WHAT ‘SUPPRESSION OF COMMUNISM’ BILL MEANS THE SUPPRESSION of Com- munism Bill, which has now been passed by the South African par- liament, abolishes the rule of iaw and gives the minister of justice complete powers to restrict all civil liberies and democratic rights. The minister can deport or ban individuals, organizations or pub- lications without right of appeal by those attacked. He can‘decide which are “Com- -munist” organizations; he can ‘place “Communists” on blacklists, remove them from posts in their trade unions or other organiza- tions, He can terrorize everyone who _ expresses anti-government views. . The bill prepares the way for _ attacks on, and the extinction of, @ven the government’s official parliamentary white opposition. Under the guise of fighting “Communism,” all vestiges of democracy are to be destroyed. The bill thus equips Prime Min- ister Daniel Malan’s Nationalist government with complete dicta- torial powers to destroy all oppo- sition to its policy of “apartheid”, or racial segregation, and the set- ting up of a fascist regime. Everywhere fascism, where it has taken control, has tried to camouflage its real aim by at- tacks on racial minorities or “Communists”. e : The South African political cli- mate has always been ripe for fascism. Dominating the political and economic structure of the Union are the labor needs of the cham- {THIS LIFT IS FOR EUROPEANS ONLY SERVICE LIFT iS PROVIDED FOR TRADESMEN, NON-EUROPEANS, PRAMS & DOGS. cd - NO HAWKERS ALLOWED. ‘i A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column. No notices will be _ accepted later than Monday noon _ of the week of publication. WHAT'S DOING? OPEN AIR DANCING at Swedish Dancing from 9-12. 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Hall is available for rent. : RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME — Available for meetings, weddings, and banquets at reasonable rates. 600 Campbell Ave., HA. 6900. NOTICES PLEASE NOTE: Office of Pacific Tribune will close at 12 noon on Saturdays. PT Dixieland Trio — Available for dances and socials. “Assure a suc- cessful evening.” Quality tops, - Yates reasonable, Call MA. 5288 for booking. “TELL THEM YOU SAW IT IN THE TRIBUNE” _ Hastings. MA. 9965. A. Rollo, Mgr. New South African legislation establishes pattern of fascism ber of mines, the farms and the industries. An edifice of laws has been erected and a burden of taxes imposed *to compel the African people to leave their homes in the countryside for these labor mar- kets. The pass laws have to control their movements, their wages must be limited, their rights to organize must be restricted. Each successive government has been a minority government, elected by the enfranchised white voters only, and to retain its pow- er each government is faced with the necessity of legislating in the interests of this privileged minor- ity, and by a network of suppres- sions and restrictions has been driven to clamp’ down on every effort of the non-Europeans to improve their conditions and to attain their democratic liberties. Deprived of their political rights, dispossessed of their land and hemmed in by oppressive laws, the non-Europeans are a subjugated people. They have no - democracy. On March 26, 1948, a “Black Menace” scare election campaign stampeded the European voters into placing power in the Na- tionalist party which had openly prayed for Hitler’s victory dur- ing the war. - Since the assumption of power by this government, an outrageous rape of civil liberties has been ' carried on. Even the rights and liberties of the white population have been under fire. The color bogey has been the government’s master - weapon. Everything has been done to cre- ate and exacerbate feelings of hatred and intolerance between the different groups in the. coun- try, to instil fear in the hearts of the Whites and frustrate the non- Whites. Apartheid or segregation has been*introduced in trains, on stations’ in post offices, and even in courts of justice. ’ The non-Europeans have been insulted with calculated insolence, called such names as “Kaffirs, Coolies and Hot-Nots.” The Indian people face the nightmare of intruding inspectors. under the Ghetto Act who pry into their private lives, take ac- tion against them, drive them out of their homes and confiscate their property. African children in schools go hungry as their allowances for feeding are drastically cut. Afri- can workers have been cut off from unemployment. insurance funds to which they themselves had partially contributed. e The third session of the tenth parliament of the Union of South Africa will go down in history as a session of slavery. From this emerged the National the Group session Registration Bill, Areas Bill and the so-called “Sup- pression of Communism” Bill. The Group Areas Bill provides for establishment of a rigid caste system in South Africa, and the demarcation of the country into closed areas for the occupation and ownership of the different groups. ‘The bill will ruin the non-Euro- peans and particularly the Indians ; by forcing them to sell their prop- erty in areas reserved for other groups. It will create closed ghet- toes for the non-Europeans. These JEWISH FOLK CHOIR PROGRAM artist on that occasion. John Weinzweig to set Neruda poem to music THE TORONTO JEWISH Folk Choir, one of the finest cultural organizations in: the Canadian progressive move ment, begins its second quarter-century of activity with a concert in Massey Hall on October 7 during Jewish Cultural Week sponsored by the Canadian Jewish Congress. of the same month the choir will present a program at the Third National Convention of the United Jewish Peoples Order. the same time the choir will be rehearsing for its own concert at Massey Hall on December 9 and negotiations are in progress to have Regina Resnik, famous Metropolitan soprano, as guest The choir is planning a number of new choral works—works that will reflect the times with the dominant note-placed on the vital fight for peace. For this purpose the choir is commissioning John J. Weinzweig, one of Canada’s leading composers, to set Pablo Neruda’s epic poem, Let The Railsplitter Awake, to music and to be given its world premiere sometime during the coming season. Folk songs of many nations, workers’ songs and songs of struggle will play an even more prominent role in the choir’s repertoire than ever before. Towards the end At \ "VOICE OF AMERICA’ CAN’T COMPETE Truman fears Robeson as voice of Negro people REVOCATION of Paul Robeson’s passport is attributed to the Truman administration’s fear of the great artists “world-wide prestige as a champion of the oppressed and an enemy of fascism and imperialism” in a statement issued by the Council on African Affairs in New York. The Council declares that the government “apparently feels that its ‘Voice of America’ can- not have voices competing with it such as that of Paul Robeson, asking for justice for Willie Mc- Gee, the Trenton Six, the Mar- tinsville Seven and other victims of lynch justice; and demanding freedom for the African and all other colonial peoples.” This action, the statement says, “is another blatant example of the administration’s efforts to sil- ence the demand of Negro Ameri-. eans for their full rights as citi- zens and the demand of the Amer- ican people generally for the pre- servation of world peace and the~ protection of their dwindling de- mocratic rights at home.” ; The statement also notes that the U.S. state department is try- ing to deprive Robeson of an im- portant part of his income deriv- ed from concerts abroad, and adds that the infringement of the right to travel, along with jailing of innocent people, curtailment of _ freedom of speech and political dissent “mark the progress to a. fascist state in America.’ The Council on African Affairs is asking progressive organiza- tions and individuals to send pro- tests to Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, Washington, D.C., and copies of the protest to its own offices at 23 West 26th Street, New York 10, New York. disastrous provisions can be ex- tended and applied to cover the different groups of the Europeans, too. : In the face of these dangers a clarion call for action has been sounded by the president-general of the African National Congress, Dr. J. S. Moroka, to which the national organizations of the non- European peoples are responding. These are the South African In- dian Congress and the African People’s Organization, They joined in a mighty mass protest last June, and their strug- gle continues and will continue, despite every terror and all re- pression. ‘ SU ET Kahn denied passporf, forbidden fo fravel THE U.S. state department has refused to issue a passport to Albert Kahn, author of two wide- Iy read books, The Great Con- spiracy and High Treason. An- nouncement of the state depart- ment’s action came from the In- ternational Organization of Journ- alists at Prague, whose forthcom- ‘ing congress at Helsinki Kahn was to have attended. The 10J stated that Kahn had been informed by the state de- partment that he “was forbidden to leave for abroad for any pur- pose whatsoever,” and announced that it had entered a sharp pro- test against limitation of Kahn’s personal freedom and violation of freedom of the press in the U.S. - Nemuene WHAT PRAGUE READS All Czechs know why Fast in jail THE CZECHOSLOVAK people are reading more books today than at any time in their history. On one street alone in Prague there are 20 bookstores. And they are quite busy. One bookstore prominently displays George Mar- ion’s volume on the Communist trial. Albert Kahn’s The Great Conspiracy has sold well. His new book, Plot Against the Peace, which has been translated into Czech, is also expected to be @ best seller. The most popular American writer is, of course, Howard Fast, whose books sell by the tens of thousands. Escapist literature of the kind that sells in America by the mil- lions of copies went out with caPp- italism. Young Czechoslovakia is growing up with Tolstoy, Fast, Barbusse, Fuchik, Neruda and — Nexo. Comic strip “literature” is unknown in Czechoslovakia. PACIFIC 'RIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 8, 1950 — PAGE 10