E visit of the Dean of Canter-
bury created quite a little com-
“motion in the dovecotes. News-
papers that reported the meetings
he held in other places said they
were poorly attended, but they
cannot repeat that lying desire to
the people of Wepconses: for fey
know from : ;
their own per-
sonal experi-
ence that it
took the com-
bined capacity
of the two larg-
est auditori-
ums- in Van
couver to hold
his audience.
This is the
“second time
in the history :
of Vancouver when & Speaker drew
an audience which filled two halls
of such size, the other occasion
being when Tim Buck filled the
Grpheum and the Capitol.
The purpose of his visit, the ap-
peal to the people to prevent the
outbreak of a third world war,

could hardly be learned from the-

press notices of his meeting.
These were skimpy considering
the nature of the subject and
mostly dealt with personal squibs
and his remarks about the Soviet
Union.

The last time he spoke in Van-
ecouver, the Vancouver Sun re-

Fr DOSTDYEVSKY’S great Rus-

sian classic, The Brothers Kar-
‘amazov, the story goes that at
the height of the Inquisition in
Seville, Christ came back to
earth among the common people,
comforting the tortured victims
at the. stake—reproaching the
- priests for per-
_ petrating such

brutal = cru-

elties in His

name. Pare

As in Jeru-

salem ten cen-

turies earlier,
_ the ecclesias-
tical torch-

_ bearers of big-
— oted  conform-
-~ ity, amid . the.
_ ~ eries of suffer-

ing and the smoke of burning
flesh, shouted with one accord,
“Away with him! Away with him,
he disturbs our holy reign.”

The recent visit to Canada of
_ the Very Reverend Dr. Hewlett
Johnson, Dean of Canterbury,
serves to remind us (among oth-
er things), that “the Philistines of
today have changed very little
from their prototypes who stoked
the fires of the Inquisition, or who
shouted in a Jerusalem square 19
aeprtes ago, “Away with Him.”
The Dean’s message to Cana-
-dians was a clarion call to the
people of this and other ‘lands to

join hands in a mighty crusade >

‘for peace. Peace! That is bad
medicine when the Pharisees of
the Wall Street counting house
and their lackies everywhere are

shouting for war. So again, in this

year 1948, the hired scribblers of
orthodoxy shout with one accord,

. to wit, one T. A. Jarvis.

HOM

Short Jabs

PO TOUT STITT IU TCIM Oa 00 CUTICULAR

ported his speech verbatim, tak-
ing one whole page to do so. That
was, if I remember correctly, in
1935. Of course, he did not then
deal with a subject of such pro-
found meaning for the world’s
peoples as the maintenance of
peace but with a highly academic
view of Social Credit (Douglas
Brand), which the editor of the
Sun, R. J. Cromie, was then flirt-
ing with.

That is the way of the capitalist
press: they play down issues of
real importance to the people,
such as world peace, but open the
throttle for such flub-dub as can
enly benefit those who own and
control the press.

@

Although that delectable Friday
morning bringer of anti-public
ownership blather, the Buzzard,
is weighted down with jokelet fil-
lers, those who produce the sheet
seem to be entirely lacking in a
sense of humor.

If they had that quality they

would never have published in a ,

recent number the story from St.
Louis, Miss., about a new club
launched there for street car men
and bus operators named the
“Glad-to-have-you-aboard-club.”
Its purpose is to assure the
patrons that the transit company
and the operators are glad to
have them on the cars and busses.
And the Buzzard adds: “That

Of course, we are a shade more
genteel in our day. Our great in-
stitutions of public opinion, mis-
named a “free press,’ aré more
subtle in their mockery than
were the high priests of the In-
quisition. Having left that narrow
rut of orthodoxy upon. which
their concepts of ‘temporal and
spiritual values are based, to
them Dr. Johnson is no longer the
Dean of Canterbury, but the “Red
Dean.”

The Philistines of the kept press

gave the Dean what they decree
is “fair” coverage to the words he
spoke for peace-—and then turn
their hired columnists loose to
smear the motives and sincerity
of his cause and purpose. “Away
with him,” they cry in cacaphony
of venom . .. for which they re-
ceive a slightly higher fee than
did Judas.
e :
The first section of Jack Scott’s
column on the Dean’s Exhibition
Garden meeting reads like the
report of an RCMP “finger man”
drawing attention to who’s who
in the Dean’s audience! Followed
by a few inane observations abot
“open minds,’ Scott concludes
upon a note of resentment at the
Dean’s “gibes” at our “free
press,” regarding these as. “un-
fair’ to his Sun which makes
“|. an honest effort to present
both sides of the cold war...”

Scott’s column on the Dean is
8. splendid vindication of the stark
truth of the Dean’s references to
the role of the commercial press.

The Sun’s piece de resistance
on the Dean however, is served
up by its “authority” on godliness,
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One can almost hear the mighty
shout from the Vancouver sar-
dines answering, “And how!”

Amongst critics of Socialism
the B.C. Electric takes a foremost
place. One argument which has
appeared in the Buzzard many
times, is that “Socialism means
regimentation.” At certain bus
stops in the city now, one may
see long queues of homeward
bound workers, half a block long
sometimes, like a regiment of sol-
diers in single file, waiting to get
aboard a bus, This is due entirely
to the fact that tOghe are not
enough busses.

Of course, the B.C. Electric will
not admit that this is regimenta-
tion. Rather they will claim that
it is “cooperation for efficient
transportation.” It would only be
“regimentation” under socialism
but not when practised to main-
tain the profits of the B.C. Elec-
tric.

They have initiated a new slo-
gan too. “Move up in front” still
holds while the passenger is on
the car or bus, but when he steps
off, a new one greets him if he
is using a transfer, “Walk a
block” is dinned in his ears. It
may be that the top management
of the B.C. Collectric think we
don’t get enough exercise.

column inches of cheap cynical
sneers, misrepresentations and
distortions! To “columnist” Jar-
vis the Dean’s message for peace
was “diabolical,” and the puny

Jarvis soul is chilled to its very

depth at the prospect of British
miners refusing to dig coal to
fight Russia,

Where Jarvis cannot find occa-
sion to sneer, he slyly provokes,
portraying the Dean as a kindly
old man—but capable, and intent
upon doing “immense harm.”

We happened to make the ac-
quaintance of this Jarvis apostle
of “godliness” some years ago in
a Manitoba jail, where we were
confined for our politica] opin-
ions, but where Jarvis was serv-
ing a sentence for an offense
which has nothing in keeping
with the tenets of Christianity or
scientific Socialism. Least of all
does it make him a fit person to

question or brand the Dean of

Canterbury as a man “rushing

about the world weaving a ham-,

mer and sickle into the banner
of Christ.”
e

Running neck and neck with
Jarvis and Scott is “columnist”
Val Roche of the Burnaby Adver-
tiser, His contribution is a worthy
effort from the school of Doktor
Paul Josef’ Goebbels. Here is a
sample taken at random from the
December 2 edition of that jour-

nal, which these press hacks call .

“objective” presentation of opin-
ion: “But back of the benevolent
appearing Dean, there will ob-
trude the greasy figure of the
obese little German Jew, Karl
Marx 2a°.?

Who said we haven’t got anti-
semitic stokers for the fires of a
Canadian Buchenwald death oven,
or to feed the faggots to the stake
of a new Inquiistion?

All of which reminds us of a
little ditty by the English poet
Humbert Wolfe on these “gentle-
men of the press”:

You cannot hope to bribe or

twist,

Thank God, the local journalist,

But seeing what the man will

do
‘Unbribed, there’s no occasion to.

‘

Stop gangsterism now!

N_ buildings trade union organization in the lumber industry of
Canada over a long period of years, union men have faced many
hazards: This is particularly true of British Columbia.

Blacklisting, company-promoted “‘unions,” collaboration between
phony union misleaders and boss loggers, arbitration and other gov-
ernmental run-arounds, company and state police scab-herding and
smashing picket lines, vicious court sentences against fighting union
men. Even coldyblooded killing of union organizers by company
agents has not been excluded. Yet all these hurdles the lumber
workers have taken in their stride over the past two decades in the
building of effective trade union organization.

Now they face a ‘new menace—new to B.C., the promotion
of armed thuggery, goon squads and vigilantes, organized by the
Fadling-Alsbury-IWA union wreckers, and financed by the boss
loggers, to smash the WIUC strike at Iron River.

It is reported that among this hoodlum element recruited from
union “‘hitch-hikers” and pool room habituees, Fadling has imported
a number of his Washington goon-squad experts to direct violence
against WIUC men and their families.

Resident loggers and their families in Courtenay and Campbell
River supporting the WIUC are being driven off the streets, way- >
laid and beaten up, with their families being threatened and terrorized
in their homes. ‘The provincial police of British Columbia, by their
actions at the Iron River picket line fracas and in these logging
towns, are giving tacit aid and support to this organized lawlessness.

Here is no longer a case of a jurisdictional fight between two
union factions in an industry. What is now taking place is the most
shameful suppression of the rights and liberties of WIUC men and
their families who refuse to knuckle under to the Fadling-Alsbury-
boss loggers’ storm troopers, with the provincial police giving open
support and encouragement to mob violence.

The labor movement of British Columbia can .. . and will stop
this IW/A-imported gangsterism, first, by demanding that Attorney-
General Wismer instruct his police in the maintenance of the law and
providing protection to citizens from organized hooliganism. Secondly,
by instructing the Fadling-Alsbury union wreckers that the machinery
of labor legislation and not Yankee-led goon squads shall establish
their status (if any) in the lumber industry.

Should Wismer fail in this the labor movement and the people
of this province will devise its own protection against Fadling’s imported
Al Capones and their misguided dupes on Vancouver Island. British
Columbians are no more partial to the import of fascism from Wash-
ington than they were from Berlin.

“Do you have a combination greeting card and eviction notice?”

Looking backward

(From the files of The People’s Advocate, December 16, 1938) _
Representations made to Attorney-General Wismer by Citizens’
Defense Committee and other labor groups for the release of 108
unemployed men by Xmas may meet’ with success it was learned

by the Advocate,

The minister of justice at Ottawa is being requested by the pro-
vincial Attorney-General to agree to the release of the men since —
all persons sentenced come under the federal minister’s jurisdiction. |

The men were sentenced to terms of four and six months in
prison for tincawning on Vancouver streets after relief authorities
refused to grant relief to unemployed following a Symmes hectic
effort to get assistance or work. :

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