Fancy of New Westminster
R fronting for the Japanese

: the entire situation has
ad. It is no longer a ques-
i niting the people against

jar with Japan and we are.
| our determination to de-_
|> fascists who have per

" le.

Sid of the Japanese as fas-
a clean and vital: feeling
3y every democrat. Hat-—
Whe Japanese as orientals,
€ of a different color, is
@ prejudice poisoning. the
Fass of democracy. Racial -
}belongs im the slime of —
fi net in the good clean
lemocracy- ber

is racial prepudice has no
S this war for fredom in
wr allies are drawn from
£ every race and color, all
by a cause that is as dear
eS. it is to us.

‘also remember that. there
f us a little group of chau-
ho openly deplore the fact
Shinese are our allies—in-
so blirided by their; preju-
* they would ~ willingly
s new friendship between
2se people and ourselves —
fit. Every appeal to racial:
5 no mater against whom

“Weakens our own cause.
& a great and lasting debt
Chinese people who for
g years have fought under
Bndicap against a’ brutal
tful enemy, giving us the
izm ourselves. When the
| home islands are invaded
ion must be launched from
tse bases they have kept
/ us. And in the postwar -
lich of our own prosperity
icific people will depend
Pour understanding, our
82, our trade relations with
fio.longer weak and divided
2d and strong as an equal
‘qually important to our
élations in the Pacific for
lose sight-of the fact that
aary objective of our war
Mapan is the destruction of
fistrous Japanese fascist
Eid those who have created
jective is to free the J ap-_
ple from the stifling rule
aseist leaders and to set

Japanese in Canada must t

t of Japanese fascism. We

he Japanese people just as
*(; have perverted the Ger- =

tected, strengthens their —

|]

dmocratic methods , hot by

them on the road to democracy so
that ultimately they may become
Part of the family of peace-loving
democratic “nations.

The peoples of Asia and the Pa-
cific how oppressed by the Japan-
ese must be liberated and helped
to establish themselves on a new
foundation of self-rule and. econe-
mic and social advance.

Beside these problems, in the —

solution of which we as a Pacific
people must share, the question of
the future of the Japanese in Gan-

~ada appears as small and wunim-

portant. Nevertheless, our ap-

proach to it is ‘indicative of our
__ ability to meet these greater prob-
- lems. No problem can be solved on

the foundation of racial hatred. ~

HAT then, dees the Labor-
Progressive Party proposé as a

solution to the problem? First, we

‘maintain that the question must
not become an issue, as certain
politicians are striving to make it
an issue, upon which the people
are divided so’ that the real issues

_ of the war and postwar reconstrue-—
- tion are lost to sight in the heat of

the campaign.

Those who, like Angus Mac-
-Innis, make ‘the unrealistic pro-
~ posal that -the Japanese should
‘be given the franchise now, are
contributing to just such a situa-
tion. _Eyery reactionary, every
self-seeking politician, is given
oppertunity to divert public at-
tention from the task of defeat-
- ing. Japan to the problem of the
future of the Japanese in Can-
ada. , :

The suggestion that the Japan-
ése should be given the franchise is

as unrealistic now as it was in the

years before the war. Regardless
of the reasons, the Japanese in
Ganada have long been dominated-
by their own fascist leaders and
what progressive elements there
are among’ them have been forced
into silence. ‘To have given them
the vote before the war would have
been to create a political machine
witich the Japanese fascist leaders
would have used to support re-
actionary and pro-fascist candi-
dates. To give them the vote now
js to ignore these long years of
fascist domination and equally to
ignore the need for a process of
reeducation to fit them for the re-
sponsibilities of democracy.

For the moment, the problem
has been solved. The Japanese have
been removed from the Coast, a
necessary if somewhat belated de-

tort:

the Japanese? a

fense measure, fully justified be-

eause of the fascist organizations :

among the Japanese and the fact
that a minority owed allegiance not
to Canada but to Japan.

and their interests liquidated. Some
of them have already found em-
ployment and made their homes in
other parts of Canada. :

_ he material basis for their
return to the Coast under con-
ditions that existed before 1942
has been destroyed. :

This is a fact that the Japanese
themselves are beginning to recog-
nize. I have here, for instance, an
article writen by a young Japanese.
Arnold T. Arai, for a Nisei publica-
tion at Tashme. He states:

“The young men who have
come to the various ghost towns
are gradually leaving for the
Hast to have a better chance of
becoming’ good citizens and a
better chance of getting ahead.
Because the chances of returning
to the Coast are becoming slim-
mer and slimmer, the future-
minded people are once again_
packing up and leaving for lo-
cations where they cark start a
new life.” : i

Hb) lareer question of future im-

migration, with all its bearing
on the new international relation-
ships that will emerge from this
war, must obviously be left for the
peace table, at which Canada will
have a prominent place. But the
question for us in British Golum-

bia, the disposal of the Japanese

already here, is even now in the
course of solution.

At the end of the war the Jap-
anese cannot easily return to the
Coast where so much prejudice has
been erected against them over the
past 40 years. It is in their own
interests and the interests of the
people of this province that they
should not.do so.

Instead, ‘the present process in
effect of dispersing across the
country the Nisei and the Sansei—
second and third generation Japan-
ese-Canadians — and other loyal
Japanese-Canadian citizens should
be continued to provide them with
the greatest opportunity to become
assimilated as an integral part of
our Canadian democracy.

With this solution already in ef-
fect it becomes obvious that those
who raise this question as a racial
issue are using it as they have al-
Ways used it, to conceal their own
political ineptitude in dealing with
the real issues confronting us as a
people.

As agitators for racial prejudice
they: should be condemned for the
disservice they do to our war ef-
As your elected representa-
tivs their actions render them unfit
to represent you any longer in a
democracy that repudiates racial
hatred for what it is—a weapon of
fascism. ;

Their
properties have largely been sold-

Schwartz’ purpose.

SHORT JABS

by Or Bil

Social Democracy Again

I HAVE been asked why I linked the CCF, with the Socal Democrats
in Germany and other European countries as I did last week. Appar-

ently I did not make myself clear enough; so I ask those who did under—

stand to bear with me while I return to’ the subject again.

A couple of weeks ago there was a man in Vancouver claiming to be
raising funds for the Polish underground, Pincus Schwartz by name. He

is connected with the so-called Jewish labor Gommittee-of New York..

That committee is composed of Social Democratic elements whose liter-
ary mouthpiece is the reactionary Forward. .The best known of them in
trade union circles is David Dubinsky, renegade from the GIO.”

There can be no dispute about the Social Democratic character of

these people. They belonged, some in fact and some ideologically, to
the Polish Socialist Party and Jewish Bund, an imtesral part of the Sec-
ond International, the mother lode of Social Democracy and since its
re-establishment after the last war, the gathering: point for the ex-
ponents of every idea meant to cause confusion among and lead to dis-
aster for the working class. :

Pineus Schwartz has the blessing of Stampfer, German Social Demo-
erat refugee from the political disaster in Germany, which he helped
to create. Stampfer is in turn a friend of Zorgiebel, Social Democrat
police president of Berlin in 1929; whe shot down the German workers
in the streets of Weddins, Social Democrat workers as well as others,
for attempting to stage a May Day demonstration. Zorgiebel, by. the
way, 1s now living; ina little village near Berlin on a pension given
him by Hitler. Hitler, like Sourassa, knows his friends.

Schwartz claims to be collecting funds to carry on the worl of the
Polish underground movement. But the Jewish people in Canada and:
the United States look upon this committee and its spokesmen and or=
ganizers with suspicion. ‘Thousands of dollars have, been collected in
Montreal and Toronto but no accounting of this money or other funds

collected in the U.S. has been made to the people who donated it-

_Although it is: claimed by the Jewish Labor Committee that it is for

' the use of the Polish underground, the Jewish people here believe it is not

for the underground, but for the use of the Polish sovernment-in-exile to
maintain a reactionary organization to help Hitler by opposing any:
efforts at friendly agreement with the the Soviet Union.

_ i understand that Schwartz, while in Vancouver, did not succeed
in collecting one single penny from any Jewish source.

. But he has friends. here, notwithstanding! ‘Phe leaders of the CCE,
being birds of a feather, opened their hearts and arms to him. He was
privileged to use the pages of theix press and they organized a public
meeting for him in the Foresters? Hall. True, they did not get much
response, the audience totalling only 38 people, including ‘the chairman.

At that meeting he is reported by, the CCE News to. have. said, in
answer to a question: “It is true that there were reactionary elements in
the Polish government-in-exile, but this was also true of the Ghurchill
coalition government and the Free Polish Committee in Moscow.”

The last part of that assertion, like the tail of a rattler, exposes

Soviet Union and no hypocritical

people can offset it. oe
There are no neutrals in the struggle against fascism. Those who
slander one of the allies of the United Nations, slander them all. And

praise of the Red Army or the Soviet

by the same token, they assist the fascists.

It is only to be expected that the GCF leaders who fell over themselves
to express their horror when two Polish spies were shot by the Soviet
government should lend aid“snd comfort to the enemy in the person of
Schwartz. i aries R poe :

And if Angus MacInnes were here now instead of being in Australia,
he would undoubtedly, denounce the Red Army’s drive into Finland with
a second edition of “Bombs Over Finland.” Z

The New “Marxists”

N these days “Marxists” appear to be cropping up from the most
peculiar places to tell us that the Soviet Union has sold out Marx;
that the Labor-Progressive Party has thrown the Communist program
overboard, and other things to the same effect. Unfortunately for them,

they. do not know anything about Marx or his works:

When the Russo-Turkish war was being fought Marx had to solve a
problem similar to the one we are confronted with today. Did he demand

_ socialism immediately or even that a socialist government should assume

power with the objective of socialism later?» No! he was a real Marxist.

Russia was at that time “the gendarme of Europe,” the most reac-
tionary power on the continent—as Nazi Germany is today. ‘This is
what Marx wrote in the New York Tribune on April 12, 1853: :

“Russia is decidedly a conquering nation and was so for a century,
until the great movement of 1789 called into potent activity an antagonist
of formidable nature. We mean the European revolution, the explosive
force of democratic ideas and man’s native thirst for freedom. Since
that epoch there have been in reality but two powers on the continent
of Europe, Russia and Absolutism, the Revolution and Democracy. For

‘the moment the Revolution seems to be suppressed, but it lives and is

feared as deeply as ever. Witness the terror at the news of the late
rising in Milan. But let Russia get possession of Turkey and her
strength is increased nearly by half, and she became superior to all the
rest of Hurope put together. Such an event would be an unspeakable
calamity to the revolutionary cause. The maintenance of Turkish inde-
pendence, or in case of a possible dissolution of the Ottoman Empire,
the arrest of the Russian scheme of annexation, is a matter of highest
moment. In this instance the interests of the revolutionary democracy
and of England go hand in hand. Neither can permit the Tsar to make
Constantinople one of his capitals, and we shall find that when driven to
the wall, the one will resist him as determinedly as the other.” Z

It is a lying statement meant to do injury to the

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