¥ poate ea Sir | : ¥ Te we y iY awit JF EXO UN Be ‘5 i yi GI EVE By BS ils ; (LD) i Se lin a Published Weekly at 650 Howe Street By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. Telephones: Editorial, MA. 5857; Business, MA. 5288 om- McKwen <<... 62. <6. see awes Ve aS Editor Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. Printed by Union Printers at 650 Hewe Street, Vancouver, B.C. Authorized as second-class mail by the post-office department, Ottawa Halt the union wreckers P until a few weeks ago the Vancouver local of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ Union (AFL) was a comparatively smooth functioning organization. It con sisted of some 700 members, a couple of dozen or so certi- fied union contracts, and a democratically elected efficient executive. There was still much to be done in Vancouver before it could be said that the industry was nearly one hundred percent organized, There are still many catering houses where neither union nor sanitary conditions prevail (and they go together), but Local 28 of the H&RE had made a commendable start. Then something happened. The international executive of the H&RE, with headquarters in the USA, ‘decided’ that the Vancouver local was under ‘communist domination,’ and that the local executive must therefore be ‘purged’. The in- ternational executive,:imany of whom it is alleged have a record of gangsterism and racketeering in the best Chicago style, dispatched their chief hatchet man, A. R. Johnstone of Toronto, to ‘clean out the communists’. With the aid of court orders and other legal levers Johnstone is now in charge of the union office. His ‘mem- bership’ consists of a handful of confused workers who have been bamboozled into the wake of the Johnstone ‘purge’. The bulk of the members who constituted Local 28 have now formed themselves into an ‘independent’ union in an effort to hold the gains that have been made for the restau- rant workers, and to carry on the work of organizing the un- organized. This, says Johnstone, ‘aint legal’, while Senator J. W. deB Farris, Johnstone’s legal light, moans that the union “stalled for two weeks and abused the service of pro- cess,” In less legal lingo, what the Senator means is that neither the membership nor executive of Local 28 willingly consented to its own destruction under the pretext of “com- batting communism.” s _ This high-handed act of interference on the orders of the international president of the H&RE, and carried out by union-wrecker Johnstone must serve as a grave warning to all trade unionists, regardless of affiliation. Under the guise of ‘cleaning out communists’ from the leadership of unions, unions themselves are wantonly weakened and destroyed. Many trade unionists experienced this evil back in the 20’s when a handful of AFL grand lodge moguls set out to * the unions of all “left-wingers.’” Thousands of in- dividual members, local unions, and even whole state federa- tions suffered expulsion and revocation of charters, because forsooth, they held to ideas and policies which were not acceptable to big business, its governments—and its Charley McCarthys who warmed the office chairs of a reactionary trade union bureauocracy. Who benefitted from a weakened and broken trade un- ion movement? Certainly not the workers, who saw what had taken them years to build destroyed in a week. In the _20’s the epithet “left-winger” served the purpose of reaction and _ its stooges. Now it is “the communists,” and if the union is wrecked in the process, well and good. It is time Vancouver labor began to take a hand in stopping the union wreckers and their henchmen. The H&RE case provides above all else—a grave warning to labor. Hitler did it one way . . . big business. and its stooges, with a fine pretense of being ‘democratic’ do it another... for labor the results are the same. A weakened and divicea movement. Tis an old story ENATOR ROBERT TAFT tells people to eat less. Harold Stasser puts it more precisely and advises them to eat 15 percent less. President Truman turns the idea around and urges people to waste less. And the King government, by its decontrol policies, makes sure that people will eat less. It’s an original idea? Not at all. One hundred and twenty-four of eighteen pence a week.’ And this to his praise, mind! ... whole Tracts was to inculcate content in ‘a state of see ITRAVL AO By Tom McEwen T is not a pretty picture, but it is time a lot of us were taking a look at at and doing something about it —_ before it is too late. Recently a British court pass- ed sentence on one Jeffrey Hamm, a. ‘grueppenfuehrer’ in one of Mosley’s fascist gangs who had incited violent attacks upon Jewish places of business and Jewish persons, (Such ‘inci- dents’ were quite prevalent in a number of Britsh centres during the height of the Palestine ‘crisis.) Charged with making insulting » remarks during an anti-Semitic speech, Hamm was fined $42.50 and placed on probation for one year. In ‘explaining’ the light sen- tence the magistrate stated that since Hamm had attacked the Jews ... not as Jews but as communists, the case wasn’t so serious? This fine judicial dis- tinction is worthy of a promin- ent place in Hitler’s ‘Mein Kamf,’ since the whole ‘rassen-politik’ (race politics) of Hitler was based on the idea that Jews were not only Jews, but that all Jews were ‘decadent demo- crats and communists,’ and therefore fit only to be ‘exter- minated.’ A British court—under a Brit- ish Labor government has now given its judicial okay to this cardinal principle of fascism, viz. that anti-Semitism is per- fectly proper if conducted as part of an anti-communist pro- gram. British fascism has now received a green-light to con- tinue its anti-Semitic activities under the pretext of ‘combating communism.’ In the U.S. the courts haven’t been able to move so far ahead; even the ‘un-American Activities’ committee have crudely attempt- ed to avoid open anti-Semitism, although their penchant for pros- ecuting Jewish anti-fascists, writ- ers, artists and others in their star-chamber inquisition can hardly be covered up in their anti-communist witch-hunt, In the so-called ‘purge’ to rid alt U.S. civil service agencies of so-called ‘communists,’ per- sons of Jewish. origin are being fired wholesale. Even non-Jews who are married to Jews are unceremoniously discharged. In this manner the U.S. government (in practice if not in theory) hopes to get rid of all ‘com- munists.’ AST week in Montreal the fascist ‘National Unity Party’ ef Adrien Arcand staged a ‘birthday’ celebration. Some 500 of the Arcand ‘blue-shirts’ at- tended this ‘extraordinary secret session’ in the St. Stanislas Sohool. Fuehrer Arcand deliver- ed the man report, and the bur- den of his theme was that ‘communism’ must be crushed because, screamed Fuehrer Ar- cand, “communism is the weap- on of the Jews to conquer the. world, including Canada.” Such happenings in. widely scattered centres of the English - speak- ing world are much too uni- ; form to be re- |: garded aS mere coincidence, and |: must ~become ‘a matter of im- mediate con- cern to all pro- : gressive people. iit They prove Tom McEwen once again—if Hitler’s death- chambers of Buchenwald and Oswiecim are not sufficient proof, that racism and anti- Semitism are crimes which must be outlawed if democratic liber- ties are to survive. In Britain, the US and Can- ada the pattern is much too uni- form to be accidental. All the crimes of fascism against hu- manity have been committed un- der the pretext of fighting ‘communism,’ and the main brunt of this foul scourge has fallen on the shoulders of the Jewish people. That the perpe- . trators of racism and anti-Semi- tism wear the formal dress of bourgeois respectability instead of a bloodstained brown or other colored ‘shirt,’ does not make their fascism any . more acceptable than Hitler’s. They Haunted house AAG it is considered bad taste to allude disrespect- fully to the dead, Vancouverites will soon have to de- termine whether the City Hall is to become a museum for the preservation of relics of the late Mayor G. G. McGeer, or a place to administer civic affairs. We are informed that aldermen are in a quandary as to a civic-conscious center, what to do with a bronze bust of the late senator by the noted sculptor, Yanko Brayovich. Admirers want it placed in or about the City Hall. Then there is an urn with the late mayor’s ashes stored away in the City Hall archives, without any instructions or indication as to its ultimate disposal. Some are of the opinion that the ashes should ‘Stay there since “he built the City Hall.” More important to citizens are the decisions with which the late mayor manipulated the headlines now coming up for “review,” particularly the incident of the “police re- shuffle.” Some of the CNPA-hypnotized aldermen, who didn’t have the courage to challenge McGeer’s tammany police reorganization, while he was alive, are now critical of the methods and policies pursued. Had they displayed a little courage at the time, certain police personnel would still have been giving Vancouver good service, while others now on the payroll as political appointees would have been in retirement. These rumblings around the bronze bust, the ashes, and the decisions of the late McGeer call for a united effort on the part of Vancouver citizens. Clean out the CNPA and transform the City Hall from a political museum into * * * ; An especially strange feature of the “American Way of Life” is the insistence by the American people for the provision of movies which they may view with no other purpose in mind than that they may escape from the “American Way of Life,” __ too must be stamped on like the poisonous reptiles they are. We may not be able to do much about fascism in England or the U.S, but we can do @ Jot about it here. Labor must demand the outlawing of the Arcand fascist gangs in Que bec . . . and keep at it until they are outlawed . . . otherwise. N these days of skyrocketing prices no one has paid much dollars-and-cents attention to the high cost of red herrings. That is perhaps due to the fact that this” delicacy enjoys its highest rating on ‘intellectual’ menus, and is not recommended as an item of food for the sensitive bourgeois stomach. Sounds like a contradiction but the truth is that ‘red herrings are fast be coming the most important item in Anglo-American bugetary ex- penditures. Take Canada's famed ‘spy scare’ with its elaborate star-chamber commission of Messrs Tascherau, Kelloch, Leopold, Gouzenko, et al. There was a case of red herrings which cost Canadian taxpayers @ cool quarter of a million dollars, and all we have to show for it is the odor in a 300 page report, which no one except the propa- ganda department of the Cana- dian Manufacturers’ Association can acclimatize themselves to. Then there is the “Truman Doctrine’ and the ‘Marshall Plan’ consignment. In gq few days Congress will be called upon to vote tremendous financial out- lays to ‘save’ France, Italy, Aus tria, Greece, Korea, and a score of other areas, to say nothing of a bi-zonal Germany, from ‘com- munism.’ And those blighters in — London—the British Labor gov- ernment, who are wasting the nation’s substance on ‘socialist experiments,’ A lot of money is to be needed to cover the high cost of red herring production. Should some congressmen Dilk — too much at the price demand- ed the State department, the FBI or the Thomas ‘un-American’ committee can always be relied upon to unearth another case— of red herring. The ‘Marshall Plan’ is the bar _ gain counter for red-herring, ‘Choose a government with & red-herring complex . . . enact a firm legislative program on the safe treatment and disposal of red-herring . - guarantee to keep the red-herring prominent — on your political counter .. « do all of*these things and you will have dollars aplenty. If Con- gress balks, we'll use another ease of red herring to make them come across. ; So you see, the red-herring if a costly fish. And not only iD — Canada or the USA, In Britain where ‘austerty’ has made it 4 key item of food for the ‘lower clawses, it is still the maid — Tory ‘intellectual dish against ‘socialism.’ eu The power of the red herring keeps tens of thousands of Bri tish troops in Greece, Palestine India and other key points of our far-flung empire . . . me? _ who could be digging coal OF — sailing ships or any of thé other hundred and one thing? - which industrial Britain need® done to get away from ‘auste ity,” ay But the red-herring, old cha! has priority over these matter® A very costly fish, what?