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Gifts From the Beatty St. ‘‘Greek’’

pve DAYS after the close of the provincial
convention of the CCF the “Sun” news-
paper, in an editorial, adopted a “tolerant”
and patronizing air toward that party. It
admits the CCF is a “great national political
party, and warns against sneering at it or
trying to “laugh it off.” It admits further that
it is a permanent force.

This is dangerous praise, for the carrot of
permanency and importance which the Sun
holds before the CCF and its supporters is
based upon its ili-concealed satisfaction in the
belief that the CCF “will not enter into a
marriage of convenience with the New De-
mocracy movement.”

Knowing full well that the advance of re-
action can be checked only through unity of
all progressive groups, it wants to prevent
that unity. And the “permanent force” which
the Sun wants the CCF to continue to be is
clearly stated when it says:

“For years to come, PERHAPS ALWAYS,
it must remain an educational movement,
a force of public opimion which has and will
continue to modify the policies of other par-
ties who will not hesitate to use its ideas
when they seem good or when circum-
stances force it’ (Emphasis ours:Ed.)

“Perhaps always’! “An educational move-
ment’—only! But never a party which will
form a government. Such is the role gratui-
tously assigned to the CCF by the chief BC
mouthpiece of the Liberal machine.

It is quite willing to have a limited number
of CCF members in parliament as “critics,”
put will it advocate the election of Lefeaux as
a critic against “Bren Gun” Mackenzie?

Certainly, a strong group of CCF and other
progressive members in parliament WOULD

modify the policies and administration of the .

federal government; and knowing that it can-
not prevent the election of such a group, the
Sun wants it confined to that.

What it wants in Canada is the sorry pass
to which labor has been brought in England
by the reactionary leaders of the British La-
bor Party who stubbornly reject unity with
other progressive groups, while in every
major crisis support and save the Chamber-
lain government, who do not want to see a
progressive government which would include
their own representatives, but are content to
remain a permanent opposition.

The role assigned to the workers in pro-
duction is that of “hewers of wood and draw-
ers of water’; and the smug rulers of Canada
and their newspapers would like the CCF to
become mere critics, mere modifiers of policy
and official parliamentary oppositionists,
leaving real government for all time in the
hands of the exploiters and oppressors oi the
people.

The CCF can and, we hope, will contemptu-
ously reject the advice of the Sun and will
strive for a progressive government in Cana-
da, recognizing before it is too late that the
way to achieve it is not by isolation but by
unity.

Hoover, Secretly, Spilis the Beans

HE growing movement in the United

States to draft President Roosevelt for a
third term has found unintentional but pow-
erful support from none other than Herbert
Hoover.

That ill-fated and illfamed former Presi-
dent has predicted that if Roosevelt fails to
win the Democratic nomination, the Demo-
cratic Party will be split in 1940. Hoover al-
lowed himself the luxury of frankness because
the prediction was made behind closed doors
to a secretive gathering of Republican chief-
tains.

What does the opinion of Hoover, which
prevails in high Republican councils, mean in
the terms of practical politics?

The obvious thought suggests itself: if re-
jection of Roosevelt will split the Democratic
party, then it is in the interests of the Repub-
licans to throw their powerful resources be-
hind a stop-Roosevelt movement within the
Democratic party.

Wor are the resources at the command of
the Republicans neglibible. They can count
with assurance upon some 85 percent of the
American press, and in a pinch on 5 to 10
percent more. They can count on the high-
powered, well-oiled propaganda machines ot
big employer groups and “stooge” organiza-
tions. They can count on the limitless funds
at their disposal.

In the larger sense, it is not Roosevelt per-
sonally they wish to destroy but that unity
of the overwhelming majority of the Am-
erican people which his leadership has come
to symbolize.

Beto. in Tientsin must find it embar-
rassing to be stripped to the waist (and
-more) by Japanese sentries. Being volun-
tarily caught with your pants down seems to
be the latest version of Chamberlain’s ap-
peasement policy. The least the prime min-
ister could do (and probably the most he will
do) is otter his umbrella to his denuded

ecountrymen.

Soviet Pavilion Reveals
The Real ‘World of Tomorrow’

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By JAMES DUGAN

NEW YORK, NY. -

CAN’T look my feet in the eyes when I say it but the New
York World’s Fair is some pumpkins. And the Soviet
Pavilion is at least a sixth of the world of tomorrow as far as

I’m concerned.

In order to be coherent about the matter we

will have to assume that this piece is the last chapter in a vol-
ume about as thick as the Webb’s “Soviet Communism.” It
would take that many pages to describe the fair’s largest build-
ing and its most popular one except for General Motors and

Billy Rose’s new fangled swimmin’ hole.
the people I talked to in the pavilion.

Thirty thousand of them a day
stream up the steps past the por-
phyry shaft bearing the great
stainless steel statue of the So-
wiet worker, “confident and heal-
thy, about as old as our repub-
lic,” in the words of Ambassador
Oumansky. Through two levels
of marble halls, alive with maps,
slogans, animated graphs, sculp—
ture, painting, innumerable moyie
apertures, dioramas, scale mod-
els, handicraft, et cetera ad in-
finitum, the people come. The
people come from 48 states, 2
hundred lands, a thousand towns,
with a million questions and
open mouths.

Ss

schoolgirl

friend, “This is like my
castle’s gonna be,” and an ele
gant woman points to the arcade
around the top of the open air
amphitheater and says, “My
house will be like this.” Between
castle and house, the building is
a spectacular mean

A Negro chauffeur, free from
his mistress for the afternoon,
stops before a magic window in
the wall, with a miniature land-
scape of a dirty, dark, ezarist
village. The lights go down, then
up, and suddenly the village has
been transformed with power sta-
tions, paint, a kolkhoz, electricity
—socialism has come like dawn.
The chauffeur says, “I didn’t
read about this in the papers.
Aren't they eating the bark off
the trees over there?”

People from Kansas and Ore-
gon begin to say 4 Russian name,
Lenin, as they stand at the scale
model of the Palace of the So-
viets to be erected in Moscow,
a hundred feet higher than the
Empire State Building. Two thin,
sunburnt Ohioans look at the
model and one says, “A bomb
would surely knock that all to
pieces.” “Have to be a pretty
powerful bomb,” opined his
friend. “It would be a bad bomb,
I should say,’’ retorts the first.

LITTLE tells her

This will be about

Wee can take a census of the
farmers around the giant
tractor in the Hall of Socialist
Labor, where one of them said,
“Well, sir, it’s a good enough trac-
tor, but it ain’t practical. Too
heavy. It’s got the power, al-
rightee, but it’s too heavy, ain't
practical.” Another farmer stuck
his oar in. “The thing is, there
ain’t no railroads in Russia. May-
be you break something and
you're five hundred miles from 2
repair shop or maybe you run out
of gas and oil, so you just sit
and watch your crep ret. It ain’t
practical.”

A Soviet girl guide joined the
group and asked if there were
any questions. The farmers de-
tailed their criticisms. The guide
told them the tractor burned
either wood or gasoline, so there
was no specter of gasoline short-
age. Then she pointed to the
wall nearby where a small movie
sereen showed the same tractor
burning wood, gasoline, plowing
and reaping in all seasons She
tola them how such a tractor
would be operated out of a trac-
tor station where skilled mechan-
ies could give it immediate ser
vice.

“Say, miss,” said one, “how
much does this here machine Cost
in American dollars?’ The girl
calculated: “About $300,” she
ssid. The farmers looked at each
other, saying $300 softly. “Why,
a machine like that’d cost $10,-
000 here,” one said. He sat there
looking at the Stalin wood and
gas-burning tractor for a long
time, saying to himself, “rll be
damned.”

eS
HERE is nothing these Amer-
jeans like better than a fact
and the very essence of this
building is fact, patient, commpara-—
tive, impressive facts, and facts

for one’s special interests, facts

for

farmers, workers, intellec—
tuals, expectant mothers, and
kids.

The young Russian guides
take off from where the displays
end, answering detailed questions
from a hundred angles — how
many citizens in Comsomolisk,
how does a kid get to go to one
of the Artek camps, what hap-
pened to Trotsky, do you have
money over there, explain this
eross-pollination in winter wheat,
how come Upton Sinclair hasn’t
sold as many copies as Shake-
speare, what’s this made out of,
and how do we get to the bar?

A well dressed man from
Bloomfield, N.J., said, “I’ve been
a banker and a traveler for thirty
years, but I never had any idea
this was going on in Russia.
Why, its a new country. I don’t
hola with Communism, but you've
got to take off your hat to what
they've done.”

e

Al (ate huge wall paintings of re-

volutionary events and con-
temporary life interested a White
Plains real estate man. “The
thing is that the whole building
opens up your eyes to what has
been going on over there ever
since the war, and weve never
even known about it. Of course,
I’m afraid they haven’t got much
in my line over there.’

His wife, a school teacher, said,
“T hardly know what to say
about it. I’ve been to Europe
four times now and I never wene
to Russia because I though it
was a wild country. But I’m
going now. You can’t stay away
from it after you've seen this
wonderful display of progress,
especially in education.”

A little old lady, who had been
spending over an hour looking at
some of the paintings, said: “The
thing that is making everybody
stop, is that the Russians are all
smiling in their pictures. You
just can’t help feeling their
vigor, and their health and hap-
piness—and you just ean’t help
smiling back at them, at their
laughing faces and big white
teeth.”

Se

Ae oe 9:30, just before my feet

fell off, I asked a prosper-
ous looking family group what
they thought of the USSR. Th=
matriarch thrust her bosom at
me and spluttered: “What we
want to know is why Russia
should have such a marvellous
display? it’s the most maenifi-
cent, the most detailed, the most
beautiful, the most anything you
want to call it How did Russia
ever get it? Wihy don’t the other
countries have something better?
Whats Russia doing with 2
building like this? That's what
we want to know.’ The patri-
arch took her gently by the arm.
“Oh, come on, Helen,” he said,
“none of it’s true.’ Then my feet
fell off.

what Is The New Democracy?

What is the New Demo-
cracy? What is its meaning
to Canadian political life—
what effect will it have on
the giant struggle now
going on between progress
and reaction in Canada? A
member of the New Demo-
cracy, and a new contribu-
tor to our pages, will at-
tempt to answer these ques-
tions in this and subsequent
articles to appear in later
issues. The first of a series
deals principally with the
political background which
gave rise to the Herridge
movement in Canada.

By TOM O'ROURKE
“Por I dip’t into the future
Far as human eye could see,
Saw the vision of the world
And all the wonders that soon
would be.”

HE year 1939 will be as import

ant in Canadian history as
the year 1837, for it will mark
the active creation of a progres-
sive people’s movement.

This movement will not be
drawn on strictly trade union or
working class lines, but will take
on breader, more all-embracing:
forms. Into the movement will
enter voluntarily all men and
women of sincerity, whether they
be monetary reformists, dissident
Liberals and Conservatives, trade
unionists, or members of the two
working class parties Their one
ereat cohesive bond will be a re-
alistic appreciation that they
have a common enemy—that en-
emy being fascism — and that
they must unite or be destroyed.

The threat of the frightened
right wing is mot new in world
affairs. Italy and Germany faced
it. first; then the menacing dan-
fer moved against all other cap-
jtalist democracies, raising its
hideous head in all lands where
dwell human beings.

In France, unified French re-
action cause dthe creation of the
Popular Front. In this new ailli-
ance, facing the common enemy,
were Socialists, Gommiunists and
the Radicals, who corresponded
to the British Liberal Party. it
included also the French trade

union movement, the
Confederation of Labor.
common enemy
men of goodwill.

General
For the
had united the

In Spain the ‘new democracy”
also took shape. The parish
priest, disgusted with the
“churchianity”’ of his religion,
shouldered his weapon side by
side with the Communist, Social-
ist and Anarchist, with the store—
keeper and the few rich men of
Herridge’s ilk, and fought against
the two enemies—Franco’s fas-
eists and the armies of interven-
tion They were beaten, not by
native reaction but by Hitler and
Mussolini's armies of invasion
and the treachery of the Cham-
berlains, but their cause has be-
come immortal and Spain will
yet see the victory of a united,
progressive people.

The vast Atlantic Ocean could
not stop the spread of reaction-
ary ideas and fascist plotting.
First evidence of this was the
appearance of Wall Street's Lib-
erty League on the American
scene prior to the 1936 presiden-
tial elections. Members of this
lewd corrupter of the greatest
word in our language decided to
ereate a semi-fascist state and
then a dictatorship. But their
Plans were wrecked by people
ef different political views but
who nevertheless realized the
danger of the common enemy-
So LaGuardia, an Italian; Mur-
phy, a Catholic; Lehman, a Jew;
and Roosevelt, a Protestant, be-
came part of that progressive
development known as the New
Deal, now more than e€ver the
main obstacle to fascist reaction
in America.

In the realm of high finance
all men are brothers, and it was
natural that these bastard chil-
aren, traditionally following US
political developments, shouid
sponsor the Canadian counter-
part of the Liberty League—
George McCullugh’s Leadership
League. The eastern tarifi-pro-
tected monopolists gave birth to
it: potential fascists across the
land are attempting to wean it;
and the corporate-state loving
Cardinal Villeneuve of Quebee is’
urging it to come of age.

The “divinely appoint ed*
George McCullagh, who is really
the Gharlie McCarthy of the CPR

and like reactionary interests, is
offering the Leadership League
as Canadian reaction’s answer to
progress The loud-moihed edi-
tor and publisher of the Globe
and Mail is actually only the
front man for George Wright and
his cohorts. Wright is the mil-
licnaire owner of the Globe and
Mail, and part owner of a fabu-
lously rich gold mine. Since 1918
this mine has paid $69,000,000 in
dividends—and only $22,000,000 in
wages. Mr. Wright also has com-
pany. Solidly behind him are
those provincial arch-fiends of
reaction — ‘“‘Padlock’’ Duplessis”
and “Mitch” Hepburn And be-
hind this sorrowful facade lurks
the Goliath of Canadian mono-
poly—the CPR, whose directors
form 2 vital link with all other
monopolist corporations and
banks of the Dominion.

The plan of the League is to
eut out government spending, es-
pecially on relief and social ser-
vices; to slash! taxes in half—for,
after all, industry is so groaning
under that “artificial” burden
that dividends have reached a
new all-time high; and te cen-
tralize power behind a one-party
Wational Government actually
a fascist program, slyly hidden
behind a front of misleading
statements and aims.

This

is Ganada’s common en-
emy, and the common front to
fight it will be the coalition of
people’s forces around the New
Democracy.

The man behind the New De-
mocracy is Hon. W. D. Herridge,
a believer in reform capitalism
but a despiser of fascism, aware
of its danger to Canada, fearful
of its swift growth and ruthless-
ness.

Herridge, it must be remem-
pered, was in Washington as Can-
adian minister to the United
States during the period of the
first Wew Deal. Waturally he
was influenced by the progres-
siveness of those New Dealers
with whom he came in contact,
and this, coupled with his un-
questioned integrity, save the
organism of national progressive
unity—the New Democracy—2
ereat impetus. Herridge, it may
be mentioned, served valantly
overseas.

(Gontinued WNext Issue)

SHORT JABS

A
Weekly

Commentary

(CP)

By Ol’ Bill

Inci The London Times, that
T tement object of worship of the
o Riot. school of public - spirited

Britishers who write to the papers on the occasion
of all great crises in the Empire’s history, is giving
a lead which might create another wave of Mafeking
nights or another spasm of “hang the Kaiser”
fever. C

Commenting on what it calls the “crude barbari-
ties’ of the Japanese warlords at Tientsin, the
Times hints at “reprisals on Japanese who live in
many parts of the world on British territory.”’

This is the acme of the cultural standards of the
class of British-American money-grubbers who own
the Times. They played a major part as creators
and supporters of Chamberlain’s “appeasement”
policies in dealing with aggressors.

The Times, controlled by the Cliveden gang, has
aot only been consistently GChamberlainite, but has
been used by the traitors who made Tientsin insults
possible, as a mouthpiece and a trial balloon to find
out just how much Chamberlain the British people
would stand. -

This latest jingoistic editorial of the Times can
only be described as an incitement to Britishers
living in places like British Columbia, to subject
innocent Japanese people to the same indignities as
the Japanese fascist warlords inflicted on Britishers
at Tientsin, or worse.

If the idea of England’s “greatest’”’ newspaper is,
that we should insult Japanese workers by compel-
ling them to stand naked on Hastings street while a
buddy of the Times editor goes through their pock-
ets, then the Times has another guess coming.

If anybody is to be dealt with in that fashion,
it should be the man mainly responsible for the
situation, the leader of the reactionary Tory party
in the Eingelish parliament, Neville Chamberlain.
And that is where the Times should direct its ven-
geance for the Tientsin loss of face.

An

= a sying before, but since we
Invitation. have all got to start some
time, we are predicting good picnic weather for
Sunday. We know it is going to be good because
on that day the Ukrainian Labor-Farmer Temple
Association is staging a special picnic as part of
their drive to pay off the debts of the Labor Temple.

The labor movement in Vancouver has much cause
to thank our Ukrainian friends for building their
Labor Temple. During the past ten years it has
played a goodly part in the struggles of the Van-
couver workers.

The unemployed city workers have many reasons
to be thankful that there is a Labor Temple on
Pender East. Hundreds of meetings have been held
there without cost to them. The last occasion on
which it was a humming center for them, was during
the Post Office sitdown strike. But during the
whole ten years of its existence it has been at the
disposal of the Vancouver workers.

The Ukrainian workers are now determined to
pay off the last of the debts contracted in the
building of the Temple. The picnic on Sunday will
help in this. It will be held at what is known as
Military Park at Grandview Highway and Slocan

street, which may be reached by Renfrew street or
Grandview busses.

We've never tried prophe-

From ten o’clock in the morning until dark, every-
body participating is assured of a pleasant break
in the monotony of existence. There will be the
usual Picnic attractions, and some new ones. Be
sides the midway, the sports and the music, there
will be short speeches by Malcolm Mecieod on “The
Coming Federal Blections,’ and M. Zubice on “The
ULFTA and Its Work.”

A one-act comedy “Deputy to Vienna” will be
staged, like the old Greek drama, with the green
fields for proscenium and amphitheater and the
blue sky (let's hope!) for a roof.

If you want to spend a pleasant Sunday, come

along and meet everybody and at the same time help
our Ukrainian friends!

Physical Pveice) See has taken
e wor y storm. Even
Torture. in England they have a
“physical fitness” program. In the capitalist coun-
tries it is not so much a component part of a bal-
anced social activity, but a subsidiary endeavor
aimed at offsetting the C3 character of their man-
power. Its program is to overcome by physical jerks
the conditions brought about by lack of hay and
oats, of ham and eggs, of sirloin steaks and TLabra-
dor herrings. As one poet wrote, “The scheme if it
works, will kill malnutrition with physical jerks.”

During the “Physical Culture Week” just con-
cluded in Vancouver, several delegates were reported
in the press to have voiced the statement, “We must
keep the children fit” An excellent sentiment, and
many earnest men and women devote their time
and energy enthusiastically to this social seryice—
but their efforts are nullified, and will continue to
be nullified, while one-tenth of Canada’s children
are on the breadline.

The boy or girl in BC whose constitution and
stamina have to be built up around a $3.75 a month
allowance, from the time they are a month old till
their eighteenth birthday, cannot be considered food
material for the Pro-Rec, or any other course of
physical instruction. And one-tenth of the children
of Canada are in this fix admittedly, with probably
another tenth to be added from families that are
not on relief rolls but living on a relief scale, be
cause of the low wages paid for so many jobs in
this land of plenty.

This physical culture educational program is even
less possible of accomplishment than ordinary edu-
eation if the groundwork is lacking—a well-fed peo-
ple. Heine, one of Germany’s greatest poets, criti-
ecised those who talked of educating starving peo-

ple, in a satirical poem of which the following is a
rather free translation: a

“INo peal of bells, no priestly plea,

Wo legal-worded senators’ decree,

Wo hundred-pounder cannon’s thunder

Will help you or your lieben kinder. :

“No help from fine-spun words plethoric
Wor from worn-out, blase rhetoric. :
One doesn’t catch rats with syllogisms
Wor most artful, elegant sophisms: :

“The hungry stomach curbs its rumblings
To soup-logie with noodle dumplings,
To arguments of roast beef rations
Or Gottingen sausage citations.”

? Sir Arthur Sutherland, pres
Completely (7 ) ident of the Newcastle!

United. Chamber of Commerce,
says: “We have this great consolation that never)
before, not even in 1914 when there were at least
some discordant notes—has the nation been so com=
pletely united to combat ruthless forms of ageres-
Sion from whatever quarter they may emanate, as

it is at the present Sime.” Completely united, except
for Chamberlain!

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