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CONDEMNS ACTION AGAINST GOSS

CLU charges park board
copying hysteria in U.S.

D. C. MacNAIR, secretary of
Vancouver Civil Liberties Union:

Examination of press reports
on the Park Board’s action in pre-
venting the employment of the
distinguished artist and teacher,
John Goss, as a teacher of sing-
ing at the B.C. Institute of Musio
and Drama which is supported by
public funds, indicate that some
members of the board have de-
veloped an acute condition of po-
litical and sociological schizophre-
nia.

This peculiar mental state,
which psychologists recognize by
manifestations of neuroses, an-
xieties, fears and confusions, is
generally attributed to forces of
environment, rather than of here-
dity.

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MEETINGS—

Swedish-Finnish Workers’ Club
meets last Friday every month at
7:30 p.m., in Clinton Hall.

DR. R. L. DOUGLAS HAS OPEN-
ed a new office at 9 EAST HAST-
XNGS STREET, cor. Carrall St.
Phone TA. 5552. All old friends
cordially invited to drop in for
a visit.

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OPEN AIR DANCING AT SWE-

dish Park every Saturday night.
Dancing from 9-12. Arne John-
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These factors are not normally
characteristic of our Canadian
life, and must be attributed to
the contagious hysteria in our
neighboring country, where, as
Dr, Edward U. Condon, the dis-

tinguished atomic scientist, has -

recently declared there is “a
growing wave of anti-intellectual-
ism which is violently opposed to
free speech and free discussion,
unless the views expressed happen
to fit its own stereotype.”

“This wave,” says Dr. Condon,
“is strikingly reminiscent of the
wave of anti-intellectualsm which
formed an early part of the Nazi
rise to power in Germany,” and
recalls the oppressive measures
of thought control which fea-
tured the Japanese system until
1945.

A return to normality might
be found if the Park Board were
to read and adopt as their future
policy, the appropriate provisions
of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights adopted by the As-

LETTERS DIGEST

Cowichan

WYNNE LANG, Lake Cowich-
an, B.C.: A successful May Day
rally was held in Unity Hall last
week. Featured speakers were
Mrs. Marg. Croy, vice-president
of the WIUC auxiliaries; Henry
Lundgren, LPP; and George
Grafton, WIUC organizer.

IN MEMORIAM

All Her Wishes Granted

N the 29th day of April, 1949,

Mrs. Nellie Udahl, born in 1864
in Norway, passed away peaceful-
ly at the home of her daughter
and son-in-law, Mrs. and Mrs, A.
Thompson, 524 Sperling Avenue,
Burnaby.

Her wishes expressed during a

lengthy illness were fulfilled to _

the letter by her relatives and
many friends. Her love for the
color grey prompted the choosing
of a grey coffin; her desire some
day to wear a corsage was grant-
ed; her wish for a beautiful, sin-
cere service was certainly granted
with the aid of the Bell Funeral
Chapel, the Rev. Dr. David E.
Tillman and the many dear
friends, both old and young, on
the 8rd day of May, 1949. One of
her most ardent requests was for
her grand-daughter, Miss Wilma
Thompson, to sing her favorite”
hymn, “Jesus Savior Pilot Me.”
Those present know the sincerity
of its fulfillments.

Her fondness for floral displays
was granted when she was laid
to rest in Forest Lawn Memorial
Park beneath a blanket of
wreaths, sprays and other floral
offerings and all our sincere
blessings go with her.

sembly of the United Nations at
Paris last December, and support-
ed by the vote of the Canadian
delegate, L. B. Pearson.

Article 2 provides that “every-
one is ‘entitled to all the rights
and freedoms set forth in the de-
claration, without distinction of
any kind, such as race, color, sex,
language, political or other opin-
ion”

Article 19 declares that “every-
one has the right to freedom of
thought,” and article 20 affirms
that “everyone has the right to
freedom of opinion and expres-
sion.” Article 28 touches closely
the Goss situation by declaring
that “everyone has the right free-

ly to participate in the cultural '

life of the community.”

In the light of these declara-
tions, which have the moral sanc-
tion of world opinion, action of
the Vancouver Park Board in the
Goss affair must receive the
moral condemnation of the com-
munity.

May Day
Lundgren outlined the position
of the trade union movement in
Canada today, and emphasized
that unity and militancy were

key questions facing labor in or-

der to win lasting peace, progress
and security.

Grafton called upon all wood-
workers to close ranks in the
fight to better working condi-
tions and defeat the forces of
reaction.

* * *

OLD AGE PENSIONER, Van-
couver, B.C.: I note by the date
on my paper that my subscrip-
tion has expired. I must ask you,
therefore, to remove my name
from your mailing list. I am now
receiving the Old Age Pension,
and its meagreness does not per-
mit me to continue taking the pa-

per. I have had pleasure in read-

ing your journal, but in future
must confine my reading of it to
an occasional copy from the news
stands.

(The Pacific Tribune business
office has been instructed to
place the above reader on its
free mailing list.—Editor.)

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W. HARASYM, Port Alberni
B.C.2 It was a smash hit on
Broadway, the people clamored
for it when it played in Vancou-
ver during the Hungry Thirties.
It was revived and enthusiastic-
ally received as part of the agen®
da at the last national conven-
tion of the LPP, and now it will
be preduced and presented in
Port Alberni.

Of course, I’m speaking of Clif-
ford Odet’s famous play, Wait-
ing for Lefty. . The date hasn’t
been fixed yet, but a group of
working men and women have
been rehearsing for some time
now, and are ready to present
the play in the near future. It is
expected to draw big crowds, not
only from Port Alberni and Al-
berni, but from other Island
centers as well.

GUIDE TO GOOD READING

A people's history

THiS REVIEWER remembers searching diligently several years
ago for a copy of A People’s History of England» by A. L. Morton.

It was worth the effort. Anyone

who has had the frustrating ex-

perience of wading through tons of goo about Duke This and Lady

That which litter up even the
most adult of the bourgeois his-
tories of Britain will welcome this
fascinating» Marxist study.

Now, A People’s History of Eng-
land first published in England
in 1938, has been re-issued in a
new and revised edition.

In a volume of 563 pages, the
author deals with the main line
of economic and political develop-
ment of Britain from its pre-
Roman era to the year 1937.

A People’s History of England
is, beyond question, a story more
fascinatingly told than almost
any recent work of fiction you
can name. It can be obtained in
Vancouver at the People’s Coop-
erative Bookstore.

* * *

AN INDICATION of books by
British and American writers
(there are no Canadians on the
list) being read in the New .De-
mocracies is provided by this list
of books approved by the Syndi-
eate of Czechoslovakia writers
and translated into Czech and
Slovak this year.

In Czech:

G. Marion, Bases and Empire;
Erskine Caldwell, The Sure Hand
of God; This Very Earth; H. W.
Haggard, Devils, Drugs and Doc-
tors; Agnes Smedley, China Fights
Back; E. M. Forster, A Passage
to India; Leo Huberman, The La-
bor Spy Racket; Henry Lawson,
Prose Works.

In Czech and Slovak:

A Miller, Focus; G. Aldridge,
The Sea Eagle; Jack London,
White Fang; Mark Twain, Huckle-
berry Finn; George Bernard
Shaw, Everybody’s Political
What’s What; Lillian Hellman,
The Little Foxes; Prof. Blackett,
Military and Political Consequen-
ces of Atomic Energy (Fear, War
and the Bomb).

In Slovak:

Trent and Simon, The First
Christmas; von Dyk, The Story of
the other Wise Man; Erskine
Caldwell, Georgia Bay.

‘RICH MATERIAL’
Foster lauds

Buck’s book

ALTHOUGH very ill and lead-
ing the fight of the Communist
Party of the United States against
attempts of the Truman govern-—
ment to outlaw it, the world-
renowned American Communist
leader William Z. Foster has writ-
_ten a letter expressing his views
on Tim Buck’s book, Canada: The
Communist Viewpoint.

“First let me say that I think
you have done a very fine job i
analyzing the economic and polit-
itical developments of Canada,”
he writes. “It is very enlightenin&
and I dare say will be of real
value for the party. Another thing
upon which I wish to compliment
you is the richness of the material
you have in the book, You must
have done a world of research
work on it.

“As I read the book the thought
was repeatedly borne home to m?
of the necessity for an independ
ent labor movement in Canada
This is doubly necessary now s¢®
ing the big drive the United
States is pursuing to take Cal
ada, along with other countries
under its wing. Indeed, you gi¥®
a fine example in your book of
arbitrary American interferenc®
in Canadian unions, I refer
the point when they forced theif
Canadian locals to withdraw fro™
a labor party some years ago.”

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Barristers and Solicitors
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