would be remiss

not give them

city and at the
- same time point

: er for Socialism
in’ the

~ imperialism.

organ. of the

: ‘ munist Party says, “We wish very

ita, organ of the

7 VERY issue of our paper, almost

without exception, exposes in
one way or another the enemies
of the labor press. Such references
however, are of a general nature.
They do not describe specific in-
stances in which discrimination,
against the Pacific Tribune, for
instance, is practised by some of
these enemies of iabor so that
definite steps can be taken to
stop that discrimination.

When cases of
d i scrimination
are brought to
our notice we

in our duty to
the labor move-
ment if we did

the utmost méea+
Sure of publi-

the way to put a stop to them.
Two of our most active and

- enthusiastic newspaper salesmen

have reported during the past

_ week that they were stopped from
selling the Pacific Tribune in

places that are practically’ main-

tained by the same workers in

whose interest the Pacific Tribune
is published.

The first case occurred in one
of these White Lunch joints, lo-

_cated on East Hastings Street,

where no one eats but workers.
The Tribune salesman, a. logger
in’ town through the shutdown.
was not only stopped from selling
his papers but put out on the
street and manhandled in the pro-
cess.

Province and Sun?
t

The second act took place in
the beer parlor of the Pennsyl-
vania Hotel. In that place the
beer-slinger on the floor accosted
our salesman, another logger,
with the remark, “Whad’ye wan-
na bring that paper in here for?
Wanna git me in trouble again?
Don’t you know the only papers
allowed to be sold in here are the

The White Lunch outfits are
notoriously anti-union; low wage-
scales and poor working condi- «
tions for the help are the rule

and always have been. It is quite. -

natural then that we should not
expect any sympathy for a labor
paper from the management of
these establishments.

But the beer parlors are anoth-
er story. The men who hand
round the beer in them are organ-
ized and claim to have a one hun-
@red percent union. It seems like
a paradox then, to find a union
waiter attempting to prevent a
labor paper being sold in a beer
parlor where many of ‘the pat-
rons are anxious to buy it, while
at the same time they offer no
objection to the sale of a scab-
produced paper like the Province,
printed behind an ITU picket line
for the last two-and-a-half years.

There is a cure for that kind of
discrimination. Let the managers
of these places know that if they
want your patronage you want
to be able to buy labor papers in
their places from salesmen who
are willing to sell them and with-
out any interference. For may own

HNO

Short Jabs

AGI
part I prefer to go elsewhere to
eat or for a glass of beer.
®

The excellent article on the

Martin case and the whole ques-
tion of civil liberties, by Tom Mc-
Ewan, in last -week’s Pacific
Tribune, must have left a feeling
with all who read it. of the need
to take up the cudgels in defense

-of these threatened rights. There

is no need for me to add any-

thing to it.

A couple of weeks ago I made
an appeal for the kind of assist-
ance that we can give at this
time—that is, for funds to carry
on the legal part of the struggle.
Still more money is needed and
if you have not already done so,
remember that Ol’ Bill is open
to -receive donations from his
friends (or enemies) to be re-
mitted to the Civil Liberties
Union, whose treasurer will ac-
knowledge their receipt. We are
still a long way from our $200
objective yet.

The dictatorship of the legal
profession, the Benchers of the
Law Society and Attorney-Gen-
eral Wismer, who are responsible
for this attack on our civil rights,
are not laying down on the job.
We cannot defeat them by being
complacent. If we don’t stop them
in this case, soon we will see our
trade union rights, free speech
and assembly, freedom of the press
and all that has been won by
spilled blood and jailing of our
class, wiped out.

Don’t be complacent! Help fin-

_ancially now! igus
NNUNUVAAAAHA HAUT

nas We. e See lt

THIS week the American tenes,
: Worker eelebrates its 25th
birthday. This event is not only

a matter of justifiable pride to
American workers, but indeed to

workers everywhere. From al-
most every country in the world
greetings have come to the Daily
Worker from the editors and staff
of the Communist press. In the
Daily Worker
they recognize
a valiant fight-

most
powerful citadel
of reactionary |

L’Humanite,
French Com-

warmly that the fellow-paper of
“the French Humanite develops
as it is worthy, to the high ad-
vantage of the workers of the
United States. -’ From L’Un-
Communist
Party of Italy comes “.... a warm
‘Salute -to our iAsenions friends.
‘The Italian workers are following
with fraternal interest the heavy
: struggle of our American friends

‘Mundo Obrero, organ ~ the

Ponkananist Party of Spain —
which the butcher Frarico can |

‘ against the most reactionary cen-
; ter of world capital.” :

Published ‘Weekly at 650 Howe Street | ;
By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD.

never crush, says: “For us, the
‘name Daily Worker is a brother’s
name; for our people it is the
name of a friend. Your pages and
your men fought with us during
the Spanish war and constantly
the The Daily Worker told the
truth about our country. Our
people know that Wall Street is
not America, that there are truly
Gemocratic people there, and that
you, the American: Communists
and the Daily Worker are their
best representatives, and are with
ub trae

..The British Daily Worker. cele-
brating its*own 19th birthday this
month amid Crippsean “austerity”
greets its American counterpart
thus: N

_ “Your fight is our fight and
the fight of millions throughout
the world who believe that all
roads lead to Communism.”

Les Drapeau Rouge, organ of
the Communist Party of Belgium,
which fights heroically to halt
Belgium being turned into a Yan-

' kee imperialist bridgehead against
the peace of Europe, writes: “But
for all that we do nof confuse who
are heading this expansionist Am-
erican policy with the American
people. We know that in these
extremely difficult conditions,
men such as our friends on the
Daily | Worker are struggling to
show their countryme& which
road they must take to safeguard

their peace and liberty that are

Telephones: Editorial, MA. 5857; _ Business, MA. 5288

iGubeabiption Rates: 1 Year, $2.50;
Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe Street, Venchuvoet BC.

6 Montas, $1.35.

=e

so dear to them. We know that
your struggle is also ours.” ;

And from Leslie Morris, editor-
in-chief of our own Canadian Tri--
bune comes that greeting and rec-
ognition to which we can all sub-
scribe: “Never has the responsi-
bility of that grand fighting pa-
per been so severe as now, when
U.S. imperialism strives to cor-
rupt and maim the progressive
forces throughout the world. Yet
never has the execution of that
responsibility been so fully carried
through as now, in the columns
of the Daily Worker and through
the public work of the Commun-
ist Party of the U.S.A.”

And “down under” the Sydney
Australia Tribune hails the fight-

ing Daily Worker in its “coura-

geous struggle against the dollar,
menace to world peace.”

For 25 years the Daily Worker

has been the fearless spokesman

for the working class, exposing
the anti-Soviet and anti-labor
canards and conspiracies, cooked
up» by the financial royalists of
Wall Street and their hangers-
on. Because of the Daily Worker
the billion dollar press of Ameri-

can imperialism has not been |

able to fool all of the American
people all the time. The “secret
weapon” possessed by the Daily

Worker—far more powerful than ~

the dollars it often lacks, is the
strength and support of countless
thousands of American workers—
the real Americans, who recog-
nize in their fighting paper an
indomitable weapon of Marxism.

lighting the path and steeling ©

the struggle.

‘Eleven U.S. Communist leaders,
now standing trial in a Federal
court for teaching the sciencé of
Socialism, declare on this 25th
birthday:

“The banner of the Daily
' Worker will fly proudly into
the era of Socialism when all
the dollar-press will be curios
in the people’s museums.”

Prophetic .. . and: inevitable!

Twilight of the gods

HERE ever the BCElectric domain extends in British Colum-
bia, its subject. peoples are experiencing a virtual “‘blackout’’
in electric and transit services. More and more people are coming
to appreciate just what the BCElectric 20-year lease on their lives
mean. A “‘blackout’’ in business and in home; a deterioration in

transit services already worse than bad, ahd to top it all, a drastic
cut in the working man’s pay cheque with the BCElectric’s assur-

ance that it may get worse.

Nor is that the whole story. On the strength of its 20-year
franchise this power: octopus is now elevated to the status of a gov-
emment body, with*the powers to say who, when, and how electric
energy may be used. Service to any customer who fails to comply
with the company’s dictum can be cut off entirely. Heil Grauer!

Working men may find: their pay cut; business may have to go

on part-time operation; the public may face a mountain of incon-

veniences; it is no concern ofthe BCElectric.. In the, final analysis
private enterprise has no responsibility for public welfare—a fact
well covered in the tricky wording of a franchise mandate.

It is not so long ago that the BCElectric’s Bridge River power
project was opened amid the loud hozannas of the commercial press
(see photostat of curreht headline sample and windy verbiage, page
12) on the sterling qualities and “‘pioneering”’ spirit of “‘free enter-
prise.’ British Columbians were never again to experience a short-
age in electrical energy! With lavish ceremonial a big block of the
power resources of the people were opened—to the everlasting glory,

and profit of the BCElectnic.

Now it appears a “catastrophic” frost has upset the calcula-
tions of the “private enterprisers,’ who promptly and arbitrarily
shift the responsibility for their own short-sightedness onto the backs
of their optionless victims.

If ever there was a powerful argument for public ownership
and development of our hydro-electric resources and transit facili-
lies, it is now. Every store, every place of business, the dark-
ened streets and the shrinking pay envelopes of thousands of B.C.
workers cry it aloud.

A power monopoly that has failed in its commitments, and
penalizes the victims of iis failure, is a menace to public security.

The BCElectric has reached that stage.

“Do you think we give him an inferiority complex?”

Looking backward

(From the files of The People’s Advocate, February 3, 1939)
MONTREAL—Premier Duplessis was reported this week as
‘planning a new ‘to evict Muni Taub from his home at 4124
Laval Street om the grounds that his residence is being used as “a

center for the di: ation of Communist propaganda.”

_ Included among the books seized by the police at the Taub home
were “I visit the Soviets” by Margaret Gould; “Reporter in Spain”
bee Frank Pitcairn; “No Passaran” by Upton Sinclair; a copy of the
Communist Party brief to the. Rowell-Sirois Commission on Dominion-
_ Provincial Relations; “The Birth of Canadian Democracy” by Stanley
Ryerson, and a file of mewspaper clippings from the Montreal Daily

Star. .

All these were listed by the police as “Communist propaganda
books.”

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — FEBRUARY 4, 1949 — PAGE 8