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JIMMY JOHN ..

BRITISH COLUMBIA totem

pole, carved by a Nootka In-
dian, Jimmy John, has been pre-
sented to the Polish youth organ-
ization. The presentation was
made by Alex Kucher of Burnaby,
oné of four delegates from B.C.
attending the Fifth World Youth
Festival in Warsaw.

By PETER FRYER

The 72-year old Native Indian
carver gave the totem pole to
Kucher as his gift to Polish youth.
“Any festival which brings the
young people of the world to-
gether in friendship is a good
thing,’ he told Kucher. And his
22-year old daughter, Edna, who

. The Thunderbird is the symbol of peace and brotherhood
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B.C. totem pole given to Polish Youth

painted the totem pole, agreed.

Jimmy John pointed out that
the Thunderbird surmounting the
totem pole is the bird of peace
and brotherhood, protecting the
people against evil. “If people
don’t live right, the Thunderbird

will get mad and flap its wings -

like thunder,” he said.

Frederick Engels: socialism is his

IXTY years ago, on August 5,
1895, Frederick Engels, co-
founder with Karl Marx of sci-
entific socialism, died in London
at the age of 75.

Philosopher, economist, mili-
tary strategist, journalist, social-
ist propagandist, scholar, soldier
and political leader, Engels was

a living example of the unity of -

theory and practice that is the
very kernel of the science he
helped to create.

He was at once a thinker who
made profound and daring or-
iginal contributions to the sum
total of human thought—and a
man of action who helped to lead
the working-class movement of
the world for half a century.

His literary output was vast,
his scholarship painstaking and
impeccable, his interests amaz-
ingly broad. He knew ten lan-
guages—and learnt Norwegian at
the age of 70 for the pleasure of
reading Ibsen in the original!

But his study in London’s Re-
gent’s Park Road was no ivory
tower aloof from the world of

human suffering, struggle and re-

volution. From the age of 24
he put both his genius and his
very life at the service of,the

working-class movement.

He played a Jeading part in
the 1849 armed uprisings in Rhe-
nish Prussia and the Palatinate
and fought for liberty in three
battles, remaining at his post till
all was hopelessly lost.

And together with Marx until
the Jatter’s death in 1883, and
afterwards by himself, he’ gave
day-by-day counsel and leader-
ship—in letters and in personal
eontacts—to the leaders of the
socialist movements of Europe
and America. ‘

While Marx was alive it was
probably inevitable that Engels’
own tremendous contributions to
socialism should be overshadow-
ed by those of his great friend
and colleague.

And after Marx’s death Engels
devoted the ‘bulk of his time,
not to his own work, but to the
immense editorial labors that
were necessary before the post-
thumous second and third vol-

umes of Capital could be pub- -

lished.

But notwithstanding his own
modesty, his insistence on playing
second fiddle, Engels was a theor-
ist in his own right’, whose limpid
style, sly humor and fiery pole-
mical style have smoothed the
path to theoretical understand-
ing for generations of young
workers. .

Many young workers have first
grasped their. own and. their
class’s part in the onward march
of humanity on reading his
Socialism, Utopian and Scien-
tific. ;

‘Many have gone on to read the
great work of which that is a part
— Anti-Duhring — and revelled
in the discomfiture of the luck-
less Duhring as he dies the death
of a thousand cuts “ Engels’
hand.

The Condition of the Work-
ing Class in England, doubles
and redoubles our hatred of the
exploiters; The Origin of the
Family and Ludwig Fever-
bach quicken our interest in
history and philosophy; Dialec-
tics of Nature will be a quarry
of ideas for natural scientists
for many years to come.

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Engels has not only helped
the Brttish workers to know

themselves as a class, to substi-
tute science for dreams. He
played a part of great importance
in the development of the Bri-
tish labor movement.

Every step forward by the Bri-
tish workers, however tiny and
groping, Engels studied with
keen interest and joy.

He loved the land of his exile.
He loved its people, and ‘firmly
believed in their ability to build
a new dife. Who can doubt it
when he wrote of:

“The peculiar courage of the
English, his obstinate, uncon-
querable courage of men who
surrender to force only when all
resistance would be aimless and
unmeaning,”

And he added, with superb
confidence that shall yet be justi-
fied:

“People who endure so much
to bend one single bourgeois
will be able to break the power
-of the whole bourgeoisie.”

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Engels was not only a ‘political
leader and theorist. He was a
human being with the strengths
and weaknesses, the likes and
Cislikes, of a human being.

He enjoyed life to the full. He
admired the: eyes of pretty Bur-
gundian girls as much as he loved
a glass or two—or a bottle or two
—of the wine of Burgundy. He
delighted in the thrills of fox-
hunting—under the transparent
pretext that it was good practice
for serving in the cavalry during
the revolution!

At the same time this son of a
wealthy manufacturer could
make considerable financial sacri-

By JOHN STEWART

City planners shou
see the new Moscow

'VER think what it would be like
* in cities like Montreal or To-
ronto to start tearing down all
the old slum areas, the ancient,
‘broken-down. buildings, widen
the streets, renew the places of
history — and rebuild a «city?
Multiply the problem by ten and
you have a
picture. of
what’s happen-
ing in this tre-
mendous city
. the popu-
lation of which’
won’t be
known until
the new cen-
sus is taken,
but which
surely must be over eight million
people.

I’ve so far seen only a glimpse
of Moscow, but a glimpse is all
one needs here to see what is
happening. Building, building
everywhere. The old yields to
the new. Blocks of apartments
going up; a skyline filled with
high derricks. True, one has
seen many pictures of this in
Soviet magazines, but it has to
be seen with the eye to under-
stand the magnitude of the task,
and the great concept of socialist
planning.

Already the drive in from the
airport along a tree-lined high-
way, a morning walk and a sight-
seeing tour from the magnificent

monument

ee Ve
FREDERICK ENGELS

fices to help Marx carry out his
great life-work. And the biggest
sacrifice of. all was remaining
chained to the desk of his fath-
er’s office so that Marx could
eat and drink and buy books.

‘There is not one of us who can-
not learn from Engels’ warm hu-
manity, from his devotion to the
working class, from his love for
the oppressed and exploited all
over the world. ,

His writings, informed by the
strictest scientific consistency,
brimming over with humanism,
are a treasury for every militant
worker who wants to equip him-
self to serve his class. .

Engels’ lively interest in every
new scientific discovery, in his-
tory, philology, military science,
philosophy and the daily lives of
the common people, is a shining
example to all who aspire to
become all-round cultured people.

And he would have desired no
better monument than the vic-
tory over one-third of the earth
of the class he served.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — AUGUST 12, 1955 —

, Magnitude of the task, 00!

Hotel Sovietskaya, reveal the con
trasts of the new crowding om
the accumulation of the centuries
—for this city is more that
years old and has seen too many
wars.

The old “timber houses” s
they call them here, are “ish
pearing. A block of them stands
here while behind them 20— up
apartment houses that often Took
like modern palaces. Whole arets
are torn down and a new squat
and park comes into being:
the Lenin Hills to the south:
west an entire village Wa5 uF
rooted to make way for the
buildings that accommodate ™
22,000 students from all pars
the USSR. Everyone's move
southwest.

And it’s all according to, 2 ™*
ter plan. . . started in 1992 e
be finished by 1961. And # ee
recently announced success % ~
fourth five year plan is aY a
terion, the job will be don® |

1960—though when one sees
e wor

ders how... until. .

" You see (and get nat amet

the millions of people of ney
cow. They are prosperous: wintel
do not look forward to 2 ¥ i
of unemployment; and they
not affraid of work.

They are buying every Le
. and the biggest ae side
window shoppers I saw ® ba
the GUM department ae oad test
Square were looking at the ©
models of radio- Sonos ON
hinations and TV sets (yes eres
already have color et)’
thought not: on a big scale ¥
The prices? Seemingly His?
yet they can’t fill the dem@

pS rept 2 ean. (2!

But en this, my first day in a
Soviet Union, there was one
cial place I wanted to vist of
—the Lenin-Stalin Mausoleu™ ot

Red Square... the squ ba: a
once was the market Paitio®

place of great beauty,
and history.

fot
Red to the Slavic peopl ye?
centuries has meant beau ue o the?
is why it means so much to puild din
today, for they are
beauty, in stone and conc
in human flesh and blo

t!
You stop for a moment a

foot of Vladimir Iyich’s bi zest
There is the man whose © ee of
changed the whole cour et 20%
human history .. - quieis jeft
his right hand clenched, ere eH
relaxed . . . who has Jai?

repose for nigh on 32 ¥é aie i
his mighty words are trans “once?!
into deeds and his great © ih
of a world living in peace na god
out slavery and exploitation, us
poverty swiftly coming

Next to him now is ae
Vissarionovich, Lenin’s 8 sive gle
viple and colleague in re

. both hands lying in ing i

. his strong face seme _ aod
though about to speak aed
you remember his w2 - est
that became the human
brought the Big Four
Géneva: “Peace will babies 1d t take
if the peoples of the ies p
the cause of peace’ into the end
hands and defend i to as

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its grand ‘concept in!
teaching that in the su cia
the nation lies the path

ism.

A day long to be remem
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