ee | Old line*party ties breaking, liberals try ‘comeback’ in Alta. By BEN SWANKEY. epte decision of the Liberal Party in Alberta to re-enter provincial politics under its the Of the of the UFA (United Farmers ee was an uneasy atriage marked by much do- _ ®estic dissension, Its failure to strike ; eran Manster of a : “Pplying iv license 7 licen, Vete 22) : ‘numerous phoney pretexts, . : both furious _ Mdependents’ _-Vingi thej Pork barrel beer i Editor, Pacific Tribune: het BOS Hie porate a brewery. The B.C. ‘pOetson must from th them 4 form ae any substantial headway Cated that the name ‘inde- pent did not succeed in con- ie ng its reactionary character eee the eyes of the voters. © Liberals have now called 2 provincial convention for une to draw up a platform 4nd select a provincial leader. me most likely choice appears eect, J. Harper Prowse of Ed- 3 n, soldiers MLA. The ‘in- Bee rutente’ have called off their pee eeation, scheduled for this he A war of words, of ag and counter-charges, is Wea waged between Tory and €ral leaders, The Tories are and worried; the which they dom- eee Provided their only hope Making 9g showing in pro- : : Politics. They know that mons in this province are ee ited and that they will Set anywhere running under r own colors, up on isnificance of this break- ate be fully understood only NMst the background of the Sita political scene. © The nding feature of this is the steadily growing faction with the Social _ S0vernment and _ the The & wave of. criticism. os °Pposition of the Social paement to the farm aSt fal condemnation a earned it the farmers. that the ‘snoring Proveg Concern dissatis thousands of Labor leaders charge government is virtually their demands for im- labor legislation. Great is apparent on all sides few months ago, some vet- z triends of mine were given app); Cold shoulder’ when they €d to the liquor license for permission Wor law distinctly states that be a resident of ie at least six months before 2Pply for a license, or license to sell An advertisement taken € Nelson Daily News of » ’47, shows a company for. the Hume _ hotel and who are all resi- Cf Alberta, not one ot ea having resided in B.C. the —SSary six months, - oe is just another instance er barons dictating to the Se board at Victoria, and eer, By 22 dents No. ° doubt contributing to the c : potion pork barrel and ex- & you and me to pay our » While these moneyed men limited companies to avoid ng their honest share. While Tans are denied a license es “nese are waived to serve © interests of the big brewers @ their political backers. ‘DAY, JUNE 6, 1947 \ death-knell of the so-called at declining educational stan- dards. The big oil monopolies are acquiring control of all Al- berta’s oil resources. *The open- ly pro-fascist and anti-Semitic wing of the Social Credit party is being more and more exposed as a threat to our democratic institutions; opposition to it has become so widespread that the BEN SWANKEY government and the Alberta party felt obliged to publicly denounce anti-Semitism. Even within Social Credit ranks thé fear is growing that the gov- ernment is moving into the arms of the Tories and big business, that it is forsaking the needs of the people. : @ The CCF in Alberta appears to be making small gains and there is little likelihood that it — emerge strong enough to will form the next government. One . _.Please ask Mr. Kennedy, if - any member of his staff got a ‘rakeoff’ in connection with this Hume hotel illegal transfer of beer license, or if he intends to allow the transfer to be con- sumated under the circum- stances. af hae j NELS NUTINI. Trail, Be hey Franco seeks a sign Editor, Pacific Tribune: Referring to Ernest Capp’s excellent review of the Spanish: people in last week’s Pacific Tribune, I received from a friend in Madrid many copies of “ABC,” a Madrid illustrated daily paper. te That there is real religious unrest and uncertainty, even among Franco’s ‘elite,’ is shown “by an appeal from Franco to Pope Pius, for a renewed, up- -to-date explanation of the bod- ‘ily, physical ascension of the Virgin Mary into heaven, ac- cording to Roman Catholic faith and teaching. i This appeal from Franco is in the form of a beautifully de-. signed parchment scroll print- ed on the front page of “ABC” and signed by Franco. Are the } 5 ae : Bee May. , counterparts and advisors. Vancouver, B.C. Own name has a significance beyond its immediate effect which is that of sounding ‘independents.’ From the beginning this unholy alliance Provincial Liberal and Conservative parties with a section of the former leaders hurdle it cannot easily over- come is the bad record of the UFA government and people have not forgotten that UFA was officially part of the CCF. The role of the ‘independ- ent’ members of the legislature has been one of being only mild- ly critical of the government, of going along with it. Natural- ly such “opposition” won it increased support. In this situation the Liberals feel that the time is ripe for them to attempt a comeback, Most observers believe the next provincial elections will be in the summer of 1948. It is evident that with the CCF, LPP, Social Credit, Liberals, Tories and no doubt some other groups in the field, the vote will be split up many ways with the ' probability that no one group will be able to elect a majority. The Liberals intend to make the most of this. They will leave no stone unturned to stop the forward march of the Alberta people, a forward march that has permitted no old-line party government since - 1921. It is becoming increasingly clear that the only way Alberta will be able to continue to go forward is through a coalition of all progressive groups labor, farmer, CCF, LPP and the progressive followers of So- cial Credit: United and acting under the slogan of “only one progressive candidate for each - _ constituency,” would not only defeat the Lib- such a _ coalition eral bid for power; it could become the next government of Alberta, a labor-farmer gov- ernment. This is the policy be- ing advocated today by the Al- berta LPP. Spanish people beginning to ask questions? BERT HOFFMAN. Newton Station. Canutes swamped . Editor, Pacific Tribune: Canute has had many Re- cently one has sprung up in the USA, strutted around for a bit, and then ordered all commun- ists the world over to get off the earth—to stand back and King _be removed from any govern- ment anywhere. In all of new Europe, in Spain, China, and even our own North and South America, communists are not even to be permitted to live by the ukase of this King Canute. To top it off a queen was found for Canute the other day—no less than the ‘Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire’, who, with the aid of Supreme Potentate Herr Kirkconnell, breathed a fervent blessing of the crusade against communism. The tide still rolls on however, and even with the latest blasts from John Bracken and the CMA at Banff, the Canutes are being forced to move their arm- chairs back or get swamped in. the onrushing tide of demo- cratic progress. : A. BINGHAM. the © has not. many’s schemes were ‘gleichgeshalted’ way, U.S. imperialism being the boss SING Ae — Short Jabs AN by Ol’ Bill (Re Communists have no monopoly on ‘red.’ There are, for instance, those business men who, because of the high exorbitant wages demanded—not paid, just demanded—by their workers, are unable to make the 120 percent profits of the war years and claim they are now in the ‘red.’ And then, there Black and red is that ‘place, that quiet retreat from the equipped, most comfortable old man’s home bustle and stir of everyday life, the best in the Dominion, — called, mostly in derision, the Senate, but widely known as ‘the Red chamber. | _ The calm serenity of the seances or that august assembly are, as a rule, repellant to the hawks who gather the skeleton stories that rewrite men and city editors shape into political propaganda because nothing ever happens there. But these newshawks whose assignment, Mike the guy who writes the Gouzenko mendacity, is to track down the Red Spectre to its lair, miss many bets. One they did miss a few days ago, broke among the Red | plush in which our ‘elder statesmen’ snooze away their latter days. Despite hardening of the arteries and high blood pressure, excite- ment was lashed to a fever heat at the possibility of the Senatus sapientum, by their actions, giving encouragement to ‘communism.’ It came about thus. One of the government employees, to wit, the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod (no, bud, it is not a muck-stick), finds that because of the skyrocketing prices, a slight hoist is desirable in pay, wages, salary, emolument, indemnity, pourboire or backsheesh or whatever. name the old pay-cheque gets in Black Rod union circles. A boost to approximate $6,000 a year was proposed to keep the wolf from the. Black Rod door, when up sprang that doughty champion of labor, James Y. Murdock (whose ‘berth in the Senate, by the way, is a reward for muzzling labor in a previous King government). To do such a thing, according to Murdock, will mean that “there are tens of thousands of other ex-soldiers in Canada who will breathe a breath of communism when they read what is done for one man.” To give a man that much money, said the per- - turbed Senator, would mean that tens of thousands would clamor for similar rewards for their labor. And why not? I know personally, many returned soldiers, sailors and airmen, working in jobs, any one of which is of more use to society than that of the Black Rod; men who are working as longshoremen, sewer-diggers, loggers, shipbuilders, carpenters and so on, none of whom. are dragging down $6,000 or anything like it, but who ought to be getting at least more than any tradi- tional clown in the Senate or the House of Commons. The Senators finally accepted the risk of “encouraging com- munism” and signed the new wage-scale for Black Rod. R. V. Stuart, take notice! ei is a matter of history that, from the beginning of the Osman _ .power in Turkey, the leadership of the Turkish forces in war and diplomacy were in the hands of foreigners, renegade Christians — of many nationalities were her greatest generals, admirals, diplo- mats and ministers. Until’ the Balkan war of 1912, and the development of the Young Turk movement, these foreign ‘pashas’ were individual soldiers of fortune. Many of them were _ clever and competent soldiers. In some cases they were men who were in revolt against the ruling powers in their own lands. In the Crimean War, the best generals on any side were Turkish pashas who conducted the war on the Danube. At that time, the Austrian government demanded that three of. these pashas be dismissed by the Porte—the Turkish administration— American Pashas Selim Pasha, Ismail Pasha and Omer Pasha. Two of these were from Austrian Poland and the other was from one of the other suppressed nationalities of the Austrian Empire. ; The Egyptian army in so far as it was distinct from the Turk- ish army was officered in the same way. Most of us have heard of Gordon Pasha whose death at Khartum was made an excuse for painting another little patch of red on the ‘map of Africa, ' With the new Turkey of the Young Turks, things changed; individual soldiers of fortune were dropped and the new kind of soldiers who came into.Turkey to “train” the military forces, came in an organized form and with different objectives. The ‘powers’ engaged in a competition for the privilege of this work which took shape immediately after the Turkish defeat in the Balkan war of 1912. a The Germans won and during the first World War, Prussian generals under von der Goltz became pashas in order to Prussian- ize the Turkish army. That was part of the general scheme of world conquest by German imperialism. Although the Germans lost the war and the Turks suffered in consequence, the Germanic influence held over until almost the final smashing of Nazism rae the Turks discovered that the Germans had nothing on the- all. : : Now we are going to see -pashas of a new kind or rather of a new nationality, American army officers and Military ad- visers, although a fizzle in China, are being groomed to become pashas, but not in the old soldier of fortune fashion. They are going to Turkey, at and under the direction of the staff of the American army, just as they go into any other war zone as part of the U.S. military machine. Part of their plans are embodied in the “standardization of gs) miltary equipment.” The Turkish army will be “standardized” as is also proposed for the Canadian army. But. none of them will be so well “standardized” as the Chinese Red army, who are now fully outfitted with American equipment, not given or sold to them by the United States, but captured from Chiang Kai-shek's army to whom they had been donated by Marshall. i Their purpose is aggression. The United States is the first. and only—aggressor, since the United Nations organization was established. Turkey is being fitted as a cog in the war machine of U.S. imperialism, in the same way as the victims of Nazj Ger- in this case and having simi- lar plang for ruling the world, plans which, however, will never _ be realized. oe The objejet of their aggression is the Soviet Union and ‘the | pashas are the spearhead. Hitler tried and failed, so will American __ imperialism and its pashas. ‘4 | PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5 __ or made to see the bosses’ —