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Freedom from fear’
Editor, Pacific Tribune:

Sir: To most of us the condi-
tion of the world is very confus-
tng. We are unatle to decide
whether the so-called democratic
nations are consistent as past
masters in hypocrisy.

‘In the Atlantic Charter, “free-
dom from fear” was to be the
right of all peoples in the bright
post-war world. How we welcom-
_@d the promise in those days of
darkness and gloom! But four
years have elapsed since Germany
was defeated and fear still dom-
inates the world and force seems

to dictate the policies of the na-
tions.

We Canadians have not escap-
ed contamination. What excuse
have we to offer for supplying
Nationalist China with fighting
planes, many of them from near
my home, and with munitions
trom Quebec. Are we concerned
with helping to assure the Chin-
€se people “freedom from fear”
—the fear bred by Chiang Kai-
Shek’s dictatorial regime—or dre
Wwe concerned only with the divi-
dends to be obtained by feeding
the flames of war and heaping
new miseries on the Chinese peo-
ple? ;

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Oldtime Dancing
To Alf Carlson’s Orchestra
very Wednesday and Saturday
Hastings Auditorium
Phone HAstings 1248
: Moderate Rental Rates
“or socials, weddings, meetings

Russian People’s Home—
available for meetings, weddings
and banquets at reasonable rates,
600 Campbell Ave. HA, 0087.

Vance, Clinton Hai!—

2605 East Pender. Dance every

Saturday night. Modern and
Old-Time, Viking’s Orchestra.
Hall is available for rent,
‘HAstings 3277.

SALLY BOWES—

INCOME TAX PROBLEMS.
Room 20, . 9 East Hastings:
MA. 9965.

WANTED—

Boys and girls to sell the Pacific
‘Tribune each week. Earn pocket
money after school Friday or
Saturday. Start a bundle in your
neighborhood. Phone MArine

5288 or write to 650 Howe St.

Vancouver, B.C,

CRYSTAL STEAM BATHS—
Open every day. New Modern
Beauty Salon—1763 E. Hastings.
-HAStings 0094,

Swedish-Finnish Workers Club
Meets last Friday of every month

WHAT'S DOING?
The Gas & Transit LPP Club
presents “A Night Wi’ Burns,”
Cambrian Hall, 17th & Main St.,
Friday, January 28, 8 p.m. Con-
cert. A real Scotch lunch. Ad-
mission, 50c. Tickets can be ob-
tained at Tribune Office, Peo-
ple’s Cooperative Store, 209 Shel-
ly Bldg.

ATTENTION VICTORIA—

“Dusty Greenwell, V. I. miner,

will tell of his experiences in
Europe as member of the Bea-
ver Brigade, 1948, Sunday, Feb.
6, 8 pm., Williams Bldg., 749
Broughton St.

' working class

Wnute

I suggest that before we allow
ourselves to be misled by propa-
gandists into believing that our
own democratic “freedom” can
only be secured by imposing it—
by force—on other peoples whose
experience has_given them a dif-
ferent conception of freedom, we

take a look at this “freedom” of
ours,

The loyalty probe, the black-
list, the “subversive” files of the
RCMP, are the weapons used
against those who dare to exer-
cise their “freedom” to think for
themselves. This is the new intol-
erance, the new thought-control
that shapes itself into the ugly
familiar pattern of fascism.

There is only one answer to it:
to organize and fight this false
conception of “fretdom” wherever
it expresses itself, knowing that
our, own organized strength, like
the organized strength of the
common people everywhere, is
vastly superior to that of the
wealthy and privileged groups
who would destroy the world to
save themselves.

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S. SMITH.
Sandy Lake, Man.

Sales Tax repeal
Editor, Pacific Tribune:

Sir: “Would you like to sign
this petition to repeal the Sales
Tax? Wouldn’t you like to have
more money in your pocket?
Here, let me hold your parcels.”
And the response was terrific!.

ou Denarfinent
What Yom Pleate

I had thought that perhaps
some people might not share my
indignation against the Coalition
government's three percent Sales
Tax which really isn’t three per-
cent but more often five and six
percent. But some of the com-
ments of those signing the peti-
tion during a canvass I made in
the West End are worth repeat-

ing:
“Silly tax!’ “Nuisance tax!”
“This is one tax I don’t like!”

“Government has too much mon-
ey now!” “Yes, I'll sign, but def-
initely!” “Certainly I'll sign, got
to get rid of that thing!” “Let
them tax MacMillan — he made.
eight millions bucks last year.”

I would like to see every reader

of the Pacific Tribune taking a
petition around to the neighbors.
(You can get one from the B.C.
Executive, Labor - Progressive
Party, 119 West Pender Street,
Vancouver, B.C., TA. 1451.) What
a victory it world be for the peo-
ple of this province if we could
accomplish this!

One man asked me who was
promoting this campaign. “One
guess,” I told him. “What party
fights in the interests of the
working people?” “You're right,”
he said, “the Labor-Progressive
Party.” LENA LIPSEY.

P.S.—I° collected 50 signatures
in less than 45 minutes.
Vancouver, B.C.

CANADA: THE COMMUNIST VIEWPOINT

‘Working class landmark’

TIM BUCK’S NEW BOOK, Canada‘ The Communist View-
point, which is now going into its second edition of 10,000 copies,
is described in the December issue of National Affairs Monthly as
being in many respects his greatest contribution to the labor movement.

Terming the book “a _ land-
mark in the history of Canada’s
movement,” Na-
tional Affairs Monthly states:

“It is significant and fortun-
ate that Canada: The Commun-
ist Viewpoint was published on
the eve of the third national
convention of the Labor-Progres-
sive Party. It should and will
have an important influence up-
on the work and decisions of
this convention. For, as Stan-
ley B. Ryerson, LPP national
organizational secretary, empha-
sized in his foreword to the
book:

“It seems ‘to me that there
are three things which make
this a vitally important book.

““The first is, that at a time of
worldwide storm, confusion and
uncertainty it provides *a firm
sense of direction: something
that’s felt as an urgent need by
millions of Canadians ...

““The answer that is given —
and this is the second point — is
at once practical and scientifically
sound: based on that fusion of
scientific method and working

class struggle that is the essence ©

of Marxism, here masterfully ap-
plied to the most vital of Can-
adian problems...

“Finally, and far from the
least important thing about the
book, is the man who wrote it.

““Of no other Canadian can it
be said, in the same way as it
applies to the author of this book,
that he embodies and expresses
the struggles of the working peo-
ple from sea to sea. From the
miners of Cape Breton to the log-
gers of Vancouver Island f1:0m
the farmers of Saskatchewan to
the auto workers of Windsor,
from the needle trades workers
of Montreal to. the railroaders of
Winnipeg—the name of Tim Buck

‘is that of a fighter for the work-

ing class, a tribune of the people;
a champion and a comrade, a
beacon in the struggle.’-”

Upstairs

STATE THEATRE

CAR,

SOVIET FILM
Sunday Midnite, Jan. 30

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ONE WEEK

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GUIDE TO GOOD READING

China of tomorrow

ANNA LOUISE STRONG'S new book, Tomorrow’s China,
appears at a time when the great country across the Pacific embrac-
ing on fifth of the world’s population and its oldest civilized history,
is on the threshold of a new—a socialist—era.

Led by their outstanding com-
munist party, the people. of
China, in a quarter of a century
of almost continuous fighting
have won their liberation’ from
Japanese, British and American
imperialism and from the men
of the Kuomintang who played
the imperialists’ game to exploit
and oppress them.

Anna Louise Strong was on
the spot as the fateful events
which have now culminated in
the downfall of the Koumintang
took shape in 1946-1947. For
over a year this intrepid 63
year-old woman who has chron-
icled the Chinese people’s strug-
gle travelled thousands of miles
in Northern China and far in-

. Side Yenan, Mongolia and Man-

churia. From these travels has
emerged this powerful little book.

Events in China take on new
significance and depth. The lead-
ing characters in the Chinese

Red Army become living persons
in her pages and their amazing
deeds and capabilities show how
much we can hope for a genuine
democratic China to emerge
rapidly. :

As Mao Tse-tung is quoted in

the book. “The birth of the atom
bomb was the beginning of the.
death of the American imperial-
ists, for they began to count on
the bomb and not the peopie. In
the end the bomb will not de-
stroy the people—the people will
destroy the bomb.”

A fabulous personality herself,
Miss Strong visited the Soviet
Union in its infancy and wrote
I Change Worlds. Since then, in
the Soviet Union, China, Spain,
Korea, Poland, she has been re-
porting on the people.

Tomorrow’s China may be ob-
tained in Vancouver at the
People’s Cooperative Bookstore,
337 West Pender Street.

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MawSovisk fia

This is a scene from The Girl From Leningrad, outstanding
Soviet war film which will open this coming Sunday midnight
for a week’s run at the State Theater here. The story was in-
spired by the heroism of Red Cross nurses during the seige of

Leningrad by Hitler’s armies.

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Admission — $1.50

VANCOUVER SLAV COMMITTEE

are pleased to extend an invitation to you to attend a

DINNER and DANCE

ine the
RUSSIAN PEOPLES HOME

600 Campbell Ave.

' SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, 1949

at 7 p.m.

Refreshments included

DON’T FAIL TOHEAR ss

DR. JAMES G. ENDICOTT —

One Time Adviser to Chiang Kai-shek
; speaking on

“ASIA AND WORLD PEACE”
PENDER AUDITORIUM
_ THURSDAY, FEB. 3, 8 P.M.
ADMISSION — 50c. AT THE DOOR
: Auspices: Vancouver Peace Council
ST ST : : mE

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