9 i 4 l i" Ih Ht | A “MY GOD, SPIRO, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN SO MANY BUMS?” | SIDELIGHTS ‘Death is our victory’ The frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti is referred to by Art Shields in the Daily World as ne 50-year case that will not ie.” Nicola Sacco, the ‘‘good shoe- maker” and Bartolemeo Vanzet- ti, the “poor fish peddlar” were arrested on: May 5, 1920 with the manuscript of an anti-war leaflet in their possession. They - were electrocuted on August 22, seven years later. The announcement of a work- ers’. meeting was_in Vanzetti’s - pocket when he was arrested on his way io a printer. It reads: - “Fellow Workers, you have fought all the wars. You have worked for all.the capitalists. You have wandered over all the countries. “Have you harvested the fruits of your labors, the price of your victories? “Does the past comfort you? Does the present smile on you? Does the future promise you anything? “Have you found a piece of land where you can live like a human being and die like a human being? “On these questions, on this argument, and on this theme, the struggle for existence, Bar- 0200. 0.0, 0,8, 9,0,9,9,.9,%.8 8h tetetetatetetetetate ratetetetetetetateteretererererererecess.#.2.° 4,8, atetetetere! ote"ateeteevete"eTe“e"eveTeve"sve"e"e7e‘eTe"e"e"e"e"e"ee"e"e’e"e"e"e'e!e'e%e", arotetetetetetetereceseresereeesestsorereceserererererereteretateretetetetetetates tolemeo Vanzetti will speak.” In April, 1927, four months before his execution, Philip D. Strong interviewed Vanzetti. These are Vanzetti’s ringing words, taken down in shorthand: “If it had not been for these things I might have lived out my life, talking at street corn- ers to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a fail- ure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life can we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for _Man’s understanding of man, as now we do by an accident. “Our words — our lives — our pains — nothing! The tak- ing of our lives — lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish peddler — all! That last mo- ment belongs to us — that agony is our triumph!” These moving words, reveal- ing the deep insight of a worker in understanding what joining in the struggle for human progress gives to each participant, still make ripples which influence the thinking of the many millions of young men and women who are engaged in the mighty and noble cause of peace and human progress today. ‘ 4 2cttataPetetetetetetstatetetatatatatatetetettettetetetet trelecerelelerereteretecetetetestse.°, aoe ‘EitorMAURICE RUSH Published weekly at Ford Bldg., Mezzanine No. 9, 193 E. Hastings St., Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone 685-5288. Circulation Manager, ERNIE CRIST Subscription Rate: Canada, $5.00 one year; $2.75 for six months. North and South America and Commonwealth countries, $6.00 one year. | All other countries, $7.00 one year EERE SS SN eee For a peoples's program Watch out when the Globe & Mail - gives free advice to the trade unions. In an article by Wilfred List, timed for the up-and-coming Canadian Labor. Congress’ convention, the claim is made that disunity in the trade union move- ment was caused by the Communist Party, and that the Communist Party is now seeking to increase its influence in the trade union movement. The “clever” author does not attempt to answer why the trade union move- “ment is still disunited, although he “claims Communist influence has dwindl- . ed away. The truth is that reactionary policies —anti-communism, the failure to op- pose the sale of the ownership of Can- ada’s natural resources to U.S. mono- poly, heavy government war spending, the failure to develop struggles for jobs, peace and trade with the world— all these are the causes of divisions in the trade union movement. It is not the Communists who harm the cause of the working man, but those inside of the labor movement who stand and work for policies of accommoda- tion with Ottawa’s big business policies. The spokesmen for big business, like List, avoid discussing the proposals put forward by the Communists. That’s the purpose of the crude CIA-type forgery of a- supposed Communist directive, mentioned elsewhere in this issue. Its aim is to divert attention from the pressing issues of the day. Every loss and ‘step backward for the working people has. been recorded when anti-communism succeeded in driving a wedge between the Commu- nists and the working people. Mass labor actions for new policies of peace, trade and prosperity are need- ed. The pressing need of the hour is for the working people to become conscious of their own strength and of the ad- vances they could achieve if they used it to the full. This is the main reason for all the propaganda designed to make them feel Hea, and powerless, or to frighten them. The Communist Party advocates united, militant acticns for a policy of full employment and for labor’s rights, including the right of the workers to have the main say in how Canada will be run and what the future of their children will be. The Communist Party works for a solid people’s united front which would end the crises affecting every part of our lives, by rolling back prices and- taxes, reducing rents, building homes, ending unemployment, and putting an end to the misery and despair of life under capitalism. That is what the Globe & Mail tries to hide. | Democracy for whom? In attacking Communists in the trade union movement the Globe & Mail’s Wilfred List is pretending to be a cham- pion of democracy. He does not make the point. that the working class is hard- ly represented in either the federal par- and that the elected representatives @ fore of anti-communist articles the _ working people. --the farmers and to create jobs fo happy life. liament or the provincial legislatures not come from the working class; af though they are by far the greate’ |! majority. Thus working people are 0 ; nied the right to legislate, to discuss @™" | _ i f mu, to decide their own future. | The actual state of affairs in sociall®) countries is in startling contrast. Nv.) U.S.S.R, for instance, almost half . the deputies to the Supreme Soviet # | industrial workers, collective farmer | or state farm workers The picture | | clear as to who runs the country, 4” a in whose interests. ae The contrast points up one of the a jor weaknesses of our so-called dene racy.. Democracy under socialism 18” ‘ moeracy of the working class, which ‘i pands the rights of the working pe} | gives the working man dignity amb) voice in how and what his life will be | And that is the why and the whet’ Globe & Mail. They are afraid of | Danger threatens all of us. nino ; adventurous expansion of war not 0.) aims at destroying and enslaving t0 peoples of Asia, but also threatens ‘a engulf us in the flames of a world W | The exposure of the My Lai a) a sacres, the shooting and violet | 4 against the demonstrators for pe4 ‘5 | the double-talk, the expansion of the gression, have exposed Nixon wees. arrogant representative of the me reactionary forces in the United St¥. The Canadian government goes ™5 | along with him. : The people are stronger than the wa makers. The peace movement is not ot a youth movement, as the can all press would have us think. It is the 97 way of life for the working poly Peace is the way to expand marke’ the | workers. War denies the working. Pd ple the things they need for a full 4 a What is needed is to unite all wal peace sentiment—which means unity workers, farmers, students, intelle™ als and peace-minded business mer al strong enough to compel the Trud fot administration to speak up and act peace. UV What is needed are telegrams, phe tions, letters, resolutions, lobbies 0°” elected representatives, submission® 4 ft all government bodies, with the del? aft that Canada speaks up against U.S: the gression, stops shipping arms 1 9, U.S. war machine, stops lending Ce dian territory as a training and i al ing ground for U.S. imperialism 5 Wet pons and chemicals. of The Canadian Tribune devotes Be forts to bring about an end to ~ 1) against the repression of people’s M29 ments, and for programs that will ef ibe working people a full and } eT ife. ae || Help us make our full contribute’ je , the fight to unite the will of the PCs) against war, by increasing our pape 3 circulation, and making sure success of our drive for funds. —