On Popplewell H¥ditor, Pacific Tribune: Just having read Popplewell’s “bouquet,” and in order to keep you from getting a swelled bead, am sending a brickbat. Wot belonging to any political party, this contribution is based entirely on past and current world events. Maybe Popple wells “jack-in-the-box” is right, since your paper and your people are eternally popping up wherever there is a workers’ struggle going on for better liv- ing, conditions. — i started getting your paper Somewhere around 1932 (a trial subscription) and have had it Since. My sub runs out about Oct. 1946 and it will be im- mediately renewed since I am sure your paper will still have the Same integrity and consis— tency as at present. You have been turned from the “beaten path” by being inimical to the vested interests, and I am sure no CCE paper will ever be dis— turbed for that cause J. BINGHAM. And Again Hiditor, Pacific Tribune: Z read your last Pacific Tri- bune and especially Merry Popplewell’s letter on confusion, weeping and political Jack-in- the Box, and the sea of mad- ness and how we are off the beam—the CCE beam! @f course TE will admit to Mr. Popplewell that the CCE party has surpassed the LPP with energy and enthusiasm, but only om one occasion, and that was when they voted ‘“Yes’ in the federal house on their $2,000.00 tax free raise, and if Mr. H. Popplewell reads the CCF News he will Know that the $2.000:00 robbery was one of the import- ant items that the €CE discuss- ~ ed and agreed upon at their convention before it was even imtreduced in parliament! Are you still on the beam Mr. Popplewell? If so, you must have forgotten the recent dis- ® ar cussion in Ottawa on our loan to Britain. One CCE member gets up and constructively ar- gues “that “Canada’s generous loans and gifts to Britain more than slowed up the terrible in-= justice done fo Canadians in the. inadequate old age pensions and other social services. And Mr. Popplewell’s “Very Much Off the Beam Coldwell” jumps to his feet and says “That man is speaking for himself and not for the CCF party.” Such a political Jack in the Box. At the finish of his letter, Kir Pepplewell enclosed 4c to cover the cost of the extra Tribune he had received, and cancelled his subscription. I am enclosing $1.00 to re new my subscription and an- other $1.00 as a donation with _ one string attached. Please see Mr. Popplewell gets another edition af the Pacific Tribune. The edition that this letter is printed in. - P. W. STARR. Fernie, B.C. Another Opinion Editor, Pacific Tribune: Every time I get a copy of the “Pacific Tribune”? I am Shocked by “This is Your aepartment, write what you please,” and would like to know the idea for treating your cor- respondents as nuts and luna- tics? I would suggest that you change that stupid heading and replace it with something more intelligent and more respectful for your readers such as: “What is your opinion?” “To The Edi- tor,’’ “‘Correspondence”, etc. I believe Mr. Editor, it would be a great improvement and your readers would enjoy and Support the “Pacific Tribune” more readily. R. G VEREL. Victoria, B.C. You Pleae. Selective Service Editor, Pacific Tribune: Now that we have had one or two articles in your paper of the Octopus type and who controls B.C. it would probably be good to answer an editorial published in the Sun a few weeks ago about the Unemploy- ment Insurance Commission. This Man had been going back | Your Departinent and forth for six weeks and. wanted to know how long he would have to wait for results so here is the answer I memor ized from a magazine a couple of years ago: The Selective Service sent for me, So here IE am, quite faithfully. Wye been in line since early dawn, And now that night is rolling on iM soon be in to see the man who shapes my destiny. The moments here, I quake and Squirm, Majestic tones say, “Come in worm; Where’s your insurance pbook, you jerk, i hear you’ve gone and quit your work And now, you come to bother me— Don’t expect my sympathy. A tool and die man you pro- claim, A buck an hour? Why you're insane. Now for 50 cents an hour, Pll give you a job as garbage man; What! You refuse my royal command. : Til call the cops to give a hand. Or better still, I'll set you free. But when you’re broke, come back to me. Now if you'll just fill out a form. And prove to us that you were zi born, With. bright red tape we'll tie it down And send it to some far off town. Eventually, we'll let you know That you—will never get your dough. _ The Trial Of Rats The Security Council Investigates By HARRISON GEORGE -T would seem that the 1 United Nations should in- vestigate hell, to see if it is hot. Dhere’s as much sense in so doing as in in- vestigating Fascist Spain to see if it is a danger to world peace. @Qn March 22 the Washington columnist Drew Pearson report- ed that the U.S. state depart- ment has proof that leading italian fascists fled to Spain when italy got hot, taking great Sums of money. Now, with Branco’s help, they are using that money from, Spain to org- anize a new fascist underground in Italy. is that a danger to peace? i think so. But the U.S. state department apparently isn’t sure. Investigations are an ancient form of dodging one’s duty. Even Walter Winchell says that the state department has 500,000 pages of proof that Spain is a threat to world peace, but is suppressing this proof. The same goes for Britain. And the accusation, Made by Drew Pearson, that Sir Alex- ander Cadogan, British dele- gate to the UN, had received crders from London to “delay 2nd complicate” the question of “Spain in the Security Council, is proving to have been follow- @d by Cadogan. His and Stet- PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE & tinius’ stooges on the Council are doing just that. The British ordered delay “‘un- til Spain can fix up something.” And it is to be noted that Spain itself suggested that it be “investigated.”” So the Coun- cil decides to “investigate.” Gromyko Slashed away at such evasion last week, point- ing out that this sort of “non- intervention” had aie pretty smelly history. After the Japanese seized Manchuria, in 1931, the League of Nations “seized upon this way out as if it were a life belt, though there was nothing really to inquire about,” said Gromyko. “Although the fact of the agression was perfectly evi- dent, it was decided that a commission of inquiry be set up tc verify whether aggression against China had taken place.” Thus the Lytton Commission busied itself “investigating” for nine months, after which, noth- ing was done to stop Japanese aggression. The same thing was done with Italy in its aggression against Etthiopia. And after Hitler took over Autsria, Nev- ille Chamberlain asked for “proot” of the assertion that Hitler would grab other coun- tries, too. It’s an old way of stalling and evading action. Van Kleffens, rfetherlands delegate, who knows on which side his imperialist bread is Franco buttered, got off some prize hokum by saying: “I cannot say on the basis of the evidence, much of it conjectural, a case has been made out that Franco is endangering international peace.” ; it reminds me of a famous historical precedent. In 1631, Church courts under medieval law had jurisdiction over crimes committed by in- sects, animals, birdS and so on. The bishop’s court in Autun, France, accused the rats of de- stroying that year’s crops. The ecclesiastical judges appointed M. Chassenee, a distinguished atorney, aS defender of the ac- cused rats. And he did a job as brilliant as Stettinius, Cadogan end Van Kleffens are doing for the fasicst rats of Spain. The rats didn’t Show up for trial. So Chassenee pleaded that they had not received the sum- mons to appear. So all that had te be done over again. But the rats again failed to answer the summons. Well, this was con- tempt of court, and the judges - were about to pass a severe sentence, when up jumped Chas- senee with an argument that Stettinius would enyy, to de- clare that: i The law proviées that if de- fendants have a long and dan- gerous journey, they can legally disobey the writ and make an appeal. Further, it was never Continued on Page 8 See RATS Short Jabs » o ew One of these birds even asserts that a plebiscite should have been taken and that the wives of the lumber workers should also have been polled. soldiers in the trenches. quit the imperialist war, which was still on. ixerensky, had won the support of the soldier. Answering Radek, Lenin pointed out that the proposed vote was non-sensical and meaningless, since the soldiers were already voting: “with their feet.” They were walkin in thousands daily. That is the kind of vote the 37,000 B.C. wood- workers registered on May 15th. It was a truly democratic vote. It was not a majority vote: it was a unanimous vote. Wothing can be surer than that. : Of course, a great wave democracy,” a different kind Selves and their families. Did the union prevent the ‘veterans from get- Sorry For ting the lumber they needed before the strike started, through all the years when the union Themselves. worked under a “no strike” pledge? Nobody can claim that they did. ‘And if they didn’t who did? That is an easy one to answer. It was the boss lumbermen, whose greed led them to sell their products on foreign markets where the Prices they got were higher than in the local market, while the Same veterans about whom they are so concerned today, were com- pelled to live in ex-chicken coops and pig pens and other substitutes for homes, because of the boss-manufactured lumber shortage. That is the actual democracy the Stuart Research Service Ltd. has in mind. This Stuart outht, by the way, is not a ereature of the boss loggers and lumbermen, it is an integral part of their organization for ensuring their profits and skinning their employees. Of course their hearts are bleeding for the poor public who must suffer as a consequence of the strike. When I passed through Wel- Son last Monday, the Interior Lumber Manufacturers Association were in session, The speeches at that gathering were such that in the report of them, one could almost see the tears running down their cheeks (or even off the tip of their noses.) Sympathy gushed from the well-springs of their hearts for the poor fruit-growers, who with the greatest crop in history in prospect, would be unable to get fruit boxes, crates or halleks and for some of their employees whose “bank accounts” have run low because they have been “out of work for several®* weeks or months.” That latter was the croco-_ dile touch. But they did not express any sympathy for the intensely ex- Ploited loggers who still have to carry their iankets to work in the bug-infested and lice-ridden SyYppo camps in the Hast Kootenay short log country. 5 The hypocrite sticks out all over them, for despite these osten- tatious expresions of Sympathy, they admit that they are willing to talk wage increases with their employees if the government will allow them to boost the price of their products (and to hell with the apple-knockers). ‘ 5 © The Stuart Research Service Ltd., Anti Social Propaganda makes most of its propaganda to appeal to what it considers some third party, the public. But there is-no third party, really, for the public is split on the same class lines as the striking lumberworkers and the boss loggers and lumbermen. “The defeat of the lumberworkers would be a calamity for all wage-carners and those who depend on them for a living, small business men, doctors, ete., and these constitute the greatest part of the public. If there is any part of the public that is lined up with monopoly capitalism as it is represented by the lumber inter- ests and their spokesmen, the Stuart Research Service Litd., it is only to be found in the GC.M.A. That is one reason why the striking lumpberworkers can smile at such drivel as, “at the end of the sixth day of the strike they have lost $1,620,000.00." How can a logger, or anyone else, lose something they never had? And if it s good democratic procedure to take such a vote as the Stuart Research Service Ltd., wants. how about taking a yote to see if we pay any income tax next year or not? Every wage earner, every small business man and professional whose livelihood depends on the wage earner getting enough wages to pay his bills, must support the IWA in their just demands, actively as well as morally. if they win, we all win: if they are defeated, we are all de feated. : . I want to compliment the readers of this Press Drive. column. When it comes to rooting for our paper they don’t seem to need me around at all. When I made the original appeal, knowing that I would not be here to act as a spark plug, I did not expect to get such a magnificent response as I have learned of in the last day or two. However, at the beginning, I remember we placed our quota at $100 in donations and 50 subscriptions, the same as in the Tast drive. The quotas must have been re-adjusted, at least ours must have been, for I have just learned that it only calls for $100.00 ail in, cash and subs. ® That has already been made. That is to say, we have made our quota the way the business manager sees it, but not quite as we figured it. We have still a few more days to go. I believe we can make our original figure. A few more subs, 2 few more dollars, and there we are. How about it? You’ye done so well without me, see if you can” finish that way. Our Paper is more needed today than it ever was.. FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1946 & away from the trenches.