Book review Road to HOH AE Calvary —by Alexei Tolstoi Ce cURL WALL LAA OW DO men change in historical epochs? What is a man’s relation to the new society being created about him? What internal stresses his fears, his desires, his often contradictory actions? these born of an individual cast, or are they traceable to the con- tradictory forces of his class, hig previous society? What happened to an engineer of a steel plant, daughter of a Social Demacratic provincial doctor, Cossack youth turned Im- perial navy sailor, peasant wife of a Kuban River district, what happened to all the people off Russia when Russia passed from the First Warld War to the revo- lution and civil war? While material forces change man, it ig Man and only man who changes material forces, thus changing himself. This jis the strong central theme which links Tolstoy’s two-volume panorama of those epic years. Don’t think from this that Road to Calvary is a novel af endless analysis and intuition. The char- acters in this novel writhe and change as do the events of 1917- 21. They writhe and change co- herently, not hysterically. The author understands them causes you to understand th in relation to their past and pres- ent interdependence upon their changed society. Thus in Book Three, Bleak Morning, does Tol- lawyer, finally stoi have. Roshchin, eral; .White officer, lib- find. eo read... Elmore eae: Philpott * Famous from Coast to Coast for his liberal viewpoint and clarity and force of expres- sion. this internationally- known news analyst and commentator is gq Vancouver Sun writer applauded by ail progressive readers. Read Philpott’s Informed Comment On World Affairs DAILY . ~ee WM... Vancouver Phone MArine 1161 for Daily Home Delivery SUN What of Are himself in his “world turned up- side down.” 5 “What truth could (Rosbchin) tell? Only a muddled, compli- cated story of a man driven from home by strangers, banish- ed from the street in which he was born, exiled from his king- dom. But would that be the truth? Had he not taken him- self by the scuff of his neck and chucked himself into the cess- pool. What, after all, had he been frightened of. What had he hated so fiercely. Was the “id house, his old comfortable kingdom, so indespensible to his happiness ag all that? ... Now he came to think of it, he could find no sense in his con- duct during the past year, and so excuse for it either. . .. Here he was judge and accused at the same time.” Not all found themselves as Roschin did. Tolstoi, in telling the interdependent story of man and society, men and Prenis ex- plains why. Tolstoi writes as a good con- versationalist talks. This natural unforced style creates no diffi- culties for the reader, but car- ries him along to share the thoughts and experiences of hun- dreds of characters. does he undergo? It is this harmony, this under- standing between the author and his audience, which the novel of today is in desperate need. Road to Calvary, Tolstoi’s final and most complete ‘work before his death in 1945, should be read by all who take an interest in man and his’ progress, and studied care- fully by those who hope-to aid tht progress through the medium ef the story—W. C. McCONNELL. \LPP meet to plan Valley program NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. Delegates from Labor-Progressive Party clubs in the municipalities south side of the Fraser River and Maple Ridge and Mission on the north side will meet in the Sunday, January 12, to form a Fraser Valley regional organiza- tion and discuss a program for the area, The new regional organization, embracing the entire lower Fraser Valley with the exception of New Westminster, Maillardville and Port Moody, will replace the pres- ent South Fraser Regional Com- mittee established earlier this year. : The convention will be addressed organizer, and Eric Birnell, re- cently appointed Fraser Valley organizer, and will be opened by Hal Griffin, retiring chairman of the present committee, The convention call. points out that in the recent municipal elec- tions five’ LPP members were among the progressive candidates elected to council and school board office in Fraser Valley municipal- ities and propose the organization of popular campaigns around the issues they are advancing as a means-of building unity between farmers and labor. FRASER CAFE JUST GOOD FOOD 732 Columbia Street New Westminster PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 8 of Surrey and Langley on the}|} Russell Hotel here at 10 a.m. this |. by Maurice Rush, LPP provincial f) IWA manner, they warned that if ne- gotiations were not completed by June 20, “no contract will mean no work.” Pointing to the fact wages of workers in the woodworking industry prior to the war were totally inadequate and that the government’s discarding of price controls, which has allowed em- ployers’ profits to soar to un- precedented levels, compels labor to make wages again its prin- cipal demand, the officers’ joint report concluded. Citing figures from a survey of the lumber industry by the Trade Union Research Bureau, the officers’ report proved that of the $315 annual average in- crease gained in last June’s strike, only $1.50 was left today as a result of the sharp price increase, If the union, through its strike had not won that in- crease, the workers, during the last six months, would have taken an average $313.50 wage cut, Emphasis was placed by the convention on the importance of developing political action work on an independent trade union basis. Delegates, voicing their in- tention to nominating their own trade union candidates and en- dorsing other progressive labor candidates, instructed the incom. ing officers to appoint a politi- cal action director and throw full support behind the forth- coming campaign to achieve la- bor’s program at next month’s session of the legislature. Important administrative recom- mendations called for establish- ment of $2 a month dues to pro- vide 25c per ‘member per month for a union strike fund and 10c -per member per month for an extensive educational cam- paign, with appointment of a full-time director -to organize trade union classes and _ schools and utilize the leaflets, broad- casts, union publications, for trade union education. - Nominated by the convention were President Harold Pritchett (incumbent) ang Stewart Als- bury; Vice-Presidents Hjalmar Bergren, Mark Mosher, Mel Ful- ten (incumbents) and Thomas Kipp, Robert Franklin, Wm. Lynch; Secretary-Treasurer Bert Melsness (incumbent) and George Mitchell; three-year trus- tee Robert Range; two-year Trustee Les Urquart and John Parkinson, Vernon was selected as next year’s convention ‘city. STALIN‘S Impressive Souvenir Picture Paying Highest Tribute to Ordinary Man In two colors, size 91x12 On Sale At a PEOPLE’S COOPERATIVE BOOKSTORE 337 West Pender Also At Scenery Shop 856 Granville St. 50c Each Special Rate on Big Orders Style Value Quality Always at the Home of UNION MADE CLOTHING — and Friendly Service Established For Over 40 Years Republican Clay . nation. In having abandoned progressive policies followed by the late president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, U.S. President Truman has made it easy for reactionary Republicans to take over Congress and ad- vance their anti-labor policies against the people and the His injunction decree against the United Mine Workers has become a major threat to American labor. Guest speakers included Inter- national President James Fad- ling; International Vice-President Karley Larsen; Hon. E. F. Ken- ney, Mayor Percy E. George of Victoria; Chris Pritchard of the Workmen’s Compensation Board, Andy Whisker of the Depart- ment of Labor, Val Bjarnason of the Quebec Textile Workers’ Un- ion, Western Representative Har- vey Murphy of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers’ Union, Ed Win- nerlowe of the International Longshoremen and Warehouse- men’s Union, and Edna Brown, president of the B.C. District Council Federated Auxiliaries. Freight steal Board of Transport Commission- ers, responsible to no one.” It de- manded that the board conduct hearings in the west “among the people who will be most vitally affected by its rulings.” Plans drawn up by the con- ference included a petition cam- paign for 60,000 signatures and preparation of a brief to be submitted to the Board of ‘Lransport Commissioners and distributed as a printed pam- ~ phlet. Regular values to $89.50, NOW Priced from Crepes and wools. Use Sweet 16’s Convenient BUDGET PLAN NO interest E NO carrying charges ® Terms Per W.P.T.B. 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