QA I I a TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager. : - Published weekly by the Tribune Publishing Company Ltd. at Room 6, 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. — MArine 5288 $3.00, 6 months $1.60. Australia, U.S., and all other countries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50. Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Hal : Griffin : SOME day a Canadian government Canada and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia), 1 year Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. ’ McEwen 8anized labor. JAY GOULD, one of the big Yankee fin- ™. ancial and industrial tycoons of a gen- eration ago is credited with making the boast, a la union smashing and strike- breaking, that “he could buy one-half of the working class to kill off the other half.” Whether he could or not is beside the Point. The bloody history of the Ameri- an labor movement in Gould’s day does - show that . powerful outfits like the Chamber of Commerce and its multiple Vigilante, Klu Klux gangs, stool pigeons and agents provocateurs did leave a trail of violence, murder and bloodshed in its forts to crush labor organizations. Things have changed considerably Sines those days. The growing strength 8nd consciousness of organized labor has _ *t8de scabbing and strike-breaking high- Y unprofitable for union-hating “free €nterprisers.” Now they spend money and plenty of it on the promotion of what —™ight be called their “ideological ex- - Perts,’ or in more simple terms, noisy Stoolpigeons who don’t mind being — ‘Nown as such. In fact the species take & pride in it! In a recent press item we note where One Myron Kuzych is booked to “lec- ture” in a number of Canadian uni- Versities: McGill, Acadia, Dalhousie, Queens, Western, and so on. His “sub- Jects” are. not new and in such cases hardly within hailing distance. of the truth. These so-called lectures we are told will deal with the closed shop issue, Union check-off, political action within te unions of the Canadian Congress of bor, and of course the real piece de resistance, “communist infiltration” in Canadian labor. We think it is highly right and proper that the faculties of leading Canadian Universities should place before their - Student bodies a full and concise instruc tion on the role, aims and objects of or- In fact we would go tther and say that Canadian labor ; Should have a chair in all leading Cana- dian universities. Sts to Canada would flow from such recognition, a closer unity between the tampus and the trade unions would be One of its greatest achievements. — It is noted that McGill has “invited” uzych to give its political science the lowdown on the “social significance of the CCF and McCarthyism:” In the first Place we think that Messrs. Bengough, Mosher and Coldwell should voice a Strong protest anent these Kuzych “lec- tures,” and advise the faculties of our Universities that if they desire authentic te ation for their student bodies on Tade union activities, they should pick ‘ ene other than Kuzych to do the . Secondly, if student bodies are expect- €d by their Alma Maters to attend such leetures,” they should at least be warn- beforehand that any similarity to reality or fact is purely accidental. And, Mould any student body desire to broad- £a its knowledge on “Communist infilt- ation,” we cannot recommend better ‘teading than Tim Buck’s Canada—The ~Oommunist Viewpoint or his Thirty, _ Years, 1922-1952, : es Kuzych is himself a fair sample °F the change that has taken place since 8Y Gould’s day. E ‘ Today stooges are “selected” with judic- «,'S care; chosen on the basis of their merit” to descend a bottomless social Scale without blushing. When they find _ §tch a lad they blow him up with a big_ ae plan his various “campaigns” — te ‘d foot the bill without haggling. Thus, a new “expert” on labor created! Whatever other bene- © Somehow they don’t go together. Straws in the wind ie HERE seems to be developing a qual tatively different atmosphere in the , world ‘since the end of the war in Indo- — china. Can it ibe that the concept of the peaceful coexistence of the socialist nea eee : ining the capitalist systems 1S at last gaint : ercthind over the madmen of Wash ington? ~ Perhaps they are wind, but here is ev é some important governments and news papers are taking a new look at national and international policies: idence of the way @® The ruling Liberal party of Japan "1 + “oon- Jared on August 10 that it was “¢ ned with the necesssity ot adjusting its relationship with People’s China as a result of the “comp! licy in Asia. : ne s The Toronto Star, the Ottawa ’ Citizen and the Sault sity a ae out in recent e itorials in ft developing Canadian trade with the tries of the world. The socialist coun : Finawetal Post favors opening trade with le’s China. — & am a In three significant eco week, the Toronto Globe and Mail: told the Canadian Legion that the aie -seription it demanded for Canada wa bine practical; (b) demanded all-Cana construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway, 1 inne hats government (and opeve! for allowing all Ungava’s iron or we flow to U.S. steel mills without aa anything to process the raw material a home. : “@ In the United States a group of leading figures in ene Amarnath Assembly) has come out strongly against the current government only straws in the ete failure” of USis y criticized the failure of American life (known — policy of “permanent opposition” to the seating of People’s China in the United Nations. @ in Edinburgh, a conference of the world’s most distinguished legal minds » called by the International Law Associa- ‘tion, ruled at its opening session that the use of nuclear weapons was contrary to international law. © The cordial friendship on gboth sides displayed in Moscow recently dur- ing the visit of the British Labor party delegation headed by Clement Attlee and Aneurin Bevan — on their way, as At- tlee said, to further “peace, trade and friendship” with People’s China. These straws in the wind do not, of course, mean that the imperialist powers have changed their spots. - They do, however, provide dramatic evidence of the tremendous-power of the world movements for peace and indepen- dence — and there are many such move- ments. World tensions are undoubtedly eas- ing. Many Canadian interests are taking another look at national policies. : But it would be a terrible mistake to relax for a single moment the pressure for new national policies for peace. On: has only to read the mad words of U.S. General Mark Clark on August 10 in Washington, to realize that the United States, even though it is becom- — ing more and more isolated, is at the same time becoming more and more desperate. General Clark would have the U.S. quit the United Nations and form a new alliance of nations prepared to launch a “preventive” war against the Soviet Union. The danger grows it is true — but events are proving that great advances can be made by the people under con- ditions of peaceful coexistence. y worthy of the name will erect a memorial to Robert Henderson, the man who discovered the Klondike. An ap- propriate place might be the northern approach to the new Granville Street bridge, in Vancouver, for it was in a shabby rooming house not far away that Henderson lived out his last days and died on a bleak January day in 1933. — It is perhaps too much to expect the present Liberal government to interest itself in such a memorial. Having ‘turn- ed Parliament Hill into an auction ring - for the disposal of our national heritage to a select crowd of U.S. monopolists, it is unlikely to concern itself with honor- ing the pioneers whose lives were devot- ed to creating and preserving that her- — itage. The idea should find favor, how- ever, among delegates to the Interna- — tional Sourdough Association, of which Henderson was a past grand president. For the past week sourdoughs from all parts of the continent have been meeting in Vancouver. Once again they have been recreating that page of history — ’ which for them will always be the bright- est of their lives. Most of them are well on into their seventies and eighties © and the survivors of the Trail of 98 get fewer every year. Time and frequent ~ telling have given to their stories a pat- ina of romance that too often obscures — the significance of the history itself. No doubt Hendersons name has come > up many times. It would be difficult to imagine any gathering of seurdoughs doughs where it was not recalled. But — the significance is that Henderson wrote a Canadian name where so many tried to place an American one. : ; For years the dispute raged as to — whether Bob Henderson, the Canadian or George W. Carmack, the American, had made the original discovery on the Tron Deg, as the Indians called the Klon- dike. A less supine Canadian govern- ment than the present declared in favor of Henderson. ae So the Nova Scotian whose discovery — opened up a rich territory and was a factor in holding it for Canada was given a modest pension. The man whose in- credible hardships paved the way to himself. By the time Henderson heard | fortune for others failed to strike it rich about Carmack’s rich discovery on Bon- eo: anza Creek, where he had urged Car-_ mack to prospect, the entire creek had been staked. tg = ie ats, bos : Henderson himself was a man whose - love for the Yukon far transcended his desire to wrest a fortune from its river — bars and creeks. 7s I was with him only a few months be- fore his death when he said farewell to the Yukon forever, although he did not know it then. Coming into Carcross over the trail from Tagish one Novem- per day, I found him sitting in the Cari- bou Hotel. ~ t ; - His craggy face was tired and full of disappointment. He had flown — for aie Great dime int ite info the Bey River country, and the half-forgotten radium ‘discovery of byegone years had eluded him: But he would come bac’ next year. ; we et His faded blue eyes lit up as he talked. “This is the richest country in the world. — It’s our country and it’s for us to de- — fe velop it.” . _ . Where others were looking back to the past, he was looking forward to the — future. ' ; A memorial to Bob Henderson would ~ be a tribute to every Canadian with faith in the future of his country — a future shaped by Canadians for Canadians. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 20, 1954 — PAGE 5 \