As We See It

A? first glance it would seem to be
an easy route to dubious fame—
and a bit of ready cash. Unlike Judas,
Who pocketed his miserable “thirty
Pieces of silver” and promptly hanged
himself, the modern stoolpigeon of
this cold war era invariably blossoms
ee as an author, writes a book (or
388 some ghost writer do it for him),
and for a brief moment enjoys his
Synthetic popularity.
_ With every addition to this monu-
‘Mental “literature” of the Judas frat-
yeesg _the sluice gates of yellow
_ f0UYnalism are opened wide. Review-
ts do their stuff for the slick maga-
and the book pages of the daily
: Press The authors are hailed as
peponal “patriots,” “heroes” and what-
es ‘Their glory only fades when
Nother and more versatile member of
a Judas tribe comes forward with
—nere of the same.
fact, it is now beginning to be
lit ognized among the stoolpigeon
Ba themselves that the market is
as a bit overcrowded. During the
x os Re years of our cold war era, top-
: Bud, ers like Igor Gouzenko, Louis
€nz, Viktor Kravchenko, Madame

: ad most of the rewards bestowed
Th Reel big business institutions.
‘the t respective books on the art of
“Chagas nmunist smear became the
Car aa of the trade. It became a
“Bbooi ough for the lesser variety of
The Pigeon to get in on the big money.
the Only way to get it was to out-lie
ae Professionals, to get more fantasy
tha their fantastit yarns, to beat
Sas at his own game.
a
‘3a Yenegades as Pat Sullivan and
Smo, McManus produced a_ tidy
Wag’ nt of cash for these rodents, it
% state outs compared to the big-time
‘eno Which Yankee ‘initiative’ and
: jo eee called into play.
erg), , 100k at a few of the “best sell-
Mant Chose Freedom, I Was A Com-
St For The FBI, I Led Three
oa My Leap to Freedom. The
sional Ulation -of stoolpigeon (profes-
ent and amateur) “literary” excre-
ae almost as vast as the guano
ec ts on the Galapagos Islands.
the nen the Foley Square “trial” of
on it ™merican Communist leaders was

Sean Teatest array of stoolpigeons ever

rich widows to the cleaners,

‘Shevchenko museum
Opening June 29

1),1851| hundreds of thousands of
80tH "ainian Canadians celebrated the
be mversary of ‘the coming to Can-
: ane first Ukrainian settlers, and,
Unvei) Sate to Taras ‘Shevchenko was
nother at Palermo, Ont. This year
the gine, ROtAble event will occur when
st Ukrainian (Canadian Museum,
for Taras Shevchenko, will be
at Palermo on June 29.
nterest in the first Ukrainian
™ ‘on the North American con-

ed
Peneg
awe
seu.
tihen

Nt is Braid ;
Cana, ak not confined to the Ukrainian —

ns only. Letters addressed to
Useum committee testify to the
“ja etead interest in this project by

jans. pt

Rduc - There are letters from

nentonal institutions. and govern:
@ chi lies, among them a letter by
th nea curator of the National Mu-

Avieg » Canada, F, J. Alcock, whose

Welo, 224 suggestions were warmly

med by the committee.

—by Tom McEwen

_ not stand in the way.

asenkina, cornered the market and ~

le the anti-Communist bilge pro- -
by the ghost writers for such

» 4 man who has specialized in

Se number of culturally-minded

beamed upon them all. They were his
friends, his. props, the things he need-
ed to rape Justice and tear up the Bill
of Rights. Their perjured evidence
and testimony was accepted as “ex-
pert” in support of judicial virtues,
and the stock-in-trade of the stool-
‘national asset.”

Then they wrote books. With an
eye to profits and a taste for smear,
publishers sought their “exclusive”
yarns—at fancy. prices. It was all
part of the “payoff,” and highly pro-
fitable to all concerned. If these
scourings of the social gutter couldn’t
write a paragraph or sign their own
name—well, that trifling matter need
“We'll produce
the writers, you give the story.” And
the books rolled off the assembly line
to bring the “most sensational story
of the year” to an unSuspecting pub-
lic. All over the continent and abroad,

the commercial press picked up these

stodlpigeon droppings and ran them
in “serial” stories and syndicated re-
views. In our own home province as
elsewhere in Canada, the daily papers

_ avidly reached for this filth to smear

over their already soiled pages.

@'

_ A Victoria correspondent recently
called our attention to one of these
syndicated reviews of I Led Three
Lives by stoolpigeon Herbert A. Phil-
brick, one of the FBI's star stools in
the Foley Square “trials,” carried in
the magazine section of the Vancou-
ver Daily Province. Our correspon-
dent also mentioned in her letter that
this review has been used by a local
school teacher as his text book on the
evils of what he thinks communism is.

In this triple role as a “citizen,”

' «Communist” and stoolpigeon for the

FBI, Philbrick omits to mention that
even with every support given by
Judge Medina, the Communist defense
attorneys tore his “evidence” to shreds
and exposed him as a perjurer, as well
as a more! than ordinarily ignorant
informer, who proved himself most
embarrassing at times to his friend
Judge Medina and ‘his paymaster, di
Edgar Hoover.

Of course, and as befits our cold
war era, stoolpigeon stupidity and
falsehood can be all neatly glossed
over by ghost writers and publishers

and the “author” made to féel that —

he is indeed a man of letters. ‘And
the book itself can be made to serve
as a pipeline for transporting the ly-
ing poison manufactured ina New
York court room to a Canadian school
room~- =

One of the gems in Philbrick’s I
Led Three Lives is a sample of the
whole: “A Conimunist uses the arts
_— literature, painting, music — in a
strictly functional sense, to further
the aims of world Communism; a lib-
eral (whatever that term means to
the stoolpigeon mentality) appreciates
the arts for their own sake.”

On this “liberal” evaluation of the
arts, the late Ol’ Bill Bennett had this
to say: “Nothing is sacred in commod-
ity production, the basis of the capit-
alist system. | Art, literature and
snoose, all are estimated in quantity.
Quality means nothing. ‘All that is
holy is profaned’ as the Communist
Manifesto says, and beauty, to the up-
holders of capitalism, assumes its most
sublime form in the vulgarly elaborate
stock certificates that. represent gilt-
edged securities when they are buying
them—and salted mines when they

are selling them.”

If the \Philbricks only had the good

sense of their patron Judas, instead of

bpefouling literature, the world would —

be a much better place.

= tances

| HE elections are over—the struggle

‘discuss inter-governmental problems

One of the problems likely to come

- which compels them to pass this extra

~ opoly-supported monopoly press. .

- whatever aldermen represent Vancou-

{SOUTH -CKOREA

End the war

0“ JUNE 25, 1950, the U.S. trained, equipped and directed puppet armies of
Syngman Rhee launched an armed attack against the Democratic Republic
President Truman’s top Republican warmonger, John Foster Dulles, —

was on the spot to direct the invasion. The United Nations, faced with the fait
accompli of Yankee aggression against the people of North Korea, gave this

of Korea.

full-scale war of aggression (labelled a “police

the armed rape of Korea with Yankee imperialism in the forefront, has been

Under the UN Cloak

in Korea

action’) its official blessing. Thus

committed under the UN flag. Thus a symbol of universal peace has become the

soiled banner of brutal war and aggression.

Two years! All the most modern instruments of mass murder and destruction

have been used against the Korean people in

estimated that not less than two million Korean men, women and children have
been ruthlessly slaughtered. Napalm bombs and the use of deadly germ warfare
have been tested on civilian populations. Yankee atrocities have outraged world
opinion no less than those of the Nazis. Two years of devastation and death
visited upon the Korean people have not brought victory to the foreign invaders. _
For two years they have. failed—and will fail, on all counts. The laurels of
victory rest only upon those fighting for their homes, their Jands, and their
freedom from the yoke of imperialist aggression and exloitation. :

These two years have brought however,
horror and indignation that such things are

World opinion demands an end to the manoeuvres and provocations by which
the U.S. has continued to protract the truce talks over the past year. The world’s

peoples demand peace in Korea—now-

On this second anniversary of war upon the Korean people, Canadians must -
raise again -the insistent demand that Canada’s armed forces be brought out of —
Korea at once; that Canada wash her hands of this.bloody U.S. partnership with- _
out further delay. The honor, dignity, and self respect of our country and our __

people demand nothing less.
Citizens must
instruct mayors

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for people’s unity to realize those
things for which the overwhelming
majority voted continues. .

This month the Canadian Federation
of Mayors will convene in Calgary to

as they affect the municipalities.

Eo

before this gathering is that promot-
ed by such profit-gouging concerns as
the BCElectric. The convention will
be asked to approve the idea that
monopolies operating as public utili-
ties, should be. exempted from federal x
income tax. a :

The plausible argument of these “free
enterprise” tycoons is that publicly-
owned and operated utilities get this
exemption and they too, should have *
it in order to end the “discrimination” —

tax burden on to the public. It is no —
surprise to any working man that this
demand has the support of the Van-
couver Daily Province and the mon-

We think that Mayor Fred Hume or

ver at this convention should have
definite instructions from the people
of Vancouver, through their rate-
payers, trade union and other organ-

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JUNE 13, 1952 — PAGE 5

izations, to oppose all such tax con-
cessions to privately-owned utilities,”
Similarly, we think that like in- ~
structions should be: given their rep-
resentatives by the people of
BC. cities. Pe :
Somewhere along the line the plun-
dering of the people and the public —

resources must be brought to a halt.
The Canadian Federation of Mayors

convention is-as good a place as any
to make a determined start. sale tae

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