Tispruary 9, 1940

THE ADVOCATE

Page Five

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ders of the Socialist Labor

jd eighty years were imposed
ion them. Im Nov., 1925, in this
, ‘mocratic’ little Finland which
; & won the praise of Hearst and
‘Toover, 40 leaders of the Young
4} cialist League were given pris-
H: sentences totalling two hun-
S/ed years.

‘in 1930, Finland’s ‘democratic’
),jlers used the fascist Lappua
‘i, litary organization against the
‘nish peoples’ movement and
surrected the vilest Black Hun-
ed terror methods of Tsarist
J assia.

‘The Lappua fascists were per-
‘itted and even encouraged by
© government to smash the in-
‘pendent trade unions. They
osed down all opposition news-
ipers and burned down printing
fants and labor halls. Even
rmers, suspected of participat-
= in the popular movement for
duced taxes, were tied to their
sds in midnight raids by the
appua fascists and their farms
t afire.

‘All this terror was directed
‘eainst the people’s democratic
ovement. It was financed by
‘Jie rich landlords, bankers, and
}}mber barons while the govern-
‘}ent gave the Lappua fascists a
ee hand and tried to maintain

|; ‘democratic’ face.

fice agzeregating three hundred
:

7 .\HE past twenty-one years have
been marked by bitter strug-

‘es of the Finnish people against
e White Guard government of
rime Minister Rysto Ryti and

aron Mannerheim, commander-
chief of the Finnish army.

On one hand there are the
2ace-loving Finnish people who
> not want war, and want to
ve in peace with their neighbors
— the Soviet Union. And on the
ther hand there are the repre-
sntatives of the rich lumber
arons and landowners in the
Ivernment with its foreign pol-
y controlled by the impertatist
dwers who have long plotted to
se Finland as the jumping-off
ace in a military attack against
1e Soviet Union.

ina (secret police) arrested 180 -

ty of Finland and prison sen- -

The Finnish people have con-
ducted a long brave fight for
freedom and peace. It takes cour-
age to continue the fight after a
defeat such as that which ended
in the massacre of over 15,000
men, women and children after
the Baron Gustay Emil Manner-
heim, aided by Imperial German
divisions, had choked in blood
the people’s movement for a de-
mocratic republic in Finland.

In this first attempt to estab-
lish a democratic government,
over 73,915 people, among them
4,400 heroic Finnish women who
stood by their men-folk, were
thrown into concentration camps,
according to an official commun-
ique issued by the White Guard
bandits.

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ODAY, the battle is on again
for 2a democratic republic
in Finland with a people’s gov-
ernment formed at Terijoki. The
chances for victory this time are
much better because of the aid
ef the Red army of the Soviet
Union, and the determination of
the people to rid Finland once
and for all time of the oppressive
Ryti - Mannerheim government
which is dominated and control-
led by foreign powers.

The outstanding hero of the
people's fight for freedom against
the White Guards is Toivo Anti-
kainen who led the first move-
ment in 1918 for a people’s gov-
ernment.

He escaped the massacre and
returned from Karelia to reor-
ganize the popular forces, only
to be arrested and imprisoned for
life. Often he has been offered
his freedom, like Tom Mooney
in the United States, if he would
only give up his convictions. But
he has never given up the hope
that some day he would see a
free and democratic Finland at
peace with their neighbors in the
Soviet Union, and a Finland unit-
ed with their brothers in Soviet
Karelia.

Be still languishes in prison
waiting for the prison gates to
open to a new life in a free Fin-
land.

Another popular hero of the
Finnish people is Gunnar Epp

| THE SILENT VOICES
OF YESTERYEAR

was such an organization as the Waterfront Veterans’
-ssociation in existence. Then suddenly it sprang into prom-
1ence with its demand that the federal government halt the

Headlines screamied that Can-
dian farmers would sooner “see
Yeir wheat sunk in the ocean”
aan sold to the Soviet Union.
ut perusal of the stories failed
_ show any supporting facts for
ais assertion. The Vancouver
faterfront Veterans’ Associa-
on, echoing the anti-Soviet, an-
-labor sentiments of the Ship-
ing Hederation of BC, provided
ie sole flimsy pretext for the
eadlines. The federal govern-
ient halted the sale of wheat to
be USSR.

This was last month, This week
he Waterfront Veterans’ Asso-
lation, through Secretary Oscar
mith, voiced another demand.
Sritish Columbia copper, it
laims, is reaching the Soviet
Jnion through smelters in the
Jnited States and elsewhere. The
VVA wants the federal govern-
aent to take measures to prevent
Janadian copper reaching the
ISSR.

Tt is significant that these de-
nands are advanced at a time
yhen reaction throughout the
yorld is calling for a ‘crusade’
\Wainst the socialist country.
Why has the Waterfront Veter-
ms’ Association been silent dur-
ng the past few years while Can-
dian copper has steadily been
‘hipped to Japan for use in its
Var against China? Is it unaware
hat Japanese interests have con-
racted for the entire copper out-
out of Granby Consolidated Min-
ng and Smeiting company? Why
lid it not protest the continued
hipment of Canadian nickel to
rermany ?

it appears that when the issue
Was one of aiding the people of
shina and Spain in their fight
or freedom the WVA was silent.
3ut when it is one of upholding
. bankers’ regime in Finland the
NVA. becomes vociferous indeed.

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a pen the period prior to the
war, when the labor move—
nent and other progressive sec-
ions of the people were exerting
very effort to maintain peace,
luge quantities of Canadian nick—
1 were being rushed to Germany,

taly and Japan.

Canada in 1938 supplied three-
juarterS of Germany’s war re-
uirements of nickel.

In that period, shipments to
apan of nickel, aluminum, cop-
jer and scrap iron amounted to
_ million-dollar-a-month trade. In
930 Canada’s exports of fine
ickel amounted to 33,603 tons.
sy 1938 these exports had soared

ale of 1,000,000 bushels of wheat to Soviet Russia. Vancou-
srs anti-Soviet daily press gave the demand liberal publicity,
aborating it to create the impression that it represented the
ajority viewpoint of the people.

= last month very few Vancouver citizens knew there

to 64,024 tons. Exports to Ger-
many had jumped from 135 tons
to 1776 tons.

Large quantities of nickel were
trans-shipped from England,
where a subsidiary of Inco oper-
ates, and through other countries.
It is not difficult to account for
the difference of Canada’s direct
exports of nickel to Germany and
Germany's total import of refined
nickel.

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HIS arming of fascist Germany
and Japan took place at a
time when the majority of Cana-
dian citizens were opposing the
arming and supplying of aggres-
sors to rain death on helpless na-
tives in Abyssinia ,China, Alban-
ia, Spain and Czechoslovakia and

Austria and lastly Poland.

Extent of this world trade in
death-dealing metals shipped
from Canada to Germany can be
seen in the two following Cana-
dian Press cables of last year:

“Tondon, Feb. 22 — A. Ed-
wards, labor member, during
the debate on defense in the
house of commons, complain-
ed that ‘two days before Hitler
threatened to march into Cze-
choslovakia 400 tons of copper
arrived at German ports from

Canada’.” f

“Ottawa, Feb. 22 — Canada

has placed no restrictions on
shipment of raw materials such
as copper to Germany, revenue
department officials said, com-
menting on the complaint by a
private member in the British
commons that 400 tons of cop-
per arrived at German ports
from Canada during the Sept-
ember crisis-’

In 1937 International Nickel,
of which British Columbia’s tim-
ber magnate H. R. MacMillan
was this week appointed a direc-
tor, sold 56.5 percent of the nickel
sold in the world market—six
percent of all world copper and
55.5 percent of platinum metals.

In Dec., 1937, there were 9,849
preferred shareholders and 76,-
598 common shareholders in In-
ternational Wickel, of whom 16,-
043 were in Canada, 25.744 in Bri-
tain and 43,645 in the United
States. Canadian interests held
18.2 percent. British interests
held 31.7 percent, while United
States held 46.4 percent.

And this is the company, con-
trolled jointly by British, Amer-
ican and Canadian big interests,
which influences high ‘govern-
ment circles in the direction of
foreign policy.

7 HERE is a prison in the town of Tamisarri in Finland which for years has been filled
|. with political prisoners. That dungeon is a symbol of the brave fight of the Finnish
Fople for their democratic rights and civil liberties and exposes the undemocratic, reac-
t £ the present White Guard government,

who, in 1938, went to Spain with
Finnish volunteers to help the
Spanish Republic defend itself
against the fascist uprising and
foreign intervention. He became
second-in-command of the Mac-
kenzie-Papineau Battalion of the
Canadian volunteers in Spain and
returned home with the rank of
captain.

The Finnish yolunteers receiv-
ed a hero’s welcome by the pec-
ple of Helsinki on their return.
But Baron Mannerheim ordered

TERROR IS FINLAND

The author of this article is an
American of Finnish descent
who fought in the Spanish
Republics famed Interna-
tional Brigade and attained
the rank of captain in one of
its battalions.

their immediate arrest, and with-
out trial sentenced Capt Epp to
10 years’ imprisonment at Tami-
sarri because he became a volun-
teer for liberty. This is the ‘de-
mocracy’ about which so many
glib lies have been told, so many
crocodile tears shed.

G. BERNARD SHAW---
MAN AGAINST WAR

By Harry Raymond

(GAOReE BERNARD SHAW, being told by a friend that
he enjoyed a great reputation in America, asked: “Which?
I am a philosopher, novelist, sociologist, critic, statesman, dra-
matist and theologian. I have therefore seven reputations.”

Be has all these, no doubt. But
he has still another reputation.
He is a man against war.

When Shaw wrote in the Lon-
don New Statesman recently that
“we have no further excuse for
continuing the war,” he was not,
as some would have us believe,
shooting paper wads at imperial-
ists from an ivory tower and
laughing. He was warning the
British and American patriots,
as he did more than 20 years ago.
when he, as a pacifist, spoke out
against the imperialist war, stat-
ing that “the militaristic morality
of Lord Roberts and Mr. Winston
Churchill was precisely that of
the German militarists.”

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ODAY Shaw denounces the

British ruling clique as being
composed of persons that nobody
Would trust “te walk a puppy in
peacetime.”

Hitlerism, he points out, was
the creation of British and
Hrench imperialism—a war ma-
chine which they built to crush
the Soviet Union.

But the plan failed, says Shaw,
declaring that in the Polish in-
wasion “Hitler at once capitulated
unconditionally and was duly
taken by the scruff of the neck
by Stalin.

Shaw’s protests against war are
by. no means confined to literary
works, public documents and
Speeches. The man who cried
to the heavens against war in his
play, “Arms and the Man,” wrote
hundreds of letters denouncing
the universal slaughter. On Jan.
7, 1918, he revealed his feelings
about the war then raging in a
letter to Mrs. Patrick Campbell,
concerning the death of her son
at the front. He said:

“Never saw or heard about it
until your letter came. It is no
use; I can’t be sympathetic;
these things simply make me
furious. I want to swear. I do
Swear. Hilled just because
people are blasted fools. A
chaplain, too, to say nice things
about it. It is not his business
to say nice things about it, but
to shout that the ‘voice of thy
son’s blood crieth unto God
from the ground.’ Wo, don’t
show me the letter. But I
should very much like to have
a nice little tall with that dear
chaplain, that sweet sky-pilot,
that . . . No use to go on like
this, Stella. Oh, damn, damn.
And oh, dear. G. B.S.”

°

HAW, who has always ex-
pressed a keen interest in
American affairs, could not stom-
ach the crushing out of civil lib-
erties and the vicious campaign
of red-baiting that accompanied
America’s~entrance into the war
in 1917.

“You can tell the Americans
for me,’ he wrote, “that they
have seriously compromised the
eredit of republicanism
throughout the world by their
outrageous repudiation, at the
first shot, of all the liberties
the Declaration of Independ-
ence proclaimed. When they
began by sentencing a George
Washington colonel to impris-
onment for life, and followed
that up by a series of persecu-
tions which culminated in the
ridiculous sentence of Debs,
they disgraced their country,
disgraced Wilson ... As a re-
publican I arn ashamed of Am-
erican patriots; and you may
tell them so with my compli-
ments.”

At the same time he bitterly as-
Sailed the scramble of the imper-
jalists for the so-called laurels of
war. Writing to his friend and
severest critic, Frank Harris
Shaw had this to say about the
laurels:

“Let the British and Ameri-
can jingoes scramble for the
leaves to their heart’s content;
I take it that it is your busi-
ness and mine to uproot the
tree and cast it into the bot-
tomless pit.’

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Gee peculiarly enough, could
never justify himself to write
Plays about war during wartime.
The greatest of all living drama-
tists turned to writing blistering
tracts and pamphlets instead of

Se

plays. The real truth of his mes-
Sage, he said in his preface to
‘Heartbreak House,’ would have
a tendency in the theatre to “hide
under the mantle of the ideals
on the stage just as they do in
real life.”

So he carried on his fight by
writing letters to the Tondon
Times and innumerable pamph-
lets and articles denouncing and
exposing the “blunders of boob-
ies, the cupidity of capitalists,
the ambition of conquerors, the
electioneering= of demagogues,
the Pharisaism of patriofs, the
lusts and lies and rancours and
bloodthirsts that love war be-
Cause it opens their prison doors,
and sets them on thrones of
power and popularity.”

Shaw was asked whether he
thought the world war was bene-
ficial to mankind and he quickly
replied:

“Do you think the effects of
the San Francisco earthquae
have been beneficial to Califor-
nia as a whole? It demonstrat-
ed the stability of steel-framed
Skyscrapers and shook down
great numbers of rotten and
unsanitary buildings, besides
removing many people who
have not been perceptibly
missed,

“Well, the war shook down
tsardom, an unspeakable abo-
mination, and made an end of
the new German empire and
the old apostolic Austrian one.
But if we can be reformed only
by the accidental results of
terrible catastrophes what hope
is there for mankind in them.
The war was a horror; and
everybody is the worse for it
except the people who were so
narrowly selfish that even war
improved them.’

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iE HIS play, “Saint Joan,” Shaw
Says that “one good treaty is
worth 10 fights,” but he is quick
to denounce bad treaties.
“The armistice and the treaty,”
he said prophetically at the close

of the last war, “have only landed ;

us in a race of armaments to-
Ward the next war.”

Shaw, the artist, took it that
his job was to mercilessly expose
the war-makers in his own coun-
try. Listen to him, in ‘The Man
of Destiny,’ cracking down on
the British ruling class which
justifies every outrage and crime
in the name of ‘principle:’

“There is nothing so bad or
So good that you will not find
an Englishman doing it; but
you will never find an English-
man in the wrong. He does
everything on principle. He
fights you on patriotic prin-
ciple; he enslaves you on im-
perial principles; he supports
his king on Joyal principles, and
cuts off his king’s head on re-
publican principles. His watch-
word is always duty; and he
never forgets that the nation
which lets its duty get on the
opposite side of its interests is
lost.”

But while he assailed the mad
armaments race of the imperialist
Powers, he at the same time ap-
Plauded the great Red army which
guards the Socialist gains of the
people of the Soviet Union.

Marx he ranked as a giant and
Lenin and Stalin received his ut-
most praise.

The study of “Das Kapital;
Shaw says, made him a man
“with some business in the world.”

But Shaw was never a Marxist,
nor is he one today. He is a
Fabian still.

Shaw made clear his attitude
toward the Bolshevik Revolution
in Russia at the moment it began.
When the war was at its height
and Lenin was leading the Rus-
Slan working class to power and
Socialism, the great Irishman of
letters wrote to Frank Harris:

‘Dear Frank Harris:

“Good news from Russia, eh?
Not quite what any of the bel-
ligerents intended, any more
than Bismark intended to make
France a Republic in 1870; but
the Lord fulfi/is Himself in
Many ways. It is probably not
the least surprise He has up His
sleeve for us,

“Yours ever,
“G Bernard Shaw.”

SHORT
JABS

by OF Bill

Gold Old John Farmer, who was never happy except when

5 he was buying gold bricks from city slickers, was the
Bricks. acme of financial wariness when compared to the
owners of the capitalist newspapers. At least one can be pardoned
for imagining that after reading some of the stories for which they
pay real money.

One of the slickers in the newspaper world is a Polish journalist,
Viadimir Poliakoff, who signs himself ‘Augur.’ He is reputed to be an
authority on Central and Eastern European polities. One sample of
gold brick dropped by this Polish chauvinist appeared in the Vancouver
Province last Saturday, under the caption, ‘Is the Comintern on the
Move?” To make it look more like a gold brick, it has the assay
stamp on it, ‘Copyright 1940 by the New York Times.’ We are therefore
unable to print it in full, but we may evade the copyright law by just
using as much of it as will serve our purpose. Here is what interests us
in Augur’s 300-word brain-wave gold brick:

“Chancellor Hitler SEEMS TO BE going the way. of the late Gen.
rich Ludendorff ... (This is a reference to Lenin’s travelling through
Germany in a sealed car). In 1940 Hitler himself APPEARS TO BE
organizing a Communist invasion of Western Hurope ... RELIABLE
INFORMATION RECEIVED HERE is that Hitler has allowed the
Comintern to establish a central office on German soil.... THERE IS
REASON TO SUPPOSE that the office has been opened, in Stuttgart.
(Here the versatile Augur leaves the realm of the ‘supposed,’ the ‘seem-
ing’ and the ‘appearing’ and states definitely that the ‘supposed’ office
is staffed by a number of “Georgi Dimitroff’s best men from Moscow
and a sprinkling of French Communists who managed to escape the
drag-net of the police.”)

Not Pots Augur continues: “IT IS CONSIDERED CURIOUS

how swiftly the wheel turns round in Russian-German
And Pans. relations considering that Dimitroff, a few years ago
Was one of the accused at the famous trial of allied incendiaries of the
Reichstag.” (By whom is it considered curious? And Dimitroff was
not “an allied incendiary of the Reichstag.” He was accused but even a
Wazi court and judge were compelled to find him innocent. It is left
for gold brick peddlers like Augur to find him guilty.)

“Not only has the Comintern been permitted to open a central office
under Nazi protection but a special wireless station IS SAID TO HAVE
BEEN allotted to spread Communist propaganda. ... The Comintern
thus APPARENTLY has been enrolled to serve the ends of German
ageression. Regarded characteristic of the situation, however, 1S THE
REPORT that Hitler personally gave the order for the admission of
the Communist agitators, overriding the objections of the military

authorities which, IT IS THOUGHT, feared the presence of the men

from Moscow.”

So the ‘supposed’ office is staffed with real flesh and blood men from
Moscow and Paris who will operate the IT IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN
wireless station broadcasting real propaganda.

It is obvious that Augur was not raised in that little old red school-
house where the scholars used to learn that “If ‘ifs’ and ‘an’s’ were pots
and pans, there’d be no use for tinkers.” With the one lying assertion
about Dimitroff, the rest of his gold brick is in the ‘ifs and an’s’ cate—
gory.

The $20 a week newspaperman who desires to go far in the profes-
sion should give up writing about street-car smashes, gambling-house
raids and other trivialities of that kind. He should acquire for himself
a lexicon of ‘it seems, ‘it appears,’ ‘there is reason to suppose,’ etc.

He can interlard these hardworking peradyentures, even though not
gifted with a very fertile imagination, with his own guesses and conjec-
tures, assumptions and presumptions, always keeping in mind the
wishes and hopes of the newspaper moguls.

The result will be a gold brick which will be sought after by the
press barons just as avidly as the brass ones were grabbed by John
Farmer who opened this story, in the days before the government pro-
hibited him from selling his grain to the Soviet Union, or the ‘independ_
ent dairyman’ took the cream off his milk, or eggs were sold in Van-
couver for 14 cents a dozen,

Real If you want to know the truth about the progress of

5 the present war, don’t waste your time reading the
Indicators. nonsensical yarns scribbled by the penny-a-line re-
porters that crowd the real news off the front pages of the gutter press.

Instead turn to the financial page and read the prices offered and

_ taken for the bonds of the countries involved. Just as daily car-loadings,

production of pig iron and kilowatts of electrical energy, bank clearings,
building’ permits and other basic factors serve as indicators of the up-
ward and downward trend of business and industry, so the rise and: fall

of bond prices shows the stability or instability of a country in war-
time.

On Dee. i, a few days after imperialist ageression struck at the
Soviet Union and the day after the Soviet workers struck back in self-
defence, Helsingfors 644 percent bonds were selling on the New York
Stock Exchange at 63. On Jan. 20, they were offered at 2214 with no
buyers. Every time the fascist White Finns destroyed another Red
division, Helsingfors 614s dropped a few more Points. Sir Rysto Ryti’s
Finnish Bank 6 percent bonds also dropped from 10416 to 28 by Feb. 2.

Thus the investing capitalists show how much credit they give to the
press fictions. The bond prices are the true index, not the number of
Reds slaughtered by the deadly linotype machines.

Fish And White Guard Finnish Vice-Consul Tornroos in Van-
F l couver is reported by the Province to have stated
owl. that he has “a waiting list of pilots; both Canadian

and American, who want nothing better than a contract to bomb
Leningrad.”

A few weeks ago a Canadian, Robert McClure, was arrested in
Hamilton for some critical remark he made about the Finnish Whites.
He is awaiting trial now for making statements “likely to endanger
Canada’s relations with a friendly country.”

Why then is not Vice-Consul Tornroos subjected to the War Measures
Act as good Canadians are? Or maybe we are at war with the Soviet
Union and are following the line of the demofascists in the US who
are now doing the work of the Dies committee, rounding up American
Communists and charging them with having illegally recruited men to
join the Abraham Lincoln Battalion. These fascist democrats don’t
want democracy and they intend to crucify the men who fought for it
in Spain and who would maintain it in the Unitea States.

United

Finland, that Valiant People’: Angus MacInnis; Ne-
Front. vile Chamberlain; Norman Thomas: William Ran-
dolph Hearst; General Franco; Leon Blum; Daladier;: Sir Walter Git-
vine; Roosevelt; Bill Green: Hoover of Hlooverville; the Kaiser; Per
Albin Hanson; Lloyd George: Swedish labor leader Strom; Karl Hoes-
lund; League of Nations; National Council of Labor (Britain); National
Council of the GCF.

Here is a united front gathered around ‘Brave Little

I Stand A slight mistake crept into my article ‘Munchausen in

the Press’ in last week’s Advocate. I stated that “Kol-
Corrected. chak was bayonetted by his own Czechoslovak Jes-
ions.” That was the statement in the press at the time. The truth was
that Kolehak was captured by the Red army, sentenced to death by the
Military Revolutionary committee and shot accordingly.

PUBLIC MEETING

SUNDAY, FEB. 11, at 8:00 P.M.
| ORANGE HALL

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Speaker — W. BENNETT
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