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The latest such group calls
itself “The Couriers”, and is
comprised of Jim Thomas,
Steve Rankin and Tom Haw-
ken. Each of them has been
active in musical circles for
some time, but this is their
first venture into group sing-
ing. 5

““The Couriers” have in-
formed the PT that they are

in the midst of a campaign
to collect funds for their pro-
posed tour of Canada’s larg-
er cities, and that after the
tour they will be heading out
to the Eighth World Youth
Festival. The Festival will be
held in Helsinki, Finland.

They have appealed to all
trade unions, as well as other
interesteq parties, for finan-
cial support in this venture.
Donations may be mailed to
the B.C. Festival Committee,
4533 E. Pender St., Vancou-
ver. ;

A courier is a runner, a
carrier of messages; in ex-
tending greetings to “The
Couriers” we express the sin-
cere wish that they carry
their message to as many
people as possible.

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It is Luis Bunuel’s “Viridi-
ana,” a scathing comment on
current social and moral
ethics in Spain, which shared
the Palme d’Or at last years
Cannes Film Festival.

“Viridiana’ was hailed by
Time magazine (March 30) in
these words: “Seldom in cin-
ema has the nature of revolu-
tion been realized with such
profundity and expres sed
with such power.”

Other feature films an-
nounced by V.I.F. chairman,
Eric Gee, are both from
France — “Jules and Jim”
and “La Proie Pour L’Om-

bre.”

Advance sale of tickets to
the early evening and after-
noon performances at sav-
ings of 35% of the box-office
value has been extended to
June 15. Sets of six exchange
coupons sell for $5.50 and
are available from the VIF.
office by mail order, or from
the Odeon Theatre box-offices
in the Lower Mainland.

Trumbo owns name
- - -identity regained

“But he that filches from me
my good name, robs me of that
which. not enriches him. And
makes me poor indeed.” (“Oth-
ello,” Act III, Scene III).

HEN Shakespeare wrote
WwW these lines, he had in
mind, reputation. Even he,
with all his imagination,
could not conceive of a man’s
name, his very identity, be-

ing stolen from him,

Such was the case of Dal-
ton Trumbo, author of the
screenplay of ‘Lonely are the
Brave,” the much-acclaimed
film now being shown in
many countries.

It is worthwhile recalling
this story of the first deep
wound inflicted on Ameri-
ca’s greatness by McCarthy-
ism, the tale of the Holly-
wood Ten,

It-is worthwhile recalling
because the witch-hunters are
still busy, as the persecution
of U.S. Communists shows.

Many of the 200 Hollywood
artists, writers, and other
workers: black - listed along
with the Ten have still not
been given their jobs back.

And only in 1960, when
Frank Sinatra asked Albert
Maltz (another of the Ten) to
work on a film for him, the
witch-hunters forced him to
drop Maltz.

Trumbo, Maltz, Alvah Bes-
sie, Herbert Biberman, Les-
ter Cole, Edward Dymtryk,
Ring Lardner Jr., John How-
ard Lawson, Samuel Ornitz,
Adrian Scott — these were
the Hollywood Ten.

In the campaign to “root
out Communism” from Holly-
wood, the witch-hunters got
rid of these men who had
worked on almost. every
worthwhile film made in
Hollywood in the preceding
dozen years.

By giving in then to the
McCarthyites, Hollywood
committed “an act of self-
mutilation that amounted
practically to suicide,’ said
the London Financial Times
recently.

a os *

Dalton Trumbo was born
in Montrose, Colorado, 57
years ago, and educated at
Colorado and Southern Cali-
fornia Universities.

Of his four novels, “Johnny
Got His Gun” won him an
award as the most original
novel of the year when he
was 34, and his screenplay,
“A Man to Remember,” was
listed among the best ten for
1938.

Then followed ‘A Guy
Named Joe,” “Thirty Seconds
Over Tokyo,’ “Our Vines
Have Tender Grapes,”. and
many more films.

He served as a war corres-
pondent in the Philippines
and was one of the leaders
of the Screen Writers Guild.

Like many of the best men
and women in Hollywood he
was active in progressive
causes, against nazism, racism
of any kind, a chairman of

DALTON TRUMBO

the “Writers for Roosevelt’
in 1944.

Late in 1947, the witch-
hunters succeeded in drag-
ging the Hollywood Ten _be-
fore the Un-American Activ-
ities Committee. Bullied,
slandered, prevented from
speaking, they maintained
their principles and _ their
dignity.

Trumbo told the committee
he would answer questions
“in my own words,” and that
“very many questions can be
answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’ only
by a moron or a slave.”

In a statement the commit-
tee suppressed, he referred
to the Reichstag fire and de-
clared: “There is the smell
of smoke in this very room.”

The storm broke, Holly-
wood stars and writers re-
sisted, but the producers and
employers gave way.

A year in jail followed for
“contempt of Congress,” and
the name Dalton Trumbo no
longer appeared on

others had to earn their liv-
ing.

So a black market develop-
ed in Hollywood in which
scripts by black-listed writ-
ers, under other names, were
bought.

In 1959, it was disclosed
that Robert Rich, the writer
awarded an Oscar-in 1956
(which the writer did not
claim in person) for the
screenplay of ‘The Brave
One,” was,. in fact, Dalton
Trumbo.

Since then the name Trum-
bo has appeared again among
the credit titles for ‘‘Sparta-
cus” and “Exodus”.

His name, stolen from him,
has been restored.

OPEN FORUM

Ken Orchard, secretary, Fair
Play for Cuba Committee,
writes:

On a recent 24-day unguid-
ed tour of Cuba, I was a wit-
ness to the unfolding of a new
type of life for the Cuban
people, and a new hope for
the other people of Latin Am-.
erica.

I travelled unmolested
throughout Cuba, talking to
workers, peasants and stud-
ents, and searching out facts
and processes of their revo-
lutionary actions which were
impossible during my subse-
quent six weeks in other Car-
ibbean countries.

As 1! travelled through
Cuba, I recorded on film the
new schools, hospitals, fac-
tories and housing rising rap-
idly on all fronts, setting a
pace unparalled in the rest of
South America.

People wearing shoes and.
decent clothing, and living in
new, clean houses with de-
cent sanitation invited us to
their tables for meals that
would parallel many I have
eaten in Canada.

. These were meals hitherto

unheard of in the Caribbean,

except in the exclusive “all
white’ yacht clubs and
hotels, which are now being
used by the people who built
them. :

How shocking it was, after
immersing ourselves in this

vital, dynamic society, to wit-

ness. starving masses. of
human animals, packed thou-
“sand upon thousand in the
stagnant, filthy streets of the
capital cities of Haiti, Hon-
duras and the Dominican Re-
public.

These cities of dirt-floored
hovels of sticks, cardboard
and mud are the democracies
that “reporters” such as Roy
Shields are -attempting to
glorify and perpetuate by
their prostituted propaganda.

The _ rat-infested, disease-
breeding open sewers from
which the people get their
cooking and drinking water,
and in which they bathe and
wash their rags; these are the
“free” Caribbean territories
of the Samozas and DuVal-
iers; these are the pre-revolu-
tion Cuba. =

The yellow press of North
America dares not print the
reports of a worker who, by
applying Caribbean — stand-
ards, defends the new Cuba,
so I submit this to you.

It is truly a new Cuba,
built by and for the Cubans.
It is a Cuba free from the
disease, illiteracy, want and
fear that are the products
of the monopolistic United
Fruit Co. throughout the Car-
ibbean.

Something smells

An _ Inquisitive Worker
writes: Alan Judge’s article
on his trip to Cuba, which
appeared in a trans-Canada
feature publication, was in-
teresting.

However, I ask myself one
big question about this gentle-
man. The Cuban government
threw out a gang of modern
pirates when they put a buzz
on Batista’s behind and made
he and his henchmen flee for
their lives; and since this
rout of a gang of thieves, the
Cuban people have managed,
under the most adverse con-
ditions and. surrounded by
hostile nations, to maintain
their government and have
even started to stabilize it.

The capitalist press on oc-
casion has even admitted that
prisoners in Cuba have been
treated very fairly. What was
Alan Judge doing that he
should have been apprehend-
ed to begin with? Something:
smells here!

DICKENS POPULAR

Charles Dicken’s works
have been published in the
Soviet Union in 230 editions
in 18 languages and in mil-
lions of copies.

South African diamond
miners get an average an-
“nual wage of $350.

May 18, 1962—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 5

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