Welcome to ‘Scan’ T week we take pleasure in announcing the birth of a brand new addition to the growing progressive press of our country, the lusty voice of Canada’s youth magazine “Scan”. With its first March, 1965 edition, now available to Canadian readers, young and old, “Scan” has some very commendable features. First and foremost it is a very at- tractive publication, in journalese language,, a very fine technical job. But that is only one feature. It’s contents on the vital issues of our times has a youthful freshness and approach which the reader, sophisticated or not, will find very re- freshing. In its initial “‘scanning” the new magazine takes a look at “Young Quebec Today”, “Cuba Eye-Witness”, and other topics of vital interest — through the eyes of young people. Copies or subscriptions to “Scan” can be had by writ- ing Box 7, Station “B”, Toronto 28, Ontario, or at the People’s Cooperative Bookstore, 341 West Pender St., oo Single copies 25-cents. Annual subscription, 2.50. A good ‘diversion’ Fox persons were arrested in New York Tuesday of last week, accused of conspiring to blow up the Washing- ton Monument, the Statue of Liberty, and the Liberty Bell. One of the four is reported to be a French Canadian “blonde”, Michelle Duclos, member of Quebec separatist organization. The four are also alleged to be “pro-Castro” and “pro-Chinese Communists’, a pre-judicial description which provides a ready-made backdrop for an anti - Com- munist hysteria witch hunt. His nose up-wind for just such a hunt, Socred nation- al leader Robert Thompson rose in the House of Commons the very next day to urge upon the Pearson government and its Justice Minister Favreau the need to bring in a “white paper” setting forth the extent of “Communist and other subversive elements in Canada”, particularly since a Quebec damsel with alleged Communist and separatist leanings was involved in the U.S. bomb plot. M. Favreau promised to give Thompson’s “very serious” request due consideration. Tom McEWEN , | seems to be a standing rule fin monopoly press “ethics” that no issue, however small or insignificant, shall be overlooked if it can be used to smear and misrepresent the Communist movement, Locally, nationally or on a world scale, this rule applies, (without the aid of tongs), num- erous renegade elements who have been expelled from the Com- munist Party, the NDP, even discarded RCMP stool pigeons, and provided a very extensive press coverage to the anti-Com- munist and “revolutionary” frothings of these characters, Every attack upon the Com- munists regardless from what- ever source, is given full in- ventive play in the columns of that press, while contrary-wise any Statement of policy or pro- test from the Communist par- ties either gets the “blackout” treatment, or is deliberately twisted and distorted, Rare in- deed are the occasions when Communist views on a given is- sue finds an accurate presentat- ion in the columns of our “free” press. Just recently the Toronto Glove and Mail and the more Liberal Maclean’s Magazine have both dedicated a wide coverage to “Progressive Workers Move- ment” leader, Jack Scott, In Mac- lean’s of February 20 we are informed that Scott “is a walking encyclopedia of Marxist doctrine - - .(?) This is indeed “news” to all who have known Scott intim- ately over the past few decades, While many will agree that he is indeed a “walking encyclopedia” it certainly isn’t “Marxist doct- rine” he packs around, It is therefore a matter of no great surprise that in recent weeks sections of this socalled “free” press have picked up The simple basic principle of “Marxist Doctrine” is implicit in the century-old slogan “ Work- IT'S EITHER YOU or ME! As is well known the personnel of a number of Liberal government ministerial departments, including the Justice Department itself, is currently under investigation by the Dorion Commission for conduct definitely “subversive” of good government. Moreover, Socred leader Thompson himself would ap- pear to have close connections with fascist and racist org- anizations, whose Hitlerite ideologies and hate literature has little in common with “Brotherhood Week” or with the rule of “peace, order and good government” for the people of this country. From where we sit, the New York bomb plot (if plot there is) was one of the craziest ideas yet. But apparently it isn’t all loss since it has enabled Thompson’s speedy “call” for a “white paper” upon which to launch an anti- Communist diversion—a primary need of all political op- portunists who find themselves “hoist on their own petard”’ —and want to turn attention elsewhere. ingmen of all countries, Unite”, Scott’s main forte is that of fomenting schism, division and splits in the ranks of labor, Tom Hazlitt the author of the Maclean’s blurb, also the Van- couver Province “expert” of sorts on matters pertaining to Communism, also tells us that the late national leader of the Communist Party, Leslie Mor- ris, described Scott as “the most dangerous phenomenon ever to have overtaken the cause of Marxism in Canada”, In this Mr, Hazlitt manages the old familiar trick of lifting a sentence out of context and applying it to a non- descript individual, instead of where it was Specifically direct- ed: at an ultra “Leftist” con- glomeration of “frustrated in- dividuals of all kinds . . .” who are drawn together in a common purpose and aim — to split and disrupt, and if possible, destroy the Communist party, Hazlitt dis- torts the context — in order to produce the result desired, In the “PWM?” and its “walk- ing encyclopedia” of disruption, the monopoly press and the in- terests it serves sees a new “ally” in its attacks upon the Communist Party in Canada and elsewhere, What if the “walking encyclopedia” calls for the *arm- ing of the workingclass” and the “overthrow of the Canadian gov- ernment”? The Hazlitts and those they scribble for know full well that their “walking encyclopedia” is never likely to handle any- thing more deadly than a broom, and even that not too energetical- ly. But the “PWM” Scotts serve as a handy club to. attack the Communists with, and in mon- opoly press “ethics” that is the all-important consideration, The Globe & Mail author isa lady named Ruth Worth..Obvious- ly Ruthy is no back number when it comes to poking around among garbage for some well-ripened morsels to throwat the Commun- ‘ JPY Se eli yf BS LIN: a) Worth Quoting || If you think for one minute that the Negro revolution which erupted in the summer in Birmingham, which was” |" dramatized in the March on Washing- ton, which burst it seams in the riots of the summer of 1964—if you think the revolution is dead, you had better take a long, second look. --JAC.:IE ROBINSON, in People’s World, Feb. 13, ’65 * The CID, Criminal Intelligence De- partment, chiefs from 66 capitalist countries who met for the 31st con- ference in Madrid in the autumn of — 1962, admitted the failure of their at- tempts to smash ‘‘organized’”’ smug- gling. The problem was again discuss- ed at the last Interpol conference in Cariacas last September — in a simi- larly pessimistic at here. Pp It looks as if large-scale smuggling business has become an organic part of capitalist society. That is why it is so difficult to combat it. —NEW TIMES, Feb. 3, ’65 * The British Medical Association is to ask the government to introduce 4 legal maximum for the amount of al- cohol automobile drivers may con- sume. The amount, which would be checked by a test of the driver's blood, would be roughly represented by 44 to six pints of draught beer, or 9 to 12 single whiskies. Whatever the doctors may say, the layman will feel that quite a number of drivers, after having drunk 1299 whiskies, would find it difficult to get into the car, let alone drive it properly. — If the BMA figures are right, the proposed legislation would be far too — . lenient. If they are wrong, or a wrong impression has been given, a correc- tion should be made at once before — 12-whisky drivers begin mowing us — all down. —BRITISH DAILY WORKER, Feb. 19, '65 * The railwaymen of South Vietnam, cooperating with all units of the Liber- — ation Army and the forces of the — people working to defend the nation’s 3 interests, are determined that the Sai- gon-Hve line shall continue to be “the most dangerous line in the world.” at —QUARTERLY REVIEW, Transport | Workers of the World, i. Dec., 1964 ists. With Scott as her ready and z willing protege the end result — must be highly satisfactory tO | both, Back in 1931 the Globe & Mail — carried a big four-inch secream- — ing headline which read: “We — Have Struck a Deathblow at Com- munism*, In February of 1965 the Globe & Mail features a page from one of its dirt collectors, _ which in essence says: “Eureka, ° we have found the kind of Com- munist we like”, No wonder Karl Marx once emphatically declared, “Thank God I am not a Marxist,” nn i dal mer ty 1 etn Published Ford Bldg., Mezzanine N Vancouver 4, B.C. : Subscripti of postage in cash. Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH Circulation Manager — JERRY SHACK Canada, $4.00 one year. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $5.00 one year. All other countries, $6.00 one year. Authorized as second class mail by the Post Office Department, Ottawa and for payment weekly at o. 3, 193 E. 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