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Baloney

Editor, Pacific Tribune:

Sir: I enclose an open letter I
have forwarded to a well-known
hewspaper columnist who, though
frequently enjoyable, laid an egg |
with his twaddle on the price of
columns going up. Here is the
letter:

BUNK, BALONEY AND BEEF

“(An open letter to Mr. Jack S,
Gott. +

“Dear Mr. Jack S. Cott: It has
come to our attention that you
have been marketing a certain
commodity called “Bunk”. We
wish to inform ‘you, sir, that al-
though you may be unaware of it,
this article is not new to our
province and country. As a mat-
ter of fact many salesmen have
visited our premises previous to
you with the same commodity.

“While we realize, sir, that your
“chromium warehouse” is stored
to the rafters with this article, we
are nevertheless unable to sympa-
thize with your position. A sur-
vey of the field would have proven
to you that this article, along
with Such others as baloney and
beef, while presently im abund-
ance, can find no market due to a
buyers’ strike. In the case of your
specific commodity, sir, there is
_ the added factor which impedes
_ its sale, namely, it has been tried
and found wanting.

“We were quite taken by the
charge leveled at your product,

’

Mr, Cott. As a matter of fact the

elusive ‘resonsible source’ has
for our money, at last appeared.
“We suggest, sir, that you
change your product. You will
find a ready market for products
which are constructive and use-
ful. People are turning to such
products in greater numbers, Mr.
Cott.
“Yours truly,
“The People.”

-CCFers read ‘PT’

_ Bditor, Pacific Tribune—

There is one fundamental dif-
ference between a Communist
and a CCF’er—the former has
guts, 'm a CCF’er but I haven't

_ got the nerve to come out boldly
‘and say what I think.

_ I didn’t have to be lectured that
the Marshall Plan ifor Europe was
a Wall Street super-scheme to
make Europe the “hewers of

= Wute

Yous

wood and drawers of water” for

the financial oligarchy — some-

times called a “democracy” south

of the line. The Communists and

the Pacific Tribune are doing a.
good job by letting the people of

B.C. know just what those Yank

brasshats and bureaucrats are up

to.

I read the Pacific Tribune each
week and also the CCF weeklies.
I spend two hours on the former
and fifteen minutes on the latter.
There is no “meat” in the CCF
papers, All articles in the Tribune
are lucid and forcefully written,
while we have to guéss at what-
ever the CCF papers contain.
They even wrote up the Winnipeg
CCF national convention like a
comic strip. :

The Liberat press puts on: a
little shadow-boxing by lambast-
ing Ottawa for ruling by Orders-
in-Council, thus bypassing Par-
liament, I have different opin-
ions. There is no such animal as
an order-in-council. The big shots
at Ottawa enjoy the notoriety of
such “criticism”, It also helps get
the John Does used to the neo-
fascist methods of the Kings,
Laurents, Abbotts and Howes.

While the Liberal press and
other cohorts howl and whine,
they always draw the red herring
across the trail to confuse the is-
sues. They care nothing for
the people. Their every action
suggests “after us, the deluge.”-
Philpott calls them gangster gov-
ernments, especially the one at
Washington. Bevan (not Bevin)

_ of England brands all tories and —
their political ilk as “plain ver- —

min”,
More power to the Pacific Tri-
bune.
$ JOE McNUTT.
Vancouver, B.C. i

B.C. Electronics

Editor, Pacific Tribune—

The B.C. Electric rate structure
is being revised—this being the
language of monopolists prepara-
tory to a price gouge. The ad-
vance in price of tickets and the
weekly pass has been forecast
for some time, the company cry-
ing to high heaven that it will
“lose” some $400,000 this \ year!
No one bielieves this, yet the
lamentations continue.

It would be interesting to have
the Hreakdown in the annual
statements—now no longer pub-

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Phone HAstings 1248
Moderate Rental Rates
- Yer socials, weddings, meetings

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and banquets at reasonable rates.
600 Campbell Ave. HA. 0087.

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Dance every |

BUSINESS PERSONALS

General Insurance—
. Anywhere in B.C.
LAURIE NOWRY
706-16 E, Hastings St.
TA. 3833

ASH BROS. CARTAGE
516 West Seventh Ave.

Genera! Cartage
FA. 0242 FA, 0469

“SALLY BOWES—
INCOME TAX PROBLEMS

Room 20, 9 East Hastings:
MA. 9965.

Wanted— , :
Clothing for rummage - sale.
Auspices: Fairview Club. Send
contributions to 855 W. 8th Ave.,

or phone FA. 3630-L or
FA. 3459-R.

MEETINGS 2

Swedish-Finnish Workers Club
meets last Friday of every month

at 7.30 p.m. in Clinton Hall,

' "30 Rohaon St — MAr 2422
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With book and sword

Editor, Pacific Tribune—

I was brought up on a farm and
at first I thought it strange when
the farmer told me to get a dish
with a handful of oats in it and
bring the horses from the pasture.
Deceit of man. Feed in one
hand and a whip in the other.

I have studied the Marshall
Plan and like the farmer I think
it deceitful. He uses freedom, the
Christian way of life instead of
oats. Bible in. one hand and the
sword in the other. If you do as I
order you to do I will feed you,
if not, I will shoot you. “Deceit-
and-Force.”’

; i, DONOHUE,
Vancouver, B.C.

My kingdom for a horse

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‘PT’ CIRCULATION

for Coalition

Deparfineat } Fifty thousand nails
What You Pleate.

coffin

Here’s “something that can change the political ‘com-
plexion of this province — the Pacific Tribune is. out to
achieve a total of 10,000 readers by November 15.

That’s a tall order, eh?

But there’s a reason why our
present readers will want to do
this job, and we have a plan for
doing it. 2

The reason is that every reader
we have gets the full story of
Tory-Liberal betrayal of British
Columbia in our paper, and also
the facts on how to fight for that
people’s unity at the polls which
alone can elect a CCF government
in place of the Coalition.

This puts our readers out in
front in the anti-Coalition fight.
We'd say that on anaverage each
of them influences at least five
other voters. That's why we say

Following the. ardors of his latest book “Gathering Storm,”
in which much data on Anglo-American imperialist scheming
against the USSK and in support of fascism is omitted, Churchill
does a little daubing. Here he is seen being transported back to
his hotel in Fontaine, France, from his easel efforts.

that 10,000 Pacific Tribune read-
ers mean 50,000 nails in the

_Coalition coffin.

Trade unionists confronted with
the ICA slave act will agree with
us it’s high time that coffin was
nailed up for good. So will street-
car riders paying a 10 cent fare
and all of us every time the sales
tax snatches pennies for Ans-
comb.

Our plan? We're launching
an offensive October 1 and
calling on all of you to go over
the top with us to win 2,000 new
one year subscriptions and

2500 new bundle sales by No-

vember 15.

We are sure that each of you
ean think of a number of friends
who would subscribe iif you asked .
them, or if they have been buying
single copies for a few weeks.

We are calling on Pacific Tri-
bune committees throughout the ~
province to start now to organize
this job. By continuing to carry
the paper into the front line of all
the sharp people’s struggles of
1948 we will more than guarantee
our objective.

If you work in a camp, sawmill
or any section of industry—do a ~
job for us and for yourself. Order
a bundle of papers and sell them
on the job. :

Old readers must never be for-
gotten. To get tuned up for the
October-November drive we're

asking you to check all remaining
“expired subscriptions

in the
month of September. ‘

The winner of the world’s heavy
power-saw bucking championship, —
when being presented with the
Pacific Tribune challenge cup at
Port Alberni, said, “I’m proud to
win such a cup from the best
labor paper in Canada.” That’s
thé spirit, George Voight. With
that spirit we can win.

—FEL ASHTON.

lished in the local papers. Such
items as about sixteen desks in the
transportation office that have
usually about three or four oc-
cupants; the charges against pro-
fits of the old Gorge Park which
lies idle despite repeated offers
to buy or Jease it for an amuse-
ment park, and the various park-
ing lots gobbled up but only partly

in use or in process of building. .

On good authority we hear that
it was the city jcouncil . . . -
through the Greater Victoria
Transportation Committee which
initiated the move to raise the
fares and jump the price of week-
ly passes to $1,25 (the latter the
company wanted abolished!)

Then the B.C, Electric asked —

$1.50 and a compromise brought
it $1.35—which has been ratified
by one councir and favorably re-
ceived by another,

But the greater menace to the
people of Vancouver lies in the
almost certain attempt to use the
augmented rate structure in Vic-
toria as a lever to boost fares on
the mainland. :

The cynical and _ cold-bloded

treatment accorded the people of

Greater Victoria calls for action
by the citizens who will complain
regardless of ‘legality’, *

. HANS KRUGER,
Victoria, B.C. ,

HIGHEST PRICES PAID for

DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD
Other Valuable Jewellery
Ltd.

STAR LOAN CO.

EST. 1903

25 Months

mS

this record.
We Remind You:

is in Montreal.

On the Picket Line

In tke past two years members of Vancouver
Typographical Union No. 226 have walked more
picket miles than any one in Canada and we
pray you will never be called upon to break

That the head office of the Southam Company

That the Vancouver Daily Province is owned
-by the Southam Company.

In Vancouver the Sun and News-Herald are
the only daily newspapers produced with In-
ternational ‘Typographical Union printers.

There is no law to compel you to buy a news-
paper that is produced behind a picket line. —

Vancouver Typographical Union No. 226

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_ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—SEPTEMBER 17, 1948—PAG-