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A years ago some bright lad in the advertising

| er A Subscriber

game, full of the old try and carving a niche out for
himself in the hall of fame, boasted that he could sell an _
ice-box to an Eskimo with a good slogan. It’s a neat trick
if you can do it, but a neater trick is for supporters of PLA.
to take up the slogan “Every Voter a Subscriber” and go
to work to build the circulation of P.A..on the heels of the
showing that our party made in the federal elections.

These are slogan-conscious days. Every day your
radio informs you that your “‘teeth can have that China-
boy look in just twelve years” or, a weepy-voiced radio
salesman informs you that you are not to be irritated and
urges you to light a “‘Nole Gold” (which does the work
of rag-weed but has no rag-weed or irritants in it). The
trend is obviously to slogans by the bushel. e

In P.A. supporters have a sure-fire hit, It isn’t a matter
of selling ice-boxes to Eskimos or hot-air furnaces to Af;
ricans. It’s a matter of selling a necessity to every person

| who is interested in progress. The vote for progress in the

last elections is evidence enough that here is a prodigious

aty young and re- .

market! waiting to be satisfied. We aren't pulling off a neat
trick of super-salesmanship when we take two dollars from
a prospective subscriber and give him in return a thousand
times its value in news, news of extreme significance and
importance to every working fan.
Voter a Subscriber” is one that must be taken up by every-
one who wishes to extend and, consolidate gains achieved
by workers during the course of the past few years.
Speaking of super-salesmanship, it is noteworthy that
Bruce Mickieburgh and Breta Vesterback, two staunch
supporters of P.A., have decided to consolidate and form
The new name will be Mickleburgh and
.Mickleburgh. P.A. wishes-the happy couple the best, and
expect astral subscription figures in the “Every Voter a

a company.

Subscriber” campaign.

The slogan “‘Every

& ight to*vote, when ~

selves:and-their country to vote.
With this sense of duty will also
go a thorough knowledge. of the
jssuess at stake in the election.
The P.A. played a great part
in our election program, one
feels a deep sense of pride when
reading it. Long live the P.A.
D. CORDONI A.B.

“"R.C.N.V.R.

Profit Hungry
To the Editor:

As 2 recently returned ser-,
viceman, who for years was a
union member, I am both sick-
ened and disgusted to see’ the
flagrant manner in which the
employers are making public
their determination to smash
the gains that the trade union

- movement has made during the-

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hoslovak guard of honor in front of the palace of

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in Prague

at a Czech government

im in honor of their Soviet liberators.

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“years

of this -terrible war
against fascism. It is evident
on every hand. Many -service-
men are bitter at the attitudes
displayed by industrialists who
have stayed at home and grown
fat on the prosperity occa-
sioned by the nation’s need for
the supplies of war.

The thousands who were
killed, the hundreds of thous-
ands maimed, and the million
or more Canadians who gave
up everything they possessed
to. fight fascism overseas, did
not conduct their’ struggle to
make the world safe for big
business, or. tin-pot capitalists
like our blooming industrial
barons: The majority of men
overseas were just plain work-
ing guys, guys whose future is
dependent not on industrial-
ists making another million. or
being able to compete in an
open market, but upon the
solid gains achieved by the
struggles of the trade union

movement in the course of the
war.

We fought: for many free-
doms overseas. We fought for
the freedom of the working
man to join unions and bargain
collectively for better condi-
tions as well as the preserva-
tion of the bosses’ type of in-
dustrial democracy. We didn’t
leave the battle-lines to come
back to breadlines.

Greed for profits at the ex-
pense of the working man is
not a good quality to display,
and Canada’s “warriors” serve
notice that they will not toler-
ate it.

_ EX-SERVICEMAN.

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Anniversaries !

ULY First! Auspicious day for the Canadian people; anniversary of

their birth as a nation; anniversary of the welding together of a

econgeries of colonial settlements, each sufficient unto itself but small
potatoes as nations go. ,

Canada did not emerge with a full panoply of wisdom as Minerva,
sprung fully equipped from the head of Jove. This new nation had to
grow and acquire .knowledge and understanding of the relationships of
the multitude of heterogeneous individuals of all nationalities, races,
creeds, colors and classes whom she was welding into an entity which
would. stand high among the nations. She had to learn the hard way.

And in acquiring that learning it-was inevitable that other events
in her history should merit their anniversary eelebrations, also, even
on July the First.

And so July the First this year, besides. being Dominion Day, the
78th anniversary of Confederation, is also the tenth anniversary of the
attack on Canada’s disinherited and dispossessed youth at Regina by the
forces of Tory intolerance and bigotry under the leadership of one of the
most sinister figures in Canadian history, “Iron Heel” Bennett, now, his

ambition fulfilled, an ornament of the greatest center of reaction in the ©
British Empire, relic of the 13th century, the House of Lords.

While Bennett went on to wallow in the ideas and atmosphere of
an institution that is linked with, and is hardly moved out of, the same
period in point of time as that from which Hitler drew his inspiration’
for the headsman’s axe, the torture chamber and book-burning—the
Middle Ages, the boys who were on the receiving end of the bullets and
the clubs at Regina on Dominion Day, 1935, in their hundreds, rallied

“to the call of democracy in Spain two years later, to take their places in

the first armed struggle against fascism naked and unashamed. Many

of them were to leave their bones to whiten on the barren rocks of the

Spanish sierras in defence of that same democracy they sought at Regina-

“Hollywood”

Hoe woop is sneered at, denounced, condemned, for the low eultural,
ethical and political content of. its productions. Most of this con-
fempt is merited, but not all; for nothing that is black is all black and
nothing that is white is all white. ~

“That antifascist war in Spain to which the Regina boys flocked,
brought out what was good in Hollywood. Producers, actors and act-
resses, mechanics, roustabouts, made many noble contributions to assist
the government vf the Spanish people. The men and women whom we
call “Hollywood,” showed that in the vast majority, they were on the
right side of the fence in the struggle against fascism.

I have a copy of a letter sent by Nigel Bruce, who plays in the Sher-
lock Holmes pictures and radio programs with Basil Rathbone. It was
sent to the Canadian publisher of Matthew Halton’s book, “Ten Years to
‘Alamein.’ Halton worked for the Toronto Star and was correspondent
at the front for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. But I pro-
pose to let you read the letter for yourself. Here it is—Dear Mr.
Saunders: My daughter who is serving in the RCAF just sent me a copy
of Matthew Halton’s book, ‘““‘Ten Years to Alamein.” I think it is one of
the best books I have read for many a day and I read practically every-
thing about the war I can get my hands on.

“As the price has been cut off the copy I received, please let me
know the price of the book as I would like to send you a cheque by
yeturn for four copies to give to my friends.

“I agree with everything Mr. Halton says, and his description of
the work of the International Brigade in Spain_and the 8th Army in
Africa should be broadcast from the. house tops. I only wish my time on
the air would allow me to do this instead of playing the imbecile “Doctor
Watson.” Sincerely, Nigel Bruce.”

The sentiment expressed in that letter of Nigel Bruce is in the spirit
of the real tradition of Hollywood, the spirit that chased Mussolini’s brat
out of Hollywood, that sent many ambulances and valuable medical sup-
plies and men to handle them to aid the International Brigade and the
fighting Spanish people.

I have just had_a chance to look through Halton’s book and can
endorse what Nigel Bruce says about it. Reading of that chapter about
the Mac-Paps in Spain would be a good Dominion Day exercise for every
Canadian—and for the ex-Canadian “Viscount” Bennett.

Not alone in Spain did these trekkers show their willingness to
fight for real democracy but in the general conflagration of which the
Spanish events were only the initial spark, hundreds of them have done
their share. Itis a long way from Regina through Teruel and Dunkirque
to the inner strongholds of Mussolini and Hitler, but these boys from
Regina travelled it.

Fascism is not yet dead, however. Only a few days before the United
Nations conference put the bars up against Franco Spain, the Butcher
had the unmitigated gall to claim that a defamatory campaign is being
conducted against Spain, meaning Franco, of course.

It is time for the democracies to come to the aid of the Spanish people
and finish the job that was being done by the Mac-Paps when Hitler,
Mussolini, Chamberlain, Daladier and the Social Democrats stopped them.

Unfortunately there are even yet too many of the kind of people
about whom one of the Mac-Paps, Larry Ryan, spoke, in a doggerel
rhyme he wrote. The sentiment however, is all right—

: Some people make you think of a parrot on a swing,
They sit and squawk and blink and never do a thing
Except what others damn, obedient to their master,
I’d like their mouths to cram, full of mustard plaster.”

Ten years ago! Regina! And though the ashes of forgetfulness seem
grey and cold the hot red coals of yemembrance still burn fiercely beneath.

SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1945.

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