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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia
EMBERS of the first

~** group of Canadian Fes-
tival delegates to participate
‘In reconstruction work in
Czechoslovakia, were presented
With badges of achievement for
Outstanding work done in the
Mining center of Litvinov, Czech-
Oslovakia.

Calling themselves the “Beaver
Brigade,” the group of 10 young
People worked in this town for
two weeks prior to the opening
_ Of the World Youth Festival, and
during this period they cleared
two long stretches of trees for
@ roadway.

Reports received in Prague in-
dicated that the Canadians were
‘the most popular group at the
Work camp and were all willing,
able, and cheerful workers.

__ The fact that the Canadians
Were the first group from the
‘ estern hemisphere to work in
_& reconstruction camp, so im-
Pressed the Czechoslovak govern-
Ment that a number of journal-
ists representing English-speak-
ing as well as Czech press were

| Canadians in Czechoslovakia

sent to Litvinov at the expense
of the Ministry of Information
to cover the activities of the
“Beaver Brigade.”

The name “Beaver Brigade”
has been adopted as the name
for the group of over 50 young
Canadians who will be going af-
ter the:Festival to Yugoslavia to
work on the Youth Railway

there.
x wk

...and play 3

N all-Canadian concert,

featuring the works of
four young Canadian com-
posers was held at the Rud-
olfinum, one of the largest con-
eert halls in Prague, recently.
Played before a capacity audi-
ence, this was the first all-Can-
edian concert of this type to be
staged outside of Canada and
was held in connection with the
World Youth Festival now in
progress in this city. The audi-
ence included representatives of
55 nations as well as Czechoslo-
vak music lovers. Guests of
honor were the 110 Canadian
delegates to the Festival and the

-head of the Canadian legation

to Czechoslovakia.

Composers represented were
John J. Weinzweig of the Tor-
onto Conservatory of Music, Bar-.
bara Pentland of Winnipeg, and
Harry Somers and Robert Flem-
ing of Toronto. All these com-
posers are under 30 years of
age, Somers being only 22. The
concert was played by the in-
ternationally renowned FOK or-
chestra conducted by Ivan Ro-
manoff, Canadian musician now
studying in Prague.

Some of Prague’s outstanding
artists appeared as soloists at
the concert. These were Pro-
fessor Marie Knotkova, brilliant
young pianist who played Bar-
bara Pentland’s Sonata for Piano
and Robert Fleming’s Rythm-
promptu; Marie Masinova, lyric
soprano who sang three songs by
Fleming, and Joseph Petrovec,
flautist who played Weinzweig’s
Divertimento for flute.

The program was_ enthusias-
tically received by the audience
and arrangements have been
completed to enter these works
ia the archives of the Czech na-
tional radio for continued per-
formance.

a A blot on Canada’s ican

tacit

“We are sure the Canadian
People welcome the steps taken,
Y the Australian and Indian
__vernments in bringing Dutch
: Perialism’s unprovoked attack
%n Indonesia to the attention

°f the Security Council of the
| United Nations,

‘ ia welcoming these steps
_ .*8© numbers of Canadians won-
wt why our government, in-
woe of being among the first
OS Protest the military attack
Aa the newly born Indo-
lan republic, has maintained
rie silence — a silence
tie ch is in sharp contrast with
Vocal efforts to appear the
hampion of the interests of
~~ Nations. —

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Folio vs. Bondholders
ty °r, Pacific Tribune:
<i Connection with the recent
- advis €Pidemic, we have been
; aa to dispose of all garbage
d S€wage properly. This is
Sound advice and deserves great-
Fathonitderation by our “City
cent ae In view of their re-
20 righ ary increases they have
— Dihit: t to shirk their responsi-
_“¥ in this serious problem.

fe Bag erine to Lowell Thomas,
University Research

e)
Re nent, has found the com-
ret house fly to be the most
Sane ne carrier of polio, yet
beastie heart of our. otherwise
; Iai city we find a perfect
Untesiee ground for flies; a rat

Sted city dump.

Pane can the people in South

Sune ey so long as the city
1 refuses to instal a proper

ie System and additional

Sar

- eage disposal plants? Yes,
are

- Brounds Plenty: of breeding
we.

Phe absence of sewers}

On August 1, Tim Buck, nat
an appeal to the people of Canada to pro
backing of Dutch imperi

This
Witte

oUuver dispose of their sew-

in South Vancouver OW- .

S not the fault of the _
AY, AUGUST 8, TORT

“Can we afford the luxury of
such silence—behind which our
government tries to hide the
fact that it has taken sides with
Dutch imperialism? For our
government is a shameful part-
ner in this brutal attack.on the
Indonesian people, first by the
sale of military equipment to
the Dutch authorities; second, by
assigning instructors to train
Dutch troops — equipment and
troops now being used against
the Indonesian people. The King
government cannot plead ignor-
ance of these facts, nor can the
Canadian people accept them.

“The Canadian people must ask

the government to speak out on

taxpayers in that area. During

the war against fascism we had
many “top priorities,” I would
like to see the City Council de-
clare war against polio and give
top priority to the people of
Vancouver instead of absentee
bond holders. : *
Yours truly,
: - MAUDE STEHR.
Vancouver, B.C. :

Labor relations
Editor, Pacific Tribune:

The Langley Municipal Em-
ployees’ Association have re-
cently won a new 1947 union

agreement, which represents big :
ns for its membership. Two

gai
councillors and the Langley Ad-

vance objected to the clause cov-

ering union maintenance which -
reads: “It is mutually agreed
that any employee, who is at
present a member of the associa-

tion, or who may become a mem-
ber or be reinstated as a member,

shall maintain membership in

good standing, as @ condition of

continued employment with the —
- corporation.” :

You Dewastincat
all You Please.

ional leader of the Labor-Progressive Party, issued
test the action of the King government in its
alism in Indonesia. Mr.. Buck’s mesage reads as follows:

these vital matters which affect
the peace and security of the
world. The government should
be called upon to publicly con-
demn the action of the Dutch
government and pledge full sup-
port to the Security Council in
stopping this unprovoked aggres-
sion. It should be asked to pre-

vent the shipment of arms as
well as to freeze credits and
shipment of goods to Holland
until military operations cease
and Dutch troops are withdrawn
from Indonesia.

‘It is not yet too late to wipe
away the shameful blot on Can-
ada’s honor.” :

Time and half for overtime
and double time for Sundays and
statutory holidays is also includ-
ed in the new agreement.

, The Langley Municipal Em-
ployees Association and _ the
Council should be complimented
on the new agreement and rec-
ognition of the right of labor to
run their own affairs.
Yours .truly,
es ' T. HANSON,

Langley Prairie.

«

a .
Picnic

The fourth annual picnic
_ofethe Fraser Valley LPP will
be held at Fleetwood, Sun-
day, August 10. A fine pro-
gram of entertainment for the
kiddies and grown-ups has
been arranged by the local
picnic committee. Tom Mc-
Ewen, editor of the Pacific
Tribune, and Mona Morgan,
field organizer, IWA Women’s
Auxiliaries, will be gu

speakers. Seid

“their own borders.

Short Jabs

hy Ol’ Bill

‘Elder Statesman,’ Jan Christian: Smuts received a
well-merited slap in the face from the General Assembly of
the United Nations over his proposed absorption of the German
territories in Southwest Africa. not everybody understood the rea}
- significance of that body’s decision. The

Black and white ! | refusal of the UN Assembly to agree
to the proposals of Smuts was based

HEN the

on the treatment of the Negro peoples, that is, the general policy

of the South African government in its dealings with the native
population—the crassest kind of race discrimination, worse, if that
is possible, than the treatment of the Negroes in the Deep South.

The correctness of the UN decision was borne out in a state-
ment published in a copy of the Johannesburg Star that a friend
left with me. In this paper, the leading spokesman for the Rand
magnates, cre of the Rand members of parliament, H. J. Cilliers,
is reported as saying in a debate in the House of Assembly, “Thé
only way to deal with the young Native is to tan his hide.”

Such an assertion would be bad enough if it was made by a
hard-boiled Tory-minded political antique but the full meaning of
it only becomes clear as a characteristic policy of the white
in South Africa when we learn that H. J. Cilliers is a LABO.
member of the South African Assembly.

The identity of the Labor party in South Africa with this atti-
tude towards the Kaffirs must be admitted if the advocates of
such policies are not immediately expelled from the party ranks,

The blood-thirsty outburst of this Social Democrat Laborite -
reminds me of the answer of another Social Democrat, Noske, ..
when he was appointed Governor-General of Berlin in 1919 to
“restore order.” “Someone has to be blood-thirsty,” he said. “I”
do not refuse the responsibility.” “a

The claim of the “white imperialists,” including the alleged
laborite element amongst them, that their mission is “to elevate
and civilize’ the backward peoples, is one that can never be ac-
complished by the liberal use of the sjambok and the self-styled
laborites who make it part of their program are hypocrites of the
worst order. ~ <s

If the “Jabor” (?) member who made that statement had turned
his attention to. the operations of the De Beers Consolidated Mines,
he could have found lots of material for a real labor program.

He would have found in the annual report of that diamond
octopus, that its employees, black and white, had been gouged
to the tune of 31 millions of dollars in profits and that their selling
agency had also increased their dividends from twelve and a half
percent to twenty-seven and a half percent in the past year. For
which, of course, the directors are duly thankful. (Or are they?)

To fight, as the Communist Party of South Africa does, in

the interest of these workers, particularly the black workers who ©
labor under prison conditions in slave compounds, is more in ling

with true labor policies than serving imperialist ends by fostering
racial discrimination.

Fase
RROR as a political weapon is essentially petty bourgeois ik
character. Even when used by ‘groups’ in an apparently organ-

ized way, it fails in its objective because it is not the weapon of

an entire class or people. In Russia where it was most widely used,

Weapon © Nihilists, anarchists and Social Revolutionaries,

it failed miserably to solve the problems of the Rus-
of terror ! sian people and not until the Russian workers, under

Communist leadership, brought class organization to bear on these
problems did they meet with any measure of success. Even when
used by a ruling class it fails of its purpose, since it fosters the
opposition and brings about the downfall of those. who use it.
This is not a matter of theory but a question that has been proven
time and again in the crucible of history. : tak

It is being further proven still more today in Palestine where
small groups of petty Lourgeois terrorists are carrying on a pro-
gram that is having but one result—the strengthening of the anti-
Semitic movements in the British Commonwealth. These terrorists
are but a small section of the Jewish people but the reaction to
their acts is today being visited on the whole Jewish people.

The low political level of people who fall for the anti-Semitic
slush ma them an easy prey for the demagogues who would
like to re-establish fascism in the postwar world. And this is pre-
cisely the reason for what is happening in Britain today. Mosley

and his blackshirts are ready and waiting for such opportunities

as the hanging of two British army sergeants made for them. last |
Thus it is that the press over this last week-end is loaded with
news items about attacks on Jewish synagogues, smashing of
windows and looting. of stores in the Jewish quarters and assaults
on individual helpless Jewish men and women, from industrial
towns and cities all over Britain—and in one instance the at-
tempted wrecking of a Communist Party headquarters in London,
although the Communist program is opposed to all such acts of in-
dividual terrorism and violence. SE
Terrorism cannot win!’ Tsar Alexander was assassinated: |
the same class of people as the Palestine terrorists. That did hot
stop Russian reaction. Lenin was assassinated by the Social Revo-
lutionaries, That did not stop the progress of the Russian workers
and peasants towards the huilding of their Socialist Soviet .Re-

os a

“ public. Terror may make the tasks of the progressive’ peoples

harder by increasing the obstacles’ but that is all it does. ©
The Palestine terrorists: are playing into the hands of, British

‘imperialism’ since they foster’ reaction in Britain. The real. solu-—

tion to the Palestine problem jlies. in ridding that country of
British imperialism through the . organization and unity of ‘the

' Jewish and Arab peoples with the active help of the common

people of Britain who must destroy ‘the fascist elements within

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