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SASS ga gta cay Re eageia tarda Obst seep autecie mae

Peace on earth

T= Christmas season is again upon us, when millions of

men and women the world over take time out from theif
various occupations ‘to repeat the greatest slogan of all time:
“Peace on Earth, Goodwill toward men.” At no time in the
long history of mankind has peace and goodwill been so
sorely needed and so urgently longed for as this Christmas-
tide.

‘At the close of a year which has seen the cold war reach
a new intensity, directed towards transforming the cruel
and bloody aggression upon Korea into a world atomic holo-
‘caust, these beautiful words become a profanity upon 'the
lips of warmongers everywhere. Only to the common peo-
ple, in their actions, their longingS and hopes, is the ideal
of universal peace and goodwill held sacred.

Who can sit around a Christmas tree, happy at the un-
feigned joy of their children, and forget the devastation,
the countless victims of napalm bombing amid the burned
villages of Korea? Who can listen to Christmas carols and

-be deaf to the maniacal urge of our military and political
brass hats, as they scream for the stepping up of “Operation
Killer?” ‘Who can listen to a Truman, a Churchill or a
St. Laurent prattling about “peace” and at the same time
forget that these alleged “statesmen” are the prime insti-
gators of war upon all progressive humanity?

Peace and goodwill are things that must be fought for.
They will not come of themselves, because there are sinister
powers standing ‘between their realization and the hopes of
the people. They can only be won by the growing unity,
determination, and mass action on the part of all who desire
peace, and the universal goodwill which peace alone can bring.

_ At this Christmas season: the Pacific Tribune and its
Staff extends to all readers and supporters, and ‘to all people
who work for peace, the warm fraternal greetings of peace
and, goodwill.

A big job faces us in 1952—that of winning the peace,
of defeating the warmongers who disguise their war con-
spiracies behind the pretext of “peace,” of making 1952 the
decisive year for the victory oF Se and human brother-
hood.

Only in this sense can we all say to all, a merry Christ-
mas and a happier 1952.

es iia citar meccscaicasai dvb Sivas els dasstic nici nt ses 5 cncmenin och eens dele Wsiet ass

. NONE ONE TE NOH NOTH

~ Seven years too late

BACK in 1945 the Boilermakers’ Union, now the Maric Workers
and Boilermakers (CCL), expelled Myron Kuzych for. dis-
ruptive actions, inimical to the best interests of the ‘union. That
was the beginning of the now famous “Kuzych case,” which in
reality should be called the “Canadian Manufacturers’ Kuzych
ease. = * 4 4

Over six years ago Kissa received the full measure of well-
_ Merited justice from his fellow unionists. Since then the has thad
- a lot of “law” and now, at the end of his areal rope, finds himself
exactly where ‘he Started. we o

Whether or not certain ‘bosses’ irearienieine adopted Kuzych
_to serve in their union-busting schemes prior to his expulsion from

the union or later, is something we can only guess at. It is obvious’

however, that since the ‘beginning of his “legal” battle in an at-
tempt to bleed the union white by interminable and costly court
_ actions, this CMA protege ties cost his backers a tidy sum of ill-
‘spent coin.
: The issue in the case was basic; that of the right-of a union’
to run its own internal affairs. The Appeal Court of B.C. denies
this right and the Privy Council upholds it.

: Having deposited Kuzych before the Privy Council, the neces
‘and their publicity-hungry stooge expected ‘a repeat performance .
of the B.C. Appeal ‘Court. They were doomed to disappointment
‘by the highest authority in the Commonwealth. «Then they tried
_ ‘a second “appeal,” this time on the usual trick perchnlea nts: and
again they lost.
; Thus Kuzych has reached the end of hig “legal” ome He
‘got true proletarian justice from his fellow-union members, plenty
‘of law from the courts, a great deal of dough from unknown

‘sources, and opportunity. of being “seven years too late”’in trying ©

to convince any workers he is at to be a member of a trade

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As We See It
‘by TOM McEWEN

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QNS of the most disturbing revelations of recent .
times, pointing up the extent of “outside ‘inter-
ference” in the affairs of government, is ‘con-
tained in the December 15 edition of Maclean's
Magazine, a fortnightly journal which describes
itself as “(Canada’s national magazine.” The writer
is Blair Fraser, top pen-pusher for Maclean’s, and
‘the theme of his expose is The Secret Of Macken-
zie King, Spiritualist.

We Jong held to the opinion that during his
lengthy career as a high priest of Liberalism and
public figure, Mackenzie King received and trans-
mitted the kind of advice well calculated to ex-
asperate his fellow Canadians, but we were quite
unaware that 'the ouija board and sundry female
“spirit mediums” were almost as essential to
Liberal. leadership as ultra-procrastination and
secret orders-in-council.

However as Maclean’s Magazine now says:
“Everybody kept the secret, for an obvious reas-
on; If the facts were publicly known, people
might have thought the affairs of Canada were
being conducted on advice from the spirit world.”
(Emphasis ours.) , j

Dictation of our national affairs by, Washing.
ton is bad enough, but despite the obstacle of a
Liberal. government subservient to the dictates of
dollar imperialism, a growing number of Can-
adians are becoming conscious that something
However, the thought that
all the most unprincipled political scoundrels: who
ever lived on earth, whether Liberal or Tory,
are forwarding their “messages” by way of the
“spirit” grapevine to a prime minister of an en-
lightened country, is utterly unnerving. The
Yankee atomaniacs get our ‘hackles up, but this
“spirit” business gives us political goose-pimples.

That brand of “outside interference’ has a
devastating effect upon the ‘national morale,
which probably explains why Maclean’s Magazine

“has hung onto Mackenzie King’s “secret” so Jong.

It also drives ‘home the realization that the class
struggle must be as hot in hell as it is on earth,
unless “of, course we take it for granted that all
the dead “statesmen” who gave Mackenzie King
the benefit of their spooky advice, are in heaven,
which, on the merits of their record while among
us, is highly unlikely!

Be that. as it may, there are some of these
statesmen for whom we held a very high regard.
For instance, according to the Blair Fraser yarn,
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is supposed ‘to ‘have
told Mackenzie King through a medium and just
prior to his final election, “Don’t retire, stay on the
job. Your country needs you.” Later, een
the same medium, FDR “changed his mind .
and urged him (King) to retire at once... ”

Those who care to cast ‘their political mem-
ories back over the past 25 years or so will recall
that there was a growing number of very-much-
alive Canadians who thought Mackenzie King
should retire. Period. There was a number of
Canadian constituencies where Mackenzie King
just couldn’t be elected, with or without ouija
‘boards or spit pearls

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Anotltr angle of this rule-by- -spook- inves
ence in Maclean’s, although probably overlooked
by the editors, is the neat smuggling in of cold
\war propagaiyda, and the close affinity between
‘modern. bourgeoise “statesmen” and those “medi:
ums” who have established their own telegraph
system with spookdom. At a later sitting with
Miss Cummins (Miss Cummins is a noted British
medium) he (King) got a message from FDR.
The President told Mr. King to watch ‘Asia —
that’s where the danger lay. ua Berlin airlift -

» well.

which was a focus of attention then was a side
issue, a Soviet bluff. There was no mention of
Korea by name, but FDR did say he thought
tthere’d be war in'the Far East “within two years.”

During the last years of his life-'Franklin
Delano Roosevelt’s friendship with .the Soviet —
Union and his hatred of war, were disturbing prob-
lems to the maniacal gang which now rules in
Washington and which seeks to extend its rule
throughout the world. With a billion-dollar yel-
low press and public misinformation service, this
gang ‘has done its damndest to smear and be-
smirch the memory of the living Roosevelt. 'Now
dead, with the aid of spook jugglers, senile and
psychopathic prime ministers, and a Canadian
“national” magazine, Ithey still try to. recruit

‘FDR into ‘the council of their anti-Soviet war

conspiracies!

It is obvious from the Blair Fraser story that
spritualism is an exclusive cult of a frustrated
ruling class, doomed to extinction, and bored to
death with the uselessness of its own existence.
The Duchess of Hamilton, the late Marchioness
of Aberdeen and sundry others of the near-great
are listed as Mackenzie King’s co-fans in his
nule-by-spook career. Even the venerable Queen
Victoria js alleged to have resorted to consulting
with spooks ‘when her “Highland gillie,” John
Brown, couldn’t hold ther interest in more earthy
matiters,.on which rumor says John was scarcely

.a novice.

Having been born and raised not far from
Balmoral, we just about saw ‘spooks ourself
when Canada’s “‘national magazine” informed us,
“The Queen had intended the watch for ‘her High-
land gillie, John Brown, a medium throughewhom
she believed she could talk to her beloved Prince ;
Albert.” John Brown was neither a Highlander —

‘nor a gillie, and as for being a medium, well,

one can almost see the heather wilt at that gem
of journalistic fantasy. John was a medium of
an extremely earthy sort, as all the natives
around Balmoral in their early eighties, will verify
from experience.

‘Through another medium Mackenzie King
got in touch with his Irish terrier Pat, his long- °
time. and probably most devoted follower. In _

‘the Blair Fraser story Pat had little to say,

which, under the circumstances, is perhaps just as

It’s bad enough having the spirits from

Gehenna, the other world or wherever they are,

running our affairs here through the medium of

psychoneurotic. “statesmen” without having the ,
spirits of dead dogs adding their quota to the bed-

lam with their critical bow wows. |

We used to laugh when we read of Adolph

‘Hitler calling in ‘his astrologists, mediums. and

others of ‘the yogi cult to help him plan the des-
tiny of the German Herrenvolk. Since reading
Maclean’s version of Mackenzie King’s “secret”
‘we are less prone to hilarity. The matter is much —
too serious for laughter and leaves us with the
gruesome thought that the spirits have taken over
Ottawa, and are planning: like deviltries for us.
With the Rt. Hon Louis St. Laurent, Hon. ‘Lester
B. ‘Pearson and the Hon. C. D. Howe creeping
periodically to Washington for orders, and Mac-
kenzie ‘King ‘hovering around the old hangout
through some medium or other, the siltuation is
creepy to say the least.

Anyway the “secret” is out, and “outside jin-
terference” in our affairs of public weal definite-
ly established. That should be warning enough. —
We know what Abbott’s budget does to the
workingman’s pay envelope, but until we read
Blair Fraser’s “secret” of the origin of key —
Liberal policies, we didn’t know how they got —
that way. Eeeek, Spooks!

An act to facilitate patronage

HEN ‘the St. Laurent government was acquir-
ing bulidings in Vancouver for the collection

of income taxes and the doling out of unemploy-
ment insurance (with the necessary question-
naires of course before the recipient could get
back some of his money), there was a big hulla-

~‘baloo about the Alvin Building and like deals.

Some good Liberals heelers made a nice clean-
up for voting the right party ‘ticket.

Now the business is before the’ House barre
The

government ‘wants the fullest scope for promot-
ing ‘‘no-tender” jobs. Public Works Minister
Fournier explains the need of such legisiation.
Perhaps “a pressing emergency,” perhaps “im: y
practical” to muss ‘around wath tenders Dh, new .

‘construction, perhaps | .

The new amendments should be labelled, Tan} ae
act to facilitate the handing out of party nic i
age and boodle to worthy grafters.”

* That is what the Fournier améndments mean. i
Why not label them correctly?

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