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By WILLIAM ALLAN - ol
auto firms and long-time advocate of red- baiting in the big e ca Hex i [ ¥ i i oun -“Up
UAW locals, is out to break the unions in its current “anti- o ‘
Party heaaquarters here April 7:
by 500 hoodlums is a direct re-
Don Cameron’s series of a
rilous articles purporting to aie!
widely regarded as the key link |
in the technique by which mob
downtown Windsor.
Cameron was assigned ~ write
hash of scare yarns from a aonen
alleged “sources.”
ton Palmer Hotel. A few days
after his arrival he came up with |
ened.” From then on, he was un-!|
der heavy guard by an RCMP de-
To keep the “Communist con-
spiracy’ on the front pages sen-
“attempt to assassinate’ John
Bankhead, U.S. consulate attache
Sequent investigation uncovered
no evidence that a shot was fired
whole thing “baloney.”)
Detroit and Windsor papers had

Auto union is target of fey as
WINDSOR—The Windsor Daily Star, darling of the big
Communist” campaign. The attack on the Labor-Progressive . ‘
sult of the vicious Star campaign. |
veal a Communist conspiracy”
hysteria was whipped up in!
articles which were a lurid re-
He was given a room at the Nor-
a story that his “life was threat-'
‘tail.
sational’ accounts of an alleged
in Windsor, were featured. (Sub-
and Controller Ellis called the
a field day and _indulged in the

‘wildest provocations and innuen-
| does in a futile attempt on “Com-
munists.”

This hysteria was sufficient for
the Windsor Star to whip through
‘some pet anti-democratic pro-
jects.

President Roy England of the
| Ford UAW local was barred from
crossing from Windsor to Detroit
on union business. Labor leaders
,in Detroit who have refused to
sign the Taft-Hartley anti-Com-
munist affidavits are barred from
coming into Windsor or ‘any part
of Canada.

The cries. of “on to the union
halls” by the mob which wrecked
LPP headquarters, the Windsor
Star’s campaign against the UAW
and the CCF indicate that the
open threats of further violence
by the still anonymous leaders of
the hoodlum gang, are directed
against all labor. The fact that’
the outbreak took place in Wind-
sor, a labor stronghold, lends fur-
ther weight to the strongly-held
suspicion that back of the vio-
Ience lies a_ carefully - planned
scheme of the auto industry to
smash the UAW and other unions
in the Windsor area.

U.S. interference gives
de Gasperi ‘big victory’

As the Pacific Tribune went to press, complete returns

of Sunday’s Italian elections were not available, but tabulations
to date. indicate a safe margin for Premier de Gasperi’s

Christian Democratic party, which is credited with approxi-

mately -50° percent of the total
votes cast,

The ‘ Socialist-Communist Front |
is credited ,with approximately 35 |
percent of the vote. In the eight |
main. parties on the Italian ee
lot, the Christian Democratic Par-
ty and. the . Socialist-Communist
Front -received .the highest vote, |
approximating .eight and Bbemail
lion. .respectively. The right-wing)
socialists - and, the .national bloc
(pro-fascist) polled over one mil-
lion votes each, while the republi-
can, monarchist and Italian So-
cial Movement (MSI. Mussolini |
fascists) polled nearly a million
votes between them.

Later returns may add to the
respective totals of the two lead-
ing parties, but are unlikely. to

materially effect the eeerst
standing. . :
Great , _ jubilation is being ex-

pressed by. Marshall Plan  sup-
‘porters at the outcome of the
Italian “elections and the “de-
feat” of the Socialist-Communist
Front. Never in the history of
domestic elections haS the open,
interference’ of imperialist’ inter- |
ests been’ so flagrant as in the
Itaiian istetlona, - The issue

projected upon the Italian people ;
as the, choice. between a democ-
racy” and “Marxist totalitarian-
ism”-—“ehristian” or “atheist

rule” — Communist preteen
and hunger” versus “democratic

a=
Distortion of news _
condemned by UN
GENEVA — A committee of
the United Nations conference
on freedom of information last
week condemned distortion and
falsification of mews and called
on all newspapermen to main-—
tain accuracy, fairness and re-:
sponsibility.
The resolution said a just and
lasting peace depended upon a

| land,

freedom and plenty”. Domestic is-
sues and the failure of the de
|Gasperi government to implement
labor or other social re-
forms were obliterated.

Imperialism carried on an un-
precedented campaign of cajol-
ery,” threats, promises and mis-
representation. It bought votes
\for de Gasperi with promises of
shiploads of food, with promises
of the return of Trieste to Italy,
and with promises of moral and
material blocade if the Italian
people didn’t toe the Truman-
Marshall line. American battle
squadrons in Italian waters, Am-
erican bombers in the skies above
Italy—all played their part in de
Gasperi’s victory. Despite the
fact that no evidence of Soviet
“interference” in the internal. af-
fairs of Italy was to be. found
anywhere, the U.S. and its satel-
lites. carried on -their shameless
interference under the pretext of

“Combatting Soviet.. Interference”,

The vast Italian immigrant pop-
ulation of the U.S., Britain, Can-
ada, France and the Latin Am-
erican countries were encouraged

“write home to their folks”
basa tell. them how to vote—
against the Socialist-Communist
Front, The Catholic Action in
ic | Italy. and abroad campaigned fev-
erishly for a de Gasperi victory

lagainst “Soviet imperialism”. The

Vatican centred its guns on “athe-
istic doctrines” and in many areas
of Italy threatened ex-communica-
ed the Socialist - spe ae
Front.

British United Press despatches
eae Washington reveal that un-

der “Project X”, the U.S. has
spent $4,000,000 for “political
purposes x in’ the weekend
elections’ —with more funds to
come “for anti-communist groups”
still operating in Italy. In Con-
gress the de Gasperi government’s
“victory” was hailed as_ the |.
“first concrete results stemming
from the promise of ‘HRP aid”.
In other liberal and socialist
circles the election is already be-

_ free flow of true and honest in-
formation. :

ing described as a ene and a
steal”,

tion to its followers who support-'

and we're barely at the half-way mark!

SEND IN YOUR CONTRIBUTION NOW, TODAY, SO
THAT ON MAY DAY WE CAN CELEBRATE HAVING
REACHED OUR OBJECTIVE OF BUILDING A FIGHT-
ING FUND FOR A WORKER’S PAPER——THE PACIFIC

TRIBUNE.

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DAY, APRIL 28.

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hes nie Province

Don’t forget the press dances at
Vancouver: Happyland
Victoria: Prince Robert House

New Westminster: Hollywood Bowl |
All on Friday, April 30

ALL PACIFIC TRIBUNE DANCE STUBS
IN TRIBUNE OFFICE NOT LATER THAN

MUST BE
WEDNES-

i Ea Ashton

With only a week to go be-
fore the Press Drive officially.
ends, the grand total at press
time was $7,063.42, not quite 50
percent of our objective.

Several club:
have gone
over the top,

170 tab)

among them®
being Ladner,
which stands
a very good
chance of
winning the
out of tow
trophy, with
$290.30 raised
on a quota of $150. Salmon
Arm is also over with $71.00
on their $50 quota, and Brooks-
wood $55 on their quota of $50.
Several other out of town clubs
arg very near the top and will
reed just a little push to put
them right there.

Fel Ashton

done it again, having turned
in $363.60 on a quota of $350.
Congratulations! Several oth-
er clubs are very near the top,
and we believe would be over
the top now if their press
chairman had turned in money
as it was raised. How about
1 Le

: “helpers”,

In Vancouver, Grandview has

OV Bill is still going strong Johnson, Bob Kydd and three

with $689 to date—he says he
isn’t going to stop till he gets
a thousand bucks. One of his
B. L. ‘Anderson,
when he saw Bill had raised
the ante to $500, decided he
would raise ten percent of it.
Another $50 for Ol’ Bill came
in from an old crippled logger
who was “sorry he couldn’t get
the card filled right up.” Another,
J. O’Hanley, sent in money
with the wish for “success in
your drive for a bigger and
better Tribune.”

A Saskatchewan farmer

friend of Ol Bill’s for 40 years
said he couldn’t do any can- .

vassing as he was 88 years old
but sent five dollars to help

out! Another donation came
from a “B.C. exile standing
among alien corn” in the jun-
gles of Ontario because “the
paper must be kept going.”
Here is the list of Press
Builders todate, according to

. our records. If your. name isn’t

there, and you have raised
more than $25.00 blame your
press chairman and get him to
notify us!

Ol Bill’s Column: B. L. An-
derson, W. Bennett, Herbie

. hough. Kitsilano.

others anonymous,

East End No. 1: Wm, Hre-
herchuk, N. Covale. East
End No. 2: R. Lawryniuk
Grandview: Frank Politano,
Big Bill, Jack Butler.. .Com-
mercial Drive: Percy Budd.
_English Bay: Olga Turple,
Wass Turple, Rhea Dear,
Bill Bennett: Bea Ferney-
L Le
vine. Fairview: Dulce Smith.
Hastings East-Renfrew: Mar-
garet Stables, Harold Grif-
fin. Central Burnaby: Chas.
Stewart, Harry Bail. Mari-
time: Bert Bird, E. Wenner-
low, J: Rockendal, J. ‘Mc-
Carthy. Professional: John
Stanton. Victory Square: H.
Seland, Myrtle. Bergren,
John Gustafson, Duncan Mc-
Lean, Axel Oling, T. Smith,
E. Dotzler, J. Carison, Les
Urquhart, J. Proc, Don Bar-
bour, Emil Job, G. Prentice,
Myles Nugent, Ossian John-
son.

Victoria: Carl Palmgren,
Connie Hudson, Robert Kerr,
Shand Robertson. Salmon —
Arm: C. F,

—$15,000 by May Day! —

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