HIS November 7 marks the thirty-second anniversary of the great October Revolution and the founding of the world’s first socialist state, the Union of Socialist Soviet , Republics. Millions of people the world over will hail this anniversary of socialism triumphant in. the Soviet Union, daily recording new achievements for the wellbeing of its people. In the countries of the New Democracies of Europe and China, new millions raising the glorious banner of social- ism as a “way of life,” will find new and added inspiration on this historic day. As we in Canada join in paying tribute to _ this anniversary, let us remind ourselves—despite the bedlam of warmongering anti-Soviet slanders and _ provocations—ihat the Soviet Union was our greatest ally in ihe war . . .. and ready to be our best neighbor in building the peace. Their stupendous war sacrifices is the guarantee of their friendship. The greatest tribute the people of oe can pay their valiant wartime ally on this 32nd anniversary, is to open the doors of mutual trade and goodwill between our two countries. “The The foundation of peace ‘ St. Laurent government, despite its class hatred of socialism, must be forced to recognize that Canadian-Soviet #rade and mutual understanding is better for Canada’s prosperity than the phoney “eold-war’’ Marshallized policies now being pur- sued; policies which are strangling Canada’s markets and reducing Canada’s independence, security and peace to pawns of American im- perialism. Mutual trade relations is the best brdge't to peace. Let us redouble our energies to break down the artificial barriers of hate and suspicion which the financial atomites have set up» between Canada and the Soviet Union. The Soviet people seek trade with us in order to build socialism. We need trade with the Soviet people in order to survive. In its 32nd year the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics is the very foundation of the peace and fraternity between «all nations — the desire of every people. The history of the past 32 years has made that an indisputable fact. That is why, for Canada, Canadian-Soviet trade and friendship is vital to our prosperity and peace. 2 o more PGE sted: HE Canada-Alaska Railway Company of the U.S. has intimated that it is ready to spend $300 million dollars to complete the Pacific Great Easten (PGE) from Quesnel to the northern boundary of B.C., and another $375 million on the Alaska section. This magnanimity is. coupled with a_ typical Yankee” joker—ihe demand that the company get a first option on all natural resources and mineral rights in the area traversed by their projeoted PGE- Alaska railway. ; . Premier Boss” ‘Johnson is reported hes Ssfattag’ that such a proposition “‘involves alienation of the people’s resources.” That is just as it should be, and the people of B.C. must see to it that Premier Johnson holds fast to that fundamental viewpoint. Any ‘deal with Yankee monopolists on rail or other industrial projects must be governed by strict adherence to two basic principles: the safeguarding ‘of Canada’s natural resources for her own* people, and the rejection of foreign-controlled projects en- ns -manded by giving” dangering Canadian independence, security © an ee A ‘The first of Siete principles got some recogni- tion this week in Victoria, when the Aluminum Company of Canada (read U.S.) made application for water rights for its hydro-aluminum project in Tweedsmuir Park. To grant these “‘rights’’ de-. “Alcan,” especially in the Chilco Lake area, would be nothing short of disastrous for British Columbia fisheries. Mrs. E. Barteaux of Fort Cais protested any water rights whatever in the “Alcan” Tweedsmuir Park area, “because it is the property of the British Columbia people, and should be pre- served for the people. We're giving away 5,400 square miles of this beautiful park to vested interests . to make money.’ ‘That is the case for the common people, stated very simply and very clearly. It is also the case for the preservation of our fisheries and other natural -_res@urces, as well as enterprises like the PGE, which on no account must be handed over to Yankee monopolists for exploitation or war adventures. i _ and tea plantations. (about 20 cents) a day, women 8 annas, and children 3 to 4 annas. — Whats: I saliganisom:. breeds” AST Moadae s Halloween in Vancouver pre-' sents something of a poser for those long-faced’ Holy Willies who prattle about the increase of juvenile delinquency—and look severly in us direc- tion of working class Vancouver. _ Obviously they. ; are looking 1 in the wrong Bs et tion. _ The demarcation lines of Vancouver's social | Stratums are pretty well defined, well enough, at | least, volume. With ‘+a Sed ielk alone reatdltable incident to show where eo is aaa in of two youths being burned in a shed fire at William and Commercial, it can be said that all of South and East Vancouver and Burnaby cele- brated Halloween in good, clean fun. That sec- tion’ of Greater V ancouver is penis mvorking class. How different the story in Kererdale: Dunbar and Shaughnessy where our allegedly “better people’ reside. become a tradition, = on Monday sense broke all past records. There, for the past tumber of years, crim- inal vandalism and hooliganism on Halloween has Holdups and stabbings paced autos - -ilflly damaged; or more street lamps smashed and numerous win- dows broken; telephone poles, rail ties and ‘other obstructions placed across streets; a score or more of false fire alarms turned in; young people terrorized. These are only a few of the “pranks” pulled off uader the guise of Halloween by this hooligan - elemént which spawns: pada among our ‘‘best”’ fasubes: ‘ We shall not attempt to vie with the Va ancouver Sun as an authority on “‘Saints.” it has the inside track on that subject, “saintly” editorial of. November 1 was a crude tracks, roy, vs / Halloween can be (ore of fun and eae for children” ae and even grownups, which was the objective aimed at by the service clubs of Van- couver in the organization of - Halloween | parties. . When it is taken over by organized hooliganism for the wanton destruction of property and endanger- ing life, it becomes a top-priority social problem, seca joint civic-community action. ' World History by Jawaharlal Nehru. to create trouble for the Soviet government.” ‘ing his mite to their anti-Soviet slanders, of London it stays there like a soldier, out of it, “resulted in the imprisonment of 30,000 trade unionists, almost the entire leadership of the All-India Trade Union Federa- — street-car rails greased raalans it im- | possible for a motorman to control his car); fifty _ dollar shrine of “Western” imperialism. The Indian press is gag: ments in the colonies, are doomed to failure. : _ study well the life and times , of. Chiang Madghols: whose path: he wa i now treading.” TOM McEWEN As We See le , HIS is a word portrait, gathered from many sources. As it is woven, the ugly outline of a new Chiang Kai-shek, ‘alse ulert as a “man of peace,” emerges, a On Monday, October 24, fresh from his councils with the nana royalists of Washington, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister of India, addressed the Canadian House of Commons. Among other — things he said: “.. . Both our respective countries believe in de- CES and the democratic method, and in individual and national — : ' freedom. In international affairs, therefore, _ our objectives are similar, and we have found no difficulty thus far in cooperating for the ach e F ment of these aims.” De 1105s Studiously evoidios: ‘open alignment with either Ne Anglo-American or so-called Soviet “blocs,” never- theless, “Prime Minister Nehru believes that in-_ dividyal freedom ceases to exist under. . . the Soviet system,” according to an Associated Press — ' report of his spe€ch at Chicago on October 29. These are billion dollar words to the Washing-' ton pawnbrokers—good for a loan any time, OD — the same “easy” terms given to their most recent “ally,” Tito. They also explain why certain high (Hansard, Vol. 89, . 2, q _ Anglo-American “sources” in the UN have been toying with ‘the J idea of making Prime Minister Nehru a “UN Asiatic Co-ordinator” ‘ who could help direct the operations of a projected “Pacific Pact” as an anti-Soviet complement to the Atlantic pact. ; Ce - : p 4 : ‘I have a treasured book in my library, entitled Glimpses of | The book is a compilation of letters to his beloved daughter Indira, written in numerous prisons — throughout India, and designed for the purpose of giving his daughter a basic understanding of economic and historical. events which ae or. _mar the progress of nations and peoples: : Of the Russian revolution of 1917, Nehru writes his daughter? “Moscow buzzed with - foreign spies.. The chief agent of the eritish secret service, known as the master spy of Britain, was sent there “Essentially (Soviet — victory over foreign intervention and counter victory of the self-confidence, the faith, the self-sacrifice, and the ; unflinching determination of the Russian people ... the quality of leadership of Russia . *.. converted this poor human material into — a strong, organized nation, full of faith in its mission and contigeney ‘4 in itself.” | Of Lenin, Tauehatat Nehru wrote: ‘ greater; he has become one of ‘the chosen company of, the world’s immortals. He lives, not in monuments or pictures, but in the mighty work he did, and in the hearts of hundreds of millions of workers today, who find inspiration in his examples, and the hop? of a better day.” (Glimpses of World History, pp. 652-660.) Surely, Indira ‘Priyadarshini, this is not the Jawaharlal Nehru, now fawning at the feet of Washington’s money-changers and add- who wrote you those — beautiful letters from prison. . . / even while his mother rotted in | another prison. And yet, it can be no other. @ : : I have a letter on my desk from an Indian worker, who begins with an old Indian legend: é voluntarily of course! ” 4 is free to leave at any time .. . they don’t put it in a cage, they simply clip its wings. Thus the ‘poor bird remains a prisoner for life. Such is the case of India’s Socialist Prime Minster Nehru, wh? became a willing tool of Indian and British reaction, and now, will | have his wings so closely clipped by Washington that BY, will never — again be able to escape the imperialist net.” “Pandit Nehru is quite concerned about the people's. victory in _ China, and what he calls the “Communist threat to Burma,” but he — has nothing but jails, hunger and repression for the Indian people’ — Indian labor is mercilessly exploited in the coal mines, jute factories — On the plantations, workers are paid 10 annas ¥ ‘Workers who protest these inhuman conditions, in prison and % including — tion. Tens of thousands of Indian workers, men and women, are thrown into filthy and disease-ridden jails, and left there to rot — without even the semblance of a trial. Naked terror rules India — today, while Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru pays homage at the — In Caleutta alone within the last six months, a dozen daily papers have been banned. In Bengal and South India the Communist party has been declared illegal, while an undeclared war on the Indian trade unions is in operation from one end of the country to the other. et This Indian worker’s letter closes with these prophetic words: “Pandit Nehru has long ceased to speak in the name of the Indian masses. Whatever commitments he may make in Washington will not be honored by the Indian people. All his attempts to serve im- perialist interests. in Asia, to strangle the people’s liberation “‘move- Pandit Nehru should — “Asia, the mother of continents and the cradle of HibtoRys. aieaene civilization, is renascent today,” declared Pandit Nehru to the Can- ‘Undoubtedly — but its” adian House of Commons—but apparently forgot the fate of the ‘Chiang Kai- sheks in the renaissance. — | As Lenin said of Kautsky, “How ele did Bautshey (feaa Nenrw) - write, - Serle Verte ago.” ; : wie . attempt to obscure the hooliganism which passes coin — for Halloween on Ee: RD Teagan side of the — Posi a [um ne RINE i bunerend iP a nhs ana femme df Tne r il il Wi i 4 yr fi) NVI = z a ay oe sll ore a \ Published Weekly at 650. Howe Street 43 By THE TRIBUNE PUBLISHING — COMPANY ‘LTD. ; jpetephon ax tee ae } Hee 6 Months, ‘$1.35. Tom McEwen Kes Subscription Rates: 1 ae $2.50; Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 650 Howe a Vancouver, B.C. Authorized as second class Shincavee Post Office Dept., ‘Ottawa % PACIFIC TRIBUNE —_. NOVEMBER ae 1949 - — ‘PAGE 8 revolution) it was 4 “AS time passes he grows. fi “Once a raven flies into the old see. ae Tt 5 are faced with so-called “security” legislation, which has s