UOTE eet i neh a} ISBN, , Tom EER) Of the most popular methods em- ; loyed by the bosses’: press in ‘pro- Mg dissention in the ranks of labor ough not always readily seen as h by rank-and-file workers) is a ‘‘per- Mality” press buildup. The lords of the press will pick on © third-rate scissorbill whose onl Claim : e y to fame in the ranks of labor may Crafty ability to live on it, and storm their selected nonentity into 6 %0-column inch Horatio, standing ae for the sacred “rights of labor” ° iN Nst “communist machinations.” a Gcyawar propaganda, but it goes ae the professional labor ae tera time they actuall believing “3 e they actually get August 1 edition of the Calgary » vatried a “personality of the Our nee labor stalwart selected being Dj i Tiend Bob Livett, president of erica, 18, United Mine Workers of Am- ee took, place in this ‘‘personali- dont a tence prior to the year 1919 we ant, OW, nor is it particularly import- Some ene is a “personality” of in w, » and especially those millions to Work class centres who must begin Choo) When they should be going to Neral With this phase of the Calgary eVen itt buildup we have no quarrel, a € greater part of it were fiction. Be Re: é ‘ ace, with the year 1919 this Diets, 'Y” Portrait of Bob Livett de- fast % ree anticommunist holding along Sain principles” and standing : ae all the forces of history. holding 10 at the “bridge of sanity” Wabblen sc the One Big Union, that ‘ Jabber of doctrinaire politics” , politics ta to set up “Soldiers and Ouncils after the example of a thos e th who remember or care to read the ed win le lengthy trials that follow- : filing ae, note that the historical ald. teat by the Calgary Her- ality week” a hero out of its “person- 8 borin: Victim are precisely the Suto, = Ments used by the state pros- ten lik 19 to railroad strike leaders YO lone © the late J. §. Woodswotth— 4 Tison terms! ne NEcag as Teeoe ty attribute to a “labor hero” eR sta ~ by the bosses’ press is picture the reaking! The Herald’s pen Ing a hanang Livett, gun in hand, lead- Thiners? i Se of scabs through an OBU se . - Pane at Bellevue ‘‘to honor ie is made with the coal oper- other at the “personal request of ua Steat friend, John L. Lewis”! Nor 5 ‘oh the only such occasion, i ee the Herald. During the Vorkerg es © of 1930 when: the Mine Ree Canada (MWUC) were bat- tig i and improved working Ming af had the full support of ; 7 ene rank-and-file min- © ola Wild Story reads like a bit and Again West, with Livett, gun » ‘ying to crash into the €co. Sater : Stike mike the Winnipeg General Mercoal local meeting to “explain the situation.” Then someone conked Livett with a chair before he could get his six- shooter into action, and our “‘hero” went out for the count! Interesting — but totally untrue. Bob Livett was never in Mercoal during the 1930 strike there. It was in his. own UMW local at Mountain Park, where, ap- pealing for action to help break the Mer- coal strike, a UMW miner ended Bob’s strikebreaking oratory with a chair. The Calgary Herald tells us that “the chair thrower was later hanged in his native Yugoslavia for murder.” That we can well believe. Many of the thousands of militant immigrant workers who were de- ported from Canada during the Hungry Thirties under the “Iron Heel” Bennett regime, were tortured, imprisoned and executed by the fascist hangmen of their respective homelands, because they stood for progressive policies in their native land and in their adopted coun- try! \ 6 The Calgary Herald’s version of how the old Mine Workers’ Union of Can- ada came back ‘into. the United Mine Workers, ‘largely on Livett’s terms” will give scores of coal miners a good laugh. Livett had little to do with it. The coal miners in both unions unani- mously accepted the proposals of the Workers Unity League for trade union unity in the coal fields of Alberta and B.C., “dictated” the terms of unity, which not even Livett could obstruct. The general secretary of the Workers’ Unity League gave the keynote opening ° speech — and the closing address — at the Calgary convention where the UMW and the MWUC became a single union once again. That unity convention of - all coal miners in District 18 was a re- jection rather than an “endorsation” of . the Livett “principles.” Even the rene- gade communist, John Stockaluk (who has now become Bob Livett’s “Man Fri- day”) was one of the “Terms” opposed _ by Livett then! In its “personality of the week” build- up, the Calgary Herald failed to men- tion that having been deprived of dis- trict autonomy since 1926, the miners of District 18 do not have the privilege. of electing their officers. If they had there is a big chance that their 72-year- old “Horatio at the bridge” for the coal operators Against the “reds” would have been retired two decades ago! This “personality of the week” would have served the miners better had it portrayed Bob Livett demanding a new national coal policy to assure miners and their families a decent wage, a market for Canada’s coal: and something of a future for every coal town other than stagnation, crisis and hardship. But then the bosses’ press wouldn’t be interested in “personalities” with such ideas! Its key purpose is to build up and give recognition to the leadership of right wing social democracy; to that segment within the ranks of labor who, upon all and every occasion, advances the interests of the class they are sup- posed to be “‘fighting.” Thus they make a “virtue” out of strikebreaking; heroics out of scabbing, and a smokescreen out of their noisy. anti-ccommunism to cover up the bankrupt policies they pursue in the industries they presume to “lead.” In short, we think the Calgary Her- ald‘s “‘personality” of Livett is a slander on the UMW and its membership in District 18. : Pacific TRIBUNE ed Weekly at Room 6 - 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. Phone: MArine 5288 Tom McEwen, Editor Hal Griffin, Associate Editor , Canag Subscription Rates: et. ee. 4 and British Commonwealth countries (except Australia) One Year $3.00 One Year $4.00 . bane Authorize, Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. . Six Months $1.60 Australia; United States and all other countries Six Months $2.50 . . © 8 second class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Canadian people lie in peace and trade with China. THE peace ballot sponsored by will serve: to mobolize new mil- \.) AS New China's fourth anniversary On 1 is China’s National Day, the fourth anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. — For China’s 475 million people the day will rightly be one of national rejoicing. In those four years they have erased the ravages of Chiang Kai-shek's corrupt regime and left behind the squalid heritage of centuries imposed upon them by feudal warlords and foreign imperial- ists.. Now one of the world’s most ancient civilized peoples, its vast talents bent to peaceful construction, marches confidently forward to the civilization of the future, to socialism and communism. a There is no doubt that most Canadians want to live at peace with their Chinese neighbors of the Pacific. Only in the most reactionary circles is there support for those in the United States and in this country who see war in Korea and Indochina as the prelude to open war against China itself. This being so, the question before us is whether we shall compel our government to express our wishes and establish normal diplo- matic relations with the Chinese People’s government. Shall our gov- ernment defer to the U.S. demand or .shall our voice be raised in the United Nations for seating of China now. These are the questions facing us and they are mighty important for all Canadians. - Recognition Of the Chinese People’s government is essential to the development df Canadian-Chinese trade. Jobs for Canadian workers and trade for Canadian industry hinge on this issue. Seating of People’s China inthe UN is essential to the strengthening of world peace, to the negotiation of world differences—and these cannot be settled without China’s participation. No sensible person will dispute the fact that the interests of the compel the St. Laurent government to voice the people’s hides. Bad Gov't skims over milk i ONSUMERS, farmers and distributors have all expressed dissatisfaction at the Social Credit. government’s “‘solu- tion” of the milk problem, and with good reason. Removal of controls has benefitted only a U.S.-controlled corpor- ation, Canada Safeway Ltd.. - Refusal of the government to allow Safeway to operate its own plant will not seriously inconvenience the com- pany, whose prime purpose in seeking removal of controls was to enable its chain stores to handle milk as a “‘loss leader.” It may mean, however, that the company will renege on) its announced intention to’sell milk at 20 cents a quart. A solution which would have benefit- ted the consumer, the farmer and the distributor would have been the reten- tion of controls, a government order to reduce the price of milk by two cents a * quart, and provision for the government to subsidize the difference if figures proved that distributors were unable to absorb the two-cent drop. Increased sales, in all” probability, would have made such a subsidy unnecessary. Win votes for peace humanity to the idea of peaceful negotiation rather than A- and H-bomb suicide, the. people in their multiple organizations and— as individuals have a job to do: to get the peace ballot into the — B.C, Peace Council is part of a great national and international effort to advance the cause of. peace. Following a mighty world campaign for signatures to a peace petition demanding a meeting of the Great Powers to give effect to the peace desires of common peo- ple everywhere, the peace ballot homes and hearts! Every Saturday is Peace Ballot Day! You can help to secure peace by volunteering your ser- vices to the B.C. Peace Council in its campaign to roll up millions | of peace votes. Take the lions in Canada to the cause of peace. While the warmongers and 3 their press rant against the peace ballot to the people and win peace | ballot and similar efforts to win. for Canada een tot PACIFIC TRIBUNE — SEPTEMBER 25, 1953 — PAGE 5 ~. hands of Canadians, into their.