Review TOM, - Canada and British: Common Printed by Union Printers L BS; Published weekly by the Tribune Publishing wealth countries (except Australia), td., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. 1 | LIL ALAM UU * EDITORIAL PAGE * Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager. Company Ltd. at Room 6, 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.60. Australia, McEWEN, aT Comment — MArine 5288 U.S., and all other countries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50.« Authorized as second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Tom McEwen ® (HARiry should certainly begin at home, especially with those nosey People who are eternally trying to put other people’s affairs in order. “The United States is pledged to de- fend Formosa against Communist a8 Sression.” That and similar bleats about “defending our free way of life” pours {om the propaganda sluices of the Yankee atomaniacs like water over 2 dam. Peace in Indochina and the eas _ tag of world tensions irritates the Dulles fang like a prickly burr under a mule’s tail, setting off new spates of atomic hys- teria about our “freedoms” being threat- eed, etc, The promotion of such hysteria serves another purpose also, to serve as 4 cloak — for Yankee provocations in Asia, carried out by their Al Capone gold-dust twins, Chiang Kai-shek and Syngman Rhee. © “Our way of life!” It’s too bad those Tanging eagles’ of Yankee imperialism Wouldn’t take a look closer to home an do a bit of real “defending.” There S: Plenty to do in the ghettos of New York, in the industrial hells of the Deep South, da Sunny California where . Mexican _ Workers are kicked in and out to keep e labor market in “balance” to sult _ ‘he loeal millionaires. a » Just recently the San Francisco Com- — Munity Chest released a report on the _ State of that great city’s “Chinatown. Plenty to “defend” there. Thousands of San Francisco’s Chinese women must Seek a livelihood in the needle trades — Sweatshops. It’s a “piecework” DUSINESS 4 and the day is as long as human endur- ance. The committee reports that moth-— ers, having to take their pre-school Children to the factory with them, find children on the pavement outside a fac- tory, tied to the doorknob by a Jeash in : ® daytime. or, as late as 10.30 p.m.,. Sleeping on cutting tables, in corrugat- ed cartons and. in wooden bins.” Plenty of room to do some real “de- fending” and a lot of improvement 0n 8 “way of life” there. The Community Chests chairman Lorna Logan adds an-— Other significant note in her. report Which medns much more than it says: “Many of them (the mothers) came re- Cently from China and have travel debts. Because they do not speak English, few _ Tobs are open to them. And the income level in Chinatown, aS for any minority Sroup, is lower than for the rest of the Sommunity.” 3 o : Let’s put it another way: Yankee cn Perialism, anxious to “save” the Wor é ftom “communism,” opens its immigre tion doors to so-called Chinese “refu- Sees” and they step right in—into a _ Sweatshop heli, where the hours ar* from dawn to dark, the wages substand- ard, and the community sympathizes with Miss Logan’s “solution”—since no Other is forthcoming in the report, that “a baby strapped*to the back of a wo- _ ™an working on a sewing machine or @ _ child in a packing crate at her feet, may “safer than if it were alone in China- _ town’s crowded streets.” 4 This ‘Community Chest report from. Sunny California indicates that every” body (including the bosses) is anxious that something should be done about itand evervbody is also agreed that Nothing can be done about it. Babies are lovable things, but when they get 1m - the way of profits, mother’s back. or @ -tardboard carton is good enough for, ~ Junior! “horrors” of Communism? oy A victory for the ¥ “Qur free way of life” versus the ~ SHE DOESN'T BELIEVE IN FAIRIES — SHE WON'T CLAP HER HANDS / ° France has rejected EDC, refusing to regard a Rearmed Germany as Good Fairy of European the Defense. ¢ reject the plan in its entirety, re - fusing even to discuss Mendes - France’s Brussels amendments or to delay a decision so that he could negotiate further. With the defeat of, EDC, the U.S. determination to back a re” vengeful Germany stands forth in all its naked ugliness. The reve-’ lation of Schmidt-Wittmack that Washington and Bonn have de- cided already behind French and British backs on a new Wehr- — macht of one and a half million shows, that the atomaniacs are determined to push ahead. The collapse of EDC must lead Canada to re-examine its position HE people of the world have iG won a victory. — the French Assembly has finally torpedoed for good the plan for a rearmed Germany behind the camouflage . of the socalled European Defense Community. EDC, © which is neither European nor defensive, was step number two in the U.S. | imperialist campaign to launch a “third world war, the first stage being the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The parliament of France has acted after a two-year delay dur ing which 10," was: tokh between the dictates of the new Herren’ ‘volk in Washington and the a 2 sires of the French people. towards NATO which has been eople of France passionately fear the chief prop of Canadian for- a resurgent and rearmed Germ’ — eign policy. Are we going to line up with the U.S, satellites against the people. of Europe? Canadians must compel their gov- ernment to withdraw support from Eisenhower and Dulles and take the path of conciliation. The road to settlement is clear any as well they might after hav- ing their country laid waste by German armies three times: in the ~Jast 100 years. Frenchmen particularly oppose the giving of arms to one part © a divided Germany, the Federal Republic, which is crawling with _ the Soviet Union has propos: unregenerate Nazis and support’ = ed in place of German rearma- ers--Of~ the ‘Deutschland Uber ment, a conference on an all-in- Alles” - approach. clusive European security system. Reports that 50 deputations Canada must raise her voice for visited the Foreign Ministry in a solution of the problem of Ger- many on the basis of negotiation and mutual trust. In defense of the civil liberties of op- pressed peoples, Pritt has indeed set up a unique record. His defense of Jom6 Kenyatta and other accused lead- ers of the African people in Kenya made history. ane : : < * He went to Rhodesia to defend the vice-president of Northern Rhodesia Af rican Congress against’ an attempt to ’ deport him. — se er ee ne Before that he had gone to India to defend peasants in Telengana. a ‘And then came his famous visit to British Guiana to defend the leaders of the deposed People’s Progressive party _ government. : ee ee ‘ For Pritt, to defend is to attack. His method is volcanic. In these travels he has spared neither energy nor health. We salute a great democratic lawyer. | the’ underlying pres show . ane as French deputies sure that made A great demo MIGHTY British traveller is D. N. pritt, @C. Few whose journeys have made news in recent years have gone so far and wide as ve Lee ie resorts and haunts of fashion = Me: ee been his “destination, Pritt’s travels have taken him to trouble-spots, - and sometimes unhealthy ones. ‘a His latest journey, to Malaya to de- fend some _students accused of sedition, has won success. | Another triumph has ‘peen added to Pritt’s astonishing record h honors. Rae pene Malayan students were alleged to have published seditious matter in Faiar, the magazine of the Socialist Club of the University of Malaya. The alleged seditious article was headed “Ag. gression in Asia,” and was said to claim that British colonial authorities were suppressing the freedom of such coun- tries as Malaya.) ~ in the Lillooet country the people UP are saying there never was another such summer within living memory. If you look at a map of British Col- umbia you will see that the region from Lytton north beyond Fountain is describ-. ed as semi-arid. And so it is, in any. ordinary summer. Usually the sun beats down day after day and cars travelling the winding road high above the Fraser River leave long © white trails of dust. Only sagebrush and rabbit bush thrive on the waterless benches. : But this has been no ordinary summer. Last week when I drove from Cache — Creek around by Pavilion to Lillooet, water streamed down the hillsides and dry gulches were turned into raging torrents that cut into the road. There have been many such rains this summer and, as one oldtimer in Lillooet remark- ed to, me,| “Hillsides are green that haven’t been green in eighty years.” _ That is the secret of this country. Let water touch the sandy soil and it blos- soms with green life. “You can spot the watered benches from afar. They stand out like bright carpets, sometimes down by the river, sometimes hundreds of feet above it. A century ago, before the Fraser River gold rush brought the first white men to settle in this country, the Indians made their camps around these places — and even yet there is the occasional spot, .as along the Moha road, where you can find the great saucer-like depressions of their old keekwilee holes. ’ The white settlers took the best of these pldces for themselves and the In- dians, for the most vart, were left with the less desirable: spots. Here, in the thirties they eked out an utterly wretched existence, dependent on the $3.50-$5 re- - lief handed out by the government.” x Ot % ; Back in 1938, I went to Fountain to talk with Chief William Adolph who had just returned from a trip to Victoria as spokesman for a delegation represent- _ ing the Indians, of Fountain, Pavilion, Lytton, Texas Creek, Seton Lake and - Bridge River. They wanted the Liberal = ‘government of Premier T. D. Pattullo to : assist them in wresting a living from their land. The government refused. Yet, only four years later, when the es : government moved the Japanese from the Coast, some of them were placed on. — the sagebrush flats across from Lillooet. They transformed it into a garden, labor- — iously constructing flumes from back in the hills. - ‘Now the Japanese are gone. and the sagebrush is reclaiming the land. The huts they lived in stand windowless and forlorn with the tarpaper peeling off the to bring water sides and only two hollyhocks at one of __ the empty doors remain to tell of their patient labors. _ tee aks But the Indians are still there and if for the moment they are a little more _ prosperous than in the thirties, the \ future is uncertain. ey ; _ On Seton Lake the B.C. Electric is building a new dam to supply power to _ the region. IT was told that electric — - pumps would be installed at some points © to bring water to:the land. And the big — Me _ hopyards just outside Lillooet are proof of what water can do for the land. The question on which the Indians’ future hinges is whether they will be — assisted in getting the water to their ’ land or whether the new development : will merely accentuate the century-long process of depriving them of their rights. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 3, 1954 — PAGE 5 4