UTE TEE TRE Te Tt Tne te wai tT eet nT | : } 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 cs ] < €eches, they an ©-People can run industry—and Pu One Year $3.00 . . One Year $4.00 . Printeg b ~ NO one else run it today, then — ~ Pacific TRIBUNE 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. : oe blished Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone: MArine 5288 Tom McEwen, Editor — Hal Griffin, Associate Editor Subscription Rates: ‘Canada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia) Six Months $1.60 . Australia, United States and all other countries Six Months $2.50 By Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Uthorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Seeaeeeerees ee ante gees 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 oe ae Te ee aa 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