4 A ef Ol’ Bill Short Jabs assists "THE local redbaiters missed a bet last week. They failed to point the effect of communist in- filtration into the Catholic unions in Quebec. If the general line of _ these “friends of labor” who write the editorials in the cap- italist press is _— ‘ a valid one, it Begs could not have been any other than communist leadership that caused the dele- gates to the an- nual convention of the Canadian Federation of Catholic Work- ers. at Hull, Que. to brand ee : Ludger Dionne as “an exploiter of the working class.” Ludger Dionne, member of the - Ganadian House of Commons and Quebec textile baron, was the first of the smart gang of Canadian business men to comb the dis- placed persons camps in Germany for ‘cheap labor for his indust- rial operations. Dionne brought a boatload of them to work in his textile mills at St. Georges de ‘Beauce, Que. - The capitalist press sang his praises; how full of the milk of human kindness he was to bring from Europe these pious and de- vout young women, all of them _ virgins; what a beautiful gesture _it was on his part to provide these ; poor souls, lost in the maelstrom of Buropean disorder, with an YRS OKSANA KASHNKINA, who leaped to “freedom” from the window of the Soviet Consulate in New Yoyk is now telling “her story” to the world through the daily press. Some points in the “revelations” of this female Gou- zenko are in- evitable as @eath or taxes. First, that such a story must call forth the talents of a lit- erary prostitute _ of the calibre of Isaac Don Le- vine, to edit and garnish the story with the - spiciest anti - Soviet flavoring. Second, that the Vancouver Sun - @S a paper “devoted to progress amd democracy, tolerance and freedom of thought” as these standards are measured by the Canadian Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation, should be one of the sel- eet journals to feature this latest Gouzenko thriller, And third, the story itself, which places a heavy burden on the credulity of the hoi polloi. : Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina thinks “it was the will of God” that she be spared to tell her story. No doubt the inveterate Trotskyite Judas, Isaac Don Levine, thinks it is also Divine providence that has spared him to tell it to mil. opportunity to rehabilitate them- selves and to tive a happy liie in Dionne’s milis. So it was told tnen! So when the Catholic Federa- tion of labor now takes up the cudgel on behalf of the workers in Ludger Dionne’s mills, who have been on strike for two months for an increase in wages; and denounce him as an ‘exploit- er of labor,” we may expect to read an editorial soon in the Van- couver “Sin” screaming about those ubiquitous and iniquitous communist wreckers, who, not ’ satisfied with bringing about the downfall of the Trades and Labor Congress and the CCL, are now irying to ruin the Catholic Fed- eration as well. The capitalist presstitutes would like to maintain the Lud- ger Dionne fable as the high mark of Christian endeavor but the exploited and robbed French Catholic workers are not fooled. They know just how many peas it takes to make a pot of. pea soup and they aiso know that they can’t buy that many peas with the kind of wages Ludger Dionne pays, or any of the other belly- robbers of the exploited Catholic workers, so in spite of the parish priests who guide the Catholic unions, they react like any other workers and when the conditions get bad enough they fight—with- out needing any urging from the communists, But it is strange that no one, even Fadling or “Dr.” Conroy, has ULOUCUAGEURAASLOANN LUGE tions of readers press. We think it, blasphemy to associate .God with the messy business of treason, stoolpigeons, and so forth, While we note the efforts of the bourgeoisie from tume to time to cloak their hired Judases with a saintly aura, we think it better to leave God out of these affairs. The working people of our own and other countries just don’t like those who ili “sell them out, either for “thirty pieces of silver” or the higher rates paid nowadays to the Gou- zenkos, Sullivans, Kasenkinas, ete. Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina has “been: in the U.S. for a little over two years, serving in the capacity of school teacher to the families of Soviet consular officials, whom she terms the “aristocracy”. Dur- ing these two years she was, as Isaac Don Levine says, “reaching out for a share in the fairyland ’ v % oe life of America.” o A queer “fairyland”, peopled with the gnomes of the Un-Amer- ican witch-hunters, lynch mobs, the Ku Klux Klan, Father Cough- lin and the marijuana eaters of Hollywood! But, it seems this is what Mrs. Kasenkina’s_ soul craved. The door to this “fairy- land” for Mrs. enkina led through a small but well-estab- lished. coterie of Tsarist white- guards, among them the “Count- ny AY BY i is ( A ll ty it 1 a2 ens (pa Is : Published Weekly at 650 Howe Street By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. Telephones: Editorial, MA. 5857; Business, MA. 5288 Tom McEwen .......... oe eee Te eee ee eee Editor eee eee Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. Frinted by Union Printers Ltd. 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. of the Hearst rates high these days ... yet blamed the Reds for the de- nunciation of Dionne! Where the workers have politi- cal power in their hands they have means of dealing with the _ war-mongering press that are de- nied to us in less favored lands, Recently, the police in the So- viet sector of Berlin seized all papers from the Western zones that were whipping up the war hysteria—and rightly so. Such physical action was possible there, but to offset the war-mon- gering of our local newspapers and magazines we have to rely on ideological means. That means too, that we have to .extend the influence of our press, We have to secure a wider circulation; to get many more readers than we have at present since the weight of our papers may be compared to a baby buggy beside a mountain loco of the 6000 type. It is for this reason that the Pacific Tribune has launched a Grive for 1250 new readers—and that the readers of this column are asked to help accomplish thi? task. We don’t run sensational, war-mongering ghost-writing by Isaac Don Levine (which, by the way, is causing many, people to cancel their subscriptions to one of our local papers). Every word in our paper is in the best in- terest of the labor movement. If you can get even one new reader, write to me and I will send you subscription blanks. the last 30 years to drag a great name in Russian literature in the New York gutter, and, with others of her kind, to foster and cash in on every anti-Soviet can- ard and conspiracy with the des- perate zeal of a dying class, Unless Soviet consulate person- ne] are fools—and we don’t think they are — it naturally follows that they should attempt from time to time to dissuade Mrs. Kasenkina from barging into this Yankee “fairyland” via the white guardist route. If, for imstance, you want to build a stronger union, you don’t go to the enemies of that unton to ask their help in the building. Some social democrats and car- eerists do just that, not to build up, but to tear down, The results are invariably harmful to all. ® Unlike all decent Americans— - who do not live in a “fairyland” -of counter-revolutionary plotting and scheming, who spit their cor® tempt at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s version of The Iron Curtain—Ma- dame Kasenkina “sneaked” out to see this Gouzenko thriller and was greatly “influenced” by what she saw (?). The longing for more millet (in the form of Yan- kee greenbacks) was born anew in the warped mind of this kulak female, in order to better enjoy her new-found “fairyland.” We haven't read the whole story at this writing, but the lit- erary prostitute Isaac Don Leviné has already given us enough on the Kasenkina “revelation” to in- dicate what is to follow. She at least is no Mata Hari, but just a muddled grasping woman, willing to sell her soul—and her country —for Marshall's “Project X” dol- | lars, She has a commodity which and there are plenty of buyers. f ' workers should also have a voice in these hearings. a _Bring them here! HE prices comniission adjourned since September 16 is to resume hearings this week in Ottawa. The first commodity under review will be the price of working clothing. As in the case of the commission’s investigations into the price of meat, butter and other essential foods, while nothing was done to put a crimp in the profiteering which sent prices skywards, the public at least got some startling information on how the monopolists think and act in their control of the nation’s food. It can be expected that some startling facts, already well known to many work- ers, will flow out of an investigation into the nation’s top sweat-shop industry. -Important to British Columbia is the commission’s pro- posed investigation into lumber prices, scheduled to begin early in October. _When the commission ends its studies into the price ramifications of the eastern Canada lumber business, we are of the opinion that it should be requested to come to B.C. to conduct its investigations on the spot. That it “will call west coast operators, including all the biggest firms engaged in the industry” to Ottawa is not good enough. While we are in full agreement that the MacMillans and other big monopolists of the boss logger family should be placed on the stand to explain their ex- horbitant profits during the war and since, we think that the men who produce the lumber—the ‘loggers and sawmill That cannot be done by confining these hearings to Ottawa. There are thousands of home-owners, who, when they could buy the lumber to build their houses, have a word to. say not only on how much they had to pay for a few thousand feet of low-grade lumber at top-grade prices, but the almost unbelievable finagling they had to go through in order to get it at all. There are others who could show some devious methods of price fixing between lumber supply firms, contractors and sub-contractors... with the prospective home owner taking the beating. There are still others who couldn’t buy a stick of lumber in B.C. from a local yard, but who got prompt delivery if they bought through a Bellingham, (U.S.) office— at fancy prices? , Perhaps most important of all, an investigation into the boss loggers’ prices manipulation which has penalized the British buyer and lost to us the bulk of the British and European market for B.C. lumber, would expose those profit “patriots” who pay lip service to our “community of inter- est” with the old land, and gouge the last penny out of Britain. to swell their super pro ge EES = + meet eed . nk ey “Never try to plant a stool pigeon in the union yourself. ou ask father’s advice.” Looking backward (From the files of The People’s Advocate, October 1%, 1939) ; MONTREAL—A soccer game scheduled to take place betweeD — the crew of the SS Frankenwald and a local football organization came to a sorry end last week when Montreal anti-fascists, resentin’ broke faronghy the sialic of ie eae ae Pr es es 0 tch tte ! ers Field pitch and sa a oe eect nan pa ve fe opposing formation for the start en suddenly the Nazis stiffened, shot their arms out. and unleashed ei couple of “Heils.” i ‘ Infuriated this demonstration, the crowd 7 the field and organized a block ct Bek aot history. The Nazi crew forthwith drew back, lifted anchor retreated to the harbor, carrying with them some idea as to Canadians felt about nazi Germany. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—OCTOBER 1, 1948—PAGE 8 ? tactic unprecedented in football