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Tom
McEwen

Fak be it from me to get into a theo-
logical debate with local adherents
of the British Israel Association on
whether Moses liberated all the Jews
from  Pharaoh’s taskmasters, and
brought them within hailing distance
of the “Promised Land” (Palestine),
or whether three of the twelve tribes
of Israel broke away from the main
body and headed for “Britain, the Un-

ited States and Canada,” there to be-

come the real “chosen” people, pioneers
of an Anglo-Saxon world — and of
course founders of “British Israel.”

Such debates are strictly for the
birds. If certain people wish to regard
themselves as “Israelites” of a very
special “British” stock and give their
own biblical interpretation to “prove”
it, that is their business. There is no
law against it, just as there is no law

prohibiting one from believing the

moon is made of very ripe green cheese.
_ The origin and evolution of the part
‘of the human species Homo Sapiens
known as Anglo-Saxon is a matter of
Scientific and historical record. If the
British Israel “interpreters” decide to
bypass all such history (which they ap-

parently do), that is also their privi-

lege. We no longer put people in jail
for insisting that the earth is as flat
as a plate. We just say “tch, tch, too
bad” in a pitying tone,

When however, the British Israel
biblical “interpreters” philosophize
themselves into the cold war camp of
Anglo-American imperialism and
“prophesy” the destruction of Russia
and everything “communistic” as the
prime aim and object of their brand
of “Christianity,” that is a horse of a
different color. Then these superior
tribesmen of a fictitious British “Is-
rael” become nothing more nor less
than bible-pounding apologists for
Senator Joe McCarthy and John (H-
_ Bomb). Foster Dulles.

' Their “Gog” and ‘“Amalekite” defi-
Nitions of Russia are not only a gross
profaning of the “Christianity” they
profess, but a chauvinistic insult to
human dignity and intelligence. -

CE ele aaa « ey

According to. these biblical Blimps
of “British Israel” lineage, the Yankee
McCarthy witch-hunters are “doing a
00d job” but are stymied in their
Christian efforts by the existence of
the United Nations. “Its presence in

the USA has the actual disadvantage _

of admitting under diplomatic immun-
ity, a stream of new espionage person-
nel... Communists and fellow-travel-
ters. . . .” It. appears a sage named
Jeremiah tipped them off on the real
Purpose of the UN,

From the official British Israel jour-_

Nal Anglo"Saxon World according to

the prophet Ezekial (they seem to have
direct wire communication with such
Sources), we also learn that all the
trouble in Israel results from the in-
ability of the UN “to rectify the cruel
Crime of the Zionists (miscalled Is-

Yael) in Palestine, in turning out by.

force nearly a million Arabs from
their farms and dwellings, driving

them into the wilderness and seizing .

their property. These Arab refugees
&re still in desperate straits and. . .
Only helped by the British Red Cross
and other English Relief Societies. .. .”
Dulles says it with H-Bomb war
threats, McCarthy says it with perjury,
SMears, character assassination and
Slander; British Israel says it with bib-
Cal “interpretation” and Blimpish
chauvinism.

Clean out NPA corruption

of the east side are to receive a

ee first right and obligation
of Vancouver citizens on De-
cember 14 is to get out and vote.
And to that, in the city’s best in-
terests, should be added the second:
to vote out of office the Non-Par-
tisan clique which has given Van-
couver the most corrupt and in-
efficient civic government in its
history.

Defeat of the Non-Partisan
candidates requires a record turn-
out of voters in the city’s long-
neglected east side where the ma-
jority of the working people have
their homes. The fact that not
one NPA aldermanic candidate
resides east of Main Street only

“emphasizes the need for a return
to the ward system if the interests

— The ghost

W ITH the demand of the Al
berta Social Credit League
that the Manning government im-
plement the ‘“‘social dividend,” the
ghost of William Aberhart walks
again! .

_ This ‘$25 basic dividend to every
man, woman and child in Alberta”
accompanied by appropriate scrip

- tural reference which launched the

Social Credit landslide of nearly
20 years ago, was the greatest il
lusion of our time. It was only
excelled by Aberhart’s ‘‘funny
money” scrip dollars which no one
would accept. Aberhart also ‘“‘ex-
plained” that away with demagogic
blasts at banks and bankers.

Having sold Alberta’s natural
resources to the Yankee war trusts,

hearing. And the ward system
will never be restored so long as
the NPA dominates the city hall.
The central purpose of the present
system when it was adopted in
the thirties was to deny labor rep-
resentation and to perpetuate big
business’ domination.

No more than a casual survey
of NPA service to the B.C. Electric
is needed to prove this.

_ All the more reason, therefore,
for the working people of the east

side and all sections of the city to
turn out and begin the job of

cleaning out NPA corruption at

the city hall.

Use your vote to elect indepen-
dents who will serve your interests.

walks again

the Manning government proposes

to bribe the voters with a: small,
very small, part of the proceeds
from their stolen heritage.

While the Manning government
boasts a budget surplus, it says
nothing about the municipalities
whose growing debt structure was
a factor in cutting down the Socred

. . 2 f .
majority in last summer’s provin- |

cial election. ’

Meanwhile Socred spokesmen
in Victoria are letting it be known
that the idea of a basic dividend
is not particularly welcome here.
That is all to the good, since the
people of B.C. believe that a tax-
reduction-bird-in-the-hand is pre-
ferable to a “‘social dividend’’ in

the bush.

HERE must be thousands of men in

Vancouver and thousands more scat-
tered across the country who have
good reason to honor the name of Ef-
fie Jones. They are in their late thir-
ties or early forties now, most of them
with homes of their own and half-
grown families, and if the future at
times seems uncertain it is also filled
with hope.

But twenty years ago the future held
no hope for them. The prospect for

. tomorrow was as bleak as the remem-

brance of yesterday, a prospect of un- ©
ending struggle that oftimes was nar-
rowed to the next meal and a place
to sleep for the night.

At the most they could hope for a
temporary job, a few weeks’ work
here, a few weeks’ there. At the worst,
they could accept the degradation of
the. relief camps. And for those w!
dared to organize, who dared to pro-
test and demand their rights as citizens
of a great and wealthy country, ther
were prison cells. e

They were part of that generation
which grew up in the shadow of the
depression, stripped of the opportuni-
ties of youth and denied the right to
work ... and without work, what hope
was there for marriage and homes of
their own?

They left homes blighted by pover-
ty to ride the rods endlessly from coast
to coast. They demonstrated in Mon-
treal and Toronto, bummed meals in
Prairie towns and shook tin cans on
Vancouver street corners. And in the
spring of 1938 they organized a sitdown
in the Vancouver Post Office and the
Art Gallery.
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Through all those grim years the
unemployed had no greater champion
in this city than Effie Jones. No one
was ever turned away from her door,
whether it was some desperate boy
seeking a meal or a no less desperate
mother pleading that she had no food |
in the house.

Effie Jones gave to them all out of
a larder provided by no more than
- her husband’s modest wages. She
battled with the relief authorities to
get them food. She organized the
neighbors to prevent them from being
evicted. She helped them when they
were sick-and shamed callous civic

. officials into providing medical at-
tention for them. -

But beyond that, she persuaded them
to organize in their own interests and
herself gave leadership to their organ-
izations.
~ That unforgettable morning of Sun-

day, June 19, 1938, one of the most
shameful in our history, when the
RCMP attacked the sitdowners in the
Post Office, Effie Jones was one of —
the first on the scene.

She phoned the ministers urging
them to speak out against the outrage.
She went to police headquarters and
delivered her own forthright protest.
Then she went to the Ukrainian Hall
and personally ministered to the men _

‘Injured in the attack. When 15,000.
people assembled on Powell Street —

Grounds that afternoon hers was one

of the impassioned voices speaking for

decency and justice.

No one has given Effie Jones a civic
award for public service, for such
awards are determined by political in-
terests. But the people have it in their |
power this election day to give her the
high honor she has so greatly earned —
—alderman of the City of Vancouver.

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