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B.C peace conference

MARGE DALSKQG, Vancou-
ver, B. C.:
woman sitting across from me in
the dining room of the Clinton
Hall during the lunch recess of
the recent B. G. Peace Confer-
ence, was Mrs. Mona Worth from
Nanoose Bay, according to the
card on her lapel,

‘The lunch prepared by the Fin-
nish Women’s organization was
800d; the feeling of the Confer
ence Hall, with its hundreds of
elegates, men and women work-

ding for peace, was good. And Mrs:

Worth and I were soon acqua.nt-

» 8d. It was the first experience
\ for “cither of us _in attending a

fathering of this size in the in-
terests of peace, so we found lots

lovtalk about, “North Vancouver -

is'My home town,” I told her, “so
T didn’t have far to come, but
you came all the way from Na-
noose Bay, at considerable trouble

‘nd expense, What, made you
Come?” eee

7

var means that the morals,

Along with the standard of living

°f the whole world go down, But
y because of what war does

to the children—all children in

_ Svery country—whether they are

1
C98e or jar &way from th2 ac-

Wual fighting.” She told me to

© Surg to see the film “Seeds
Of Destiny” which deals with the

' Wspeakable suffering of the chil-—

Ga

en of Germany and Poland in
‘he last war. This film, she said,

_ Wich’ was shown by the Victoria

€ace Council, was one ot the
things Which sparked her am)i-
MORAG ta go! oltt and work hard
° preserve peace, .
Another out-of-towner at ou

‘@nnia Ecach, “I came cause

T realize that the fight for peace

S the fight for human ‘rights,”
© told ae, “TP have a son and a

- Maughter Srowing up and 1 want
_*%em to have a future!”

By this time, I had decidud 10
to some more. out-of-town
“Bates and observers. Upstairs
othe lobby having a smoks was

acter Co-doni from Langley Priu-
“rie,

life

“Tam here because all my
IT betieve in peace,” he told
“Most important to me now,
Ve six sons, five of them of
' 88e to be taken.” His kindly
°e was anxious and earnest as
© talked about his famiiy of

Me,
T ha

fa

‘We

‘ Parent :
with nts have

-& hard struggle to raise a

ey, of this size,” he said, “and
avant a. future for them-— and

Other families where they
t have to face war and ruin.”
be 'Neish from Victoria was
fis ste in his béfief that the
Bht for peace is a multiple bat-

today . © Must struggle for peace
Ae On Many fronts,’ he said.
& ‘yx fee] ‘

that in working hard ‘for
ace, I am protecting my trade
°n, for the trade.

rOcess of the push for war.”
Neish, I learned, was banned by
Fa OF executive of the Trades

ang
Fae Congress of Canada

: Victoria

he is a member of the
oe Peace Council and solicit-
ay mes for the Stockholm Ap-

Peal

_, There wasn’t time to do very

‘on 2 More of this chatting, but
out. after the day’s

her py 'naimo and something in
ang OVE face made me stop
«© Mortenson,

just got to ¥et

and do something about the

This 14
: Wute

said.

The pleasant faced .

“Because I hate war!” she said.

H. Bjurman, from Bri-_

nq ions stand |
ithe aoe of being smashed in

SPeak to her. Her name was —

‘only Socialist ever to be elected

Your

situation because mothers must
defend their children against the
terrible suffering of war,’ shé
“TI came over here because
I was hoping I could learn some-
thing about how to assist in the
struggle for peace. Its -wonder-
ful to see these other pedple —
so many of them — from distant
points over the province!” She
went on to say that she was es-

“pecially thrilled to hear youthful

delegates, like the young girl

from North Vancouver, Jean Nut-

tal, voice their plea for peace,
“Do you feel that you have

‘found what you came for?” I

asked her.
“Oh yes, I. really’ have!” she

answered. “The first thing I in-

tend to do when I get home is
have all my neighbors in for tea,
and tell them about it. I feel
I must hurry and tell everybody
I can that peace is a real responsi-
bility, if we all work for it.”
“Thank you” J told her.
tend to do the same.”

Report on decisions
of PTA convention —

PTA MEMBER, North Vancou-
ver, B. ©.: ‘The Parent-Teacher
Federation held its 29th annual
conyention this year at Victoria,
with “over 509: delegates present,
representing 231 associations.

Among the resolutiohs adopted
was one calling for the establish-
ment. of. dental clinic facilities

‘in all districts where they are

now lacking; one objecting to
any further curtailment of the

-work of the National Film Board;

one calling for the abolition of
the three percent tax on such
food accessories as cod liver oil
and vitamin, preparations and one
calling for improved report card
forms. | : oF (

A new procedure for dealing
with resolutions was adopted by
the convention this year. The
resolutions committe listed some
12 resolutions as “not within the
scope” of Parent-Teacher work.
These were presented to the con-
vention to decide by a simple yes
or no vote as to whether they
wished to deal with them. Among
those not dealt with was one cal-
ling for government control of

the price of milk; one calling for
-raising the half-fare age limit to

15 years for transportation costs;
and one opposing the early ap-
pearance of Santa Claus.

Other resolutions never reached
the convention floor; these were

withdrawn by the local associa-

ciations, either upon the obtain-
ing of further information or
upon request of, the resolutions
committee. Among them was a
resolution opposing the rearming
of Germany, one supporting the
right of téachers to hold public
office and one calling for the re-
moval of the cost of education

from the land, financing it instead

out of the general revenue of the
provincial government.

Fred Tipping | wants os .
fo hear from Charley —

- FRED TIPPING, Wildwood, Al-
berta: I am writing this letter
with the hope of getting corre-
spondence from some of the old

time members of the Socialist

Party of Canada. I joined the
Sei in 1908, a charter member
of Michel Local No. 16, B.C., and

“held every office in the Calgary

yin=.®

4

Dewarhinent
Wha You Pleate.

It was in Aprit 1910, that King
Edward died and the House was
in session. At the same time there
was a big coal mine disaster in
Whitehaven, England, in which
over 100 men lost their lives. A
motion was moved that a. letter
of condolence be sent to Queen
Alexandra. ‘Charley got up and
said he wished to make an amend-
‘ment to it. He said he had no-
thing against King Edward and
in some respects admired him, He

said, he set us a good example of

eating well and doing little. He
had never heard of him getting
up five minutes earlier’in order to
take another man’s’ job and by
\that time the House was in a tur-
moil and shouted for the '/motion.
The vote was taken and Charley
voted for it. :

One of the members got up and
said, I notice the member (Char-
ley) from Rocky Mountain vot-
ed with the rest of us. I wonder
if he would mind telling us what
his amendment. was. The amend-
ment was to include the widows
and orphans of the Whitehaven
coal mine disaster. :

Tim Buck told me that Charley
is living on Vancouver Island. If
he sees this I wish he would drop
me a line. % :

The main speakers of the party
at that time were Jack Harring-
ton, Charley O’Brien, Wilfred
Gribble, Alf Bud, Joe Knight and
Frank Masters, Tom and Frank
Cassidy, Houston from Winnipeg,
Lester in B.C. and Sophia Muskat.

Gray Turgeon gof an
earful in this letter

MAC-PAP, Vancouver, B. C.:
Recently. I sent a= letter to Sen-
ator Gray Turgeon, and among
other things I told him: ‘- 4

You want to drop A-bombs on

_ the Kremlin. You are an ill-be-

gotten son of Quebec and while
an MP for Omineca you promised
the people there a better life if
they keep on voting for you. Now
you. are a warmonger, and a
shame and a disgrace to the
people whom you misrepresent
wherever you go and whenever
you shout. a ‘

» .10u Want to set the killer Kurt
Meyer free. Be careful, you sa-
distic old man. Remember that
the Canadian people want peace

and will impose it.

_ Britain”, may we ask?

local during the period 1911-12-13. .

; ‘ ted to
Charley O’Brien was elec
the Edmonton House in 1910, the

there.

LT rey tak |e ey ee :
Socialists’ who speak
s a: 4 o oge
just like imperialists
E. HK. TUDOR, Morningside,
Alberta: It is interesting at this
time to read and listen to the re-
cent speeches and articles of those
so-called “champions of democra-
cy”, M. J. Coldwell, A. R. Mosher
‘and the red-baiting Western Pro-
ducer. Recently, for example,
Coldwell appealed for greater pro-
ductivity to “ease the burden” of
rearmament. Mosher weeps croco-
dile tears for the people who are

_ “iIl-clothed and ill-fed.” The Pro-

ducer in its editorials outdoes

‘Winchell, Pearson and Fulton

Lewis in its red-baiting. ;
_ All these gentry rant about “as-
sisting” Asia. After the events in

Korea the people may decide that

they want none of Coldwell’s or
Mosher’s assistance. ¢

Almost as phoney is the recent
statement by Frank MacKenzie:
“Attlee represents the exploited
classes of Britain.” In “Socialist

These are the men who aspire
to the leadership of the Canadian
producing classes, by lip service
at election time, but whose deeds
brand them as collaborators of
American imperialism.

Reader debafes with
News-Herald writer

MARGARET STABLES, Van-
couver, B.C.: A few weeks ago the
News-Herald carried a news dis-
patch from Korea in which an
American soldier is quoted as re-
ferring to Chinese soldiers as
“Chinks.” Use of such terms is
encouraged by the U.S. govern-
‘ment as part of its racialist policy.

I phoned the News-Herald to
protest the use of such a term,
and talked to someone named
Lewis. sThe first question he ask-
ed me was, “Are you Chinese?”
I answered that this wasn’t the
point at issue, but that I was a
Canadian of Irish extraction.

He told me that he had been. a
reporter since the age of 14 and
believed in reporting “objective-
‘ly.” Consequently, if the soldier
in question eo used the term, it
was correct to use it in a news
story quoting him.

Later in our discussion, he said
that hg personally objected to the
use of such terms, but that “so
much news came in it was not
possible to read through it all.”
My reply was that editors should
be responsible for~ all that goes
-into the paper.

PT ‘nuts’ on hospital
premiums, so he quits

H. MAHOOD, Woodfibre, B.C.:
Please cancel my subscription to
the Pacific Tribune, effective im-
mediately. :

While I think that there are
many things wrong with Canada
and while I agree that much
can be.done to better conditions
I do not think, that your solu-
tions are very wise or very sin-
cere.

For example you show our cost
of living on the rise and also
“show a reduction of the cost of
living in Russia. But you show
the reduction of the Russian
COL on a percentage basis. You
don’t say what the cost of a
pound of butter or a loaf of
bread is in comparison to the
weekly wage!

=

One other example is the B.C. .

hospital insurance. In protesting
premium increases you go so far
as to suggest lower premiums
and greater coverage. My _ only
comment on this proposal is—
nuts, :

What are young people
doing in spare time

HARRY KORTSEN, Vancou-
ver, B. C.: What are young Can-
adian people doing in their spare
time? I don’t think I am very
far from the facts when T say
that a very big percentage of
them are spending most of their
spare time watching American
films, reading America comics,
hanging around beer parlors or

‘| playing pool. ;

None of these activities can be
said to be very developing or
educational for young men and

, women. .

’ In order to turn their energies
and thoughts into something bet-
ter and more healthy for body
and mind, I would suggest estab-
lishment of spare time youth
clubs on a broad basis. The young
people could pay a certain mem-
bership fee and have a place to
spend their ‘evenings.
clubrooms there could be various
games, such as chess, checkers,
table tennis, etc.

Also, there could be song even-

ings, gymnastics, folk-dances and —

amateur theater. On Satw@ay
evenings there could be dancing
to records or an amateur orches-
tra. In winter time study groups
could be organized. | :

In the clubhouse there should
be a ‘kitchen or restaurant, run
on ‘a co-operative basis; also a
library with books and magazines,
donated by sympathetic ~ people
and organizations.

XN

In the -

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — APRIL 6, 1951 — PAGE 11

‘template.

Says PT worth $10 --
and sends if fo us —

G.W.B., Vanderhoof, B.C.: I am
enclosing $10 donation to your
Pacific Tribune drive as I. be-
lieve that your paper is worth
that for news, if the other news-
papers are worth the subscrip-
tions they charge for the propa-
ganda they print.

Sfrange ‘peace’ column
Says reader of Scott

V. VESTERBACK, Vancouver, ®
B.C.: “Peanut” Jack Scott is mad
because the “pro-Russian and
anti-American” peace committee
has approached him. The situ-
ation is just the opposite. It is

the’Russians who are pro-peace.

From the government down to
the last man the Russians have
endorsed the world peace com-
inittee’s nine points. Alas, how
we wish the Americans would
do the same! Instéad, they carry
on their own “peace” work in -
Korea, obliterating cities from
the -earth.

Korean crimes must be investi-
gated. Not because MacArthur
is an American; our demand
would still stand if he were a
Russian. It takes honesty and an
open mind—strange qualities to
“Peanut” Jack—to believe that.

As a substitute for organized
peace work, he recommends “in-
dividual thinking.” “Trade un-
ions don’t think,” he says. How-
ever, thanks to these unthinking
organizations life is as bearable
as it is today, and getting better.
While we with the help of non-—
thinking organized efforts change
the world, let “Peanut” Jack sit
and look at his navel and con-
We don’t need him.

Drinks, smokes, chews
rarin’ fo go af 77

SOURDOUGH, Vancouver, B.C.: :
When I 'seé these people writing

in to your paper with a lot of new- | =

fangled ideas on eating and drink-
ing — or I should say no drinking

—it makes my blood boil.» Here

I am 77, hale and hearty, and I
have been drinking liquor, chew-

ing snoose and eating everything

from bear to beaver tails, since I

was 16.

Like plenty of young folk in
my day, I quit my schooling and’
went to work when I was only 13.
Three years later I stood six feet
and could hold my own in any
bar-room brawl.-I bet on the
horses and I chased women, too.
They was fast women and slow
horses, as the saying goes.

‘Well, I went up north at the
turn of the century and I worked
around the mining camps in’ the

Yukon. Had my first real belly- _

ache about -then, only it turned

“out to be appendicitis and a doc-

ctor in Dawson City cut it out.
I kept on working, in Vancou-

ver and Seattle and other places,

until just a couple of years ago, —

Right now I feel fine, and TI still

take a shot of whiskey every
day — JI don’t go much for beer—
and you can take it from a fellow

‘who knows from his own exper-

ence, a little snort of likker in the
morning and another one at night

is just about the best medicine |

anybody could want. So don’t give
me any of that prohibition stuff.
It don’t sit well on my stomach.

Most of these people who go

around moaning what a curse
drink is never tried it, so they
don’t know what they’re missing.

‘In my lifetime I never missed

nothing. It’s been a real good
life and I fave no regrets, only —
lots of good memories.

Only drink I never tried was
this Russian vodka. From what
they tell me, it lifts your hat off.
Those Rooshians must have cast-
iron bellies. I figure I might

take a snort of vodka when I hit

80, just to celebrate a happy life
and a merry one.

.

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