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Hodgson Starts Campaign

The Editor:
Vancouver News-Herald:

I viewed with distaste the re-
cent attempt at a cartoon pub-
lished in The Vancouver Herald
under the heading “Revival of the
Old Medicine Show.”

Personally I can see no humor
in Mr. Boothe’s attempted por-
trayal of attempting to link the
Co-operative Commonwealth Fed-
eration and the Canadian Con-

gress of Labor and the Labor’

Progressive Party together. Had
Mr. Boothe been contented to as-
Sociate the Canadian Congress of
Labor and the Co-operative Com-
monwealth Federation together,
possibly no-one would have ob-
jected; however, to include the
effigy of Tim Buck standing side-
by-side with a poor likeness of
A. R. Mosher—representing the
Canadian Congress of Labor—is
just too much for anyone to
stomach.

The Canadian Congress of
Labor makes no apology for their
support to the Co-operative Com-
monwealth Federation and if you
wish to poke fun at the Canadian
Congress of Labor for their
stand, you are quite at liberty to
do so, but when you attempt to
intimate any similarity between
the Communist party and the
Canadian Congress of Labor, you
are doing a mis-service to 400,000
in the Dominion of

of Labor has done more in a
never-ending fight to stem the
tide “of communism than any
other single group in Canada.
Our participation in the World
Labor Movement is considered
second to none. I suggest by
publishing cartoons such as this,

will accomplish nothing but dis-
gust and resentment by thou-
sands of working people who up
to this time have subscribed to
your publication.
S. M. Hodgson,
Financial Secretary.

WILLIAMS
FOLLOWS UP

The Editor,

Vancouver News-Herald,
Vancouver, B.C.

Dear Sir:

I had quite a chuckle from the
recent Jack Boothe cartoon,
squeezing another laugh from the
well-tested medicine show theme.

I am not sure whether Mr.
Boothe realizes just how funny
the cartoon really was. The idea
of linking Tim Buck with the
C.C.F. is so ridiculous that it
was certainly good for a laugh to
all who have the most elementary
knowledge of Canadian labour
and political affairs. You should
receive very strong protests from
Mr. Buck.

I am sure that you personally
are well aware that the opposi-
tion of the Communist party to
the C.C.F. is much greater than
to any other political party. The
record shows occasions when Mr.
Buck and the Liberal party have
played footsie, but I am unaware
of any similar relationship be-
tween Mr. Buck and the C.C.F.

It is also a matter of public
record that the interests repre-
sented by Mr. Buck have nothing
in common with the Canadian
Congress of Labour. The actions
of the C.C.L, within our own
boundaries, and the extent of the
support now being given by the

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C.C.L. to fight Communist tactics
in other parts of the world, leave
not the slightest doubt about
that.

If, by any chance, this was not
merely a displayof political ig-
norance on the part of Mr.
Boothe, then one can only assume
that it represents a vicious mis-
representation of the facts; and I
certainly hesitate to think that
the News-Herald or the Thomson
chain would lend itself to such
tactics.

Yours sincerely,
Jack Williams,

Public Relations Director,
C.C.L.

Season

Corporation
Admits Error

THOMSON NEWSPAPERS

44 King St. West,
Toronto, Canada.
October 28, 1954.

Mr. Jack Williams,

‘The Canadian Congress of Labor,
Public Relations Department,
230 Laurier Avenue West,
Ottawa 4,

Dear Mr. Williams:

This acknowledges your letter
of October 26, addressed to Mr.
S. L. McCabe, with which you en-
closed a copy of your good letter
to the editor of the Vancouver
Herald,

We agree with you in that Jack
Boothe had Tim Buck miscast in
his “Medicine Show” theme car-
toon.

It is too bad that it was pub-
lished because Thomson News-

papers do make every effort to
be accurate, reasonable and fair.
This does not mean, of course,
that even then everybody will
agree with what we say or do.
After all, the human element does
enter, into these matters; poor
judgment, errors and slip-ups re-
gardless of how much we try to
guard,against them.

The cartoon has heen discussed
with Jack Boothe. The first thing
he said was that he intended no
offence; that he had endeavoured
to produce a lighter vein, semi-
humourous product. He fully ap-
preciated your viewpoint.

Thanks for having taken the
matter up with us. We are pleas-
ed that you felt free to write as
you did.

Yours very truly,

(Sgd.) J. E. Slaight,
“Editorial Supervisor.

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