out De idinent “that pis Plemte. CCF foreign policy Editor, Pacific Tribune— Sir: Coldwell, Douglas and Ir- vine, of the CC&, having returned from their air trip to Britain and Evrope, it is interesting to note their comments. We find that while Coldwell ind Douglas ure preparec to coop- with General Iiucius Clay, they are not on speaking terms with Marshal Sokolovsky, which helps to explain the readiness with which they accepted—and pissed along to unsuspecting readers—a pretty cock-and-bull story about Farbenindustrie. But -- The giant chemical plant at Ludwigshaven at the time of the explosion last summer was pro- ducing up to 90 percent of its 1939 capacity. The Ford Opel works at Col- ogne, which produced tanks for Hitler, was untouched by Allied bombing, accocding to informa- tion received by the British Labor Montbly, and the Skoda plant in Czechoslovaki1 was only bombed by the U.S. air force after it had ceased to be any use to the Nazis. But it apparently does not serve the purpose of the Bevin-Attlee policy for the CCF top leaders to give this informaticn to the Can- adian people. To quote M. J. Coldwell in the People’s Weekly: “The delegates ‘were told by two leading Birm- ingham capitalists that their workers had never worked better or produced more than they were deing now.” And to cap it all, Coldwell quoted Paul Hoffman, US. administrator of ERP, as saying he was much impressed by the showing of British work- ers. Elmer Roper, editor of the People’s Weekly, states, “Com- munism does not breed in the pure air of democracy.” So we may assume that making bricks without straw is his idea of so- cialism in Britain. But from the Edmonton Jour nal of November 20 we have a different story from William Ir- vine, MP for Cariboo. In a speech made at Fort St. John, Irvine is reported as saying: “American strategy is to aid only those nations which are anti.Communist and anti-Social Democrat. Under the Marshall Plan their strategy is to give support to nations which are impoverished and so _ helpless that they are willing to yield and accept any kind of aid.” Unfortunately, we may expect the CCF press to obscure or black out these home truths, for among all kinds of CCF supporters they would help to strengthen the suspicion that there is something wrong with a CCF foreign policy that echoes Wall and St. James Streets. E. H. TUDOR, Morningside, Alta. Letter digest C. F. Carr, Victoria, B.C., has a word of praise for the Pacific Tribune and .some_ unflattering opinions of Victoria’s two daily papers, the Times and the Colon- ist. “If it were not for the Pacific Tribune we would indeed we lost for the facts of what is happen- ing in the world today,” he writes. “Our two so-called newspapers here are among the most reac- tionary and backward propaganda sheets in the Dominion. They sub- scribe to a lot of drivel written in the “land of the free,” but when it comes to publishing the modest replies submitted by their readers, what happens? That's right, noth- ing. They dare not publish them, nor can they answer them. So much for our ‘free’ press.” N. P. Dougan, Cobble Hill, B.C., comments on a letter written by Hans Kroeger reviewing Edward H. Faulkner’s book, Plowman’s Folly. “We read the book and four years ago commenced our farming practice on the system advocated by Faulkner. Since then we have done no mould board plowing,” he states. “Al- Classified though it will require some years of the new practice to bring the land back to its natural condition, ‘already the last two years have A charge of 50 cents for each insertion of five lines or less with 10 cents for each additional line is made for notices appearing in this column, No notices will be eof the week of publication. given abundant evidence of great- ly improved results. Our grain crops are excellent and stands of clover and grass are superior to: anything we haye hitherto been able to produce.” Saturday night. Old-Time. Viking’s Orchestra PORT ALBERNI DIRECTORY 24 HOUR . SERVICE UNION TAX! Phone 137 rank Harris, Ast & Argyle Hall is available for SOMAS Se DISTRIBUTORS L SALLY tages B TD. Room 20, WOOD—SAWDUST—COAL MA. 9965. For all your fuel supplies acme? Ph. 1187 — McGregor Block | mess Lat Peday OF SY MORE SSS SSSI Hitler’s pattern Editor, Pacific Tribune— Sir: A few short years ago, we were engaged in a war against fascism. During that period our people were gainfully employed. Storekeepers were prosperous be- cause workers earned good wages. Families that suffered during the depression were at last hopeful that wars and depressions were going to disapper. But what do we find? Thou- sands unemployed, thousands more badly housed, and the trade unions that fight for decent wages and conditions attacked by the very same people that, during the war, were promising us a better post-war world. Anyone who sug- gests that we can have a Peace- ful world is denounced as a “Red.” Let’s remember that Hitler first attacked the Communists, then the trade unions and presently all who opposed his march to war. Haven't we learned enough of how fascism came to other peoples that we cannot see what is hap- pening in our own _ country? Haven't we seen how the German people, millions of whom must have longed for peace as much as we long for it now, were taught to look upon war as their salva- tion—all in the name of peace? Now we hear the same kind of propaganda here. No mother can afford to be silent or indifferent to the de- mand that the millions now being spent on war must be devoted to the peaceful construction of our country to give our boys and girls the opportunity that is their right. . MAY THOMAS. Vancouver, B.C. RAAB WEBSTER’S CORNER LPP CLUB Wishes One and All a peaceful 1949 and Farmer-Labor Unity to Advance the People’s Cause VERE EUR VE NEE UE EME NE ERE De ee eee Beng RRARAAAAAAARAAMAAAAARIWwOE WEBSTER’S CORNER CO-OP EXCHANGE Wishes One And All A Merry Xmas and A Happy New Year RARRARAARARABIAMABWWN PERE R ERED RBG @& ¢ ‘ 950 Commercial Drive AAR PACIFIC TRIBUNE — DECEMBER 24, 1948 — paG GUIDE TO GOOD READING An author's selection THIS IS THE SEASON when the pundits, pseudo and other- wise, give forth with the books they have been reading, the idea being that some mysterious significance attaches to the fiction or belles lettres with which John Foster Dulles or Harry S. Truman or Clifton — Fadiman while away their spare time. From my own limited experi- ence with the great, I would say _ they generally shy away from anything much deeper than the latest Erle Stanley Gardner, and usually, content themselves with intermittant glimpses of the Sat™ urday Evening Post or Life Mag- azine or The Readers Digest. Congressmen and such seem, from ail I can gather, to read nothing at all—but publicly this is the season of moderate erudi- tion; and the publishers spur on the thing, hoping that out of the compodium ‘the public will find a dollar two to spend on that strange orphan of all American industry, hook publishing. or My own reading is spotty, and generally lags anywhere from a month to a year behind the field. A good book will hold, if it is not one of those you must read in the spirit of pure self defense or else be marked as an isolated idiot; and right now I am staying awake with a book called A People’s His. tory of England, by Morton. The book first appeared almost a decade ago, and while it has never been published in America—why, I don’t know—some of the pro- gressive book shops have it in the foreign editions. It’s .a rich and rewarding experience, and one of the finest inquiries into historical materialism I have ever read. RECENTLY I finished, in a state of high excitement, Alex: — ander Saxton’s The Great Mid- land, I mark this number one in my choice of current novels. As a second choice in this field, I would recommend The Dark Philosophers by Gwyn Thomas. 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