Review. N TERMS of mileage it is quite a distance between the racist- torn areas of Africa and the “Deep South” of the U.S.A.; a long. way between Johannesburg, South Af- rica, or Lagos, Nigeria, and Orangeburg, South Carolina, or Little Rock, Arkansas. Yet there is no distance at al in terms of racist persecution of Negro and Colored peoples at the hands of so-called white “suprem- acists.” The “apartheid” (segre- gation) advocate of Johannesburg, S.A., and the segregationist of Orangeburg, S.C., are kindred an- imals under the skin. The U.S. “white supremacist”, the Ku Klux Klan, the “Jim Crow’’ segregationist, the anti - Negro Iynch mob, are exact replicas of the white imperialist exploiters in Africa, be they British or other. These racists stop at nothing to keep the Negro and Colored peo- ples of the so-called “dark contin- ent” in subjection. Every savagery from race segregation with its multiple indignities to race geno- cide is resorted to in order to ex- tort “taxes” (read profits), and enforce shame, cruelty and_in- dignity upon the African people. Thus we read almost daily of - hundreds of Negro people being shot to death, wounded, clubbed or imprisoned in Johannesburg and elsewhere in S.A., simply- because they refuse to submit to a de- grading “pass law” which prohib- its them from moving freely about in their own community — and country. The-same kind of “news” ~ comes out of Nigeria, of Nyasa- land, of Kenya, of Tanganyika, the Rhodesias and others areas of this white tyranny. World protest against this mass persecution of the Negro peoples — is expressed in a boycott of Afri- can. products, a mark of solidarity _ with the African peoples’ own boy- cott against the segregation “pass laws.” The Tory MacMillans and Diefenbakers bewail such a boy- cott, but do nothing to place these “white supremacists” in their proper. category, — pariahs and cutcasts among civilized nations. While these racist persecutions reach new heights of horror al- Pacific Tribune Editor — TOM McEWEN Associate Editor — MAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Room 6 — 426 Main Street Vancouver 4, B.C. Printed in a Union Shop Subscription Rates: One Year: $4.00 Six Months: $2.25 ‘ Canadian and Commonwealth couniries (except Australia): $4.00 one year. Australia, United States and all other countries: $5.00 one year. Phone MUtual 5-5288 Sener Racist Plague D EDITORIAL PAGE Flat-top ‘flats’ most daily in Africa, down in Orangeburg and other areas of majority Negro population in the “Deep South,” hundreds of young Negro students are herded into jails, degraded, insulted, beaten and clubbed, all because they struggle against the hated evil of race segregation and its vicious “Jim Crow” barriers to social, edu- cational and vocational equality. Thus there is little to differen- tiate as between the white “su- premacists” of Africa and those in the U.S. In the former the white rulers would prefer (if they could) to keep their crimes against. the Negro people hidden. Jn the U.S. it is different. While loudly boasting of its “free-way-of-life” as a pat- tern for others, its lynch and seg- regation mobs gather to inflict new indignities upon American citizens, whose only “crime” js a dark skin. Racism and human decency have nothing in common. To preserve human decency and dignity, racism must be destroyed. In this strug- gle, all decent humanity. must stand with the Negro people — everywhere. HE VISIT last weekend of the U.S.S. “flat-top” Coral Sea brought out a number of interest- ing studies in mass psychology, to say nothing of mixed individual reactions. The thousands of Vancouverites © who lined the causeway around Stanley Park and other shoreline points of advantage to watch this 63,000-ton “showcase” enter Van- couver harbor, maintained a stony silence, with evidence of “wel- come” waving conspicuously ab- sent: The “gala” affair on board ship Saturday night was staged primar- ily for Vancouver’s “elite”, with matronly hostesses running a high blood pressure in their “screening” of our finest pulchri- tude for the Coral Sea “gobs”. Many of the latter, it seems, head- ed for shore before the “gala” event got under way, to find their own entertainment. Sunday the Coral Sea “open house” provided Vancouver with one of its record traffic tieups. Some 12,000 Vancouverites are said to have managed to get aboard for a sight-seeing tour of the ship before a between-decss elevator went out of kilter. T - ended the “open house” phase tk the visit, leaving some 20,000 re k spectators jampacked on the 40¢ approaches. ae The visit of the Coral Sea ne just another of those _col efforts, disregarding time ie money squandered, to impress : Canadian spectator wit of power, weight and supremacy ' i U.S. war potential. Particularly if this time, when the thinking © millions is turned in the direction of international effort for beset ament and peace, it was probably 7 ar ded thought advisable by war-ml brass in Washington and Ottawa to display a little “massive mee ance” to peace—63,000 tons ° = If that was the thinking behim the visit, it misfired, since ere gobs joined opinion with spectators that the massive “streamline Coral Sea was also something of a “sitting duck” in the nuclear holo- caust the warmongers scheme 10% __As a token of U.S. “friendship Canadians would prefer to seé ! expressed with something more ‘symbolic of peace than battleships. Tom McEwen N THE March 13 edition-of The Islander, the weekly magazine ist, there is an article by one Cecil Clark, purporting to be a “flash- back” on the death of labor leader year 1918. : No doubt there’s a lot of people like ourselves who never heard of Cecil Clark, but there are very few in the ranks of organized labor and the working people of B.C. who haven’t heard something of the cold-blooded police murder of “Ginger” Goodwin. During the 42-years which have passed since “Ginger’’ was hunted like a wild animal in the hills around Cumberland and _ finally shot to death (in the back) by a provincial policeman, Dan Camp- bell, thousands of trade unionists and workers of all political hues have trekked to his grave in Cum- berland Cemetery, to pay a brief minute of tribute to his memory. For 42-years the mining folks of Cumberland have tended that mar- tyr grave as one of their own. Like a lot of his breed, “his- torian” Clark displays a reckless section of the Victoria Daily Colon- ‘ Albert “Ginger” Goodwin in the unconcern for established facts or truth. Eagerly he scrapes up the: jingoism of the First World War and its phoney “patriotism” as the basis of his “flashback” attack upon the organized labor move- ment of the period. He even man- ages to sandwich in the old can- nard against the leaders of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike — their “hope of a Canadian Soviet.” Thus he manages to smear the labor ' leaders of the day, those who led the Vancouver Labor Council, and the leaders of the Winnipeg Gen- eral strike. “Historian” Glark expresses a fiendish glee that the VLC strike call protesting the murder of “Ginger” Goodwin wasn’t 100-per- cent effective. He is also delighted to see 3,000 striking shipyard workers on the North Shore hav- ing to “walk home,” because the BCElectric boys were “heading — for the car barns’’ in a complete _ tie-up. The Daily Colonist “flashbacker” also evinces a typical Chamber-of- Commerce delight that the return- ed soldiers who had come ‘‘march- ing home” after making the world “safe for democracy” were in- veigled into ganging-up in violent attacks upon VLC labor leaders and union property. No doubt such a “historian” is ignorant of the fact that Chamber- of-Commerce organized “vigil- antes,” “Black Hundreds,” ‘“Citi- zens’ Committees’ and kinred anti- labor hooligan organizations, (to which a very small minority of war veterans were attracted) were ‘ course), but with ‘‘split second tim- organized, financed, supplied with booze in abundance, and turned _ loose upon labor ‘organizations and — personnel. : ; 7 “Historian’ Clark would have his readers believe that “‘the sur- — vivors of Vimy Ridge and Pass- - chendaele”’ were the ‘spearhead of — these violent attacks against labor, - thus providing his own justifica- tion for the murder of ‘‘Ginger” Goodwin. : Clark’s fiction of how Goodwin met his death is-of a piece with. the rest of his jingoistic anti-labor diatribe. Like a third-rate . ‘““Wes- ~ tern” thriller, “Ginger” and his _ killer Campbell are ‘alone, face-to- ~ face on a lonely mountain trail. “Ginger’s” gun goes up first (of ing’ Campbell’s gun “rang out— not Goodwin’s.” “a Having thus’ disposed of the “draft-dodger,”’ Clark then goes in- to the intricate task of depicting the “course” of Campbell’s lethal bullet; no doubt with the idea in ~ mind of getting around the prob- k lem of how a hate-crazed police- man, standing face to face with his __ intended victim, could manage to plug him so neatly in the back? “Historian” Clark winds up his anti-labor “hys-torical’ mishmash with a final fiction; that the killer . of “Ginger”? Goodwin had won the distinction of firing ‘the shot that triggered the first general strike in Canadian history.’ All that Campbell “triggered” was the uni- versal contempt of all decent people for such killers and their Chamber-of-Commerce paymasters. March 25, 1960—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 4 the.