Canada’s_youth- real envoys of
international friendship

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the conference of the “Jeune
Filles de France” by sending an
Unofficia} delegate to their con-
ference, Miss Bess Maltin of
Montreal.

The highlight of the dele-
Bates’ short stay in Paris was
Bastille Day, the day the French
celebrate the birth of the Re-
Public. Over 500,000 Parisians
Participated in the Bastille Day
Parade including a large propor-
tion of young people. The par-
aders marched through Paris
Past the reviewing stand to

Bastille Square. The NFLY org-
 anized a contingent of over 80

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Goodbye Canada

Editor, Tribune:

At last after many years of
Struggle and innumerable diffi-
Culties the people of my native
land have triumphed over the
forces of reaction. However,
their fight has only begun, now
_*efore them lie many battles
88ainst foreign fascists, against
Norance. and of course the
“battle of reconstruction. Their
_ tasks will not be easy but they
' Shall always remember Lenin’s
‘mmortal words “a difficulty is
hot. an impossibility” with this
in mind they shall not fail.

Yugoslavia has given much
and paid dearly in the battle
 88ainst the fascist hordes, yet
: the Capitalist governments re-
Bard her with contempt. The
_ reason for ‘their unscrupulous
attacks on the peoples of Yugo-
Slavia is very obvious to those
of us in the ranks of organized
, @bor. Yugoslavia has sowed the
_ S€eds from which-a young de-
Mocracy has sprung. This demo-
Cratic medicine is very danger-
Us enemy of ‘the cancerous fas-
“ist disease which still exists.

perhe Peoples of Yugoslavia
8Ve started a five-year plan in
Which they intend to truly mod-
&rnize their industry. For this

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Publique de France” at many

Wnute

interesting ev ents.

young people representing youth
organizations in Canada and the
United States under the banner
“Youth of’ Canada and United
States Salute the People of
France.” Everywhere the Ca-
nadian youth were greeted with
cheering and “Vive Canadien-
nes.” é
This July 14 was the first Ba-
stile Day that there has been
representation of our Canadian
youth in the parade. Groups
from many other countries were

‘also marching, including Poland,

England, Belgium and a con-
tingent of Spanish Republicans.

purpose they need help, in men
and in industrial equipment,
therefore they have invited any
democratic person who may de-
sire to do so, to come to Yugo-
slavia and help them rebuild
their blood washed country.

From Canada, 500 Yugoslavs
returned to their mative land.
These people returned of their
own free will because they
wanted to help rebuild their war
torn country. The Canadian press
was not satisfied to let them
pass out as they had come. Oh,
no, they branded them all as
communists, as future spies and
as the most unworthy citizens
of Canada. Yet nothing could
be farther from the truth. than
this for I know many of the
people who returned, and cer-
tainly Canada lost many hard-
working trade unionists and
‘workers. Perhaps if they would
have been Pavelich or King
Peters’ stooges they would have
received a hearty send off,

In the beginning of August,
500 more of us will sail‘ on. the
S.S. Radnik for our native land
and no doubt the press will
make another effort to paint as
dark a picture as possible. We
are not concerned with what
the press says for we Know
that the majority of the work-

. |e

“Many of the ITU mem-

With the Southam chain of
Newspapers are on the picket
for the first time in
their lives. It has been a
Wonderful experience. In oth-
€r days we had learned, for
that we had a right

to look for cooperation and
Support from our own people
- ~eferring, of course, to our
fellow affiliates, the AFL.
With the pressmen the first
Cross our picket Iines;
Seon followed by the team-
Sters, and now ALL the mem-
of the Building Trades,

Rot to mention the musicans
8nd others that have forgot-
ter all about the ITU, we
have been compelled to do
Some revising in that opinion.
Add to this experience from

bers involved in this dispute

‘What makes a labor ements

Ur own people’ the fact
that in the basic industries -

of British Columbia we have
practically only CIO and CCL
affiliates, and are receiving
100. percent. support. from
them, and can we be biamed
for doing a little thinking
along certain lines—and per-
haps drawing conclusions not
entirely in line with old ideas
of what constitutes a LABOR
MOVEMENT? There are
over 30,000 members of the
IWA (loggers) in B.C. and
we would be safe to offer a
reward of $5 for anyone who
could locate a logger who
buys the non-union Southam
Province. And so it {fs with
the coal miners, the. fisher
men, the hard rock miners,
the smeltermen. We are mak-
ing these observations not be-
cause we like to, but because
we have to. It’s the truth.”
—(From ITU Strike Bulle

What

. tin, July 1%, 1947).

¥

—PARIS.

HE Canadian delegation to the World Youth Festival at Prague, Czechoslo-

vakia, received a great welcome during their short stay here last week. The 30
National Federation of Labor Youth delegates, whc. are joining a larger group of
120 Canadian delegates in Prague, were guests in Paris of the “Union de Jeunesse Re-
The NFLY sent fraternal greetings to

Foltowing the Bastille Day
parade, the young delegates from
B.C., Max Martin, Goldie Popo-
vich, Glyn Thomas and Denny
Arseneault, were quoted as fol-
lows: “We have never seen such
enthusiasm as the French have
shown — singing and cheering
the whole three miles of the par-
ade.” In the evening of July
14th the celebration continued
with fireworks and street danc-
ing everywhere. The Canadian
delegates left Paris for Prague
on July 18 for the opening of
the World Youth Festival.

CnaTneat

bou Please.

We know

ers are behind us.
that the democratic papers such >
as the Pacific Tribune, will give
us a hearty send-off, and that
the democratic press and the
people of Yugoslavia will give

us an overwhelming welcome
as they did to the 500 comrades,
who left in June.

In conclusion, I would like to
bid all my comrades and friends
goodbye, although I know that
in the labor movement there are
no goodbyes, for we shall never
be separated in’ spirit, and what
else matters. :

I am returning to help re-
build my homeland, I assure you
that I shall do my best in help-
ing build the new democracy,
so that not even Truman’s atom
bomb can destroy it.

And now I salute you with
the Yugoslav slogan which Hit-
ler heard as a nightmare in
every sleep: “Death to fascism,
freedom tothe people.”

2 GEORGE BASICH.
Vancouver, B.C.

The ‘double-cross’
Editor, Tribune:

It seems very strange that only
one country has truly learned
the methods of the capitalists.
I refer to their usual tactic the
‘double cross’.

Only Russia never offers an-
other chance for the ‘D.C.’ by
the .capitalists. The Indonesian
affair is the latest where the
Dutch ruling class, no doubt
taking orders from the ‘Wolves
of Wall Street’, got the natives
to negotiate only until the Brit-
ish and Americans had armed
the Dutch. troops..

The common people in all
other countries except Russia
persist in trusting the capitalists
to act square and they pay a
terrible price.

After Hitler in Greece, the
people had completé command

of their own country for two.

days, then they allowed the
British troops in -with waving
flags, what an error. -

The common peoples’ slogan

_ should be in all countries: “The
. capitalist will double cross any ~

one, any time,-for. profit.”

I would like to see a book’

written on this subject for the

benefit of the people. = = = =
SAM REYNOLDS.

Vancouver, B.C. © aoe ©

Short Jabs

mby Ol Bill

TS vociferous champion of reactionary CMA toryism in B.C,
Allan J. McDonell, MLA, staunch advocate of skinflint wages in
Vancouver iron foundries, one of the begetters of Bill 39, is reported
to have told an audience of students at a UBC forum that Bil} 39

is now the law of the country and will have
Lew enforcement

to be enforced. It is amazing at: times how

profoundly legal some of these picayune,
petty business, Reader’s Digest mentalities can become
when they are, as Shakespeare puts it, “drest in a little brief
authority.” Enforcing a law means just what it says—using foree
to put it into effect, to make it stick, in plain language. The tone
of McDonell’s language is a dead give-away that he knows quite
well that Bill 39 was not passed in the interest of the people of
B.C., but by an organize@ clique who are fully aware that they.
will have to use brute foree if it is to become part of the statute
law of this province.

If McDonell is such a stickler for the. “enforcement” of the
law maybe he will tell us why neither he nor his government has
ever taken any steps towards “enforcing” the Health Act passed

by. the B.C. Legislature and placed on the statute books of the

province eleven years ago?

Although the machinery for operating the act, including 2
three-man board, the members ef which may still be drawing their
salaries for all we know, the doctors who are better organized than
the iron-moulders, merely said, “No, we won't havé anything to do
with this act; we refuse to operate it.” :

Has anyone ever heard of even one doctor being fined $10 a
day or sent to the jug? Has the Medical ‘Association been soaked
$150 a day or any of its officers $50 a day for striking against
the conditions of the law, the sole purpose of which was to
improve the health standards of the people of B.C.? Did they
take a government supervised strike vote before withholding their
‘labor’?

Did they go through any of the monkey business imposed on,
the productive workers by the CMA Bill 39? They did not! So
why doesn’t McDonell, MLA, go to work and ‘enforce’ _the law
on them? is aa a ose: swig

The answer is simple. Medica! doctors as a class have the same.
mental outlook as the ruling class; the ¢lass which is represented
by the CMA. There are undoubtedly, a’ few sincere and honest’
medicos to whom the oath of Hippocrates means something~ and’
whose political understanding is in line with the best of the in-
dustrial workers, but as a whole they are, or imagine themselves
to be, business men with similar interests and outlook on life:
as the exploiters of labor who ewn iron foundries, mines, smelters,’

logging operations and other such means of “acquiring” wealth. —

&
That is why the treatment of the doctors, who have been on

strike against the people of B.C. for over: eleven years, is different: 2

to that accorded to the laundry workers of Nanaimo who are only:
striking against a penny-pinching, tinhorn, would-be slave-owning i
outfit. i : : oe Bike ae). ae

ce ; Lee

This alleged law, that McDonell, MLA, says must be enforced!

is in the same class us the constitutions that are made to be

broken. It is not a law, it is a vicious iniquity. The man or woman

worker who coes not break it will be surrendering their mannood

or womanhood—for its provisions are equivalent to imposing chattel
slavery on the workers of British Columbia.

Nobody could ever accuse Sam Gompers of being a ‘red,’ but
his advice to workers against whom the bosses took out injunctions
was to ‘break the injunction!’ If he was in B.C. today, his advice
‘to the workers would undoubtedly be “Break the law embodied
in Bill 39.’ ;

He would be right, too, for slavery has no place in 20th century
democracy. :

.

QTILL discussing law! An English paper just received carries part

of the debate in the House of Commons in that .country on the
Labor government’s proposed Agricultura] bill. This bill ‘proposes
to give financial assistance. to small holders. to the extent of 75

percent of their total working: capital.
Landlord and tenant

The scheme. is meant ‘to enable farm

workers to start in on their own farms
with government money loaned to them at very low rates of inter-
est with twelve years to pay it back and with no payments at all
during the first two years. During the discussions..one of the old-
time tories, A. T. Lennox Boyd, representing. Mid-Bedford, a purely
agricultural constituency, made one of these illuminating. contribu-
tions for which the* Lords is more famous..than the Commons.

“This bill,” he charged, “will change the relationghips of con-
fidence and mutual aid between
sweet! “5

And who is’ Lennox Boyd? Outstanding member of.the Duke
of Alva’s committee in England wha represented Franco during
the fascist invasion of Spain; associate of the.scoundrels 1n the
Hitlerite Anglo-German Fellowship and spokesman for Mosley and
the English brand of ‘ascism. He took -part..in..eyery. move that
was meant to make Britain into ‘a part. of. Hitler’s.empire.. .

Wg

the landlord .and. tenant.” How |

“Confidence and mutual aid bétween landlord and tenant.” Such

hypocrisy! Try to tell that to the English tenant farmer who
grinds out his life’ in the effort to meet the exactions of the
rent-hungry landlords. Try to tell it to the proletarian land worker
who cannot even afford to pay the rent of & plot of land on which
to grow vegetables to feed his family... .. + . ‘

Try that hypocritical line on the crofters ékeing out a miserable

existence on the margin of the lands that once’fed them and from _
which they were driven to meke way for sheep or deer. Try |
to tell it to. anybody in Britain who is gouged by the robber |
baron landowners—tell it to the Marines! . . .,.. -

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