Civic Liberties
Meeting Held

The Emergency Committee for
Democratic Rights has called up-
on Mackenzie King to annul or
ders-in-council under which in-
dividuals can be held in custody
while denied the Tights of habeus

_ CSEpus and for revision of the of-
- ficial secrets act.

Hoover’s “Famine Relief” Pla
Determines Type Of Gov’t

By BRUCE MINTON
By appointing ex-President Herbert Hoover honorary
chairman of the newly formed Famine Emergency Commit-
tee, President Truman hardly reassured the people of Europe
that his administration wants only to prevent the spread of
famine. For Mr. Hoover has a reputation built on his former

Fraser Valley
Artists In
| Guild Concert

“The Girl of the Bandolier,” an
operetta in three acts by John F.
Leonard, will be presented by the

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What good and true enemies ;
the people are to be reinfor.
with American food—Gen A;

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ganizations with the objective of | Concert Series, conducted by the After World War i, Hoover

enemies of our own nation; their

Sponsoring a joint protest rally

early in May.

The emergency committee which
., was formed here recently as a re-
sult of the higgh-handed proce-
dure followed in the espionage
cases is composed of members of

the Clergy, the Youth movement,
Trade Unions, Women’s Councils

and other organizations.

Veteran Passes

William Widdowson, vwell-
know labor supporter and one
“of the few members of Van-
couver’s business community
who consistently stood behind
the Soviet Union from its
earliest days, was found dead
in his downtown office this
week by his son, victim of an
apparent heart seizure.

A strong believer in the
eventual: success of Socialism
in’ Russia, Mr. Widdowson pi-
oneered in efforts to promote
friendship between Canada
and the USSR, and was a leaq-
ing member of the Eriends of
the Soviet Union during the
nineteen thirties. In addition,
he gave his assistance to the
left-wing labor movement in
many ways, financial and
otherwise.

His passing is mourned by.
many of the older members of
the city’s labor movement,
whose sympathies are being
extended to his family.

Pender Auditorium
(BOILERMAKERS)

Dancing
MODERN DANCING
Every Saturday
Bowling Alleys
Large and Small Halls
for Rentals

Phone PA. 9481

Labor Arts Guild under auspices
of Vancouver Labor Council,
next Sunday, March 31, at 7:30
P-m., in Pender Auditorium, 339
West Pender.

-This production is an encour-
aging example of a people’s art
movement in isolated areas of the
Province. It is an outgrowth
from the soil of the Fraser Val-
ley and from the
People dependent on their own
cultural resources for entertain-
ment and ereative activity.

lives of its

Commenting on this forthcom-

ing attraction, Guild Director
John Goss states: “It is a fitting
climax to our second series of
People’s Concerts, and one of
which the Labor Arts Guild and
the Vancouver Labor Council are
justly proud, that we should close
this season with an enterprise
Significantly embracing farm-
labor-art.”

Four leading ensemble attrac-
tions will be featured at the 45th
People’s Concert conducted by
the Labor Arts Guild under aus-
pices of the Vancouver Labor
Council, Sunday, March 24, at
7:30 p.m., in Pender Auditorium,
339 West Pender.

The Orpheus Concert Orches-
tra of thirty players under the
direction. of Stanley Bligh: a
male voice quarter from the
“Theatre Under the Stars,” com-
prised of Steven White, Desmond
Arthur, Frank Johnson and John
McAllister; the Fiore Woodwind
Trio, with Nick Fiore, flute, Fer-
nie Quinn, oboe, and John Ar-
nott, clarinet, all first desk in-
strumentalists of the Vancouver

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Symphony; and a Pro-Rec exhi-

| bition of modern dances by Ted

Shawn, featurins Leah Drysdale,
Bernice McQueen, Hazel Travers
and Hleonor Cowley, conducted
by Hilda Keatley, Director of
Women, will share ensemble hon-
ors on this ambitious program.

Solists will be Louie Stirk, so-
prano; Ursula Hills, Pianist, and
John Herman, baritone, ' with

‘Phyllis Schuldt and Mary Mac-

farlane, accompanists.

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Suit Or Overcoat

come to the
OLD ESTABLISHED RELIABLE FIRM

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EVERY GARMENT: STRICTLY UNION MADE

headed American relief in HBur-
ope. He prided himself on his
reputation as a “humanitarian.”
But Hoover’s charity had a pur-
pose to it.

“Famine is the mother of an-
archy,” Hoover always insisted;
and, “Right feeding corrects
wrong thinking.”

From this, he deduced that “a
weak government possesed of the
weapon of food for starving
people can preserve and streng-
then itself more effectively than
by arms.” >

The trick was to get the right
kind of “weak government.” The
enemy back in 1919 and 1920 was,
of course, Soviet Russia, the first
Socialist state. Hoover was de-
termined to spare no effort to
crush socialism before it “in-
fected” the rest of Europe. Hood
was the mightiest of all weapons
to force the people to retreat.

Hoover used food as his club.
He smashed the Communist gov-
ernment of Hungary—he refused
to sell food to that regime even
for gold paid in advance. His
food agency followed the Yuden-
itech White Army on its two on-
Slaughts against Petrograd, pro-
tecting that terrorist’s rear and
strengthening his army of reac-
tion.

Food, said Hoover, must be
used “to promote political Stabil-
ity.”

The stability, he preferred was
based on White terrorism and
imperialist reaction.

He “stabilized” Baron Manner-
heim in Finland, the dictator Pil-
sudski in Poland, the bloody. Ad-
miral Horthy in Hungary, all vio-
lently anti-democratic.

Hoover’s “weak government”
became sufficiently strong to
take their rightful places among
the fascist satellites as allies of
Hitlerism.,

Governments
Hoover’s

reinforced by
relief gsrew into the

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people were enslaved and de-
teived, looted and debased — and
finally delivered over to the
Nazis to swell their armies.

WHY JUST NOW?

Logically, the question arises:

Why just now does President
Truman resurrect the “elder
statesman” Herbert Hoover? The
Suspicion inevitably grows that
the choice of Hoover is not un-
related to the recent aggressively
anti-Soviet speeches of Secretary
of State Byrnes, Sen. Tom Corn-
nally, Sen. Vandenberg, and his
““me-too” echo, John Foster
Dulles.

Why Hoover? Wor Hoover to-
day is as bitterly anti-Soviet as
he was over a quarter of a cen-
tury ago when he boasted that
the whole of his relief Policy “was
to contribute everything it could
te prevent Europe from going
Bolshevik.”

By “going Bolshevik,” Hoover
still means any movement con-
taining within itself a challenge
to imperialist domination, a
threat to the untrammelled rule
of Monopoly capitalism. Is Htooy-
er called in by President Tru-
Ian again “to stem the tide of
Bolshevism 2?”

In the light of Secretary Jas.
Byrnes’ threats, is President Tru-
Man once again seeking to build
“a bulwark against encroaching
Bolshevism from Russia,” as
Hoover put it years ago? Is Hoo-
ver to revive the cordon sani-
taire; once built, he said, by pro-
Viding “larger and larger food
Supplies to the bordering states”
contiguous to the Soviet Union?

What “weak Sovernments” does
President Truman want Hoover

fought against fascism, Herbe
Hoover attacked America’s ali?
who were fighting the comm:
enemy. Hoover urged appea
ment of fascism He endorsed 7;
Munich Pact. He asked the Ur
ed States to give immediate fc
relief to the Nazis during th
War against the world. A
By appointing Herbert Hooy
to the Famine Emergency Go
Mittee, President Truman thre -
ems the democratic peoples —
Europe. He has resurrected ¢
High Command of the form
anti-Soviet offensive. The Adm}
istration implements imperial
dreams of world domimation
bringing the repudiated man
Munich back into public life
President Truman affronts t
American people—and the der |
cratic peoples of the world — |
placing Hoover in a position
high authority. For it was Hor
er who wanted to live in pea”
with fascism and thereby pi
pared the graves for the mllig
who died to save the world fre
Hitler. i ;

Mac-Paps Veterans _
Hold Annual Electior

The following officers we
elected at the annual eclectic
ef the B.C. Veterans of the Ma
kenzie Papineau Battalion ft
week. :

President, Pat Melville; vit
president, Ronaid Liversedge;
eretary-treasurer, Fred Matte
dorfer; recording secreta)
Charles Saunders.

All correspondence should
addressed to the secretary-tre: |
urer at 480 Alexander Street.

E

PUBLIC MEETING!

ELMORE PHILPOTT

Commemorating 12 5th Anniversary

Greek Independence
— 1821-
Musical Selections By:
TONY PAPPAS ORCHESTRA
(=)

Speakers:

NICK MANGOS, CHAIRMAN

BOILERMAKERS’ HALL

339 WEST PENDER STREET

Sunday, March 24

8 P.M.

1946 —

STANLEY MORISEE

Secure Tn eae