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Great opportunities,
great responsibility |

lishment. The epic battle in Quebec,
the rising tide of labor and democratic
struggles is serving notice that the
decision on which way Canada will
travel cannot much longer be put off.

The Canadian workers today need a
press that will not just inform them
about what is taking place but will
bare what lies behind the events. It
must be with them in their daily class
struggle for necessities and to get back
some of the good things they produce.
It must at the same time take them
behind the political stage, show up the
actors on it, and help them to enter
politics as a class force. It must help
to unite all Canadian fellow-workers,
French and English-speaking, fighting
for equality, and to march shoulder to
shoulder with their brothers on all the
continents. It must engage their ene-
mies in polemic, challenge their argu-
ments and defeat them, expose the ex-
ploiters and oppressors and war-makers
to contempt and infamy, hold up the
moral virtues that reside in the people.

Entering the second half-century of
the work of our press, we are deeply
conscious of the great responsibility
that rests upon us. :

We will strive to justify that confi-
dence.

class collaboration policies of the
trade union bureaucrats, @or better
working conditions and help make the
Jewish workers politically conscious.

Inspired by the Worker, the Clarion
and later by the Canadian Tribune, the
progressive Jewish press made a sin-
gular contribution in the struggle for
peace and democracy, against war and
fascism, anti-Semitism and racism.

We are engaged in a continuous
campaign against neo-fascism, neo-
colonialism, and war, and against the
reactionary policies of the Jewish
Establishment pertaining Canadian and
world problems. We reject and fight
back the vicious anti-Soviet campaign
conducted by established Jewish
organizations in Canada and abroad.

We are proud to be a part of the
progressive and militant press in our
country that now marks its 50th an-
niversary, and, wish the Canadian

Tribune a bright future.

oh Nib, Combat cover labor beat

Since then, similar arrangements for
both papers were made with the
executive committee of the Montreal
Labor Council (QFL-CLC) at its con-

ference last weekend.

Canadian Tribune staff writer Rich-
ard Orlandini reports proceedings at
the Toronto Labor Council meetings.
Jim Bridgewood also sits for the
Tribune at meetings of the Hamilton
Labor Council.

With the appointment of Mel Doig, pictured ‘here on the left with John Weir, te

the Editorial Council of the journal, World Marxist Review (Problems of

Socialism), Weir has been named editor of the Canadian Tribune. An schon se
Communist journalist for 45. of the 50-year history of the Communist press in Can-
ada, John Weir has been active since 1927 in the progressive press, serving at
different periods as editor of the Worker, the Daily Clarion, the Midwest Clarion
and as a former editor of the Canadian Tribune. ,

By MAURICE RUSH
(Editor Pacific Tribune)

British Columbia workers join with
workers across the land in marking the
50th anniversary of the Communist
press in Canada which started with the
founding of the Worker in March 1922.

The working class and Communist
press has had a long and rich tradition
of struggle in Canada. Progressive
workers in B.C. are proud that. they
have been able to make a signal con-
tribution to this rich tradition with the
founding of the Communist press on
the Pacific coast. Taking their lead
from the experiences of the Worker,
left-wing workers undertook to launch
the Communist press in B.C. in 1934
and on January 18, 1935 the first issue
of the B.C. Workers News saw the
light of day.

Ever since then, interrupted only by
a short period of illegality in 1940, the
Communist press in B.C, has published
regularly during the past 37 years,
thanks to the self-sacrificing effort of
thousands of left-wing workers. The
B.C. Workers News and its present suc-
cessor the Pacific Tribune continue the
proud tradition of revolutionary jour-
nalism in Canada.

Today the Pacific Tribune incorpor-
ates many of the outstanding features
each week of the Canadian Tribune
with B.C. features to bring workers on
the Pacific coast the Communist view-
point on world, national, provincial and
civic issues. From its infancy, the
working class movement in B.C. recog-
nized the value of the printed word
and believed in the maxim that “the

pen is mightier than the sword.” They .

have shown this in the support they
gave to radical papers’ from the very
start of their movement right up to
the current financial drive of the Pa-
cific Tribune for $20,000.

From its beginning, in fact in its
very first issue, it proclaimed a clear
understanding of the nature of the
immediate and future struggles of the

working class. The streamer headline -

across the first issue of the B.C. Work-

ers News said, ‘‘to follow in the path

of Lenin.” It has done so ever since.
The fact that the Communist press

survived over these many years attests -

to the strong roots it has in Canadian
soil. Otherwise, it could not have sur-
vived and built the 50-year tradition it
is now celebrating. —

_ In the course of its 37 year history
in B.C., the Communist press had to
change its name on a number of occa-
sions but its Marxist-Leninist content
remained unchanged. In 1937 the name
of the B.C. Workers News was chang-
ed to People’s Advocate, which it re-
tained until 1939 when it became the
Advocate until wartime reaction set in.
The paper re-emerged again as The
People in 1942, and in 1944 it became
the Pacific Advocate. The name Pacific
Tribune was adopted in 1946 and has
remained until this day.

Over the years many outstanding
press workers were trained in every
aspect of press work. It has had some
outstanding editors and writers such
as William Bennett, Hal Griffin, Tom
McEwen and many others. Today the
Pacific Tribune’s voice is heard loud
and clear as the champion of the strug-
gles of B.C. workers and democratic
people who face growing reactionary
attacks from the right-wing Socred
government and the big monopolies it
serves.

MAURICE RUSH

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