This Owe Wwute ) Department Paid in full Editor, Pacific Tribune: Sir: Here’s a poem I thought you'd be interested in. It appeared in the Mineworker, Alberta, H. ALDERSON. Vaneouver, B.C. PAID IN FULL We have fed you all for a thous- and years, And you hail us still unfed, Tho’ there’s never a dollar of all your, wealth, But marks the workers’ dead. We have yielded our best to give you rest, And you lie on crimson wool; For if blood be the price of all your. wealth, Good God, we have paid in full! ‘There’s never a mine blown sky- ward now But we're buried alive for you; There’s never a wreck drifts : shoreward now But we are its ghastly crew; Go reckon our dead by the forges red, : And the factories where we spin. If blood be the price of your cursed wealth, Good God, we have paid in full! We have fed you all for a thous- and years, that was our know, From the days when you chained us in your fields - To the strike of a month ago. You have eaten our lives and our babies and wives, And we're told it’s your share; But, if blood be the price of your ‘lawful wealth, For doom, you legal Good God, we have bought it fatr. Unity is strength Editor, Pacific Tribune. Sir: If it is bad for one indi- vidual’ to scab on another, how much worse it is for one union to _go ‘through another ‘unions picket lines when both are enrolled in ah organization fighting for prin- ciples common to all labor? I am thinking of the Daily Province, where the International Typographical Union has been on the picket lines for nearly two years because that Southam news- paper refuses to sign an accept- able agreement. Yet the Daily Province continues to receive the _ the paper it is printed on deliv- ered by members: of another AFL . SALLY BOWES = Let Me Solve Your INCOME TAX PROBLEMS Room 20 — 9 East Hastings -*. MAr. 9965 ‘ union and the presses are run by members of still another AFL union. In unity there is strength. If this is true for workers, and I am a member of the IWA where members have learned ‘the strength of unity through bitter struggles, it is also true for or- ganizations of workers. When we're faced with anti-labor bosses we must unite to fight them or run the risk that we'll all be de- feated because of our divisions. THOS. DZONKOSKI. Vancouver, B.C. Thought for the CCF Editor, Pacific Tribune: Sir: It is recognized by trade unionists that the workers: and other people of Canada must ral- ly at the polls to elect a CCF gov- ernment, as that party has in its ranks and counts as its support- ers the largest number of pro- gressive people. However, it would certainly en- hance the chances of a CCF vic- tory, if rank and file CCF’ers would insist upon certain changes of policy in its leadership. Certain leaders of the CCF have succumbed to the red-bait- ing of the bosses, and in their ef- forts to appear pure in the eyes of the same bosses are even tak- ing the bosses’ line. A recent example is the action of the Ontario CCF leadership in refusing to endorse Bob Carlin, CCF MLA for Sudbury. The reasons given by the CCF leadership in Ontario was that he had consorted with “Reds” in his union, The real reason was that cer- tain of the CCF leadership were involved in the recent attempts to stop union organization in the goldfields. Carlin fought them end he is continuing to fight such disruptive influences in his un- ion. He is faithfully following the constitution of his union which bars discrimination for race, creed, religion or political belief. Bob Carlin will be re-elected in Sudbury, despite the officialdom of the CCF. But their actions will have ‘the. effect of discouraging the workers of Canada from vot- ing CCF, thus strengthening the reactionary forces of Drew, Dup- lessis, King, etc. Again I say to the rank and file “CCF’ers, insist that your party leadership remain true to the in- terests of the working class. 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Of course, they are politicians and not statesmen, and there is a world of differ- ence between the two. I am working, but on a small salary, as I am getting on in years now (70 this year), but 1 can spare the money for your pa- per. é For obvious reasons I want you te omit my name. Simply sign it : A SUBSCRIBER. Vancouver, B.C GUIDE TO GOOD READING “Why be a IN A SPARKLING little doormat?’ pamphlet, Why Be a Door- mat? Stanley B. Ryerson, national organizational secretary of the Labor-Progressive Party, gives Canadians some very good advice and factual information. Pointing out the current a ism to contro! Canada’s economy is not meeting with the success Wall Street had hoped for, Ryer- son states that “the people—the workers and farmers who are most of the people—haven’t spo- ken yet. *] “They aren’t going to agree that the fight for bread and but- ter is ‘subversive’. Or that sstick- ing up for democratic rights is ‘subversive’, including the rights of those who, like the Commun- ists, are in favor of doing away with the profit system, Or that the fight for peace is ‘subversive .” Exposing the current attempt to whip up war feeling against the Soviet Union and the howl about the “menace of Communt- ism”, Ryerson explains how it is all part of the plot to turn Can- ada into a rich source of cheap raw materials for U.S. industry. “tow would you go about grab- bing a country from under the feet of its inhabitants — if you Maria Redina, new Soviet ballet star, is shown here in a scene from Russian Ballerina, now playing in Vancouver. FILMS AND PEOPLE ‘ Soviet film finest on dance A BRILLIANT NEW ballet star, Maria Redina, makes her film debut in Russian Ballerina, now showing at the State Theater here with another Soviet film, Military Secret, as part of a special first run bill. Acclaimed by critics as t produced, Russian Ballerina de- pitts with warmth and humor the backstage life of young art- ists of the Soviet ballet, their romances, aspirations and strug- gles to achieve skill and recog- nition. i A feature of the film is Calina Ulanova’s performance of Tchai- kovsky’s “Swan Lake” ballet. In addition, the corps de ballet of the famous Kiroy Theater is seen in several dance sequences, Marina Redina, who plays the part of ‘a dancing student recent- ly graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Choreography, was selected from hundreds of stud- ents for her technical skill and daring individual style. A‘ screen test gave her the opportunity she sought for dancing on the stage. As a result of outstanding per- formance in Russian Ballerina erities are predicting a brilliant career for her. Military Secret, the second fea- AOR OOO saunicdi PRICES PAI fOr” DIAMONDS, OLD GOLU Other Vaiuable Jewellery STAR LOAN CO. Ltd. - £87 1909 719 Robson St — MAr 262? SOS OOOOH he finest film on the dance yet ture on ths State pregram which will run for the coming week, is . a fast moving drama about Nazi spies who attempted to penetrate the Soviet Union in the Second World War and how they were trapped by the Soviet secret pol- ice. Both’ picrures have full English sub-titles. : ttempt of American imperial- happened to be’ a very big-time gangster?” Ryerson asks, and shows that the first thing usually is to “get all its well-meaning citizens to look in the opposite direction (in this case — due North!)” Thus with the people’s eyes fixed on some foreign myste- rious object, they never notice what is being filched from them, That Canada is facing a men- ace is true, Ryerson declares, Our lives and liberties are menaced by the people who see in the ever- increasing awareness and organ- ization of Canadian workers “a -threat to their ever-lasting privi- lege and profit—and are ready to blow up the earth rather than let the common people advance an inch.” The pamphlet is well written and short, a very. handy dccu- ment to give to those people who are not disposed to give the time required for lengthier writings. It is interspersed with amusing cartoons, and chunks of facts, such as a Gallup poll report—not ostentatiously printed in the daily press before—that, in answer to what they feel is the greatest single problem facing Canada, four percent of those questioned replied “communism”; 42 per- cent replied “high prices — the high cost of living!” : Why Be a Doormat? is distin- guished by Ryerson’s own special brand of phrasing and wit, for example: Z “A woman who sells herself is . called a harlot “What is someone called, who sells his country?’ Any sugges- tions?—KAY ERICKSON. Distorting the news THE ASSOCIATED PRESS has made belated amends for the way it handled photos of May Day de- monstrations in Berlin. On May 2 Neues Deutchland reported that AP photos airmail- ed to the U.S. were captioned to make it appear that the huge left- wing Free German Trade Unions’ rally at the Lustgarten was a right-wing group. 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