse With peddling insurance. “Do you
eee to News Facts (a Canadian-
lyou Friendship bulletin)?” “Do you
Tyo» Do you read the Ukrainian
ie you read the Ukrainian
— Pacifi, Every once in a while the
ana eed beanie and Canadian Tribune
; Phone €r progressive labor papers gets
oF, rable” mention by these pseudo
As surance” agents’. . 3
ie Doin of the thought-control arm. of a
psc, State. But as Mr. Dooley says,
- daily divil’s wurrd ye’ll foind in th’
these es on th’ shenanigans av’
Again, Okrats who want to insure ye
inst thinking.”

x

. the advance

- movement, uniformed
the course of a lifetim

- attention, plus plent er,
he can be restored to good health again.

‘Vigilance, keen, al

\
ed us of another type of ‘RCMP agent
who constitutes himself prosecutor,
judge and jury. Entering a.home where
the occupants may have come to Can-
ada from Tsarist Russia 40 years ago,
this lad flashes his RCMP badge, tells

‘ the occupants all the evils of the

cultural or educational organizations
they may patronize now and again; ex-

‘ pounds on all the evils of the language

press and literature they read; what’ a
terrible man Tim Buck is, and — if they
don’t mend their ways, he’ll have them
deported. :

That should be a good story for the

- muck-rakers who like to froth at the

mouth .about “freedom of the press,”
but — nary a word. ;

Then. there’s another specie coming to
the fore in recent times, 'the RCMP-FBI
police agents and agents provocateur,
paid and unpaid, operating in the top
circles of the trade union bureaucracy.
Fertilized. with the manure of McCarthy-
ism and cold war, their job is to gather,
fabricate, forge, or conjure up out of
thin air, any “evidence,” canard or
slander, calculated to silence a militant

worker and drive him or her from the

ranks of organized labor. The growth
of this vermin has been especially mark-
ed since the Yankee war trusts began
to take over the natural resources of
Canada and dictate policies for Cana-
dian governments.
The main job. of this species is to

“purge” all unions. of active and pro-

gressive workers — to deliver the Cana-

dian unions, gagged and bound, to the .

war contractors of Yankee imperialism.
Waving a tattered banner they call
“security” and out-howling McCarthy on
the “menace of Communism,” these
lads do their job with a vigor and gall
which makes’ the late Adolph Hitler
look like a third-rater. Heavy, US. con-
gressional financial appropriations prov-
ide an “incentive” which Judas Iscariot
didn’t even dream of. —
The police agent provocateur is of

course as old as the labor movement.

This is the lad who, in the union or on
the job, wants to “pull the pin” on any
and all occasions; who talks an ‘ultra-
left” jargon, and accuses the Commun-
ists and every one else of being “too
slow.” This type wants fast. action of

the kind calculated to stampede work- —
ers into situations where their union, _

and themselves as individuals, will be
ready game for the RCMP-FBI police

watchdogs. of dollar imperialism.
Our late William (Ol’ Bill) Bennett

had some very forthright ideas on the |

geons in the labor
d or in mufti. “In
e,” Ol’ Bill once
wrote, “a man can contact some pretty

diseases, but given good medical
ee tisk y of soap and water,

question of stoolpi

Not so with the individual that sells
himself to stool, rat, and perjure him-
self, to defame his fellow man. No doctor
can cure that scabby bird, nor no
amount of water and soap wash him
clean. Unlike Judas, he doesn’t even
have the good grace to go and hang

- himself.” a
-But OV Bill had the cure for this dis-

ease that is creeping into many of our
homes and attempting to spread ae
ion’ and fear among our citizens.
= ert vigilance. Watch-
i it, every in-
ing every move, every threat, e
timidation, and. bringing out its dark
secretive techniques, into the broad
light of day. In other words make every
act of RCMP-FBI police-state intimida-
tion public. Meese oid
“Unlike the daily papers, the Pacific
Tribune does not boast of being devot-
ed to progress and democracy, tolerance

and freedom of ‘thought.”

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TITO SPEAKS

Build the BEG pool in Vancouver

HE decision of the 1954 British Empire Games Committee to build the new swim-
_ ming pool for the games at the University of British Columbia, is either a
piece of crass stupidity or the end product of case-hardened political chicanery
Either way, it is treating a basic need of Vancouver's young people with anything

but a sporting attitude.

; Public indignation is mounting against this BEG decision, which, when the 1954
games have passed into history, will “give” Vancouver a much-needed swimming
pool — vitually inaccessible, and therefore useless to the vast majority of Vancou-

ver’s young people.

Ae We are not arguing here just where in Vancouver this pool should be built. A -
suitable site can be found if the will is equal to the desire. The main point is it
must be built in Vancouver where the people, young and old, can use and enjoy it!

At the UBC that possibility is ruled out, The democratic influence which pre-

vailed on the campus and UBC community as a result of veteran-student enrolment,

has once again tapered off into the traditional uppercrust snobocracy of Shaughnessy.

_ The swimming pool would become the “exclusive” property of the UBC, in fact if

not in form. This, coupled with costly BCElectric transportation, would more or —
less exclude the great majority of Vancouver’s families from ther “own” swimming
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pool.

aye he swimming pool must be built in Vancouver to serve the needs of the
citizens, and in a location most easily accessible to the greatest number. The BEG
decision to give it to the UBC can and must be reversed. Mass public pressure upon.
the authorities concerned can help find a suitable location — and win a long-needed |

swimming pool for Vancouver.

~ Eyes on South Africa -

HE issues involved in next month’s

‘South African elections are of ~

world-wide concern. And just because
South, Africa happens to be a part of

this great British Commonwealth of

Nations, these elections issues are of

-. particular interest to Canadians. _

The pro-fascist Nationalist govern-
ment of Prime Minister Daniel F,
Malan projects these issues upon an un-
compromising philsophy of race hat-
red — the “superiority” of the white
race. above Negro and colored.. (The

‘Malan government, despite the ruling

of its own courts, is determined to carry
through “‘apartheid,” the segregation
of Negro and colored peoples, physical-
ly, ideologically, and constitutionally,
from the dominant and allegedly “su-

The Malan government “thinks
with the blood;” it, operates on the
“theory” of “white supremacy” pur-

‘sued by the Nazis in Hitler’s Germany ~
as by the Klu Klux Klan in the U.S. in
order to keep allegedly “inferior” peo-.
ples in subjection to the dominant

white peoples. Unfortunately and to
our shame, we still have too many of
the Malan mentality in our own coun-
a re

Malan’s brutal repression of South‘
Africa’s Negro, Indian and colored
majority is an outrageous violation of
the United Nations Declaration on Hu-

man Rights. Documented evidence of

this racist repression has come before
the UN on more than one occasion, but
that body, tself cowed by the lynch-
mentality of dollar-imperialism, has
failed to come to grips with the issue.
The Lodges, Jebbs and Dulleses can see

“slavery” in the People’s Democracies

they slander as “Soviet satellities,” but _

they affect a total blindness when the
facts of a brutal slavery in South Africa
are placed beforé them., And Malan —
helps the process along by barking that —
his “apartheid” is “strictly a South —
African affair” in which the UN has
no right to intervene.

Of course the racist actions of the
Malan government are not without the
precedent of shining examples of im-
perialist exploitation on the continent
of Africa. Today all Malan needs to
do is to look over the border into the

Kenya country to see a native people’s

struggle for the right of self-determina-~
tion and self-rule being ruthlessly
crushed by British arms and British —

courts. The story of the noted British

lawyer, D. N. Pritt; who went to Kenya
to defend Jomo Kenyatta and other
leaders of the Kenya people, reveals _
the desperate lengths to which the im-
perialist exploiters will go in order to

hang onto their usurped power of life

and death over the native people of —
that colony. aa

Like any fascist, Malan gi os
racist “apartheid? ee
misleading label “. . . the supremacy
of parliament over a abeusatt lat

a travesty of decency and justice, when -
it is known that Malan has forcibly ex- _
cluded from parliament the elected rep-
resentatives of the peoples he now
wants to herd into segregated com- _
pounds — like so many cattle. ;

Canadians will watch this. élection a

with deep interest because the issue to

be determined will be human equality,
versus race supremacy with all its at-_
‘tendant fascist savagery. ae:

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