- Morgan attacks
assessment racket

“If the provincial legislature
here in Port Alberni, the tax rate

—PORT ALBERNI, B.C.

repealed the fixed assessment plan
could be reduced from 60 to 20

mills. In other words, every citizen’s taxes would be cut by two-thirds.”

This is what Nigel Morgan told
CJAV this week.

Bloedel’s and MacMillan’s mills,
two of the most profitable compan-
ics in this district, receive special
concessions, preferential treatment,
as a result of an act of the legisla-
ture which fixes their assessment
at a set amount, less than one-
eighteenth its real value. Reduced
assessments on these companies
means a higher mill rate; an extra
burden on the small home-owner,”
Morgan charged.

“Alberni Pacific Lumber Com-
Pany now pays the City of Port
Alberni under the present fixed
assessment only $3,810, on proper-
ty conservatively estimated to
be worth three and one half mil-
lion dollars. Bloedels, on proper-
ty estimated in value at 14 mil-
lions, pays only $20,700. The to-
tal for both companies at pres-
ent is a mere $24.510.

“If they were not protected by
fixed assessments and paid taxes
on the same basis as home-owners
do, they would have to pay a to-
tal of approximately $370,000. Is it

21 Years’ Service

Co. in June, 1946,

Province, and I worked there
bought the paper.

Southams took over.
“Southams rewarded my _

my job.
printers. We will be there

ference table in good faith.”

‘| HAVE BEEN ON THE
AROUND THE

DAILY PROVINCE

-FOR 36 MONTHS :

“Until I was forced on the
‘I had worked in the composing room of
the Daily Province for 21 years.

“I contributed my fair share to the building of the

Montreal moved into Vancouver with their millions and

There never was any trouble until the

months on the picket line, obtained a court injunction, sued
members of my union for damages in the Supreme Court
and imported individuals from all over Canada to take

“T am still on the picket line with

abandon its union-wrecking policy and sit around the

| ASK YOUR SUPPORT

his radio audience in a speech over

any wonder big business wants
the Coalition returned: to power?”

Morgan pointed out that the
Goldenberg Commission’s report
on taxation clearly stated: “Fixed
assessment is a device whereby
one taxpayer is privileged at the
expense of the remaining tax-
payers,” commenting, “That's ex-
actly how it works out here —
the big companies are the bene-
factors and the small home-own-
ers are paying for it.”

Morgan concluded: “I am un-
alterably opposed to the grant-
ing of any special concession to
the few at the expense of the
many. I believe in a square deal
for all. I am going right after
this special fixed assessment
game, and my election convassers
will be out this week with a pe-
tition demanding that the next
legislature repeal fixed assess-
ment. privileges so that every-
one will pay their fair, share
and the mill rate on homes can
be reduced. I hope you will give
me your support in this fight.”

W LTO.

picket line by.the Southam
long before the Southams of

lifetime of service with 36

my fellow I.T.U.
will
con-

until the Southam Co.

Granted new trial

Madeleine Parent Bjarnson and
Azelus Beaucage, union organ-
izers sentenced last year to two
years in jail on charges arising
out of the 1947 Lachute, Que.,
textile strike, this week in Mon-
treal had their convictions and
sentences set aside and were
granted a new trial. Both are
organizers for the United Textile
Workers (AFL).

Sellout to
U.S. charged

Maurice Rush, LPP federal can-
didate for Vancouver Center, charg-
ed this week that “the Coalition
cabinet is acting as the executive
committee for the American Alum-
inum Trust in B.C.” He said plans
were under way -to hand the power-
ful U.S. monopoly important re-
sources and to alienate these re-
sources from the people. Rush
spoke on behalf of Viola Bianco,
LPP provincial candidate for Van.
couver East.

Rush labelled Coalition promises
of industrial expansion as “decep-
tion of the worst sort.” He said
that the Coalition was fully aware
of the growing economic crisis in
B.C. and that promises of huge
industrial expansion were designed
to cover up the seriousness of the
economic situation.

“The facts are,” said Rush, “that
under the Marshall Plan and the
present foreign policy, each of our
basic industries is confronted with

‘a Market crisis of serious propor-

tons. There is no stable market
for our lumber, agricultural and
fish products, and the bottom is
rapidly falling out of our base met-
al and pulp and paper products.”

Rush described the coalition as
a “two-headed monstrosity, trying
to get re-elected on a program of

Foster challenges

U.S. gov’

From his sickbed where he

t thesis

—NEW YOR

has been closely following the ti
against the American Communist leaders,

William Z.. Foster, chairm

of the Communist Party of the United States, last week issued a long
and detailed review of world politics and Communist policy over _ the

past generation, as counsel open-
ed its defense,

Essence’ of Foster’s statement
was that the Communists always
sought the democratic, peaceful
path to socialism but must meet
the violence of reaction to achieve
it. Foster cited many examples
to show that the violence of revo-
lution was always caused by reac-
tion, as was the case in the Ameri-
can Revolution and Civil War,
the Russian revolution, the Span-
ish and Chinese civil wars.

Foster charged that American
imperialism today was using
force and violence against the
developing movements towards
freedom and socialism in’ Europe
and Asia, and that it threatened
the greatest force and violence
the world had yet seen in its
plans for a third world war,

Foster also attacked the prose-
cution’s thesis that the Russian

Revolution was a blueprint for
Communists everywhere. Foster
showed in detail how Communist
Policy was formulated in accord-
ance with the changing world sit-
uation to demonstrate that the
methods of carrying out policy
must therefore vary in each coun-
try according to the actual con-
ditions. The united front tactic
of the Seventh Congress of the
Comintern formulated the policy
for Communist struggle against
war and fascism then and now,
Foster said,

The American Communist poli-
cy, he stated, was based on the

| Possibility of- the broad masses,

under militant labor leadership,
electing an anti-fascist, anti-im-
perialist coalition government
which would have to
to, protect itself from violent
counter-revolution and would have
to move towards people’s democ-
Tacy and eventually towards So-
cialism. Whether this Possibility
would continue was problematical
in face of dangerous fascist
trends, Foster said,

Obviously, he pointed out, this
perspective did not envisage force
and violence on the part of the
Communists. Whatever violence
occurred in the course of the
struggle to break the power ‘of
the monopolies would be originated
by capitalist reaction, Foster
stressed. *

The Communist chairman also
traced the course of the ‘Commun-
ists in the United States leading

.up to the period of Browder re-

demagogy before the full effect of |visionism and the reconstitution
the economic crisis hits.” of the party in 1945. Foster noted
oe

CALLING ALL PRESS BUILDERS |

take measures |,

ist policy of the Browder period
from its very start, :

- The party’s reconstitution
1945 is the basis of the accusa-
tion against

Several times ruled that there i§
nothing illega] about the com
munist movement in America
and that the U.S, Attorney Gel
eral admitted he could find 1°
illegality in a careful search of
30 years of its activities.

' Gerhart Eisler, who flew here
from London after being release
from jail when a British judge tT
fused to accede to. an America®
demand. that he be returned @
the U.S., said this week he will sue
the United States government for
$25,000.

up political charges, jumped bal
in New York and escaped on
Polish liner Batory. In a Briti A
port he was kidnapped from oa
Ship by Scotland Yard men, a
ing under pressure from: the FBI,

however, refused to extradite
to the U.S., recognizing his ¢l#
to be a political refugee. :
Eisler caught a plane and pe! :
to Prague to avoid any fare
“Yankee tricks.’ ’ He stated 08
case has shown up “the arroga™
and impudence of American Te
action.” ‘ y
--Commenting. on. U.S.. Atom,
General Tom Clark’s press-h ng
lined ballyhoo about Eisler }@

jm

ca,” Kisler said that Clark
“the biggest fool in America
should be “this year’s candi ;
for the Nobel prize for stupi ap
He also remarked that “Uncle G
Edgar Hoover is no superman: ‘on
..In New York, U.S. imma
authorities insisted on a depo",
tion hearing for Kisler’s wit
spite her offer to leave the be de
voluntarily. She yee age
ported to her native Po paint
..The U.S. justice department ipo
Washington, after ranting returt
British. for. refusing. to. “abat-
Eisler, announced it had *

doned its fight to regain CUP
of the political figure for ee ri
sons: “the position of the sight
government” and “Eisler’s ;

and
dat

Czechoslovakia.” et an

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tor away.” Remember that slo-
gan? Around the Pacific Tribune
office we've coined another one:

“Get a sub a day, win a vote
that way.”

Last week we appealed to the
214 Press Builders to go out and
secure two subscriptions each .
between now and provincial elec.
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during the next ten days.

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ments which can come out of
the campaigns is an increase in
PT circulation. Constituencies
like Alberni, Vancouver East,
Burnaby- Richmond and Vancou-
ver Center can estimate the ef.
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with a good degree of accuracy
by counting the number of new
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means not only a vote won; it
means a new Person added to
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Tim Buck’s workers in Sp
onto - Trinity have fone out and
won 250 new readers for the.
Canadian Tribune. In the con-

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supporters should sign mis 15
least 50 new PT readers- mmi
a key job for election COMM”
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Here’s the honor roll
week. Let June, become
month for PT pe prs
Press Builder striv
two new readers betwee?
and June 15.

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GREATER VANCOUVER

Percy Budd, Conimer Sa. star.

Mona Morgan, Victory ea
PROVINCE annie

C. Wickstrom, Port 1 MeN oe 4 .
U. Tynjala, Soin 1 Nal ede
Steve Harmatny, Michel eur sh

S. Homenchuk, Vernop --
C. Johnson, Vernon --:

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that he had opposed the revision:

Hisler, facing suit on trumped

“the biggest communist in Ante a

e that way —