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Arthur Mould,

workingman

By LESLIE MORRIS

“Fad I been an opportunist, I might have gone to college ‘and got some letters to tag on to my name, making it more 1 dlustrious so that the intelligentsia could fawn on one -of their | Class. Btit the fates decreed I should be a worker and so far) q have had no quarrel with the fates, nor their decree.” . -

. So wrote Arthur Mould of London, Ontario, in his 80th "year. Some of you might remember “his eloquent article on ~ Leo Tolstoy in the July-August issueot: Marxist Review: It was

gem, The words above are taken front vit. Re SS # # R

~ (Now Arthur has left us, at the age of 81.'He was a peppery little man, full of fight) and we shall’ miss’ him, ‘He never quite lost: his English ‘accent and his interest in theBritish labor move- ment in which he gréw up as a “young lad néver flagged. His ‘roots. ran very deeply into his own people.

Arthur’ was a great teader.” He was’ an example to our young folk of today. Every time-I met him, we ‘talked ofthe books we had read, some of them long ago.' His intel- lectual interest never waned, and .to the end of his life he was full of that mental’

‘curiosity which is the stamp.of the mature man 4 Ea Bo a

‘| Arthur never went’ to a university, but he was an educated ) an. His university, as he often said, was the University of 1 Life. In‘life, he fought to understand, and his modesty in that | fight was'something to emulate. Listen to his words) again in his article'on Tolstoy:

“In my late ’teens Tolstoy was the beacon light: leading me ‘Out of the quagmire ‘of creeds, dogma and supérstition, to- Wards the truth. Although living in another country and in different stratum of society and lacking the knowledge, educa- tion and culture of Tolstoy, I found in my reading that he had. been going, and was still going, through the same turmoil of Soul to find himself as I was then doing.” Arthur was a working-class lad, ‘toiling the long hours for a Pittance which was the hard lot of his! generation. The eight- ‘hour day was not yet; 10 hours was the rule. We used to recall how both of us went to work at six in the morning and then had breakfast at 8:30. There wasn’t much time to read, but | We had all the time there was and made\the most:ofit: Then | it was candlelight, or the kerosene lamp; arid perhaps" later,

‘the naked gas jet or the Sassiaeneles # + P

Arthur wrote: “As far as my life was concerned, when my ind was.in turmoil he (Tolstoy) had a greater influence on he than any other..writer and. finally ptit me on the path that led to Marx. Probably. the latter should “have preceded the Yormer.”’ ge Fie | This was a mental-leap for young Arthur Mould. As he said, Lia ‘he had “no definite person to turn 'to for: guidance.”

' When hé cariie to Canada about 60 years ago he very |) found, as hé said, “that my problems had not been left be- hing.” How many generations of immigrants have painfully | discovered that truth; that the Golden Land was the Never- Never Land: 3 ;

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In Téronto' hé found a “few kindred souls” and they started ) * Sunday morning fortum, in 1906. Arthur was one of the ' Speakers. THé young man in his 20’s opened the forum with a ; Series of four addresses. “Then we drifted towards socialism } 8nd discussions on Marx.” Arthur recalled. :

He had become a class-conscious workingman. But more; than that: he became a politically-conscious workingman, see- Mg not only the class struggle, but the way out of the never- | ®hding, vicious circle of struggle with the employers. He was | ne of the leaders of the trade union movement in London, Ont., where he settled as did the Tolpuddle Martyrs of.a gen- ration before.

7 But trade unionism was not ersugh for him. He entered the § *Olitical struggle. Arthur was one of the founders of the Canad- a Labor Party, forerunner of the political.-movements. And y ® impact of the First World War and the Russian Revolution jf °f 1917, which made-the first lasting breach in the imperialist j i System, made Arthur a Communist. He stood on Marxism, not j ( d it, as some did, only to léave the political struggle.

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Now he is gone: I am sure I know what he would Bay WISES nted tribute.

he able to look ever my shoulder at this small prir Sas ~ 4tis eyes would twinkle and he would poke a bit of fun, finding | ‘ bit of fault with this or that (he was never satisfied) and

‘ €n would come these words: fh . “You see m'lad, it’s all a matter of fighting for the truth. 41) et @ man’s life is a search for the truth, ever if he only grasps * bit of it, it is a fruitfel life. And the truth jJeads to com- i “Nunism, to the dignity of Man. So just p . : } Movig was a workingman who fought, painfully, to find his 7}, Way to the light. And remember to say that if you think like

Beef prices skyrocket as U.S.

trusts buy up B.C. cattle

By MAURICE RUSH

Canada’s “integration” policy with the U.S. is forcing housewives to pay more for meat to feed the family.

According to reliable sources meat prices in B.C. have jump-

ed an average five cents a

pound since the first of Oc- tober. Some cuts are up be- tweeen six and seven cents 2 pound, and one major meat re- tailer said recently. the price has actually jumped around 10 to 12_cents.

And it hasn’t stopped yet. It is widely predicted in the meat, packing. industry that. this winter prices will teach their highest level since* 1952; which was a post-war peak.:

If beef is appearing Jess fre- quently on the tables of .B.C. workers, and if- housewives are forced to buy cheaper ard in- ferior’ meats. for the family,

they can. thank the Federal:

government and its policies for this situation.

The major reason for*higher prices is that most of Cariada’s

prime beef is..being exported |

to the United States.

With a four cent premium on the Ameri-

g overnment’s depreciation of ithe Canadian dollar, .U., _S. meat monopo- - lies have been’ buying up choice Canadian peef at cheap prices’ and ship- ping them off to the US.

Following Fleming’s~ new budget this spring U.S. meat buyers invaded livestock auc- tions on a big scale. By No- vember 25 they had bought 317,000 head of beef. cattle against 121,158 by the same time last year!

In October a record $2 mil- lion worth of cattle was sold’ at the big beef auction at Kam-' loops — the major part of it

‘Free Morton Sobelil’ campaign: launched

The United States consulate on Toronto’s University Ave- nue was picketed on Dec. 16 by citizens appealing -to Presi- dent Kennedy to free Morton Sobell. who. has spent almost 12 years of a 30-year sentence

-in prison).

Picketing called by the Tor- onto Sobel! Committees’ to take

place sitfultaneously with pat

allel: aétion® across the U-S:, Mexico’ and: elsewhere. This action: will constitute

another stage in- the struggle’

to see that justi¢te is done for Sobell, a victim of the Me Carthyite hysteria of the 1950's. :

Through their investigation of the Rosenberg case and Mor- ton Sobéll's -alléged © involve- ment, world famous figures suchas Bertratid Riissell of England and Martin Buber of

Israel have expressed their 1 conviction that Sobell is inno- . cent.

Atomic scientist Hatotd Urey -has ‘declared that upon investigation “you can’t tell what Sobell is even supposed to have done” aid that the “in- tegrity of justiee as ‘it is ad- ministered “in the U.S. is at

stake.” Other ; efforts having failed, Canadians expressing their

solidarity with Americans de- jnonstrating in 6ther cities and towns hope theit demonstra- fions will cause President Ken- nedy to grant an amnesty to Sobell so he will be free by Christmas to spend the holiday with his wife and children. For further information con- tact Jack Freedman, 515 Chap- lin C¥escent, Apt. 503, Tororits,

Ont. (Phone RU 9-1597).

ut down that Arthur |

“ atxist you will find more and more of the truth about this YOndérful world and the people that live in it.’¢

“December 22, 1961—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7

went to the U.S.

The 1961 increase in U.S. purchases of Canadian beef cattle, comes on' top of already large sale to the U.S.

In 1960 Canada exported to the U.S. live beef cattle -and pork to~the ‘value of ©$3,000,- 000. With the gift of a cheaper Canadian doltar, the U.Smeat companies have been’ able ‘to bity up Canadian beef ‘at ‘fird- sale “prices.” : fp

During 1960, while “export. ing large numbérs of Canadian

animals, we imported from the -U.S.-636,000 tons of beef, veal,

pork and canned meats.

Here again; we see the af fect of the Federal govern- ment?s ‘trade policies ‘on ‘jobs. By exporting our livestock to the U.S. and buying back large« quantities of processed meats:

‘a crisis has’ been ‘creatéd:in the»

meat: packing industry. In B.C... many packinghouse * workers = have beentaid off, others have+ been served notice, and the ine dustry faces imminent: closure.-

In a brief submitted recently » to the: City Couneil by thee Vancouver and District Unem= ployed Council it was estim» ated that “if this $3,060,000 7 worth. of. cattle: had: been pro~ cessed and shipped to all coun»

tries as finished products, the =

value would have*been more * than doubled .. . and would” have ‘provided work for many » more than ‘have already “been laid off in the meatpacking ins dustry.” : ts

- The: same-brief also” points out: ‘that in» 1960" Canada«ex~-

ported 177,000 hides and skins,’

both calf and cattle to the U.S. and‘ Japan, while during <t! @c first six months of 1961 alone we imported into Canada

ned and dressed leather to the~

value of $1,766,000.

The present crisis in B.C.’s meat packing industry and the sharp rise in meat prices for further indications of the urgent need to change Féderal policies, which sell Canada lock, stock and barrel to the U.S.* trusts at the expense of Canadians.

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