"THE official date for the clos-

ing of the press drive is now
a few
days the drive is still on. Some

past—but - remember, for

factors not calculated in the

plans of the press committee
have made it necessary to extend
the drive for a couple of weeks.
Snow that kept
tlhe logging
camps | closed
and a strike in
the Island coal
mines _interfer-
ed with the
schedule and
made this ex-
tension | neces-

however,
most in sight.

Bill
In the raising of this fund, the

or
readers of this column’ have
played an enviable part. As I
write this we have to our cred-
it $1,016.50. This generous re-.
sponse to the appeal I sent out
has been made possible by hun-

dreds of men, women and chil-
dren, who took on the job of

collecting the sinews of war or
making individual donations, all
of them workers, some of them
past the active years and some
of them just getting ready for
the grind.

I feel very prqud of the old-
timers who helped in raising
that thousand. One old Saskat-
chewan farmer whom I have
known since the early days of
the century when we used to
send him the Western Clarion,
and whose name I remember
seeing in the old Internationalist
Socialist Review as a contributor
to the fund for the defense of
‘Haywood, Moyer and Pettibone,
wrote that he regretted he was
not able to do any canvassing
any more as he was 88 years old,
but was very pleased to send a
personal donation.
in Vancouver of the same age
was one of the first to make a
contribution,

Many other young old men,
just over the 70 mark, in all
parts of the province, from the
Portland Canal to the Boundary
country, from the _ rock-bound
West Coast to the Divide, and
beyond, contributed a share that
makes me feel proud of the gen-
eration to which I practically
belong. I feel satisfied that the
movement which inspired these
loyal old-timers cannot be per-
manently injured by the red-
baiting dogs now baying and
howling in our midst.

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I EST anyone should think ours
“is an effete movement of

"THE May 1 edition of Mac-
Lean’s Magazine ambiguously
poses the question in a leading

editorial, “Are the Communists
entitled to ‘liberty’?” In order
that its readers may get “the
proper focus” in answering this
ticklish question, MacLean’s
Magazine presents the old red
herring of “Soviet agents” and
“primary loyal-
ity to the Soc-
ialist Father-
land” with a
new angle to
help overcome
indecision, “Ac-
cept the idea
that we are at
to
idea that our
valiant war-
time ally has
now been transformed into an
“enemy,” that we have an in-
determined number of “Soviet
agents” in our midst, and presto,
the question is satisfactorily
answered—for MacLean’s Mag-
azine! Se

Having unloosed the whirlwind
MacLean’s cautions against
“every man of independent mind
or unorthodox view...” getting
caught in its destructive wake.
Goebbels once wrote a very
similar editorial in his propa-
ganda sheet Angriff (Attack), ex-
plaining how the Communists,
as the main enemy of the Reich
(“Soviet agents” of course) had
to be liquidated, but that non-
communist “unorthodox” Ger-
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the new decrees on communism.

Between 1933-45 the death
camps in Europe in which
countless thousands of demo-
crats and non-communist work-
ers perished, told a different
story when the poison of anti-
communism had _ seized the
German People.

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“THE man wth a_ notebook”

who does the “Backstage at
Ottawa” for MacLean’s Magazine
is also of the opinion that
“... World War Iii is already
on and that you can’t treat ene-
my agents as if they were mere-
ly political opponents.” With that
view we are in full agreement,
although we arrive at it from a
slightly different angle than does
MacLean’s weathercock.

We believe the real enemies of
Canada are not the communists
or. people with “unorthodox”
idéas, but the big monopolists and
eartels, together with their reac-
tionary’ governments, who are
driving Canada towards a new
world war in a desperate effort to
head off the march of progress.
Just as Hitler, Goebbels and their
ghastly company used an “anti-
communist” pact of mutual agree-
ment in their scheme for world
domination, so also today a new
set of would-be world feuhrers
under the direction of Wall
Street, use the anti-communist
bogey to cover up their dastardly
schemes of world domination and
conquest.

“The man with a notebook” dis-
covers that all parties in Ottawa,

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worn-outs, there are the boys
and girls at the other end of
the scale whose ages range down
to eight; not as many as might
have been, but in deadly earnest.

And in between, a cross section
of the workers of this province,
some of them living in exile,
“standing in the foreign corn,”
as one of them put it. All work-
ers, no millionaires among them,
not even any would-be million-
aires.

So, on behalf of the Tribune
and the working class whose pa-
per the Tribune is, I thank
them one and all for the task
they tackled and the success
they made of it.

But although the drive is of-
ficially over, we still have until
May 22nd to increase our total.
We should do this to make up
for the failure of some others to
do their share. “The willing
horse gets the heavy load,” says
the proverb. Well, in this move-
ment it is all right to be a
willing horse—that is the essence
of comradeship. So let us keep
up the good work for another
couple of weeks and ‘help to en-
sure the accomplishment of the
drive objective.

The braided rug donated by
Mrs. Cherry Clapp for good work
in the drive goes to (557) Mrs.
Berna Gallop, 958 Gambie Road,
Lulu Island.

ANN

including the CCF, are in general
agreement on “some kind of legis-
lation to outlaw the Labor-Pro-
gressive Party.” The La Croix

_ Bill, which comes up again for

discussion for the ‘second time
during the present session of the
House, is clearly the type of legis-
lation favored by MacLean’s Ot-
tawa correspondent, and = con-
demned by all progressive people.

Of course, there are some diff-
culties in the way. After all it is
difficult to continue posing as a
“democrat” while at the same
time seeking legislation to choke
off those who disagree with you.
“The man with a notebook” re-
peats MacLean’s editorial formu-
la: “. . . World War III is already
on “and you can’t- treat enemy
agents as if they were political
opponents” as a blind for outlaw-
ing the LPP.

We don't believe World War
III “is already on”. On the con-
trary, we believe that the unity
of the mighty forces of labor can
still smash the plans of the war-
mongers — among .whom Mac-
Lean’s Magazine. must be counted
a worthy participant.. We, and
millions like us, are fully aware

of the sinister significance of the.

present anti-communist hysteria,
behind which reactionary mono-
poly hopes to terrorize the com-
mon people into the belief that
the war “is on” and that to think,
speak, or act differently to offi-
cial viewpoint, is treason to Can-
ada and proof.that those holding
such views are “enemy agents.”
MacLean’s Magazine’s editorials
and “backstage” comments are in
keeping with the Hladun sland-
ers of a few months ago, already
rejected by the overwhelming ma-
jority of Canadian workers.

The fact, however, that Mac-
Lean’s Magazine has now reach-
ed the position of open and un-
declared war against the USSR,
as the leading country of social-
ism, must serve to awaken Can-
adians of the danger on their
doorstep, and the need of decisive
action against the warmongers.

‘preciation of the activities of the early

human conscience and padlock free speech.”

This is our fight too

‘Gee year ago the hopes of the Jewish people everywhere
were lifted high with the United Nations’ decision for
the creation of a Jewish-Arab state in Palesine—on the com-
promise principle of “partition”. One year ago the Jewish
people everywhere could look forward with anticipation to
a happy Passover in 1948. The end of a long travail of suf-
fering, persecution and homeless uncertainty had dawned.
The UN decision heralded the end of centuries of oppression,
the end of tyrannies that began with Pharoah and reached
their ultimate horror under Hitler. Jew and Arab could
live side by side, and work out their own problems of re-
construction and government in their own way.

Today "the Jewish people everywhere, whether in the
concentration camps of Europe or Cyprus, or in a Vancou-
ver factory or shop, are again tasting the bitter wormwood
‘of a new and cruel betrayal—this time at the hands of U.S.
imperialism and its dollar-bribed satellites.

The hope of a happy Passover has been destroyed with
the same ruthlessness and cruelty which destroyed untold’
millions of Jews in the death-ovens of Hitlerite Europe.
“Partition” and its United Nations’ sponsors have been con-
temptuously swept aside. The war plans of Yankee imperial-
ism and its British followers require oil. The feudal Arab
chieftain regime, which wallows in dissolute luxury while
the Arab masses waliow in poverty, require the fat royal-
ties which come from oil. Oil must flow in Palestine, and

‘if Jewish blood is spilled again, it is because oil for the war

machine of the new Pharoahs of~Wall Street must continue
to flow.

It is within the power of the UN, backed with the
moral support of all democratic peoples, to enforce its de-
cision on Palestine, not by a temporizing truce with re-
actionary U.S. and British imperialism, but by enforcing the
mandates implicit in the UN Charter of peoples’ rights.
Its decision on “partition” gave the Jewish people statehood
in Palestine. It must, now give the Jewish people material,
moral and financial support to establish that statehood. In
this way: lies peace and the fulfillment of sacred pledges—
stained in betrayal before the ink is harly dry. The other,
that of the oil-smeared imperialists of Wall Street and their
lackeys in Ottawa and London, leads to war.

Truly we can say today as it was said of Spain, that
the settlement of the Palestine issue is no longer the private
concern of the Jewish people, but a struggle in which they
must have the full backing of democrats everywhere,

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Looking backward

(From the files of The People’s Advocate, May 13, 1938)

The Rev. G. Stevenson commenting on Archbishop Duke’s de-
fense of the Quebec Padlock Law, stated: “We could severely casti-
gate His Singular Eminence for his rather violent excursion into
the sordid realm of party politics, which should not be brought into
Christianity. Once a church takes sides, it ceases to be a church
and becomes part of the party faction.

“The Padlock Law is nothing more or less than a political party
device to silence opposition. The old ‘red herring of communism’
serves a very useful purpose as a camouflage to blind the simple
voter to the real cause of unrest and agitation. This herring is
flaunted before such as are doubtful of political party ethics and
to warn such critics to remain in the party fold or be mopped up
by a Red Armageddon.

“May we, with true Christian spirit, as well as with a true ap-
medieval church, advise
Archbishop Duke that he would be better employed assisting in the
erection and dedication of ‘Poor Joan’s Statue’ in Quebec, than in

the deification of a sinister political party law which aims to stifle

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