7 T is wonderful how éasy it is for some people to publish newspapers at-this time, despite the ‘ high cost of newsprint and of. extensive wire ser- vices.” So declared Tory leader George Drew in the House of Commons on May 2 during the course of a vicions attack on the people’s press, and his most recent attempt to have the LPP and all progressive thought and action for peace put under the ban of a new Section 98. With characteristic tory skulduggery, Drew attempted to leave the old moth-eaten impression in Canada is financed by “Moscow gold’’. On March 15 the Pacific Tribune Groaned to the workers of British Columbia for $15,000. In a two-month financial campaign, ended May 15, this objective was not only reached, but went well over the top. To date the total amowit _ received stands at close to $17,000 . . . a fitting reply to the canards of Drew and cea who weasel minds run in the same war-crazed rut. LPP clubs in Vancouver and throughout the province did magnificent work in this financial drive, many having their entire membership on the honored list of press builders — men and women who, by their own initiative and effort, raised a minimum of $25, many of ‘them tripling that amount. And those thousands of non-Com- »munist workers, trade unionists, housewives, . stu- ary veterans, who, because they read and sup- a fighting labor paper, are branded by the Dek and St. Laurents as “Moscow , agents”, they too made a splendid contribution i in this great Thanks seventeen thousand that the Communist and progressive labor press ‘ campaign to eee the Pacific Tribune rolling. Bid the members of the many cultural organizations who have the additional task of maintaining their own papers (and who were especially singled out by Drew in his slanderous attack) they, too, merit our warm thanks for a job well done. From a ship’s crew of Canadian seamen in a foreign port, seamen who appreciated the help of this paper when they were fighting to defend their union from the combined attacks of the trade union bureaucrats, the social democrats and the state apparatus of Canada and the U.S., we receiv- ed a cheque for $200. ‘‘Moscow gold’ indeed! Yes, publishing newspapers does come high to such as Drew and St, Laurent. On that we are in complete agreement. But whereas the mon- opoly daily press is the subsidized propaganda ma- chine of St. James. and Bay streets, to. spread the gospel of hate, falsehood, confusion and war, we of the labor press depend upon our own kind, upon the nickels and dimes of the workers to advance the cause of truth, peace and socialism—and we never ask in vain It is precisely this fact which strikes fear into the hearts of George Drew and his ilk. To all LPP clubs and members, all non-party workers for peace, progress and a fighting labor press, who gave so unstintingly of their time and means, our very sincere thanks. You have given us the means of assured publication for the next period of time. Now help us spend it to the best posstble advantage by reaching new thousands of readers with the Pacific Tribune. _ And again, thank you. : Unity of all woodworkers essential to victory — ONDAY this week was the déadline for strike action involving some 40,000 American mem- bers of the International Woodworkers of America (CIO) in five Northwestern states. In addition, ~ some 20,000 members of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers (AF L) were considering similar action to back up their union demands. American lumberworkers are seeking an industry- wide health and welfare contract, providing for ade- quate sickness, accident and death benefits, the union - shop, and preservation of the 40-hour week. = At press time, all lumber operators had reached a atttlement with the IWA, with the exception of the owerful Weyerhaeuser operations in Washington and . There the strike is on and camps and mills . Weyerhaeuser empire are shut down tight peter an [WA picket line. Some 8,500 are affected. Winning of a 7!4-cent wage increase (to be applied in an overall health and welfare plan and administered by the union), together-with the union _ chalks up a big victory for the IWA -in those ions where a settlement has been reached. The ser interests, notorious oS ae company-union » proponents for “‘bonuses”’ phoney * “insurance” schemes, have flatly rejected all union demands to date. AFL. affiliates employed in the Weyerhaeuser operations have agreed not to accept less than the demands set forth by the TWA, are now taking a strike vote. United action be- tween the AFL and IWA workers in the. Pacific Northwest is just as essential to final victory as is TWA-WIUC unity in B.C. _ Lumberworkers in B.C. are following’ the strug- gles of their brothers down below with keen concern, their own deadline of June 15. approaches for action jn support of their’ demands for a 17-* Baek pace eereape Scene i Hegde bite cathe + cali nr ~ King Cate: 4 VERY eel ‘child knows the Seiesd of King Canute. “How he had his throne chair taken Middichs Ws kts awak te Ie aa Biciad- to demonstrate his power by ordering the tide to halt. The tide didn’t halt, of course, and King Canute had to gather up his royal robes and beat a ‘xetreat to avoid getting wet. =~ Last week in Vancouver, Trade Minister Clar- ence Decatur Howe donned the robes of the ancient - “Canute, looked belligerently. at the mighty Fraser and ‘ here Wars reputation that there will be no flood. ig Forest Industrial Relations aor Stuart Re- search), acting on behalf of the boss loggers, is out . to scuttle the statutory 40-hour week, ‘stall ‘on the union shop issue, and offer phoney “* insurance”” schemes in lieu of substantial wage increases needed to meet rising living costs. Taking full advantage of the Marshallized par- alysis of the lumber market in both the Northwestern states and in British Columbia,, the MacMillan- Bloedel-Weyerhaeuser timber barons are out to make a further killmg at the expense of the lumber and sawmill workers. The heavy export of raw Canadian logs to the U.S. not only deprives hundreds of Can- adian sawmill workers of employment, but cuts into the living standards and economic conditions of the American lumberworkers. Controlling the lion’s por- _ tion of the export and domestic markets, the Mac- _ Millan-Bloedel-Weyerhaeuser monopolists and other powerful sections of the boss loggers continue to reap vast profits, while the smaller operators and the great mass of lumber and mill workers face »wage-cuts, short-time, mass unemployment, and economic ruin. At this time, with 8,500 IWA members “hit- ting the bricks,” and thousands of AFL workers pre- paring for similar action, in the U.S., unity between B.C. lumberworkers (regardless of IWA or WIU affiliation) with their striking brothers acros the line, is of the utmost importance to all. United action now in support of the American _lumberworkers in their strike against the grasping Wey- _ erhaeuser monopoly, will strengthen the unity of B. Cc. lumberworkers as their own deadline for decisive ac- _tion draws closer. The union issues on both sides of the line have a cl ‘se similarity; the enemy is the same, whether in Oregon or British Columbia, and the guar- antee of victory can only be found in a stronger bond of unity between all salad aan - and Howe ‘prophetic”’ deisel _ Three moot ideas emerge from this: ‘fit. that the great man has a very low estimation of his own ‘Yeputation—an idea we share without reservations. ~ Secondly, he knows nothing and cares less about the - impending flood menace to the homes and livelihood And thirdly, of thousands of British Columbians. Howe apparently has never heard about what hap- esa to King Canute! — the strongest TOM McEWEN . As ike Sis ly Bennett retur med for a brief debut in the Canadian House of Com- Benntt returnd for a brief debut in the Canadian House of Com- mons. To exorcise the “specter of Communism” which, as Karl Marx and Fredrich Engels pointed out over a century ago was “haunting Europe,” Tory leader George Drew moved, seconded by Tory Howard Green of Vancouver-Quadra, that “this House is of the opinion that appro- priate legislation*should be introduced. so that Communist and similar activities in Canada be made an offense punishable under the Criminal * The ghost of Code.” The House voted this tory fascist thought- control proposal down with a preponderant ma- jority . . . but the lengthy orations of Drew, St. Laurent, Hansel] and MacInnis — the respective leaders of the Tory, Liberal, Social Credit and CCF parties — demonstrated full unanimity in their vicious attacks on the civil and democratic rights of the people. Their main differences with Drew’s proposal for a democratic blackout lay in their inability to reach agreement on just how best to do it. “Iron Heel’ leered evilly. After all, it is no simple matter for politicians to openly destroy that which they pretend to espouse. The need of votes always compels caution, To outlaw. “communist and similar activities’ just about outlaws every individual | and organization that doesn’t Hansell, Coldwell see eye to eye with Drew, St. Laurent, and MacInnis. In their debates they sought inspiration from abroad. Just as “Iron Heel” Bennett had looked to such pillars of “democracy” as Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy and the Mikado’s thought-control techniques of the early thirties, so on May 2 the Tory Drew urged his Liberal, Social Credit and CCF colleagues to follow the pattern set by the South African racist Malan government, or of Malaya or India where human life and rights are bartered for Marshall Plan dollars, © or perhaps of Australia, where the Tory Menzies-Fadden government is experimenting with the outlawing of the Communist party .. . and in the process, as did Bennett's government, ee its own political obituary, - In Bennett’s day his big problem was how to compel masses of jobless workers to accept unemployment, hunger and misery in the ‘traditional Oxford Brotherhood spirit of “free enter prise’ with Section 98 of the Criminal Code to take care of all those, and particularly the Communists and militant trade unionists — who refuse to accept these starvation policies as emanating from Heaven. 1950 is not 1930. Today the problem facing the St. Laurent govern- ment with its Tory, Social Credit and CCF aides, is how to force the Canadian people to accept a made-in-the-U.S.A. atomic war against socialism. How to transform an inherently peace-loving people into a nation of rabid warmongers, willing and ready to beat the war drums and become the cannon fodder when Wall Street calls the shot. _ And every day the problem becomes larger. New tens of thou- sands daily, in our own and ‘other countries, flock to the banner of peace, Almost two thirds cf the world’s peoples are actively com- mitted to the cause for peace. In this parliamentary “debate”, if anti-communist cold-war har- angues may be so designated, the Prime Minister characterized as “unfortunate” the movement of Canada’s youth towards the cause of peace. Peace in this bypass, implicit schemes. debate was the nub of the issue ... the thing that -warmonger Drew’s thought-control legislation was designed to short _ circuit, the thing that the leaders of all bourgeois governments try to in their “Atlantic Pacti’ and similar | anti-Soviet But peace, like democracy, is a damn hard thing to kill, particularly when those who would like to do so are compelled by sheer politcal necessity to parade in public as men of peace and demo- crats to boot. Nor is the job made any easier by the simple fact that new thousands of _people in Canada and elsewhere are awakening daily (with no thanks to the monopoly press) to the real nature, character, aims and chief instigators of atomic war and destruction. Masses of jobless workers and lost markets can not be explained away with new repressive police-state legislation or cold war oratory, No one should get the notion that because the ghost of “Iron Heel” briefly walked again in the Canadian parliament, and met defeat in the vote, that it was just another Tory attack on the Communists, or a major victory for the Four Freedoms, Nothing could be further from the truth, and to do so would be to miss ‘Sptirely, just what ac happen. St. Laurent, no ie than Drew, Hansell or the Coldwell-MacInnis “socialists”, wants a rigid clamp-down on all progressive thought and action just as much as his diverse parliamentary dolleagues. There is no doubt but what the”aged Willie King gave his protege some sound advice on the matter, “Remember Louis,” says Willie, “that the last Section 98 finished off Bennett, and our repealing it (in res- ponse to widespread public pressure) got us out of the valley of humi- liation (Beauharnois power scandal) with flying colors, and back into the pork barrel without undue strain On the party. So have a care. Let us better rely on the silver tongue of oratory and the strong fist of provincial rights. After all, Duplessis’ adverse Padlock Law ‘publicity is no skin off our political fortunes. 4 . Something like that. The green light to provincial attorney generals, with the full cooperation of the RCMP to harry the “Reds.” Regard every worker of peace as a Moscow agent. civil and democratic rights of the citizen under the pretext of defend- _ ing” these. rights. Impose a “way of life” designed by the atomaniacs of Wall ‘Street. .A Section 98 interpretation of “provincial rights”. - Cn a later column we will deal with CCF’er Angus MacInnis’ contribution to this “debate”. For sheer vabdigh ae ie it seniors the Un-Americans look like amateurs). “T will “dake my fl EN ul Hn aceue | Tum mo nal an ia rm ii Iplelis, aeveesvecesbUMtzveat! iereeasen iL tive wy] circa’ Mincamnonan DN, a3 \ ee - Published Weekly at 650 eowes Street. By THE TRIBIUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. - Telephone MA. — Baes Abrogate the Tom McEwen Subscriptions Rates: 1 Meas $2: 30; _ Authorized as second class ‘mail, Post Office Dept., : ‘6 Months, $1.35, © - Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe ‘Street, Vancouver, B.C. ‘Ottawa. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MAY 19, 1950 — PAGE 8