OL’ BILL ae Canucks at world festival SOR! r a thrilled by colorful parade States proves anything at all, it proves that there is .only one class «that knows the real meaning of comradeship; and it is not the class By J IM LEECH BUD APEST Rees Genin: A sinner capaw fora . that is represented by Truman or Attlee. It is the working class =a s a i ee Re and it has demonstrated that truth on a thousand battlefields during Members of the Canadian Beaver Brigade this week experienced eee ot eon ae ah the la# 150 years. Most of us have heard on the radio or read in | the most inspiring moments of their lives at the opening ceremonies here |ine International Union of Stué the ag ee area Say ik Saban uaa tee a of the World Festival of Youth and Students. “Delegates from 80 |ents and the World Federation tions o at windy champion ° a ‘orators, Winston Spencer Churchill, and perticularly, countries paraded before 50,000 wildly cheering spectators in a colorful |Democratic Youth stood 0 iding ram! his rolling, resonant phrase, “my comrade-in-arms, eee ae dedicated to peace. Here pe points of the Py! Marshall Stalin.” In view of his oft professed, and |42 Hungary when youth plays host | on fore . A ; |/to young peace fighters of the _ Here, there could be no ro : consistent attitude to the Soviet Union and a Ga ; : , : his | World, the government is at their doubt or suspicion. We n that Stalin stands for, one is compelled, since hi wo men Fulton, Missouri, speech, to ask, just what does, |S¢Tvice. No request is too great. know that these men and nb : nil) : : The students and young workers, stand’ with us for lasting A, - or can, Churchill mean when he refers to anyone are x RR with all the working people, pilot come what may. as a comrade in arms? Is he honest in his use we of the term or is he speaking with his tongue in the Hungarian ship of state with A feature of the ccreniong his cheek or does he have an entirely different | T@SPonsibility and measured op- the arrival of a relay carrying © = : i 3 timism which injected the buoyan- flag brought from Bulgaria and — conception of what comradeship means to what we cy of true. freedo. t th Sere and . ordinary mortals have, when we refer to ‘others m into eir Rumania, another from ‘ as our Savane ; Seon. by way of England, France, é ‘ As the Canadians left their bus gium, Italy and Austria, am When we read or hear the expressions used by|their hands were clasped warmly third flag message from the ndebls most of the leading spokesmen on both sides of|by the people of Budapest who loving youth of Finland, SW oa the Atlantic about their aforetime allies, be they’ Democrats or, Re-| were glad to see Canada represent- Norway, Denmark, Poland publicans, alleged Laborite Liberals or * ayed-in-the-wool Tories, the|ed in the camp of peace. Czechoslovakia. ue terms they sling at each other and the appeals. they put forward to} In the stadium assembled youth .Guy de Boysson, speaking for Ho. help solve each other’s economic problems have anything but a com-!from the spirit-stirring New Dem- World Federation of Democtal radely ring to them. They display more of the emotions of the mid-|ocracies of Eastern Europe — the Youth put into words a P' dine ? ‘Victorian heroines who denounced the thorough-paced scoundrels who |Rumanians dancing as they went, the tumultuous feelings pou? made the third figure in the dramatic situations that the mid-Victorians |Czechoslovaks, Bulgarians, Alban- in every person present when bien loved, in the now-famous line, “Villian. you have stolen my cheeild.” |ians and peoples “of the Soviet said: “The voice of youth, W! ae Union; youth determined on peace rings so powerfully today in Bu Not very comradely in the sense of the term as it is used and |from the western countries; colon- pest, joins with that of all Bo understood by the workers of all countries and of all religions too, jial young people from Viet Nam good will who wish to devote # ~ in spite of the over-lords of the Vatican. When President Truman, |and Indonesia who are fighting for efforts to peace.” the haberdasher who couldn’t make good, tells the Labor government |independence; and youth from the NORMAN PENNER In his speech of welcome, ‘axpad of Britain, by way of the American, Legion convention, that the United fascist-oppressed countries such as Youthful Norman Penner, war | Szakasits, president of the “Huneat States is not a charitable enterprise, it is not at all in line with the |Spain and Greecd, veteran and leader of the Nation- |ian Republic called for a meet? AS protestations of “fighting together till death to save the world from| MWach delegation, announced as| al Federation of Labor Youth, | of youth that will “strengthe? the horrors of fascism.” ,That was the tone in the days when there |it came over the rise and down the| heads the Canadian Beaver Brig- | front of peace and the ideal of ie was Still a possibility that they might lose out in the struggle with | stone steps into the stadium, drew! ade attending the world youth | friendship of peoples. We aot ; ? Bo Hitler. But since the time when the Red army of the Soviet Union |new rounds of cheers and applause, | Congress in Budapest, Hungary. |that the progressives and yen ya hes oat tore the guts out of Hitler’s Wehrmacht, as Churchill phrased it, |The Chinese group, amongst them : mindedi youth of the western ¢c0 the Damon and Pythias, Saul and David, Two-in-One set-up has gone | military leaders.tried in battle, el-| left to the large French and Soviet | tries are also recognizing the call by the board and they also have their own little cold wars between | cited a thunderous burst of ap-| delegations and right to the cheer-| Of this ideal. I welcome spec ‘comrades’ which only shut off when they have to confront a common |plause and the chant: “Mao Tse-| inS Czechs and the Youth for a|the delegates from these lands.” enemy—the working class, whether in the form of their own workers, |tung, Mao Tse-tung. Se Se PLES : refusing to be bludgeoned into, increased production which also means Two hundred German youth in Ss orem ae = in the circumstances, increased profits; or in the form of the Soviet vhite and blue uniforms, Belgians, Union which is the front and symbol of all progressive workers. Pie aes dca aay . L ABOR DAY , L ABOR D AY This is seen quite plainly in that speech of Truman to the Ameri- E can Legion ( I almost wrote Klu Klux Klan after what happened at Aen aes ache ey eee es GREETI NGS TO ALL i GREETINGS 1949 Peekskill> N.Y., at a meeting or concert where Paul Robeson was to h sing). Truman there put the objectives of American imperialism overbeees evens with. the v doves 1 ao tersely in these words among others “.”.. to thwart Russia’s aim of phe ipwresstealiy ee plone Seamen and Shoreworkers Patt LOM achieving world domination.” (By the way, a little bird has told me millions of flower petals fluttered Ai Capasah that a very popular question at the Anglo-American-Canadian trade to earth. In’ North America, cor- talks, will be “Have you got your deep freeze yet?”) F respondingly, the stock-piling of f £ The average individual is compelled to wonder if their editorial sien sis ae On : Ki S| ano writers are of the same kidney as their spokesmen or are they just ; lox etch sa8 the speakers naive. Recently a Sun editorial commented on one of these side-line he pte aie - ie BEERS eae U.N. committee with alphabetical soup names which was meeting at | ‘© ‘@n@dlan delegation could look Lake Success two weeks ago; one of these committees which Would | EEE Club [pp probably bring in resolutions on how the workers might live on wind, / like an American scientific committee which was investigating a|| / ; neNy Slocprered Higa coche, Supekice Ke it neenmenaed ta ~~ LABOR DAY ie some _— —_ e cactus shou cultiva as it wo make an excelle ‘ood- SS = se a stuff for horses and workingmen. For this committee was conferring GREETINGS oe Arne nnaT cn ‘4 _ on cultivation and natural resources. The Sun editorial writer, in ‘ yi ; |: oa ~ enumerating the countries and number of delegates who would tell Peace and Pr 4 . ; { : a ay what steps were being taken to increase production and further utilize gh oh nse poe Ge = GREETINGS TO ALL natural resources, gets a little cold war stuff in with the following: We welcome vou to join : ; \ . “People can read whatever significance they like into the fact that with us in achieving this goal \ WORKERS : _ Russia is sending no scientist to Lake Success... . It is not as if ‘ 4 “3 Russia could contribute nothing. For example, they have had con- siderable success in establishing communities north of the Arctic|| COMMERCIAL DR. : oy, Labor Day 1949 Ciréle.” . CLUB LPP [| : Rally Ae Peace = ani i That was written a few days after Louis Johnson, U.S. secretary : Piportes sane 8 Lc of defense, visited Ottawa, where he told the “boys” of the press at | ree: | | ‘ 8 aes 3 a conference quite a lot about U.S. plans but shut up tighter than a Ho ES os % clgm when he was informed that there was a Russian representing ; Ae 2 ig co ; : i 3 : ‘ Tas\ at the conference. A few days later the same bullying Yankee LABOR DAY Look Forward po Unity of Vernon imperialist told a press gathering that there was one country that the Woodworkers in hee . was not to be trusted, meaning Soviet Russia, Yet the Sun editor || GREETINGS sae Gihe es ; is naive enough ‘to imagine the Russians should come to New York _ Fresent age Struggle LPP Ci E b and give American pase ass tips on how to overcome their economic : ‘ To The ie : : u : eee difficulties, Pacific Tribune ——7 Ac 4 oN The Paper of the Working DECENT WAGES & HOMES ARE WHAT THE Class Which We Support & . ag CANADIAN PEOPLE WANT Pledue