"THE wise men have met again. Not the wise men, the Magi, who came from the East to visit the infant Christ in a stable, but their ideological descendants, the pick of the Anglican Church and its counterparts among the hea- then, 29 archbishops and bishops, who met, not in a stable but in a London palace once the abode of English royalty. Their claim to be rated — the wise must be suspect in view of two decisions

they made dur- ing a five-week.

palaver.

They decided to call upon all Christians to oppose Com- munism and al-

corners of the earth for that pur- pose in slightly over 100 lan- guages, still less than the num- ber of languages in which the Communist Manifesto is circu- lated.

In essence, this is a move to prevent the right of anyone who is convinced of the correctness of the Marxist interpretation of bistory from spreading such knowledge among the working class; it is a movement to sup- press freedom of expression and opinion no different than the one initiated in vain by Truman, for

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some people who, political- ly, or for other reasons, just don’t like employers, a man killed while on the job is always “slaugh- tered’.” So says the Comox Free Press of August 12. Behind that weasel-worded innuendo there is a story. .

It appears that Forest and Mill, “a weekly newspaper published for those in- terested in the logging game”,

(which, i would seem, does not include the plain log-

Worker for placing too much stress on

- the wholesale

_ slaughter of loggers in the woods of British Columbia,

~ ‘When Forest and Mill had spun its sorry tale, calculated to white- wash the boss loggers. of culpa- bility in this appalling death-rate of workers, the Comox Free Press took up the refrain. The subservience of. this journal to

the lumber interests is notorious. —

Press repeats the shameful edit- orial apologia of Forest and Mill and goes the latter one better by a real piece of cheap red-baiting.

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the means used by the churches in all ages have been similar, con- ditioned only by the force of the resistance offered them.

From the same _ conference came another decision opposite as the poles asunder to the one above. A declaration pledging a campaign for full attainment of Human rights everywhere.

Full human rights everywhere except the right of an individual to be a communist! These two de- cisions, so different in their mean- ing and content, place this group

of the wise men, who would as-

sume the direction and guidance of the world’s peoples, in the same category as that other wise- acre, one-time president of the .US., the silent and solemn-visaged Cal Coolidge, whose reputation for wisdom lasted only so long as he kept his trap shut.

Who does not remember that deathless thought vented by him while still president, a few short months before the bubble burst in the late ‘twenties? “Where there is unemployment,” he said pro- foundly, “there will be men out of work.” Or their wisdom may be on a par with that other scat- terer of pearls, co-father of the Taft-Hartley Act meant to de- stroy the trade unions, Senator, Taft, who, when asked what he meant to do about the high price of beef, replied, “You can buy meat if you have the money to pay for it.” These are the wise ones who make the rules!

Knowing that a decision to op-

To the demand of the B.C. Lum- ber Worker for an end to the slaughter of loggers in the woods, the Comox Free Press declares, apropos of the Lumber Worker, “... it is extremely desirous of giving its readers the impression it is fighting the battles of the working-stiff ... but which, in reality, is nothing better than a Communist publication, mouthing the gospel of Soviet Russia in every column.”

It would seem that if a labor paper or a worker protests any- thing these days, even the mass killing of fellow workers by the greed and avarice of the timber barons, one is “mouthing the gos- pel of Soviet Russia.” That would seem to us to make it a damned good gospel, even if the Comox Free Press holds to the contrary views of the timber monopolists.

As of August 18, no less than 48 loggers were killed in the B.C. woods im 1948! In the 10-year perior, 1938-48, a total of 564 loggers have been killed. Add to this several hundred | mill workers, plus the thous- ands annually maimed and crippled for life. and you have an appalling total of human destruction—not shown on the profit sheets of the timber wolves. Arthur Francis, speak- ing to the Truck Loggers’ As- soeiation recently on behalf of

the B.C. Workmen’s Compensa- ~

tion Board stated that the lum-

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pose Communism will not be re- ceived with 100 percent applause even in the ranks of the Anglican Church, the Archbishop of Can- terbury who presided over .the gathering, and has been referred to as a radical by some Labor- ites, has been trying to explain away that decision in statements to the press and in radio broad- casts.

He hastens to make it celar to his following that the Church is not opposing ‘“non-Marxist com- munism.” Many non-Marxist com- munists, he says, are good prac- tising Christians, They are to be found, according to him, in Czech- oslovakia and Russia. “The Church does not renounce such communists.”

It is only the Mauiet material- ist communists they have in mind, ‘And it is only on the Marx- ish materialist communists they would use the atom bomb. The Archbishop’s Commission investi- gated the atom bomb and a few weeks ago rendered a report that it was perfectly good Christian behavior to use that murderous weapon. They asked the ques- tion, “Would the abandonment of atomic weapons by . . . powers that possess them vontribute any- thing to the success of a world order founded on justice? It is difficult to think that it would.” Their conception of justice and the atom bomb go together!

It is good for the Anglican Church that there are men in it like the Dean of Canterbury,

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ber industry of B.C. “has the

worst accident record in the

world.”

All that, in the vile Hitlerite innuendo of Forrest and Mill and the Comox Free Press is just “the gospel of Soviet Russia.”

What a cynical, weasel-minded whistle-punk for the boss log- gers Fillmore Bilgepott of _the Comox Free Press must be. From objecting to the term “slaughter- ed loggers,” Bilgy gets on to the LPP’s “Buy No Beef” parade in Cumberland last week. Accord- ing to Bilgepott soaring beef prices left the Cumberland pro- letariat unworried about their vanishing beefsteaks, Nothing like a bit of snappy red-baiting to cover up the “accident” of high prices or a dead logger. “In our ‘way ‘of life’ both have a sinister relationship,

The Pacific Tribune cannot re- port that “a monster parade” was held in Cumberland, as Fillmore Bilgepott predicted we would, but we can lay odds that the average Cumberland or B.C. fam- ily could extract a deal more sustenance from a reasonably priced beefsteak than from the editorial columns of the Comox Free Press.

What the B.C. Lumber Worker .

had to say about the slaughter of loggers still holds good—that the boss loggers and their managerial staffs “must be put in their place and made to conform to safety And , we might add, even if it anes cut into their profits.

What the LPP said and says °

about the price of beef and other essentials of life still holds good —the profiteers must be controll- ed and the people brought to- gether to defend their living: standards. If that is “the gospel of Soviet Russia,” then let’s have more of this “gospel” and_ less of the Bilgepott brand. of sewer journalism.

Union wreckers

HILE ‘engaged in an almost life and death battle with —

the B.C. mine operators for the legitimate function- ing and survival of their union, approximately 20,000 mem- bers of the International Union, Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers have been suspended’ by the executive committee of the Canagian pode. of Labor, of which they are an affiliate.

Harvey Murphy, western director of Mine-Mill and vice- president of the B.C. Federation of Labor (CCL), has. also been “Suspended for two years” from all CCL activities.

Quite apart from thé trivial pretexts advanced by top CCL officials for such drastic action, the net results of such can only lead to a serious. weakening of the entire trade union structure of the CCL.

How the ‘mine operators of B.C., Ontario and Quebec must chortle at having such a capable Fifth Column in the top levels of the CCL, ready and willing to carry out the job of garroting . the unions. during wage negotiations under cover of an “anti-Communist” smoke barrage.

In Ontario, the Mosher-Conroy-Millard triumvirate co- operated with the government immigration and justice de- partments to have Reid Robinson and other Mine-Mill representatives expelled from Canada via the “communist bogey” route.

In British Columbia, because Harvey Murphy and others protested this top- ace e treason -to labor, the IUMMS is arbitrarily stripped of its affiliation and its western repre- sentative “barred” from CCL, activity.

These actions are inteded by their perpetrators to have a triple effect: To silence all opposition to the Mosher- Conroy-Millard top CCF-inspired policies; to enable the mine operators to force their proposals down the throats of the hard-rock miners with as little grace as in the days of the union-busting blacklist and with a. minimum of opposition; to enable the CCL disruptionists, on the eve of the B-C. Federation of Labor convention either to rule or wreck Phat valuable tribune of British Columbia labor. = —

It is, all done under the guise of “combatting commun- ism” and right in line with Canadian Manufacturers’ Asso- ciation blueprints. It is also part of the political stock- in-trade of a labor faker who trades in suave “left” phrases and in the fullness of time is rewarded by St. Francis Xavier University with an “honorary doctorate.”

The labor movement of Canada will yet have the last word in the suspension of Harvey Murphy and the hard- rock miners he has served so well. No amount of red- baiting can subsitute for a fighting union nor waylay a good union man you oy aes of sy

I don’t hear a thing.”

i Looking backward

the People’s Advocate, August 26, 1938)

—OTTAWA

ada today 70,000 young Garisiiane® for whom industry, figures released here show.

29, none of these young Canadians has

. At least one third of them have bee?

it of every three have remained at home

“Are you sure you have one?

parents, in, relief last March, more than 58,00 were

70,000 youths who have not worked since

1%5,000 young Canadians who obtain seas yment, but who the) greater part of the the total of unemployed youth in the —

quarter of a million,, ;

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