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Editor, Pacific Tribune:

Sir: A few lines in answer to
Bert Huffman on ‘Nazi prisoners’.
Bert speaks truthfully and brief-
ly of but an infinitesimal fraction
of the unspeakable crimes of
savagery perpetrated by depraved
nazis upon the property and per-
sons of the Soviet people, And
truly, to hear and read and think

again today of those revolting
crimes, the memory of which is
not even slightly softened by time

Tops in movieland

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and distance, can only fill our
minds and hearts once more with
cold fury.

While Bert is only giving voice
to his own feelings when he says
“T sincerely hope that every such
Nazi now held in these so-called
slave labor camps dies there of
old age, disease and vermin,” I
would like to gently remind him

‘that we must not let our outraged
feelings run away with our better
judgment. I feel sure that as far
as the Soviet authorities and peo-
ple are concerned, they are clean,

.

Nikolia Cherkassov and Lubov Orlova, People’s Artists of
the Soviet Union who again star in the prize film SPRING
appearing at the State Theater next week.

Soviet film showing

“SPRING,” a new Soviet musical comedy, will have its
Canadian premiere at the State Theater next week starting
with a midnight show this Sunday. Winner of the first prize
at the International Film Festival at Venice. for the most

original story, the picture takes
you behind the scenes of movie
making. :

Nikolai Cherkassoy, f amous
star of “Ivan the Terrible,” Alex-
ander Nevsky,” “Baltic Deputy”
and other top films, plays his first
modern role as a movie director
opposite very lovely Luboyv ~Or-
lova star of “Volga-Volga.”

Director Gregory Alexandrov,
‘who produced “Volga - Volga,”
“Tanya,” “Moscow Laughs,”
-scores again on “Spring” which
‘shows Moscow life in 1947.

A woman scientist and an act-
ress whose careers get mixed up
brings to the screen a dual role
character in which it is hard to
believe the same actress plays
both parts, The famous Corps de
Ballet of the Moscow Bolshoi
‘Theatre are featured in several
‘dances. “Spring” is definitely one
of the Russian top notch efforts
produced in the Soviet Union
since the war and a recommended

. film.

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noble and kindhearted people,
who would not tolerate the dead-
liness of preventable disease, or
the filthiness of vermin—even in

a prison. For that would be an

attribute of Nazism.

Justice, yes. And the full pen-
alty for all the vicious atrocities
and brutalities committed upon
countless thousands of innocent
and helpless women and children.
But a justice tempered with that
mercy inherent in a noble people,
who abhor the Nazi philosophy

_of making a degenerate still more

degenerate, The justice of a cul-
tured people, who, even though
the agony of untold suffering at
the hands of the Nazi despoilers
has been seared deep into their
very souls, will still stretch forth
a helping hand to guide the de-
towards® regeneration.
For, to be cruelly vindictive is
also a Nazi attribute. And I glory
in the thought that the Soviet

people are not and will not be
either cruel or vindictive.

I also believe that at heart Bert
Huffman is a kindhearted man.
May.I be permitted tO suggest to

. Bert that we should always be

careful not to allow our outraged
feelings to run away with our
good sense.

‘BERT ELDERTON,
Kyle, Sask.
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GUIDE TO GOOD READING

You Deoartinent Gene Debs--trail blazer |
al you Please.

Cahn, W., and: Morais, H., The Story Of A Fighting American, |
on sale at People’s Co-cp Bcokstore, 337 West Pender, price 80 cents.

HESE days when Canadian workers face “Operation
Demolish” on the right to organize and maintain uniony%

when big shipping companies

shoot down striking seamen, when marching on a picketline

is to invite 4 jail term—The Story
Of A Fighting American: Gene
Debs, is a long-overdue and wel-
come addition to progressive lit-
erature,

Chicago was the scene of Debs’
most famous activity, There it
was that Debs spent six months
in jail on a “contempt of court”
charge.

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When Debs was released from
Woodstock jail he went to Chi-
cago. One hundred thousand
working people were at the Wells
Street station to greet him. This
despite a driving storm.

The struggle for a shorter work
*week, for an eight-hour day was
the background.

In 1894 workers at the Pullman
Palace Car company went out on
strike: the American Railway Un-
ion hit the bricks in their support.
And Gene Debs was delegated by

his union to take charge of the
» strike,

Federal judges of an Illinois
District Court issued a sweeping
injunction virtually prohibiting
the strike.

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Debs ignored the injunction,
called for more militant action,
and at the climax of the strike he
and other ARU leaders were
swept into Cook County jail on
charges of contenipt. Said Gene

Jewish officials at Place Viger freight yards in Montreal in-
specting the latest shipment of $150,000 worth of food and clothing

donated by Canadian Jewery for “Aid to Israel.”

Much is still

needed to win victory and peace in Palestine.

can openly flout the law and

Debs: ‘No strike has ever been
lost, and there can be no defeat
for the labor movement.”

The lessons of this experience,
plus his organizing in railroads,
mines, and the IWW turned Debs —
to socialism. After long years of
organizing. and stumping for
principles he ran for President of
the U.S. on a Socialist ticket. He
got 400,000 ‘votes in 1904—900,000
in 1912, gil

He became “America’s Most
Famous Prisoner’? when because
of his active opposition to thé
first world war he was sentenced
to 10 years in jail. He explained
his opposition: :

“When I say 1 am opposed t?
war, I mean ruling-class war .-:
while I have not a drop of blood
to shed for the oppressors of the
working class ...I have a heart-
ful to shed for their victims whet —
it shall be needed in the war for
their liberation.”

While in prison he was agail

nominated for President. On elec-
tion night he received the returns
in the warden’s office. Nine hun
dred and twenty thousand Ameti-
cans had) voted for Gene Debs!
In 1921 Debs was released bY
presidential decree after a 1on8
popular campaign. His health
ruined, Debs’ activity was limited.
He died October 20, 1926.
_ Head of America’s first indus |
trial union of railroad workers in —
1894, Gene Debs in his lifetime
saw the labor movement grow out
of its swaddling clothes, He wa4
part and parcel of the fight f0°
an eight-hour day, for the right
to organize, for industrial unions,
for the unity of all workers, T&
gardless of color or creed.

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Debs was a pioneer in th® |
realm of independent political 4° |
tivity for labor. And from work:
ers’ and farmers’ action at that
time came features of America?
democracy which today we tak® |
for granted: woman suffrag® J]
abolition of child labor, work |
men's compensation laws and oth:
er reforms.

This is a brief sampling of Bil!
Cahn’s and Herb Morais’ excitin8
story of a great labor lead
which is important reading to all
Canadian workers, unionists 2°°
progressives. (A.L.)

7

Marxist classroom
to open this month

Fall term of the Marxist Class-
room is to start September 20 and
run till, November 8, Claire Pos-
en, Vancouver LPP educational
director, announced this week.

“As usual, the classes are open
to all those interested, whether
members of the LPP or not,” she
said. “Many of the 85 students at
the spring term are re-enrolling
for different courses, but there is
plenty-of room for new students.

“Courses include the State
(Jack Phillips), Marxism and the
Trade Unions (Nigel Morgan),
Foundations of Leninism (Elgin
Ruddell), Writing for the Labor
Press (Bert Whyte), Elements’ of
Marxism (Claire ‘Posen and Rosa-
leen Ross), Social Democracy in
Canada (Minerva Miller), Politi-
cal Economy (Malcolm McLeod),
and Posters and Publicity.

“Registration will be received _

at the classroom, 211 Shelly Build-
ing, and registration fee is $1.”

“aC. LA, SS NE

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