, me one to hoist the ‘BCE base profit rate generally and another ‘to the imposition of reactionary tory policies and general Coalition -to-the public pork-barrel, Tory and Liberal dissidents, with a of Social Credit to get them there. about its’ “record of good, sound, free enterprise government.” ; doctors.’ Eun nt DGGE As We See It | by TOM McEWEN ' PUL ELL He LLL LET OW the crocodiles weep, and how weighty their columns regarding Litvinoff and Soviet policies in tears; heavy enough to swamp the pecans Yaa 1939, 1949, or now, is of very little importance, either wayfarer caught in the deluge. - as history, fiction, or snide anti-Soviet propaganda. On January 2, 1952, at the age of om “years, Nor is his forecasting of “. . . changes in” tae Maxim Litvinoff, veteran Bolshevik, revolutionary, Russian world line ... in the next couple of years” and Soviet diplomat, passed away. A co-worker of | any more important than forecasting the lineup of Lenin and Stalin since the early days of the revol- drunks in a Vancouver police court on a Mondes utionary strugglas in tsarist Russia, Litvinoff be- morning. came one of the Soviet Union’s (and the world’s) What is important to keep in mind is that dee most outstanding spokesmen for disarmament, tran- pite all his affected “sympathy” for the Soviet Union, ~quility and peace among nations; for the peaceful fjmore can stoke the fires of anti-Soviet misrepre- coexistence of socialist and capitalist states, re- sentation and distortion equally as well as his pay- HES ED Coalition in crisis be or not to ‘be, that is the question.” And it is the question disturbing the provincial Liberal hierarchy in B.C. The “young” Liberals want*the unholy state of political matrimony : between Liberals and Tories ended forthwith. The senior Liberals, that is, the old bellwethers in the Liberal fold, want to keep the - Tory goat in close tow, lest the whole Coalition flock of Liberals _ and Tories come a political cropper at the next election. Tat Wt tT 1 Back in 1941 the Coalition shot-gun marriage of Tories and Liberals was solemnized to head off the electorate sending both parties to a well-merited obscurity. At that time the CCF was giving both old-line groups the electoral jitters, so much so, that ; only through the expediency of joining themselves together to fleece and hoodwink the people could they Save their political porkchops. _ Now the sittation has changed. CCF policies as expounded by Coldwell, Winch and company not only no longer inspire Bas: workers and farmers in struggle for social progress and peace, but also no longer frighten the political bosses,in ‘the Tory and gardless of diverse ideologies and social systems. masters, Liberal folds. : ’ ‘ : In the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and The splits and schisms within the Coalition growing out of among people everywhere who believe in and work for lasting ‘peace, the passing of this great socialist ’ statesman and revolutionary will be sincerely and _deeply mourned : a Not so in the opium dens of yellow journalism. There professional scribblers are hired to turn every event into war propaganda agdinst the USSR. There behind a mask of affected “sympathy”, the death of Maxim Litvinoff is made to serve as just an- ’ other pretext for slander, distortion and war pro- . vocation against the USSR. On January 3 the Vancouver Sun featured a touching editorial on the death of Litvinoff. Here was “. .. one Russian . . . who understood the West,” said the Sun, suggesting, of course, that “the West” also understood and appreciated Litvin- off in his consistent efforts in the League of Nations for total disarmament and collective security against _ Nazi aggression.. What a snaney of ordinary decency and truth! While the editorial crocodiles in the Sun tower weep their leaden tears in pretended “sympathy” with Litvinoff’s ideals, the Sun’s files and those of similar papers covering the period when he waged his prophetic struggle at Geneva for collective security, disarmament and peace, point up their. hollow lying, then and now. “Litvinoff,” says the Sun, “was a civilized man,” Verily, “the laborer is worthy of his hire.” — , There is one point in Philpott’s “requiem” for Litvinoff to which we would draw his attention, be- cause it concerns Canadians and not; the late Soviet statesman. “The Communists in Canada ‘and else- where,” says Philpott, “meekly toed the new Moscow line, even to the point of sabotaging our war efforts g ; We are not concerned about his “elsewhere” but about right here in Canada. When Philpott makes that statement he is deliberately lying—and knows he is lying. He does so because, like his paymasters, his concept of a “free press” is free- dom to lie without fear of being called to accouny for his lying. Elmore Philpott cannot give one solitary single instance, anywhere or at anytime in Canada during the war years, where any Canadian Communist committed, or was even Tenotely involved in any act of sabotage. The writer of this column will be most nappy at any time to provide Philpott with a big audience (something we know he likes) in Vancouver, where | he will have the fullest opportunity of publicly debating the source of his slanderous and lying sallegations, to come out from behind the silken curtain of “free press” immunity which his columm provides, and display his red-herring wares before ; an audience of workers. Failing that, to disinfect but it says it for the purpose of denying civilized his slanderous garbage through the medium of his status to a government and people so long and so own column, with a sprinkling of truth. well represented by Maxim Litvinoff. Like a pious @ : maladministration, and the endless “inner” arguments stemming from these unholy nuptials as to which partner “wears the political pants,” has led to breakaways os sharp inner dissentions in ‘both camps. — ’ Ever on the lookout for a handy vehicle to cart them back goodly following in tow, are looking towards the well-oiled chariot Bemoaning the lack of “vigorous leadership” in both camps, many of these dissidents are now becoming enamored with Social. Credit, as it rides the crest of the Alberta oil boom, and prattle * During the coming months British Columbians will do well ‘to give some time to the study of Social Credit mythology, its origin, theories and meteor-like rise in Alberta. It plans to make a strong bid in the next B.C. elections and will recite its phenono- _menal successes in Alberta as a warrant for its acceptance in B.C. _ Since many of its standard-bearers will be disgruntled politicos from the Tory and Liberal folds, the people should pay close attention to the nostrums handed out by these old-school quack ' The label on their patent medicine will be attractive and alluring, but the contents will be the same old monopoly capitalist ae © _ snake oil. Take over ete. BCER the BCElectric keeps ‘up its present tempo of Senos! son “the pocketbooks of those forced to pay or be deprived of the services it controls, we can see its Public Utilities Commission ‘parson who delivers a glowing euology over the rotting carcass of some bourgeois political gangster oD profiteer (with a straight face and in anticivation of a fat, fee), the Vancouver Sun spills its crocodile tears over a dead Litvinoff, in order to foster cold- ‘war hate against his peovle and government. | $ _ In the January 4 edition of the same paper, Elmore Philpott took up the same*refrain in the column he fills daily with a collection of Liberal- CCF “third force” literary garbage.~ Pan : _ What Philpott may have ‘said in his enter _ (signed) Elionor Cook, Editorial Department. i outbreak, suggestions on what to do with our Suns Meantime the Sun sent us a’ brief billet doux this week, which shows the cold war getting hot— in the Sun Tower, “Dear Sir: This is to advise that we wish to. cancel our subscription to the Pacific Tribune immediately. Please send us a re- fund at your earliest convenience. Yours very truly, While our financial (?) department is figurinS out the “refund” reparations in this latest cold-wat will be ‘welcome. having to work overtime, if only to give its numerous “hearings” some semblance of s peeaihes as it “approves one “interim” SEES after another. At the moment the PUC has two ae these demands before ac How does Johnny Canuck get that way? ~ increase the price of electricity to a substantial section of domestic gyms and places where youth can work, play, sing users. When the PUC has completed its monotonous familiar - motions of approving the first it will provide the gréen light for _ further BCElectric price raids upon the public. Granting of, the second is a foregone conclusion, since the PUC, as at present _ constituted, hears only the BCElectric demand, never the ame - protest. ; -With wage regeenons in the ‘offing and pemnctat wages “aeeded by electrical, transit and other workers in the BCElectric_ services to meet skyrocketing living costs, there will be other | “interim” price hoists which the BCElectric and its PUC will “pass on” to the public rather than meet the ple eas spodeee vanes: out of current pyramiding profits. ee fe Public ownership of the BCElectric is no ibnger a matter of i debate as to its desirability, to be kicked around by “economists alleged experts, or BCElectric Non-Partisan “yes men” at the Cit - Hall or in Victoria. It is now a matter of urgent import | to of thousands of British Columbia’s citizens living within the domain. It is the only answer to the BCElectric robberies 1 adobt and those belng: oon es in the months to come. 4 HI ( EL "Published Weekly, at Room 6 - 426, Main Street, Vancouver, BC. By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY LTD. Telephone ‘MA. B2882" 7) Tom McEwen ‘Subscription Rates: a Year, $2.50; Sire pieteam gta st ey tees ‘Editor 6 Months, $1.35. Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C.. Se as second clase mail, Post Office Dept., ae 2 here and elsewhere in Canada. Jars,” their ages ranging from 12 to 15. years of age, | are in custody, facing some 43 or more charges of burglary and housebreaking. The details, given pre secent days: Vancouver's ‘daily papers have been headlining the’ escapades of a group of youthful delinquents, under the catchy caption of “Baby Burglars.” \ From the standpoint of paper sales, according to the Hearst formula, this is good business. “The sordid story is becoming all too frequent, Five “baby burg- full scope in sewer journalism, are unimportant, but the causes idee wh My to ae crime are dis- ; ereetly omitted. eats does ney’ dangng cade ae that way? lone school of thought holds we have ° ‘spared the. rod and spoiled the child. Another tells us all about play except the streets and back alleys. bad home influences, but shies away from discuss: :'ing the slums and substandard conditions which our “way of life” breeds. Leading churchmen de- _ plore the “absence of religious training”—and draw _@ sanctimonious curtain: over the causes of this absence. begat is said to avoid holy water. All avoid examining the causes, as the What are they? ‘The psychosis of war, its vio- ene: hate and “corruption, fed to our young folks almost as soon as they can walk. Depraved sex and gangsterized Movies and comics; few ‘places to The home soured by economic penury and the big monopoly liquor interests (with the government as a profit- sharing partner) which endow one hospital bed and fill ten with their victims! We build barracks in. place of recreation centres, guns and Sener eons. Weapons of death instead of “love his. neighbor”, and give him a gun (literally) From the standpoint, of societ , it is a. _ terrible indictment of our times, “a it is not the “Baby Burglars” who should be in the ‘dock, but the “upholders of a corrupt and “decadent LER is effect, Gervin put up a bitter struggle to have Ba —acute housing © shortages, growing unemploy- _ ment, the need for a youth program, unequal ta hall. for the anti-labor Non- Partisan Association, } eer aa et PACIFIC TRIBUNE — JANUARY 11, 1952 — PAGE Aena dance. We teach young Johnny Canuck to to express himself. When he begins to place 2™ own interpretation on what society has taught him — we lift our eyes in wellefeigned horror, and hand Ouk new ‘punishment for Johnny! ix As or Bill Bennett once said of a similar casey social system who put eo there ” Who! will dis- ~ Dogs’ aot rend. AEDERMAN R. K. Gervin is allergic. to dogs He would have them all on a permanent leash or chained up. Sponsor of a civic bylaw to this added to a BrOwing. volume of civic absurdities. We thing’ this Vancouver “labor” alderman could put his time to better use. There are many problems affecting labor and the people gener ally ation, the BCElectric-PUC sent gouge, t the nigh cost of living. : - ‘There is no end to sine issues a real represent! tive of labor could spend ‘his time on at the ane But Gervin, who provides the labor front bigger game in sight. He stalks a thousand Fidos to put them on the leash. His fellow alde men, to their credit, ridiculed ‘his proposed bylaw and this week they tossed it to the dogs. \