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FRIEND of ours handed us a pamph-
let the other day, a very fine 24-page
nphlet entitled Peace. It was. written
Arnold Webster, new B.C. provincial
der of the CCF and-outlines “CCF
wey For Peace At Home and Abroad.”
nestly, this pamphlet made us sit
bit with its forthright condemna-
Of capitalism and everything capit-
For a moment we felt quite elat-
and inclined to chide ourselves for
iS critical of Arnold Webster’s cur-
t vintage of “socialism.” A man
could blast the imperialist war con-
fators in such searing lines just
’t be as phoney as we thought.
“en the cruel truth burst in upon
ith chilling reality—the pamphlet
A been written in the year 1936 or
““teabouts, long before the daily press
ts fulsome tributes to Harold Winch
n his political demise bemoaned the
e of the “first fresh youthful frag-
me of CCF socialism.”
“4 This Pamphlet on peace is a valuable
ent in one sense. The Arnold
“ester of 1936 does a masterly job of
Posing the Arnold Webster of 1953.
those halycon days of Tory and
“tal skullduggery, Arnold Webster
Mn og nothing good to say of the
effect; Ist class. He-even quotes a pre-
rof Ve living school text book by*a
Bin West to show that “this im-
wean + + . the cause of most modern
gage Must be booted out bag and bag-
va, Pefore fear and the menace of
03 be eliminated.
: © would build Peace (says Arn-
; Webster) we must abolish a system
; te for war—a system that rests
isordey. Principle of competition and
isi to do it? Simple as ABC, says
id Webster (in heavy cap letters):
'S one fundamental step which
efore everything else. Without
ade. “oa do nothing. If we try to
; Saag that step we are playing
Musy re: And that step is that we
Tlon Saga THE MEANS OF PRODUC.
Not . ) HE NECESSITIES OF LIFE.”
hag, * bad idea at all. No half-and-
Out Topositions here. Just boot them
Ver 4 the workers and farmers take
“doi aN half of the world’s peoples
Soin: +h, Just that at this very moment,
the col € process driving the bulk of
s av2 Politicians of all standard
Cop) {including the top brass of the
Amola ‘s near lunacy, it follows that
Tsembla ebster of 1953 bears very little
How + °° to Arnold Webster of 1936.
1935 y, mes change, and. how well the
Ug59 ebster “puts the finger” on the
Peace, ebster in a little pamphlet called

taint’ Teoomic fear, the social uncer-
No ist. © treason, the betrayals, the
x0] ie. Criminality of the capitalist
Webster all well set down by the 1936
ith ;, ™ his writings on peace. And
take the workers too, their ability
Selva. OVer and run industry them-
Nitins & matter of unquestioned
“aDitar; og Menever we get rid of the
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they are quite capable ... to sit in the
board rooms as efficiently as the private
directors.”

The 1936 Webster omits nothing in
his call for working class unity, peace
and socialism, nothing. But as some
sage has observed, 1936 is not 1953! A
profound observation, emphasized some-
what by the ghosts of CCF “socialism”
as expounded by Arnold. Webster yes-
terday haunting the hustings in 1953.
e :

The Arnold Webster who sets down in
cold print in 1936 how to put a quick
end to capitalism and its congenital
diseases of war, want and violence is
now one of its trusted, approved and
certified spokesmen—a protege of Tory-
Liberal Non-Partisan reaction, which has
dominated Vancouver’s social, cultural,
economie and political life for the past
two decades.

The burden of the 1953 Webster’s ap-
proach to the voters today is that, given
an opportunity he will run capitalism
better than the capitalists can, without
endangering either their profits or their
war conspiracies. In point of fact that
was also Harold Winch’s “best seller”
when he tried to swap CCF “socialism”
for the chance to be British Columbia’s
first CCF “caretaker” premier.

The. question of peace as viewed by

.the Arnold Webster of 1936 is vastly
different from the “peace” offered by

Arnold Webster .in 1953. The one call-
ed for removing the imperialist war
conspirators from the possibility of do-
ing further mischief against humanity.
The other calls for giving CCF approval
to every capitalist war conspiracy, cook-
ed up under the Hitlerite pretensé of
“saving the world from communism.”
In 1953 Arnold Webster bays with the
bloodhounds who seek “peace” with a
big stick and a forked tongue.

In case some Non-Partisan apologists
for their CCF protege may feel inclined
to dispose of his 1936 pamphlet as the
‘work of youthful exuberance, let us
remind them that their trusty parks
custodian was already bald-headed when
he wrote it and in full possession of
whatever mental faculties nature endow-

ed him with.

No apologies can erase the truths set
down by Arnold Webster in 1936 on
the internationalism of the common peo-

ple: “The fact is that the vast majority _

of the world’s population consists of
simple laboring folk, desirous of nothing
more than a faif chance to live happily,
one with the other.” Nor will any apol-
ogy erase the truth that in 1953 Arnold
Webster gave his okay to a monstrous
coroner’s inquisition, whitewashing acts
of police brutality which ended in death
for a Vancouver Negro longshoreman.
In his Peace pamphlet Arnold 1936
Webster reproduces the beautiful poem,
Five Souls, telling of Polish, Italian,
French, Scottish, German and other
workers who died in the First World
War. Each soul after relating the ex-

periences which made him “join up,”

says to the other, “I gave my life for
freedom—This I know; For those who
bade me fight had told me so.” 4,
We add another verse to include a
dead soul of 1936. ~
| was a school. teacher from Public
into High,
But left my NPA desk to scale the
dizzy height;
With_ “Communism the foe” | howl-
ed their battle cry,
And I, who wrote of peace and
needless fright; :
Gave my life to cold war “freedom”
—This | know;
For those _ bade me fight had
told me so. :

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Banning of
disgrace to Canada ~

a people of Canada scored a
great victory when, by their
united efforts, Bill 93 to amend
the Criminal Code of Canada was —
set over by this session of parlia-
ment just ended. “The victory was
the greater because those clauses
that most alarmed and aroused the
Canadian people were precisely the:
clauses inserted at the insistent de
mand of the U.S. State Depart-
ment. But the cold war mentality
which conspires against the rights
and privileges of the people, as in

Bill 93, is always seeking out new

ways and means to thwart the
people’s hopes and aspirations.

The banning of Dr. Monica Fel- ~
ton, British author, educationalist;
and staunch worker for peace,
from a speaking tour in Canada,
is a disgraceful action, not only
against Dr. Felton but against the

Canadian people.

Having visited war-torn Korean
cities, towns, villages and POW
camps, Dr. Felton has first-hand
information. to give the people of
Canada. Whether all will agree
with what she has to say is some-
thing else, but: they should have
the opportunity to judge for them-
selves rather than have a USS.
tutored external affairs department
deciding for them.

Kak

“‘None’” was the answer given
to Emrys Hughes, Labor MP for
South Ayrshire, who asked in the
British House of Commons last
week about the number of MIG

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Dr. Felton

This sort of thought-control dic
tation in the democratic rights of
the Canadian people is becoming
all too common. Refusing entry
into Canada to such noted people
as the great Negro world artist,
Paul Robson; to Dr. DuBois, out-
standing American Negro scholar
and worker for peace and racial
equality; and now Dr. Monica Fel-
ton, indicates a Hitlerlike conspir-

_acy on the part of the St. Laurent
government — instigated by the

U.S. State Department — to keep
the truth from the people; to de-
prive the Canadian people of hear-
ing and judging for themselves,

This conspiracy against peace
and those who work for peace
must be broken. A mighty protest
from organized labor and the peo-
ple became an effective moral bar-
rier against Bill 93. A similar un-
ited protest demanding freedom of
speech, assembly and opinion in
Canada, can break down the witch-.
hunting barriers that have been
erected to exclude Dr. Monica Fel-
to from Canada.

Write to_your MP today insist-
ing that this outstanding British
woman be permitted to visit and
speak in Canada — without gag-

rule restrictions.

*

fighters that had reached South
Korea since the $100,000 treachery
offer was made by the U.S. to any
North Korean or Chinese volunteer
pilot who would land his plane
behind U.S. lines.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 22, 1953 — PAGE 5