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Presentation Of hamlet
By Labor Arts Guild

By JOHN GOSS, Guild Director

Shakespeare s ~ Hamlet”
greatest of all dramas,
hensively
genius as playwright,
art has been so dissected and
discussed, and no literary mas-
terpiece has contributed-so much
to the common thought and idiom
of a language. The elderly lady
who is reported to have object-
ed to “Hamlet” on the ground
that it contained too many quo-

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Housing

nominal rentals, and that the ad-
munistration had planned to fur-
ther expand its activities and
spend possibly five million dol-
lars on the program. There were
3000 applications for suites now
on hand and 400 applications for
conversion of private homes.

CONSTANT SNIPING :

~ City Council opposition was
not only confined to the tax and
assessment | field, Guthrie
charged. In many cases the NHA
was forced to pay for the cost
of changing and installing sew-
erage. These difficulties, coupled

._ with constant sniping by alder-
men and repeated charges that
the federal government was creat-
ing “slum conditions” in Vancou-
ver, finally brought about the de-
cision to abandon this phase of

' the housing program.

“The whole situation just
doesn’t make sense,” Delegate
Guthrie concluded. “On the one
hand, civic opposition has forced
the abandonment of a plan that
Was doing much to relieve the
kousing shortage, while on the
other hand, Vancouver is simul-
taneously declared an emergency
housing area and a special admin-
istrator is appointed to find shel-
ter for hundreds of homeless fam-
ilies.

“That's not the kind of action
we want from our City Council,
and it’s time the Trades Council
launched an effective protest and
demanded that civic officials
really get busy in helping to solve
the housing situation.”

—AL PARKIN.

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is) by general consent, the
which most compre-
variety of the author's

No work of

was confused but unan-

tations,

swerable.
As with all works of supreme

stature, the greatness of “‘Ham-

let” remains undimmed no mat-
ter what the conditions of its
performance, whether it be

played with honest incompetence
in a studio or barn, or over-
whelmed by the pomp and cir-
eumstance of an all-star cast and
teo-lavish decoration. Further-
more, and herein lies the ulti-
mate indication of the drama’s
supremacy, “Hamlet” has im-
perative things to say to every
age and people, only the em-
phasis differing with time and
place. In the Soviet Union, for
example, the play is enjoying
unprecedented favor: and’ there
the stress is laid, with timely sig-
nificance, on the tragic folly of
appeasement, of intellectual tem-
porizing in the face of an evil
against which only ruthless and
immediate action can prevail.
The Labor Arts Guild is offer-
ing four performances of “Ham-
let,” April 6 to 9, with reverence
but without apology. And if, like
Tbsen’s architect, we have aspired
higher than we can now build,
we have the consolation of know-
ing that in this regard we are
in the best of companies. With
the imminence of victory of
Light over Darkness, of De-
mocracy over Fascism, of Civili-
zation over Barbarism, this is no
time either in art or politics for

men to be lowering their sights.

AUSTIN DELANEY
North

LT.
LPP candidate for
' Vancouver.

ltalian Labor
Will Aid French

ROME — Declaring that the
economie needs of France and
Italy are “complementary,” II
Lavoro, organ of the Italian
General Confederation of Labor
(CGIL), endorsed the use of
Italian labor in French recon-
struction. “While France suffers
from a shortage of manpower,
Italy has to, find outlets abroad
for her labor,’ the newspaper
pointed out, commenting on a
press statement by M. Couve de
Murville, representative in Italy
of the French Provisional gov-
ernment with the rank of Ambas-
sador.

In his press statement, de Mur-
ville said: “After the war, we
have to appeal largely to foreign
labor to reconstruct our country.
Italy will have a place of priority

in the reconstruction of our
homeland.” He added that- the
overwhelming majority of 800,-

000 Italians now fiving in France
had proved their loyalty to their
country of immigration.

.

A Program of Political Comment

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could hope for success would be
through reversing the trend to
strengthened United Nations’
unity and making further co-
operation, if wot impossible, at
least considerably weaker.

Having failed to prevent the
success of Teleran and Yalta so
far, these elements are now con-
centrating on the forthcoming
San tlranciseco conterence. A
flood of vicious speculation was
leosed upon the world last week,
in which the integrity of the Big
Three was called into question,

irreeyneilable disagreements and
the very noldine of the confer-
enee was rumored at stake.

Vigersusly and sharply U. S.
Seeretary of State Edward Stet-
tinius lashed cut at the camp of
9pen pro-fascists and their dan-
gerous dupes at his press confer-
ence and indicated that, if any-
thing, the nee: was for quickly
getting down to work on the con-
ferences tasks.

The Eisenhower- Stettinius an-
swers to those who would assist

Defeat

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Germany to wriggle out fron
censequencies of her misd-
was impressively supporter
Canada by the overwhelming
jority. vote in the Hcuse of (
mons of 202 to 5 im suppor
the goevernment’s niction to |
a united delegaticn to San
cisco. Only five Quebec ant
M.P’s found it pessible to
regard public Gpinion and
ada’s Witerests ” and oppose
motion. :
Mowever, it is still evi
thal a inighty effort on the
st world democratic. forces,
necessary to back up the A
decisions, to see that every
tige of fascist influence is
pulsed and ruined and every.
fort to destroy unity is tS el
stroyed.

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