nt, the attempts to reduce ne attacks on the trade union ‘ting stiff resistance. and the -artime necessities, they made 'the workers restrained their 'ordinated everything to the ‘defeating fascism. — determined to follow up the fascism by extirpating every ‘rom this country. They real- se still remains, that fascist still hope to retain control © this country. A handful: of king to remstate the days of “yn that characterised the pre- * ascism cannot be regarded as > vestige of the kind of think- - to grow and assisted it into ‘hat the substandard wages gp to the minimum required vent standard of living (the ad by organised labor is a 5 means that slums must be ‘sent homes shall be provided ** people. It means that ade- & ation must be adopted, with and child care centers. It “ce pensions must provide a -ng for those who have given _ their country. chings' that will keep fascism a YQUENCY .is not a pretty “ng for a city to boast about. - delinquency breaks out over e—and delinquency is a very at happened to little Diana ty wakes up to the. fact that / aave been done a long time ‘I told you so” is seldom con- - permissible now, I think, to ' xe record. There were lots of st, and for the most part they ere are a few of them: 2 a direct ealth: and as, hous- ing factor uency and ‘he report : the City : immediate -on of low- 2 ‘roand al- remember, sads, and ‘the money "2 year now the chief of police ing for more men for his force. » added, but not nearly enough, eit growing crime waves. oo sighs with relief, because : whole business on the “man- before our so-called “zoot-suit”’ ‘it issued from a conference of and representatives of service ‘unions, predicted that “if the Yt do somethznge about a broad reation and education, we can reater increase in juvenile delin- ‘d not be surprised if hoodlum in this city as they did in the q ee 5 — PACIFIC ADVOCATE “year ago, Vancouver Welfare . at bay, for fascism flourishes and grows on the misery of the people; it cannot survive where people are happy and healthy. And organised laber is to the forefront in the fight to attain these just demands. In British Columbia we have had ample demonstration that a-unified labor movement can generate the power that moves the whole population into action. Veterans’ groups, church people and other organisations are lending their support to la- bor’s -program. Even our somnulent city fathers have gone along, albeit somewhat reluctantly with delega- tions to Victoria to back up the demands for - providing employment. This is a great change from the attitude expressed by Mayor Cornett when he was first invited to participate in the fight for jobs and. security. It will be remem- pered that on that ocasion he remarked, ‘Well didn’t they know this would happen, I can’t do anything about it,’ or words to that effect. Ap-, parently he has now changed his attitude and at least realized that the first citizen of Van-~ couver is expected to do something about it. If he doesn’t know how, organised labor will show him the way. Similarly, the provincial cabinet has agreed to some conerete steps; belatedly. it has moved into action following representations from a strong delegation. It has agreed to assist the delegation to get to Ottawa to present its case to the Federal house. : Undoubtedly the imminence of the provincial elections bore heavily upon them. Just as obvi- ously, the delegation representative of citizens from all walks of life emphasized the ‘urgency of the situation. Labor minister Pearson as usual came forward with a desire to help. It is un- fortunate that he has tied thimself to the apron strings of the Tories in the coming elections. By so doing he has aligned himself with the most reactionary elements in the province and must find constant conflict between his own human- itarian desires and the aims of the Maitlands. He finds himself in the same position as many ‘progressives, bound ‘in a coalition which has no sympathy with his politics, and he must re- member that the object of the progressives is to peat the coalition in this coming election. Meanwhile another lesson has been driven home. United action brings results. Govern- ments are amenable to the voice of the people when that voice is raised unitedly and deter- minedly. id Town By Cynthia Carter Communications from this conference were presented to the City Council. You guessed it —received and filed. : Well, Mr. Mayor, just for the record, here are some questions the people want to ask you and your aldermen. Perhaps any action you could take wouldn’t ensure complete eradication of juvenile delin- quency, but— What is the dollar-and-cents value of pro- viding ‘a decent home for a kid living in some- body’s basement? What price a modern recreational center for a group of east-end kids hanging around a pool- room? ° How much folding money, do you suppose, will it take to blot out the memory of a little girl’s battered body lying in a shallow grave? And how much increase in the mill-rate would . equal the mental and physical harm done to the several hundred children who, according to Van- ecouver Welfare Council have recently been vic- ‘tims of gross indecency? Rese are questions the people want answered —hbefore the civie election in December! And in case our city fathers are in a fog as to how to go about solving the problem, here are a few suggestions that have reached me from eens who have got concrete ideas on the sub- ject. © Increase the local police force. e Cut out the stalling on the housing issue, and institute a move for low-rental housing projects. _ @Co-operate with the school board in open- ing school gyms for regular, properly-supervised teen-age dances. 2 @ Set up a greater number of free “hobby groups” in urderprivileged sections of the city. @ Contact War Assets Corporation to find out how much available material could be con- verted: to use in juvenile recreation centers. In the meantime, we can get on the job our- selves. We can elect committees from our unions, women’s groups and political clubs, to survey our own districts, find out just what is needed, and place our specific esti before the City Council. ® eee ONS CREAR DUUCORUsUseeasevUORETEPLESERUDRECRLLOORELSTGUEPEUSTTELCRSOSUETUSCLEERDTIRRUUU ALOE ESSEOERFECREREREASERESD: Short Jabs by ol” Bill TVET OPEC TIM tSS EIT titre Cittliiiiriitiiiiiittiriii iii iriiitiitiittitiiititiititiiiioiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiia Pornography! NEW low in pornographic literature has been set by the CCF. The group of mudslingers who contribute the section of the CCF News headed “On Our Shift,” and «call themselves the “CCF Trade Union Committee,” apparently find their style is being cramped on the paper. They are giving themselves more elbow room therefore and issuing a mimeographed bulletin to further their efforts to bemuse the workers in the B.C. trade union movement. Sex, and all the problems which arise from it, approached in *he manner of the scientist is a subject for universal study since these problems touch upon all of us. But the scientific manner is not the only approach to questions connected with Sex. Since there is money or other gain to be had from dealing with sex and everything connected with it in a licentious or lascivious way some people prostitute their minds just as these unfortunate women prostitute their love. ‘ Obscenity; smut; ribaldry! Around these has grown a doggerel literature, the work of degenerate minds; of mentalities prostituted in the hope of capitalizing on the ignorance of a people nurtured on the aphorism that sex is unclean. This literature is called pornography. The latest and rottenist contribution to the library of pornography is a cartoon in the CCF Trade Union Bulletin, a cartoon in which: the LPP is pictured as a harlot who has just been engaged in delivering _ the goods. The political understanding of the CCF’ers who expect this kind of thing to bring any credit to their party can only be meas- ured in minus terms, not in‘height, but in depth. It is of the same calibre as that of the contributers to all other smut magazines which are written for and appeal only to the debased, to morons who still live in’ the dark ages of education. It will not win any- one interested enough in building a better world to be a good trade unionist or to become a member of a workingclass political party. An Explanation! A NEWS story from London where the foreign ministers of the Allied Nations have been meeting, carries a headline in a local Vancouver paper: “Londen Amused as 12 Stalwarts Guard Molotoff.’ In London, where the cops don’t carry guns and even the King and Queen move about with little fuss, premiers rarely have more than one secret. service man behirid them, says the story and it “seems either ridiculous, an attempt at ostentation or a sign of fright, according to the way you choose to think about Soviet politics.” But it may neither be fright nor ostentation nor ridiculous. It may be just plain, good sense. The King and Queen are in no danger walk- ing about the streets of London or any other British town and the average visiting premier has no need of more than one fly-cop from the secret service, but Molotoff IS different. He does not come in any of these categories. . He is not being protected from anything the British people might do, although people like Lord Haw-haw and other fascists, assassins at heart, might make an attempt om his life. : But London is swarming with the scum of countries which have just been rescued from the fascist beast, of Poland, of Hungary and the Balkan countries, particularly the riff-raff of the so-called Polish Gov- ernment-in-Exile which was maintained by the British government and inspired by the Vatican. Amongst these recalcitrants are hundreds, aye, thousands, who have lost the privilege they once possessed of living in luxury on the sweat, the toil and the misery of the people of the countries freed from Nazi slavery by the Red armies. There are other tens of thousands of their nationals who never owned any property but are fooled by their priests imto believing that they have lost something through the liberating advances of the Red armies. The writer of that story probably does not know that if Molotoff were to be assassinated in London, he would not be the first Soviet rep- resentative to be murdered in a foreign capital while on a mission for his country, “in the line of duty” as they say in the services. About 20 years ago, during the sessions of a gathering at Laue sanne, Switzerland, like the one now taking place in London, the Soviet representative, Vorovsky, was shot and killed while sitting in a hotel dining room by a hired assassin of the same kidney as the Polish and Yugoslav expatriates who are presently polluting the smoky air of “London. A year or two later another Soviet representative, Voikoff, passing through Poland, became the victim of an assassin’s bullet while stand- ing on a railway platform in Warsaw. Later, in 1927, the Soviet vice-consul in Canton was not only mur- dered, but- tortured in advance, by the reactionary Kuo Min Tang forces. And don’t. ever allow these ink-cooliesi of the press to forget that Lenin too, was a victim of the assassin, who went right into the heart of the Soviet Union to commit that heinous crime. He lingered for a time but his death was the result of the bullet fired into his shoulden by the Social-Revolutionary, Fanya Kaplan, as surely as if he had died at. the moment he was hit. 4 Lest anyone should think I am an alarmist, I would ask them to take stock of the latest pronouncement of Oswald Pirow, former minister of South Africa and leader of the “New Order” party in that counitry. __According to Pirow, “A war of western powers against Russia is an urgent necessity if anything is to remain of western civilization.” Pirow thinks “it is a pity—a great pity, that this seems unlikely, owing to the Labor government in Britain.” ; “In the event of such a war,” he said, “South Africa would not be able to remain neutral.” She would have to fight against the Soviet Union, “even to the extent of such a distasteful thing as having to fight side by side with Britain.” Pirow is a Hitlerite of the first magnitude. He was minister of defence in 1939 and did everything in his power to keep South Africa from taking up the cudgels against Naziism. He did his best to make South Africa vulnerable to attack from the Nazis. The height to which his defence measures rose, was—armored ox-carts. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1945 ii