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Weakening labor

V.S., Vancouver, B.C.: I re-
cently read in a daily paper
where a local of the Operating
Engineers obtained bargaining
rights in several mills in Vic-
toria. .

This should never have been
allowed to happen. It is weak-
ening labor’s position and the
only one who will benefit from
this move is the boss.

I am a steam engineer and I
can see the engineers’ point of
view. They have a lot of prob-
lems; they are a minority group
and at times find it difficult to
get a hearing on the floor of
the local unions. Some seem to
think their efforts and know-
ledge are worth more money.
Perhaps if the nate of pay was
based on the horsepower of the
Plant it would rectify this in-
equality. I ‘know the towboat
pay is based on horsepower.

Joining the Operating Engin-
eers will not solve their prob-
lems. It was the industrial un-
ion that brought our wages up
and created better conditions.
We must stick with it and help
to make it better. pe

faiuitesta Callies =

JACKIE BURKHOLDER,

Wancouver, B.C.: Epitaph to our |

late comrade Fred Collins:
You have drawn your last
breath. You have walked your
last mile. You have spoken
your last words of wisdom. |
But you will not be forgotten,
You were at peace when you
left us, for you had joined 4
smal] army of Canadian men
and women who relentlessly
fight not for themselves but for
a better Canada and a_ better
life for mankind as a whole.
You knew the path was not
‘easy to tread but you didn’t
waver. You strove to go for-
ward, to help others to go for-
ward to that new day when
there will be no more shadows
darkening man’s happiness.
You started young, believing,
organizing and educating, watch-

White

H.G.,.

ing history in the making and
being part of it with all other
Canadians,

You lived for many years in
Toronto and your name is link-
ed with many working class vic-
tories and sorrows. And those
‘in Toronto will not forget.

We young people in’ Vancou-
ver never knew much about
your life in Toronto, Fred. Our
ages clashed. You were more
experienced in the ways of life
than we were.

But you didn’t forget the
youth or many of their ways.
You realized that they would
one day be the builders of so-
cialism and you tried to educate,
to lift to a higher level, the
young people you knew. The
ones who thought of you not
only as a teacher but as a friend,
remember.

To you, Fred, there was only

one class. It didn’t matter what.

he or she owned, that didn’t
count. ‘You were only interest-
ed in friendship and the solid-
arity of comrades. ’

Your sense of humor used to
bubble inside of you and burst
forth in the most trying and
tedious tasks. It would bring

* smiles and laughter from the

comrades, making the load not
so heavy and reminding every-
one of the glorious future ahead.

You dreamed too, Fred.
Dreamed of a new day when
the filth and muck of capital-
ism had been cleaned out. You
dreamed of chianging Vancou-
ver. You dreamed of a city
with a Marine Drive circling it,
with wide clean streets shaded
from boulevards filled with
trees. You dreamed of a new
housing project, and the day
when there would be no slums
and no rats. :

Your dreams were not in vain.
For you have educated the
young people, and they will step
into the place you have vacated.

But those of us who are now
looking at that vacated place
will remember. Will remember
a comrade who instilled respect
and pride in his class. We will
take a vow, Fred. that we will
struggle harder towards that
better day; and Fred, we will
not forget.

: our De yi Easy
What We Peate.

Yankee penetration

HK. L. KNOTT, Nanaimo, B.C.:
The plan of the Black Ball Ferry
Line to establish a run between
Nanaimo and Vancouver, has
caused considerable interest
here.

During a discussion with some
workers, one of them, realizing
the extent of the CPR monopo-
ly on Vancouver Island, said:
“T never thought I would see
the day when another outfit
would be able to buck the CPR.”’

Another worker, still more
alive to the domination of Am-
erican capital, said: ‘“‘Well, I
bet nobody but a Yankee outfit
could do it.”

It is interesting to note that
the CPR (which at one time
was 95 percent English capital)
is rapidly being taken over by
U.S. monopolists; who in turn
seek to drain off all the wealth
of Canada. Even the oldest
company in Canada, the Hud-
son’s Bay Company, has an-
nounced that (as reported in the
Vancouver Sun) at its next
meeting in November it will
pass a company law limiting for-
eign ownership of its shares to
25 percent, commonwealth
shareholders excluded.

It is reported that Canadian
capitalists, like their counter-
parts in government, are acting
as front men for penetration of
Wall Street in Canada by pur-
chasing shares for American in-
terests. Wall Street has taken
over the CPR‘and now seeks to
take over that last stronghold
of British imperialism in Can-
ada, the Hudson’s Bay Company.

But it was evident from the
discussion that the workers are
becoming aware of the American
hold on the Canadian economy

and that they are beginning to’

think in terms of Canadians
owning their own industries.

I think that the Pacific Trib-
une is doing a first-rate job to
help the Canadian people to un-
derstand the problems of Am-
erican -domination and to lead
them to struggle for indepen-
dence.

in the Sun

Memories of Vancouver .

following poem was sent to the Pacific Tribune by Alice
Buck, wife of Tim Buck, following her first visit to the
Coast a few months ago:

Majestic are the mountains
That in the background lie.
I see again their splendor
Within my memory’s eye.

Long shall I remember

That scene of beauty rare,
The shoreline and the beaches,
Isles beyond compare.

Tall trees that were standing

When Columbus touched these shores;
Wild flowers that took me backward
To childhood days of yore.

The welcome I was given
By friends both old and new
Is something I shall cherish
As through the years I go.

May the day come ever nearer

When this dream we have comes true:
Workers and their children

Not just the ‘cherished few’

. Shall travel as their birthright

And see the wonders fair :

That mother nature gave us

In this land we hold so dear.

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The British people take a hand.

Get another sub

GEORGE PALMER, Vancou-
ver, B.C.: During the present
drive for new subscribers our
hard-working press builders
come up against problems like
these: “Why should I take that
paper when I get all the news
or the Province?” or
“You can get letters in those
papers if you have anything to
say.”’

All the news? “What does the
reader of the Sun or Province
know about the greatest con-
struction projects ever launch-
ed in the history of the world?
Projects for peace in the Soviet
Union, irrigation schemes, hy-
droelectric and transportation
schemes on a scale not even
dreamed about in America —
and that make Kitimat look like
a child’s meccano-set in compar-
ison. What does the Sun or
‘thé Province print about the
complete remaking of the lives
of half a billion people in China,
or the world-shaking ° events
transpiring wherever socialism
has taken root.

Letters to the daily papers if
you have anything to say? That
is a big laugh. Letters are re-
turned if they have anything to
say that is of social significance.
The press is free until a writer
takes issue with the editorial
lies. . 4

Hence the importance of such
newspapers as the Pacific Trib-
une to give Vancouver readers
the news the Sun and Province
dare not print. :

Neither the Sun nor Prevince
print news, or ‘‘letters to the
editor” that would in any way
expose the lies of capitalist jour-
nalism, Both ‘are anti-labor,
anti-Soviet and anti-Canadian.
Their patriotism does not go an

inch beyond the cash register.

-Both would sell Canada down
the river to American. finance
capital. Peace is their enemy,
and war is the big “‘shot in the
arm” for these papers,

The drive for Pacific Tribune
readers is a drive for peace and
a better Canada. The PT is the
only paper in British Columbia
that truly speaks for the work-

ers, Renew your subscription
today. Get another reader.

Yogurt Yogis

COMMON SENSE, Vancouver,
B.C.: Charles W. Crawford, com-
missioner of the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration, recently
wrote: “A small army of food
faddists is abroad in the land
peddling nutritional nostrums.
They tell us that all our diseases,
from cancer and heart failure
to tiredness and insomnia, are
due to malnutrition. Then comes
the gimmick—we, can’t get well
and stay well unless: we supple-
ment our diet with some out-
Jandish food or start dosing our-
selves with a particular concoc-
tion of minerals, vitamins, or
what-have-you, ‘A vigorous cam-
paign of truth about nutrition
and diet is needed.” -

No city in Canada has as
many “health quacks” as Van-

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 24, 1952 — PAGE 17

.\“wonder foods.”

couver. Mystic religions have —
always flourished on the west
coast; now it seems that the
same type of people who fall
for yogis also fall for yogurt.
One of the “wonder .foods” 18 —
blackstrap molasses, the dregs
of sugar making. The definition
in the Encyclopedia of Food is
hardly flattering: ‘“BlackstraP
molasses, the poorest, is the final
or exhausted molasses of raW
sugar manufacture.’

Blackstrap has its uses; it is
good for cattle feed and is us®
ful in the production of alcohol _
and yeast. Great Britain take>—
a sensible view. Its sale is out
side the jurisdiction of theymil-
istry of food, because it 1
judged unfit for human COR
sumption, But the molasses
controller allots it to manufac
turers of cattle feed and similar
consumers, : ,

Yogurt is another ‘wonder!
food.” It is useful in providins
milk for people who cannot div
gest it in its normal form, 22
its value is about the same 2°
milk. . ‘

- Wheat germ is a favorite of
the faddists. Here’s what Dl
Charles Glen King, director
the U.S. Nutritional Foundatio®
says about it: “There’s nothine —
wrong with it except that it
isn’t necessary. It is rich
many of the B vitamins but
normal diet will include suffi
cient of these vitamins, particu"
larly in whole-wheat or enrich-
ed white bread.” de

Last of the “wonder foods” 1
brewer’s yeast. It has an Ul
pleasant, taste, is used as 2
vitamin supplement and is ef-
fective only when there isa real
need for it. But it isn’t a mil”
acle food. One tablespoon COD” —
tains about half as much PIO
tein as an egg and about on® —
tenth of the daily allowance °
iron. \

A recent article in Every’.
body’s Digest says: pete

“In themselves the ‘health
foods’ are harmless. But they —
can lure the user into a deadly —
trap. The faddists maintail
that orthodox foods are. ropbed
of their vitamins and minerals
by excessive food processins:
From‘ this ‘premise it is but #
short step to the belief that
most, if not all our ills can °”
traced to inadequate nutritio®
The trap snaps shut when ‘2%
ture foods’ are recommended —
supplemented by vitamin @?¢
mineral mixtures for any 22° —
all symptoms.” ‘ ue

The article then gives the case ;
history of a cancer patient WH?
died because he put his trust i?
“wonder foods” instead of Se ‘
ting proper medical treatment.
And it lists the dangers diabetior
face if they fall under the spel!
of the faddists. ee

Look around you in Vance?
ver and you'll soon discover 0P@
or more acquaintances who 4 —
under the influence of “nature:
paths” and other advocates 0

It is high time a_ little
bunking was done on this SU
ject. ;

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