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Editor, Pacific Advocate:

I’ was heartened a few weeks
ago to read a column on race
prejudice in your paper. While
in this country, and especially
in the west, it is often felt that
no race prejudice exists, it is
wise to be always on guard to
fight against this evil and to
ceaselessly campaign against
any outgrowths of racial pre-
judice in our daily life.

Almost every day vne hears
reference made to “chinks,”
“bohunks,” “kikes,” and all of
the other poinsonous terms us-
ually levelled at members of
“inferior” .races by our lily-
white citizens with superman
mentalities. While most of us
don’t notice them, possibly be-

-eause we use the terms our-

selves, they represent the first
taint of a mental attitude which
can only lead to the active prac-
tice of racial prejudice based on
a false sense of superiority.

We have just been through
a war against fascism, which
fostered hatred of man by man.
Fascism-found its base in the
persecution of “inferior” peo-
ple by so-called “superior” peo-
ple. Fascism meant the almost
complete extermination of one
of the oldest racial groups, the
Jewish people.

If racial hatred and preju-
dice are permitted to exist and
flourish after a war which cost
millions of human lives, it can
honestly be said that many of
those lives were lost in vain.
For many of those lives were
the lives of Chinese, Jewish,
Negro, Slav, and many other
of the ‘inferior’ peoples of the
world, and surely these did not
die to preserve the right of any
group to impose its superiority
on another.

A healthy sign is the devel-
opment of new groups dedicated
to racial education and. the pro-
motion of racial friendship and
equal rights. A banquet is ad-
vertised in the press which is
being held by a group called the
Institute for Inter- Racial Fri-
endship.

2
Let us hope that such signs

are harbingers of that new day
when the men of the world will

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taised over Berlin courthouse where Allied

will meet. L to R: British Field Marshal
swiet Marshal Zhukov,
ch Gen. Koenig.

U.S. Gen. Eisen-

ADVOCATE — PAGE 5

HURUUDOUDAUERCURERDCRETUCECUSLERRASES TESOL ELELCEL EOE E,

recognize their common destiny
as workers all, with the same
yearning for freedom and mu-
tual respect of all men’s equal-
ity.

“JOHN EVERYMAN”

Close Ranks

_ Editor, Pacific Advocate:

Since the mass layoffs began,
following immediately on the
heels of the Allied Victory in

the Pacific, an ominous pattern
has developed which threatens
to reach into the lives of every
worker in the North American
continent, if steps are not taken
at once to combat it. This pat-
tern is the obvious provocation
which reactionary industrialists
are confronting organized labor
with, and which has led to in-
creasing industrial tension and
strife throughout both Canada
and the United States.

It is not so long since trade

unionists, recognizing their re-
sponsibilities in the all-out
struggle against oppression, re-
linquished their right of strike
voluntarily to assure an unin-
terrupted flow of war materials
to the embattled legions of man-
kind closed in combat with the
forees of retrogression and re-
turn to the dark ages. It was
only the workers’ sincere de-
sire to go all out for victory
that enabled us to emerge from
the war victorious. It was
through the workers’ willing-
ness to stick to his guns that
the nations of democracy won
the war.

Today, but a few short weeks

since aggression was battered
into the dust of ignominious
defeat, reactionary industrial-
ists are ignoring their respon-
sibilities in the fight to win
the peace and are preparing to
lock in combat with labor, in
order to thrust labor back into
the swamps of poverty and
weakness from which it em-
erged to fight fascism.

But reaction will find -that
labor is better prepared than
ever before to battle for those
things that hundreds of work-
ers and the people gave their
lives for. During the war, the
workers have found a new soli-
darity, a new unity of purpose,
that has given them maturity
and strength far beyond that of
any previous period.

Reaction is taking on a major
job if it believes that it can
smash the unions, wipe out war-
time gains of organized labor,
and drive the workers back in-
to the period of the hungry
thirties. But reactions’ job will
be made much more difficult if
labor is truly united, in the
political field as well as the
economic field.

Workers must find unity to-
day. Unity through the course
of the war made the workers
strong. Unity through the
course of the war welded the
United Nations into a solid
front against fascism. Unity to-
day can weld the working class
into a solid front against the
onslaughts of reaction. Unity
must be achieved. Workers must
determine that they shall go
to the polls united for victory
in the peace, to ensure that the
hard-won gains of the war may
be held against all attacks.

JAMES PARTRIDGE.

ERERSegursesrs

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More About Housing!

EA ISLAND is a long way out from the city if one has to travel to

and fro daily to work. It must be all of six miles. That was one

of the reasons why thomeless people objected to being exiled to that

part of Siberia when our City Fathers and the Emergency Housing Ad-

ministrator cooked up the scheme of sending them out there to colon-
ize the hut settlement deserted by the army.

CCF Big-wigs in Saskatchewan, however, have gone one better
than the Sea Island idea. Reconstruction Minister-J. H. Sturdy, of that
alleged Socialist Government, stated a week ago that the Saskatchewan
government is considering the feasibility of the Regina Citizens’ Re-
habilitation committee suggestion that 200 cottages at.Regina Beach.
40 miles out from Regina, should be ‘winterized’ for use of veterans’
families. The plan includes special trains at re educed rates from the.
Beach to Regina.

This plan is only suggested, it is only a proposal. It is not actually
in the stage where we can lcok for something tangible developing im-
mediately. In fact, it is only in the discussion stage, where, let us hope
it never gets out of. ~

That such a scheme is even being discussed, considered, by a de-
partment of a responsible, so-called Socialist government is indicative
of a most cynical attitude to the problems of the veterans and other
workers who have been squeezed out of homes by the failure of indi-

-vidual and private enterprise and the lack of enterprise by local, pro-

vincial and federal governments, no matter what labels they bear.

Forty-five minutes from Broadway, might be OK for the gilded
flit-by-nights who inhabit the shores of Long Island Sound and other
far-away suburbs of Gotham, but for the returning veterans who have
to earn a living, as 99 out of every 100’ of them have to do, to ask them
to live in rat-traps 40 miles out on the Saskatchewan gumbo, is a most
insulting gesture from a government which proclaims itself to be the
champion of the workers and farmers.

Seottish and English Liberals used to say, “Keep your eye on
Paisley,’ meaning that the country should follow the example of that
Seottish town. Socialists in Canada, may with profit to themselves.
paraphrase that slogan and say, “Keep your eye on Saskatchewan,”
meaning we should not do as they do in Saskatchewan.

Race Hatred

HE race hatred practices in the program of the Nazis got a body blow

a couple of weeks ago. Following close on the military defeat of

Nazism, the props were knocked from under all the basic ideas that
constituted its “philosophy,” the “superior race’ particularly.

.. The Red Army of the.‘‘despised”’ Slavs proved to be much the-su-
perior of that of the “supermen” and now we learn of another of the
“despised” races taking its rightful place right in the heart of what
was once Hitler’s stamping ground, in Berlin.

The Berlin Philharmonic Orchesthra, pride of musical Berlin
and Germany, which had been ‘ cleansed, purified, purged, gleichges-
halted” by the Nazis while they held the whip, of all- ‘non-Aryan”
taints in its conductors and instrumentalists, was conducted at the
beginning of this month by a Negro press cerrespondent, Rudolph
Dunbar of of New York City.

Dunbar conducted the orchestra in the playing of Tchaikovsky’s
Sxith Symphony and Grant Still’’s Afro-American Symphony before
an audience of 2000 German civilians and Allied servicemen.

This change after 12 years of Nazi domination, of German ‘Kultur’

‘is a measure of the victory the allied forces of democracy have gained

over reactionary fascism.

But the fact that a brilliant young Negro musician has wielded
the baton in a performance of the orchestra of which the Germans were
most proud, at the end of a dozen years of Hitlerite hate, does nect
mean that fascism has been extirpated.

These 12 years saw the murder of 5,700,000 Jews: by the Nazis: 60
per cent of the pre-war Jewish population of Europe. Millions of Slav
peoples have died, on the battlefield and in civil pursuits.

Millions of others despised by the “‘supermen,” British, French
Dutch, Norwegian, American, African, both Arab and Negro,
Chinese, Philipino, Polynesian, Milanesian and others, were murder-
ed in one way or other because of the dreams of the reactionaries
whose spokesman and agent Hitler was. Such is the end preduct
of race discrimination.

That, of course, was in the past. Although the immediate past, it is
still the past. And the past is in the present as it is also in the
future. So it would be foolish of us to cheat ourselves into the belief
that the Negro, Rudolph Dunbar, conducting an orchestra of “Aryan
musikers’”’ is a symbol for us that fascism is dead—the fascism of the
Nazis that dug up out of the Middle Ages and what should remain the
dead past, the headsman’s axe and the block, the bonfire and the tor-
ture chamber.

It will be well for us that we take heed of the danger that lies in
such a misconception; for in the past week we were brought face to
face with it here in our own country.

Cardinal Villeneuve, the highest dignitary of the Roman Catholic
church in Canada, speaking at some social function of his church,
pleaded for a restoration of more of the Middle Ages. He would have
us embody in our social set-up the same “corporatism or professional
guilds” which were the basis of Mussolini’s fascist state.

He, as reported by the Canadian Press, would have us believe that
his “corporate state’ is different from that of Italy and Germany and
of that ‘under another name in Russia.” In his corporate state, ‘ the
voice of the worker and the employer will speak to the government.”
What government?

Do not forget that Cardinal Villeneuve took part in the opening
ceremonies of the first fascist government in North America, that of
the first Duplessis Quebec provincial government, the government of
the infamous “padlock law.” On that day, Cardinal Villeneuve sat
on a golden throne high above any one else in the chamber and he sat
there not as a representative of the people of Quebec but of the church
whose voice he is in Canada.

‘And there is no “corporate state” in Russia, never was and never
will be!

SEPT.

SATURDAY, 29, 1945