Tom McEwen Alin ITO nee ne TEE old cliche about history “repeat- th mg” itself has been well illustrated -7 ise past few days in B.C. with the visit “ Colonel George: “Gorgeous” Drew, Onservative national leader. When yrseous blew in we were reminded of © boom-and-blast days of another cad reprobate, the late and very much mMamented Lord Bedford of Calgary, a known as R. B. “Iron Heel” Ben- oar Whose government is forever as- 4 lated with the repression and priva- an of the Hungry Thirties. pais Tory “lordship” it may be recall- peared some years ago on his estate t poeand — in his crested bathtub, tho © exact — with nary a soul to 4 Urn his'exit. Even the Canadian daily aah which presented him as a great it N while he lived, were hard put to 9 work up: four inches of editorial MMent “mourning” his passing. Gorgeous arrived in B.C. with an “iron a thunder of what he would do if the ed. But it was mostly sound BS oe Self-deceptive kind that helps Tories . *0rget they are merely making a noise @ graveyard. os the July 4 edition of the Vancou- liter. MewSHerald, Jim Nesbitt did a in Be Masterpiece on the Tory wake To letoria, “Here they were, all the fin has-beens, with Gorgeous turning ing ¢ € colorful oratory like water spout- Tom the Lost Lagoon fountain, which late a unlamented “iron heel,” ‘the we beral Senator-Mayor Gerry Mc- Of proncred to hungry veterans in lieu Cem, tead. Anscomb as snimated as a ing nt Bhudda, General Pearkes insist- Canag 2 still “Dominion Day” and not son - Day, and debonaire Deane Finlay- tione ane the chickens Lenin once men- ee dreaming of Tory millet. ue this B.C, graveyard of Toryism, aia’ boomed about how he and his mhillip Would “save” the taxpayers $500 ar 1 year and still keep the cold lop tnning. How -he would build a Ome bridges, power plants, low-cost insige G24 What not. And how he had Were pniormation that the Communists Fev. Owing — or were going to blow that oe up in Canada, a situation oe iaat only be averted by electing Mori} Us (McCarthy) Drew and_ his Und party to power. his ees said a lot of things during Admini, In B.C. about the St. Laurent Agr Stration—things a lot of people tions UPon, such as squandering the na- Sous Wealth and resources. What Gorg- Of the °rgot to say was that as leader have és PPosition he and his Tory party ang sue eorted all the basic war policies Sure Trender of Canada’s wealth, re- . kea ,S 8nd independence to the Yan- emment trusts by the St. Laurent gov- Cregit » aS have the CCF and Social a, Stoups in parliament. bit ., People of B.C.,” wrote Jim Nes- tives ave Pitched out the Conserva- Fs ni ce With: them, to the garbage its a : fone Herbert Anscomb — and Simi We like that’ garbage can Co; Can a Bae Nesbitt that the contents of Quick #8e can on most occasions eall for disposal rather than “pity.” aan : Will ¢ August 10 we trust that Canada ~~ and any city. scavanger team co HN) TAA il Gorgeous and his Tory gang to a similar garbage can — and the Liberals along with them. Speaking at a meeting of the B.C. Law Society in Victoria last week, the no- toriously anti-labor Mr. Justice A. M. Manson labeled strikes as a “form of civil war” and proposed a special judic- ial setup to handle all labor questions. Just what sort of a court Manson ‘would create to handle all labor prob- lems he didn’t say, but looking over the “labor” courts that Hitler established to “settle” strikes — or similar courts now in operation in a number of coun- tries such as in Franco Spain, Portugal, Venezuela, or in numerous areas of the United States — it is not difficult to see what would happen to organized labor were he successful in winning ap- proval for his kangaroo tribunal. Just as the Devil is said to quote scripture at times to clinch a point, so do “learned” judges misquote history to bolster up their professional argu- mentations. “I have always looked upen strikes as nothing other than civil war, contrary to every single, solitary bit of history — not the British way of settling an argument.” Holding such views on all strikes, large or small, at least explains the readiness of some “learned” judges to hand out injunctions against strikers on the slightest pretext. But when “learn- ed” judges distort the “British way” it calls for some correction. British history tells us, for instance, not only how the famous Tolpuddle Martyrs organized the first union, but what they organized it for—and how another “learned” judge with a like anti-labor mentality, sentenced them to seven years penal servitude and banish- mhent for daring to organize and strike for an extra three cents for a 14-hour day. The “British way” history of labor also tells us that out of the magnificent daring and courage of the Tolpuddle Martyrs has grown a mighty trade union movement which has brought tremend- ous gains for the British workers. Had these millions of British workers been dependent upon “a special division of the law courts” to handle their prob- lems, they would still have been in in- dustrial serfdom. The great strike movements they have had to wage over the years is a tribute to that under- standing. With fine unconcern our “learned” judge waives aside the hard facts of a class society. For him there is only one side — obviously that of the ex- ploiters — and his “solution” to outlaw strikes stems from that prime considera- tion. Peering into the future, Mr. Justice: Manson’ sees “a real strike in Canada one of thess days,’ and wants to prepare for it with the kind of ‘spec- jal” tribunal that can only be a viola- tion and an outrage to the so called “British way of settling an argument”. No group of workers anywhere or ati, any time has ever gone on strike be- cause it liked striking, nor has a so called minority “defied” a majority in this regard. Resort to strike action is generally taken when all other means of settling the dispute have proved un- availing. Workers do not seek strikes —but workers have and will fight for the . right to withhold their labor power, des- pite the “learned” opinions of the “learned” watchdogs of wage exploita- tion. That is not only the “British way,” but it is also the working class way. Mr. Justice Manson may know for whom he speaks in his proposal to send labor back to the dark ages through the medium of a .‘special” court — but he ~ ‘low the lead of B.C. in relegating doesn’s know labor or its history. . 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' Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa ue 2 “VG EMBERS The Big Lie in the headlines CCORDING to the wishful thinking of the daily press, the jig is all but up up for those governments behind that mythical “‘Iron Curtain” which the late Doktor Joseph Goebbels bequeathed to our “free way of life.” Such headlines as “People Revolt In Poland”; “Hungarian Government De- - posed”; “East Germany Revolts Against Soviet Rule”; “Bulgaria Seethes With Revolt’”’—to say nothing about Prime Minister Malenkov of the USSR having “died” or Lavrenti Beria having been “liquidated” by editors who forget their own headlines over the past 35 years—are admittedly very confusing, which is precisely what they are intended to be. The method of the Big Lie not only requires the ability to create falsehoods but also the technique to give those lies the sound of truth, Whatever else the cold war era may have produced, it has brought to the fore some of the most accomplished and high-salaried liars in human. history. Thirty-six, years ago the same press was pouring out the same kind of lying bile. Admiral Kolchak, bosom friend of Sir Winston Churchill, was “liberating” the Russian people almost daily from the “hated Bolsheviks” — in the columns of our monopoly press. So also was “Baron” Wrangel, Generals Denekin, Petlura, Pilsudski et al — all engaged ‘‘victoriously” in a like mission! This “liberation” crusade, mapped out for public consumption in the editorial sanctums of the kept press was financed by English bankers, French speculators and Wall Street financiers!’ Of course, times have changed a bit. The millions those “democrats” spent to destroy ‘the young Soviet Republic was peanuts com- pared to the amount Washington has invested in its “Project X” to foment sab- botage, espionage, assassination, counter-revolution and war in the socialist sector of the world. Thus the headlines of today are scarcely new. At best they express the wishful thinking that stems from the U.S.-subsidized wrecking crews operating “Project X.” But like Washington’s “investment” in Syngman Rhee, Chiang Kai- shek and similar “democrats” needed to preserve our dollar-dominated way of life, it is money down the drain. The people of the USSR, China, and the New Demo- cracies of Europe have long learned to distinguish between the legitimate needs, grievances and criticisms within their own social setup, and the murderous activities of hired agents to whom counter-revolution is a profession, despite its “moral” sanction by so-called Western democracies. Hence we can expect the “sensational” headlines to continue in full spate for some time yet. That however, is no reason why anyone should be fooled by “re- volutions” cooked up in the editorial factories of the monopoly press. For all the money spent to incite violence, bloodshed and war abroad, these headlines will be about all they have to show for it when the final accounting is made. They don’t learn from history JN that dark page of history known as the Spanish Inquisition, the Borgias burned human beings at the stake — people who held ideas and concepts of Christianity different from their own; people who chose the stake and death rather than bow to tyranny. Three centuries later Adolph Hitler burned millions of human beings in death ovens, and made great bonfires of books on the Unter den Linden and the Potsdammer Platz. Under the Nazis every word, every‘ page, every line that did not cénform to the megalo- mania of “National Socialism” was ex- punged by fire, and the authors them- selves sent to the death ovens and the concentration camps, Nazi. “science” proved its superiority over the’stake in destroying human thought and the funeral pyre of burning books provid: . ed mobs of depraved fascists with an orgy of destruction finally loosed upon the whole world. ; In 1953 the madmen who rule the United States of ‘America, the Eisen- howers, Dulles and McCarthys burn in the electric chair—that symbol of vaunted Yankee “efficiency’—people who refuse to accept perjury, deceit, and war as a “way of life.” And books, music; the arts! Another megalomaniac, Senator McCarthy, has ordered off library shelves all books written by authors whose ideas, tastes, and: principles on matters‘ of human progress do not conform with his own. Eisenhower, the “educationalist” turn- ed president, gives his blessing and shouts “all Communist books should be burned” — and “communism” in the Eisenhower-Dulles-McCarthy mentality is anything and everything that does not conform to their savage lunacy. Patrons of the fascist “arts,” these rulers of the U.S. also proscribe the mu- sic of George Gershwin and a host of other American composers, artists who have created some of the greatest of America’s folk songs and musical scores! (These works are now ordered “banned” by the Eisenhower-McCarthy witchhunt. These too, must be readied for the flames. © The Borgias burned non-conforming Christians in the name of “Christian- ity.’ Htler’s death ovens and book burnings were the prelude to a National Socialist society which was the stand “for a thousand years’ —and didn’t last ten. The Eisenhower-McCarthy bon- - fires of books and music constitute a 1953 method for the destruction of _democracy — under the pretext of “saving” it, And they don’t even heed the les- sons of history- - PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JULY 10, 1953 — PAGE 5