‘THE Church or England has

always had amongst its
clergymen indivicuais whose so-
cial outlook differed greatly from
that of their fellows.

They were
lone individ-
uals undoubt-

edly, but the
courage, tem-
merity rather,

them a degree
of respect and
adm i ration
oP ced which was de-
O° Bill nied to expon-
ents of the Church’s dogmas as
a whole

Two of these whom F remem-
ber in the past were men or the
loftiest ideas, the Rev. Conrad
Noel and the Rev. Percy Dear-
mer, Their rank in the church, a
church which has carried the
graded class distinctions of feud-
alism over into capitalism, 1 do
not remember. But I do remem-
ber that these two clerics accept-
ed socialism as a means to svuive
social problems that the church
had found no answer to in all
the years of its existence.

Their Socialism may not have
been the socialism of Marx ana

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SOME weeks ago Republican

Congressman Charles Ker-
sten of Wisconsin introduced a
resolution in the US House of
Representatives demanding ‘“‘as-
surances” that in the event of an
“emergency,’ the 1600-mile Al-
aska Highway would be available
for use by US troops—without
any quibbling from Ottawa about
Canadian sovereignty!

Suave External
Affairs Minister
St. Laurentu
carefully avoid-
ed any direct
public ecom-
ment on_ this
Marshall Plan
dictum, but the
Ottawa report-
er for the Can-
idian Press,

wrote that ac-
Tom McEwen cording to “in-
formed quarters . . the US
needn't worry about having full
neighborly use of the strategic
“Alaska Highway thrusting
‘through Canada.” To clinch tie
opinion of his “informed quar-
ters” Leblanc added the ominous
words “—and without delay.”
Coincident with these semi-offi-
cial exchanges on good-neighbor
policy, a la. Marshall Plan, most
Canadian dailies maintained .a
deadly silence on the $67%-mil-
lion dollar appropriation bill pass-
ed by the US Senate for the com-
pletion and expansion or Alaskan
war bases. oa
"gpecial authorization in the
- senate-passed bills cover the com-
pletion of vast new air bases,
port bases, naval and radio in-

fohn Leblanc,.

“peing taken-for-a-ride,

NM RTA

Short Jabs

HEART

Engels in its entirety, put such
as it was the sincerity with which
they fought for it and the nobil-
ity of character they displayed in
doing so, endeared them to the
English labor movement of which
they were a part and placed them
high above the alleged — revoiu-
tionaries of the social democratic
type.

The last reference I saw to
Percy Dearmer was at the con-
clusion of the late world war
against fascism. He must’ have
been a very old man at the time

but when the victory over fascism .

was being celebrated he hoisted
the Soviet Red Flag with the
hammer and sickle on the steeple
of his church.

It took courage as wel!

understanding to do that in the
little English village where he
was the preacher, in the midst of
fox-hunting squires and com-
muting business men, and he de-
fied anyone to touch that flag,
since, he said, it was placed there
to honor the Soviet people and
their Red army who had contrib-
uted the greatest share to the
defeat of fascism.
’ And then there is the Dean of
Canterbury, who is also of the
Church of England, because of
his progressive ideas probably the
best-known preacher that churcn
ever produced.

stallations, roeket- projectile
launching stations, and numerous
other complementary projects in
a score of key aiaskan points.
Full hospital and community fa-
cilities are included in these pro-
jects for a number of base points,
with arterial roads linking up
with the Alaska Highway.

Why does our vaunted “free
press” remain silent on these war
preparations .. . or seek to cover
them up in an avalanche of anti-
communist hysteria? Because
Alaskan bases for aggressive war
against the USSR and those ua-
tions and peoples of the rising
new democracies who, like the
Soviet people, believe in the right
of self-determination and self
government, and reject Wall
Street interference uncer the
guise of Marshall Plan aids:
transforms Canada inte the Bel-
giim of a third world war, and
places Canadians, aS a free, in-
dependent, and sovereign people,
under the jackboot of predatory
American imperialism.

For this unhappy circum-
stance the government of Mac.

PERHAPS British Columbians

are getting so accustomed to
as the
saying goes, that they are becom-
ing inured to the experience, Last
week the Johnson-Anscomb gov-
ernment gave the poor oil mon-
opolists another 2 million dol-
lars of the people's money in an
additional 2cent increase in the

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Unfortunately all Church of
England clergymen are not like
these three. One of the other Kind
blew into Vancouver a. couple of
weeks ago. This one was a ‘ory
of Tories, proud of the fact that
the clobber he wore had none of
“the new look” about it but bad
come down from the 18th century
without any change, the Anglican
dignitary, Very Reverend Dun-
can-Jones, Dean of Chichester.

The burden of his message for
us in the West was that the
“war-time concessions to Russia
have now proved themselves ds-
astrous.”

The agreements made at Tehe-
ran, the Crimea and Potsdam be-
tween the leaders whom Church-
ill called “comrades-in-arms,” he
wishes to break since they were
only expedients, made when he

‘and his kind were in a tight cor-

ner. Being out of the tight cor-
ner now his Christian bond ts
worthless, like the safe conduct
the Pope gave to John Huss. ,

Shylock only wanted one pound
of flesh for the liquidation of his
bond, this Very Reverend gentle-
man has exacted the flesh and
blood of seven millions of Soviet
soldiers and still would dishonor
the bond.

Perey Dearmer could have
taught him something about eth-
ies!

price of gasoline. This makes ah
5-cent: increase per gallon during}
the last month, or approximately’
5 million dollars. Thousands otf
dealers throughout the province,
many

the 5-cent increase.

Like the manipulated “scarcity”
of all commodities, held off the j
market to force a price increase, |

as soon as the latest boost was
announced there was an abund-
ant supply of gasoiine. Unlike la-
bor, however, which employs leg-

of whom are little more}
than poorly paid commission}
workers for the oil monopolists,F %
are to be allowed one-half ecu of}: §5

itimate and democratic means +o
secure wage increase to meet ris-
ing living costs, the strike of the
oil monopolists, which crippled‘
the business and livelihood of

thousands of British Columopi=ans, {| :
brought no Bill 39, no hysteri- woe

cal propaganda campaigns
against the monopolists. Tnav
technique is reserved for ‘¢or
alone. The reason, of course, is
not hard to seek. The Johnson-
Anscomb Coalition government, is
a government of, by and for me
monopolists.

And now the sales tax, to fur-
ther ease the plight of the mon-
opolists, and throw the burden of
education and other social serv-
ices onto the backs of the peopie.
Whatever way you figure it, 1t
is an additional three percent on
the cost of living problem of the
people. Just as the Labor-Pro-
gressive Party clearly pointed .out
that there “were no waye 1n-
creases in Bill 39,” so also there
is neither advanced education nux
social security in a three percent
boost in the cost of ilving.

The road to a better educa-
tional system, greater social se-

curity, improved health stand-
ards and progresstve labor laws
is not by increased taxation of
the common people, but by

‘making the monopolists dis-
gorge a goodly portion of their
super profits. To do this we
must first get rid of the John-
son-Anscomb government, Else-
where in this and subsequent

issues of the Pacific Tribune, .

we will show how it can be

done. -- ;

Planned provocation

‘THE deplorable incident at the UBC on Monday this week,
where a smali but well-organized band of reactionary-
inspired students prevented the main student body on the
campus from hearing Tim Buck, is a matter of grave concern
to all serious minded people. If freedom of speech is to
be trampled underfoot in our highest institutions of learn-
ing, then the light of all freedoms is indeed extinguished.

Taken by itself the incident could be passed off as just
another of those “hi-jinks” of student minorities on the
campus of our universities, characteristic of pre-war class
origins and environment. Considered against the ‘back-
ground of an intensive nation-wide Chamber of Commerce
anti-communist and anti-labor smear campaign—with gov-
ernment blessing and approval—the incident assumes more
serious proportions,

Free speech on the campus of Canadian universities is
traditional, and the UBC has long occupied a high place in
preserving this right against all attacks and encroachments.
Every student on the campus has the right to hear, if he
or she so desires, and to agree or disagree with the views
of Tim Buck, or with those who support such views.

When that right is blacked out by organized hooligan-
ism, inspired by Chambers of Commerce propaganda, free
speech becomes an empty husk and higher education
“sleichgeshalted” (equalized) in the mental goose-step of in-
cipient fascism.

The main body of UBC students, as with the people
of this city and province—so well demonstrated in the
enthusiastic Exhibition Gardens meeting which heard Tim
Buck last Sunday night—resent this organized attack on
their liberties, and will counter reaction’s every attempt with
a, greater and stronger unity. hae

Some UBC students, like their Chamber-of-Commerce
mentors, have yet to learn that pop-guns, pea-shooters, dead
cats and anti-communist hysteria are poor substitutes for
the freedoms so many of their colleagues, communists in-
cluded, fought and died for. Their action was a gross in-
sult to the high traditions of the UBC. :

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(From the Files of The People’s Advocate, March 18, 1938)

The Manchester Guardian, leading Liberal newspaper with
a wide circulation in English-speaking countries, denounced the
Quebec Padlock law in an editorial last week. —

“Those who cherish freedom of speech, writing and public
meeting, are much concerned with the Padlock Act in Quebec, &
measure which has no parallel in a British Dominion,” the editorial
stated. The Guardian further commented; “Traditional liberty is
here as drastically inhibited as under any of the dictatorships, and ©
it is not surprising that the question as to whether the act is
constitutional should be raised.”

-One thousand Vancouver citizens in the Moose Hall, Friday,
heard R. L. Calder, K.C., distinguished barrister. of Montreal and
vice-president of the Civil Liberties Union of that city, make this
statement during the course of an address in which he effectively
exposed the Padiock law. : \

“The Quebec Padlock law shatters the corner-stone of British
democracy—the Magna Charta. It is not aimed at the Communists.
It is aimed at the entire Jabor movement, That is why there is
no definition of communism in the act, because to, define commun-
ism would be to render the act inoperative. The powerful interests
upholding the Padlock law. see the common people of Quebec
marching behind the banner of labor, and they are afraid.

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