This t4 Be | Wnute You Department al you Please. Write your MP Editor, Pacific Tribune: Sir: The LaCroix Bill will soon come up later on for further dis- cussion in the House of Com- mons. In the meantime, it would be good policy for every worker to send a letter to his or her parlia- mentary member urging him to do his utmost to defeat the bill. It should be pointed out to him if he happens to be a liberal that the bill cuts at the very roots of liberalism which embodies the principle of liberty of the sub- ject, It destroys the principle of democratic government and by so doing paves the way for a fas- cist form of government. It doesn’t matter how crude from a literary point of view your protest may be, the great thing is to convey to your MP that you are determined to oppose him at the next election if he doesn’t do his best to defeat this bil] and inform him that you will closely watch the parliamentary proceed- ings when the bill comes before .the House again. If every worker will do this and get as many of his friends as he -can to do the same I am sure we shall get action. A. CHEVERTON. White Rock, B.C. Remember Planta? Editor, Pacifico Tribune: Sir: We in Nanaimo had a very pleasant May Day and the ‘speakers did a good. job. I just ‘want to make a few comments ‘so that readers of the Pacific Tribune can judge for them- ‘Selves some of the angles of sour so-called democracy. ' Bruce Mickleburgh’s remarks should have opened the eyes of MEN‘S WEAR 54W. Cordova Phone TA. 2657 4 Block East of Woodwards Made to measure Suits and Topeoats Our Specialty “BELIEVE IT OR NOT” _ OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT a lot of people who were not here in the struggle in 1913. His remarks about the mayor at that time, A. E. Planta, and the militia being called into town with full military equipment to be used against the miners. For his help in _— strike- breaking, Planta was later made a sena- tor at a wage of $4,000 per year, running a real estate business at the same time. Later Planta was arrested for swindling his fellow citizens of Nanaimo of thousands of dollars. These were our “pil- lars of society” ranged against the men who dig coal? As one who was living under R. B. Bennett’s scheme of “no work and no wages,” I had plen- ty of time to listen to the court proceedings. For his gigantic swindle of the Nanaimo people Planta got a 2-year sentence, and the case was hurried through. “The next case please” -—were a couple of men caught “breaking and entering” a store at Parksville. The men only stole a few groceries, amounting to about $14.00 in the court’s es- timation. But they came from the other “side of the tracks” from Planta, and while the same judge and the same court let him off with two years for swindling thousands of dollars, these two working men got seven years each. The capitalist apolo- gists are right when: they say there are “some weak spots” in our way of life. The above com- parison and background show more that weak spots. While I am at it would be pos- sible for the Pacific Tribune to give readers a little of the his- tory of this man Zorkin whom our “slushing” mayor has taken under his ‘wing? He has _ held meetings here and has some sup- porters, but sounds like a trai- tor to me. Wishing your paper the best, NELS DEAN. Nanaieio, B.C. War hysteria Editor, Pacific Tribune: Sir: For some months your pa- per has been coming to us from a relative in Victoria. It contains what we have been looking for in other weekly and daily papers. Why we had no success in our search is now quite obvious. 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The nations of the earth are lining up into two groups with ideologies antagonistic to each other. If allowed to get out of hand they will clash and God help the world if they do. It will be the climax and perhaps the end of the centuries-old struggle be- tween capital and labor, Have we Canadians been drawn into this so far we can No longer choose a- road for ourselves? We've hitched ourselves to the capitalist wagon with Wall Street in the driver’s seat. Our financial experts at Ot- tawa have given and are giving us plenty of illustrations of this and are preparing, so it seems to me, for what they expect to be the only outcome—war! Daily over the radio we hear the authorities calling for recruits for a new army. They paint an enticing picture for young, inex- perienced and adventurous youth, The reason for the need of a new army is never given: to bolster and support a vicious and inher- ently rotten capitallst system is my belief. Well equipped as that system is with the sinews of war, without the cooperation of labor it is im- potent. The human elements is es- sential for their schemes to be successful and if secured that human elements pays for the un- dertaking in full. For what re- compense or renunciation? Chur- chill has told us: Blood! Sweat! Tears! Contrast this with the re- ecompense of capital: stupendous dividends from human slaughter, friend and foe, Can we combat this? In part, yes. By our government refusing to act as an ally to any nation attacking another without first getting a mandate from the peo- ple in a plebiscite. Two thirds vote to carry. But if attacked then to- tal conscription, wealth first. S. SMITH. Sandy Lake, Man. Editor’s note We have received a letter signed “Common Worker,” givirg only “South Vancouver” as the address, extolling a book entitled Harvest of Ideas. The writer expresses doubt that his letter “will see the light in the paper we sup- port.” * It is the policy of the Pa- cific Tribune not to publish anonymous letters. Correspond- ents may usé a pseudonym, but as evidence of their good faith they must enclose their names and addresses. If “Com- mon Worker” will forward his name and address, we will pub- lish his letter. OA CLOTHING 6 West Cordova & WORK and DRESS CLOTHING \ GUIDE TO GOOD READING Labor and Marshall plan LABOR AND THE MARSHALL PLAN, a new pam- phlet by Willian Z. Foster, hits a very timely note just at this time when the whole world is watching the effects of this plan upon those need Hemisphere. That this so-called “rehabilita- tion’ policy is not bringing about economic recovery in Europe or anywhere else is obvious by the fact that while. the much-helped countries of Western Europe are in deep crisis the countries of Eastern and Central Europe are making constant and rapid re- covery to economic health. “The explanation for this con- tradictory situation,” says Fos- ter, “is that the countries of Eastern and Central Europe have adopted the necessary progress- ive economic and political mea- sures .required to bring about in- dustrial recovery, while those in the West have not... Indeed the announcement of the Marsh- all Plan has split Europe into two hostile camps and has gen- erally worsened the economic and political situation in the world.” Foster shows that the Marshall Plan several phases, first being to “shore up tottering capitalism by financially strengthening the monopolists who are now in po- litical and economic command”; secondly to weaken the national independence of the countries receiving loans and make them into obedient tools of Wall Street, - and, thirdly, to create a Political- ly reactionary Europe. Moreover, in its attempts to throw the world into another great war, the U.S. intends to use the Marshall Plan to revive mili- tarism by using funds to recon- struct armies in countries under capitalistic control, and to mo- bilize the states of Western Fu- rope into a military alliance un- der U.S. leadership against the Soviet Union. = *. * DESPITE THE . PLAUSIBLE way in which the Marshall Plan has been presented, large num- bers of the American people are resisting it, Foster states, point- ing to the growing third party movement led by Henry Wallace. This, Foster describes as “a grass- THE DAILY was chartered on t PACIFIC T y countries of the Western roots development, coming from the foundations of the American people. That is why it is so feared by the great capitalist interest of this country.” Condemning those labor lead- ers who have stated that for a worker to vote for Wallace means te throw his vote away, Foster shows how the third party move- ment, by its very existence, will point up discussion on the Marsh- all Plan throughout the country and bring to light those war plans of American imperialism so that the people will be able to see it in its true light. The coming presidential elec- tion in the U.S. is one of the most important that have ever been held in that country, People all over the world are watching to see whether the American people will allow Wall Street agents to plunge the world into war again, or whether they will turn towards peace. “Now is the time for the work- ers and the people to act,” says Foster. “The moment of history has now struck when the work- ers of this country, cutting the umbilical cord that has bound them to the body of capitalism, will be born politically as a class."—KAY BRICKSON. pg Ra eo HIGHEST PRICES PAID for DIAMONDS, OLD GOLD Other Valuable Jewellery STAR LOAN CO. Ltd. EST. 1905 719 Robson St. — MAr. 2622 EAST END UNION DRIVERS HA. 0334 - Fully 24-Hour Insured Service 613 East Hastings, Vancouver .T.U. PRINTERS ARE STILL ON THE PICKET LINE Soot PROVINCE IS NOT PRODUCED WITH .1.U. PRINTERS ~ 1888 - 1948 Vancouver Typographical Union is now celebrating its Diamond Jubilee. 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