Spy Scare Scored by B.C. Leaders VICTORIA, B.C. — The cur- rent press hysteria over espion- age in Canada is aimed at sever- ing relations with the USSR and diverting public attention from critical domestic opinion of leading B.C. unionists interviewed here while attending: the big labor lobby. “There is no basis for wild insinuations against the Soviet Union now filling pages of the newspapers,” states Harold Prit- chett, secretary B.C. Federation of Labor. “Method of handling the spy story constitutes an un- friendly act to USSR, and a threat to future peace.” William White, president Ma- rine Workers Boilermakers Union, sees in the handling of Case “an attempt to lay basis for all out attack on trade unions.” issues, in the “There is no justification for press insinuations that leading trade unionists are implicated in the alleged espionage ring,” de clared George Miller, president AFL United Piisherment’s Union. “This is a deliberate at- tempt to smear organized labor, and must be sharply combatted.” Ernie Dalskog, TWA interna- tional board member, views the Bress campaizon as an attempt to Scare progressive people away from their friendship with USSR. “Tabor will have to fight to pre- vent a 1946 version of the Zino- viev forgery, and keep people’s attention centered on such key domestie [problems as housing and wages,” he emphasized. Everybody pitching in hel picketline too. Her father’s ps win a strike, so baby s on the a member of United Steelworkers (CIO), and she’s learning early | | “Plot Bac Says Dyson Cartet Both Dorise Neilsen and Dy- son Carter took time out from the discussion of housing: at the public meetings held here last week to comment on the espion- age scare. Both speakers were seathing in their condemnation of the vicious anti-Soviet cam- paign let loose in the wake of the spy investigations. ; Scoring the attempts to link the Labor-Progressive party up with the espionage charges as vicious lies, Dorise Neilsen stated that if the party were persecuted it would not be for giving secrets to enemy agents, but because it is leading such tremendous public campaigns as the present one for homes. Said Dyson Carter “The plot. has backfired, it is moving off of the front pages of the papers, Some years ago, Upton Sin nose pretty accurately the ills is an expose of the manner news when it either does no a certain impression on the A dangerous list to starboard has developed lately in the daily pa- pers of Vancouver, and for that matter, all over the Dominion and in the USA. A particuiarly flagrant use of “slant” came to our attention on Friday, in the Vancouver Daily Province, when we saw this headline in the home edition Bae “Chinese Stage Protest March Against Russ.” Naturally, we be- gan to read the item. However, before we go any further, refer_ ence should be made to a fact Which is known to all newspaper folk: that many people read only Labor Opposes Move To Replace Pearson VICTORIA, B.C.—One of sev- eral factors acting in the favor of the 1946 Labor Lobby was the visit to the Hart cabinet on Mon- day of a delegation of prominent churchmen, Appearing before the cabinet ,the representatives of a number of Vancouver and Victoria churches and min- isterial associations were closet- ed for some time to press upon the Coalition government the im- portance of several key points embodied in organized labor’s legislative brief. Recognition of the value of these representations prompted the delegates to the Sunday la- bor lobby conference to pass a unanimous and rousing vote of thanks, presented to the meet- ing; by the Steering Committee. A second important resolution approved by the conference for- mally called upon the B.C. f£ov- ernment to retain as minister of labor Hon. George S. Pearson. “There are rumors going the rounds, too outspoken to be with- out foundation, that certain re- PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 6 in which the capitalist t wish the public to learn of it public mind. This last is known clair, who, w of capitalism, wrote a Sensational Press Stories Aim lo Confuse, Mislead Public ty 1. room hatever you think of his remedies, does diag- book called *‘The Brass Check. ’ This “free’’ press suppresses and distorts , Or when it wishes to create as slanting” the news. the headlines in the papers, and many, Many more never get any further than the first paragraph of any item. So—what did we find in this news release from the Associated Press? Headed by the ominous “Chinese Stage Protest March Against Russ,” the first para- graph reads thus: Datelined Chunking, Feb. 22, “The three- Storey downtown office and bookstore of the (Communist New China Daily News was wrecked today.” What have we here? Still no Chinese, in great hordes, out- raged by the Russians’ treatment of “poor little China.” Finally, Scanning the whole column with dogged persistence, we come actionary elements Within the. government are ganging up on Mr. Pearson and urgins: his re- placement,” reported Harold Pritchett, secretary of the Steer. ing Committee. “This motion by our conference will remind the Hart cabinet that we want Mr. Pearson to remain on the job.” Already suggested as a pos- sible successor to Mr. Pearson is Byron “Boss” Johnson, (Coalition member for New Westminster. Some indication of how he would function in the labor ministry Was seen in a Monday afternoon report by labor lobbyists who had interviewed Johnson that morn- ing at the Parliament Buildings. William Symington, interna- tional representative for the United |Packinghouse Workers, who captained the group which saw Johnson, stated that “ ‘Boss’ Johnson refused to commit him- self on any of the points in our labor brief.” “You can well imagine,” Sym- ington said, “why certain ele- ments are ready and willing to have him replace Mr. Pearson as minister of labor.” [ upon the gist of the matter. In the fifth paragraph, in heavy black type (we admit), ‘More than 10,000 Chinese students marched through the streets of Chunking, the seat of the Kuom- intange Severnment, demanding that Russia “quit Manchuria, and asking that Communists (pre- sumably Chinese Communists) answer five questions.” Imagine! Out of all the 450,- 000,000-odd people of China, ten thousand students, watched by a sympathetic police foree, who had just winked at the outrage against the New China Daily News, marched in protest against the Russians’ actions in Man- churia. It doesn’t really appear, on closer examination that the “Chinese,” by which most peo- ple mean large sections of the Chinese people, are .so annoyed at “Russ,” does it? What does emerge, however, is that the Associated Press would like you to think that the Chinese are enraged at the Rus_ Sians, and that is exactly what the headline is designed to make you think. It is a Part of the usual (with a hiatus of nearly four years, of course) attempt to bamboozle the public into thinking that Russia is a big bad wolf among nations, with the same imperialist designs as Great Britain and the USA. If you keep your wits about you, you can find plenty of in- stances just as bad in the capita- list press nearly every day. The capitalist press, so jealous of its “freedom,” deliberately ereates a false impression on Russia; about strikes, and about nearly everything with which progressive people are concerned: Think of the number of read- ers these large dailies reach, as compared to our organs, and you will begin to understand why the A.P. and the BUP and other news services are so anxiously guarding “freedom of the press.” Lion Feucanger, when asked, before the war, what was the difference between freedom of the press in Russia and Germany (the campaign at that time was to prove there was no differ- aah se. kfired ” eaibirLites within a few days it will be to get small space on a4 three.” He predicted that : the whole plot was reveal” would become apparent tha ~ government “were not ‘sO concerned about military Se that might become known © foreisn power as it is 13 UAT MAA HAVANA.—Joseph E. De former U.S. ambassador to | Sia, said “Russia, in self-det i has every moral right to atomic bomb secrets thr = military espionage if excl” from such information by former allies” He added tha” major powers have maintg | intelligence services for yea | ANETTA TTT State secrets that would — stand the light of day, becoy | known to the Canadian peo) Both speakers emphasized | fact that the government, — press, and every red baiting : ganization and individual in = Dominion had seized on the portunity to let lose an uns — pulous attack on our recent q the Soviet Union. 33 Royal City Cafe Organized: The Hotel and Restan Employees’ Union, Local Signed an agreement with Joe Sing, proprietor of the cifie Cafe, 769 Columbia Sh. New Westminster, on Febn 18. } Though this agreement fers from the standard a ment, in that it contains an. shop clause rather than a u: shop clause, it contains all conditions of work and wage in the standard agreement. 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