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Feo the London Daily Worker I
ave just learned of the passing of

, Re of the old land’s most gifted Com-

nunist leaders, T. A. (Tommy) Jackson.
G Tavely ill for several months, he died
Rt Clare, Suffolk, just three days before
his 76th birthday.

Tommy Jackson was a man of a spe-
“al mould, an outstanding Communist
Writer and orator, and as the Daily
Worker puts it, “one of the most talent-
sea Most lovable personalities of the
ritish labor movement”; the kind of
4 man who won the love and reverence
of the common people and a measure of
**SPect from the enemies of progress.

‘ine Me the news of his death was more
4 just the sad noting that another
ourageous ‘fighter for socialism had
wuck his flag,” for I was one of those
4 Wileged to have known him person-
cd and to have enjoyed the rapier sharp-
~*SS of his brilliant intellect.
Some of the books Tommy Jackson
ie bequeathed to succeeding genera-
Ons ‘to help them on the road to so-
™ include Dialectics, The Logic of
tic “xi8m, in which he sears the “theori-
“lane” of social democracy with pro-
arity’and precise aim. In Ireland
intr n Tommy Jackson not only de-
bar sttates his love for the Irish people,
~ Us deep admiration of their cen-

turies-o1g struggle against English op-

Pression, Trials of British. Freedom is:

* tribute to rebel heroes from the days

Bre Chartists to the persecution of the
race Communist leaders in 1925—a
oa which makes good reading today
*N one sees the same persecution
the Communist vanguard of the
meeean People. Betas
Try mY Jackson’s latest book Solo
! ion ™pet, published in 1953, is his own
“The Phy. Of it the Daily Worker says:
try’ title was apt. All his life Tommy
simpeted forth the glad tidings of
them with a youthful zest and gusto
in oo Steadfastly refused to dim even
his eighth decade.”
fiyuc of Tommy Jackson’s greatest con-
W Utions to the British working people
Tey} is’ many literary and theatrical
W ‘ews in the columns of the Daily
orker. There one saw something of
* Profound knowledge he had gather-
of ae a lifetime put to good use; that
ea ‘king the great British and Euro-
ti Classics out of the presezves of
With or towerists and clothing them
the realism of their period, trans-
An “ng them into effective weapons of
°wledge in the fight for socialism.
Bp ce ES a
Sive * Canadian communists and progres-
Son’ Workers the pattern of Tommy Jack-
Tess life provides some very valuable
Tagots:
soak just had to know, and on the
tis Po or lecture hall, gave freely of
Wey cumulated knowledge to others—
wi, Salted with brilliant repartee and

thaemny Jackson’s life expressed all
‘tn th finest and best and indestructible
Over «, British labor movement. For
Of soni 2C2ts he taught the elements
Teali talism and gave his teaching the
“iY ©f attainment. As an orator and
book he flailed the confusionists, the
Which Urners, every section of reaction
know Sought to quench the flame of
n dge and working class action.
Britign® Passing of Tommy Jackson the
mun People have lost a great Com-
4 the tribune—and a warmhearted man

We 1 People. To us ‘in other lands,
ct, salute the memory of a valiant fight-
“Shar, treasure the hours in which we

his friendship and inspiration.

An inveterate reader, Tommy:

Over 100,000 have come to visit the Saskatchewan. Natural History
Museum in Regina since its opening in May. It is dedicated “. ; . to the honor
of all pioneers who came from many lands to settle in this part of Canada. A
tribute to their vision, toil and courage which gave so much to Saskatchewan
and this nation.”

Peace is not a calamity

OT only the historic event it-

N self, but the few weeks that
have passed since the Geneva Con-
ference of the Big Four have al-
ready given mankind renewed hope
for peace and friendship in a world
weary of rivalries and suspicions

‘bred of the cold war.

Now the. tenseness is relaxing

and people everywhere are begin-

ning to breathe easier. Manifesta-
tions of friendship are taking the
place of inspired hatreds.

Of course, there is still the vocal
minority that regards every new
evidence of East-West rapproach-

ment with suspicion and hostility.
This is best illustrated by a

lengthy editorial in the July 28

issue of Canada’s leading farm

paper, the Western Producer.

The editorial asks the question,
“Are We Ready For Peace?” and
then proceeds to devlop its anti-
Soviet thesis. After some intro-
ductory distortions: about the ac-
tions of the Kremlin and the so-
called Soviet “‘about-face,” “it sets
down economic premises which are
not substantiated by history or
fact. oe

It holds that Canadian “pros:
perity’” is due entirely to our hav-
ing been operating “for a long
time’ upon a war economy basis.
~How then about a return to a
genuine peacetime economy? The
Western Producer is
“Ror our part we are convinced
that it would be economically dis-
astrous, it says..

*

The Western Producer asks:-

‘Have the Russians learned?”
What it should ask is, have we
learned? Its editorial is proof that
there is still much to be learned—

alarmed. .

“apeacee

by us. Russian ‘‘aggression’’ has

served as a good “‘moral’’ argu-
ment for eight years of cold war,
to say nothing of Korea, Vietnam,
and various other areas in Europe
and Asia, where a shooting war
has been the highest expression of
capitalist politics, and where the
threat of H-Bomb war has been

the trump card of Western imper-
ialism in its determination to halt ~~

the ‘sweep of revolutionary pro-
gress,

The Western Producer con-

cludes by warning of the possibili-

ty of a “‘catastrophic economic

collapse,’ resulting from what it —

is pleased to term the ‘‘threat of
For a journal presuming

_ to lead our farm people along the

road of normal progress and peace,

_ its editorial makes one fact crystal

clear — its own failure to grasp
the significance and spirit of Gen-
eva. There the question was not
“are we ready for peace,’ but
heeding the will of the world’s
peoples for peace, reaching agree-

_ ment, that with peace all problems

can be solved.

Geneva made it clear that there
is no other path. If Canadians or

others were to reach the conclu-

sion, as the Western Producer
seems to have done, that peace
means certain “economic collapse,”
then all the centuries of human
struggle and sacrifice count for
nothing. Supported by the per-
spectives opened up by Geneva,
we cannot share that Western Pro-
ducer’s doleful outlook of ‘‘catas-
trophic collapse.’’ The millions
of people in Canada and elsewhere
who compelled the meeting at Gen-
eva will also solve the problems
of the peace!

Hal
Griffin

| SEE that George Drew, national leader

of the Conservative party, is to be
the guest of that party’s B.C. federal
council at a dinner being held in Stan-
ley Park Pavilion to mark the centen-
ary of the Conservative party.

I don’t know what form the celebra-
tion wil! take in other provinces, but
here it should be a wake. :

The alternative ballot scheme by
which former Liberal Premier Byron
Johnson and former Conservative Finance
Minister Herbert Anscomb hoped to es-
cape the wrath of the voters and per-
petuate one or the other in power at
Victoria proved to be a suicide Pact.
The Liberals still show some signs of
life, but there can be no doubt about
the Conservatives. :

Theit ex-Tory heirs and successors,
Social Credit Premier ‘W. A. C. Bennett
and Attorney General Robezt Bonner,
have seized the Conservative heritage
without waiting for the ceremony.

All that remains to the ‘Conservatives
in B.C. is a nearly empty legislative
stage, occupied only by three. MPs, across
which stride the ghosts of Sir John A.
Macdonald and R. B. ‘Bennett, the man
who, for all his faults, rose to the need
of his times and the man who was blind
to that need .and led his party to dis-
astei.

Where just half a century. ago,. Pre-
mier Sir Richard McBride wielded
power at Victoria with an overwhelm-
ing Conservative majority, the’ Conser-

‘vatives now hold pot a single seat—and

‘have no hope of winning one.

In fact, the only hope of the forth-
coming wake being at all lively is if
Deane Finlayson, Conservative provin-
cial leader now feuding with the federal

organization, tries to crash the affair.

uo 53 beg
I see too, that Senator J. W. deB.
Farris, whatever Lord Justice Sir Alfred
Thompson may have to say about a
lawyer’s duty to the cause of truth and
justice, apparently considers he has par-

‘ liamentary immunity.

Speaking to the Canadian Bar Associa-
tion at Ottawa, Lord Justice Sir Alfred
Thompson of the British Appeal Court,
said that while a lawyer had ‘a clear
duty to his client he also had a duty
to the cause of justice itself. “He must
never suppress or distort the truth,”

_ said Sir Alfred.

Senator Farris, addressing members
of the National Association of Security
Administrators in Victoria last week,
saw his clear duty to his audience to
bolster the propaganda of the cold war.

“Having failed to dominate us by
threats of force, are they (the Soviets)
now seeking new tactics to disarm us
by guile? I say, let .us look at the
record,” he said. :

The USSR, he asserted, has violated
virtually all of some 1,000 agreements it
has entered into during its 38 years of
existence. As his authority for this
sweeping charge he gave the US. Sen-
ate Judiciary Committee.

Leaving aside the fact that this charge
comes with ill grace from a member of
the Liberal government which has been
promising the people national health in-
surance for 17 years, there is still the
question of Senator Farris’ duty as a
lawyer to the cause of truth and justice.
He cannot be unaware that Sir Winston
Churchill himself has praised the Soviet
government’s scrupulous observance of
its agreements.

It depends which record Senator Far-
tis prefers to consult—the falsehoods
of the cold war or the facts of the Soviet
Union’s consistent policy for peace.

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