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‘the taxpayers.

FUMBLED FRAME-UP

Police looked everywhere

for meeting -

except office

EHIND the humor of these two belated reports lies the serious
threat to civil liberties posed by the imcreasing reliance of
Western governments (including the Canadian government) on the
use of political police to repress criticism of their. unpopular
policies.- Spying, intimidation and frame-ups are being perfected
by political police forces as arts of the cold war against the people.
Had the Toulouse frame-up succeeded, wholesale arrests in the

French peace movement would have followd.

The fact that it

failed, as the attempted frame-up against Jacques Duclos, French
Communist leader, failed, represents a victory over the warmongers.

HE Holland government’s sec-
ret political police are recup-
erating after a heavy weekend.
The national] committee of the
New Zealand Communist party
has been meeting, reports the
progressive weekly, People’s
Voice, published in Auckland.
On June 19 the political police
got the “‘wheeze” that New Zea-
land ‘‘Reds” were having a big
session in Auckland.

They sent a reporter from an
Auckland newspaper (it refuses
to publish “advertisements, let
alone Communist party state-
ments) to the Communist party
national office to ask about.the
meeting.

Drawing a blank, secret poli-
tical police then haunted train
and boat terminals in the South.
Others lined up at Auckland
Station and followed delegates
into town in a car provided by
They lost their
quarry in the centre of the city.

The weekend was spent scour-
ing Auckland. Most strenuous
attempts were made to find out
where the meeting was being
held. Only on the jast day of the
meeting did they succeed.

They discovered that the na-
tional committee was meeting at
the offices af the Communist
party on Karangahape Road!

LL France is laughing at the
fate of a suitcase of “secret
documents’”’ which were suppos-
ed to be planted at the Toulon
headquarters of the French Com-
munist party.

-On June 7, police raided the
headquarters and the press of
many countries was full of sen-
sational stories of a “‘Commun-
ist conspiracy” and ‘“‘secret plans
of Toulon defenses” being found.

Then there was a sudden quiet,
Here’s why: ae

The agent who was to plant
the suitcase of documents was
spotted as he stood at a win-
dow and he had to retire.

Shortly after, the police droye
up as planned, looked in the
window, found no_ suitcase,
shrugged and drove off.

Their departure was speeded
by roaring laughter from the
huge crowd whichi had gathered.
Investigator Roth was asked by
the press if it was true that the
raid had tracked down ‘real for-
eign agents.”” He had to reply
that it had not.

The Paris daily, Figaro, dole-
fully commented that “in spite.
‘of fantastic statements made by
some newspapers. the ‘Toulon
investigators and prosecuting
authorities will grant no more
press interviews.”’

placed by soundproof doors.

To go with orders - in - council?

These heavy oak doors to the executive chamber in the
elgislative buildings at Victoria have been in nse since 1898
—they’re older than party government itself which was not
established in B.C. until 1903.
for the new Social Credit government.

But they’re not secure enough
It’s having them re-

Let’s forgive
naughty

pang.

once,
of civilians,

and months,

And build ’em up their Luftwaffe again.
’em if they’ve been a little

Let’s strengthen them for war again—
The mixture as before again—
But don’t let’s dislike the Nazi gang!

Don’t let’s be beastly to the Nazis!
Let’s release some more war criminals ‘at

True, they’ve murdered scores of thousands
But they’ve been in horrid jails for months

Let’s pretend that ‘S.S.” stood for “Simply

slang;

bloodied h yi
And shake their bloodied hands without a Don't let's be beastly to the Nazis!

We know at heart they’re kind and gentle

folk.

\

Saintly,”’
That ‘Sweet Angels’ were ‘S.A.” in Nazi

Don't let’s be beastly

ON’T let’s be beastly to the Nazis!
Don’t let’s be hard on Hitler’s men;
Let’s give 'em back their army and their navy

The Prussian aristocracy
’s the bulwark of democracy,
So don’t let’s despise the Hitler gang!

Let’s call Belsen and Lidice fits of temper,

And the ovens, just a Nazi kind of joke.

Let’s rebuild them yet again to fight the

Russians, .

Let our anti-Nazi principles go hang;

Let ’em try for all they’re worth again

To blast us off the earth again, ;

But don’t, let’s be harsh to Hitler's gang!

: Bill in the London Daily Worker.
(with apologies to Noel Coward
—and nobody else.)

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‘He Wrote For Us’

EILA RAUMA, Webster's Cor-
ners, B.C.: Please send me one
copy of Tom McEwen’s book, He
Wrote for Us: The Story of Bill
Bennett. Keep up the good work
on your paper,

The answer to Bert Whyte’s

question, ‘“‘What Olympic runner -

was known as The Flying Finn,”
is that the runner was Paavo
Nurmi., I think I’m too late to
win the dollar, as ‘we never re-
ceive the Pacific Tribune until
Saturday, but thought I’d send
along the answer anyway.

”

Sloan’s liniment

COAST READER, Courtenay,
B.C.:' On July 23 here 200 work-
ers attending a united front
meeting called by the IWA to
give the strike facts heard a
prominent trade union Official
make a damning confession of
utter bankruptcy.

This official’s four years as
a district secretary have certain-
ly made a mark on the move-
ment, the workers’ backs and
pockets.

Adopting the pose of an irate.
Donald Duck who’d jumped into
the wrong water hole, he puffed
up his “injured dignity” to in-

dicate the ingratitude of the op-
erators,

Going back in IWA history to
1949 when ‘they negotiated
their first contract,’’ he told how
the employers had congratulated
them on ‘‘getting rid of the com-
munists — but, they must now
cooperate with the industry to
solve the difficulty of falling
prices and declining markets.”’

With unblushing frankness he
said: ‘‘We were suckers then,
because we believed the employ-
ers and we cooperated, but we
don’t believe them this time, now
they lie about the market,” ete.
Just in case anyone might think
he had learned his lesson he
hastened to add — “but don’t
think I’m a communist now.”

In a speech which made no-
body the wiser he frequently re-
ferred, in terms of great adula-
tion, to Chief Justice Sloan, the
mediator, saying he was sworn
to secrecy as to what was going
on in the‘ mediation chambers.
With reverence he indicated that
justice would be done by the
Chief Justice.

Now we know. It’s not justice,
but Sloan’s liniment,

As Donald Duck would say,
“Quack! Quack!”

Pensioner’s lament

OLD TIMER, Vancouver,
B.C.: Here’s a poem I wrote
which I thought the Pacific
Tribune might use:

Since I’m just an old pensioner
Of very humble rank

Til never have much money
To deposit in a bank,

But _I haven't lost ambition
Hence some pain I must endure

As I note a growing tendency '

To penalize the poor.

Some people who. are ‘‘well-to-
do”

Might think of it. as fun

To be “debited” eight cents per
month :

On each ‘withdrawal”
than one.

more

It’s probable I won’t be here

When “the pendulum swings
back”

And “high finance” be run again

On a much more even track,

For I feel there'll still be rich
men

Much like Some “in days of
yore”

4
PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 15, 1952 — PAG?

owt Department
(ht Yo Pat.

Who'll consider poor humanity,

Not just greed and nothing more.

And let us hope “the money
moguls”

Will by then: have come to know
That ‘a poor man went
heaven ; ;

And a rich man went below.”

Avaricous operators

READER, Chemainus, B.C.‘
During the woodworkers’ strike
I sent a letter to the Vancouver
Sun which they have not see?
fit to print, perhaps because the
facts were so obvious that they
didn’t have an answer. ‘They
printed all the rubbish from
“M.P.? and ‘Woodworkers
Wife” that was designed 1?
weaken the strike, but seldom
did they publish anything fro#
the other side. Here is what
wrote to the Sun:

“In regard to H.R. MacMil-
lan’s letter in your paper chid-
ing Stewart Alsbury, if MacMil-
lan was not so avaricous of make
ing super-profits (I don’t mea?
just profits, a “fair gain” on the
products of our labor, but supe!
profits) he would be able to come
pete with Scandinavia and th?
Soviet Union for the united
Kingdom and the European may
ket.

“With the advanced techn
logical production methods use
in lumber production and th®
manufacture of wood products
in B.C. he could put lumber
the European market at 1es&
than the $50 per thousand that
the Soviet Union is charging 2”
still grant us a substantial was?
increase—and he knows ita

Place in every home

E.W.W., Willow River, B-C?

It is hard to understand how a9
working man can refuse to ree
a paper like the Pacific Tribu?”
and at the same time spend m0?

ey on one of the big Vancouv®

dailies.

I think that the PT is a pape
that should have a place in t
home of every worker. er
preciate the stand our ene
takes for peace and against Vale
Everything possible should f
done to prevent the outbreak ©
another war; every sane pers?’
should work for peace.

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