481 As We See lt by TOM McEWEN Ma nt TIBI) MURUIBUE SUBIR IIRL co TE Pacific Tribune’s financial campaign for ee $17,500 is getting warmed up. Pledges by réaders to become press builders and raise a Minimum of $25 each are rolling in, but the “long- 8reen” itself is still’ only a trickle. Unlike ur old literary companion, Omar Khayyam,, whd sagely _ Advised, “Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit 80,” we greatly value the “credit” rpresented in hundreds of staunch press builders, but the cash 4s a very important factor in keeping ‘a paper ce like the’ PT rolling. Back in March, 1948, in sparking a similar ative for the Pacific Tribune, our late press builder extraordinary, Ol’ Bill Bennett, wrote: “The papers that get the green light from the Monopolists are those whose pages are used to _ blast every effort of the workers to better their _. Conditions. High-priced advertising, largely of a Misleading character, is provided for them, not Only to keep them out of the red but to enable _ them to pay huge profits. In return for this they _. €0lor’ such news as they print. They change 2 Word or a sentence here and there, or they re- Write! the news entirely. ... “In this part of the world the Pacific Tribune is the leading paper in counteracting these lies, 8nd must be kept alive. Will you help? I know You will, So send your donations to Ol‘ Bill's Column. ” Well, Ol Bill is nto longer with us, but the Memory and need of his example is, and will ae van be WON, ds Last week two ‘big “news” ene Sihoke: both roi eden the need to keep the Pacific Tribune @ditorial -on this exposure of- Yankee espionage _ tended, SU: this: diary is genuine,” says the Sun, that his silly private thoughts had any official Significance? And is not... a nation: of 150,- 000 people entitled to ie aadure at least one oe That is what Ol Bill would have called a job of whitewashing an inveterate war- ‘Monger With a red-smeared whitewash brush. The other story concerns Madame Lydia Kirk ple), wife of the former U.S. ambassador to the viet Union. Lydia has a long screed in the your new rearmed friends ! Me Temain. It is a reminder that no matter how big. - the job is, if we tackle it together, all i obleetives ’ Tolling. The ‘first was the exposure of the US. Military attache in Moscow, Major-General Grow, _ oe his diary. It appears from his careful. : ‘entries that this Wall Street ‘fire- eater demands | * War with the Soviet Union now.’A Vancouver Sun “isa Splendid example of why papers like the Be “Must be kept going, and circulation vastly .ex- how did ithe author get hold of it except by thet? Tf Grow did write it, who is to ‘presume ‘ - aot the famed Lydia of Beechams Pills for Pale © | Home Journal which - is neither ladylike, - me me Better get back into uniform and Jain factual, nor conducive to developing of friend- ship. In short, it is a blurb of obvious fabrication and petity falsehood from start to finish. But it has one virtue—it points up the need for papers like the Pacific Tribune, as an antidote to eold- war poison. Last week a good neighbor of ours down in sunny California sent us ten bucks as “a little lift? in the drive. We like that kind of “lifts.” They help to offset the after-effects when some- one has heaved a brick at us for not shouting hurrah on the very few occasions when one of the: columnists of the daily press inadvertently tells the truth. Another, a farmer, writes us from Clover- dale: “Enclosing $10 for one year’s renewal and $7.50 on 1952 drive. I am signing a press builder’s pledge, but with this reservation: don’t think I will be able to make the grade by end of April. May take a month or more. I fully realize the importance of our ‘press In the fight for socialism and will do my best to keep it going. Read the Pacific Tribune every week from page 1 to 12 ” inclusive and enjoy every bit of it. . . Such ‘ifts” keep our paper going. We'll need a lot of them in the coming weeks, but with that kind of spirit, as Ol’ Bill used to say, “the PT will sure keep on rolling.” e army of spies, snoopers, approximately $13 million. and -counter- -espionage. With the new “Merchant Adventurers of Wall “Gtreet ‘Trading into Number 10 Downing Street” to dump their atomic wares, the cost of keeping ‘track-of them lest they walk off with the crown jewels is bound to soar. Similarly, too, the cost of keeping British working men immune from the idea of kicking the new “Merchant Adventur- ers of Wall Street” out will go up. At least that is how Winnie's “austerity” budgeteers figure it. Meantime, all shoulders to the wheel to put the Pacific Tribune’s drive over the top. ‘If the warmongers spend millions of dollars for pro fessional snoopers to stop the clock of progress and peace, the workers in British Coumbia can reply with $17,500—and mCrer — it going! carr I itiated by Tom Uphill, Labor MLA, marked an important mile- Prime Minister Churchill’s austerity budget, tabled in the British House of Commons a few days ago, shows espionage costs, like the price of kippers and ersatz eggs, steadily rising. The new. budgetary provisions for maintaining an ipeepers, stools, finks, and other such: subshuman species for the coming fiscal year, will cost Britons a cool £4,500,000, or According to an Associated Press news item ‘(tucked away in a remote corner of the daily ‘papers), this represents an increase of $1,500,000 ‘above the figure spent annually by the Attlee- Morrison “Socialist” government for espionage _ should be on every worker's bookshelf, ‘because it has a message for The fight for labor unity trade union conference on united labor political action in- stone in the struggle for labor uniity in B.C. Modest as the con- ference was in its representation and achievement, it laid a basis through the setting up of a continuations committee and its plans for a larger conference, for the wider development of united labor political action at the polls. With the provincial elections slated for early summer, in which the derelict policies of the ‘Coalition government and it® now divorced parties will be the issue, speed is essential. Every move the continuations committee can make in the coming weeks toward. strengthening and promoting united labor action on a constituency ‘basis will not only assure the success of its next trade union conference, but will provide the guarantee of labor and the people unitedly administering a resounding defeat to the “give-away” Tory and Liberal parties of big ‘business. And most importantly, with labor acting unitedly on a constituency basis and upon specific issues, it will assure a break in the long-con- tinued domination of monopoly in B.C. and the emergence of a legislature where the voice and needs of the people will be heard. Listen to people instead ESTER B. PEARSON, Canada’s minister of external affairs, haa the “honor” of being elected chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) at its Lisbon, Portugal, sessions. In the warmongering Snchenalie press of Canada and abroad, Pearson ‘has been built up into a very “popular” man. This “popu- larity” undoubtedly flows from his untiring efforts to act as an extremely vocal puppet for American imperialism and its war designs on the Soviet Union. Flowing directly from Pearson’s bubbling energy, and ex- pressed in the onerous war taxation of the St. Laurent govern- ment, in which he is a key cog, Canadians will pay approximately $1,500,000,000 during the next two years for war (politely labelled “defense”) preparations, or roughly $100 per head for every man, woman and child—including those still unborn. A pretty high price to, pay for the “popularity” of one Cana- dian, even iff he is a bit of: an adept with a NATO rubber-stamp, with which he commits Canatla as a participant to a colossal crime in the making. : Our “popular” chairman of NATO is highly incensed because a growing number of Canadians in all walks of life are voicing aspera at Canada’s manpower, wealth, and resources being dumped into NATO’s “Murder Inc.” war hopper. Like a chronic addict of the anti-Soviet cult, he rants about the Canadian people “giving comfort to the Kremlin” in their desire for disarmament, trade, and other paths to lasting peace. NATO's “popular? :chair- man speaks cynically and disparagingly of all who: ver not ‘think right down the “popular” Pearson line. - t It is to be hoped that the coming provincial peace. pris neal in B.C. and a similar national conference in Toronto onthe vital issues of disarmament and trade will have a salutory effect upon Pearsons NATO-ized “popularity.” Any third-rate historian can tell him that a “popularity” based ‘on eee for robber imperialism is not likely ‘to “ast. Pearson should listen to “Canada ‘rather than Wall Street’s NATO. : An historical book FoR all forward-looking people, young and old, the Communist book-of-the-year is now available. It is Tim Buck’s 30 Years: The Story of The Communist Movement in Canada. Its 224 pages are packed with intense history—the ‘history of people building a communist movement. within the framework of Canadian condi- tions. é This is a book for young Canadians who want to know what preceded their time, and for adults anxious about the road ahead. fe is a book for and about people who strive for a ‘Canada at peace; a Canada where the rule of the people shall supercede ‘the rule of hia eapital and its jungle warfare. 30 Years: The Story of The Communist Movement in Canada every worker! Get your copy now-—it’s available at the People’s Co-operative Bookstore, 337 West Pender Street, Vancouver, BC. Read 30 Years . . ain march with h History! =