anti-fascist forces unnecessary ; On
militant united action and steadily
mngth and political influence of the
tces is the one sure guarantee that
Intic agreements will be carried

Gal element in Duclos’ comment con-

Phe Teheran Accord is that it was
Gnate it as a platform of class peace
In that Duclos is obviously right.
eders jointly declared, “. .. we look
‘i confidence to the day when all
4 world may live free lives untouched
tnd according to their varying de-
Weis clear, however, that if the work-
pRanizations were demobilized and
fisarmed there would be little hope

pe be Teheran Declaration is, there-
& a platform of democratic struggle.
| policies in accord with it in every
finarily a struggle to unite labor and
forces, including a section of the
@, behind policies of jobs, social Se-
a@petess at home, through cooperation
cratic peoples in postwar reconstruc-
& lopment abroad.

#2 ATION of the ‘extent to which

iy work must be based upon re-ex-
Hour theoretical and practical activity
peran Conference. :
ion of our work reveals plenty of
Piticism. We did not at any time
validity of Comrade Browder’s pro-
iRailed his book, “Teheran Our Path
|War’ and urged all to study it as a
i: to solution of postwar problems.
iallenge the validity of the popular-
feals appearing in the Daily Worker
AS. party publications although we
ft some of those materials vulgarized
=wder’s position. Se =

> -ontinued on Page Six)

m% ce where you can get paid for tak-
sion. No ... Um not kidding. I
. was there this week. Interested?
Jl time to rush down to the offices
ion-Provincial Emergency Farm
and volunteer
i in the har-
= sh Columbia’s
mand vegetable
ve fun; you'll
F swell people;
little money,
m> the satisfac-
sing that the
les, ‘peaches,
mitoes you pick
7. up on some
ale or go into
Ehe children of

in Abbottsford

Ener, which turned out to be a swell
e-rs’ hostel which I visited is super-
WA and department of agriculture
iihouses from forty to eighty girls
-een to twenty-two, and all of them
> Y provides darn good cooks. Af-
E.et a pretty, dark-haired Labor Se-
wited by the provincial department
Ato assign girls to farms each day,
"arned, to haggle with any farmer
x” to cut pay rates.

=WCA hostels lights go out at ten,
mt later, so it seems, it’s time for
re girls get up, tuck pin curls into
slacks and sun-back blouses, and
) the fields where they work for
/Pay rates are fair. Nobody comes
~ fortune, but a girl who puts her
make enough, I figured, to provide
rdrobe if.she works throughout the
er is at six, and afterwards the pin
shed out, lipsticks go to work, crisp
are donned, and the evening’s re-.
ms. Perhaps a group of girls go
‘* a movie. Others are off-.for a
‘Be for the main street to window
zen for the appreciative whistles of
aa nearby RCAF camp. On Tuesdays
iv hostess at their “Hop,” and local
rited into the high school gym for
Hee and sandwiches, and on Saturdays

: — PACIFIC ADVOCATE

rough policies based upon the pos- —
Hited in the Teheran and Yalta de-

@ Duclos’ criticisms are applicable to.

Comment :

The discussions going on in the
American Communist Political As-
4 sociatien following the publication
of the article by the French Com- }.
munist Duclos have aroused consid-
erable. discussion both within and

outside of the JLabor-Progressive
Party.
Duclos’ article, which was

“highly critical of the postwar per-
spective drawn by Earl Browder, in

his book Teheran and After and
subsequently elaborated in other
publications, accuses Browder

among other things of a “‘notorious
revision of Marxism.”

On this pagé we publish an

article by Tim Buck, National Lead-
er of the Labor-Progressive Party,
which outlines the basic mistakes
made by the American Party and
assesses their effect on the party in
Canada.
- We believe this article will be
welcomed by our membership, and
will be the means of stimulating a
disscussion which will do much to
clarify confusion which may have
arisen because of the lack of authen-
tic information on this question.

Unfortunately the “Worker,”
through whose pages this discussion
has been carried on is not available
in, large numbers in this province.

Next week we will publish in full
Foster’s article on ‘““Fhe revision of
Marxism.”’

Meanwhile in order to bring
clarity to our members and provide
a forum for an exchange of opinion
on this vital question, we suggest
that the members of our party util-
ize the columns of our press for an
exchange of views and discussion on
this question.—Editor.

in d Town By Cynthia Carter

the older girls pile into taxis and set off for the
nearest .dance. On Sunday the girls. catch up
on their reading, go for walks, play reeords on
the portable gramaphone, work jigsaw puzzles
or play Chinese checkers. °

On the whole, everybody has a swell time.
The work is light, life in the camps is fun, and
exercise in the open air brings benefits to com-
plexion and figure that a beauty shop might well
envy. ~

F course, I visited the “best” hostel, and saw

the Farm Labor Service system worked out
at its finest. But in fairness must admit that
neither the Labor Secretary Camp Supervisor
nor cther officials tried to hide the fact that
sometimes things don’t work out so smoothly.
Sometimes the fault lies in poor hostel super-
vision. Sometimes several thoughtless girls can
turn-an otherwise well-balanced camp upside-

‘down in a few day8. Sometimes, too, the farmers

themselves are at fault. But I would say that
in every case where trouble existed, Agriculture
Department officials tried honestly to smooth
things out.

In one place, for instance, things seemed to
go wrong from the start. The girls were un-
happy, farmers complained of their work. The
trouble was traced to the fact that the super-
visor’s manner antagonized the girls, so she was
removed end everything was swell again. At
another camp, trouble was caused by a penny-
pinching farmer who refused to pay rates set by
the Labor Secretary. He had received a higher
price than expected for his strawberries, and had
been told he must pass a little of his profit along
to the girls. He refused, and was told flatly that
until he agreed to the new price no pickers would
be sent to his farm. Needless to say, he sent
in a check the next morning.

When my three day visit was over, I didn’t
want to come home! And if all goes well, ’'m
going back next year. How about coming along?

A READER has this suggestion: We women
have been complaining about the low-grade
radio fare served up to us in daytime programs,
so how about getting constructive and letting
radio stations know what we want? Let me know
your ideas on the subject—the type of programs
you would enjoy and existing programs you’d like
to see continued.

_night.

Short Jabs by Ol’ Bill

I was looking over the list of successful musical students in the Associ-
ated Board examinations in the Province newspaper last Saturday
I might know some of them and I-always like to know how my
young friends are making out.

The first name that sounded familiar was Larry Chen, passed with
credit. I wondered where I had met him. After a while I remembered.
He was one of the star turns at the last International Picnic at Federa-
tion Park, singing songs in Chinese and English. His sister Joyce, was
also on the program at that picnic and here was her name, too, in the
pass list—passed with distinction. Another sister, Phyllis was also
listed, “with credit.”

. Of course, I felt pleased; but I had not exhausted all that the Chen
name meant. That is a common enough name among the Chinese
people, but I kept on thinking. Then’ I remembered that Chen was the
name of the Chinese family whose home was being picketted by the
Grandview Club of the LPP’ to prevent their eviction. I have since
learned that Larry and Joyce and Phyllis belong to that family.

An anti-eviction meeting had been held at the Chen home the night
before. That meeting was one of the most distinctive in character which
has been held in Vancouver in many a long day. Like the picnic where
Larry and Joyce Chen sang it was an international affair.

Right in the center of Vancouver’s foreign language ‘‘settlements,”
which is a cluster of Sohos and Harlems and Little Italys and East
Sides and Chinatowns and “across the tracks,” it was natural that al-
most every nationality in Europe and elsewhere should be represented

_in the crowd. : .

Showing keen interest in every word uttered by the speakers were
men and women of all colors; Red, Yellow, Black, and a dozen “shades”
of White. They came from Sunny Italy and Greece, from Scandinavia,
and everywhere in between, these Whites. There were native Indians
and Negroes and Chinese.

There were service men and civilians, several Chinese boys in
Canadian army uniforms and three Negro sailors from Uncle Sam’s
navy being conspicuous in the gathering, which was fitting too, since
this Chinese mother threatened with eviction has three brothers in our,
Canadian army. }

That crowd of 200 was a representative cross-section of Van-
couver’s East End, many of whom are victims of the lack of initia-
tive and buck-passing of those bodies who have been entrusted
with the running of the country.

The speakers at the meeting and one which followed it a few days
later were just like the audience; a Prairie-born young woman who
lapses sometimes into the Scottish idiom she learned from the lips of
her parents; a native of Cape Breton with an Irish accent; a Welshman
who adopted Canada as his home; a couple of back-easters who had the
stamp of Ireland and England on them; an. American housewife; a
Canadian Negro who knows the meaning of double oppression—racial
as well as economic, and two Chinese workers, a man and a young girl.
Canadians all, expressing in words the mind of the mass of the Canadian
people.

And all of them were interested in homes and evictions. None
of them were buttinski politicians seeking for vetes.

The Chen eviction is a little different to an eviction where a house
owner wants to occupy the house himself. In this case the object is
pure speculation. The owner has “acquired” five houses in a row. All
of them are now vacant, one of them since last December, with the ex-
ception of the one occupied by the Chen family.

The magistrate who ordered the eviction seems to imagine that
the house is dilapidated and unfit for human occupation. That is
not so. Although the house is an old one it is in a fairly good state
of repair. It is not condemned either by the Health Officer or the
Building Inspector and neither of them have expressed any inten-
tion of condemning it.

Why, then, should the owner be so anxious, at the height of a hous-
ing crisis such as we have today, to make unnecessary repairs? There
is only one answer comes into our mind. He must want to show the
Rental Board that the money spent on repairs warrants an increase in
the rent. That means also that he must get rid of his present tenants.

_ That is why Mr. and Mrs. Chen and their children are to have their

home broken up.

. The Grandview Club of the LPP is doing a good job in stirring up

the neighbors to prevent the execution of the eviction order. Their

picket line must be extended and strengthened, as should the picket

jines on all the other houses where people are being threatened with

being thrown out of their homes by the sheriff’s bailiffs, among them

my old friends Johnny and Maggie MacGregor on Maple Street.

Every move is legitimate that will prevent housing specula-

ting and land-shark’s profiteering on the needs of the people.

Family Allowances

TEs week one and a quarter million cheques are being mailed out to
mothers, of three million children throughout Canada. This is the
first fruit of the Family Allowances, a piece of social legislation, the
implications of which are not to the liking of the Tories.

This was impressed on me about a month back wlien I picked up a
copy of The Western Miner (recognized organ of the Mineral, Metal and
Allied Industries of Western Canada). It carried an editorial peeve
against the Family Allowances disguised as a criticism of an official
of the Department of Labor. Here it is in full:

“A more flagrant example ... of the misuse of the official ‘Labor
Gazette’ in the current issue of which was printed a summary of a
speech on Family Allowances by the parliamentaary assistant to the
Minister of Labor, who is reported to have said that ‘with family allow-
ances being paid to children of workers while they are on strike, workers
will be given more freedom to fight unserupulous employers.’ Such a
statement is not only in bad taste but is tactless and provocative of
bad feeling.”

SATURDAY, JULY 21, 1945.