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The future flourishes.

T= 40th anniversary of the foun-
ding of the first socialist state
"an event of tremendous moment,
Mt only to the peoples of the So-
Met Union, but to the whole world.
ohh Its historic struggles and soc-
list achievements, a world pattern
a 4new human brotherhood, dwel-
Ng together in peace, emerges in
‘en brighter outline. Dedicating
Newledge and science to peaceful
Pursuits, and. making these esen-
tals to progress the common prop-
| “ty of the Soviet people, the uni-
Yersal. well being of all humanity
4 thereby advanced.

Forty years ago the first statu-
| Tory decree passed by the young
Viet republic was the “Decree of
“ace” expressing the will and de-
te of the Soviet Union to live in
Peace and friendship with all peo-
Ples, Not once during these forty
‘toric years has. the Soviet Union
lated from this policy. War is
Not 4 political element of a Social-
< Society, as it is of predatory
“Pitalism, The peace policies of the
Viet Union stand firm and en-
‘ting. In the USSR the atomic
‘ta is hailed, not for power to de-
Noy but for the ability to bring
* golden age of peace and plenty
9 the world. 3

Forty years ago the heritage of
| © young Soviet Union left by
Cratism and capitalist-feudal ex-
reations was a primitive peasant
aety maintained in the dark-
Ras SE illiteracy, ignorance, hunger,
Petstition, brutality and war. To-
fae Soviet Union is one of the
a S greatest industrial nations,
Ng every advanced country of
ae imperialism in scientific
technical “know-how” in uni-

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versity, factory and farm; surpass-
ing all the countries of Europe in
the living standards of its people,
and already well on the way to-
wards surpassing the myth of. clas-
sical American standards. All in 40

years.

As the Sputnik twins of socialist
scientific achievement in the field
of space travel speed their way
around our planet, marking one of
the greatest scientific advances of
all time, millions of working people
in ‘Canada and other countries are
looking at this 40th anniversary, not
merely as an event recording the
progress of the first socialist state,
but with a sense of pride and satis-
faction of something inherently
their own, born of their own class
and expressive of their own hopes
for peace and universal brother-
hood. To them those 40 years of
socialist construction and science
in the Soviet Union is the guaran-
tee of their own socialist future.

Questions for Sloan

Cee with damning ev-
dence of conspiracy and_ brib-
ery in the granting of forest man-

- agement licenses, in which a former

Socred cabinet minister is implicat-
ed, Premier W. A. C. Bennett has
finally been compelled to move by
appointing Chief Justic Gordon
Sloan to investigate the charges
levelled against Robert Sommers,
former minister of lands and for-
ests and still MLA for Trail-Ross-
land. This demand for a public in-
quiry, incidentally, was made by
the LPP when the charges of graft
were first voiced.

Appointment of Sloan is a cli-
max to the Sturdy-Sommers slan-
der suit through which Sommers,
with the aid. of Attorney-General
Robert Bonner, contrived for nearly
two years to gag public opinion,
prevent any examination of his stew-
ardship and preserve the “‘integ-
rity” of the Bennett government
on the hustings.

Whether the Stoan inquiry will
confine itsef to those lumber com-
panies and agencies actually named
in the allegations or extend to an
examination of all forest .manage-

ment licenses issued by the Socred
government remains to be seen.
Sommers’ evasion of the court ac-
tions makes it obvious that only
a full and. thorough investigation
will satisfy public opinion.

There are good grounds for sus-
pecting that the Socred government
has adopted the practice of the dis-
credited Liberal-Conservative Coa.
lition government in handing out
favors to its. friends in return for
considerations. The Social Credit
party spent money lavishly in the
last provincial and federal elections.
Where did that money come from?
What connection is there between
Socred giveaways of natural re-
sources and the apparent affluence
of the Social Credit party at elec.
tion time? And how does this tic
in with the allegations against
Sommers?

Sloan’s investigations will have to
be both thorough and frank. Un-
like the. RCMP reports. on
Sommers, which the public paid for
and only Attorney General Bon-
ner has seen, the inquiry must be
conducted to protect the public
interest, not whitewash the Socred
government. F

Tom
McEwen

HE term “Anti-Semitism,” gen-
T erally meaning “against Jews”
falls far short of adequately des-
cribing this foul mental disease
or its evil effects upon modern
society.

Carriers of this racist plague,
whether in ignorance or conscious
design are no less deadly in any
community than carriers of polio
or other contagious diseases. To
combat the latter society spends
millions of dollars annually in
search of preventive enlightment
and cure, but with anti-Semitism
and similar racist diseases we
still haven’t got beyond an insi-
pid and more or less meaningless
legislative gesture “deploring”
its existence.

When some mentally diseased
individual unlooses a blast of anti-
Semitic poison berating people
of Jewish. origin for all the

or her: (and the disease is more
prevalent among males) as just
another ‘crackpot’. from our
well-stocked lunatic. fringe, and
let it go at that. We seem to have

world’s ills, we smugly label him .

readily forgotten that it was just
such crackpots who stoked the
death ovens of Hitler’s Europe a
little more than a decade ago
with nearly seven million human
beings of Jewish origin.

Nor should we forget, as the
20th congress of the Communist
Party of the Soviet Union made
known to the whole world scarce-
ly two years ago, that even after
38 years of socialist construction
and enlightment, elements of this
foul disease remained, and which
were able to take their toll ef
outstanding men of letters and
culture, not because they were
criminals, but because they were
Jews.

xt x se3

Unlike polio, cancer or other
dreaded plagues which have no
respect of persons or class, anti-
Semitism is a class disease, used
in a thousand different ways but
always with a similar objective;
to facilitate exploitation of the
people by creating confusion and
diversion.

Take the recent Social Credit
provincial convention and the
anti-Semitic tirade of delegate
Percy Young as a casein point.
It is known that many leading
Social Credit spokesmen are rab-
idly anti-Semitic, accepting and
distributing as the credo of their
“beliefs” the infamous ‘Protocols
of Zion,” the same foul “proto-
cols’ which served” as the anti-

_ still hanging around Social Credit

Semitic text books of the Hitler
Reich.

At the Socred convention
Young launched into an anti-
Semitic harangue on “Zionism.”
Zionism, he claimed, has destroy-
ed Christianity, seized control of
our labor unions, our banking in-
stitutions, press and radio, to say
nothing of its “control of nezi-
ism, communism, socialism.” in
fact it has “destroyed” mosi ev-
erything “except “Social Credit.”
It is reported that the convention
“applauded loudly.” No voice of
protest against this shameful
anti-Semitic tirade was heard.
That silence speaks more elo-
quently than words. Nov has it
been broken in post-conventidn.
reflection by any Social Credit
pundit, despite widespread pub-
lic condemnation. ;

Against a background of graft
charges and resources giveaways,
and the stale odor of absconding
police chief Walter Muiligan

government. corridors, this anti-
Semitic foul. air from a Socred
convention . could conceivably
blow Premier Bennett and Attor-
ney General Bonner back into
the obscurity where they ob-
viously. belong; that is, unless
they publicly repudiate the anti-
Semitic ranting. of delegate
Young — and a-convention which,
by its applause, gives unenimous
endorsaiion to racist. hatreds and
ideology!

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November 8, 1957 — PACIFIC TRIBUNE—PAGE 5

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