A GOOD START Dear eon The 1954 Pacific abuse financial drive is off to a good start, as the figures on four of whom this page show. To date we have 20 pledged Honor Press Builders ( Stes passed the $100 mark) and 103 pledged Press Builders (22 have hit their a target). More pledges are coming in every day. Challenges: Bill Hreherchuk challenges ue Evans and Doreen Mackie to raise $50 each by May Day. I hope to see many readers at Tom McEwen’s $iatiday banquet this Sid, 6.30 p.m., at the Russian People’s Home, 600 Campbell Avenue. There'll be a fine hilkey ee for $1.25 a ert: short pees and no appeal. . Rita Whyte kk DRIVE TARGET : $18,000 CASH RECEIVED: $ 2,084 WE STILL NEED: $15,916 x=: we TOP PRESS CLUBS) RAESILIANG ii. ae te $180.75 aoe RIVER Gis eee CAMPBELL RIVER ..-cccc-- [S602 2 1 OEAMEN] uk korn Bevan aig = 151.00 SOUTH BURNABY ........ VICTORIA 124.50 NORTH VANCOUVER .. GRANDVIEW 113.50 LAKE COWICHAN ........ LITTLE MOUNTAIN Weer ie Geant oe VICTORY SQUARE a COPPER MOUNTAIN COURTENAY |... 103. LANG BAY ......... CUMBERLAND, 6.0.0.5. otic Ui SEESON Er ee DB Perret ttt tt ite * i bce pe eooe Be melseoas 72.50 © WESTUEND eo ae = BOINTIGREY. 0 5, ek eos BILL HREHERCHUK DALE SCHNEE Sone Politano (Grandview) John deWever (Grandview) Ted Gangrga (Georgia) Tom McEwen (Kitsilano) Bert Whyte (Kitsilano) Ete Whyte (Kitsilano) . Eeity Gadd (Kitsilano) - B.S. (Dry Dock) R. ecient) oe es Smith (Point Lee Lena Lipsey (Point Grey) 1954 HONOR PRESS BUILDERS HARRY MACKIEWICH ........ Victory Square Acyanee AUEC KUCHER South Burnaby 1954 PRESS BUILDERS _Albert Truman (Victory Square) Art Lindberg (Victory Square) Mike Rabik (Victory Square) Hal. Griffin (Capitol Hill) Alec Kucher (South Burnaby) — Roger Bullock (Courtenay) © Myrtle Bergren (Lake Cowichan) _ Mrs. M. Thibedeau (Duncan) Clarence Jewitt (Lang Bay) Al Haystead (Powell Ren _ A Friend (Trail) G. A. (Copper Mountain) ne Sf TICKETS $1.25 available at PACIFIC. TRIBUNE — Room 6 - 426 Main, Vancouver e \ We invite all our readers to celebrate TOM McEWEN’S 63rd birthday — - ‘TURKEY BANQUET | SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 6.30 P.M. RUSSIAN PEOPLE’S HOME — 600 CAMPBELL AVENUE - Chef: Bill Hreherchuk $ ‘Port’ Alberni, OPEN FORUM ‘Voices of resistance’ JACK PHILLIPS, Vancouver branch, League for Democratic ‘Rights: Recent events in Canada have proven that the people want no. part of McCarthyism. This is a very healthy situation and we ‘must do everything possible to extend this democratic, Canadian feeling. One of the best ways we can accomplish this is to deepen people’s understanding of what McCarthyism really means. The Vancouver branch of the League for Democratic Rights is fortunate to possess a set of long- play records entitled “Voices of Resistance.” They give the actual testimony of a group of lawyers, doctors and other professional people haled before the House Un-American Committee in Los Angeles in 1952. \. ' The hearings were broadcast on television, much to the embar- rassment of the witch-hunting Congressmen and their counsel who were placed on the defensive by the witnesses compelled to sub- mit to the inquisition. The re- cords were later made from tape recordings of the broadcasts. Upwards of 400 people have heard these records in house meetings in Vancouver, Burnaby, Nanaimo, Lake Cowichan, Victoria, Haney, Web- sters Corners, Pitt White Rock. More than 200 UBC students heard the records dur- Meadows, Whonnock, Langley Prairie and - ing their lunch hour, a few days | before Colonel McCormick of the Chicago Tribune was burned in effigy on the campus. In many cases, people who came to_ house meetings were strangers to the labor movement and to the fight for preservation and exten- sion of civil liberties. Invariably their reaction was positive against McCarthyism. It has been the practise of the ~ LDR to send a speaker with the records, to help promote a dis- cussion after the records have been played and to link up Mc- ‘Carthyism in the United States with Bill 7 and ‘other threats to our civil liberties in Canada. A good number of people have joined the LDR as a result of these meetings and new groups have been set up in Nanaimo, Haney, Langley Prairie and White Rock. Any reader interested in organ- _ izing a house meeting should con- tact the writer, Jack Phillips, at 339 West Pender Street, Vancou- ver. Tribute to Morrison J.W.S., Victoria, B.C.: I would like to pay a small tribute to the memory of John Morrison, who - died recently at the age of 79. The labor movement has lost | a valiant worker, and the Pacific” Tribune has lost a staunch sup- porter who sold the paper as long as the state of his health ct ted. John, Morrison was born in Fifeshire, Scotland and came to Canada with his family about 1920, and settled on a small ranch near Cumberland. He was a miner by trade but would turn his hand to any kind of hard work. Wherever he was and whatever he was doing, he always upheld the old banner of socialism. He leaves his wife and one son and one daughter to mourn his loss. A younger son was killed in the last war. Refinery ‘disgusting’ SID CHUDLEIGH, North Burn- aby, B.C.: I would like to add my voice to the large number of peo- ple who are disgusted with the situation surrounding the Shell Oil refinery in North Burnaby. The oily smoke and soot eman- ating, from this large industrial plant’ situated in a nice residen- tial area is particularly foul. This smoke and soot makes it practic- ally impossible to take a clean wash _off the line. Also, windows and exterior wall surfaces are being smeared and streaked by the oily substance — and who would dare leave a window open in the vicinity of the plant? Property values have diminish- ed while taxes are soaring. It is almost impossible to dispose of a building lot at any price. How did this situation arise? What is being done to remedy it? What stand has our municipal council adopted? Perhaps Mc- Sorley in his capacity as Reeve —or ex-employee of Shell Oil— can give us some information. Plight of pensioners OLD SUBSCRIBER, Vancouver, B.C.: I wish to thank you for — sending me the Pacific Tribune during the past six months while I was unable through sickness to meet my obligations. I am enclosing an. American dollar bill which was owed me by a friend in the Okanagan. On account of the severe restrictions applied by the Pension Board I have been compelled to buy some of.my own medicine which costs me $2 for an eight-ounce bottle. It only lasts me six days. I must . have it. However, the economic struggle for the old age pensioners might . be somewhat alleviated soon. I am fortunate in one way that I - happen to live with one of my daughters. I only pay $13 per month rent. I also pay for the &as which amounts to $1.25 to $2 per month. I am not a damn bit pleased with what I saw in the Sun the — other night. An old age pen- ‘sioner being portrayed with his pipe in his mouth and holding a $5 bill. I would like to see the books that he reads. Doesn't he know that he was born “free and equal” and has every right to “Life, Liberty and Happiness”? Rosenberg protest ~ROSENBERG MEMORIAL COMMITTEE, Vancouver, B.C.: The Rosenberg Memorial _ Com- mittee is requesting all people on its mailing list to protest to Mayor Wagner, City Hall, New York City, in order that Mich-— ael and Robe Rosenberg may be permitted to remain with their grandmother, Mrs. Rosenberg, their next-of-kin. The committee is urging this action in order that the children may be left quietly to themselves and be free from the nerve-wracking ordeal of pub- licity and persecution. The committee is now prepar- ing a release dealing with the Morton Sobell case. This will be sent out to its mailing list along with a petition for the release of Sobell who was sentenced to 30 years in Alcatraz on the basis of what has been conclusively proved to be perjured testimony. Anyone wishing to be entered on the Rosenberg Memorial Com- mittee mailing list is urged to- communicate with the committee °— at 339 West Pender Street, Van- ~couver, B.C. Copies of the Letters of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are still | available at the same address. / PACIFIC TRIBUNE — MARCH 12, 1954 — PAGE 11 ..