Among the many Soviet children’s titles distributed throughout the world is The Horned Lamb by Kirghizian writer Shukurbek Beishenaliev (above). Translated into 18 languages, with a circulation in excess of two million copies, the book was recently added to the Hans Christian Andersen honor roll Children’s Literature. by the International Council on —Tass photo Soviet Union ahead in book translation Although European publishers have made some beginnings in translating and publishing works of leading Soviet. authors, they have been far outstripped by their counterparts in the USSR, ac- cording to a survey conducted by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). One of the Helsinki Co-op Radio airs history Vancouver Co-op Radio has announced its December schedule for B.C. Overtime, a series of documentaries on B.C. Labor history and commentary on present day conditions. The programs are head each Thursday evening at 6:30 p.m. on CFRO — 102.7 on the FM dial. The first program in December deals with the smashing of the Canadian Seamen’s Union, as told by ex-CSU members who ex- perienced first hand the attacks on their union. The second half of the hour long program is devoted to the value of union history documentation. That program will be aired on December 2. On December 9, Co-op goes to the B.C. mining industry with a history, songs from the mining camps, and a look at the present day situation. The following week, B.C. Overtime will present The Loggers’ Navy, a documentary on the organizing of the B.C. wood- working industry up and down the coast of this province. The second half of that program will deal with . the conditions which woodworkers have won in the camps today. A widely acclaimed radio ballad, Singing the Fishing, will be featured on December 23. Originally produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation, it consists of one hour of song and narration by Ewan McCall, Peggy’ Seeger, and Charles Parker about the British herring fishermen. The following week, another radio ballad by McCall and Seeger, entitled The Big Hewer, deals with British coal miners. Accords called for the initiation and ex- tension of publishing programs in the signatory countries to make works by various authors available in translation. So far, however, emphasis has been placed on the publishing program only in the socialist countries. Following the signing of the Accords, the USSR stepped up an already formidable program and by the end of 1976, it will have published 1,500 works by foreign authors in a total edition of more than 60 million copies. The titles involved are being translated from some 40 languages. A total of 165 books have already been published in the 200-book ‘“‘world literature’’ series which is one of the largest publishing un- dertakings of its kind. In addition to editions put out by publishing houses in the different languages of the Soviet republics, readers in the USSR also have access to contemporary foreign authors many of «avhose works appear in Innostrannaya Literatura — with a circulation of 600,000 — and Vsesvit as well as other smaller periodicals. While hundreds of Soviet titles ranging from children’s stories to works of political economy are available in various languages throughout the world nearly all are the result of Soviet publishing.,_ All the (U.S.) news that’s fit to print If it failed to offer any suggestions as to what could be done to rectify the situation, a recent conference on news flow between this country and the U.S. at least pinpointed the problem. Among other things, the con- ference found that 49 per cent of all foreign news in Canadian dailies is about the U.S.; that only two per cent of foreign news in U.S. dailies is about Canada; and that 70 per cent of U.S. news in Canadian newspapers is U.S. written. The location of the conference was itself an indication of the imbalance it was. held in Syracuse, New York and fewer than half of the participants were Canadian. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—NOVEMBER 26, 1976—Page 10 Her life was vital part of the history of labor She never was afraid — an apt description of a dauntless daughter of the Canadian working class — Annie Buller. That her name became legend even during her lifetime becomes apparent as we read this straightforward, unadorned account of a woman who more than any other epitomizes all that is most vital and best in the working class as it strives to create a better life for itself and for all working people. The daughter of a Montreal carpenter, Annie Buller, born in 1896, came to know early in life the hardships of tHe workers. At 13 she already worked long hours at low pay in a tobacco factory; and it scarcely changed as she became successively a clerk in a dime store and later a buyer in a department store. Sensitive to the hardships she experienced and saw around her in the work world — the intense exploitation, the killing hours of work, the intimidation and lack of rights — she began to search for an explanation of the underlying causes of the suffering and poverty and to ponder on what was to be done. Louise Watson traces that search for solutions which impelled Annie Buller to join the young socialist movement in Montreal and led to her meeting there with a like- minded young woman who was to be her. dearest friend and co- worker for many years — Becky Buhay, herself a fighter of. heroic stature and one whose story has still to be written. These two young women came into the labor struggles of the First World War period and after — struggles for better conditions in: the work places, the dramatic Quebec anti-conscription fight, trade union organization, working- class political education. During this period the echoes of the great October Revolution in Russia reached into the hearts and minds of Canadian workers as they did into those of . workers everywhere. Annie, with her ready working-class instinct combined with her growing ideological un- derstanding, was quick to see, in this great revolutionary upheaval and in the birth of the first socialist state in history, the dawn of a new day not only for the workers and downtrodden masses of the autocratic tsarist empire but for people everywhere. Here was the translation into reality of the age- old dream of the exploited and oppressed all over the world. - By then a convinced believer in the theory of scientific socialism, Annie Buller realized that workers needed a political party of their own. So she was ready to join the Workers’ Party (later to become the Communist Party) shortly after it came into being. Marxism-Leninism to Annie meant action, above all. She was indeed, first and foremost,. a woman of action, action based always on a firm understanding of scientific socialist principles. This stands out clearly and with in- creasing impressiveness as the author continues recital of the almost saga-like progression of deeds and actions of this irrepressible woman who travelled up and down the country, year after year, organizing, speaking, visiting, organizing, speaking, visiting, lecturing, educating. No job was too trivial. Indeed her attention to detail was a mark of her stature. In the book we meet her wherever there was work to be done — in the bitter struggles to organize the needle trades where the exploitation, particularly of women who made up the great SHE NEVER WAS AFRAID: The Biography of Annie Buller. Progress, Toronto, 1976. Paper, $3.95. Available at the People’s Co-op Bookstore. = majority of the workers;’ was especially intense and brutal. We see her talking to, encouraging, writing for and organizing working people wherever she found them — in the factories, the mines and forests, on the farms, and with women in their homes. And always there was her energy, enthusiasm and tremendous drive, her ability to draw people into action. Prominent in the book is an episode that brings out in dramatic form. the very essence of the Annie Buller character — the strike of the Estevan coal miners in 1931. _Charged by the mine owners with “inciting to riot”? in a demon- stration she had no part in, following the murder of three miners by the police, Annie was hauled into court and became the central figure in one of the most dramatic trials in Canadian labor history. Convicted on the perjured evidence of police stooges she was sentenced to one year in North Battleford jail. We learn much more of the life of Annie Buller as we read on — a life of utter conviction, total dedication and constant action right up until illness overtook her and finally ended her life in January 1973. Louise Watson has given us in this book — and it is particularly valuable for the younger generation — an introduction to a working-class woman who early in life became a communist and who served the working-class and democratic movement in an ex- deeper analysis of events if ANNIE BULLER ceptionally effective way. To this reviewer it appears that more source material at the disposal of the author could have resulted if combining with the biography 4 Canadian labor history and in the history of the Communist Party of Canada. She Never Was Afraid is a very worthwhile book, -written wi sympathy and understanding. Annie Buller’s story is the story of a labor heroine, It could be the subject for a first-class Canadian | working-class play. Perhaps such a project will one day be ul dertaken. J.G. | PRESOS For the past several years, Cuban poster artists have won world acclaim for their rich and varied works which have become an integral part ® the anti-imperialist struggle around the world. A wide selection of thé posters including this one, calling for freedom for Uruguayan politic? prisoners, is now available at the People’s Co-op Bookstore. ¢ ~TUIBERTA PARA LOS POLITICOS!