~ ico town. Honest novel of American struggle ARS Lawrence’s novel, Morn- ing, Noon and Night, is an un- _ usual book, the more so because it was published in the United States in the year 1954 in face of the McCarthyite drive to erase such books from the publishers’ lists. This novel brings back to life - ' the great struggles of the unem- ployed in the hungry thirties and the leadership given ‘to them by the Communists. It is the story of the uprooted ones, the ‘tragic victims of the great crisis who were made homeless and penni- less in the richest nation the world had ever known.’ The people of Morning, Noon and Night are the unemployed coal miners of a small New Mex- A crooked politician _ and vice-peddler gets control of _ the land on which they had built their shacks and they are forced to pay him rent. Later, when _ there is no money for rent, he starts to evict them. This pre- -cipitates a crisis around which the story is centred. scenes will bring back many mem- , ories of the Hungry Thirties in Canada. But the vivid picture of a town in the grip of vigilante terror is typically American, with its ignorant deputy sheriffs, armed businessmen and school- boys with rifles. The calm heroism of the peo- ple in the iace of armed terror and mass intimidation symbolises the heroism of the common eo- ple in their fight for a better life. - There is no central hero or villain in this book. The people are the heroes collectively and . the exploiters and their gunmen are the villains. While this broad characterisa- tion gives the book strength, it contributes to a fundamental weakness. For example ,the char- acterisation of the Communists is very poor. Although Lawrence paints a sympathetic picture of Communists, their motivation is hazy and their methods of work and leadership are poorly describ- ‘ed. However, Lawrence must be given credit for a basically honest New book an Emily Carr ‘A new book on Emily Carr (above) just published is Emily Carr As | Knew Her by Carol Pearson. The book is based on _ Miss Pearson’s friendship with the great Canadian painter over a quarter of a-century. ‘what passes for realism, current in contemporary American writ- ing’ We know there is manure » in a barnyard, but they don’t have to rub our noses in it. Morning, Noon and Night (ob- tainable at the People’s Cooper- ative Bookstore, 337 West Pender - here, price $4.25) is the first vol- ume of a larger work entitled The at Canadians impelled TV series SNEER at Canadian writers is what made Roger Lemelin \ rite for television. Two years ago the radio version of the French-Canadian author’s famous Les Plouffes was a radio hit. Lemelin was on Foliday in France. CBC called tim to return. A sponsor want- ed to put Les Plouffes on TV. (wes Plouffes is a Quebec Lower Town French-Canadian family). Lemelin says he didn’t want to write it. “To make sure it was impossible’ I wrote a script with about 25 characters in it.” Then, according to a Toronto Telegram story, in front of the sponsor and a group of ad-men a Montreal producer sneered: “I told you. Canadians can’t do it. light. a smashing success. cast. tion. in Canada. zine. Let’s get an American show.” The memory still makes Leme- lin hot. “I turned around at him and said: ‘All right, I'll show you says. auywhere else.” BOOK SALE SPECIAL COLLECTED WORKS-J. V. Stalin—Vols, 1-10..$7.88 how a Canadian can do it. I have never seen a TV show in my life, but I will go back to Quebec and write you a script that you will not change a line of and that will be a 105 percent success.’ ” Lemelin’s script proved him ‘His show, in French, was Now Les Plouffes is being play- ed in English too, with the same An old friend, a Montreal n¢ewspaperman does the transla- - ~ Roger Lemelin, 36 years old and reportedly in the $100,000-a- year income bracket, plans to stay | He has turned down an offer to become a permanent reporter in Paris for Time Maga- “Canada has the opportunity now for young Canadians,” he “We would be crazy to go _ specialized tractor not used else- where. Prior to 1947, Koroleff relates,e - most Soviet logging was done with horses, sleds, and river runs, in _ the winter months. Only 30 per- cent of the industry was mechan- ized. But in 1947 the government set a one. of almost complete ' CON $1.00 Make This Your : Mia: Week Date SEND-OFF PARTY FOR Delegates To The Soviet Union Wednesday, February 2 - 8 p.m. NCERT DANCE at the RUSSIAN HALL 600 Campbell Avenue Auspices: Canadian-Soviet His See Society and town-style housing built to replace the traditional log dwell- ings, attracted many permanent workers. (Koroleft’s account con- tradicts the widespread propa- ganda that Soviet workers can’t leave a job.) Next, the Soviets developed a novel technique, the hauling of whole trees—branches, tops and. all—to a coe landing, where KAY RANKIN ANNE SOCHASKY * REFRESHMENTS $1.00 es over three inches above the ground” with lightweight electric chain saws. The forest is thus left clean both of waste and ob- structing stumps, while the waste, concentrated at one point, be- comes a source of power. Koroleff elicits other expert opinion: — Ivar Fogh, chief logging en- gineer for the Canadian Inter- national Paper Company, states: “The most striking feature of logging mechanization in Russia is, to my mind, the dependence on logging waste as a source of power, in the woods... .” B. J..McColl, logging engineer for the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association, expresses this opin- ion: “Russian approach (dis) sound, and significant in creating . better ‘labor conditions, and much great labor productivity.” _ —PETER DAHLSTROM - irri j : Seed. The second volum ill The mass meetings, the demon- pecount’ Of th0sesuaring James saeae oe tee Ae rae SELECTED WRITIN: GS—Mao- ce tung— strations, the police brutality, the To my mind, the book suffers “oil WOlsedes Re lS ee Wa Pee he 2.89 mass arrests and the court room from a concept of realism, or —JACK PHILLIPS. : TEN CLASSICS—Marxism—Cloth Edition ........ 2.10 zt i | t S ® } HISTORY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY... .53 anadia ns ludy reiares SOvVIe ANTLDUHRING Engels oo cctecctemenniees: 79 ‘ ; MARX-ENGELS-MARXISM _...... -63 advance in lumber indus try SELECTED WRITINGS Harry Polltt—Vol, 1 5 Se SILAS TIMBERMAN—Howard Fast. Cloth ..... 2.10 ONETIME member of the Tsar- mechanization in three to five they are trimmed with special F ist Russian forest service, years. : equipment, and the waste wood PASSION OF SACCO-VANZETTI— Alexander. Koroleff, now lives in $e ent then fed to a “gasogenerator’ to Howard Fast eer tronnoneneetteeeaeenececenetanteneecencoeteenteeny 1.84 Canada, and-has written several : : produce a fuel gas for truck use | A GUN IS UNLOADED—Anadre Stil books on Canadian and — log- By 1951 the Soviets had made and to power a portable electric Sequel to The Water Tower ......\... 1.31 ging problems. great progress. generating plant. c . ss 3 é HEROES OF THE EMPTY VIEW— In his latest, Logging Mechan- First, they built dry-weather The electric plant in turn pro- J Aldrid _ ization in the USSR (published by roads so that summer logging be- vides power for ‘all the logging AMASS ve ty Soa ecg stares ee reas cig te oe the Pulp and Paper Research In- came practicable. Now they could equipment, which is electrically THE GREAT CONSPIRACY AGAINST _ stitute of Canada, price $5) he solve another problem—develop- operated. 7 RUSSIA—Sayers Sekahn Cer eee 63 _ tells of some “striking features” ment of a permanent, year-round This is a sharp departure, not of Soviet. logging techniques- force of experienced forest work- only fe ae Se anes GOLDSBOROUGH—Stefan Hey ie ete: 1.89 : tice, but also from current Can- Among them are year-round “© 2 acl nna send oS eins eaaeis SCIENCE ADVANCES—J. B, S. Haldane .......... 1.05 logging, two shifts a day; power As a seasonal industry there the tree is trimmed and cut into NOTES FROM THE GALLOWS— ‘self-sufficiency through the use had been a high labor turnover. log lengths at the stump; the Julius Fuchik 26 : ett ‘ : lopging. waste thus remains Inthe yogi ee paar fe mencrn nee seagoing esa cteste ‘ _ of logging waste to produce elec- Workers were always, leaving on Sho We. Shacialcerobeeiiay iter tricity; electrification of all log- “one pretext or another,” Koro- gather and burn the waste, or it Lays Pa NAZIM HIKMET oe ccceeneene 2055 _ Sing equipment; the hauling of leff relates. may be left, to become a fire and LAUREATES OF IMPERIALISM—Aptheker ee or whole trees to central landings = : a re-growth hazard. ; : : : Year-round logging made: for K 4) TOr, Ginming, leaking the 90008: : year-round: income: This, together In addition, under new Soviet WE SAW SOCIALISM—Dyson Carter— _ free of waste; development of a With a production bonus system Practice, the tree is felled ‘not Two parts combined in cloth edition - He esse US ANNUAL BOOK SALE Thursday, Friday and Saturday Only JANUARY 28 - 29 - 30 PEOPLE’S COOPERA TIVE. BOOKSTORE ASSOCIATION 337 WEST PENDER Mail Paee accepted up to posting ek 10 Ten cents postage per book must accompany all mail. orders. 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