‘CONFISCATION’

U.S. banning
British books

PROGRESSIVE BOOKS and
periodicals sent from Britain to
the United States are being ar-
bitrarily confiscated by the U.S.
government.

Among the periodicals seized
are the Labor Monthly, which
has circulated widely in the Un-
ited States for a quarter of a
century, and Current Affairs,
the London Daily Worker’s ed-
ucation commentary. ~

Other seized periodicals are
the Anglo-Soviet Journal, publi-
eation of the non-political So-
eiety for Cultural Relations
with the USSR, and the New
Central European Observer, a
fortnightly journal published in
London.

Illustrated magazines featur-
ing life in the Soviet Union and
‘China, such as Soviet Union and
New China, have also been con-
fiscated.

So has the journal of the
World Federation of Trade Un-
ions, and New Times, which is
published in Moscow in English
by the Soviet trade union news-
paper Trud,

The U.S. government’s new
ban even extends to historical
books, such as From Cobbett to
the Chartists and Labor’s Tufn-
ing Point.

Both these books are publish-
ed by ‘Lawrence and Wishart,
under the editorship of Dona
Torr, and consist of quotations
from historical .documents to
provide a source book for stud-
ents of history. :

Philosophy is also considered
dangerous to the United States.

Two books by Maurice Corn-
forth, Dialectical Materialism
and Science, and In Defense of
Philosophy have been seized.

Frank Hardy’s famous expos-
ure of corruption in the Austra-
lian Labor movement, Power
Without Glory, is another ban-
ned book.

Seizure of these and other
publications is made even more
outrageous by the fact that the
U.S. government does not even
return them to the publishers
or wholesalers who sent them
in the ordinary course of trade.

They have in fact been stolen.

Nor has the U.S. government
announced any list of banned,
publications, or informed either
the sellers or the buyers of its
actions or intentions,

The ban only came to light
when wholesalers in London
found that parcels consigned to
the U.S. were not arriving.

The precaution was then tak-
en of registering later consign-
ments.

Letters were then received
from the British Post Office in-
forming the senders that the ®
registered packets had been
seized by the United States in
accordance with Article 49 of
the Universal Postal Convention.

This article states that it is
forbidden to send by post ar-
ticles of which the importation
or circulation is forbidden in
the country of destination.

It is not easy to see how
this article can be quoted to
justify the seizure of legal
periodicals, some of which have
circulated in the U.S. for many
years.

These journals have not been
declared illegal by any process
of American law.

On the contrary,

the action

appears to be a flagrant breach
of the Convention—and piratic-
al robbery of British traders
who have lost substantial sums
of money.

McGRANERY RENEWS ATTACK

Distinguished audience
to see Chaplin film

WHILE U.S, Attorney Gen-

eral James McGranery at
Washington renews his at-
tacks on Charlie Chaplin as
“an unsavory character,” re-
ports from London state that
Princess Margaret Rose will
be seated in the distinguish-
ed audience which will at-
tend the first showing of the
famous comedian’s new film,
Limelight, on October 15.

Calling ‘attention to his
earlier statement that Chap-

lin would be subjected to .

close examination about his
admissibility under U.S, im-
migration laws whenever he
attempted to re-enter the
United States, McGranery
stated:

“Té has been publicly
charged that he (Chaplin)
was a member of the Com-
munist party and with grave

moral charges, and with
making Statements that
would indicate a leering,

sneering attitude toward a
country whose hospitality
has enriched him.”

Characteristically, Mce-
Granery made no mention of
the far richer contribution

made by Chaplin to Ameri- .

can film art.

PRINCESS
* MARGARET ROSE

Would U.S. bar her?

Chaplin himself refuses to
comment on McGranery’s
“vague charges” made ‘while
I am 3,000 miles from the
Us.”

The comedian pointed out:
“T reiterate that through the
proper channels I applied for
and was given a re-entry per-
mit by the U.S. government.”’

ON CROSS-COUNTRY TOUR

Four B.C. cities to hear

UJPO Folk Singers —

SOMETHING DIFFERENT in
the way of folk music concerts
will be presented to Vancouver,
Victoria, Nanaimo and New
Westminster audiences by the
Toronto UJPO Folk Singers,
now on a cross-country tour,

Fame of the Folk Singers,
who were organized only last
January by Mrs.
ner, distinguished accompanist
of the renowned Toronto Jew-
ish Folk Choir, has preceded the
group and capacity audiences
are anticipated.

First engagement of the Folk
Singers is in Nanaimo, October
16, 8 p.m., Eagles Hall. The
following day, Friday, October
.17, they will perform at the
Business and Professional Wo-
men’s Club, Victoria, at 8 p.m.
Their New Westminster engage.
ment is for Sunday, October 19
at a hall still to be announced.

Vancouver citizens will hear
the group at Hastings Auditor-
ium, 828 East Hastings, at 8
p.m, Tuesday, October 21, un-
der sponsorship of the Cana-
dian quarterly magazine New
Frontiers. Admission is only
75 cents and a packed hall is

expected.
The Folk Singers, among
whom is popular young

soprano Clare Klein, have given
4) performances since their
debut last January, and have

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been widely acclaimed. Bach
member of the group sings 8010,
as well as in chorus, They #

Canadian, Yiddish, Negro, i
raeli, Bulgarian, Americal

Chinese, Russian and Yeminile

folk songs.

On their current to
Folk Singers will perform i
cities and towns

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India to ban U.S. :
anti-Chinese film

THE INDIAN government i
seeking to ban an Ament
film, Peking Express, , bec is
it has “low moral tone” and"
“likely to wound the susceP®,
bilities ‘of the Chinese peopl?

The picture, which
Joseph Cotton, was pass
the. Indian censors
but a showing due in New
last week was stopped.

In a notice served on
mount Films of India Ltd»
government said the film
“packed with brutal fight’
train hold-ups, ruthless

par
the

and crue] torture.’ New :

The Chinese embassy it have
Delhi is understood to 1g

drawn the Indian governit ple

attention to tthe obj
nature of the film.

restrictions,

THE LABOR- PROGRESSIVE PARTY NEEDS

‘10,000 by December 15

Commencing October 15, the B.C.-Yukon District of the
Labor-Progressive Party is launching a two-month campaign for
a 30th Anniversary Fund. The objective of this campaign is to
complete our annual quota for the LPP National Fund. LPP
members are asked to watch for our advertisement in the next

issue of this paper giving their club totals to September 30 and the

amounts of their clubs’ annual pledges.

DONATE NOW TO THE LPP 30th ANNIVERSARY FUND

Send your donation to: B.C.-Yukon Committee, Labor- Progressive Party, 501 Ford Building, Vancouver, B.C.

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