TOM McEWEN, Editor — HAL GRIFFIN, Associate Editor — RITA WHYTE, Business Manager. | | ‘ eee Published weekly by the Tribune Publishing Company Ltd. at Room 6, 426 Main Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. — MArine 5288 Canada and British Commonwealih countries (except Australia), 1 year $3.00, 6 months $1.60. Australia, U.S., and all other countries, 1 year $4.00, 6 months $2.50. - Authorized as second ‘class mail, Post Office Department, Ottawa Printed by Union Printers Ltd., 550 Powell Street, Vancouver 4, B.C. McEwen “TWENTY-four years ago this week _ eight men were hustled into the Prisoner’s dock in a Toronto court, Charged under Section 98 of the Criminal Code (old style) with being Members of an unlawful organization, : ; Wit, the Communist Party of Can- a a.” Each of the eight men had an escort of two beefy and heavily-armed police- Men, while every window, door and Corridor of that vast house of law and finely-tailored politics fairly bristled With gun-toting cops. If one of those Sight men required to go to the toilet, ne heavily-armed cops accompanied ™. ~“Oyez, Oyez; Oyez,” intoned the black-robed mace-bearer, his eyes “urned reverently towards the ceiling, While the trial judge, Mr.. Justice "Tight, carrying an excess weight of Wdicial blubber, waddled in and took IS seat. Having given the eight “prisoners- at-the-bar” an oppropriate scowl Mr. ““Ustice Wright motioned to the crown Ounsel for to proceed and show “just “ause” why a machinist, a blacksmith, 4 Carpenter, a music teacher, two Hlors, a hardrock miner and an un- Smployed youth, shouldn’t be per- ™ahently isolated from society. quiring no second bidding, crown - “Ounsel set about his job like a hungry dog unearthing a stale bone, and kept SOing for eight days. With a fine attempt at melodrama he strutted and Pranced, ‘backwards and forwards, his Voluminous black gown billowing with the force of his own wind. © him (and those he spoke for) these eight men were “foreign agents — .;»Working night and day under in- Structions from Mos...COW to upset € peace, order and good Tory govern- Ment of Richard Bedford “Iron Heel” Rhett. Crown counsel referred often 'o “Mos... COW,” with great emphasis ‘Won the “...C OW.” It helped to add arPosphere in a ceremony staged to mover Communism its final “death w,”? I Th Such cases, as U.S. Senator Joe “McCarthy could certainly verify, “at- "osphere” is a vitally important stage an, and sométhing else had to be C ded to the loud emphasis on “Mos... Row.” With due ceremony they Repent it in, all decked out in an staff sergeant’s uniform, a man patted Leopold, nee Jack Esselwein, a : €ry nervous and very debauched stool eee? to pep up the “atmosphere.” , 84ly symbolic, since stoolpigeons Moe always associated with stale at- ‘spheres, | ee eee : ao this was 24 years ago this week, “€n the forces of reaction in this ath combined to give Communism wh death blow” in Canada and else- Alere, as Judge said, “Five years,” and in- th ‘ated to the eight working men that ties Could consider themselves for- lane not to be hanged. Tim Buck, of aa of those eight men, and of tens Co housands the judge and his “Mos... Sai warbling cohorts couldn’t see, Ad, “lif this trial serves to lift to vmunism from a street-corner debate Pata issue. of vital importance to all — ““epile, it will have served its purpose.” € eight working men were % 3h doin: . > ey ss & time” the party they repre- a tae increased its membership four | Ang ,28 & result of this “death blow”. Cow today all roads lead to “Mos... Pe tay regardless, _ _ All in 24 short years. ” Yee VE X43 INTERNATIONAL WHEAT CONFERENCE 4 “Stop watching us, . you subversive, you } foot “CAPITALISM j WHEAT SUKPLUS “x x THE OTHER GENEVA CONFERENCE New member for the UN eae long-standing problem of membership in the United Nations is again in the headlines. Actually it should be no problem at all, but rather something to be hailed by all as a happy augury for lasting peace. Applications for membership by 18 nations, 13 of them sponsored by the Western Powers and five by the Soviet Union, are on the agenda. Presenting these in terms of a ‘‘deal,’” the daily press adheres to the concept that the UN is an arena for U.S. power politics, rather than a centre of the growing unity of all nations for the con- cepts which give it birth. The People’s Republic of China is not even included’ among these 18 new applicants—a nation and government of 600-million people, deliberately excluded from the UN by Western “‘diplomacy’’ which clings to the untenable po- sition that China is répresented on the UN by the US-controlled rump regime of Chiang Kia-shek — on Formosa. If the Geneva conferences mean anything, they mean the urgent need to end such power politics within the UN based on cold war concepts. They mean the trans formation of the UN into a great world collective for peace and | progress, with its door open to all seeking an opportunity to work as part of a great world organization for human wellbeing. : ‘Such power politics wrecked the League of Nations. Humanity shouldn’t repeat the tragedy, when it can be so easily avoided by open- ing the UN doors to all nations seeking entry to work for the common good. Vice holds no shame for NPA TVIG Non-Partisan Associa- tion president John Dunsmuir boasted at the NPA annual ban- quet this week that “NPA civic government is the best . . . and we are the envy of every city in Can- adage), Vancouver voters could digest the fruit cocktails, roast beef and other delicacies gracing the NPA banquet table, but such oratory extrolling a regime of graft, cor’ ruption, inefficiency, maladminis tration and political chicanery is enough to make any but a case- hardened NPA member gag. ‘The gathering endorsed the NPA's full slate of nominees, in- itading Vancouver Trades and Labor Council’s choice for alder- matic office, Everett King, but it switched this “‘labor’’ candidate to the NPA parks board slate. This political juggling points up the role of the labor opportunists and affords an example of how big business uses. them to divide and weaken labor's independent poli- tical action. — Continued NPA rule ss the city hall means a continuation of graft and maladministration. To rid themselves of the political machine which has fastened itself upon them voters have only one choice: to unite their vote around Civic Reform. and other pro gressive candidates. Hal Griffin YY Saturday, as long as we have lived at the house, Wong Lee has .been calling around, a thin little man whose stoop seems to make him even: smaller than he is. . His face is weathered and‘ creased and ageless. He might be fifty and again he might be eighty—he has ’mever told us and we have never asked. But from the things he has mentioned, the rare glimpse he gives us of himself as his customers never see him, we know he must be well over seventy. ‘ His hands tell his story. Once they must have been small and_ finely boned. But years of working on river bars, washing dishes in up-country restaurants and working in the fields in all weathers have stiffened and gnarled them like the twigs of an old oak. : : & Often it is dark by the time he gets to our house and we know he must be tired even for a man who has never worked less than a 12-hour day ever) since he toiled in a landlord’s fields in China as a boy. We hear his Model T Ford chugging up the hill and the scrunch of gravel on the driveway. Then he is at the door, smiling, infinitely patient, as though he did not face a long drive across the city in a truck wellnigh half as. old as himself. Some time after the First World War he learned to drive a Model T and he has never driven anything else. I doubt if he has ever gone more than 30 miles an hour. Once I asked him why he didn’t get a more modern truck and he explained to me in his broken English, “No need go fast. I like this. I wear out many times, you know.” 53 x xt Wong Lee is part of a vanishing generation of Chinese whose contri- bution to the building of our country, and of this province in particular, is the equal of any group. They came here, most of them, to work long hours at low wages in the coal and hardrock mines, on the: rail- roads and in the fields.. They knew, as few others have known, what it was to be exploited. Theirs was a double exploitation, the exploitation of the companies and of their own petty bosses. ; Out of fear of deportation and in their own ignorance of the ways of the country, they were used as cheap labor and the antagonism this aroused ‘against them in the organized labor movement isolated them further and prevented them from organizing. So tragically, the so-called Oriental issue, fanned by the very companies that exploited the Chinese, divided the labor movement and was used by jingoistic politicians to advance anti- labor policies. : The issue is almost dead today: but the scars it has left still obscure the contribution these Chinese immigrants made to the building of a province. Between Wong Lee and the third ‘generation Chinese-Canadians there is a gulf, yet not so wide that pride in the achievements of the New China cannot bridge it. When I showed the old man a picture of Chinese youth in China Reconstructs his face lit up with a proud smile: “Good,” he said. “J know how good.” - Ses PACIFIC TRIBUNE — NOVEMBER 18, 1955 — PAGE 5