Folk singer to give city concert

Pete Seeger (above), who sang his way to international Pei
as the leader of the Weavers, will give what is expected to be a
sellout concert in Pender Auditorium here this coming Wednesday,

October 6, at 8 p.m.

The famous folk singer is now touring the

country in a series of five concerts sponsored by Champion, pro-

gressive national youth paper.

DRAMA

Stage two plays for
Chekov anniversary

ORLD-WIDE commemoration

of the 50th anniversary of

the death of Anton Chekov, the

great Russian dramatist, is to be

marked in Vancouver by per-

formances of two of his” plays,
. The Bear and The Proposal.

B.C. Peace Council will present

these two one-act plays, Friday,

: October 22, 8 p.m., at the Ukrain-
ian Hall, 805 East Pender.

Each year the World Peace

Council encourages the celebra-

tion of the anniversaries of great
figures of world culture. This

year, on its initiative, the anni-
versaries of Chekov, the British
novelist Henry Fielding,

the

Greek playwright Aristophanes
and the Czech composer Anton
Dvorak, are being celebrated in
all countries. ; -

‘

At a later date, B.C. “Peace
Council hopes also to celebrate
the anniversaries of Fielding,
Dvorak and Aristophanes.

Members of the casts of the
two Chekov plays are Frank Tay-
lor, Lawrence Gardner, Hugh
Pease, Pat Graber, Key Edwards
and Kay Gardner. Both plays
are directed by Frank Flood.

‘Admission will be $1. Tickets
are available at B.C. Peace’ Coun-
cil offices, 144 West Hastings.

BOOKS

Jagan recounts struggles of
Guianese people for freedom

TO see clearly how capitalisin is

breaking up and the new
world of true freedom and equali-
ty is growing you should turn to
the colonial field.

There you can study how scores
of millions of human beings, all
hungry, mostly illiterate, and
mostly “colored,” demand of
their colonial exploiters, mostly
European or North American,
not merely enough to eat but the
right to govetn themselves -in
their own interests.

The head-on clash between
these two forces constitutes by

now a new and glorious ee in
history.

One stage of this struggle, in
one country, is vividly described
in Cheddi Jagan’s Forbidden Free-
dom — The Story of British
Guiana (obtainable in Vancouver

. at the People’s Cooperative Book-

store, 337 West Pender, price
$1.50 cloth, 60 cents paper.)

Jagan, leader of the People’s
Progressive party, was prime
minister of the colony from March
1953 to October 1953—from the
election of the first constitutional
government until its ‘suppression
by British troops.

Forbidden Freedom is a short
(96 pages) historical account of
colonial exploitation in Guiana
which illustrates every evil of
colonialism.

Here is the hunt for cheap
labor first by legal slavery and
then by the paper slavery of “in-
dentured labor;” the prevention
or sabotage of any development
that would hinder the supply of
cheap labor, or even its cheap-

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DR. CHEDD!I JAGAN

and commissions of inquiry.

All the tricks of “divide and
rule” are worked ‘by stirring up
strife between the different ex-
ploited races. :

Hunger, misery, bad housing,
and bad education accompany the
v hole sorry tale of exploitation.

Of course, the Communist

“smear” is used, the old, old fairy
story that people stirred to re-

‘sistance by intolerable evils are

ness; the grabbing of the best

land for exploitation for foreign
profit. This leads to a succes-
sion of disturbances, shootings,

Mexico celebrates centennial
of stirring national anthem

5 ee year’s celebrations of Mexi-

can Independence Day, Sep-
tember 16, were given an unusual
Significance by the fact that 1954
is the centennial of the Mexican
national anthem, El Himno. Na-
cional Mexicano, as well as the
144th anniversary of El Grito,
Hidalgo’s call to free the land
from Spanish colonialism.

El Himno Nacional ranks
among the best works of its kind.
in the world. Its stirring words
and music are well-beloved. For
weeks, Mexican publications have
devoted columns to the nation-
’ wide plans for celebration of its

100th anniversary.

The words of the Mexican an-
them were written by Francisco
Gonzalez Bocanegra and the
music by Jaime Nuno, one of the
foremost composers of his ‘day.
Their remans now rest in the
Panteon de Dolores, tomb of
Mexico’s great. eee

To

Bocanegra was born on Jan-

_uary 8, 1824, in San Luis Potosi.

When a youth, he went to Mexico

City hoping to make a name as
a poet. His work met with little

success and to safiniain himself -

he went to work for the: govern-
ment, becoming a theatrical cen-
sor and an inspector of roads. .

A national competition for a
patriotic song was announced on
Novenrber 14, 1853. Bocanegra
vacillated. He wanted to enter,
but by then he thought he mane
have enough talent.

His fiance, Elisa, insisted that

- he could win if he entered. Fin-
ally she ended his vacillation. -

She locked Bocanegra in a room,
told him he couldn’t come out
until he’d written words to enter
in the contest.

Four hours later, the door was
unlocked. Bocanegra walked out
with the words in his hands. They
won the competition against the
hest poets of Mexico.

Sian te oy At
Nuno was born on September
8, 1824 in Spain. He studied
music in Madnid and Italy, later
emigrated to Cuba. There in
Havana he met General Santa

Ana, who was looking for a di-

rector of the bands and military
music for Mexico.

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Santa Ana offered the post to
Nuno. He accepted and went to
Mexico in 1853. Shortly after
his ‘arrival, the competition for

EI Himno Nacional was announc- -

ed.
Nuno went to work immediate-

ly on a composition. So did other —

Mexican composers. On August
12, 1854, Nuno was told that his
music had been selected. to go
with Bocanegra’s words. ,

After the fall of Santa Ana’s =

government, Nuno: returned to
Cuba and then went to the Unit-
ed States. He won recognition
in New York as a concert con-

' ductor.

Nuno returned i Mexico City
for several visits. The last was
in 1904 when he was honored at
the 50th anniversary of El Himno
Nacional.

He was 84 sien he died in
New York in 1908. He was buried
in Buffalo, N.Y., but later the
Mexican ‘government had his
bones brought to Mexico City for
final interment beside those of
Bocanegra. f

euaierante

Tit iit iit tit Fl tT ATT

the puppets of “foreign agitators”
who are exciting them in order
to. further mysterious aims of
world domination.

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And then, on the positive side,

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Vancouver Labor College
FALL SESSION

Five Courses — Each Course Once a Week
for Six Weeks

1. SOCIALISM—THE ANSWER
Starting Monday, October 4—Every Monday 8 p.m. at ;
Pender Auditorium, 339 W. Fencet —— intrpaucteny
Course.
2. POLITICAL ECONOMY
a Starting Monday, October 4—Every Monday 8 pam
at Room 7 - 9 E. Hastings — Intermediate Course.
3. WHAT IS MARXISM?
Starting Tuesday, October 5—Every Tuesday. 8 p.m.
at Hastings Auditorium
Elementary Course.
_ 4. THE PATH TO SOCIALISM
Starting Tuesday, October 5—Every Tuesday 8 p.™.
at Room 7 - 9 E. Hastings — Advanced Course.
5. CANADA HAS A HISTORY

Starting Sunday, October 10—Every Sunday 8 p.™

Room 7 - 9 E, Hastings.

REGISTER
At Room 7 - 9 E. Hastings

Fee $1.00 per course of Six Lectures.
ANY INTERESTED PERSON MAY ATTEND
ONE OR MORE CLASSES. : a

‘colonial government to gramt 4

Jagan tells of the growth in work-
ing class power, of its being oF :
ganized and united to force the

constitution, which — however
severely limited — did enable
the People’s Progressive | party;
based on the people, to wit 9

majority of the seats in the leo
islature and to form the govet®
ment. ~

At this point the book pecomes
doubly interesting. Most read
ers want something more that 2 —
classic story of the workings °
colonialism; they want to know

the answers to the case put UP yy &
- the British government for

denly suspending the constitutio? ”
and re-establishing a dictatorshiP-

Jagan gives all the ante
and British government . a
and excuses are revealed ®

empty, stupid and wholly bas® —

eat .

less.

Read the book and you vill
learn — or relearn — a 8t@ ¥
deal. You will not only kn?

all the direct answers
doubters and the hesitant ey
the immediate events in Gale

you will understand better, 42 ihe
therefore be more bitterly ane :
more intelligently hostile 10
onialism than you were betore:-

You will realize what a ee
did thing the struggle agains a
colonialism is, and how su
we should all be to take P
hab sii :

Every decent” human instines
must make us cry out agalt nt
the oppressors, help in the he
to secure new advances of
“colonials,” and shout for i
over their victories.

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