Paul Robeson prophetic voice of
the people in struggle for peace —

By FRASER WILSON
Newspaper Guild No, 1; Vice-President, Vancouver Labor Council (CCL)

.- met Paul Robeson the other night. To describe him as stu itteri Ss
Baers ; : ; ; . endous, glittering, fas-
cinating, is putting it mildly. : It was at a private party and dees pe ae oe the si
guest. My wife and I were thrilled at the thought of hearing him sing I have long com-
sidered him my favorite on the records and accept the statement, “the world’s greatest

living voice,” as expressed by my friend and. collea ij i iti
ue on
the Vancouver Sun: This I had} if ene! oe ee ee

Famed Negro artist |
speaks for Tribune

“I am very happy to endorse the efforts of the Pacific
. Tribune in its campaign for thousands. of new readers and
_ | Supporters. Such a paper should be in every working-
man’s home, because no mat-
ter what his color, faith or
politics may ‘be, he must
have some medium of secur-

President, Vancouver

—<—— =

ing the truth about what is
going on in the world
around him, I regret to say
that this truth cannot always
be found in the pages of our
‘great daily papers It is for
that reason that I endorse
the Pacific Tribune

The people of your coun-
try and mine are. beset with
Many great problems ‘in the
struggle to secure the peace
and all it means to common
folks, Our enemies are pow-
erful and they have many sources for the moulding of
public opinion to their own narrow interests. We, how-
ever, are not powerless. With unity and determination,
and the courage to make labor papers like the Pacific Tri-
bune our guide, we cannot fail.

I have many friends in. British Columbia who have
always extended to me a warm hospitality, and I am sure
my appeal to them also to support the Pacific Tribune will
not fall on deaf ears.”

With best wishes,

Outlining the need of the workers to help in the building of a
Strong labor press to combat the lies and slanders of the commercial
press, Tom McEwen, editor of the Pacific Tribune urged the Nanaimo
| local of the United Mine Workers to support the Tribune with
increased readers and donations. “The commercial press,” said Mc-
Ewen, “cannot even be decent to labor in the coverage of the Nova
Scotia miners’ strike, and refers to delegate Higgins touring B.C.
on behalf of the N.S. men, as ‘an artist of gloom.’ Those of you who
have lived and worked in the mines know of the deplorable condi-
tions of your brothers in the East. The job of the venal press is to
play these conditions down and thus mislead the public.’

McEwen declared that the coming struggles of labor—evident lo-
cally in the strait-jacket legislation now being cooked up by the
Coalition government, demand a maximum of unity and clarity,
which can best be attained by utilizing the Tribune as a medium
of labor information. ,

At the conclusion of his address the miners agreed to make a
substantial donation to the Tribune drive. :

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taken for granted but, hearing
him sing, softly, with no accom-
paniment, was not all that made
the guests sit in adoration at his
feet; he is packed with person-
ality and charm and he speaks
with the voice of a prophet. He
has a message and his words en-
trance his listeners to become
crusaders for his cause, 3

The group who were present at
the party were men and women
of the labor movement, members
of cultural, social and community
organizations. - His voice was the
cry to ten million souls—the needs
and aspirations, hopes and fears
of the American colored race. In
simple, cultured tongue, yet with
a sprinkling of slang, he talked of
his people anq their leaders, but
mostly of the people, the lowly

‘goodwill everywhere.

workers of the fields, the factories
and waterfronts, for he had sprung
from them and they were still’
deeply enshrined in his great
heart. I shall make no attempt to
elaborate the plans he is launch-
ing; colossal is the word for it.
I shall merely sketch the ideal to
which he is striving, ideals old,
yet new, the spirit of people of

“War,” says Robeson, “can be
banished from this earth by the
common man. War is caused by
fear, distrust and greed and
therefore can be abolished by the
substitution of security, trust, tol-
erance and abundance. The forces
of reaction who desire war are
small but powerful. They are the
real racial antagonists, imperial-
ists, demagogues, remaining fas-

UNRRA officials here.

The” sabotage has béen traced
to American army depots. in
places as far apart as Leghorn,
Italy, and the Philippine Islands.
Its apparent object is to prevent
the delivery of usable supplies to
Yugoslavia.

A short while ago, 227 bulldoz-
ers and other types of tractors
for industrial use were delivered
as part of a shipment sold to
UNRRA by the U.S. army in Ma-
nila. UNRRA experts here found
‘only 55 of the tractors in fair
order. Ninety were repairable and
the remaining 141 were scrap.

A couple of weeks ago, the first
and long-awaited major repair
workshop to be delivered to Yugo-
slavia arrived in Bosnia. The
workshops are huge affairs and
are vitally important for keeping
on the road the 13,000 mechanical
transport vehicles which UNRRA
has delivered to Yugoslavia.

The UNRRA expert in Bosnia
found the workshop to be a col-
lection of bits and pieces of tools
and machinery. “It can scarcely
be described as a workshop at
all” was his official comment. He
detailed a long list of old and
worn-out tools, of welders with-
out batteries and motors without
dynamos, and of every kind of
deliberately wrecked machinery.

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UNRRA sabotage found
in Yugoslav purchases

BELGRADE-—Several hundred thousand dollars worth
of equipment paid for by American and British taxpayers
through their countries’ contributions to UNRRA is being
tendered useless through systematic sabotage, according to

_ Written on the inside of some
of the packing cases were in-
scriptions; Morte a Tito (Death
to Tito). The workshop had
been bought by UNREA from a
U.S. army depot at Leghorn
where -many of the army em-
ployees are war criminals want-
ed by the Yugoslay govern-
ment,

cists and monopoly capitalists.
Without the help of the common
Man they themselves cannot
make war. :
The instrument to defeat thes® —
forces of evil, continued RobesoD, —

“is a powerful world trade union

movement, the creation of ec0-
nomic security lays the founda-

tion stone for mass education to-
word world peace.

Those who
oppose the trade union move
ment oppose security, peace and
abundance for the common man.”
Paul Robeson’s role as an artist
and those of his colleagues, #
glittering array of world famous
radio, screen and stage stars, i8
to influence peoples everywhere
through entertainment and e* —

ample. The wisdom of this policy —

is obvious. He will succeed and
we shall hear more of this, f0F
those who were fortunate enough
to have met the man and heard
him speak know he must not fail.

ea

In memorium

In loving memory of
Mother’ Padgham who

was in the struggle of
the workers to the end,
and who gave her all in
the] fight for a better

world. Always remem-
bered by her family and
friends,

Bert Padgham.

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