“ ics Cute This 11 Your Gaahintat hou Pleme. what lieves that the charge hanging over you today is just a frame- up by the employers of such groups. You're position as @ labor leader is inimical to, the interests of the gang who fram- $2. : ; ed Bill 39, hen¢e the attempt to 0 for a years subscription. ypemove you from effective lead- a farmers’ tax strike in re- ership. Smear the leaders with Se to the recent tax levy is 2 charge involving a subject ee oeical Solution. Don’t pay which is hush, hush, in polite ola ole are restored to the society so that your friends will eiistits pad some semblance of avoid a reference to it as much electi if is instituted. Make an as possible and you've removed alta issue of the whole tax a great deal of the effectiveness a ae and work for a farmer- of your defence. Ha 8overnment to replace the aart-Anscomb gang. Former-labor 9°vernment Editor, Pacific Tribune: perceived the June 6 issue of € Tribune and am enclosing I’ve thought about it a lot today, and the days since your arrest and the answer always turns up to this one point, you are fighting the cause of the worker against the. organized minority, therefore you must be removed via the smear route. ig farmer is usually looked is ‘ag being conservative, but : wie the slaves under capital- fine * is the only one who has Mot -t5 ng to conserve. He has of €en divorced from his tools Production, raw material and Natura) . y Remember this though, Danny,’ wage sla esources as has the ganized labor never yet threw The a one of their number to the : Pioneer farmers of North ee America, are initiate a mov wolves nor have they ever aban- in a position to doned the fight when the going Wage-ea: ement to put the seemed toughest. You can their saat in possession of count on us to the bitter end. that j cols of production and JOHN GRAHAM. future pee CY Solution to the UOPWA 203. Batic. Peace and progress of the New Westminster, B.C. inane t;. Marx says the dom- “2nt relation between man and Get together Editor, Pacific Tribune: We would liké to announce to all progressive groups and indi- viduals who read the Tribune, and particularly to those who reside or take part in commun- ity work in the West End that a headquarters of the West End Neighborhood Council of the LPP has been set up in the West -End Hall, and daily to the public from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. : . ae that of owners. (Capital on er a; conclusion of the sec- ne gituivalent form of. Value) iS injunction, “Workers of 8 Sane unite” means unite a obtain ownership and do oes pile dominating. But as Ae lin says, the masses have But a by painful experience. Soe Ngs are coming our way. “ecialism ig forging ahead and ~“Pitatism is‘in reverse. 2 JOHN PRICE. Silverton, Bc. e We are especially interested in organizing and setting up a new adult club in the Burrard and Granville area, and lending our support and facilities to House- wives committees, Tenants As- Open letter to D’ O’Brien Dear Danny: A Do you remember addressing } §8foup of office workers in now Westminster? Well, this is Sociations, Veterans Affairs, Old “Tom one of that group who be- Age Pensioners, Parents and e———. = litorial Build the people’s newspaper _ In past years during July and August we have been in the habit of ‘explaining’ current slumps in Tribune circula- tion to the ‘heat.’ It was a fine alibi but it no longer holds 800d. Oh, yes, we'll still have the heat, and by all the signs it won't only be the weather. ; No matter where you look‘in the USA or Canada, big business is turning on the heat on the common, people. Be- hind a smokescreen of anti-communist hysteria they are howling to high heaven fop~‘law and order’ to ‘curb labor.’ hey rob the working people by price manipulation and | Shameless racketeering—and then promote ‘laws’ to prohibit _ *ffective protest against the robbery. Their hired press makes — _Wordy apologies for looting the people, and lectures sancti- Moniously on ‘the law.’ ‘ ee In place of jobs, homes, decent wages, security—which | were and are implicit in the war aims of our nation, we Now get Humphrey Mitchell’s strait-jacket ‘labor code’ and | Bin 39, designed to cripple the struggle for these postwar aims. ah In place of a free press, dedicated to the principles of | truth and progress, we have a subsidized class-dominated Z - Press, dedicated to confusion, misrepresentation and distor- _| tion—a barrel-organ cacophony of big business. i To meet this drive of reaction and its kept press—to ' awaken thousands of workers to a full realization of what is going on, to bring them the truth, we must immediately — ¥ increase the circulation of the Pacific Tribune, heat or no | heat, Politically, the situation demands a minimum of 1,500 New readers by the end of August—5,000 new readers by December of this year. Financially, the situation is equally urgent. Big Business has issued a ‘free enterprise’ directive to _ its following which says that “no advertising must be given — to the Pacific Tribune.” Clearly they would like to see the Pacific Tribune go out of business. Clearly we must disap- Point them. : : We appeal to all our staunch all-weather press builders— our readers, to those who have supported the Pacific Tribune in the past, to respond to this emergency call for _ building of a genuine free press. Bring the truth to 1,500 New readers during July and August—to 5,000 new readers by December. a FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1947 Teachers Associations and any other organization or individuals whose policies conform with progressive action. Our hall of- fers the best facilities for small meetings and gatherings and is available to the public at very reasonable rates. West Enders. We call on you to make this area of our city a citadel for progressive action. As British Columbians, and a people of intelligence and _ in- tegrity, let us not allow our city or province to become a spring- board of reaction or another devastating globial war for the profit and greed of power-mad- dened American imperialism. While democratic citizens, we have yet at our disposal the freedom to utilize our power of organization. Let us act unit- edly for the common good. In closing we extend a warm welcome to all to stop in at our headquarters, West End Hall, 1332 Davie, for further informa- tion or just a friendly chat, and learn and see for yourself what cur organization consists of—or if more convenient, phone TA. 2847. ; Treasurer, West End Neighborhood Council. Stop, look, and listen ! Editor, Pacifiic Tribune: We wish to protest the letter by Claude Donald, which ap- peared in the Pacific Tribune (June 20), in which he accuses the National Federation of La- bor Youth ‘of discriminating is open - against the feminine sex in se- lecting the delegation to the World Youth Festival in Prague, next month. We consider his at- tack both unfair and uncon- structive, as Mr. Donald is not familiar with all the facts sur- rounding the B.C. delegation. The delegation is comprised of seven people, chosen because of their activities and contributions to the labor movement, not pri- marily because of their sex. To withdraw the “least capable” male delegate, therefore, is an illogical suggestion. The dele- gates are all “capable”. One of the seven delegates, however, is a girl—Miss Goldie Popovitch, representing the South Slav Youth Federation of Vancouver. Due to organiza- tional difficulties, we were late in getting started and were working against time to raise the necessary funds. Miss Pop- cvitch was added to the dele- gation later in the campaign, for this reason. If Claude Donald had con- tacted us directly, at the start of the campaign, and offered some constructive criticism, we would have been grateful. But» such vain name calling, as “one of the most glaring examples of unimaginative stupidity” are hardly in order from any re- sponsible person. Such _ state- ments are not beneficial to the progress of the NFLY or the labor movement. We would ask Mr. Donald to look before he leaps the next time he decides to jump off the deep end. Glyn ‘Thomas. National - Federation of Labor Youth. Vancouver, B.C. uo the ‘opposition.’ Short Jabs eu ol 4 Bill F ANYONE thinks that the B.C. Electric eases up on its purpose of “collectivizing” (BCCollectric style) passenger transportation in the Lower Mainland, they are in the category that “Dal” Grauer puts everyone in who “falls for Red propaganda,’—mental, cases, neurotics, crazy. Over in West Vancouver, in spite of willing ‘“Barkises” in the Municipal Council, the people decided by a definite “no” on a pleb- ; icite that they did not want the BCCol- lectric to take over the municipal bus service, That apparently, did not settle the matter for a local newspaper came out in Vancouver last week with the following headline: ‘Transit Head Fired for not Cooperating.” The transit head involved was G. Stephen Webster, manager of the West Vancouver municipal bus service. Common, ordinary West Van. people who do not happen to be municipal councillors, are satisfied that Webster has been, and is, a capable, efficient person for the job. In spite of handicaps imposed on the muni- cipal system by the Public Utilities Commission, that “alter ego” of the BCCollectric, such as fixing time schedules so that the municipal buses could not leave for four minutes after the Pacific Stages, Webster made it pay, which is something the BCCollectric is unable to do in Vancouver with its boneshaker streetcars, if we are to believe the squawks of Grauer and his directors. Just who is it that Webster was not cooperating with? Some of the members of the West Van. Municipal League—which is a sort of Non-Partisan League in reverse—are of the opinion the answer is, the “BCColectric and that the firing of Webster is but one move in preparing the way to re-open negotiations with the BCCollectric. : The people of West Vancouver who voted to retain the muni- cipal ownership system of transportation in preference to being gouged by the Power octupus, will have to be on their toes. Voting is not enough, they will have to be on the alert at all times for signs of the trickery that monopoly concerns use to accomplish their purposes. And this firing of the manager of the West Van. municipal transportation system looks to me like one of the tricks. A LETTER from the sticks put a question to me. Enclosed in -it was a newspaper clipping, a column of a well-known Van- couver columnist. The questioner wants to know if there is any possibility of opposition to Communism once it is in power. This was too, the burden of the enclosed clipping. The column- ist expressed agreement with one of his fans who had stated in a letter to him that, “. . .. our concern in Hungary and every- where else where the Communists get into power is that from then on there is no means whereby the opposition can ‘express itself.’ To begin with the Be on your toes ! Those ‘opposition’ ' Communists are in power in only one country, the Soviet Union. In some others, as a result of the struggle against fascism, gov- ernments of the people who fought and drove the fascists out of power, are in control. In this ousting of fascism in Poland, Yugo- slavia, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Roumania, they undoubtedly received valuable assistance from the Red Army. It was quite natural that they should get such assistance since the objective of both was the same, the destruction of fascism. But the governments that took over in all these countries eannot by any means be called “communist.” They are composed of the various elements who made up the underground forces, who carried on the underground war against the Nazi and fascist forces of occupation, nationalists, liberals, social democrats, communists and Catholics, truly democratic line-ups. No further proof of this is necessary than the story of their struggles which today is common knowledge. f : Just what will be the opposition to these governments, if there is any? It will be the fascist elements, certainty. Some of the facist-minded individuals, as was pointed out by Dimitrov in a speech he made reporting to the Communist Party of Bulgaria, have wormed their way into different anti-fascist groups including even the Communist Party. These will create an opposition within the governments themselves, as has alr occurred in H for-example, where one group was bent on selling the country t American imperialism. ; ; The methods of this ‘opposition’ were such.as no government democratic or despotic, could brook for oné moment, another name for it being treason. There are still Hungarians who’ remember when the Bela Kun government took over. from Count Karolyi with the enthusiastic acclaim of the whole people. They remember too, how the agent of American imperialism, Herbert Hoover; made a bargain with the Bela Kun government to supply them with food- stuffs for which the Hungarian government paid in advance with all gold in its treasury. They remember also, how’ Hoover with- held the food for which he had’ been paid, and kept it stored in warehouses at. Trieste and Fiume and spent the’-money of the Hungarian people in the hire of Czechoslovak and Roumanian mercenaries who were used to bring war and devastation into Hungary, and finally the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet govern-. ment, in place of which was set up by American imperialism, the first fascist government in Europe, under Horthy. American imperialism was the ‘opposition’, about which this columnist is so perturbed, as it is attempting to become again, but the Hungarian people who remember, want none of it. The Polish government is not a communist government either, but they have an ‘opposition’ functioning there too. About six months ago a statement of the Polish government informed us that since it was established, over 3,000 members of the govern- ment, officials, policemen and soldiers have been assassinated by These assassinations are not Polish people, but are launched against the peace of the country from ‘oppositions’ abroad—in the U.S., Britain, Canada and other places where fascism still breeds and hopes. In the Soviet Union where there are no classes there is no | need of a_ political opposition, like the make-believe Liberal or Tory oppositions here. If the Canadian workers offer any threat to capitalist rule, watch how quick they drop the phoney ‘opposi- tion’ and face together the real opposition, the workers. ; ‘ PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5 | supported or encouraged by the .