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S.fic Tribune:-

ity council, after
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we Should build in
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esure at this time,
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pd up by just one
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she situation there
Segerated and that
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wopsiderably eased.

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€ present time and
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> W. A. Gordon,

City Clerk.

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activity and there
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sresards, —T remain,
fidely yours, :
‘aR A. HLMORE.

meen the trend up.

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A “Free” Press—

Editor, The Tribune: ~

Qne of America’s oldest and
most beloved journalists was
being tendered a banquet by
his fellow-editors, and gave his
hosts a. bit of a jolt with his
views on a “free” press:

“There is no such thing in
America as an independent
press, unless it is in the coun-
try towns. ;

You know it and I know it.
There is not one of you who
dares to write his honest opin-
ions, and if you did you know
beforehand that it would never
appear in print.

fi am paid $150.00 a week for
keeping my honest opinions
out of the paper T am connec-
ted with—others of you are

paid similar salaries fér sim- -

ilar things—and © any of you
who would be so foolish as to
write his honest opinions would
be out on the streets looking
for anothér job.

The business of a New York
journalist is to destroy the
truth, to die outright, to per-
vert, to villify, to fawn at the
feet of Mammon, and to sell
his race and ¢his country for
his daily bread.

_You know this and I know
it, and what folly is this to
be toasting an “Independent
Press.”

We are the tools and vas-
sals of rich men behind the
scenes. We are the jumping-
jacks; they pull the strings and
we dance. Qur talents, our pos-
Sibilities and our lives are all
the property of other men. We
are intellectual prostitutes.”

I don’t think it has improvy-

“€d a great deal in the interim.

DR. W. J. CURRY.

Civic Improvement

Editor, The Tribune,
Sir-

As instructed by, the last
membership meeting of my club
i have written to the traffic
manager of the B.C. Hilectric
and requested the following im-
provements, by the B.C. FElec-
tric Railway, for our commun-
ity:

@ A bus shelter at Hastings
and Renfrew, on the southwest
corner. ~ €

@ A tram shelter at Nanaimo
and Second Avenue.

@ improved trackage on
Hastings between Renfrew and
Cassiar.

Writing on behalf of our
membership, I call upon all
citizens of our fine community
to lend their weight to these
modest requirements. We are
proud of our communitys rec-
erd for public service and sup-
port of community endeavors,
and we hope that all citizens
who read this letter will lend
their weight towards obtaining
the improvements listed, thus
making the community a better
one to live in and visit.

If you are interested in help-
ing, please do one or all of the
following:

@ Write to the traffic man-
ager of the B.C. Electric Rail-
way, at 425 Carrall Street, City.

@ Write to your daily paper.

@ Raise the question in your

CIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 5

Chiyinint

You Please.

community organization and ask
them to send a letter to the
B.C.E.R.

@ Write to the LPP in your
community for further inform-

> ation.

e) Wateh for further an-
nouncements in your Own com-
munity.

Sincerely yours,

(Jack Phillips),

Executive Secretary.

Fear Unity

EHiditor, Pacifie Tribune:

Zi note in a number of Ens-
lish newspapers, and especially
in some labor party papers, a
eoncern about the possibility
of communist-labor unity at
the coming Labor Party con-
ference. The labor party cab-
inet members and some of the
front-benchers are getting bad-
ly worried, and talk about “re-
considering their position”
“possibilities of coalition goyv-
ernment” ete. This. seems
queer talk for socialists.

Bevin, Greenwood and others

regard the possibility of com- -

munist-labor unity as a major
ealamity. It is an open secret
in British political cireles, that
Bevin and some of his col-
leagues would prefer unity
with the tories to that of the
communists. However, the rank
and file labor parties have dif-
ferent viewS on the subject.
There will be a big vote for
unity in unions such as the
Miners’ Federation, Transport
Workers, Amalgamated HEngin-
eers, etc., in spite of all that
the Bevins can do to stop it.

It would seem to me that,
with the tories on the war-
path, and beckoning to their
kind in America, that only the
greatest unity of the British
working class, through the
medium of their major politi-
Cal parties and trade unions,
can defeat the war-mongering
tories.

it may be of course that a
buneh of the top labor leaders,
in the event of labor-commun-
ist unity going through, may
desert the Tabor party and
seel: to split it in the process.
After Greece and Indonesia, to
say nothing of anti-Soviet pro-
vocations . (Iran, spies, etc.),
one can expect most anything.
However, the worries of the
top labor shots at the fear of
unity, is a good sign that unity
down below is growing.

Here’s hoping,

J. DONOVAN.

EDITOR’S NOTE: We would
like to appeal to our corres-
pondents to try and limit their
letters to this column to not
more than one page. We would
much prefer the writer to prac-
tice being brief, rather than
for the editorial department to
use the scissors. This column
invites correspondence on all
matters pertaining to progress,
but we cannot publish unsign-
ed letters. If correspondents do
not desire their names to be
published, they can so indicate
in their letters. And again, be
as brief and pungent as pos-
sible.

| Short Jabs » o si

Barereoes:

Streamlined it is changed days for the once powerful English

Tory party. Lhe lords who converted their estates
inte “businesses” to ‘avoid Paying death duties, the brewers, the muni-
tion makers, the gun forgers and other fomentors of imperialist war
whose largesse once provided the Tory party with the sinéws of war,
are apparently deserting them. Their deluded supporters among the
Einglish workers and farm laborers, if there are any, are no longer to
find in the Tory slush funds, the bribes, however small, that made
them traitors te their own class.

A revolution in the Tory conception of a party has just taken
Place. From now on, every member of that old party of reaction is
to become a dues-paying member to the tune of, at least, one shilling
per month, just like any working class party which has no war-
mongers or lords, spiritual or temporal, to keep it in funds.

This is, no doubt, in the minds of the Col Blimps, a process of
“Gemocratizing the party.” They must take some steps to remedy the
horrible fate that has overtaken the Mother of Parliaments.

Sir John Jarvis, hide-bound Tory member for one of the T.ondon
boroughs, spoke for the whole tribe of 18th century fossils when he
told some of his constituents, “It is a poor house indeed, to thosé
who have known Parliament at its zenith. It is a noisy government.
There are far too many rude people there ... From the government
benches every day, there come laughs and jeers as if their supporters
were at a smoking concert.” (That sounds like Mackenzie King talk-
ing to the CCL delegation, does it not?)

Stricken with consternation, as these poor “gentlemen of England” '

are, at the change in the beloved rest-home in which they have slept
for so long, waking only to do the bidding of the party whip; from
which they have dominated and ruled over the British workers, it is
quite natural that in streamlining their party program that it should
be in line with their 18th century outlook.

That program in its entirety is: (1) To discredit the Labor govern-
ment in its policies. (2) To emphasize the Communist menace, both
an home and foreign policy.

The revamped Hnglish Tory party is a sign of the times—and a
£ood one.

ChE - = af The first joke to come out of Greece in

A Fair Election Six years is a tragic one for the Greek
people. These loud-mouthed exponents of British and American
democracy, Bevin and Byrnes, are consistent in their aversion to
interference in the domestic affairs of other peoples when fascist Spain
is being discussed. But Greece is different. The Greeks had already
expelled the fascists from their land. Interference in the domestic
affairs of that country, is all right with Bevin and Byrnes, so inter-
ference is what they got.

An organization with an alphabet soup name, made up of 1500
British and American snoopers and spies, Supported by 50,000 British
bayonets with the necessary complement of cannons, tanks, planes
and so forth, were planted in_the heart of the country by:the afore-
mentiened democrats, to ensure that the first post-war elections would
be “fair” (British fair play, don’t cha know), and the Greek people
get “the kind of government they desired.”

The results are to hand now, but the “democrats” are mystified.
Something has gone wrong. The control seems to have slipped. The
results are just what the Bevin-Byrnes democrats hoped and worked
for. The fascist elements are in control. But the figures exposed the
“fair” nature of the election.

Unfortunately for them, the phoney character of their alphabet
soup election commission is demonstrated to the man in the street.
The figures published show that the election was a swindle and that
the alphabet soup commission is guilty of complicity in that fraud on
the Greek people is beyond doubt. :

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The London Times reports that an official statement for the whole
of Greece, except 200 polls not yet tabulated, gives the four most
reactionary parties 47,000 more votes than the total for the whole
country. That is the joke. The alphabet «soup, “fair” election com-
mission, apparently did not take heed of the statement of the Greek
people, published in Pravda, that there were 700,000 names of dead
people on the election lists. ;

The election was carried out at the dictation of the imperialistic
Liaborite Bevin against the wishes of the Greek people and even of
the Greek premier, Sophoulis. But the Royalists must win to suit
Bevin, so the election had to go on—under conditions which allowed

reactionary individuals to vote four, five or even ten times, according.

to a statement by a Greek patriot.

Only 60 per cent of the electors voted. In the countries that Bevin
and his Labor government do not like, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and
Rumania, the percentage ran from 89 to 99.

“Non-nterference in the domestic affairs of qa country,” according
to the scoundrel, Bevin, means refraining from taking action in a
country where fascism is im contre] and leaving the common people
to the tender mercies of murderers like Franco and butting in when
the people are progressive enough to chase the fascists out themselves,

The next chapter may be written in June at the conference of the
Labor Party. let's hope the Labor Party does the right thing.

ERIDAY, APRIL 19, 1946

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