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PACIFIE

TRIBUNE

SATURDAY, MARCH iG, 1946

Calls

the standard of living of the Canadian people,”

Beacon Theater last Sunday.

In a spirited address that drew enthusiastic response from her audience the veteran labor fighter

and manager of the Canadian Tribune called on the people to close their ranks in the struggles that

lie ahead. “Protect your organiza-
tions from the defeatists who enter
your ‘ranks: We are not a timid
people; the people who fought and
won this war are not afraid of the
future, we can say to reaction itis
too bad you are afraid to face the
dawn, we are not afraid, the future
is ours,” Annie Buller went on. “The
speech of Churchill was “The speech
of an old man who is afraid of to-
Morrow.”

Referring; to the first great postwar
battle of Canadian labor, the Ford
Strike at Windsor, the speaker, who

has walked many picket lines in sup-

port of workers’ struggles, was bitter
in her denunciation of the role played
by so-called labor leaders like G. H.
Millard. “The workers were united,”
she stated. “I was down there and
saw the wonderful spirit of those
workers on the picket lines. They
had been patient during the war
years, they kept their no-strike
pledge because they realized that all
that they could produce would aid in
shortening the war and save the lives
of thousands of their brothers on the
battie fronts. But then the cold-
blooded Ford Corporation refused to
recognize their union, started their
wage cutting and union busting cam-
paign.. The workers at Ford’s were
ready to fight to a finish, the work-
ers in all industry were ready to
Support them. There was unanimous
Sympathy for a one-day strike, but
the Mullards had a score to pay off
against the workers of Windsor for
nominating. and electing their own
representatives in the Ontario pro-
vincial elections. The militant move-
ment of the workers was beheaded
by these #idases who were going to
teach the workers a lesson.

“They were prepared to use force
at Windsor,” Annie Buller pointed
out. “The RCMP and provincial po-
fice were brought in for that pur-
pose, but the reason they were not
used was because the workers were
united.”

Turning to the war-mongering
campaign, sparked by. the recent war
stare, the speaker pointed out that
mo one would object to the govern-
ment taking steps to protect itself
agamst spies. “But in this case,” she
stated, “Something has been done
that was never done before .A cam-
paign of vyillification was started in
the press against our Soviet ally be-
fore they were notified of what was
taking place. Before the commission
handed down" its findings the daily
press had convicted the Soviet Union;
orders amounting to millions of dol-
lars were cancelled and the cam-
paign of hatred was given full
leash.”

| Buller Exposes Spy Scare
For Greater Unity

Before the last guns were fired the monopolists had rolled up their sleeves, the honeymoon
was over and they were prepating for a showdown with labor in a battle to reduce wages and lower
said Annie Buller to a crowded meeting held im the

“Wee have to understand,” she con-
tinued, “that capitalist countries do
not make love because they love
each other. The United States seeks
the support of Great Britain today
for-one reason and for one reason
only—to help prevent Europe going
left.”

In an appea! to the women who
played such a magnificent. part in
winning the war, the speaker drew
attention to the recent convention
held in Paris. ‘Women from 42
eountries congregated, before the
ashes of the war had grown cold,’’
she continued, “to plan the building
of a better world. They came from

ithe liberated countries of Europe,

‘importance the meeting of the World
‘Federation of Trade Unions,” Annie

from Egypt, China and India. There
were 13 delegates from the United
States, but unfortunately there was
no representation from Canada. The
Canadian Government was not anx-
ious to assist in’ the providing of,
transportation.”

Pointing to the great results from
this conference, which “paralleled in

Buller urged the women of British
Golumbia to find some means of get-
ting one of the American women
delegates to the conference to visit

Canada.

Spotlight On
Bevin’s “Non-
Intervention”

: a) embarrassment is noticeable
in British Sovernment circles over
the latest developments in th
Spanish Situation. : :

For the action of
American No:

“They Shall Not Pass”

“The claim to fame of the men of the XV. International Brigade
does not rest merely on any feat of arms. Their claim to fame is
that at a critical moment in history they played their part with
fhe men of other nations in halting the stampede of Democracy.
Breaking through the barriers of narrow: nationalism, smothering
the animosities of contending politics and patties, they spontaneously
united and realized in one bound the age-old ideal of the unity of
amms of international democracy.

Fired with that ideal they rallied to the aid of the Spanish
people. Hastily organized, ill-armed, their first task was to hold
back the Fascist hordes and thus give 2 breathing space in which
the People’s Army could be organized.

They and thousands of others) died because most of the goy-
ernments of democratic nations had abandoned democratic prin-
ciples, and were denying the lawfully elected government of Spain
the right to purchase arms to quell treachery, to repel invasion.

Under such conditions, gallantry, often did substitute for mili-
tary experience. Great men squandered their lives in those critical
days. leaders whose function it normally was to direct battalions
died compensating for the inexprience—aye, Often for the weak-
nesses—of their comrades. And there were others, men cast in a
gentler mould, whose function it normally was to illumine the drab=
ness of this world and guide the minds of men to greater progress,
but who—realizing the issues at stake——generously flung them-
selves into the horrors of that struggle, lest the greater horror of
Fascism triumph. Their loss was not merely the loss of the countries
that gaye them birth; all humanity was the poorer for their passing.
But they did with the first words of Spanish they had learned on
their lips—No Passaran—They Shall Not Pass.

—From the “XV Brigade’

i France and the
have hit.the Buti
government just at the eae
ARE, under the Guidance of Mr.
Bevin, Be had begun to “harden up”
its Policy of cooperation with the
regime of General Franco — the
Cooperation being,
guised as a new
intervention.

The Note concerning: economic
Sanctions sent to the American goy-
ermment by Britain at the end’ of
January and disclosed in The Week
last month, was a sufficient indica-
tion of the way things were moving.
And there is no doubt that in
Madrid the assumption has been that
the British government is definitely

committed to total non-intervention.
The theory which has been and is

Iwo Canadian Soldiers Visit Highgate Cemetery 2°-222>:-—

On The 128th Anniversary Of Marx's Bisth

By MAURICE RUSH

It was a hot, clear day as my
brother and [ stepped off the bus
in London’s Highgate district.
Both of us were dressed in our
Canadian Army uniforms and
considered it pure good luck to
be able to meet on leave in Lon-
don after our separation by the
last action which sent my brother
to hospital and me to a German
prisoner-of-war camp. 2

Being in Highgate was like a
dream. As we started down the hill
towards the entrance of the famous
cemetery, we commented on how
fortunate we were to be able to
fulfil on this day an ambition we had
so often talked about in our early

; youth.

After waiting at the gate for the
caretaker he finally joined us and
we made ‘the necessary inquiries
from him. We asked him where we
could find the resting place of the
honored person to whom we wanted
to pay our respects. He told us that
he had many similar inquiries and
then directed us to the spot. After
walling dovwm a few gravelled.paths
we finally arrived at the trail we
were told to take. As we turned
down this trail our excitement in-
creased. Finally we arrived at a
modest grave. We were there—at
the graveside of Karl Marx-

It is not easy to describe the feel-
ings one has on an occasion like
this. Here we were at the resting
place of the man ‘whom millions
think of with gratitude and venera-
tion. Here is the spot where the
greatest social thinker of the last
century—the founder of scientific

Delegates Urged To
Sustain Pressure

Steering committee of the United Labor-Veteran Lobby is
continuing its work of bringing pressure on the provincial govern-
ment to implement labor’s demands and stands ready to call the
lebby back to Victoria at short motice, according to reports from

delegates to the

Delegate Harold Pritchett stated
that 30,000 postcards were now avail-
able for mailing to MLA’s and urged
local unions and individuals to flood
Victoria with a constant stream of
posteards, letters and telegrams un-
til the government brings down its
labor program.

*T am confident that labor wall
make substantial gains in this ses-
sion of the legislature as a result of
the great united lobby,” said CCL
representative Daniel O’Brien, presi-
dent of the B.C. Federation of Labor,
reporting to the council. “But eyen
jf no gains were made the lobby
would have been a huge success.
What has been accomplished in Brit-
ish Golumbia is a lesson to organized
labor across the Dominion. For the
first time in Labor history we have
united both Labor centers with the
full and official support of the Vet-
erans behind labor’s demands.”

The council decided to ask the fed-
eral government to investigate con-
ditions in the New Westminster
penitentiary following receipt of a
jetter from a discharged prisoner al-
leging graft and oppression. The
letter alleged that everything from
making shoes to automobile repairs
was carried on at the prison rates of

ancouyer ILabor Council.

five cents per hour and according to
W. White, president of the Marine
Workers, who interviewed the man,
men are being placed in solitary con-
finement for small misdemeanors and
the paddle is used on the slightest
pretext. R

Gouncil unanimously approved a
request to support the Mac-Pap Vets
after listening to a speaker from
that organization.

Atomic Scientists
Condemn Spy Scare

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The pos-
sibility that atomic control might
be turned over to the military was
condemned by America’s most im-
portant scientists and by the Nation-
al Citizens Political Action Commit-
tee last week.

Speaking for himself and five other
atomic scientists, Dr. Harold C. Urey,
Nobel Prize winner, said that the
Army is using the Canadian spy
probe for its own ends, and eriticized
the anti-Soyiet hysteria of recent
weeks. “As the world is organized,”
he said, “all nations will spy, inelud-
own.”

ing, our

socialism—lies buried. We took off
our hats in respect and stood silent
for a number of minutes.

tm those minutes I thought of
some of the world leaders of the
labor movement who had come here
to honor this great man — among
them Engels, Lenin and Stalin.

My mind went back to a speech
delivered by Engels on this - very
spot on March 17, 1883, in which he
said: “His name will endure through
the ages, and so also will-his work.’
With the thought of Marx’s death

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MAURICE RUSH

still fresh in his mind, Engels wrote
to Wilhelm Liebknecht: “We all
Owe what we are to him; and the
movement as it is today is the
creature of his theoretical and prac-
tical work. If it had not ben for
him, we should all still be groping
in a maze of confusion.”

As I stood there looking at this
very modest grave I felt that a more
fitting memorial should be erected
on the spot. I later found out that
Marx did not want a memorial. Al-
though there is no imposing stone
to mark the spot where he lies
buried, the work of the man, his
tremendous achievements while alive,
and the great heritage he left be-
hind, haye built for him a memorial
such as no other person has. Marx’s
memorial is in the minds and hearts
of hundreds of millions of people in
every corner of the world. Wherever
people fight for freedom and social-
ism there the name of Marx is
revered. The scientific weapons he
forged for the oppressed in their up-
hill fight to the new horizons of
human freedom, are a fitting and
lasting tribute to this great man. |

Karl Marx was a man who com-
bined theory and practice. Not only |
did he interpret the world from a
scientific point of view; he also seri-
ously undertook the task of changing}
it. He was the real revolutionary. |

In the theoretical field it was Marx)
who gave the world the first really
correct understanding of history. To
him history was not chaotic and
accidental. Marx discovered the law
of motion in human history- By |
applying his scientific method : of
reasoning Marx developed historical
materialism which explains that each
stage of history can be understood
only by understanding that the mode
of production—that is, the level of
economic development — determines
the whole structure in which 2 given
society and its institutions are based.

In his analyses of eapitalist society

Marx showed that what made it

rather pitiable re-hash of the very.
Same theory which was used for the
very same purpose in 1936. It is
suggested that any action from out
Side might “solidify” Spanish sup-
port for General Franco. Therefore,
it appears, the thing to do is to
Wait and see—wait and see whether

dick—the law responsible for its de-|attacks, of violent reaction? Hyven
velopment—was the accumulation by| Canadian mothers owe Marx a great

the capitalists of surplus values. The
appropriation by the capitalist of
part of the workers’ labor power—
that part for which he is not paid—
is the source of capitalist profit. He
also showed’ that in their search for
surplus values the capitalists created
the proletariat who became the
grave-diggers of the old order and
the bearers of the new.

Either of these discoveries would
have been sufficient to establish this
genius in the world of science. But
Marx carried his investigations fur-
ther and left for the working class
movement a heritage upon which the
most progressive working class
ideology is based today.

As I stood there thinking of the
teachings ot Marx, I noticed Soviet
flags with bright, golden Ene
and sickles flying irom nearby
houses. I remembered that only two
days before my- visit to Marx’s
grave London had celebrated V.E.
day. And the flags of victory over
fascism were still flying. I watched
people walking by on a nearby
street and wondered if they con-
nected the Soviet flag and the vic-
tory over reaction with this simple
grave on the hillside at Highgate
cemetery. How many people realized
that the foundation of the Soviet
state is built on Marx’s teachings
and that it was his revolutionary
scientific discoveries that gave birth
to the socialist land, the Soviet
Union? And it was this land, sixty-
two years after his death that was
to save the world from fascism.

How many people today realize
the tremendous contribution that
Marx made to preserving the more
progressive way of life from the

Drew Drips

Exerpt frém a speech delivered by.
Colonel George A. Drew at the i7th
annual conyention of the Ontario
Fire and Casualty Insurance Agents
Association held in the Royal York
Hotel, Toronto, October 14 and 15;
1937, taken from ‘Canadian Under-
writers” of November 1, 1937.

“Guest speaker at the Friday
luncheon was Golonel
Drew, who delivered an address en-
titled ‘So This Is Russia’

those present. Mr. Drew spent a
few days in Moscow and gathered
some exceedingly unfavorable opin-

ions of the city. Characterizing John
L. Lewis (CIO) and Dimitrov of

George A.

to the
enthusiastic cheers and applause of

debt, for it was his teachings that
guided the achievements of the
Soviet Union and resulted in build-
ing up 2 power which “tore the guts
out of the German war machine,”
and so shortened the war and made
easier the fighting in ‘western
Europe. discredited in 1986 and! 1987 (when
As my brother and I departed|the policy adopted failed to produce
from Marx’s graveside and walked|any single one of the results claimed
back up the hillside to catch the bus|for it) should now be resurrected
we spoke of Engel’s words: “His| and should actually influence the
work will endure through the ages,”|course of action.

How true that is. Like a snowball| But when the tussle will shift to
Marx's work has gained momentum.|a slightly different ground and the
Today Marxism is a vital force in| question will be whether the British
world politics. The Marxist parties} government can be got to accept the
all over the world—the Communist|idea of recognizing a genuine Re-

a powerful fascist regime, with the
control of the army and police, will
simply fold up of its own accord.

THE OLD GAME

It is both scandalous and farcical
that this kind of theory which was

Seek nen bsthen Sit 4

Marxism as history proves the cor-|eive tacit and even overt support to
rectness of his scientific theories. In|the monarchists—or indeed to any-
one land, the Soviet Union, socialism|one who will offer a guarantee of
has flourished, and in other Jands|opposition to the Communists.

the influence of socialism is directly| For it must not be forgotten that
affecting national policies. Yes,|anti-Communism is at this moment
Marxist theory has been proven in|the central feature of Mr. Bevin’s
action and has been further enriched| foreign policy, and there is hardly
by Lenin and Stalin. Marxism today.|a problem in Europe which is\ not
is a guide to action for every pro-|approached by him with anti-
gressive person -who wants +o/Communism as the principal object-
achieve a better life. ive in view.

Drew - Churchill Policies
Endanger World Peace

Speaking before a capacity audience in the Beacon Theatre, Van-
couver, on March 10, Nigel Morgan, Provincial Leader of the LPP
issued a prepared statement on the critical developments arising from
the espionage issue. Mr. Morgan declared:

“Fascism was defeated, but not] established for holding persons in-
crushed.” The truth of those words | communicado. The BEES is ae =
inki i for an all-out attack on or
eee home, to defend monopoly’s profits
yes when they read tne tee and destroy organizations of the
of Winston Churchill’s

Missouri | > cople, preparatory, to eng 2 Deaiee,
speech. This spokesman for world] of imperialism’s ee pele war
imperialism was providing a political launching oF ne Genin: Se
lainnd transfusion for weakened rem- against the S0Vi : arty calls
tants of fascism when he revived) ‘The Labor-Progresstve seed and
every Hitlerite lie in support of 2° | ypon the entire Jabor mov! ee
Anglo-American military alliance | 31) Liberal minded, forwa ith every
yainst the Soviet Union. - . - men and women, to sees Tat-

Churchill’s speech was swiftly fol-| means pps ame ae liberty. Join
jowed by an outright call to wat] est threats to se overament cor-
against the Soviet Union by fascist | the demand that our Be anti-Soviet
premier Drew of Ontario, March 9. | rect its present ae demand of

Carrying a torch into a situation | policy! Join the Fees Unity at
already explosive, Drew strives to full support for eohiil’s proposed
create Panic by charges that the} UNO! Reject g e aiance which
Soviet Union plans an attack on Can-) Big Two military :

Leipzig fame, as having similar
‘facial characteristics of a thug,’ he
flayed the League for Peace and

Democracy, trade unions, French
striking laborers, certain mealy-
mouthed hypocrites in the church,

people who write optimistic
about Russia.
“Insurance men
pecially interested (in the menace
of communism) because you are
trustees Of a large bulk of public
money and it is your concern to
make sure that your investments
will be safe. Communism is the most
serious threat to those investments
today.” Mr. Drew said that although
not particularly favorable to fascism
in its different forms, he expressed
preference for he admanistration of
affairs in Italy and Germany to that

things

should be es-

i isunity! Call for
ada. He makes the criminal incite- | means Big Three ae ioe
¢ to war now in these words: “We | the strengthening ts) ene thes

@ in just as good position to chal-| the Soviet Union to 2 ieee
es Russia today as we were to| world war! Speak out im

bre - the abolition
ermany i 93 t| civil liberties! Demand y
challenge Germany in 1939 and tha = poems orders-in-council per-

men’

js the only hope for peace.” li a ara
De took his cue from Winston mitting cones 2 ye aed a

vehi With every demagogic muncado indefinitely- ee
ce a a fair trial and counsel! Defen

De ee Cee democratic rights sayed at great cost
in the people’s war! Help halt andes
steps towards fascism by ees:

x i y rotest to e
Le es See es now for peace

t se the > gov! it LOW :
oe ee ae | and for freedom before it 1s too date?

te communist and fifth eola| eh eM ee. eek National
| Executive of the LPP, over the signa-
= against the labor moye-| ture of Tim Buck, Las ee
is ee oe of wage and strike} together with excerpts ore .
eee Recents standard of} gan’s speech is being published in
Sean of order-in- | 50,000 pamphlets
tribution.

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et nightmares of Russian expan-
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