To win the peace, the
‘Trib’ must win readers

By IVAN BIRCHARD

Our Tribune must have 5,000 new readers.
Labor needs a

is on the march.

Labor today
Strong Sehting journal to

place their positioa before the public to tally support for
their cause and to lead the fight for security at home and

for peace.
are Sure you are too,

gein that 5,000

We are proud of
and that
you will want to join with our
many boosters in helping us to
increaseéde circula-

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Business
hated, despised and held in con-
tempt by labor everywhere.

Knowing something of the
bird in question, it is not dif-
ficult to give credence to the
fairly widespread rumor in
Ottawa circles clese te the
government, that the “tip-off”
on the breaking of the espion-
age issue, given to the nortori-

_ ous anti-Soviet columnist, Drew
Pearson, and featured in the
press a month before the case
actually “broke” may have
stemmed from just such a
source as “Inspector” Leopold,
alias Esselwein. When it fin-
ally did get going, in the best

King style, and with maxi-
-mum embellishment in the
press columns, we were in-

formed that Inspector Leopold
was heading the Gouzenke
phalange in full battle cry-
The rumor is easy te accept,
since in the society of Judas
there are no  deterrants of
principle, and a doublecross
payofl is all part of the de-
Spised profession.

Drew Pearson’s later “scoop”
en why King broke the espion-
age case when he did, since
Russia had voted Australia in-
stead of Canada’s delegate as
chairman of the UN Security
Council, also came from “sources
close to the government.” See-
ing that Inspector Leopold, alias
Eisselwein, is still Canada’s “ex-
pert” on matters of Commun-
ism, we wonder if this is where
Pearson gets his leads? Mt all
goes to show that an RCMP
stoolpigeon, an anti-Soviet smear
campaign, and RCMP espionage
in trade. unions are not separ-
ate issues, but on the contrary,
integral parts of an unsavory
political pattern woven by reac-

| Lightfoot,

our Labor Day edition. We
tion—5,000 hew Tribunes each
week fighting your battle and
mine. You can help by getting
your neighbor to subscribe and
by ordering a bundle each week
to sell to your work mates or
neighbor: :

We want to thank all of our
friends who have responded to
our appeal for funds and sub-
Scriptions. A few more each week
and we will achieve our objective.

Extension boosters top the list
this week with $42.82 in donations,
most of which was raised in the
‘Couple of days Lena Lipsey was
able to assist boosters there, For
two weeks in a row, Lena has
Spent a couple of days assisted by
local boosters and hustléd subs
and donations. On both occa-
sions the amount brought in ex-
ceeded all expectations. This
shows that there are many people
in our Province who will gladly
help, but who are waiting to be
asked.

Sointula boosters sent us $10.00
to help with the radio. Nanoose
Bay, Victory Square, Quathiaski
Cove, W. Martin, D. Williams
contributed a five, J. Law $3.00,
R. Hamilton $2.00, while Ole Bill,
Meronyk, Sea and
Shore, Hubenicht, Jackson - and
Williams each gave a buck, bring-
ing our total te over $110.00 for
the week.

The West End and Commercial
Drive clubs each brought in six
subs. Nanaimo, New Westminster,
East End and Ole Bill had three
@€ach. Harry Asson of Oak Bay,
two subs, C. EF. Coleman of Sal-
mon Arm, two. Both Harry and
Coleman are amongst the boosters
who have adopted the Halvorson
plan of ‘a sub a month’ and from
past records will take some beat-—

ing. Barney McGuire of Tulse-
quah rang in again this week.
Two subs came in from lLady-
smith, Prince George, English
Bay. Grandview, South Surrey,
South Burnaby and! North Burn-
aby, Whonnock, Langley, stud-
ents, seamen and enough others

Sent in one sub to bring our to-
tal to 79 subs for the week.

These boosters have helped to
guarantee the existence of our
paper, to keep Al Parkin on the
air and to bring in a part of
those 5,000 new readers.

Will you give us a boost too?

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- Canada-Soviet Friendship body |
| faps govt ‘espionage’ report.

Following a careful and detailed study of the Fourth Report of the Taschereau-Kellock
Commission, the executive of the National Council for Canadian-Soviet Friemdship has

issued the following statement, over the signature of F. W. Park
the Council. This statement is vitally important to Canadaians,

National Director of
it establishes the

>
since

fact that the Taschereau-Kellock Commission sought its “evidence from notorious and dis-
rather than through representative factual channels.

credited anti-Soviet elements

“The Executive of the National
Council for Canadian - Soviet
Friendship has had before it the
fourth report of the Taschereau-
Kellock Commission on the espion-
age cases, In the Council’s first
Statement on this matter issued
on Hebruary 22, and subsequently
approved by the Prime Minister,
it urged its branches across Can-
ada “to avoid being drawn into
the current wave of hysteria” and
announced that the work of the
Council would “be continued in
the usual way.” $

With the filing of the fourth
and final report of the Tascher-
eau-Kellock Commission the
Council is impelled to make the
following comments.

We .regret and deplore the
existence of international espi-
onage whether carried on by
Russian, Canadian, American or
British agents. It is to be hoped
that growth in world security
through the strengthening of
the United Nations organization
will make for conditions in
which espionage and secrecy in
international affairs will become
a thing of the past.

Certain aspects of the testi-
mony given by Igor Gouzenko
should be commented on in so
far as it relates to the work of
the Council. In the hearing of
one of the cases, as reported in
the press on March 23, Gouzenko
testified at Some length as to
the aid given Russia by Canada,
Saying “there are no such organ-
izations (as the Canadian-Soviet
Friendship Council) in Soviet Rus-
Sia to create friendly relations
with Canada .. . instead of this
there is their propaganda to say
everything bad about Canada and

never mention the help which
they receive.”’ x
These statements have no

foundation in fact. VOKS, the So-
ciety for~ Cultural Relations with
Foreign countries has been carry-
ing on its work in the USSR
Since 1925, or nearly twenty years
before the formation of the Coun-
eil for Canadian-Soviet Friend-
ship.

That the Russians know quite
well about aid received by them
from Canadians can be seen from
the following extract from a press
interview given by Ambassador
Wilgress on April 16, 1945. “Gan-
ada’s war effort gets third place
importance in the Russian press,
and including all the reports on
the Canadian-Soviet Friendship
Council which are published in
detail, and the meetings and fig-
ures of the Canadian Aid to Rus-
Sia Fund, as well as Red Cross

Aid, then Canada gets more at-
tention and space than any other
country in the world.”

The official wartime policy of
Canada, to quote the report of
the Canadian Mutual Aid Board,
was to make available “the pro-
ducts of Canadian ingenuity and
inventive genius to Ganada’s al
lies.”

Many Canadians will be
shocked to learn from the re-
pert of the Commission that a
number of the mest important
Canadian scientific developments
were Eept secret from the Rus-
Sians who .-were then bearing
the brunt of the land fighting.

The Commission points out
that “from the beginning there
was- the closest cooperation be-
tween Canada, the United King-
dom and later the United States,
and work in one country was in
almost all cases at once communi-
cated to opposite number in the

Fother two.’

information not communicated
by Canada during the war to the

Soviet Union as set out in the
Commission Report included de-
velopments and improvements in

explosives’ and propellants, infor-
mation on radar, and on asdic,
and on the VT fuse (used by us

‘against the Germans on the Wes-

tern Front.)

There seems to have been a
notable difference between the
amount of information given by us
to the United Kingdom and Unit-
ed States and the amount fiven
by us to the USSR. This failure
to treat our allies on a basis of
equality surely deserves some ex
planation from those responsible

for it. ;
fhe Council regrets the prom-
inence given in the Report to

comments of Gouzenko on Soviet
foreign policy—“‘the Soviet Union
is prepering secretly for the
third world war.” It is a most
unusual procedure for an official
document to repeat statements of
Such importance made on the say-
So of a minor clerk with an axe
to grind. The stated opinions of
Our Own ambassador contradict
him.

Ewo other witnesses are cit-
ed by the Commission (in ex
tracts from their books) as au
thorities on international

are thoroughly discredited char
acters and their books, neither
of them written by the allezed
author, are certainly not taken
Seriously by any competent au-
thority. : =
The Council re-iterates its view
that the future for world peace
and security depends on the con-
tinued cdoperation of the United
Wations and that this cooperation
can only be achieved if all the
powers deal with each other on
the basis of complete reciprocity
and fair play. The Council will
continue to work for.the  freest
Possible exchange of information
between Canada and. the USSR
and will do all it can to pro-
mote mutual understanding.”

Montreal alderman to
speak on Rose defence

Alderman Michael. Buhay of
Montreal, at present on a tour of
Canada on behalf of the. defenee ~
of Fred Rose, MP, whose appeal
against the sentence of six years

AS now pending, will be in Van-

couver for a week comniencing
September 24. es !

The committee in charge of
Fred Rose’s defence in B.C. is
arranging a series of meetings
and other functions to Sive Ald-
Buhay the fullest epportunity to
Place Rose’s case before the people .
of Vancouver. Stic 2 : :

Arrangments have already been -
made for a mass meeting at
which he will. speak in the Boil
ermakers’ Hall on Sept. 29. Ald.
Buhay’s full program will be an- ae
mounced later.

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