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The two Carlins

Editor, Pacific Tribune—

Sir: In the article dealing with
the Ontario elections on page 10
of last week’s Pacific Tribune,
it states that the Conservative
Party is distributing a red-bait-
ing rag in which appears “an ar-
ticle lauding Ralph Carlin, loud-
est spokesman for the _ union-
busting clique in the gold mines
and a CCF member whose right-
wing activities have been denoun-
eed by rank and file union mem-
bers.”

A little further on the article
says that the CCF provincial
council is deserting Robert Car-
lin, CCF MLA for Sudbury.

Are there two Carlins both be-
longing to the CCF, one named
Ralph and the other Robert H.?
The article is very confusing and
the matter so important that it
needs clarification.

A. CHEVERTON,
White Rock, B.C.
Editor’s Note: Robert H. CGar-

lin and Ralph Carlin are bro-
thers and both are members of
the CCF in Ontario,

Robert H. Carlin is MLA for
Sudbury and board member for
District 8 of the International
Union of Mine, Mill and Smelt-
er Workers (CIO-CCL) and has
fought for the carrying through
of his union’s wage drive against
a three-pronged drive from gov-
ernment, business and certain
top trade union officials asso-
ciated with the right-wing lead-
ership of the CCF.

Ralph Carlin is a member of
the CCF trade union committee
who was expelled from the min-

ers’ union for his activities in ©

Timmins as part of an inner-
union clique which served to
help the government deport
Reid Kobinson and now George
Knott, union organizers.

SPEAKING OF CIRCULATION

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Yale victory
Eaitsz, Pacific Tribune—

Sir: Unity of progressive forces
won aé_ resounding victory at
Yale. The people are becoming in-
censed at old-line politios which
fail to protect them from such
disasters as the floods in the In-
terior.

They recall that the organized
unemployed youth of the “Hun-
gry thirties’) put out briefs call-
ing for action to build flood con-
trol and other projects in our fer-
tie valleys, but nothing was done.
Instead their energies were dis-
sipated at usless treadmill labors
in the sticks. Rebelling against
such frustrating conditions they
became victims of the “subver-
sive element” technique so much
in evidence against organized la-
bor and progressive forces to-
day, but thank goodness the peo-
ple are realizing who the real
subversive elements are.

People who lose their homes,
their livestock, and all the means
of their livelihood and who are
Plunged in the deepest of anguish
and sorrow, because of the disast-
rous floods ravaging the valleys
of the Interior, do not see any-
thing subversive in unemployed
fyouth being desirous of doing
constructive work at proper rates
of pay instead of being relegated
to the jungles at 20 cents a day.
It is being broadly realized that
if all this youthful labor had
been used for flood control work,
the present flood disaster would
have been avoided.

E. MARSH,
Vancouver, B.C.

Mayor Muir in 1940 |

Editor, Pacific Tribune—

Sir: I read in your last issue
about the attack on the labor
movement by the Nazi-minded
mayor of Nanaimo and his slick
clique of would-be storm troop-
ers and I am now wondering how
soon the trade unionists all over
Canada will be dragged from
their beds in the dead of night,
and suffer the same treatment
Hitler and his gang of beasts
meted out to the trade unionists
of Germany when they seized pow-
er in that country, :

I have here a clipping from the
Vancouver Daily Province of
eight years ago (that was before
it wats placed on the unfair list).
Muir was then an alderman. I
wonder if he remembers as I do
the 1912 lockout of the miners
when the CPR boat, Princess Alice
landed with a shipload of troops
from Vancouver with field guns,
machine guns and rifles with
fixed bayonets, not to fight an
enemy but to shoot down citizens
of Canada. Will history repeat
itself? ;

BERT PADGHAM

‘ A trade unionist
Bridal Falls, B.C. since 1912.

alters Note: «
Tribune thanks Mr. Padgham
for forwarding the clipping,
which is réproduced elsewhere
in this issue,

SCIENCE TODAY

Ficw sate is DOG

IN HIGH-PRICED EATING places they may soon
offer you steak guaranteed free.from poison. Dairies may

sell us premium milk “From Un-Poisoned Cows.”

Eggs

and butter that positively won't kill you!

This is no joke. Food experts
have just had another terrific
blow. A few months ago they found
out that a chemical long ago used
to treat white ,flour is really a
poison. Now, U.S. government
scientists come up with a start-
ling mass of reports.

They find that some meat, milk,
butter, eggs, fruits and vegetables
are being made poisonous by new
agricultural chemicals.

We all know the insect-killer
ealled DDT. The way we use it
around the house it is perfectly
safe. But in certain amounts DDT
can be deadly to human beings if
it gets inside the body, It has de-
structive action on the nervous
system,

But how can we get the stuff
inside us? Until lately, scientists
simply gave it no thought. Then
the Washington experts started
to investigate rumors.

DDT is being used on a vast
scale to kill crop-eating insects.
Also, to keep flies and similar
pests off cattle. Last’ year, in
Kansas and Oklahoma alone, two
million cattle were sprayed. Be-
cause they ate in peace those
steers and cows gave 75 milion
more pounds of beef. A very fine
result.

But a vast amount of DDT was
used on them. Some got into their
food. More was eaten on sprayed
corn and alfalfa. Seems it didn’t
poison the cattle. Still, it stayed
with them.

‘About half of all the DDT the
animal takes in is found later in
its “meat! Cooking does not de-
stroy much of it. When a milk
cow eats silage from fields dust-
ed with DDT the poison turns up
in her milk or butter. Chickens
pass the stuff on in their eggs.

* * *
GOOD NEWS for vegetarians?

Would be, only our orchards and
gardens are being sprayed on a
gigantic scale. The scientists have
found DDT on apples, peaches,
citrus fruits and others. Vege-
tables that you open or peel, like
peas, cabbage, cucumbers and po-
tatoes. are free from the poison
on parts that are usually eaten.
The same applies to fruits.

This gives our biochemists little
comfort. After all DDT is only
one of the new. chemicals used
down on the farm. The chemical
and petroleum monopolies are
waging a terrific promotion cam-
paign to boost farm chemicals.
They took in $175 million from
this business last year.

Besides profiting the big manu-
facturers, these chemicals aid the
farmer. They save enormous
amounts of food, because they kill
insects, weeds, .fungi, molds, seed
and soil diseases. New chemicals
can even be used to strip the
jleaves from plants like potatoes,
to speed harvesting.

But what about eating the
food from such chemically treated
crops? Right now that is a very
solemn question before our biolo-
gists.

Scientists are alarmed for two
reasons. First ,the effect of these
chemicals on human beings, taken
in small amounts. is usually slow,
and hard for a doctor to diagnose.
We might notice no symptoms
for years. Or blame them on other
causes. i

Second, the definite menace of
DDT has only just been discov-
ered, and the stuff is already ap-
proved, in use on a tremendous
scale. Dozens of these new chemi-
cals are big business. Nothing
short of a disaster to our health
would stop this profit-making.

Just now there is nothing we can _

do but wait for further research.
-—-DYSON CARTER,

GUIDE TO GOOD READING

Report on China

IN THE SUMMER OF 1944 when the Japanese armies
launched ther last great offensive in China aimed at destroy-
i U.S air bases, Chinese Communists declared they were

willing to place their troops
of General Joseph W. Stilwell—if
Chiang Kai-Shek would do the
same for all Kuomintang troops:

The willingness of the Chinese
Communist forces to take this
step (which, of course, Chiang
blocked) is a significant clue to
Stilwell’s character.

There are, of course, many oth-
er clues—-not the least of them
being a universal high regard for
him by the rank and file GI’s.

Yet when Stilwell was summar-
ily recalled from ‘China in late
October of 1944 (in capitulation to
Chiang’s demands) he was kept a
virtual prisoner by the Army. He
was allowed no interviews en route
to his Carmel home from Wash-
ington, was held at Love Field,
Texas, under MP guard, and not
allowed to stay in a Dallas hotel.

Indeed, although he returned
to high command before the war's
end, Stilwell never did speak his

« mind publicly about China before

his death in 1946, e

Now he has—and it’s a magnifi-
cent piece of speaking.

The Stillwell papers (William
Allen Associates), published this
week, is — as his widow, Mrs.
Winifred Stilwell puts it—“his first
Public report.”

* * * *

The book, which is the Book
Find Club’s June choice, covers

under the personal command

the period from December 7, 1941,
‘to November 6, 1944. It gives a
simple and direct behind-the- —
scenes account of every phase of
the war in which Stilwell had 4
hand, including his now-famous |
-walk out of Burma in the spring
of 1942 and his victorious return —
to Northern Burma early in 1944.

His intimate and merciless —
evaluation of Chiang Kai-Shek,
whom he constantly. refers to as
“Peanut,” is a real contribution to
history. ‘

Here is an example of his evalu-
ation of the Chinese people and
China’s internal struggle, ’

“(I have) faith in Chinese sol
diers and Chinese people; funda-
mentally great, democratic, mis-
governed. No bars of caste oF
religion. . . . Honest, frugal, in-
dustrious, cheerful, independent,
tolerant, friendly, courteous. *

“I judge Kuomintang and Kun-
chantang (Communist Party) bY
what I saw:

“(KMT) Corruption, neglect
ghaos, economy, taxes, words and —
deeds. Hoarding, black market
trading with enemy. ;

“Communist program . . - '&
duce taxes, rents, interest. Raise
production, and standard of liv
ing. Participate in government.
Practice what. they preach.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—JUNE 4, 1948—PAGE 8