j ( mis be . = a ge ay ll nT E x 4) | | al \ vl (i 4 oy 2 BSUINIS: hepa tenant rs utd laaeceevend anesthe Published Weekly at 650 Howe Street By The TRIBUNE PUBLISHING COMPANY Telephones: Editorial, MA. 5857; Business, 5288 Tom McEwen ; Editor Ivan Birchard Manager Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.50; 6 Months, $1.35. Printed by Union Printers at 650 Howe Street, Vancouver, B.C. Authorized as second-class mail by the post-office department, Ottawa Time for action =. ges ane to the Financial Post. issue of April 12, a survey of 60 Canadian industries shows earnings al- most 30 percent higher than 1945. Earl Bunting, president of the U.S. National Manufacturers’ Association is quoted as saying that “if the constant upward winding of the price spiral continues, you'll see one of the most terrible busts this country has ever had.” What the organ of big business now admits, labor has been stressing for some considerable time, but its pleas would seem to have fallen on deaf ears at Ottawa. The King government has surrendered all down the line to ‘the pressure of big business in lifting price controls, which ex- plains the phenomenal rise in earnings and profit. And both Ottawa and Victoria have capitulated to the pressure of Big Business for restrictive labor legislation, in an effort to block wage increases and limit the purchasing power of the people. The time has now come for decisive action. The evils of the price racket have been well documented. The ‘short- ages’ to force prices upwards are well understood. Labor must apply its united efforts on two fronts without further delay. First, for substantial wage increases right down the line, and second to spearhead a national crusade against the Price racketeers. Goods that were in ‘short supply’ before the price hoist, but are now plentiful, should be left on the shelves. Mass action on the part of buyers on prices—mass action on the part of labor for wages. ‘ ___ Action now is the only course that will avert the big ‘bust’ and’ put the excess profits of the monopolists back where they belong—in the pockets and upon the tables of the people, — s b ) es | | Gnawing at labor's rights TY SING the pretext that business firms on Hastings Street object to May Day parades, because they .jam traffic, Vancouver City Council last week vetoed the route of parade submitted by the May Day com- mittee. This high-handed action is symptomatic of the new “‘get-tough’ attitude towards labor in reactionary circles. In past years it has been customary in May Day par- ades in Vancouver to halt at the Cenotaph and place a wreath there in tribute to Canada’s heroic dead. This rite is now denied Vancouver labor on May Day, and with it the inalienable right of labor to the streets of the city—ex- cept as specified by a governing body, “so stuffed with red tape they can no longer move motions expressing the senti- ments of the people,” as May Day committee officials so fittingly described the council’s actions. Following this bureaucratic ruling, and the flimsy ex- cuses given, members of the May Day committee interview- ed many business firms along the proposed route of march. _ In the main they met with no opposition to the parade fol- lowing the route established in former years. They found that business men offered no objections—a fact which shows that the pretext for rejection was incubated in coun- cil chambers. W. C. Charlton, president of the Retail Mer- chant Association, told committee members that, far from seeking to have parades banned or limited, his organization “welcomed such parades.” . Aldermen Price and Gervin, who pose as ‘labor men’, obviously backed the council’s action in vetoing the pro- posed route of march. At the final hearing on the issue, Alderman Fisher, chairman of the police committee, pro- posed someone move a motion to rescind the decision bar- ring the parade from Hastings Street, Ald. Gervin main- tained a stony silence. ; Could it be that the main pressure upon the morons at the City Hall comes from the scab-herding Southam Pub- lishers, who cannot hide their infamy against the striking ITU behind the ‘iron curtain’ of painted windows, and who do not relish the idea of a May Day parade of workers passing what is now British Columbia’s number one open- shop? Labor will draw its own conclusions. : is clear that it is not the majority of Vancouver business men who are responsible for this edict, but a small clique of reactionaries who have throttled Vancouver economically for a number of years, and who now feel they can ‘get- tough’ with labor politically, by closing specified : streets for May Day parades. : _ Should this action pass unchallenged it will only be a _ matter of time before labor is barred from the streets en- tirely, and in May Day parades as with labor legislation, British Columbia will revert to a level with Duplessis’ Quebec. Labor must serve warning on May Day that it will tolerate no interference with its rights. FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1947 ‘ Meantime it TN GOR GOUZENKO, Russian trai- tor, embezzler and stool-pigeon has been accorded the status of a ‘British subject, as part-pay- ment for his ‘great service to Can- ada’ as the anti-Sovieteers explain it. That rates our Canadian citi- zenship _ considerably below the bargain price of $1.00 stipulated by Mackenzie King. Meanwhile, and until he attains full Cana- dian citizenship, Gouzenko will pick up a few thousand dollars here and there writing (or having written for him) new lurid tales cf ‘Soviet spy rings,’ ‘communist plots,’ or treatises on totalitarian socialism.’ He is also in line for a permanent job with the RCMP, since age and alcohol are leaving their mark upon the force’s ‘sub- versive expert’ Leopold. Gouzenko’s latest ‘revelation’ on Soviet ‘military spy rings’ operat- ing in Canada, in which he in- volved the Canadian Aid to Rus- sia Fund Committee has backfired soméwhat, Even the timidly lib- eral News Herald of April 17 felt obliged to editorialize thus: ‘If Gouzenko is no more accur- ate in other articles he is pouring cut for American readers, at fees up to $50,000, then American mag- azines and their readers are swal- lowing some pretty tall tales... the ease with which Gouzenko is now gathering in the big, money for his ‘disclosures’ is apparently affecting his imagination and sense of veracity.’ Had Gouzenko stayed with his ‘odious profession of smearing communists or the USSR, the _News Herald would have been content to feature his ‘revelations’ without scruple. But when he in- volved the Canadian Aid to Rus- sia Committee in his political de- lirium tremens, that was stepping too far out of line. The incident serves as a lesson which should have been learned long ago. When any government or authority seeks to reinforce its moral bankruptcy upon anti-Communist forgeries, the process works fine so long as it can be confined to the com- munists, but like all diseases the anti-communist plague knows no bounds when unleashed, and every democrat, humanitarian, commun- ist and non-communist alike fall under its evil virus. “Sense of veracity?” Since when has the monopolistic lords of the press paid sums ranging as high as $50,000 for the truth? No one should know better than the press barons that truthfulness is not the cardinal virtue of a trajtor, em- bezzler, or stool-pigeon. Nor are such virtues required in the highly priced ‘revelations’ of this crawling vermin, The ingredients required for a real anti-Soviet or anti-labor spree, such as is in ogue at the OoOment, are es, distortions, misrepre- entations, slan- ers, and the wilder they come the high- er a price they command. Lit- tle wonder that while comment- ing on the lat- : : est Gouzenko “Tom Mcxwen ‘scoop’ and its press coverage, Sun columnist Jack Scott observed that ‘some- times I’m ashamed to call my- self a newspaper man,” a re- mark which speaks volumes in a few. words. ¥ / In the coming months Cana- dians are to read many similar Gouzenko ‘revelations’ since it is the pablum upon which anti-Soviet and anti-labor elements live and breathe and like Hitler, ultimately die, victims of their own poison. A FEW days ago the Pacific Tribune received a bundle of election materials issued by the Montreal Liberal Association in the Montreal-Cartier byelection. For sheer unprincipled distortion, falsehood and political trickery, it caps anything we have ever seen. | It goes without saying that the Montreal press surpassed itself in. its orgy of red-baiting during the campaign. That of course is the privilege of a ‘free’ press, and the Liberals can always sanctimoniously wash their hands of its ‘excesses’ on their behalf, should the occasion arise, But they cannot wash their hands of the political filth issued from their own organization. We are told that ‘the Liberal Party and its members have al- ways been the friends of all the people of Canada’ and proof of this ‘friendship’ is the Family EAU Ae As we see it : ECR By Tom McEwen Allowance, Unemployment Insur_ - ance, Old Age Pensions, etc. Wé can stomach that since it is cur rent legal barter for votes in aby election, But when these Liberal ‘friends’ tell the people of Mon- treal-Cartier or Canada that it — is communist “tactics that closed he the doors ... to the unfortunate victims in Europe,” then the Lib- eral Party becomes a party of unmitigated, unprincipled liars. — (If any reader knows of a better description, send it in.—Ed.) Has anyone heard of the King government demanding speedy and humane treatment to the tens — of thousands of Jewish and other war refugees (displaced persons); or offering to open Canada’s doors to these unfortunates for temporary or permanent resi dence? ‘Has anyone heard these — Liberal ‘friends’ of the people protesting the brutal treatment of Jews by British imperial policy in Palestine? “Canada needs immigrants who will become loyal citizens . . peal to the citizens of Cartier What is the liberal hall-mark of ‘loyalty’? A Gounzenko? Yes: Thousands of Poles who fought in the armies of General Anders — with Hitler against the Allied Na- tions? Yes. Anti-fascist refugees from war-torn Europe? No. These come under the heading of those “persons who seek to un i dermine our institutions and our traditions of freedom and tolel- — ance,” and are non persona grat@ But our ‘liberal friends’ need votes, Jewish votes, so how bet- ter to win these than prey upon the concern of the Jewish people — of Cartier, by representing work- ingclass fighters like Fred Rose and Michael Buhay as the people — responsible for the ‘closed door’ to Europe’s unfortunate war vic- tims, Such muck could well have been written by a ‘British sub- ject’ like Gouzenko, or a ‘new Canadian’ like Sullivan. It was written by the Liberal Association of Montreal-Cartier. It represents — a new low in unprincipled oppor - tunism. : lron curtain, Hollywood version ESLIE ROBERTS and F. W. Park, president and director, respectively, of the National Council for Canadian-Soviet Friendship, has forwarded the following telegram to, production chief Darryl Zanuck of the 20th. Century Fox, Hollywood: “Hope you will reconsider your decision announced recently to make film ‘Iron Curtain’ based on Canadian Government Es- pionage Report. Report itself a discredited document unworthy of serious treatment since seven of those accused since acquitted in court and other cases pend- ing. Film based on it can only Serve to needlessly embitter re- lations with USSR and hinder work of United Nations.” The big movie monopolists, like the commercial press, aim to give the public what big busi- ness says the public wants. In the pre-war Munich period we had fascist-tinged pictures like Ninotchka and Comrade X por- traying the ‘communazi’ brand of film! poison. The smart boys in Hollywood, with an ear to what big business wanted, were out to save ‘poor little Finland from the Russians’. Came the war—or rather came Pearl Har- bor, and things began to change. We got some pictures out of - Hollywood for a short time which portrayed an adult intelligence. Now we have another flip- flop—back to-the good old anti- Soviet smear days. Metro-Gold- - wyn-Mayer and 20th Century are in a neck and neck race in the production of two real chillers The Red Danube and The Iron Curtain. Two others are being planned I Chose Freedom by the trotskyite Victor Kravchenko and This Is My Story by Louis Bu- denz, typical American editions of our Gouzenko and Sullivan. Canadians, individuals and or- ganizations, concerned. with pré- serving the peace and strength- ening friendly relations with the ms Soviets, must join with the Na- tional Council for Canadian- Soviet Friendship, by letting Messrs. Zanuck and Mayer of | the movie monopoly know that Canadians have ‘grown up’, and that war propaganda, even with a ‘made in the USA’ trade mark is unwanted and unwelcome. A film based upon the Tasch- — ereau-Kellock Report would be an insult to the intelligence and — integrity of the Canadian people, since its chief characteristics: could only be prejudice, bigotry, race-hatred, and a gross viola- tion of the constitutional rights of a people. And Hollywood is: not noted for ‘improving’ upoD the documentation of its pro- ductions. * PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 4 -’ reads the liberal aP- ©