FILM BAN In a spéech before Vancouver Trades and Labor Council on Feb- ruary 1, 1938, Sweeney, prominent city manufacturer, compared the “happy, healthy youth of Germany” to the “misfits” of Canada’s unem- ployed youth, Challenged by a delegate from the Street Railwaymen’s union to express his opinion on Hitler’s -de- struction of the trade unions and murder and imprisonment of their Yeaders, Sweeney claimed he had only recently learned of this, but “at any rate,” he said, “there was no favoritism when Catholics and Freemasons came under the ham- mer also.” Sweeney’s remarks in refusing! Marks’ appeal against the ban are seen by labor as being a continua- tion of his pro-fascist attitude in 1938, branding him as unfit for the responsible public office he holds. “The picture could not possibly depict more than a fraction of Nazi brutalities, some of which I saw myself,” declared Marks, a war veteran who fought with the Canadian army in Italy. “T find the board of censors’ rul- ing incredible, as I think the public will, when I think of my buddies who gave their lives to end the concentration camps, the death chambers and al] the horrors of the Nazi regime. The public has a right to see such films, if it wants to. “IT offered to cut out any scenes the censors thought were ‘too brutal,’ but my proposal was bluntly rejected.” PEACE than ever before as a bulwark of peace for the common man. Thirty-one years of anti-Soviet plots have failed—plots that began with the very birth of socialism as St. Petersburg workers stormed the Winter Palace on November 7, 1917, and the Congress of Soviets, on November 8, passed the Decree on Peace, unleashing the forces that ended the First World War within a year, The Kings, Hoovers and Cham- berlains dedicated themselves to war against socialism. Out of the Munich betrayal ten years agto their war was launched by their Frankenstein Hitler. They were sure that Hitler would stand in Moscow’s Red Square No- vember 7, 1941. But it was Stalin CHINA ary regimes against the. popular opposition of their own peoples is being exposed in China. The impending collapse of the corrupt Chiang Kai-shek regime should also warn the Canadian peo- ple of the dangerous anti-demo- eratic policies being pursued by the King-St. Laurent government. Mil- lions of dollars worth of: planes and munitions have been shipped through Vancouver to bolster the erumbling Kuomintang govern- ment and so prolong the civil war. Now, .the only alternative to abandonment of this war-provok- _ ing policy before the U.S. state de- partment and its fellow-travelling Canadian external affairs depart- ment is shipping more arms and munitions, furnishing more loans and ultimately sending troops in a futile effort to thwart the demo- -eratic aspirations of the Chinese -' people. It is a bankrupt policy in” more than the political sense, for the millions poured into the pock- ets of the monopolists and muni- i tions makers for “aid” to China are extracted from the living stand- - ards of the Canadian and American _ Peoples. ISSUE who stood there to call the Soviet peoples to the counter-offensive that became the offensive that took Berlin. The myth of Nazi invincibil- ity ended on Red Army bayonets. Peace had been won—but west- ern imperialist calculations had cost the cream of our generation— more than an academic lesson for Canadians on November 7, 1948. For Canada, whose soldiers fought side by side with the Red Army for freedom, now faces the indict- ment of the peoples of the world as voiced by Stalin last week: those shaping our foreign policy “are obviously lending their sup- port to a policy of aggression—to a policy of unleashing a new war.” The old-line parties have embroil- ed Canada in Wall Street’s policy of national suicide, they and the labor fakers such as the right-wing CCk’ers who align themselves with the Moroccan killers brought to break the French miners’ strike. Such policies, warned Stalin, “can end only in an ignominious failure.” Even now the Chinese People’s Army is shattering the Chiang Army is shattering mercenaries on whom Ottawa lavishes our taxes to buy arms, Big tasks face the Canadian peo- ple. Tim Buck, national leader of the Labor-Progressive Party, in re- leashing the draft resolution for the LPP third annual convention, states that it “brings out two chief facts.” “They are—that this country is in mortal danger as a result of Ot- tawa’s surrender to Wall Street bil- lionaires and brass hats; and that the warpath men are not as strong as they seem, .. .~ “War hysteria speeches by Brooke Claxton, St. Laurent and Drew do not add up to invincible strength. They must reckon with a changed world, with millions of people on the march for a new _ world. Strength and numbers are on the side-of peace. The great task is to organize unity, nationally and internationally, for peace. We must not yield an jnch to the war- mongers, nor to right-wing social democrats of the CCF who support them.” (See pages 5 to 8). HIGH QUALITY LOGGERS AND WORK BOOTS = HAND-MADE JOHNSON’S BOOTS } 63 West Cordova Street - - - Phone MArine 1612 Plenty of Work Clothes You’ll find what you want in our stock of union-made work clothes. They're made to stand hard wear by such well-known makers a3... GWG WESTERN KING KITCHEN-PEABOBDY : MONARCH All Mail Orders Promptly Filled oue Postpaid ; AERO 45 East Hastings Vancouver Iwo progressive organizations join campaign for 2,000 readers By FEL ASHTON Two progressive organizations have jojned the campaign to get another 2,000 sub- scribers for the Pacific Tribune before November 30, the extended deadline for conclusion of the drive. One is the Association of United Ukranians in Victoria, which has a set a lead that other organizations might well follow by ordering five copies a week for distribu- SHINITUUUU Honor roll Is your name on this list of PT sub-getters? VANCOUVER— Rita Whyte, Kitsilano Percy Budd, Commercial Dr. Charies Stewart, Gas & Transp.. 7% A. Mackie, Gas & Transp....... 6 T. Antiila, Niilo Makela ...... 5 #rank Politano, Grandview .... 5 J. Lasota, East End No. 1 .... .5 W. Jacobs, Ship & Steel ...... 5 Sid Dove, Capitol Hill ........ 4 Harry Seeland, Victory Square.. 3 Frank Smith, Civic Workers .... 3 Dulce Smith, Fairview ........ 3 A. Bingham, Vancouver Hts, .. 3 J. Lesire, Commercial Drive .. 3 f. Ashton, West End ........ 3 R. McKay, Sea & Shore ...... 3 Myles Nugent, Victory Square.. 3 Bert Carlson, Scandinavian... .... Workers” Club 655.5. = ou 3 PROVINCE— ' Henry Codd, Notch Hill ..... aera £ Nancy Hamilton, North Surrey . 9 A. Johnson, Sointula .......... 8 J. Senkiw, Port Alberni ...... 8 L. Brady, South Surrey ........ 6 Hy DBahti, Sointula™ .60:, soi... — Charles Johnson, Vernon ..... 5 Gordon Wood, Rossland ...... 5 C. F. Coleman, Salmon Arm ... 5 J. Graham, New Westminster . 3 Les Bogie, Trail. \s-..5. 3 sé 3 Frances Brkish, Lulu Island .... 3 C. C. Wallace, Kamloops ...... 3 Wally-Birnell, Fort Langley ... 3 Henry Lundgren, Youbou ..... 3 22 NL Committee and legislators who voted for the union-busting Taft- Hartley law. Ironically, the strong Roosevelt tradition still attaching to the De- mocratic Party ‘despite Truman’s betrayal of the principles for which Roosevelt fought. was a fac- tor in maintaining the Democrats’ popular vote. With the choice be- tween two reactionary candidates equally committed to a bi-partisan foreign policy, with the Progressive Party conceded no chance of elect- ing its candidates, the majority ad- hered to the Democratic column rather than swing to the known reactionary Republican domestic policies of which the 80th Congress had given them an example. The vote of more than one mil- lion polled by Henry A. Wallace was half that even his opponents had anticipated he would draw, but it was nevertheless an impress- ive achievement in face of the hys* terical and intimidatory campaign waged against him, Four-fifths of Wallace’s vote came from 10 of the 45 states in which the Progressive Party was on the ballot, New York state alone gave him more than half a million votes and California nearly another 100,000. Eight other states — New Jersey, Michi- gan, Ohio, Massachusetts, Wis- consin, Washington, Minnesota and Florida—between them con- tributed around 200,000. more votes, These were the states in which the Progressive Party had built an organization capable of backing its challenge to the old-line parties’ established machines. Wallace him- self, in post-election speeches, paid tribute to the successful campaign waged by Vito Marcantonio, sole American Labor Party candidate reelected to the House, in New York as an example of what good organization could do, and prom- ised that the Progressive Party “will now proceed to organize state by state, city by city and district by district.” pcueratit PERCY BUDD Youth leader to speak at rally In addition to the customary ceremonies, Remembrance Day, Thursday, November 11, will be marked in Vancouver by a peace rally directed particularly to young people, at which an out- standing Canadian youth leader, Norman Nerenberg, will report on his recent visit to Europe. The.rally, to be held in Pender Auditorium at 8 p.m., is being sponsored by the National Fed- eration of Labor Youth here. Nerenberg was leader of the 1948 Beaver Brigade of Canadian youth delegates who are return- ing this week from a four-month visit to Europe, during which they attended*the International Conference of Working Youth at Warsaw. tion among its members. The other is the Scandinavian Workers’ Club, whose president, Bert Carlson, is listed on this week's honor roll. With another 68 subscriptions added this week, the total for five weeks of the campaign is 359%, less than one-fifth of the objective and still too poor a showing to hold any promise that the objective wil be reached unless every reader and supporter gets behind the cam- paign. If every ‘present reader of the Pacific Tribune got one new read- er—just one—we’d have a circula- tion that began to match the tasks and needs of these critical times. And that’s the way labor papers get their circulation, not by an elaborate circulation department operated by themselves, but by the voluntary ‘sales force provided by their readers. That’s the way the Pacific Tribune has been built It’s your paper—-but you don’t want to keep it to yourself. The more you share it, the stronger its influence and the greater its ability to fight for your interests as no othef pa- per will. : Five clubs of PT supporters in widely separated parts of the pro- vince have shown what can be done by filling or over-filling their quo- tas. They are: Sointula, which sundertook to get five subscriptions and has ob- tained 14 so far; South Surrey, which promised three and has sent in seven; North Surrey and Notch Hill, both of which have obtained the ten they pledged; and Salmon Arm, which has ob- tained six cn a quota of five. But these are only five of the 84 clubs whose pledges make up the 2,000 subscribers we hope to add to our mailing list by November 30..To make a success of the cam- paign we'll need to hear from every one of the other 79 clubs in the three weeks remaining of the drive, That means 550 subscriptions a week. It can be done if we all get out to do it. : WOODWORKERS up new thousands of woodworkers, enforce the contract, settle job grievances and ptepare additional applications for certification. Anticipating organization of the bulk of Canada’s 200,000 woodwork- ers in the new union, the WIUC has replaced the B.C. Lumberwork- er by the Canadian Woodworker as its official organ. : Simultaneously the IWA phoneys were photographing headings of the old B.C. Lumberworker to pro- duce a fake paper with the super- ficial appearance of the original, seeking to sugar-coat their boss- inspired propaganda with a syn- thetic flavor of trade ‘union tradi- PRO tion. They also went to the courts for another injunction aimed at appropriating the name of the old paper. | WIUC dues have started to flow regularly, and the WIUC Loggers’ Navy” now consists of two boats. An IWA “Loggers’ Navy” is on a lonely cruise with two men un- known in the camps, one of them being George Home, CCL organiz- er, who has announced he will lay charges against a Vancouver Labor Council delegate for telling how he, Home, was suspended from the Boilermakers’ Union for non-pay- ment of dues and expelled for dis- ruption. VINCIAL LEADER\. LABOR PROGRESSIVE PARTY. MON. NOV. 8 at 10:15 p.m. C.B.C. STATIONS PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 5, 1948 — PAGE 12 a