tt tt a ‘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.) Received with thanks ~ J.L., Vancouver, $9; E.M.M., Vavenby, $5; J.A.A., Ladysmith, 65c; J.R., Vancouver, $2.50; P.H., Egmont, 50c; A.O.C., Grand Forks, $1.16; D.J.S., Ver- non, 50c; W.K., Vancouver, $7.50; R.R., Vancouver, 65; J.H., Revelstoks, $2.50; J.K., Copper Mountain, $1; A.T., Vancouver, $2.50; U.S., Britannia Beach, $3.75; Trail Press Club, 15c; S.H., Trepanier, 50c; H.C.C., Vancouver, $5; J.C., North Burnaby, 50c; Kit- - silano Press Club, $1; A Friend, Vancouver, $10; R.H., Montreal, 50c; A.M.I., Vancouver, $2.50; _N.T., Vancouver, 50c; Campbell River Press Club, $2.50; J.L., Okanagan Mission, $2; Vancouver Heights Press Club, 50c; A Friend, Vancouver, $1; A.M., New Westminster, 50c; Victory Square Press Club, 50c; P.M., Vancouver, 50c; Victoria Press Club, 50c; H.N., Kelowna, $2.50. ‘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. -