HUE McEwen ie MMi ‘ ‘ UO UE GE EE i F4suzacks: While thumbing over Some old and yellowing lippi g press clippings Sathered through the years, we came ae €d in six short lines: type Ned type of army protecting a new ny ana tuling class came into existence chew Rey 28, 1918. On that day the signed ey of a new Soviet Russia i fed ecree for the establishment of s Army.” 4 ek as brief as that. The papét, how- 1 ey to be keenly aware that or ma: primarily created to defend © Breton: ote the specific interests of the Raia. nant class in a given society. j.. anothes January of long ago two ing’, trends and colleagues were express- ola ee: loss. “Another one of the ae nek ce gone home,” wrote Frederick er Rin : Karl Marx when Chartist lead- day, a Jones died, on his fiftieth birth- ally 9 Uary 26,1869. “The news natur- menttea a deep shock to us all,” Marx “old frie a for he was one of our few Poet nds.” Ernest Jones, revolutionary. el RS cist and journalist, was regard- Standing wo" Engels to be the out- thorot “4 titish politician of his day who ment m meeertgod the socialist move- Study o¢ inoue and action, Any brief Makes ic e English Chartist movement Colawelle at once clear that the Attlees, Wouldn't a inches and company just ‘ leadershi into the Ernest Jones type of gies Past r ¥ 1p other clipping of a January long ngels remembers the passing of ; re ac Gordon, \Lord Byron, born “Ing an int » 1788, who died while head- the ¢ trnational brigade, fighting for _. teedom of Greece, 1y ; Poet 12° ae other British writer and Since, by 4 fen so well hated, then or ripped tt British ruling caste, Byron’s - Pretensio rough their hiypocrisy, their ter, ge Ds, like a hot knife through but- Gassicay oe if ever are any of his great texthonge TAS included in English school Ae Ss 3 BMocno 2. and then only his most in- 7 us Sonnets, ? Uring +¢ a Jee Tevolution the early years of the industrial: > tines ee in England when new tech- : Jenny,» Sle being added to the “Spinning oe Onto + Towing vast number of workers Poo Ment ndustrial scrap heap, the resent- +> the mae je workers was turned against Btaspin ines, _Yather than against the the Machi P itation of the owners of eifment _ The workers expressed this chin with a widespread campaign OE this © smashing, ‘Thus the followers & mMovem “Ladditeg» ent became known as the leadey oe (1811-1816), named after the Casi; 1S movement, Ned Ludd ish tee ereins ; : tin le b ej ’ the first spawn of the Brit- On wad, eae whose ruthless exploita- ee Christianity. matched by their canting y the Laiddites. the rebel Byron wrote of yee As the Li] Bb, ne Liberty lads o'er the sea St their £ with nn reedom, and cheaply, 3 Wil) ( boys, i RRS d Go fighting, or live free, ; Vr ae sag ‘With all kings but King When the web bak i we weave is ay ©omplete, $ _ ‘ —as a curb to power-drunk madness! Pacific TRIBUNE e acro “08S a tremendous world event, pre- _ ‘auguration. And the shuttle exchanged for the sword, We will fling the winding sheet O’er the despot at our feet, And dye it deep in the gore he has pour’d. Though black as his heart its hue, Since his veins are corrupted to mud, Yet this is the dew Which the tree shall renew Of Liberty, planted by Ludd!” There may be few today who will agree, either with the actions of the Luddites or the sentiments. expressed by Lord Byron, but it is never a profitable pastime to argue with history. Many great think- ers and fighters for freedom who were unable to see beyond the range of their time, took the weapons they found at hand*to help advance their cause. This month too we received an auto- graphed book from the author, George H. Shoaf of Costa Mesa, California. One of these times we will try to do a review of this book, Fighting For Freedom, when we feel up to the task of doing it justice. ‘George Shoaf was born in Texas in January 1875, and has spent most of his life as a newspaper reporter and radical journalist, but with this difference: while most of-us in the newspaper game g0 through life with a wad of paper and pencils and a worried look «as we try to interpret events, George Shoaf has gone through life from the cradle up, surround- ed by all the violence that has heralded and accompanied the growth of the Am- erican labor movement. ‘The tamest job perhaps that he ever held was Us: cor- respondent for the old Winnipeg One Big Union (OBU) Bulletin. © - Fighting For Freedom is a book that gives us a living link with the past: that makes us feel a close comradeship withi the Haymarket Martyrs, with “Big Bill” Haywood and the Western Federation of Miners, with the McNamara brothers; andthe violence unleashed by the Na- tional Chamber of Commerce against working. men building unions for their own protection. This fighting Texan’ concludes his Fighting For Freedom with words that epitomize the hectic life of a radical and rugged individualist: “At the age of seventy-seven I shall step up the fight for freedom in the United States.” Good luck and good shooting George. This continent needs a lot more fighters like you. e x In our day this January brings to the fore an event upon which the fate of civilization may well hang, the inaugura~ tion of the thirty-fourth president of the United States, Dwight D. Bisenhower, and: a Republican administration of arch- reactionaries and avowed warmongers. Perhaps at no time in the history of the world has such tension, fear and un- certainty accompanied a presidential in- i President Eisenhower and his cabinet represent a terrible accumu- lation of power—stark, cold power in & mighty concentration of industrial, finan- cial and ideological output, geared. to the central idea of violence and war. It is therefore scarcely surprising that mil- lions of the world’s peoples hold their — breath—and pray that a small measure of sanity may goven these men who wield this awful concentration of power. (Ten of the fifteen members of the Bisenhower cabinet. are listed as millionaires!) Tt is one of the ironies: of history that “freedom from fear” should be less_secure at this moment than it ‘has ever been. With all power vested in the hands of” the financial royalists of Wall Street and their atomic yesmen, the concern of the civilized world is readily understandable. So also is the need for sanity and peace _ Fublished Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. . Phone: MArine 5288 ie Tom McEwen, Editor — Hal Griffin, Associate Editor ae: Subscription Rates: an Commonwealth countries Canada and British - One Year $3.00 / (except Australia) Six Months $1.60 ‘Australia, United States and all other countries ey One Year $4.00. Pines Auth d by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, BC. Orized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa . Six Months $2.50 Throw the rascals out ACK in the twenties, when the Beauharnois power scandal revealed a whole _ pack of Liberal and Tory politicians up to the ears in graft and corruption, the late Prime Minister Mackenzie King conferred with his colleagues (and pre- ~ sumably with his spooks) and decided to don sackcloth and ashes. Accepting the fact that the Liberals had been caught in the act, King counselled his followers to walk with him through “the valley of humiliation,” a sharp political eye for the way out. in the meantime keeping Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent, however, seems determined to brazen out the defense scandal precipitated by the’Currie Report. only walk through “the His government will valley of humiliation” if compelled to do so by the voters at the next election. As in the twenties, the Tories are making political hay out of the fact that some careless ostler got his nags on the army payroll) ‘instead of the horse registry. (They would prefer to have the public forget that graft and corruption in government is no less a Tory than a Liberal “‘virtue,” amply demonstrated by the First World War scandals of the Borden government. It only ceases to be a “virtue” when the grafters of either camp, are caught in the act. Corruption in capitalist ruling circles is the natural corollary of an ideology. based upon the assumption of a divinely ordained right to exploit the people for personal gain and profit. When Truman left the White House his last appeal as president to the American people was to forget the mink coat-deep freeze graft and corruption of his regime and think only of those things that have “made America great.” It was the shell game artist’s valedictory to his victims. . A glance at the records of the self-acclaimed pay-triots of the UnAmerican Activities Committee is sufficient to show that witch-hunting is a profitable cover for graft. \A little while ago it was Thomas; now it is McCarthy who is combining medal hunting and’ dubious stock exchange activities with his red-baiting the better to establish his pay-triotism. The most surprising aspect of the Petawawa defense scandal is that not a single Liberal or Tory has yet asserted that the horses placed on the army payroll are really “Kremlin agents” seeking to undermine our security. Instead, the government has the RCMP busy trying to discover who opened the stable door and let the horses out... where the public could see them. With the Liberals still “explaining” how the whole thing happened, mem- bers of the Tory oppostion have reportedly changed their shout from “No, no” to “Whoa, whoa.” And that’s what the voters must tell both parties of graft and corruption when election day comes around, ~ { Two pamphlets you should read Tvo new hard-hitting pamphlets have just been published by the Labor- Progressive party: Tim Buck’s Canada For Her People and Leslie Morris’ Towards Communism. Both of these timely pamphlets are available in single | copies or bundle orders at the People’s Cooperative Bookstore, 337 West Pen- - der Street, Vancouver. Canada For Her People brings up to date the real issues-in the coming federal elections — issues which are deeply disturbing the Canadian people, and which the professional politicians in the Liberal and Tory war camp try either to bypass or to gloss over with fine words to hide their betrayal of Canada’s vital interests. Tim Buck’s pamphlet brings the issue of Canadian independence, democracy and peace home to every Canadian. It PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 23, 1953 — PAGE 5 is a clarion call to the people to unite at the polls to win Canada For Her People — away from those who sell Canada to the war trusts of U.S. im-: perialism. a Leslie Morris, who attended the 19th — Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union as a fraternal guest — from the Labor-Progressive party, em- bodies in his pamphlet Towards Com- munism the unswerving determination _ and devotion of the Soviet peoples, their government and their indomitable © Communist party, to win good neigh- bor relations, mutual trade and ee with: all peoples. For the Canteens a worker, student or businessman inter- ested in the achievements and aims of — the Soviet peoples, Leslie Morris’ — pamphlet Towards Communism is “must” reading.