Thi He had fo go to ‘Peg fo get in hospital : LOGGER, Vancouver, B. C.: There is so much talk regarding hospital insurance that I think Pll put in my two cents worth, too, : i I would suggest that the gov- ernment keep the money we've Paid in to date — and drop the Whole scheme, It seems like the more money we pay in, the closer the hospitals are to “bankruptcy.” Personally, I’ll leave the proy- ince before I pay ,another cent for hospital insurdnce. I paid - for it the first year. Then, a _ Couple of months later-I fractured two ribs on the job. I kept Working for a week with a ter- tific pain in my side (at that time I Uidn’t know about the fractured ribs), The pain kept Setting worse so I took a couple , of weeks off and came to Van- “Couver. The Compensation Board told me that if I was able to nothing the matter, with me, it Was all my imagination. (I went to the General Hospital Bad the 8irl at the desk told me she could get me an appointment Ratha, ‘doctor in two weeks. “What?” I “gala! “I’ve got to See a doctor right now. I’m in a Pain, and I have this hospitaliza- tion paid up.” ‘ “Sorry,” she said, “You'll still have to wait two weeks.” Went to see a private doctor. He taped me up and sent me home, saying I’d be all right _ in a month, Later 1 went back On the job, but developed some kind of itch on my back, Then I went to Winnipeg, was ex- amined by. three doctors at St. Boniface - hospital, showed them ‘My B.C, hospital insurance tard, and they treated me and sent the bill ($21) to B.C.,: which was the cost of one week’s hospital- ation in Winnipeg. So now you'll arab seuaind why Til go east rather than to Van- é ‘Couver in the future. But why: ¥ : is it that Winnipeg can keep "Patients in hospital for $21 a Week and not go in the hole, yet ay can’t do it in this province? + Worker states facts vin parks board i issue PARK BOARD WORKER, __ Vancouver, B.C.: — Vancouver’s Bes? | Park Commissioners are on the 4 Spot and they know it. They Were put on the spot by Van- Couver Civic Employeés Union, Local 28, the bargaining agent ey for the board’s outside workmen. fore issue is Sam Lindsay. te “a \ This is the branch of the civie Rees Service that Sam Lindsay came from. ‘This is the.fone big de- ~ Union didn’t even get to first P _ base. Out of 200 men on the pay- _. ‘Toll when Lindsay joined forces Ay Ppeckoft, This speaks well for the trade union understanding : hese workers, Conversely, Tyne not speak well for peeve os sues with his workmates, -.Who have _known him for some «Years. "Whe comimen saying among (Bs dent of Local 28 despite our. votes Aoeme Met, afm. \4 a Lindsay left. his work last Oc- Abor Congress payroll along with — “©m Gooderham of Victoria, un- €r ‘the direction Work a week with it, there was. I borrowed some money and. _Partment where Carl, Berg’s rump - ‘With Berg, only five revoked their , 7 ex rk the outside workmen in the parks’ : _’S: “Lindsay was elected presi- a er, to go on the Trades and f Carl Bérg. Wate Their job was to disrupt or smash Local 28.. From this time up to February 14, Lindsay had no leave of absence from the board. On that date, a strong rank-and- file delegation from Local 28 ap- peared before the board with a petition signed by 150 of their workmates, demanding that Lind- say receive the same treatment as any ‘other employee of the board. Board regulations provide that where an employee requires rhore than one week’s leave for personal business, he must make a written application. Up to that date, ‘Lindsay had made no ap- plication. - At the recent meeting, Commis- sioner Stroyan revealed that he had subsequently received a letter from Lindsay, back-dated Febru- ary 12 and requesting leave. Now, Lindsay is requesting an indefinite, extension of his “leave” in order to carry out his “union duties.” The solemnly debated whether or not Lindsay can be given leave under the contract they hold with Local | 28, which provides for leave with- out pay, on request of Local 28, ‘for Local 28 business. As one commissioner put it: “The ques+ tion is whether or not Mr. Lind- _say’s claim can be said to fall within the spirit of the contract?” The answer is | definitely ‘“no.” In the first place, Lindsay was off work: for more than three months without leave. employee would be fired for such violation of work rules. By gloss- ing over this fact the board is openly endorsing the union-bust- . ing activities of Lindsay, against the wishes of 98 percent of their Seguier worsen. It is no secret in local Biber circles that Lindsay's rump union commissioners © Any other © is not collecting enough dues to— - pay his salary and office rent. That’s why the Sun refers to his uphill fight.” That's why the Province quotes Lindsay as find- ing it “virtually impossible” to break the park board away from Local 28. Similarly, the News- Herald, which has been a good \ friend of Local 407, now speaks -of Lindsay’s “attempts to oust” Local 28. The rump union has won certi- fication in two small units not directly connected with Vancou- ver City Council and employing only 90.workers, out of more _ than 1,500. ‘Perhaps this explains why the Board of Patk Commissioners, a solid Non-Partisan » bloc with a OCF: chairman, are so) eager’ to help Lindsay? Perhaps. they know that Local 28 has come out on top and that there is no future ‘tor Sam Lindsay as an, organizer. Perhaps the commissioners want ‘to’make sure that Sam will have a job to go to when Local 407 tRiee up? ‘ ae the eyes of Comthissioner Buda Brown, Lindsay is a “Dat- riotic Canadian. » Arnold Web- ster, CCF Chairman of the board, said, “You can trust the board to do the reasonable, thing to you.” date union-busting and raiding are patriotic, then there is no question in dispute, Lindsay should get ‘more than his job - pags He should, get a position : - labor-front haviser to the oat of Commissioners. But if the Board of Commissioners be- _Heve in collective. bargaining and ‘want to ‘honor their agreement. - with their employees, then there | is only one course open to them: Lindsay ‘must receive the same treatment as any other employee “under. similar circumstances. This ewe mean dismissal, Your ub Deparfincat al You Please. Two poems protest against a new war . E. L., Vancouver, B.C.: It seems, that all of us have an urge, at some time or another, to express ourselves in verse. Perhaps you ean find space for this: There must be no more young dead. ; No more broken bodies in the spring . of life to fertilize the earth made bitter by the atom blast There must be new life, The dread of war lies deep in us who bring it forth. Our right -to give it birth, and ours the right to peace at last. A MOTHER, Vancouver, B.C.: Here is a short poem which I hope the Pacific Tribune can find space to publish: Born to be slain to mingle with the dust - Ere half his pilgrimage ‘of : ‘life is done, ‘ In new-girt armor polished but to rust, His eyes new-lighted by the rising sun., Born to be slain, the babe of o yesterday, Beneath a wooden cross out \ there. The harvest of his life a mir- age far away, A>-budding flower of promise brown and sere. If this be all fife’s great ad- venture” spells ‘ The stream of joy is dry, hopes, pa Siar) This will probably Slart a big debate fi V. VESTERBACK, Vancouver, B.C.: Vancouver can be proud (or ashaméd) of itself. the six other bigger cities in “Can- ada in liquor consumption. ‘The liquor store at Hastings Street East, with its concentrated work- ing class population, is the prov- ince’s richest. Last year the ex- penditure on liquor for the prov- ince amounted to $70 million, the profit to nearly $18 million. What a dreadful picture this report reveals—of straggling in- dividuals, stuttering disconnected talk, broken spirits, and what a costly ‘enjoyment’! It shows how completely the workers of this province have fallen into the trap deliberately set for them ‘by the ruling class. That class knows that when your first concern is the beer parlor or liquor store, it is not the union meeting, the labor club’s affairs, or an analysis of forces at work for their en- slavement, | It knows that by al- cohol it can seriously blunt the ~ sharpest weapon against it: a militant, clear-thinking worker's — » mind. ‘ It draws your much needed nea ES away from the fighting funds of labor to the support of movements | strange to labor. Liquor provides a platform for fraternizing © away your class jin- - terests, with your “enemy. i ' Drinking has become ‘Such an accepted part of our lives: that sometimes one one’s opposition to it. In looking for the cure for ex- cessive drinking, it is absurd to _join the ranks of the quack doc- sais. (ike Jack Scott), demanding It doubles . Ss to whlsber | cheaper liquor and better liquor. What is primarily necessary is a readjustment of our attitude to- wards drinking. We tend far too much to laugh the matter off, regarding it as a personal ques- tion although it is a social one. We have to speak against this evil, branding it for what it is: a destroyer of both body and soul. As there is nothing in the school . curriculum to provide for effec- tive teaching about alcohol’s de- vastating influence in our heart, kidneys, liver and stomach, let us study these things ourselves — and draw the necessary conclu- sions. Let us admit that it is futile trying to drown our sorrows in alcohol. As 90 percent of our drinking habits stem from des- peration, misery and frustration brought to bear by economic in- security let us double our efforts to change that system. When socialism is established with economic security and a free working class, the liquor question ~ will lose many of its social ‘as- pects and can be sensibly solved. Till that time there seems to be no other effective cure except cur own steeled ‘Sais eae not _ to touch it. Therefore, let us put the cart not before it, by first abolishing the source of this deplorable liquor consumption _ ,the capitalist sys- tem. ~ When you next think of buying a bottle, stop, and instead donate five dollars to the foremost fighters in the struggle: the Labor- Progressive party and the Pacific Tribune. That will in the long run give you more satisfaction than any night of drinking with’ its’ horrible “day after?’ And remember: it!” “Do not touch _ Dyson Carter aives _ Views on naturopaths . C. P., Vancouver, B.C.: So many people, including progressive peo- | ple, waste so much of their hard- earned ymoney visiting medical “quacks” of onessort or another that I decided to write Dyson ~ Carter and ask him how Soviet medical science regards chiro- practors and naturopaths. Here is his reply; - Soviet medical science recog- nizés nothing whatever of value in the theories of chiropractic — the theories that various dis- eases are caused by “subluxation” of bones in the spine, and can _ be cured by manipulating the spine. \ However, Soviet doctors carry “on quite a lot of curative work that is; in some degree, similar _to the treatments prescribed by first-class osteopaths on this con- tinent, ‘Osteopaths believe that “many ailments are caused by “structural. defects”, Gnéluding such difficulties as slightly-short limbs, wrong posture, prolonged” muscular strain, etc.). But Sov- iet science does not accept the wild theories of osteopathy about ‘all sickness being caused by such defects. : I\ mention osteopathy babnuba ‘many people confuse this non- medical science with chiropracty " —jhe two are very different. Chiropracty is pure quackery, and as a rule its practitioners are evident frauds. Osteopathy is founded on a certain amount of “scientific fact, and many, though by no means all, osteopaths are well-trained people «who to much good. ' You are quite right about the serious contradiction facing peo- ple in (Canada today, in medical matters. There is a tremendous amount of outright fraud and mal- practice (to say nothing of pure ignorance) within the established medical profession; and even the. most honest pecions are beyond PACIFIC TRIBUNE — _ Pacific where it belongs, after the horse, ~ the reach of most of us for finan- cial reasons. At the same time there is a lot of shrewd common-sense prac- ticed by chiropractors; though a great deal of fraud and hocus- pocus; and this gets them ‘cus- tomers.” As for osteopaths, they sometimes have quite good stand- ing with M.D.’s, because they are ‘often good at correcting minor structural (bone, joint, muscle) troubles at low cost to the patient. Naturopaths are as a rule, I think, little more. than frauds playing on the widespread, anti- scientific belief that somehow or other “natural” things and treat- ments are better than scientific- ally designed things. You are safe in telling your friend that a chiropractor can’t cure liver trouble; the very simple “liver squeeze” exercise (found in almost every physical culture ‘handbook) is very helpful unless the trouble is serious, — and it costs nothing but five minutes a day! Objection to use oF ferm ‘Yankee’ overruled J. K. W., Vancouver, B.C.: The Tribune correspondent who objects to the term “Yankee” being used. by Tom McEwen should delve a_ bit deeper into the subject. “Yankee” has been used as an epithet since the birth of the United States. La Lexicographers generally agree that the origin of the word, Yan- kee, is uncertain. But Thomas Anburey, an officer in the British army under the command of Gen- eral John Burgoyne, says that the term “is derived from a Cher- okee word, EANKKE, ° which signifies coward and slave.” The British soldiers, when they had the Americans on the run, contemptuously referred to them as “scared Yankees.” But after the affair at Bunker’s Hill the Americans started calling them- — selves Yankees, it in self-glorification ever since. | During the Civil War the Con- federate soldiers extended the nickname to all Northern sold- iers, and during the First World War all 'U.S. soldiers were called Yankees or Yanks. (The eagle carried by Company C of the Eighth Regiment of Wisconsin .Infantry Troops during the Civil War was designated The Yapkee Buzzard. by the Confederate troops as an expression of their contempt for this bird.) During the War of 1812 the British derisively spoke of the White House at “Washington, D.C., as being The Yankee Pal-. ace, (Later they burned it to the ground). About the time of the outbreak of the Spanish-American war in ' 1898, Spanish newspapers referred to the American people as The — Yankee Pigs. “THis nickname seemed to indicate that the Span- ish people considered the Ameri- cans as unskilled, undisciplined and greedy people, in which res- pects they were comparable to pigs,”. says an historian. When the United’ States began — its intense exploitation of the “banana republics” the native peoples ‘expressed their’ intense _ hatred of their conquerors by calling them Yankees, Yankee pigs, etc. Calypso singers com- posed songs about their peoples who toiled and slaved for the “Yankee dollar.” Modern America, bent on con- is quering the world, has now earn- ed the hatred and contempt of hundreds of millions of people. The epithet “Yankee” is becom- _ ing known to more and more peoples oppressed by the imper- ialist, colossus. Consequently the term is growing in popularity, and rightly so. Truman’s troops have become the Huns \of the Twentieth Century. MARCH 16, 1951. — PAGE 11 and have used’