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Vancouver, B.C., September 13, 1935

BENNETT AND WAR

The capitalist press, Conservative and Lib-
‘eral, hai] Bennett’s statement on War and
Peace in his radio speech on September 6th
as sufficient to allay the fears of the Cana-
dian people of Canada of becoming inyolved in
the world war that is now being brewed by
the imperialist powers.

A perusal of the text of Bennett’s speech,
however, fails to find any such reassuring
pronouncement. What the press seized upon
to hoodwink the people and give them a false
feeling of security was the following state-
‘ment by Bennett: ;

‘We will not be embroiled in any foreign
quarrel where the rights of Canadians are
not involved.’ :

But where the “rights” of Canadians ARE
involved “we” will be embroiled in war. And
since the “rights of Canadians,” to Bennett
and his imperialist associates, are the rights
(interests) of the finance-imperialists of
Canada, the statement plainly indicates that
if those rights are involved Canada will par-
ticipate in the war.

Canadian financial interests are world
wide, and those interests are powerfully at-
fected in any war, therefore the conditions
under which Bennett is pledged to peace do
not exist. : :

Bennett is well aware of this, and in his
speech made an effort to prepare the masses
to regard the coming war as a defensive
war insofar as Canada’s participation is con-
cerned, for he said: :

“Tf trouble comes it will be somebody else’s
fault, not ours.”

If trouble comes! War, then, according to
Bennett, is something that “comes,” not
something that is deliberately decided upon
to preserve or secure markets, to procure
sources of raw material and “spheres of in-
fluence” for the investment of surplus capi-
tal. He says further:

“T conceive it to be the solemn duty of
government, by all just and honorable means,
to see that Canada is kept out of trouble.”

This, too, lays the basis for a “defensive”
war, and is reminiscent of the hypocrisy and
deception of the people by Foreign Minister
Grey and the British Government in July-
August, 1914, when they were posing — as
they are today — as using “just and honor-
able” means to avert war. : :

The interests of Canadian imperialism is
Bennett’s chief concern; and when those in-
terests are best served by hurling Canada’s
young manhood into the holocaust of another
world war, Bennett will be for war.

The Liberal press, which can find grounds
for adverse criticism on every other state-
ment of Bennett’s, readily falls into step with
the Tory press in representing the Bennett
statement on Canada and War as evidence of
the peaceful intentions of the Bennett Gov-
ernment. But this is because the Liberals
are just as desirous of supporting Canada’s

war plans as are the Conservatives or the
Stevens crowd. The Liberals and their press
will support the Conservative Bennett gov-
ernment—should they decide on war—just as
unhesitatingly and just as enthusiastically as
they supported the Conservative Borden gov-
ernment in the last world war.

The lawyer trickiness and ambiguity of the
Bennett statement should serve as a warn-
ing to the war-hating people of Canada, who
now, before we are engulfed in the world
slaughter, should mobilize the greatest pos-
sible number of people in protest against the
war plans and commitments of the Bennett
Government, and organize to make it impos-
sible for the warmongers to carry on a war
should the people be unable to prevent them
from plunging the country into it.

ABERHART’S OTHER “‘FACE”’

It did not take very long for the Aberhart
Social Credit party to expose the demagogy
by which they exploited the disillusionment
and discontent of the workers, farmers and
middle class of Alberta to hornswoggle them
into support of its wild program during the
provincial election campaign.

Within forty-eight hours after his victory
at the polls Aberhart assured the bond-
holders, who have the people of Alberta by
the throat and bleed them white, that there
would be no repudiation of debts, no default-
ing in interest payments, and that Alberta
would continue to be a fertile field for the
financial gangsters.

Within twenty-four hours after the swear-
ing in of the Social Credit fakers as the gov-
ernment, Aberhart announced that the use-

less encumbrance of the institution of lieu-
tenant-governorship will be retained, that he
will plunge the province into even more debt
to the bondholders to the tune of $10,000,000,
that it is fortunate that the people have such
a man as Bennett as prime minister, and,
“most unkindest cut of all,’ that the $25 per
month dividend promised during the election
to every man, woman and child will not be
paid for at least 15 to 18 months.

Moreover, he has plainly stated that not
everyone will get the dividend, for he is going
to compile an “Indian List’ of those who will
be ineligible to receive it. Anyone who takes
a drink of beer will be denied the dividend.
Then anyone who indulges in “luxuries” will
also be ineligible to draw the dividend. Of
course, the Aberhart government will decide
what are luxuries. It is safe to predict that
anything over a bare subsistence will be con-
sidered such, and the “dividend” will be noth-
ing more than common every day relief, with
even that reduced on one pretext or another.

The people of Alberta are due for an even
more bitter disillusionment than they suf-
fered from the results of the U.F.A.-C.C.F.
administration of Brownlee and Reid. Al-
ready they are tasting of the bitter fruit of
blind trust in a demagogue. Already they
are beginning to see the folly of “letting him
have a chance to see what he can do.” Giving
such fascist-inclined charlatans as Aberhart
and Stevens a chance means giving them
time to develop and consolidate the forces of
reaction and fascism. It means giving them
time and opportunity to disorganize the or-
ganizations and paralyze the will of the work-
ers and farmers to struggle effectively, and
to fetter them with new and more repressive
fascist legislation.

It is high time that the people of Alberta
and elsewhere ceased giving every confusion-
ist and lying demagogue and agent of capi-
talism a “chance,” and that they take a defi-
nite turn toward reliance on their own united
forces.

PEOPLE ARE FED-UP

The political instability expressed mainly
in the srowinge number of political parties in
Canada is also expressed in the impatience
of the general public with the hypocrisy,
misrepresentation, demagogy, platitude and
bunk peddled by politicians of the old parties
at mass political meetings, and the shrinking
attendance at them. Quite a number of
empty seats greeted the widely and inten-
Sively advertised meeting addressed by Ian
Mackenzie, M.P., Vancouver Centre, and Pre-
mier Hepburn of Ontario. The audience,
numbering about 6000, was extremely hostile
and heckled and jeered both speakers
throughout. The old-fashioned high school
declamatory oratory of Mackenzie with its
rounded periods fared even worse at the
hands of the audience than the boastings of
Hepburn about what he “‘accomplished’” in
Ontario. g

The general public simply has no stomach
for campaign tripe about tariff changes,
getting markets where no markets exist and
monetary reform quackery, and it is show-
ing its resentment at the revamping of poli-
cies that belong to the days of the muzzle-
loading shot gun and the ox-—cart.

This awakening and disgust- of the public
With the inanities, imbecilities and transpar-
ent fraud of the office-seekings old party po-
litical agents of the monopoly capitalists is
an encouraging sign. The job at hand is to
prevent this healthy revolt from being ex-
ploited by such demagagues as Stevens, Ab-
erhart and their ilk, and to direct it into
revolutionary channels. And this can be ac-
complished only by the united front of all
anti - capitalist, anti-fascist organizations
against the old Liberal and Conservative
parties as well as against the fascist parties
of Stevens and Aberhart.

PATTULLO’S NEW ATTACK

The Pattullo government is preparing an-
other attack on the workers in the form of
a fake “Health Insurance” bill. A Hearings
Committee composed of government mem-
bers and heelers are flitting about from place
to place pretending to get the assistance of
the public in finally shaping the bill.

The government’s draft of the proposed
measure is of the same anti-labor kidney as
Bennett’s Unemployment Insurance swindle.
It provides for another tax on the starvation
wage of the workers.

People suffering from tuberculosis, a
disease prevalent among undernourished
workers, are not brought under the provisi-
ons of the bill. Neither is full dental service
provided. All that is provided in this respect
is treatment of a preventive nature only.

Organized labor is already opposing many
features of the bill, the worst of which is
that which places an additional burden upon
the poor by means of a levy upon wages and
other small incomes.

Greater united opposition must be mo-
bilized to defeat this anti-working class mea-
sure and to fight for non-contributory health
insurance.

PCLITE WARNING

DIGEST OF LETTERS

district where he lives have received

notice to “‘stand by for orders.”
GIVEN JAPAN The reason we are not printing
From Victoria we have to hand an] the letter is because the article is
article dealing with the approaching | written in a light vein, and there
MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 7.|] war, and being a horticulturist, this| yet remain thousands of working
—The frank statement that Austra-| reader of our paper suggests a] people who place wreaths on ceno-
lia would look askance at any Jap- | flower suitable for the comine war to|taphs to whom the poppy remains
anese expansion southward Was] replace the “poppy” in view of the] a sacred emblem, and whom we
made today to the head of a Japan-| fact that this war is commencing in| have not yet won over to oppose
ese govdwill mission. Africa. He suggests the “monarch | actively Imperialist war, and whom
Sir Frank Clarke, president of the] of the veldt.” We describes the we must try in all seriousness to
Victoria State Legislative Council flower, ete. We also mentions the | win to our side. Apart from that
for the past twelve years, made the | fact that several reservists in the the letter is well constructed.
remark during a speech at a lunch-
eon tendered in honor of the mission. | Governor Huntingfield and all pres- :
“7 yealize this speech is a grave] ent will recognize its plain truth,” When you have read this paper,
indiscretion, but I am convinced] be said. pass it on te your friend.

Mr. Cromie Of “‘Vancouver Sun”
Warns Soviet Union Of Medicine
Monoply; “Moscow News’ Replies

of thesmeans of cure, directs his attack not

Mr. Robert Cromie, publisher of
the Vancouver “‘Sun” has sent a
letter to the Soviet Union remind-
ing them of the grip that medical
science has upon Canada and the
U.S.A., and warning them of the
spreading of this monopoly into
other parts of the world. Readers
of the “Sun” in B.C. especially
will recognize the concern felt by
Mr. Cromie in this regard, as his
paper has continuously carried on
a campaign against the monopoly
ot the medical doctors to the detri-
ment of nature scientists in B.C.
and in Canada.

The svell meaning letter of Mr.
Cromie is replied to by the editor
of “AEoscow News” who reveals the
fundamental contradictions in med-
ical science in the U.S.S-R. and in
eapitalist countries, which are not
understood by Mr. Gromie. Al-
though the article is quite long for
our paper, we consider it of enough
importance to run it in full:

“At the very time when the In-
ternational Congress of Physiologists
is attracting the attention of the
whole world to the united struggle
of science for the understanding of

the human body, a letter comes from |

the office of the Vancouver ‘Sun’ to
our office to ‘remind us that distrust
and suspicion of science still exist
and are even spreading in many
parts of the world.

It is important for all scientists to
analyze the causes of that distrust
which furnished the mass support
that enables faseism to launch those
amazing, attacks on the whole con-
cept of science, which seem such an
anomaly in the modern world. Such
attacks are not created in a vacuum;
even their temporary success is only
possible on the basis of much con-
fused suspicion in the public mind.
What is the source of this suspicion?

The specifie attack received by let-
ter from Vancouver will be quite in-
comprehensible to our Soviet read-
ers: But visiting medical men and
scientists from the capitalist world
will recognize it as familiar, It is
an attack on ‘orthodox medicine’ and
on ‘serums and yaccines.’

“Tt begins with high praise for the
recent physical culture parade in
Moscow, which the writer hails as a
demonstration of ‘radiant health.’
But he hopes that the U.S.S-R. will
escape ‘the grip of the medical men,’
and will avoid the ‘serums-and-vac-
cine program’ which they are trying
to ‘put into effect throughout the
world.’

““Orthodox medicine,’ he writes,
‘is making a definite drive on Rus-
sia. If your health departments get
into the hands of medical-minded
men rather than health-minded men,
they will turn Russia into one vast
hospital and sanatarium, instead of
educating youth in diet, elimination
and physical exercises. The grip the
medical men haye on Canada and
the United States today is cruel;
they are everywhere securing legis-=
lation preventing even health and
diet lectures, except by medical men
—and this means health via the hy-
podermie needle, rather than by liy-
ing methods’

Confusion is Apparent

“What is behind a letter like this,
written by a reputable newspaper
publisher? The average doctor dis-
misses it with irritation as the work
of cranks, but this does not silence
the comment. The letter expresses
a distrust of science which is felt
by many well-meaning men of con-
siderable intelligence in the capitalist
world today. It is a confused attacels,
but it is a symptomatic attack. Cap-
italism leads science itself into con-
tradictions, and confused men, in-
jured by those contradictions, attack
not capitalism, but science.

“Who can deny that under condi-
tions of capitalism, there is often a
conflict between the work of pre-
vention and the work of cure? No
doctor, no scientist living under cap-

italisni

escapes the pressure

E He may submit to it
consciously or unconsciously, or he
may fight against it, but in one form
or another it introduces subtle poison
into his work.

“Professor Cannon and other sci-
entists from America have com-
mented on the curtailed funds ayail-
able for science in the present eco-
nomic crisis of world capitalism.
But this is not the only, nor even
the most important injury which
eapitalism administers to science.
Science by its very nature must be
collective; it demands the best think-
ing of modern minds, in close inter-
relation, building a structure of
knowledge continuous with the best
thought of the ages. But capitalism,
with its private control of medicine,
for instance, creates a private vested
interest in knowledge.

“In an interview with Dr. Gure-
vich, previously printed, we noted
the fact that of cases of acute ap-
pendieitis occurring in the main

cities of the capitalist world, only 30
per cent is delivered to hospital the

where it beloness, against the real
foes—profit-mongers and the profit-
system, but against medical men.
Perhaps a Comparison with Soviet
medicine will serve to clear up our
correspondent’s mind.

“In the Soviet Union, where medi-
cine and the care of health have
been socialized, there is no contra-
diction between prevention and cure.
Our Soviet scientists—even our
Soviet youth—will find it difficult to
understand a letter which contrasts
‘physical culture’ with ‘serums and
vaccines,’ as if they were opposed.
Soviet health service is unified; it
includes culture, diet, exercise; it
also includes serums and vaccines.
It concerns itself first of all with
disease prevention, but when disease
arises, it concerns itself with every
known means of cure. No Soviet
doctor, no Soviet institution, has
any vested interest in any particular
method of prevention and cure. All
methods are open to everyone to
learn, to test, to practice. Soviet
doctors—and Soviet scientsts in gen-

Shipping Fed. Dictates
Vancouver Police Policy

Will Not Allow “West
Mahwah’? To Be
Released

VANCOUVER, Sept. 12.—With a
cargo of flour and lumber in her
holds, the S'S. “West Mahwah’ tied
up in Vancouver Harbor for several
weeks due to the dispute between the
Shipping Federation and the long-
shoremen, is not to be released.
Agreement was arrived at between
locked-out longshoremen and the
owners to unload her and release her
for trade outside of B.C. waters dur-
ing the present lock-out, but the
Shipping Pederation would not allow
this to be done.

The vessel is owned by the Mac-
Cormick Line who had negotiated’
through the International Seamen’s
Union to have the boat released, and
agreed to all the terms laid down.

Detinite Terms
The terms were that the WVan-

couver locked-out longshoremen
would discharge the cargo at
double wages, and the company ~

to pay the wages over to the Cen-
tral Strike Committee; the former
erew who had struck when the boat
Was in Vancouver against working
with seab longshoremen were to
be paid their back wages; the ship
was to be removed from B.C.
waters after discharging was coni-
pleted, and not to return to B.C.
waters during the period of the
present dispute; no other vessel of
the MacCormack Line to come into
B.C. waters during the period of
the present dispute; and that the
dock in which the unloading tales
place shall be cleared of all armed
guards, also the approaches to the
dock in question.

It was the last condition that the
Shipping Federation would not con-
sent to, showing clearly that it is
the Shipping Federation which dic-
tates how, where and when police
shall be placed in Vancouver.

first day, with a resultant mortality
of 3.5 per cent, whereas in Lenin-
grad, 70 per cent of cases reaches
the hospital the first day, and the
rate of mortality is 1.5 per cent. The
difference is not due to superior sur-
geons or better equipment—in equip-
ment, the Soviet hospitals still las
behind the best examples of the cap-
italist world. It is directly due to the
complete correlation of surgical clin-
ies and hospitals in the U-.S.S.R.,
which correlation is impossible where
a doctor has a vested interest in his
patient,

Chief Consideration of Doctors

Here is “Fee”

“Wnder capitalism a doctor or sci-
entist spends many years at great
cost to acquire his education; his
knowledge becomes his private
Capital on which he must ‘get a re-
turn.’ He is forced to make his liv—
ing by cornering knowledge, or to
claim, by bluffing, to Knowledge he
may not possess. The many articles
that constantly appear in American
magazines, for instance, on the high
cost of medical care, debated between
patient and doctor, show how inev-
itably, in spite of the zeal of indi-
vidual scientists and physicians for
the honor of their profession and the
progress of medicine, considerations
of money mar their work.

“Our Yanecouyer correspondent,
aware of the contradiction that some-
times arises under capitalism be-
tween means of prevention and

eral—are in the honored, unified ser-
vice of the health and well-being of
man,
Only Under Socialism Gan
Science Be Free
“This basie fact affects the or-
fZanization, the motives, the outlook
of Soviet science, and also gives it
the love, reSpect and confidence of
all Soviet citizens, replacing alike the
slavish awe once felt by barbarous
folk to their ‘medicine men,’ and that
unanalytical suspicion which, find-
ing certain abuses connected with
medical practice, would suddenly
throw overobard all medicine. Both
these outworn attitudes alike are
the results of confused thinking
amid the contradictions of past so-
Cial systems.
“Our correspondent was wrone. It
is not the medical men who have a
‘cruel grip’ on Canada and the United
States. It is the capitalist system—
the private ownership of medical
ability and the practice of curing for
profit—that has a cruel grip on the
medical men. . . . Only under social-
ismi—yhich is in essence the appli-
cation of science to the whole com-
plex web of man’s organized life—
only under socialism can science be
fully honored and free. For only
when fully released from all en-
tangling alliance with private profit
Can Science and scientists secure un-
suspicious, enthusiastic allegiance
and support from the great masses
of men and women.”’

C.P. ISSUES A
CALL TO C.F.

(Continued from Page 1)

and war! That is the answer to the
decisive question of the hour.

The progressive forces of the Can-
adian people demand an answer to
the issue of government in the pres-
ent elections. The Communist Party
Zives the only true and decisive an-
Swer to this issue.

We declare that in view of the
fact that the largest part of the
masses who have broken with the

old capitalist parties desire a C:.C.F.
government, we are prepared in the
interests of the united strugele for
peace, defense of democratic rights
and economie betterment to support
such a government, provided it car-
ries into effect the measures of the
united front program: Genuine un-
eniployment imsurance measures to
save the country from deeper poy-
erty by compelling the rich to pay
the cost of the crisis, to increase
wages, to abolish the tax burdens
on the commnion people, to guarantee
remunerative prices to the farmers,
to break off all responsibility of
Canada for British war entangle-
ments, to repeal Section 98, to save
small business people and farmers
from economic ruin.

This is the only correct stand for
the progressive forces of the Cana-
dian people today.

Reactionary elements in the C.C.FE.
leadership refuse to face the issue of
government today. In Alberta, these
same people prevented the united
front, supported the reactionary U.F.
A. government, fed the deception of

Aberhart about “‘Social Credit’’
thus capitulated to Aberhart.

Now they would repeat the same
tragic policy om a national scale,
capitulating: to the fake demasogy of
Stevens by refusine to face the de-
eisive issue of united struggle to
stop reaction, to prevent war and
Win economie improvements for the
masses,

THE PROGRESSIVE MEMBERS,
LEADERS AND CANDIDATES OF
THE C.C.F., TOGETHER WIDTH
THE COMMUNIST AND ALL PRO-
GRESSIVE FORCES OF THE CAN-

and

ADIAN PEOPLE, MUST AVERT
THIS CATASTROPHE!
Such a majority of C.C.E and

Communist candidates in parliament
can be used to stop war, defend our
democratic rights and gain improve-
ment only provided the united front
of the people is strong enough to
defeat the reactionary groups in the
C.G.F. and if necessary carry the
strugele to victory over their heads.
It would be a dangerous illusion to
think that a CGE. government
would commence the building of So-
cialism. If the reactionaries are left
to their own way, they will use the
Ulusion of Socialism through a ©.C.
EF. government to promote passivity
amone the masses. to capitulate to
reaction and fascism and open the
way to war.

Gut this can be prevented. The
progressive forces and candidates in
the C.C.F. must organize to ensure
this by building the united front.

The election of a strong group of
Communist members of parliament
is decisive. It is the Communists
who give a clear, decisive lead on
these issues. They know how to act
decisively to stop war, defend demo-
cratic liberties and win the economic
demands. The C.C.F. candidates who
oppose Communist candidates offer
no program to the masses, They are

acting as the pawns of reactionary
Sroups, splitting the united front
and defeating the common interests
of all progressive forces of the Can-
adiam people.
The Communist Party stands for
the basic solution of all the problems
‘facing the Canadian people. That
solution is the establishment of So-
cialism in Canada. To attain this
goal, capitalist rule must be over-
thrown and a million times greater
democracy achieved under a Work-
ers’ and Farmers’ government.
Standing for this goal and fighting
for it, the Communists at the same
time Know what can and must be
done at every given moment to de-
fend the interests of the masses.
The task at this hour is to cement
the mighty united front of the Can-
adian people to save Canada from
poverty, from war and from fascism.
The task is to defeat the candidates
of the capitalist parties, all of whom
stand for policies which breed pov-
erty, hasten fascism and threaten to
plunge us into war.
WE MUST ORGANIZE THE
UNITED FRONT OF ALI PRO-
GRESSIVE FORCES OF THE
CANADIAN PEOPLE TO ELECT
A- MAJORIZY OF CEE AND
COMMUNNST CANDIDATES!
—National Communist Election
Committee.

Approximately 63,817,000 hectares
of grain crops have been harvested
in the Soviet Union. This constitutes
76 per cent of the total area under
grain.

Last years figures for the same
date were 58,369,000 hectares. Some

from 82 per cent to 99 per cent. 47

into this column last week, one thy:
by leaving out the meat of the Stor;
made it meaningless. ie
political shyster ex-fovernor of Ney

dupes that Communism and Socialisn |

provinces have completed harvesting

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Al Smith,

York State and runner-up for jh |
Democratic nomination for Presiden |p
against Roosevelt, was quoted 4 |)
telling his nights of Columb

were : in opposition to everythin)
American. He read off sreat Sob =
of wisdom from that historic dogy ©
ment that suarantees to every Atm ii
erican citizen the right to “life, HR |)
erty, and the pursuit of happiness4
In California, Nora Conklin was seq
to jail for 20 years under the Stat
Griminal Syndicalism law for trying |)
to improve the living conditions ae
the American workers. This is con :
trary to the “Americanism” of th ||
payroll patriots, yet, and here is Hy
point that was missed in last week) |j
Story, Nora Conklin is a direct des |
cendant of Matthew Thornton, om |)

lin's forebears were fighting fo
“life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness.""\ Al Smith’s Americanism jj |
the creed of the finance barons of
Wall Street and the Declaration ¢ |
Independence is now a standing in, |
sult to the real Americans —— the |
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people who created the wealth that
Wall Street juggles with. If Mat
thew Thornton was in California tg. -
day and fought as he did in 1776 he $
would be in jail with Nora Conklin |

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Journalists are a category of peopk ;
Who are generally possessed of whaj Hl
the Scots call “a good conceit op
themselves.” They speak of ‘their,
profession as “the fourth estate’
differentiating themselves from

common herd, having between them ;
and the pinnacle of perfection only

the aristocracy, the clergy and the:
good bourgeois. The ruling capitalig,
class seem to think there is Some
truth in this claim since they turn,
over to the seribes the main part of
the work of doping the masses who |
produce their wealth, in return for)
Which they pay goodly chunks | :
honest-to-g0d money, not scrip like:

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:

So Many workers get. -—Every once,
in a while we read in the press abou
the ‘thighest paid’ journalist —
America, and the claim to that “fa.
yor’ is made either on behalf oF
George Horace Lorrimer, of the
“Saturday Evening Post” or Arthur
Brisbane of the Hearst organizations |
Reading the articles they write one
is hard put to it to understand why
The papers of which they are
shining ornaments are the low
types of gutter filth and muck Trak
ing; they exist almost for the sole”
purpose of berating and hounding |
the militant workers and duping the)
backward and Jess intelligent. Never-—
theless it is hard to understand why |
a Supposedly good business man like |
“Rat” Hearst, a shylock in every!
other respecé, should pay the allezed |
salaries that Brisbane is supposed to}
eollect. Here is a recent “‘Brisban- |
ality’ from the blood and thunder
war propaganda of that Hearst miu
seum-piece: “The :

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washing clothes in a brook. . :
day’s washing, responsible for Wil-)
liam the Conqueror, is responsibie™
for the British Enipire, greatest on)
earth.” A fourth grade school girl)
would not pen such nonsense, but”
it is such clap-trap on which journ=
alistic reputations are built.

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No war for loot could get aloe
very well without the assistance of
the priests. To go no further back
in history than the days of Peter™
the Hermit, the war tocsin has soud-
ed its shrillest blasts when the priest
ealled the faithful to do their duty
to God and their betters. Of cours
the civilization that Mussolini is so
anxious to bring to the Christian
heathen black Ethiopians has chang:
ed the inspirational role somewhat
and a mask has to be worn over the
cowl. The priest who calls to batde
now must warble the gentle notes
of the dove of peace. Since Italy
a Catholic country and Fascism
long Since made its peace with the
Vatican, the good offices of the Po
tiff are at the disposal of the Itahan
murder regime. Addressing 20,000"
pilgrim war veterans the Pope Ut
tered a prayer that Italian aspira-~
tions in Btheiopia might be satis-”
fied, recognized and assured, but”
with justice and peace; thus giving
his blessing and guaranteeing the
help of God to the Fascist buccan=
eers in their attack on a small, weak”
nation. His tongue must have beer
in his cheek as he spoke of “justice
and peace.” ‘Justice’ for the Ethic
opians? Wo! For Fascism, for the
merciless repression, the extermin=
ation, the rape, pillagse and enslave=
ment of another nation of brothers
in Christ? Yes, for the Pope is 4@
and the cynical

ally of Mussolini
reference to peace was so much
hypocritical bombast to fool 20,000)

pilgrim war veterans and miujlions
more to whose ears it would come.

The Reds are a terrible menace.
Gerry McGeer is working overtime
spewing forth lying propaganda
about plans for a “revolution” that
his stool-pigeons have swindled him
into believing was to break out whem
the Longshoremen came on strike.
Every move of the workers to im-
prove their lot is a “Red Plot.” in
Oregon, the owners of the hop-yards
are hollering about Reds because the
unemployed who have been con=
demned to starvation by the closing
down of all forms of relief, refuse
to pick hops for $1.20 per hundred
pounds and feed themselves. Twenty
of the most militant at Independence
hop fields were Shipped out of
trucks because they fought against

per cent of the crop has been thresh-
ed, according to reports.

this miserable, belly-robbing wage=
rate. Of course, they are Reds.