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Freedom for Winston A united

aid Winston. national board
member of the Communist
Party of the U.S.A., charged un-
der the notorious Smith Act back
in 1950 of “conspiring to advocate
overthrow of the U.S. govern-
ment,” sentenced to five
years imprisonment, with an ad-

was

ditional three years for alleged
‘contempt’ of McCarthy witch-
hunters.

When the financial overlords
of Yankee imperialism talk loud-
ly of American “freedoms” which
they want to foist upon the rest
of the world, they exclude Ameri-
can workers like Henry Winston.

The reason for such exclusion
is not difficult to assess. Henry
Winston is a Communist leader
and a Negro to boot, an unpar-
donable combination in the eyes
of coldwar maniacs. As such his
sentence is meted out, not only
to the full extent of the law, but
far beyond.

Henry Winston went into Terre
Haute Prison, a strong healthy
man of 40-years. Today, as a re-
sult of brutal and inhuman treat-
ment, he is a cripple.

Totally blind, paralysed in the
legs and unable to walk without
assistance, these are the results
of medical neglect of a serious
brain tumor, for which nothing
was done until too late to save
his health; effective treatment
withheld on the official assump-
tion that Winston was “goofing”
or, in Canadian prison lingo
“swinging the lead.”

Thus through criminal neglect,
blindness and paralysis have been
added to Winston’s sentence, and
in Montefiore Hospital he still re-
mains a helpless federal prisoner,
with a 24-hour guard posted at
his bedside to bar all visitors save

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his attorney and his wife.

As if that were not enough, fed-
eral authorities now work fever-
ishly to have Henry Winston in-
carcerated in the Missouri Prison
hospital, where white supremacy
rules and where, to quote a cir-
cular on the Winston case, “cir-
cumstances would condemn Win-
ston to a slow and torturous
death.”

From ~Henry Winston, Negro
and Communist leader, the mor-
ons of dollar imperialism have al-
ready exacted their full measure
of the vengeance they call “jus-
tice.”

That fact should be made
known to them, not only by Am-
erican working people, but by
tens of thosands of indignant
men and women everywhere who
love freedom and decency.

Protest the U.S. government’s
brutal treatment of Henry Win-
ston. Tell Eisenhower that justice
freedom and decency, like char-
ity, must begin at home — and
in this instance, begin with free-
dom and full compensation for
Henry Winston.

oe

Mon September 12 is elec-
tion day. Following a long

period of speculation on the prob- 4
able date, during which Socred

Premier Bennett played a cagey
cat-anGg-mouse game with opposi-
tion parties and the electorate,
the premier finally gave out with
his long-awaited date.

Outside Socred ranks the ‘hur-
ras’ were somewhat dulled by the
premier cutting the time limit be-
tween announcement and election
day down to the finest minimum
required by law, thereby hoping
to catch his opponents with their
campaign pants at the party
cleaners.

A big round of Socred ‘birth-
day’ celebrations, nominations,
back-slapping and other political
hoopla, set the stage for the pre-
mier’s bid for a “new mandate”
for another four years or so of
Socred service to monopoly, and
smug skulduggery (with a few
crumbs thrown in) for the people.

According to Mr. Bennett the
only issue in this election is “pro-
gress versus politics’, meaning of
course that “progress” is synon-
omous with Socredism, while “pol-
itics’” covers all other political

vote needed

lowbrows who are critical of Soc-
red _ claims.

The slogan is as phoney as its
designers.

The issues in this election are
not the fine milking qualities of
the Socred Cow, but the issues of
peace or war, jobs or mass unem-'
ployment, the family farm versus
monopoly profits, the peoples’ re-
sources versus Socred giveaways,
the tax dollar for peoples’ wellbe-
ing or down the arms drain; vital
issues which the Socreds have
surrendered to the monopoly pro-
fiteers without one pious squawk.

A united effort at the polls on
September 12 by workers, farm-
ers and large sections of the peo-
ple against Socred evasion of is-
sues and monopoly giveaways
can turn the tide. Eight years of
rooking and bamboozling, in
which the people have been serv-
ed Socred froth instead of sub-
stance, now presented as “pro-
gress.”

From now on in until Septem-
ber 12 the paramount duty of la-
bor and the people is not only to
vote, but to vote unitedly to end
this Socred-monopoly stranglehold
on B.C.

Tom
McEwen |

ELIEVE

it took a
Tory government to rewrite
the fable of The Three Bears.
It happened this way. Our bears
are friendly. chaps with a strong

it or not,

co-existence - complex.

To solve this problem it is said
the Dief government has expended
a lot of “thought’,- (which might
have been put to better use on
other and more. pressing -matters).

As explained. by Northern. Af-
fairs Minister. Alvin Hamilten,
this “thought” involves - taking
bears “‘who are overly. friendly,

to some distant spot, and painting
their rear ends red.”

This solution has already in-
spired numerous poets and modern
Aesop fable writers, with the re-
sult that the charming. story of
The Three Bears promises to be-
come a heavy volume.

Here is one version as -seen by
the News of the North (NWT)

trapping them and removing them:

editor.

“Once upon a time there were
three bears who lived in a cave in
Banff National Patk. There was a
Mama Bear, a Papa Bear and a
little Baby Bear.

“Now little Baby Bear was just
a little tiny bear and he _ hadn’t
yet had a chance to slap a tourist
and get a paint job done on his
transmission. But both Papa Bear
and Mama Bear wore their badge
of distinction with pride, even go-
ing so far as to walk backwards
so that all might see and admire.

“One morning the Bear family
woke up and Mama Bear backed
into the stove as she was getting
breakfast, (awkward getting break-
fast walking backwards, you
know)..Papa Bear’s paint job was
beginning. to flake a little, and
they had. made up their minds
anyway to get a renewal.

“So this morning. Mama. got
cross. A Bear with a burned paint
job .-does get angry, and Mama
said. she wouldn’t cook another
bit until she:and Papa» Bear went
to the Game Office and got a
patch job.

“So off they..went; Mama Bear
cross about her hot seat, Papa
Bear cross about the delay in
breakfast, and Baby Bear hungry.

“While they were gone a little
girl slipped into the house and

self.”

after a brief reconnaisance, details
of which need little review, was
caught by the return of the Bear
family, all but Baby Bear quite
pleased with the red brilliance of
their tail lights.

“They knew someone was
around the old hacienda, the little
girl had been careless, but Mama
Bear and Papa Bear just sat back
smiling. and said to Baby Bear,
“here’s your chance to prove your-

“So Baby Bear went into the
house ...

“And now Baby Bear too, backs
up as he ‘approaches strange
animals and people in the forest,
for he too wears the Alvin Hamil-
ton Splash, right where it does
the most good.”

Oh, Alvin, how could you?

Even the staid Lethbridge Her-
ald broke into a poetic rash on ‘this
Tory. red-paint version. of The
Three Bears. Here. are two- scin-
tillating stanzas—

“But problems are for government

Mere nothing. So in Parliament

The answer's given, briefly said;

We'll paint the bad bears’ back-
sides red.

"We hail this ingenuity,

But still remains a mystery;

How do you tell a bear’s unkind

While running, if the bear’s
behind?”

—_

August 12, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4