a _ Nr of Teutonic aggression. ‘ritish took the last peek. ‘rceived some sharp teeth ding their control of the, which lies in their occu- zone, and their plan to Ze the area and impair enterprise there.’ But y they saw a black, yawn- ‘oid which England’s news- fs already call the “Mar- ' Gap.” ie gap is twofold. Politically des between Marshall’s im- d promise of money and the Dlematic willingness of a Re- Slican Congress to appropriate In time, it stretches between ‘Ww, August 1947, and next Jan- 4ty, when the Republican Con- “Tess reconvenes. No dough, “ven problematic, until then. cay is bad news for Britain, oy a Bevin Britain that too long neglected trade with oem Europe in hopes of inning further U.S. aid. ie the $3% billion loan Brit- N got in 1946, which was sup- ive to cover three years’ pur- oa Sor needed supplies here, R y a third was wiped out by €publican southern - Democratic “*recking of OPA, which raised Prices here by that much. Ore was paid for an over- ne ws which costs Britain x ess than $3 billion a year x Which Truman doctrine pol- 5 €s demand. Still more went °r tobacco, films and other nOn-essentials Britain had to uy here to prove she was not Size eee _ more hours, at ‘e ‘Marshall Gap’ widens By ISRAEL EPSTEIN . discriminating against U.S, trade —a loan condition. Now less than a billion of the loan is left. London says it will not last beyond October. Sade 5 oe Early in August, Attlee’s cab- inet announced a new program of self-help for England under the slogan ‘Work or Want’, But still striving to appease Wall Street and British conservatives who scheme with Wall Street to regain power at home, it did not behave like a Labor gov- ernment at all. Both work and want were for British unions— which were ordered to accept wages frozen despite price rises, at compul- scry jobs. : Britain’s private captains of industry got no orders, only an appeal for “cooperation” in cut- ting profits. Attlee made the same appeal last year. Corpora- tion dividends have risen 26 per- cent since! Feeling that Attlee is on the run, both Wall Street and Chur- chill are barking at his heels. Tories are just as happy to have Labor “in power” at this time to take the blame for the crisis. They say it was caused by too many socialist experiments and hope the people will believe them and vote Conservative next elec- tion time. They are not above cashing in on resentment against the U.S., shouting that Labor has put the ING a “gift” dollar in the mouth has become quite a European pastime. First was the Russians who had the audacity to turn back the lips of the Marshall tey saw the Truman doctrine behind it and backtracked hurriedly. Then the French . To their horror, they saw the rebuilding of the German Ruhr, coal and steel country in pawn, although they themselves have the real U.S. backing. Kt kaa * Papers like the New York Times say Attlee isn’t a good manager because British miners still work only five days a week, even with the daily half-hour At- tlee has added. The British peo- ple, who elected Labor, think differently. They voted for more socialism, not less. At a party caucus Attlee got only 18 votes, 27 ‘rebels’ voted against him and 100- abstained. The ‘rebels’ wanted quick na- tionalization of the steel in- lustry, which the Attlee-Bevin leadership had promised but not carried out for fear of trampling on ‘free enterprise’ toes. They wanted more cuts in the army, including the 93,000 sol- diers keeping down the Jews in Palestine. They wanted a trade pact with Russia, which offers Britain 6% million tons of grain, timber for housing and other goods—an offer so far turned down for fear of shocking Uncle Sam, — : That is the fight within Labor. But Labor ‘rebels’ in Britain’s parliament lend no comfort to the Tories, as Churchill hoped. Churchill’s move to upset the Labor government was defeated by a resounding parliamentary vote of 318 to 170. The British people want Labor in power. They also want it to remember who elected it, and why. LEST WE FORGET Steere WENTy years ago on Friday, August 22, Sacco and on, how their long seven-year imprisonment and battle for Pages who ee d, should tell the younger people about the two hose frame-up and consequent execution shocked le fish peddler’ became for millions the symbols f of inj their “own struggles against ustice, hatred and oppression. Sa and Vanzetti were ar- follgn during the hysteria which ahs the First World War. are increasing signs to- By, that a similar hysteria is Ng deliberately provoked. a’S ‘spy scare’ started it ee ah the USA the organs of the tament are submitting to FBI’s Medieval notions of Politics, It has now become a a for an American Sa thin inst soit Gate In Canada the RCMP has force. ®, in the main, a political concerned with labor org- Fenian and ideologies, and earings” as in the espionage tans a star-chamber cand aka Method .of interrogation j intimidation. While the peste’ let loose a campaign 7 Giisatadeas slanders, its ac- ot was a ‘get-tough- abor’ policy, aimed at Epretine civil rights and lie effective labor organ- umbin Bil 39 in British Co- Antijat stems from the same °r mentality which burn- CO and Vanzetti to death & Boston electric chair. “eping green the memory of eee persecution and Wil her of Sacco and Vanzetti Where e working people every- © spur on the fight for Protection of civil liberties ian a enactment of a Canad- | il of Rights. AY, AUGUST 22, 1947 Politi to cal e *eedom resounded throughout the worl men of matchless courage and dignity, w umanity. The ‘poor shoemaker’ and ‘humb s acco and Vanzetti’ Vanzetti were executed in Bos- ELL LEO: Sc EE : ' = l ' BS * : ‘the newspaperman whose ideas run counter to the capitalist news- SELES LEO EE IOEIES LIEE PELL: LBL eB “If it had not been foe this thing, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. ] Now we are not a failure. unmarked, unknown, a failure. I might have died, This is our career, and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man’s understanding of men as now we do by accident. Our words—our pains—nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish , peddler—all! triumph!’’—Bartholomeo Vanzetti. se That last moment belongs to’ us—that agony is ou AUESTERLATESTOSTAUERU TIED SSUCTOESAUUEUOOAESOETGADOO A UALPSOSHUEH ALU GUYER TODEOOUOEDERCUAETERUEIH ABLATED SETHI TORU OTOSRERTT AT Short Jabs by Ol’ Bill A FEW weeks ago a member of the local Newspaper Guild was fired by the management of the Vancouver Sun because it was reported that he had had the effrontery to criticise, not the Sun newspaper, but the capitalist press in general, for the manner in which they report labor news. Many who read of that incident, probably thinking it was a unique occurence, would give no more thought to it. If, however, they lived in England in the last month or so, they would find out that the incident of the firing of Fraser Wilson in Vancouver is not so singular, but is part of a general policy in the running of the capitalist press. Since the present Labor government assumed office in Britain, none cf its opponents has been more vociferous in defence of the rights of the individual, if that individual should happen to be a banker or the owner of a steel mill or a transportation system, or of any other enterprize which it was proposed to nationalize, than the deputy leader of the tory party, Mr. Anthony Eden. One of the profit-making ventures in which the Eden family is interested, belongs to them in fact, is the North of England tory newspaper, the Yorkshire Post. The politics of the Yorkshire Post are different to those of the Vancouver Sun, but there is no dif- ference in their actions when it comes to dealing with employees who want to do their own thinking. Labor papers to hand from England carry a story somewhat similar to the case we witnessed in Vancouver. E A young reporter on the Yorkshire Post was hailed before the editor and accused of being seen in a May Day demonstration that had been organized by the Communists. The editor had no fault to find with his work, in fact complimented him on how well he had carried it out, but—unless he renounced all communist activity, even thinking about communism, he’d have to go. He refused to submit to this “dangerous thoughts” program which used to be the law in imperialist Japan, so he was fired. Free (?) press These are only two instances of course, but they are of recent occurence and if one cared to go over the pages of the Labor press evidence enough could be mustered to show that it is axiomatic that paper owners, will not remain long on the payroll. If he is a good drawing card, he may be allowed a little - latitude in his scribbling, like a pet monkey on a leash. He may indulge himself in “radicalism” so long as it does not touch the basic problems of social life today and only results in confusing the paper’s readers, but—let him dare to have a real mind of his own and take part in any real anti-capitalist activity, then his name will be mud. It is different, however, with the newspaper owners. Before the first World War the big gun in the British newspaper world was Lord Harmsworth. He owned a blatant, flag-waving, tory paper in London, the Daily Mail, an unpricipled liberal paper in Glasgow and an independent paper in Dublin, the name of which I forget for the moment. I presume the same situation obtains today with some other mogul in Harmsworth’s shoes. : EEDOM of the press!” That’s a nice phrase, particularly when it rolls out from between a Scotsman’s teeth, but under such conditions as obtain between the owners, their employees and the public today, it is a cynical affront offered by the press barons to the whole people. 4 r ° se. y Evidence being placed before the Royal Com- White lists mission investigating the press in Britain today, makes clear the part being played by the press monopolists in distorting, coloring and suppressing the news. It appears, according to a brief submitted to the Commission by the National Union of Journalists, that the owners don’t maintain “black lists” like the boss loggers used to have here before the IWA changed things around. But names of people and organizations and their ideas, to be discriminated against and receive no publicity in their papers, are kept in a “white list”. Of course, a “white list” isn’t a “black list”, is it? But a houn’ dog by any other name smells just as sweet. There is only one cure for this state of affairs—take the press out of the control of private enterprize as has already been done in Czechoslovakia. . Here in Canada we have made a start in that direction. We have a number of weeklies in the publication of which the lords of the press cannot operate their “white list’. We need more and above all we must break their hold on the daily press. In that field, too, we have made a beginning with the Daily Tribune. However, we in B.C. are a long way from having done our share towards the success of that effort. We undertook to con- tribute $12,000 towards the foundation fund for the establishment of the Daily-and we are still away behind. Although the Daily Tribune is printed and circulates mostly in the East, it is as much a B.C. weapon in the struggle against monopoly of every kind, as it is for the people in the East. the more licks we get in on Bay and St. James streets, the easier is our task made here on the Coast. : I would urge all the readers of this column who have not already done so, to consider well the purchase of one or more shares in the Daily Tribune, which can be secured directly through this office. The shares sell in four denominations, from $5 to $50. But there is no limit, since we can buy as many $50 shares as we like. : The power for evil of the press moguls must be destroyed—this is one way to help do it! : apie DAY celebrations at Port Alberni used to be just another of those local celebrations. The ambitious folks of that center of B.C. lumbering, however, refused to be cramped and their efforts have resulted in making their “Paul Bunyan” Paul Bunyan day Labor Day, a “world-wide” event. ; We are very pleased that the Pacific Tribune is identified with the occasion by the magnificent trophy put up by our paper for the world championship power saw bucking com- petition. Several members of our staff will be there trying to carry off some of the prizes and I'll be there myself to shake hands with my old friend Paul Bunyan. PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5