"THE wise men have met again.
Not the wise men, the Magi,
who came from the East to visit
the infant Christ in a stable, but
their ideological descendants, the
pick of the Anglican Church and
its counterparts among the hea-
then, 29 archbishops and bishops,
who met, not in a stable but in
a London palace once the abode of
English royalty.
Their claim to be rated —
the wise must be suspect in view
of two decisions

they made dur-
ing a five-week.

palaver.

They decided
to call upon all
Christians to
oppose Com-
munism and al-

corners of the earth for that pur-
pose in slightly over 100 lan-
guages, still less than the num-
ber of languages in which the
Communist Manifesto is circu-
lated.

In essence, this is a move to
prevent the right of anyone who
is convinced of the correctness of
the Marxist interpretation of
bistory from spreading such
knowledge among the working
class; it is a movement to sup-
press freedom of expression and
opinion no different than the one
initiated in vain by Truman, for

Tom McEwen

some people who, political-
ly, or for other reasons, just
don’t like employers, a man killed
while on the job is always “slaugh-
tered’.” So says the Comox Free
Press of August 12. Behind that
weasel-worded innuendo there is
a story. .

It appears that Forest and Mill,
“a weekly newspaper published
for those  in-
terested in the
logging game”,

(which, i
would seem,
does not include
the plain log-

Worker for
placing too
much stress on

- the wholesale

_ slaughter of loggers in the woods
of British Columbia,

~ ‘When Forest and Mill had spun
its sorry tale, calculated to white-
wash the boss loggers. of culpa-
bility in this appalling death-rate
of workers, the Comox Free
Press took up the refrain. The
subservience of. this journal to

the lumber interests is notorious. —

Press repeats the shameful edit-
orial apologia of Forest and Mill
and goes the latter one better by
a real piece of cheap red-baiting.

MAUR

Short Jabs

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the means used by the churches
in all ages have been similar, con-
ditioned only by the force of the
resistance offered them.

From the same _ conference
came another decision opposite as
the poles asunder to the one
above. A declaration pledging a
campaign for full attainment of
Human rights everywhere.

Full human rights everywhere
except the right of an individual
to be a communist! These two de-
cisions, so different in their mean-
ing and content, place this group

of the wise men, who would as-

sume the direction and guidance
of the world’s peoples, in the
same category as that other wise-
acre, one-time president of the
.US., the silent and solemn-visaged
Cal Coolidge, whose reputation
for wisdom lasted only so long
as he kept his trap shut.

Who does not remember that
deathless thought vented by him
while still president, a few short
months before the bubble burst in
the late ‘twenties? “Where there
is unemployment,” he said pro-
foundly, “there will be men out
of work.” Or their wisdom may
be on a par with that other scat-
terer of pearls, co-father of the
Taft-Hartley Act meant to de-
stroy the trade unions, Senator,
Taft, who, when asked what he
meant to do about the high price
of beef, replied, “You can buy
meat if you have the money to
pay for it.” These are the wise
ones who make the rules!

Knowing that a decision to op-

To the demand of the B.C. Lum-
ber Worker for an end to the
slaughter of loggers in the woods,
the Comox Free Press declares,
apropos of the Lumber Worker,
“... it is extremely desirous of
giving its readers the impression
it is fighting the battles of the
working-stiff ... but which, in
reality, is nothing better than a
Communist publication, mouthing
the gospel of Soviet Russia in
every column.”

It would seem that if a labor
paper or a worker protests any-
thing these days, even the mass
killing of fellow workers by the
greed and avarice of the timber
barons, one is “mouthing the gos-
pel of Soviet Russia.” That would
seem to us to make it a damned
good gospel, even if the Comox
Free Press holds to the contrary
views of the timber monopolists.

As of August 18, no less than
48 loggers were killed in the
B.C. woods im 1948! In the
10-year perior, 1938-48, a total
of 564 loggers have been killed.
Add to this several hundred |
mill workers, plus the thous-
ands annually maimed and
crippled for life. and you have
an appalling total of human
destruction—not shown on the
profit sheets of the timber
wolves. Arthur Francis, speak-
ing to the Truck Loggers’ As-
soeiation recently on behalf of

the B.C. Workmen’s Compensa- ~

tion Board stated that the lum-

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pose Communism will not be re-
ceived with 100 percent applause
even in the ranks of the Anglican
Church, the Archbishop of Can-
terbury who presided over .the
gathering, and has been referred
to as a radical by some Labor-
ites, has been trying to explain
away that decision in statements
to the press and in radio broad-
casts.

He hastens to make it celar to
his following that the Church is
not opposing ‘“non-Marxist com-
munism.” Many non-Marxist com-
munists, he says, are good prac-
tising Christians, They are to be
found, according to him, in Czech-
oslovakia and Russia. “The
Church does not renounce such
communists.”

It is only the Mauiet material-
ist communists they have in
mind, ‘And it is only on the Marx-
ish materialist communists they
would use the atom bomb. The
Archbishop’s Commission investi-
gated the atom bomb and a few
weeks ago rendered a report that
it was perfectly good Christian
behavior to use that murderous
weapon. They asked the ques-
tion, “Would the abandonment of
atomic weapons by . . . powers
that possess them vontribute any-
thing to the success of a world
order founded on justice? It is
difficult to think that it would.”
Their conception of justice and
the atom bomb go together!

It is good for the Anglican
Church that there are men in it
like the Dean of Canterbury,

«

er We See. It

ber industry of B.C. “has the

worst accident record in the

world.”

All that, in the vile Hitlerite
innuendo of Forrest and Mill and
the Comox Free Press is just “the
gospel of Soviet Russia.”

What a cynical, weasel-minded
whistle-punk for the boss log-
gers Fillmore Bilgepott of _the
Comox Free Press must be. From
objecting to the term “slaughter-
ed loggers,” Bilgy gets on to the
LPP’s “Buy No Beef” parade in
Cumberland last week. Accord-
ing to Bilgepott soaring beef
prices left the Cumberland pro-
letariat unworried about their
vanishing beefsteaks, Nothing
like a bit of snappy red-baiting
to cover up the “accident” of
high prices or a dead logger.
“In our ‘way ‘of life’ both have
a sinister relationship,

The Pacific Tribune cannot re-
port that “a monster parade” was
held in Cumberland, as Fillmore
Bilgepott predicted we would,
but we can lay odds that the
average Cumberland or B.C. fam-
ily could extract a deal more
sustenance from a reasonably
priced beefsteak than from the
editorial columns of the Comox
Free Press.

What the B.C. Lumber Worker .

had to say about the slaughter of
loggers still holds good—that the
boss loggers and their managerial
staffs “must be put in their place
and made to conform to safety
And , we might
add, even if it anes cut into their
profits.

What the LPP said and says °

about the price of beef and other
essentials of life still holds good
—the profiteers must be controll-
ed and the people brought to-
gether to defend their living:
standards. If that is “the gospel
of Soviet Russia,” then let’s have
more of this “gospel” and_ less
of the Bilgepott brand. of sewer
journalism.

Union wreckers

HILE ‘engaged in an almost life and death battle with —

the B.C. mine operators for the legitimate function-
ing and survival of their union, approximately 20,000 mem-
bers of the International Union, Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers have been suspended’ by the executive committee
of the Canagian pode. of Labor, of which they are an
affiliate.

Harvey Murphy, western director of Mine-Mill and
vice- president of the B.C. Federation of Labor (CCL), has.
also been “Suspended for two years” from all CCL activities.

Quite apart from thé trivial pretexts advanced by top
CCL officials for such drastic action, the net results of such
can only lead to a serious. weakening of the entire trade
union structure of the CCL.

How the ‘mine operators of B.C., Ontario and Quebec
must chortle at having such a capable Fifth Column in the
top levels of the CCL, ready and willing to carry out the
job of garroting . the unions. during wage negotiations
under cover of an “anti-Communist” smoke barrage.

In Ontario, the Mosher-Conroy-Millard triumvirate co-
operated with the government immigration and justice de-
partments to have Reid Robinson and other Mine-Mill
representatives expelled from Canada via the “communist
bogey” route.

In British Columbia, because Harvey Murphy and others
protested this top- ace e treason -to labor, the IUMMS is
arbitrarily stripped of its affiliation and its western repre-
sentative “barred” from CCL, activity.

These actions are inteded by their perpetrators to have
a triple effect: To silence all opposition to the Mosher-
Conroy-Millard top CCF-inspired policies; to enable the mine
operators to force their proposals down the throats of the
hard-rock miners with as little grace as in the days of the
union-busting blacklist and with a. minimum of opposition;
to enable the CCL disruptionists, on the eve of the B-C.
Federation of Labor convention either to rule or wreck Phat
valuable tribune of British Columbia labor. = —

It is, all done under the guise of “combatting commun-
ism” and right in line with Canadian Manufacturers’ Asso-
ciation blueprints. It is also part of the political stock-
in-trade of a labor faker who trades in suave “left” phrases
and in the fullness of time is rewarded by St. Francis Xavier
University with an “honorary doctorate.”

The labor movement of Canada will yet have the last
word in the suspension of Harvey Murphy and the hard-
rock miners he has served so well. No amount of red-
baiting can subsitute for a fighting union nor waylay a good
union man you oy aes of sy

I don’t hear a thing.”

i Looking backward

the People’s Advocate, August 26, 1938)

—OTTAWA

ada today 70,000 young Garisiiane® for whom
industry, figures released here show.

29, none of these young Canadians has

. At least one third of them have bee?

it of every three have remained at home

“Are you sure you have one?

parents,
in, relief last March, more than 58,00 were

70,000 youths who have not worked since

1%5,000 young Canadians who obtain seas
yment, but who the) greater part of the
the total of unemployed youth in the —

quarter of a million,, ;

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