the Pacific Tribune represents the ach- jevement of the working people of B.C., industrial workers, farmers, small 'bus- iness people, professionals, ‘old veter- ins in B.C. labor and young National . Federation of Labor Youth (NFLY) workers, press fbuilders with the vis- jon lof a world at peace, existing in amity and happiness. And in no less measure the achievement belongs to the clubs and provincial organization of the LaboriProgressive party, whose members recognize the need of a fight- ing Marxist journal to interpret the news of the day ‘and give a lead in the battles of the moment and those matur- : ing for the days ahead. The achieve- ‘particularly when we are still young ment: of maintaining’a paper in unbrok- enough to regard ourselves as ‘being en continuity is at once a matter for Youthful. So it is with vigorous young pride—and greater determination to Newspapers published 'by and for work- preserve the PT in strengthened vigor { WUD TOUT TIE ICDC RMD ILD hI LL iL hatha bat eat CP MMM TENT TC TECTED OL Soh DOD Lee TRITHDAYS are usually happy events, ing ‘people. and circulation in the coming decisive This issue of the Pacific Tribune is decade! Such an event, marking ‘ten years of e “€ontinuous publication in B/C. The Word “continuous” has a special sig- nificance. Back in the Hungry Thirties _ the predecessors of ‘the Pacific Tribune appeared in numerous and often short- lived ventures. Small mimeographed Papers many of them were, calling up- on the workers to organize and fight the starvation regime of “Iron Heel” Bennett, to build trade unions and pool ‘their strength to win work and wages; little papers that breathed militancy and revolt against ‘hunger, fascism.and ‘War, The forces of “law and order” didn’t like such papers, naturally, so they Were ‘often unceremoniously (and with- ‘out too much concern for law) officially Squelched. Then, in ‘the period from 1934.40 a number of papers, outlined {by associate editor Hal Griffin, stepped upon the ‘stage of ‘history’ and played their part, fearlessly and well until the outbreak ‘of the Second World War, When the Advocate and similar papers i other great centres were banned for exposing the ‘Chamberlain-Daladier be- -trayal of Czechoslovakia at Munich and the “phoney” stage of the war, where ~ ~ those alleged statesmen who had built Up Hitler to attack the Soviet Union Were still scheming, at the risk of the destruction of their own ‘peoples, to destroy the only socialist country cap- able of saving them from the disaster _ Of their own class-encrusted folly. ' There’s a lot of work goes into the business of ten years’ continuous pub- lication ‘of the PT. First, the work of thousands of our readers and sup- Porters, known and unknown, who Week after week plug away in the task ‘of getting. the paper into the hands ef more and more workers. _Then there are other press builders; those working‘men and women who know that a working class press can- not operate without money; who know that all fhe sources of ‘finances open ‘to the commercial press ‘are closed tight to working-class papers. ‘The patron- age of the big advertisers keeps the big monopoly press going. Additional Millions in political slush funds of the lold-line Tory ‘and ‘Liberal parties lof Capitalism pour into the propaganda mills of the monopoly press and merge in the monotonous editorial line of “approval” of the policies of exploitation, reaction and war. Even if it could get such “patronage” a work- ing class paper worthy of its proletari- €n galt must spurn it on principle. Free- dom to speak out the truth of events an only be preserved ‘by remaining free from the evil influence of bour-’ 8eois political graft and corruption. Understanding this, the, great col- lective of the working class, in sup- ‘Port of its own militant press, produces the “sinews of war” to keep it going. €n years’ continuous publication of Pacific TRIBUNE Published Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, Be Tom McEwen, Editor — Hal Griffin, Associate Editor Subscription Rates: Canada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia) ' Ode Wear $3.00) 2 .-ie 9 oie Months $1.60 ‘Australia, United States and all other countries One Year $4.00 . Six Months $2.50 : ‘ Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, BC. . Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa In marking 'this ‘first decade of our existence as a fighting paper, and look- ing to the days ahead, there is every reason for confidence and jubilation. Despite the vast resources of the war- mongering enemies of the people and the ‘powerful anid poisonous influence of their kept press, the forces of peace and progress throughout the world are gaining new strength daily. In South Africa, the racist Malan government banned the iold-established and militant paper, Guardian in an effort to carry through Malan’s racist policies of “apartheid’—the segrega- tion of peoples by the colors of their skins. ‘Today, ‘despite unprecedented ‘terror against the Communists, trade unionists, and all in South Africa who challenge’ Malan’s fascist-type policies, a new militant voice of revolt has aris- en! Today a fighting People’s World speaks for the people, filling the gap jeft by suppression of the Guardian. Tn Australia, the Menzies govern- ment tried a similar stunt against the organizations and press of the van- guard of the Australian ‘working class. In a nation-wide plebiscite and by rul- ing of the Australian Supreme Court, Menzies was defeated and rendered un- able to carry out the orders of Wall ‘Street. The spirit of the Eureka Stock- ade still inspires the fighting heart of militant working class Australia. Down in the state of ‘California, the \ the voice of the Daily People’s World Richmond, under 'the infamous Smith Act. Whatever the outcome of this “trial” ‘by ‘bigotry, prejudice and hys- teria may ‘be, Al Richmond has stated the case for the ‘American people through the ‘medium of the People’s World—their right to know and speak. out the truth, no matter ‘whose war- mongering “sensitiveness” gets hurt. These actions on the part ‘of Yankee reaction and its satellites in the. im- perialist countries denote not strength, ibut weakness — and fear. They fear the people most of all—they fear that ‘the people will get ‘to know the truth ¢ their war conspiracies, concealed Pchind smooth words of “peace,” so they drive first towards suppressing those authors and editors, books and papers, whose written word is the voice of peace, progress and ‘socialism! On this tenth anniversary of its ex- istence, the PT greets all those ‘count- less thousands ‘of working men and wo- - men whose efforts, work and sacri- fices, have made its continued publica- tion ‘possible. A redoubling of effort during the next decade will clinch a decade will belong to the people and to peace, and the PT is their most pow- erful weapon for victory. Yankee warmongers have tried to gag ~ by indicting its managing editor, Al. good job well begun. That decisive — A i4 “ 56 CHINESE | IRDERED. \) iF £ ~ A ~ “Don’t you see, by the time we're finished there won't be any POW problems!” Tasks of the LPP convention pus weekend in Vancouver the ninth convention of the British Columbia-Yukon district of the Labor-Progressive party will be in session. Delegates from every centre of B.C. industry and agriculture will gather to discuss the grave problems facing the peo- ple of this province and the steps that must be taken towards solv- ing them. The people, by the smashing defeat they handed the Liberals and Tories on June 12, expressed their protest against the sellout of their province to the Yankee war trusts by these old-line poli- ticians. The emergence of a Social Credit government underscor- ed an important phase of this people’s protest, that the electorate did not, and does not regard the CCF policies as advanced by the Coldwell-Winch-MacInnis leadership as being any alternative to Liberal-Tory betrayal. — : The chief attraction of Social Credit was that it was “‘some- thing new.”’ That attraction has already lost much of its glitter since June 12 because of the inability of the Bennett government to tackle the basic problems affecting the economy, prosperity ‘and wellbeing of B.C. Thousands of Social Credit supporters ate also more than a little suspicious of the Tory-Liberal “‘ap- proval’”’ being given to Social Credit’s top leadership. “hey see in this the danger of a continuation of Tory-Liberal Coalition policies under new auspices. "2 The problems that faced. the people before June 12 are still before them, only more pressing than ever. They are ex- pressed in shrinking markets, crops rotting in the fields; the perspective of mass layoffs and plant shutdowns for thousands of workers; the lumber barons getting ready to slash wages in camps and mills with a “‘Sloan formula’”’ axe; hardrock miners faced with the perspective of the centres where they now have their homes becoming ‘‘ghost’’ towns, while the politicians man- oeuvre and connive in their selfish attempts to retrieve, or hang on to narrow partisan gains. ; The ninth convention of the Labor-Progressive party in B.C. has the task of pointing the way out of this growing politi- cal and economic crisis; of showing the people that in their hands alone, lies the solution—the building of a united peo- ple’s coalition to restore B.C.’s resources and wealth to its people, to break the stranglehold of the Yankee war trusts upon our province; to chart out a political course that will spell out peace, progress and prosperity for B.C., achieved by our own efforts and resources. Cheap politics placed above peace HE arbitrary dismissal of Mrs. Kay Gardner from her position as a clerk at Van- couver Public Library because she accompanied her husband as a delegate to the recent ‘Asian Peace Conference in Peking, is one of the shoddiest pieces of political chicanery the people of this province have seen for some time- And, in a province where cheap politics are bi-partisan, this is saying something- Like every attack upon the civil and democratic rights of the citizen, the com- mercial press has the function of providing the “red” smear. The Vancouver Sun of October 18 ran true to form in its attempt to give “moral” justification’ to the dismissal of Mrs. Gardner from her job. “Ray Gardner,” says the Sun, “is an official of the Canadian Peace Congress here and is connected with the Communist newspaper Pacific Tribune.” That cheap falsehood is as alien to the facts as the Sun is alien to its self-avowed devotion to “progress, democracy, tolerance and freedom of thought.” Ray Gardner is no more “connected with” the Pacific Tribune than Sam Cromie is, but in the job’ of produc- ing a clean labor paper we give preference to Gardner’s efforts for peace, as‘against the Cromie sheet’s efforts to destroy those who work for peace! PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 24, 1952 — PAGE 7