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Ol’ Bill
\WHEN the brave and far-seeing
Reds who are fighting for
Chinese liberation speak or write
about “the running dogs” of im-
perialism, the phrase does not
always convey the same meaning’
-to the Occidental mind as it does
But
there are oc-
casions
the social
democrats, by
their own
words and ac-
tivities make
the mean-
ing absolutely
clear to us.

to. them.

when

One of these instances happen-
ed in the. BC. legislature
March ist. The social democrat,
Arthur Turner, was addressing
the House. Like a little dog that
had beeh, or expected to be, whip-
ped, he was begging for a pat
on tHe head from his masters
instead of, the kicks and cuffs
that come more often. :

In discussing B.C.’s labor code
he contended that the government
must approach labor with a new
look, pardon, outlook.

“We heard,” he said, “some
argument when this bill was
passed that some labor leaders
were not responsible. But surely
you'll admit labor has done a
good job in cleaning house in
_ the last two years.”

And on the same day, Turner's

Moscow has had a very mild
winter ... while the rest of

us have been digging ourselves

out of snow banks and burning
up our substance (in fuel bills)
trying to keep warm. Columnist
P. West of the Kamloops Sentinel

regards this contrast with a jaun- |

dised eye, hint-
ing that our

frozen state

“may be the re-
sult of another

ef those com-

- munist plots?.

[his is cer-
tain,” says col-
umnist West,

“only Com-

- munists would cover up our sun,
‘perpetually north-wind us and
freeze us out... .” i :

Of course columnist West may

‘only be trying to be huniorous—

- put some “humor” like some comic

strips, is designed to advance the

 eold war by satirical appeal to
ignorance.

: Columnist “HLW” who does a
frequent spot of anti-Sovieteering

‘in the Powell River News hits out
in the opposite direction. “ALWw”

gets peeved at Russian claims in

the field of science, exploration,

“art and literature. All this boast-
ing on the part of the Bolsheviks
is presumed to be “a childish de-

lusion of grandeur, coupled with
a profound ignorance that the rest
of the world is twe or three -cen-
turies ahead of Russia in civili-
gation and accomplishment.”

This astounding revelation from
the Powell River News compels a
hurried check on the blessing of

civilization — which the Russians

haven't got. .
During the last 35 years
have had two world wars which
“killed and maimed some 60 or 70

million human beings. That is the -

only “blessing” we shared with
the Russians—in true Churchil-

1

MU

fellow social
Mosher,

democratic, A. R.
told a Vancouver audi-

ence that, “All enemies of labor

are not. within the employer
bracket.” Mosher, of course, would
not refer to Harvey MacMillan,
one of the war-time Federal con-
trollers accused by Col. Drew as
accepting “the basic philosophy of
Karl Marx.”

Mosher too, like the other “run-
ning dog,’ almost pleaded with
those in whose pay he is, not to
place the brand of Communism
on the CCL and the CCF,_since,
he maintained, there are “no
greater bulwarks against these
foreign ideologies in Canada.”

When these people speak of
labor “doing a good job of house-
cleaning” it is well to know just
what they mean. Both of them
have in mind the union-wrecking
program they have been engaged
in during the period referred to
—in the IWA and Mine-Mill un-
ions particularly. :

_So Mosher, too, was hoping for

some gesture of appreciation from
the bosses for a good job of
house-cleaning. All dogs like to
be patted on the head for doing
a good job whether they are run-
ning dogs or lap dogs.

These social democrats are like
many criminals, the crimes they
commit they ascribe to the in-
nocent victims they denounce.
“There are many who would sab-
otage’ the movement from with-
in,’ says Mosher. This is pre-
cisely what Mosher and the so-
cial democratic leaders associated

lian manner,
lion’s share of this “blessing” un-
til our own necks were safe.

In between wars we have econ-
omic crisis and mass unemploy-
ment. The poor Russians have
none of these sobering blessings.
Likewise they have been deprived
of the uplifting influences of Billy
Sunday, Al ; Capone, .
King and Hollywood, to say noth-
ing of our great “free enter-
prisers” of the Canadian Manu-
facturers’ Association who pocket
millions of dollars in profits an-
nually, while the lads who created
it haunt the unemployment offices
and the soup kitchens in search
of tomorrow's hope. Pity the poor
Russians; no wonder they feel
inferior. ‘

“HLW” reluctantly admits some
Russians have made “amazing.

contributions to the culture and ©

spiritual welfare of the world.”
But in “science,
economics” the Russians are a
complete flop as seen from the
Olympian heights of the Powell
River News. ‘

In accusing the Russians of
“moral and spiritual bankruptcy,”
such as “Hitler must have known

when he lay dying in a dugout —
this virtuous back-

in Berlin,”
woods ink-slinger who parades as
a pillar of moral rectitude has

conveniently forgotten the word

Stalingrad, or its thousands of
counterparts in their relation to
Hitler sputtering out his last

death-rattle in the cellars of the

German Chancellory. =
So we have Moscow to blame
for the weather; for the “secret
drug” alleged to make fascist con-
spirators caught red-handed “‘con-
fess” their guilt; for the flying
saucers and the veto. Even some
of the right-wing social demo-

 erats tell®us “ if it weren't for
the Communists the capitalists —

wouldn't go fascist.” Now nes
the oracle of Powell River News
telling us that the Russians are
a nation of liars—because they

giving them the

and

Mackenzie ~

government or -

nounced his

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Short Jabs

with him are doing.

And when he rounds his per-
oration out with the statement
that, “There are worse things
than war,” from our experi-
ence of the last 35 years, we
feel inclined to agree with him
—there are social democratic
leaders, misleaders of labor who
gave their influences to the mak-
ing of two world wars and are
now helping to steer the world’s
peoples into another holocaust,
by destroying working class un-
ity of organization and spread-
ing confusion among the work-
ers.

Running dogs, sure, and blood-
hounds too.

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Don’t let us forget during these
months of March and April the
main task we have to accomplish,
the raising of $15,000 to ensure
the, continuation of the Pacific
Tribune, for that is just what the
gathering of that money means.

Our share, say $1,500, would not
be much for a lumber baron like
MacMillan or Mackin, but we are
not all in'that category and to
us it is a tougher job. But when
we tackle the job collectively it
is not so difficult. If 1,500 go after
it, a dollar a head will turn the
trick.

If we can’t even spring a dol-
lar there are schemes, like house
parties, raffles (why not?) and so
on, and a smart guy can think
up other ways of raising a share.

Don’t let the “Short _ Jabs”
down!

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“are conscious of an emptyness.”
There is an emptyness allright,
its hollow sounds indicate
it is closer to home than Moscow.

Two Oregon State college pro-
fessore—Dr. Ralph Spitzer and
I. R. LaValee—have been dis-
missed from their posts because
they dared to suggest that Ameri-
can scientists should give some
study to the recent important dis-
coveries of Soviet biologist Trofim

 Lysenko.

In his experiments, biologist Ly-
senko has scuttled one of the
most reactionary theories in
“pure” science, viz, “the theory
of a special hereditary substance,
independent of the remaining or-
ganism and of its living condi-
tions.” Or more simply, that the.
nature of organism, including man
himself, can be transformed in
the direction desired by man.
This is the essence of Darwinism,
brought up to date by Soviet
science. But American top brass

“scientists” who do the hiring and -

firing—while teaching science the
Yankee dollar goose-step—have
ruled that to even to discuss Ly-
senko’s work, to say nothing of
approving it, is “communism,”
and therefore taboo.

Professor Herman J. Muller of
Indiana University has also an-
L “resignation” from
the Academy of Sciences of the
USSR because he “disagrees” with

. the revolutionary thesis of biolo-

gist Lysenko. Ignoring the famed
scientist Pavlov’s well-known pre-
cept that “facts are the air

breathed by scientists,” such re-

actionaries not only dare not

look scientific facts in the face—

regardless of their originators,

but promptly fire progressives .

who do, on the grounds that to

do so is to “give tacit support to —

communism.”

Socialist science seeks the truth,
hence the ivory tower uproar,

- Defeat this. suicide pact

EXTERNAL, Affairs Minister Lester B. (Mike) Pearson has
4 let it be known around Parliament: Hill that the North Atlantic.
“Suicide” Pact is ‘“‘quite satisfactory’’ to the St. Laurent govern-
ment. Whether MP’s will have an opportunity to study the full
“substance” of this pact before it is rushed through the House, or
just how, when and where it will be released, all depends upon
orders from Washington.

U.S. “‘leaks’’ about the content of this pact and the recent up-
roar in the U.S. Senate opposing carte blanc military commitments,
are giving top government circles in Ottawa the jitters. “hes W.0:
“leaks” and délays in producing a final draft of this new ““Anti-
Communist Axis” pact have all helped to show it up for what it really
is—a pact of war against the Soviet Union and the new democracies
of Eastern Europe. A pact which provides that Canadians and others
will do most of the fighting and dying—with the very real possibility
of Canada being turned into a U.S.-planned battlefield, while the
financial royalists and warmongers of Wall Street reap new millions
in profits from the manufacture of armaments and Canadian cemeteries.

All of which, according to Minister Pearson, is “‘quite satisfac-
tory’ to the St. Laurent-Mackenzie King government. Pearson even
describes some of the opposition yelps of American senators about
“our boys having to go overseas’ as “a discouraging episode’! To
calm down the noticeable agitation among European adherents to the
“Suicide” pact, who have some difficulty selling the idea to their
people of accepting the role of pawns, for American imperialism in
a third world war, Pearson is doing a dittle bit of sugar-coating for
Canadian consumption of the pact with talk. about the need of ‘‘an
economic clause.” :

The bribe of a loaf of bread.to shoulder a gun against the
peoples of socialist and democratic Europe.

The bribe of a loaf of bread to shoulder a gun in the interests
of Yankee imperialism, anywhere, any time.

CCF leader M. J. Coldwell has also spoken feelingly about the
need of ‘‘economic’’ features in this essentially military pact. The
rising surge of opposition to this obvious war pact among CCF rank-
and-file members and supporters . . . and among some CCF leaders,
is giving top brass CCF’ers some bad, political headaches in their
shameful support of this war conspiracy, misnamed a “‘security’’ pact.

Meantime the pact-writers are running into difficulties deciding
on a really suitable name for the murder-warrant. It is now expected
that the~pact will be formally signed in Bermuda, land of balmy skies
and refugee billionaires. Since the final aim is to snowball the pact
and include countries like Portugal, Italy, and perhaps Franco Spain,
“North Atlantic”? and “regional’’ handles fall far short of the mark
of accurate description. i

Supplementary to the need of the war makers to speed completion
of this “‘suicide’’ pact, ‘is the task of discrediting the United Nations.
The recently tabled report in the House of Commons, “Canada and _
the United Nations in 1948’ attempts just that. Emphasis is placed
on a frozen division “‘into Communist and non-Communist areas.”
It bluntly terms the UN “an experiment that may be cut short by
emergencies.’’ External Affairs Minister Pearson pays lip service to
the UN in a CBC talk on January 20, but later says that the UN
does not provide “‘an effective instrument for use in removing the
causes of war.’ Such doubletalk is intended to foster the fiction that
the St. Laurent government ‘is loyal to the UN, and on the other
hand, smooth the way for the quick passage of, the North Atlantic
Suicide” pact as the alternative to the “‘unworkability’’ of the UN.

Canadians in every walk of life and political affiliation, who value -_

Canada’s independence, peace, security and progress, must speak oul
against this “‘suicide’’ pact and its war-mongering designers. United
Nations societies, trade unions, church organizations, CCF and LPP

clubs—all that are desirous of peace, must insist upon their MP's

giving unqualified opposition io this U.S.-inspired military conspiracy

against the peace of the world and the security of our own country.
Canadian independence and sovereignty depend upon the com

plete rejection of the North Atlantic “Suicide” pact.

Looking backward

(From the files of The People’s Advocate, March 10, 1939)

Statements by Minister of Labor George S. Pearson to the effect
that the Trades and Labor Council had not looked closely enough
into the question of blacklisting loggers drew from Secretary Ben- _
gough at Tuesday night’s meeting the comment, “it is foolish ‘for
anyone to deny that blacklisting exists.” tas a
., ‘Blacklisting of loggers is not a new thing,” Bengough declared-
It was evident as far back as 15 to 20 years ago when there were
some 15,000 men organized, although it has been difficult to obtain

evidence.”
Pearson declared

Loggers Association, was submitti :
ng regular reports as required by
the Employment Agencies Act of.the province wat
no evidence of blacklisting. viii i wich >
This statement was contradicted, however. 0
, by a further secti
nae letter which stated, “though no doubt this agency will only
om y those persons whom they feel satisfied will be acceptable
he members of the B.C. Loggers Association. There is no law

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