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Farce in Mexico City

HE yery people who have been screaming about the Moscow

.“frameup” on Trotsky and his fellow counter-revolutionary
eonspirators, are now conducting a “trial” of Trotsky in Mexico
where the wretched renegade and traitor has found a haven to
eontinue his nefarious anti-working-class actiyity under the di-
rection and pay of Hearst, McFadden, Hitler, Franco and other
Fascist scoundrels.

The farce in Mexico is being conducted by a bunch of notori-
eus Trotskyist agents together with a handful of liberal dupes,
and has for its purpose the securing of a verdict of “not guilty’
in the face of the mountain of evidence, plus the defendants’ own
eonfessions, piled up against them in the Moscow trials.

The prosecuting attorney in the farce is none other than Al-
bert Goldman, notorious US Trotskyist and editor of the Socialist
Appeal, a Trotskyist organ. Trotsky himself early took charge of
the “trial.”” He refused to lay his correspondence or any of his
promised documents before the “court,” and his ‘“evidence” of his
innocence was a continuation of his slander of Stalin and the
Soviet Union, and a reiteration of his old and exploded theory
that socialism cannot be built in one country.

“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad,” and
those whom history has already exposed as agents of HAatler
and Japanese militarism and has branded as enemies of socialism,

resort to devious shifts ,as ridiculous as they are futile, in a des-
perate effort to cover up their guilt.

The exposure of Trotskyism in the Moscow trials and in
Spain as disrupters of the People’s Front has lessened the value
of Trotsky and his cohorts to Hearst and the Fascist Liberty
League, hence the desire to whitewash him. But the burlesque
being staged in Mexico by the Trotskyists will excite the people
only to contemptuous laughter and derision.

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Make the Rich Pay
R. TELFPORD in his Moose Hall speech last Wednesday

evening sounded the right note when he declared for taxing
more heayily the banks, the large corporations, the stock gamblers
and such institutions and people in order to avoid increasing the
public debt and to secure money for social services.

This is the practical way to procure necessary funds, and not
dreams of socialized finance, which cannot be realized within the
limitations of capitalism. The practical Angus McInnis stated
this principle in an article in the Mederationist of March 25 in
which he said, “Our program must be such that it can be im-
plemented by the powers that we now have.”

A CCF government at Victoria can not begin to build so-
cialism while capitalist class ownership of the means of wealth
production prevails, any more than a popular front government
can transform capitalism im France.

But it can put an end to the rampant corruption in which
Tory and Liberal party government wallows; it can put a erimp
in many of the most vicious forms of oppression ; and above all,
it can deal a stunning blow against reaction, and not only preserve
existing democratic rights, but extend and increase them.

THE
C10 AND
UNITY

By TOM EWEN.

In sOme sections of the trade
union movement on the Pacific
Coast there is altogether too much
of an idea that the AF of LL must be
finished off, and that the CIO (Com-
mittee for Industrial Organization)
will take its place. Such an ap-
praisal is incorrect and unsound,
and indicates a total lack of under-
Standing of the origin and meaning
of the CIO and its development.

The CIO is not and was never in-
tended to be a dual trade union
organization of the AFoflL. This
is the false premise upon which
President William Green of the AF
of I. and his reactionary colleagues
on the executive council unconsti-
tutionally Suspended the CIO affili-
ate unions from the AT of L, there-
by creating a serious division in the
ranks of organized labor.

The program and policy of the
GIO, consisting of the most pro-
gressive unions in the AF of L, was
and is to organize the millions of
workers in the unorganized indus-
tries into industrial unions, i.e.,
unions embracing all the workers in
a given industry into a single
union. Fully conscious of the limit-
ations of craft unionism in modern
mass production, the policy of the
CIO is to maintain these unions in-
tact and to build up around them,
as Part of the AF ofl, powerful
all-inclusive industrial unions.

The phenomenal successes of the
CIO in steel, auto, textile, rubber
and ether basic industries, bringing
organization and improved condi-
tions and wages to tens of thou-
sands of hitherto unorganized work-
ers, is a vindication of its program
and the justification of its existence.
Its successes have become a by-
word on the lips of millions of
workers. It has given them cour-
age and confidence to organize and
bargain collectively—to desire and
strive for organizations. By the
same token its successes have
driven President William Green and
his Satillites to acts of desperation
—to seeking by every contemptible
and dishonorable means to split the
ranks of organized labor.

Yet it is precisely in these suc-
cesses that danger lurks. Too often
we hear trade unionists say, “Lo
hell with the AF of I-——let us have
the CIO.” Such an attitude is not
rendering any service to the CIO,
nor to the trade union movement
generally.

Contrary to some opinions held,
the GIO does not issue charters or

“certificates of affiliation’ indis-
eriminately. To do so would play
into the hands of Green. The CIO

has agreed, in the face of Green’s
actions, to issue Such charters to
local unions that have been ex-
pelled from the AF ofl by Green,
or to groups of such expelled unions
which formed central councils after
they were expelled.

The overwhelming majority of in-
ternational unions and Central La-
bor Councils have turned down
Green’s expulsion edict flat. They
at least are convinced of the integ-
Yity and honesty of purpose of the
CIO. Consequently it is an error

Were there a United Front of the CCF and the Communist |
Party established, the Pattullo government could easily be thrown]
out of office in the coming election. Such a consummation would
attract thousands of waning and hesitant elements and would
be a prelude to drawing the trade unions into the political arena
against the capitalist parties.

Although the unity proposals of the Communists have been
repeatedly rejected, there is time, even yet, to effect am under-
standing which would avoid division and present an unbroken
front which would be unbeatable in the provincial elections.

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The Perfidy of Baldwin

OT in decades have the people of Great Britam been so

aroused and angered as they have been by the endorsement of
the Spanish rebels’ blockade of Bilbao, by the Baldwin govern-
ment. British merchant ships peacefully engaged in commerce
with loyalist Spain are prevented from entering government
controlled Spanish ports by a rebel junta with a few warships
at their disposal. And the British government agrees to it.

The Manchester Guardian is wrong when when it says that
the tail of the British lion cannot be twisted because it is between
his legs. The charge that it is cowardice which causes Balwin to
permit Franco to tie up British ships is wrong and misleading:
The fact is that the Baldwin government has been secretly helping
Franco and knifing the Spanish government ever since the rebel
uprising began. The blockade of Bilbao which threatens to starve
hundreds of thousands of women and children to death is agreed
to by Baldwin as a part of its aid to Franco.

Tt is also wrong to regard as boldness or impudence the action
of Franco in declaring that he will sink any ships, those of
Britain included, that attempt to enter Bilbao. Franco with his
puny navy would not have made such a declaration if he were
not assured beforehand by the British government that he could
get away with it. The pald and shameful fact is that the block
ade was declared and is maintained by Franco in collusion with
the British government.

Tt being well known that the people of the world desire peace,
the argument put forward to justify the Baldwin government’s
support of Franco is that acquiescing in the blockade is necessary
in order to prevent the spread of the war that is raging in Spain.
This is like saying that the United States government should
not have shot down Italian gangsters or sent Al Capone to prison
because it might anger Mussolini and precipitate a world war.

The warships of Franco are pirate ships preying on com-
merece, including British commerce. But Baldwin is willing
to have British commerce suffer temporarily in order to assist
the chief pirate, Franco, and destroy the people’s government

for any group of trade unionists to
think that all they have to do is to
organize a small group of workers
and apply for a charter of affilia-
tion to the ClO.

It is equally in error to leave or-
ganization of the unorganized “‘until
the @I@ can come in.’ The great-
est power for organization is pre-
cisely those AF of L unions, work-
ing jointly through committees with
other bodies.

They may represent a majority of
so-called craft unions, but the bulk
of them are keenly aware of the
ery for organization, and the turm-
ine down of Green's expulsion edict
in almost all centres of the Domin-
jon is proof of their sincerity for a

greater united trade union move-
ment.
In this they are the supporters

of the CIO and against the splitters.
It becomes clear, therefore, that to
pit.the CIO against the AF of L, or
vice versa, in matter of preference
is to fail to understand the CIO and
its perspectives.

"They Say.

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“We'll never
union.”’—Henry Ford.

“Henry Ford will change his
mind on this subject.’—John L.
Lewis:

“All but three of the present
justices were born in civil war
decade, or before. All but two got
their legal training 50 years or
more ago.”’—Lahbor’s Non-Partisan
League.

“Tt is time for the American
nation to make its own (neutral-
ity) policy, based solely upon the
joint necessity of stopping Fasc-
ism’ and ending war.’—Dr. Harry
F. Ward.

“The Spanish people are going
to win. The only question is how
many will be murdered (murder is
the correct word) by German and
Italian bombs and shells before
the victory is won.’—Dr. J. B. S.
Haldane, eminent British scientist.

recognize any

Words are going to be eaten in
Canada, too—by a different crowd.
Says Pres. Henry Jobnson of

Courtaulds, Ltd.: “I have never had
to deal with a union here before,
never heard of such a thing, and I
am not going to be led by a lot of
such folk as if I might just have a
repe around my neck and be led

By HARRY GANNES

(Sunday Worker Correspondent)
HENEVER I study the military
Situation in Spain, I always re-

call an unforgettable conversation
I had with a French officer who
specialized in military tactics in re-
lation particularly to the morale of
the peoples involved. He was re-
turning to Spain, just before the
fall of Malaga. At the time those
who opposed the idea of the People’s
Front were already disseminating
gloom and despair. Outright ene-
mies of Spanish democracy saw
stark defeat confronting the Peo-
ple’s Front of Spain.

“The fact that the overwhelming
majority of the people of Spain are
loyal to the legitimate government
is the decisive military factor,”
said my informant. “Partial de-
feats and sometimes important re=
treats are inevitable. But the doom
of the fascists, short of a world war
precipitated by Mussolini and Hit-
ler—and that is not out of the ques-
tion—is sealed.” These were his
conclusions after the most detailed
examination of all the factors in-
volved.

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WOULD be foolish to attempt to
draw definite lessons now. But

enough has occurred in Spain to

follow substantial military and po-
litical trends. Some distinct con-
clusions can be drawn.

If the famous German military
theoretician Clausewitz was correct
when he said, “War is the continu-
ation of politics by other means,”
then the brilliant advances of the
People's Army of Spain are cer-
tainly due to carrying out in the
War against fascism the highest
form of the politics of the People’s
Front. Where this has not been
done the state of affairs is sad
indeed.

In the central front, that is, under
the control of the Madrid-Valencia
government, the People’s Front
idea has been forged into a unified
war machine. Therefore, the or-
ganization at the front and rear
have made possible such spectacles

as Guadalajara and Cordoba.
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* *

OW turn to Catalonia. There
the story unfortunately is dif-

ferent. ‘Lrotskyist poison, mixed
with Anarchist decentralization,
worked its havoc. While “unity”

was the watchword in the Madrid
area, “dualism,” split, war against
the People’s Front was the goal of
the POUM, the Trotskyist-Brand-
lerite unholy alliance against anti-
fascist unity. “The proof of the
pudding,” Frederick Engels was
fond of saying, “is in the eating.”
And Lenin put the same idea even
more succinctly: “Facts are stub-
born things.”

What are the facts? At Guada-
lajara, 35,000 Italian soldiers were
put to rout. The People’s Army

This brilliant analysis of the
military situation wrl be read with
interest by everyone. Loyalist vic-
tories in the past few weeks, as the
new unihed armies of the people
sweep forward on every front after
months of stubborn defensive strug-
gle against terrific odds, have stirred
millions of progressive people the
world over.

'did the People’s Armies at Guada-

went from the defensive to the
counter-offensive. Madrid stood up
heroically against the most feroci-
ous air and artillery bombardment
known Since the last World War.
On the Cordoba front, the People’s
Army drove back the pic of the
Italian, German, Phalanxist and
Moorish legions. We recall, also,
that those who attacked the Peo-
ple’s Front also levelled their slan-
ders against the Soviet Union. The
story of the assistance of the Soviet
Union to Spain is still to be written.
It will be one of the most glorious
pages in all history. :

We must remember that not only
lajara and Cordoba drive the fas-
cists into shameless rout, but the
Spanish government won mastery
in the air.

HAT happened in Catalonia

during this period? The fight-
ing lines did not budge. Instead
of unleashing an offensive against
Huesca and Saragossa to coincide
with the People’s Army drive on
Siguenza, which would have caught
the fascists between gigantic pin-
cers and made impossible the pres-
ent fascist assault on the Basque
country, the Trotskyist agents in
Barcelona, assisted by a declining |
number of die-hard anarchist lead-
ers, precipitated a governmental
erisis; a dangerous threat to this
important rear.

But the situation is rapidly veer-—
ing in Catalonia away from the
last vestige of Trotskyist miusfor-
tune to a genuine People’s Front.
When that goal is reached, Cata-
lonia will emulate the military vic-
tories of Madrid—and not before.

It would be impossible to give an
adequate survey of the present mili-
tary situation in Spain in so brief
an article. But a general picture
can be presented.

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can see eight distinct major
fronts. At present the most

precarious, for the People’s Front,
is the northern strip of territory
reaching from Oviedo (Asturias)
in the west to a little beyond Bilbao
JViscaya) in the east. Actually this
sector is divided into two fronts:
(1) Asturias, where the miners have
long been storming Oviedo without
yet reaching their goal; (2) Bilbao,
where the fascist General Mola, in

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crumble elsewhere.

April 16, 1937_

LOYALIST SPAIN ON THE) sioxz
OFFENSIVE

—an effort to compensate, however

slightly, for the huge losses at
Guadalajara and Gordoba, is de-
termined to win some “yictory”’ in
order to keep the morale of his men
from cracking as well as to give
Mussolini an opportunity of “saving
face.’ The Basque drive towards
Burgos (yhich has reached Sar-
gentes) is really a part of the Bil-
bao battles, and is actually a di-
versive movement to force with-
drawal of some of Mola’s armies.
At one time, earlier in the war,
Oviedo and Bilbao played a de-
cisive role. Now they would be in
the category of partial losses or re-
treats if the People’s Front lost in
either sector. If on the other hand,
Mola’s armies are held back, the re-
sult would be irreparable for the
fascists. It would force them to

*

Nase most important front still re-
mains Madrid. At two places,
University City and along the Ja-
rama River, the fascists still hold
wedge-like positions’ uncomport-
ably near the Spanish capital.
These fascist wedges are no longer
the threats, it is true, that they
were either in November or in Feb-
Tuary. But until they are com-
pletely pushed back here scores of
miles, they remain danger spots,
especially If Mussolini ships new
troops wholesale. °

WMowever, because the fascists
have dug deeply into these areas,
the People’s Army has directed two
offensives at widely separated
angles. Employing Archimedes’
principle of the iever, they have
concentrated at the furthermost
points, aiming the hardest blows
where they will force the fascists
to move not only at the extreme end
of the line but more slowly and
surely also on the front nearest
Madrid. The two handies of the
jever are what we can term front
No. 3 (our figures are entirely arbi-
trary) at Guadalajara, and No. 4
Gordoba. :

Supporting the magnificent show-
ing of the armies at Guadalajara
and Cordoba is the double headed
drive on the fascist lines of com-
munications and supplies (5) from
El Escorial aimed at Avila, and (6)
from the Toledo to the Talavera
de la Reina sector. Gonnected with,
and as a sort of extension of the
Cordoba drive is the fighting
around Motril (7) in the direction
of Malaga, a movement which sort
of straightens out the line from
above the Cordoba front to the
Mediterranean and offers a formid-
able 200-mile stretch to the south,
which, if held and fortified, will
later prove to be the base for wiping
out such fascist centers as Cor-
doba, Seville and Cadiz.

The eighth front is Catalonia,
which, as we explained, remains
static.

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By MALCOLM BRUCE »

‘Tf the Communists are so keen
for a united front, why not be-
gin by having a united front of
the Stalinites and the Trotsky-
ites?”

The foregoing invitation appeared
recently in the CCF official press in
an article by Mr. J. S. Woodsworth
wherein he tried to explain away
the defeat of Jack O'’Hanley, CCF
candidate in the recent federal by-
election in Hamilton, Ont.

Woodsworth blames the poor
showing made by O’Hanley on the
support he was given by the Com-
munist Party, and particularly on
the support given by Tim Buck,

which support, he says, played
“right into the hands of our po-
litical opponents.” Woodsworth

may or may not know the cause of
the small vote received by O’Han-
ley. It was due largely to the cam-
paign conducted by Mr. Garland,
National Organizer for the CCF,
who took personal charge of the
campaign for O’Hanley.

Garland made the same mistake
that was made by Arnold Webster
and Dr. Telford in their campaigns
in Burrard, both of whom took up
much of their time disavowing as-
sociation with Gommunists and re-
pudiating Communist support. Gar-
Jand went further and directed his

fire not against the reactionary
Tory and Liberal candidates, but

Declined

Thanks

Without

against the Communists; and that
was what was chiefly responsible
for the poor showing made.

Miss Gutteridge made no such
mistake, and she is now in the Van-
couver City Council. For Commu-
nists will vote for a CCF as against
a reactionary candidate no matter
how much the CCF candidate dis-
parages their support. Unfortun-
ately, the same cannot be said for
all of the large number of voters
who are sympathetic to and support
the Gommunist Party, and who are
alienated by the way Communist
support is repudiated in the en-
deavor to hold the support of a
handful of ultra-respectable voters
who are blindly prejudiced against |
Communists.

As for the gratuitous invita- |
tion to the Communists to form |
a united front with the Trotsky-
ites, the reply is that it is declined.
Evidently Woodsworth thinks that
the leaders of the building of so-
cialism in the Soviet Union, to wit
the Communist Party, led by Stalin,
represent one wing of the Commu-
nist movement, and the Trotskyist
counter-reyolutionary wreexers of
socialism represent another wing!
If so, he is grossly in error.

Communists want a united front
not because they are politically
lonesome and want company — any

kind of company. They want a

united front of all progressive peo-
ple in the struggle for a better life
for the toiling people, against fas-
cist reaction, and for peace. It is
obvious, therefore, that mo fascist
organization could be included in
such a front, nor could any agents
of fascism be included.

It has been abundantly proved
that Trotsky and his fellow counter-
revolutionaries have already en-

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By
OL’ BILL

Another Bal: £22! Push {one

, Premier
loon Burst. Hepburn of On-
t¢ario, who rode to power by means
ef demasogic promises, has been
shown in his true colors by the
Strike of the automobile workers of
the G.M.C. at Oshawa. He swears
he will not allow “foreign labor
agitators” to stir up trouble in his
pailliwick. He is prepared to go
the length of calling out the militia
to help the foreign capitalist Dupent-
J. P. Morfan combination that has.
peen robbing the workers of Oshawa
for the last 25 years.

Before a Senate Committee om
Tabor recently, Lieut.-Goy. Ken~
nedy of Pennsylvania tendered eyvi-
dence in support of a demand for
investigation of this mammoth can-
ker on the American body politic.
According to Kennedy, the claims
made by the directors of the Gen-
eral Motors Gorporation, of hish
hourly wages, 73 cents, means
nothing, for, because of the seasonal
nature of the work, 30 to 40 weeks
in a year is the highest stretch put
in by their employees.

Im 1934-35, only one-quarter of
their workers earned $25 a week
and Jess than one in ten earns the
subsistence wage set as a minimun
by the U.S. Department of Labor
and Home Hconomics. The company
consistently fights all efforts of its
workers to organize for their owD
improvement.

How To Qn the other hand

; = the owners of this
Become Rich. corporate octopus
continue to thrive. John J. Raskob
is authority for the statement that
80 millionaires were made by the
G.M.C. in four years. Today the
figure exceeds 100.

Qne share of common stock in
1908 has become multiplied so that
today it is represented by 400 shares
of the same face value, due to the
practice of the company of paying
out stock dividends to “defeat the
enormous rate of exploitation suffer-
ed by its workers. Kennedy claim-
ed that although this original com-
mon stock represented no actual
capital invested it is now worth
$3000. Im 1929 it was quoted on the
market at $9000.

Pierre Dupont, who bought in for
80 millions in 1915 (30 millions of
his own and 50 ‘millions of J. P.
Morgan’s), took out 300 millions in
Jess than ten years in dividends and
stock bonuses. From 1909 to 19385,
from sales of 15 billions, 2 billions
Were paid out in dividends. In 1935,
Alf. P. Sloan and W. S. Knudson,
president and vice-president, re-
Spectively, earned within a few dol-
lars of $375,000 each.

Notwithstanding these colossal
extortions, the corporate greed of
the industrial and financial mon-
archs has consigned thousands of
auto workers to the breadline and
would keep the balance of the work-
ers in the industry just above the
breadline.

Hepburn is a hireling of the for-
eign millions, that is why he is so
venomously antagonistic to the
AWU—but the CIO tamed Sloan ane
they will make Hepburn eat crow
too and give the Oshawa workers @
chance to live like human beings.

tered a united front, and that unit—
ed front is with Hitler and Japa-
nese militarism and counter-revo-
Jutionaries everywhere; and his
followers, in every country where
they exist, are the deadliest ene-
mies of the working class and so-
cCialism. ‘The great united fronts
built in France and Spain do not
include Trotskyites. The fact is
that the Trotskyites are on the
other side of the barricades — with
de la Rocque and Franco.

Hither Woodsworth does not know
what the United Front which the
Communists advocate is, or he is
throwing dust into the eyes of the
people by specious argument,

The invitation to the Commu-
nists to become political bedfellows
with degenerate Trotskyist scum is
an insult which Communists re-
sent, but not to a degree that will
make them cease striving for a
united front of all anti-capitalist
people and organizations, includ-
ing the CCF.

Fittinely, in granite.

Not that they cared

Now that they had exchanged
A multitude

Of crosses planted in the steel

On state occasion; for right
To privilege, to held and have.
Now-that the banners and the
The panoply and propaganda
Had served their end.

Who fell in war.

Intoned a solemn prayer
And went their way,

Back to their colored pins,
Perchance to write a book of

Was due the victory.
Or from a polished desk

ot Spain.

like a lamb to the slaughter.

To plan their strategy

Here, the generals reared a monument,

-churned mud
For right to strut a little longer

But it was customary to honor those

So, the generals reared a monument
In stone, to symbolize their sorrow,
Arranged a wreath of flowers at its base,

their maps;

That history might recognize to them alone

By HAROLD GRIFFIN

A MONUWNMENT

Against the colored pins of yesterday

And those that would adorn their maps to-
morrow.

While poets wrote

Of poppies blowing on an errant wind,

Of memories for ever green,
The years rolled on
And crowds no longer gathered “round the

monument.

bugles,
Eager for the

Here, the gene

Only the generals

profits there had been.

rals reared a monument.

Do you remember why?

(Glance above you, comrade, dark wings rude

: the shy.
Glance around

Here, the gene
memoirs

again).

you, comrade, for what cause

will you die?)

rals reared a monument.

To whom, and whose the gain?

(Scan the headlines, comrade; do they speak
in vain?

Scan the breadlines, comrade; the call to arms

The fascist regime

Soviet Films :
now in the saddic

In Jail.

ing all the means of force and vio-
lence at their command to prevent
the people of that unhappy province
from learning anything of the ac-
complishments of the Soviet Union.

The common people under the
heel of Duplessis are not to be al-
lowed to acquire any knowledge or
experience that might inspire them
to rise above the political, economic
and cultural level of the party in
power.

Compare this with the modern,
liberal outlook of the warden of
Sing Sing Prison in New York
State, Lewis E. Lawes. Less than @

institution were treated by the man-
agement to a view of the Soviet
film triumph, “The Road to Life,’’

now being shown at the Little
Theatre.
This comparison between the

Sing Sine jail authorities and the
Quebec fascist rulers should be suf
ficient condemnation, without fur-
ther comnwnt, of the government
that opened its initial ceremony
With a prince of the chureh dom-
inatine the performance and an in-
ereased determination on the part of
all liberal-minded people to scotch
the fascist reptile.

Again That Just in case you
$200 00 jon’t happen to re-

SUED member, the Press
Drive is still on and the time for
raising that $200 in getting shorter,
If we are going to beat Slim we
will have to get busy. “Stolid as an
ox,”’ is a Phrase commonly applied
to people who are hard to stir. It
is to be hoped that the readers of
this column are not in that class,
but rather that they have the spirit
of the ox that went after Mussolini
in Libya.

That ox was the wisest of his
tribe and Mussolini acted so cow-
ardly that we are sure the Spanish
bull-fighters will make short work
of him.

That may sound like a digression
but it is in here to convince you
that the initiative of the Libian Ox
(he deserves capitals) and the pur-
posive determination of the heroic
Spaniards will ensure the fulfilment
of that quota and help to put the
People’s Advocate on a firm footing.

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