Nazi conductor forced to bow out

The fascist past of German conductor Wilheim Furtwaengler (extreme upper right) is re-
vealed by this picture showing him bowing graciously to the applause of Adolf Hitler (arrow),
Herman Goering, Joseph Goebbels (flanking him) and other top Nazis at a concert. in Germany

during the Nazi regime. Furtwaengler was forced to r
and the: American Federation ‘of Musicians (AFL) rai
to conduct the Chicago symphony orchestra.

un for cover recently when leading musicians
sed a storm of protest over his engagement

WIU will win
Editor, Pacific Tribune,

Sir: All honest men and women
who know and practise the prin-
ciples on which trade unions are
built respect a picket line set up
by workers in defense of their
wages and conditions. The fact
that the men sent to Iron River
by the IWA went deliberately
to smash a picket line exposes
them in the eyes of all woodwork-
ers as union-wreckers doing a job
the bosses couldn’t do themselves.

Having observed the action
taken by both the IWA, which
has shown itself to be devoid of
all principles, and the WIU, which
is devoting itself to the needs of
the woodworkers, I have no doubt
that the WIU will come out on
top. ‘

a OBSERVER
Ladysmith, B.c.

4 : . :
No magic words”
Editor, Pacific Tribune.

Sir: “Many thanks for the
words of truth you and your
‘Paper present each Week. May
the candle in the darkness soon

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become a sun-filled. room—for all
to see and understand.

I enclose a few words of verse
for your perusal, to be used or
forgotten as you see fit.

In times like these one does
what one can, in the way that
seems best, to' further the cause
of truth, My way may be of
little value but if it helps at all
Tam well repaid and sometimes
words, the right words, can work
miracles. I only wish that I
knew these words; and yerrd
Suppose I do really. There are
no magic words—just the same
points of truth to be repeated
again and again till all realize
them for what they are—ultimate
truths,

LEK Ones
Over in Europe

Worms are eating our Dead.
Not that this matters:

They have eaten our Dead

before

And will again
If one believes
The radio, the papers and

people
Who swear war is inevitable
In ninety days or more!
We just don’t know the score,
They tell us iron curtains hide
Incalculable miseries inside. .
That preparations are afoot
To tear the sole — H
From off the capitalistic boot.
They warn us
Not to lose our head;
While over in Europe —
- Worms are eating our Dead!

Women in politics
Editor, Pacific Tribune—

' Sir: May I endorse the article
by Brita Mickleburgh on‘the po-
sition of women in political and
trade union work. ‘
-I feel this to be a field not suf-
ficiently advanced by the LPP

or in the trade unions, Women
constitute a world to educate and

develop in the fight for, world

peace and in the general progress
of working conditions.

Considering the quarter century

in which we have shared the
franchise, we have not made ade-
quate intelligent use of that pow-
erful weapon of democracy. Too
many remain politically uncon-
scious, Too many still vote as par-
ents or husbands desire irrespect-
ive of their own reasoning powers.

In the trade unions wholly or
in the main dealing with occu-
pations for women workers too
much work is still left to men
organizers and executives, where
women coached in organizational,
contract and legal ‘technicalities,
could achieve equal results from
the valuable angle of actual ex-
perience in such industries.

Politically it appears that a
Socialist and worker’s part de-
voted to peace should be especial-
ly conscious’ of the tremendous
influence which could be wielded
by women: in positions of leader-
ship and as members in various
branches of government.

To the mothers of the soldiers
of capitalism wars mean—not
flags and bands and excess prof-
its, but broken podies, divided
homes and general frustration of
the purposes of their lives. They
are ready learners, adaptable, and
natural Students. The same apti-
tude which by the aid of a cook
book and applied psychology can
metamorphose an office stenog-
rapher into a housewife and mo-
ther in a brief period can be used
to develop builders of the future
in wider fields. They naturally be-
come convincing speakers and
writers (who does the talking and
writes the letters in most fam-
ilies?)

The subordination of women in
capitalist parties of course serves
the purposes of capitalism, They
would hardly be expected to de-
velon threats to their domirfation,
or levers to maintain the stand-
ards of their menfolk. Does not
this fact alone provide its lesson?
Socialist parties, to my mind,
should make full use of their most
promising pool of recruits,

BERYL M. WHEELDON,
Departure Bay, B.C.

GUIDE TO GOOD READING

Report on Russia

“HAVE YOU EVER bee

the face of many of us who have
peoples of the Soviet Union.

n there?’ is a question thrown in
read and studied a bit about the

The author of People Come First,

Jessica Smith, has devoted many years of living and travelling among

the peoples of the Soviet Union.
As editor of Soviet Russia Today
her reports and findings have
reached thousands of Canadians
and American readers of that
popular review ‘who will wel-
come her new book.

People Come First is her re-
port of a 6,000-mile leisurely
tour of the Soviet Union she
made shortly after. the war end-
ed. She stayed in Moscow, Lenin-
grad, Gorky, Stalingrad, Baku
and other cities, visited factories,
collective farms, schools, recrea-
tional centers, to draw an honest,
detailed picture of Soviet life.

At a time when Canadians are
cut off from getting accurate in-
formation about Russia by the
fomenters of war in our midst
it is important that a book like
this should receive wide circula-
tion.

People Come First is an apt
title to describe the life of 200
million peoples recovering from
the unimaginable destruction of

_ fascist aggression and building

an economy founded on peace,
precisely because it is a social-
ist ecOnomy in which people do
come first.—B.M.

RECOMMENDED READING
Canada: The Communist
Viewpoint, by Tim Buck.
The New China, by Anna
Louise Strong.

Bases and Empire, by George
Marion.

SruART CAMPBELL
39 years’ service

“Until I was forced on th
Co, in June, 1946, I had work
Province, and I worked there
bought the’ paper. There nev
Southams took over.

“Southams rewarded my
members of my union for damages in the Supreme’ Court
my job.
printers. We will be there

ference table in good faith.”

| HAVE BEEN ON THE

-PICKET LINE

AROUND THE

DAILY PROVINCE

FOR 32 MONTHS

the Daily Province for 39 years. ail
“I contributed my fair share to the building of the

Montreal moved into’ Vancouver with their millions and

months on the picket line, obtained a court injunction, sued
and imported individuals from all over Canada to take
“I am still on the picket line with my. fellow LT.U.

abandon its union-wrecking policy and sit around the con-

Repeat Slav concert

HUNDREDS of people turned
away from the Hastings-Odeon
theater here last Sunday will
have another opportunity to hear
the concert program presented
by the Vancouver organization of
the Canadian Slav Committee
when it is repeated at the theater
this coming Sunday, February 6.

The concert audience last Sun-
day unanimously approved a
resolution urging Justice Minis-
ter Garson to free Mirko Vitko-
vich, Nanaimo coal miner now
serving a prison term for libel,
in view of his distinguished
Second World War record.

Ruth Popeski will

give recital in city

A CAPACITY audience is ex-
pected at John Goss’ Granville
street studio this coming Satur-
day night, February 5, when Ruth
Popeski, Theater Under the Stars
artist, gives a recital of modern
and folk songs.

Ruth Popeski, who came ‘to
Vancouver from Toronto a year
ago, has just concluded a three
months tour of northern British
Columbia and the three prairie
provinces, including concerts at
Whitehorse, YT, and Skagway.

TAM
AN LT
PRINTER’

e picket line by the Southam
ed in the composing room of

long before the Southams of °
er was any trouble until the

lifetime of service with 32

until the Southam Co. will

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