i A aaa a ~ — — - . : : : z * VERS . M ki : M Mi | : , Nee LL prise COLUMBIA this year enjoyed the longest period of : A ‘s WW iy S | me 4D sunshine on record. For holidaying crowds and the tourist trade, 4 : the weather was perfect. For the loggers, the men who cut the great forest wealth of this province, it was something else. The. long fire- by TO M McEWEN season shutdown, following an equally long shutdown caused by heavy snows last winter meant that they have had only three months, work or : ah genes less in the past years. : : : CAL ef Obviously. then, eke a ae of the loggers Awe ae cheannbes | Gea letters come to this column, oye giving ists did precisely the same thing with their “Sqciety Micin’t declare any dividends this year. But the men wno “‘roll”’ the us a word of praise for something or other we of ES 10” in an attempt to hold back the ‘Joggers the big timber barons of the: MacMillan-Bloedel trust—they wrote, and others giving us both barrels for pone: pomp crete PIBSrere of the French people. a a : Si - thing we wrote that the reader didn’t like. As is American labor movement we have our “vigilante are sitting pretty. the case ‘with most folk, we don’t mind a little pat committees, “Committees of 100,” “Citizens’ Leagues,’ — Despite the long shutdown in the woods, the H. R. MacMillan onthe back sometimes. Who doesn’t? Also, having the Klu Klux Klan, and what not; all beamed to the Export Company Ltd., reported an all-time profit record for the past stuck our nose into the politics of class war instead same ‘objective—to stop the wheels of progress, and ‘nine months of $12,868,000. Not bad at all! Tie average annual of sticking to blacksmithing, the “kicks” must be the ideas that make progress a mighty moral force: profit of this huge lumber monopoly has run around seven to’ nine million . accepted as well as the. bouquets. Particularly In the final showdown, the forces of reaction always ‘dollars for the past several years. This year, with the longest shutdown when the former are genuine criticisms of our short- turn to the basest elements in society to save their on record, the profit is nearly thirteen million. ve -* comings as a political commentator. In the long own necks. Hence our anonymous “critics,” who Lest anyone make the mistake of thinking this MacMillan “achieve- 9 'U" these “kicks” help us do a better job of what’ lack the guts to put their names to the vile letters ment” is a result of the recent merger between the MacMillan-Bloedel, are doing. shear Maas _ they write for thosey who have filled their mind se » with the disease germs of fascism. Like diseased — Stewart and Welch timber barons, they may. take ‘it from the great But there’s another kind of letter lands-on ‘our dates tay pheter {5 tee ek the Billets of rpgrese ‘man himself that this is exclusively the nine-months profit grab of his desk once in a while, sometimes three or four pages ~ ats Freda P Dre eae own firm. When the merger profit balance is issued in 1952, it will of it, telling us ‘what kind of a !!**7??*#1? the : ; ‘ alleged reader thinks we are, and advising that we co) ‘ . ‘make MacMillan’s rakeoff look like “Peter’s pence.” pea. z : % « ae ” ; z ‘ os _ Alongside this “free onterprise’” relationship between the en- ek aoe ae - a Ca sige teary stan ‘Paul Finet, general secretary of the Belgial fers ed ne mployment of the loggers cae the staggering profits of Mac- : in a er e ao gt ty Riad General Federation of Labor, and one of the lead y Millan, the Vancouver Sun moans about the TWA membership re- ese ae me fee Cente: aie Ase ss ree ing lights in the international Confederation of ae é - * e - ; ok Bee re L nitar ets 4 tS “ ” : : fusing to scuttle its 40-hour week, despite the advice of its leadership to = sae ag - sd abe sé ‘pualdonsime-tAnte Bibs Scab) brace Ue gener se impassioned ‘do so, in order that MacMillan and his fellow lumber barons WON cas io “apse = se nti- plea at the recent convention of the Canadian Com “ebuild the log supply,” and incidentally their staggering profit totals Rea ovourey (6 ew YE A Oey I'm telling gress of Labor (CCL)—for money, cash, dough, 2% ‘ ee : : : ‘ : _ you”—culled from. such masterpieces of modern important essential in anybo ays language! Be j "ep, ” : neta: Sey hhino American literature as the Steve Canyon “comic”. : ay Perhaps,” says the Sun, pinch-hitting for. the profit-grabbing What did Paul Finét, carpet-bagger’ for th lumber trust, “ rst : tf rme a stuip. . i ar t, “the TWA district council, could take. a fi <3 stand ; : : é oe ICFTU scab international need all the money for (against the wishes of its members) in favor of overtime .. . urely One of these letters arrived in last week's mail, : : ; 1 (the ) se ace ; i. he: oe. : ’ Perhaps to help the bitterly exploited colonial peoP they _loggers need | C eed after losing two mont of their four pages of it containing a mish-mash of anti- of Africa, ‘Southeast Asia and Latin America build peak earning season. E labor slander, ranging all the way from the un- powerful trade unions, in order to win back a littl iv h ‘who shout “!where’s the money coming from?” it Th employed struggles of the Hungry Thirties to ate more of the tremendous wealth they produ heroism of Stewart Alsbury in the Iron River their foreign taskmasters? Perhaps, even a8 % who thing we should have more homes, schools, hospitals, more social é aon: we say with the loggers and millworkers, se the super-profits asa is a he Lae viskd he f eee = ¥ ssa a citizen of Belgium, and an alleged trade union squeeze én MacMillan. He has just pocketed nearly $13 million of — OLDIES | UE St ro ee gs . ne : rive leader, to help the exploited slaves on the Belgia® the people's money. Sc Gs : : he had been afflicted with a OC cpEeanuen ang- Congo remove the yoke placed on their necks by \ over in its great battle against the “Reds. He predatory and rapacious Belgian imperialism? | signed himself “I’m telling you.” ; ; Nothing of the kind. Finet wants money, lof Labor must ‘step im wer teee sesh eotspcie Guat et uti in Suton. Aseand “comms com ial : ryt ” in ; do oe their mental ravings, but the fact that there are munism in Southeast Asia”;and “communism ae 35 : ee TES ss people who fall prey to the steady barrage of bour- Southeast—or all Asia—is when the colonial. people A FEW DAYS AGO_ Finance Minister Douglas Abbott berated seois cold-war hysteria in much the same manner want to ‘throw the imperialists off their backs + ee Tn Nopo eer ce reine where 16 becomes @-matla, oy ue ana. go fighting unions to improve the! Pp » economic: and social standards; when they want language means living on less, while his government raids the family and periodically breaks out in vile effusions against live in peace, rather than become cannon-foddet pay envelope to pile up a budget surplus of over a billion dollars— the progressive sec earmarked for war. a some instances, as in the one which occurred re- for marauding imperialist exploitation and wat — cently in Vancouver, where a leading judge virtually And Finet has the gall to ask Canadian working met Almost without exception, most of th i civae who exonerated a man who, inflamed by racial prejudice, hel ch 2 73) the Canadian housewives who See ee ea itker, this disease Tends $0" open Sabie ee ues to subscribe their dollars for such commented on the Abbott ‘‘appeal,”” called it so much “applesauce.” - Some comments were much less complimentary. ~ Another species of these anti-social vermin is But that i Vall. nani out the ame : ; : a gs not all. When Finet holds out ©. the type that buys a labor paper (in this instance, “proletarian al ms-bag” of his scab Snternetionals This week in British Columbia, that ae BCElectrified gov- the Pacific Tribune), scrawls his mis-spelled and hs : ’ Sarg : ; gov- : P and jis a gesture intended to camouflage the fact th ernment institution known as the Public ‘Utilities Commission (PUC) fone gbectye ons as Rac trgnag da ote nS Yankee imperialism and its dollar-subsidized s® said “yes” to everything the BCElectric demanded to round out the raane a) paket ae ; T'S lites are already pouring in millions of dollars |, Me, tn P : finance the disruptive, splitting, and warmonger? Abbott “thrift” - on the home front. - : re ee ~ SOuge . Like smallpox, this bourgeois-incubated disease activities of the ICFTU, in Asia and elsewhers where it can get a toehold and the “moral” aid ‘ Unruffled by «the feeble prot ; i i -has many manifestations, but its basic cause is uni- ~ : 2 : ests emanating from Vancouver City » local collaborators, whose fascist and reaction Hall, ¢t gave its unblushin ' ’ form. It stems from the craven’ fear of the capital- c : . the PUC gave its unbl g okay to the demands of the ists at the onward progress of the world’s peoples antecedents fit them well for the job. BCElectric for gas and electricity rate increases, ranging from a five to ° st ir pre ae ; ‘ towards peace and socialism. Their propaganda’ — eS BY jgiat twenty-five boost : : oy j ; : ae choc yWeswould suggest to Paul Finét, as a Belg ity percent st on these services, Prior to okaying the -price organs pour out the germs of this disease around- ~ patriot of no great repute, that if he is r eally i boosts the PUC held one of its “interim” hearings, and demonstrated Ber cse we pee pce st Bena’ ne Cane AW terested in trade union organization, rather 2 ctims in ex. e human gutter. ‘ ‘ disorganization, he takes a look at the colonial sl@ once again its ability to hear the dictates of the BCElectric monopoly aes 8 mie ee : 5 ig ‘ eo aaa > Tt is there that capitalism recruits its “fifth” columns and its total inability to harken to the public who pay the shot. ‘ against the forces of progress after it has fully — ition tasty 3 nee Sa ee Pa 5S dithciteseg ahaa colhacedity: Bad pecs ae le must noculated them ‘with the poisonous virus of anti- {hing helpful about it el Righly “probable the sie ; abs caer 7 GE OTATN ED ST Canada's trade unionists would make a substa? buy, plus a mountainous burden of taxes, direc indi ee fee : 7 end ba ae the Abbott “shrift” policies 2: . Lanse ue The whole idea of course isn’t new. Long before ate contribution. But not to. “fight Communism : nie ee a h ne cee our day the ruling caste sent its disease carriers _ Southeast Asia.” i ; i country Into milation, economic Chaos, and war. The monopolists are among the people to spread confusion and worse. = : : 1es breaking all records in piling up profits. The St. Laurent government - ‘i B psy Maha lice, Wonisens in Canal the Coloe SE am ; i beg In his- Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Southeast Asia don’t need “red bogeys’; but © is piling up a super-budgetary.. surplus—-once the sign of a nation’s Karl Marx shows that the French monarcho-feudal- do need freedom, o ‘ as uP budg: plus—-once ; f ; ren : L , opportunity, and peace. “prosperity, now the indicator of its impending disaster. The earn- : ee ings of the people are being filched daily, and living standards de- SPS TEe atc: ~ “prightoned servants of Mammon’ — Somewhere along the road in the immediate future, i Antes gah : ee =) labor must step aig picture in full unity and strength eS ~ ARESIDENT ‘Truman, the one-time haberdasher _ Meantime, in Vatican City, another a SE ee el af elie tae pinata Ae srenbeally. searing ter As Tin ae ee aie commie © with taxes, and the monopolists’ unprecedented drive for profits, labor — “holy”? cold war against the Soviet Union, recently their ranks and fight zyainst the mounting Comt and the people must unite for big wage increases, the spending of the _ exhorted American church leaders to get in on Wall ist attacks for the survival of civilization.” ash “nation’s wealth for the nation’s wellbeing, and a policy’ of peace vn. Street’s planned blood Ball Oa ong aes _ the kind of straight talk that ‘the little haberdas! . war z bi Aeesein himself to the ries bod ) Right se Ott ‘Street. wholesalers like’'to' heats wld Rev. Angus Bae Episcol Bishop of ta a al Soh i ia ake X ean Bes : es Lge SER Sd i ‘ millions 0 atholic workers an replied to the U-S. president in these words: - the New Democracies of Pesan gd ae ' place of economic disaster and war. HAMA : ee { , : ON case : ; : i wey kee “Jt is commonplace to say today we are — China to the iron rule of landlords and pee ih Ww ‘ii Fg AD } confronted by a demoniac religion, a demoniac ob- att ae aoe supply at cannon’ fodder ' stH ELE Eaassesscestftaevsalivenrerol UHH : ae) . a Linsey eee ° i . ete session in the form of Communism. There are Pee a ot eee PCr ifiye a fo - Publ Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver, B.C. frightened servants of Mammon who think this ~ We think the majority of practising Christian pois wens ee on SOR lows LTD. - ss might be a@ good time to finance the church to who ‘sincerely’ believe in baron ea the B arn: Ma Wb vik ids ceeee toe Sone 2S Editor. - gght this threatening form of godlessness, so that — Dun’s interpretation, to that of President © > fg Bea partes 0% and his allies in the Vatican who adhere to V' Itai Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. c Printed by. Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. — i gh Ee eat eet if Rate : spr } Mammon might be served in peace. God... satirical observation that ‘God. is. always °° Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Dept., Ottawa emi cannot be purchased . +. for such purposes.” side of the heaviest battalions.”’ — qe PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 5, 1951 — P ik e y . ’