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.