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July 28, 1939

THE PEOPLE’S ADVOCATE

Page Five

FORUM OF THE PEOPLE

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letters having general interest.

Lauds Work Of Victoria
Aid ToChina Committee

To the Editor,—_Work of the local Committee for Medical Aid
to China is proceeding most favorably. Regularly for the last
18 months supplies of sterilized bandages, medical supplies,
clothing, etc., accompanied by a $100 cheque have been sent to

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Advecate.

Workers Should Make |
Use Of Open Forum

selves through the columns.

rules regarding what anyone may
write about, I hope “Forum of the
People” will not become a place
for everyone to register all sorts
of petty erievances, but will use

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“COMMON SENSE’’

During the struggles of i776, of
the. American people for liberty,
the pamphiets of Tom Paine
Sreatly aided the cause of pro-
Eress. It has been asserted that a
few copies of his pamphlet ““Com-
mon Sense” were sufficiently
powerful to change the political
ideas of a whole village Today
the pamphiet “ACT NOW” by the
Dean of Canterbury is proving a
poweriul weapon in the cause of
progress; it should obtain mass
distribution throughut all parts of
British Columbia Price 10c.

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To the Editor,_Devoting the greater part of one page to cor-
respondence is a big improvement in the People’s Advocate
and one that should encourage more workers to express them-

While you have made no set@it as 2 means through which such

questions of topical importance as
cooperation between the CCE and
the New Democracy Movement can
be discussed. i

Tyee attitude of the CCF in keep-
ing its skirts clean (7?) by not en-
deavoring to seek some basis
whereby all progressive parties
and groups desirous of a change
from old line party rule should co-
operate and ensure for Ganadians
a government of the people and by
the people, has given me cause to
ask some questions.

Does the CCF think that by go-
ing it alone that they have the
majority of the people voting for
Socialism? Can the leadership and
rank and file honestly say they
are out to form a government or
are they afraid @t the responsibil-
ity?

Must those who have no desire
as yet to line up with some party
of the left wait until fascism

brings us the concentration camps
or the graveyard where all are
united, for fascism will not wait
until the ©CF has a parliamentary
majority, or will the members ex-
press their desire to let the peo-
ple own Canada through unity.

Perhaps some discussion by CCF
members can be started on these
and other questions.

R. MACDONALD.
Vancouver, BC.

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Condemns
Closing
Of Camps

To the Editor: Headlines in the
daily press of June 20 announced
“BC Launches 70 Projects to
Employ 2,200 Men.” These projects
were to cover park development,
forest conservation and protection,
preparing ground for tree plant-
ing, etc.

Entirely justified on economic
srounds, these works were to be
carried out this summer, but a2
reversal of policy only allowed 6
weeks’ work for each man in the
camps.

Now these men are being turned
out of the camps. The deferred
pay vouchers, which can be cashed
as far away as Montreal, are cal-
culated to send the men riding
freights all over the country in
Search of work Hundreds lose
life or limb every year in this aim-
jess box car riding and it would
seem that officialdom’s hands are
not entirely clean of this tragic
State of affairs.

Many of the men now turned
loose are elderly. They cannot hope
to be absorbed into private indus-
try.

it is the height of insanity to
compel this hopeless roaming when
such valuable work remains to be
done in BC.

&. Marsh.
Vancouver, BC.

Commends
 McKean’s
Article

To the Editor: I read with in-

terest Fergus McKean’s article in
last week’s Advocate. it is about
time the CCE membership realized
the tendency of the movement to
follow the steps of the British
Labor Party.
Wo doubt you have heard of the
movement “across the line,” where
an attempt is being made to rally
all progresives under one banner
for the 1940 elections, with the
battle cry “Abundance for All’

There is only one way to reach
our goal and that 3s by uniting all
workers into one army.

Slogans such as “Production for
Use,” “Abundance for All,” should
appeal to the vast majority of Ca-
nadians Tf one election could be
won with such a program, it would
be the beginning of the end for
unemployment. W. WV.

Vancouver, BC.

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Clem Davies
Should Take
Macinnes Place

To the Editor: Recently, Clem
Davies, who holds forth in his min-
istry in the Vancouver Auditor-
jum, had as his guest 2 woman
who was supposed to have lived in
Russia and whom he had invited
to give her views on that country.
This woman painted a dream

picture of the conditions in the
USSR, declaring that the people
were just waiting for a war “so
that they could get guns in their
hands.” .

One member of the audience
asked Clem if he figured on taking
Tom MacInnes’ place but the

question was not answered.
G. S. Smart.

the China Defense League, Hongkong.

Wath approach of winter, a cam-
paign is now in progress for blan-
kets. Knitting needles are by no
means a rare sight at meetings
now, as the women are knitting
woollen afghans During the first
month of the campaign 72 blankets
were turned in. Cooperation of
large stores has been obtained to
keep boxes available to receive
donations of blankets.

Plans are now under way for 2
big bazaar early in November in
cooperation with Chinese women
in the city. With the object of
raising $1200, this event will con-
tinue all afternoon and evening,
with many features.

No avenue of supplies has been
overlooked. Flour sacks and linen
has been procured from bakeries,
Immaterial from tailors and clothiers.
Drug stores in the city are being
asked to cooperate with supplies
of medical necessities and instru-
ments. Lillian Cooper.

Victoria, BC.

Sointula
Women
Active

To the Editor: The Sointula
Women’s Auxiliary of the Fisher-
men’s Union has at present a
membership roll of thirteen.

Quite a few of our members are
out fishing with their husbands,
or canning at Rivers Imlet, but we
who are left behind are not by
any means idle.

We have arranged a weekly bad-
minton game, for which the aux
iliary purchased necessary equip-
ment, and also plan to conduct
first aid classes very soon.

We decided at our last meeting
to purchase a stretcher for use of
the community. This has been
needed for some time,

On August 19 we are helping the
PCEU to stage a grand dance.

With all these activities, bad-
minton, first aid, sewing, card
games and discussion, we are kept
continually busy and in this way
we hope to gain new members for
our auxiliary which can be of
such tremendous help to the union

in critical Hmes.
Janet Tynjala.

Sointula, BC.

Asks If Burns
Products Still
On Unfair List

To the Editor: As there seems to
be great confusion in the minds of
many people as to the position we
are supposed to take regarding P.
Burns products, I wish you would
print a prominent article in the
Advocate on the question.

TI understand that representa-
tives of the Burns company are
informing dealers here that they
are no longer on the unfair list
In fact, the Advocate is supposed
to have carried an article to that
effect. I take the paper and have
not seen any such article

I would appreciate it

would clear up this matter.
A. Beaumont.

if you

Victoria, BC.
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Editor’s Note.—The writer is cor-
rect in assuming that Burns’ pro-
ducts are on the unfair list Van-
couver Trades and Labor Couneil
still maintains its ban on the pro-
ducts, and a large number of
unions carry the ban into effect.
The Advocate has at no time car-
ried articles relative to a lifting of
labors boycott against the Burns

company.

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by Leslie Morris

Pocket Patriotism

No SO many moons ago a Vancouver daily paper revealed the depths
to which it had sunk by first deploring the damage done by Japanese
arms in China and then saying, in effect: “Well, after all, when recon—
struction begins again and the war is over, there will be a big market in
China for Canadian lumber and other products. So it’s an ill wind that
blows nobody any good.”

That is what is known is patriotism! Every time the prestige and
authority of Britain is flouted, as at Tientsin, by arrogant Japanese
invaders; the coast of BC grows less secure. But what matters it, so longs
as the propect is one of increasing markets for millionaire-controlied

lumber?
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Orders to Newspapers

TEs brazen, traitorous point of view is repeated in last week’s Finan-
cial Post.

Recently the council of the Toronto Board of Trade circularized Cana-—
dian newspapers with the request that they refrain from unduly empha-
sizing the European situation. The Halifax Herald, prior to that, had
said: “There is too much Hitler in the newspapers, because he is no longer
news.”

The Winnipeg Free Press and the Regina Leader-Post, both Sifton
papers, each opposed the idea of the Toronto Board of Trade and cor-
rectly pointed out that “a newspaper is derelict in its duty, indeed false

to its trust, if it should go in for anything suggesting of deception.”

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Opportunity is Treachery

Buz trust the Financial Post to state the case bluntly and plainly for
the war profiteers who are licking their chops in anticipation of bic
incomes from war in Hurope.

“Even in the terrible international disturbances of today there is
opportunity for Canada. Already we are gaining many new industries
from bomb-threatened Huropean countries. And while Murope prepares

for war, we can win markets.”
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Profit from Disaster

RE’S a foreign policy for you! Blunt and plain and no bones about
it! Let the rest of the world go hang, but we free and happy Cana
dians (at least the Big Shots) will benefit! All for business and to hell
with peace! Let's stay out of Huropean entanglements, and make money
hand over fist! Hooray and three hearty British cheers for ten per cent
and bonuses thrown in. The more the Huropean democracies get it in the
neck; the more countries go down the maw of Hitler: the more demco-
cratic economy is raped by the fascist monopolies, the better for us!
@But, don’t talk about refugees!)

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Chase Out the Traitor!

O* COURSE, there is a fundamentally false thing in all this pretty
reasoning.

Canada won't be exempt from war started by the fascist powers.
Heavy bombers can fly from San Diego via Ganada and New Foundland
to Hmgland. (They can also fly the other way.) Japanese bombers can
make “goodwill” flights over BC territory to look over the scene of the
next attack. =

But apart from that, what are we going to do about these pillars of
society who presume to speak for Canada and its people?

We have a chance to curb their criminal talk at the coming elections
by chasing out of public life the spokesmen for such policies, and they
include a large number of the candidates of the old-line parties.

Wee can continue to deliver such blows as were received by the Leader-
Ship League, and which put it out of business last week in the most
ignominious fashion: by compelling George McCullagh and Dr. Bruce

to crawl down and admit their plot was a flop.
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Profiteer ‘Isolationism

WW MUST realize that in Canada, as well as in the United States, the
isolationists are supported by big business, in the hope that by
Standing aloof from Muropean affairs and by trying to get the newspapers
to forget Hitler, things will go from bad to worse in the old world for the
benefit of Canadian capitalists.

i don’t suppose the case for Canadian isolation from world affairs has
ever been stated so blatantly as in the above quotation from the Financial
Post.

And never has the rift between the peace-loving desires of the masses
of Canadians and the pro-fascists, isolationist position of big business,

been so glaringly revealed.
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Turn the Spotlight on Them!

Genes is not safe as long as Hitler is appeased. Har from ‘playing
down” Hitler and all he stands for, more publicity than ever must
be given to the danger the world faces, perhaps in the next few weeks,
at the hands of the war-mongers and invaders.

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