A woman’s page

Bditor, Pacific Tribune:

I enjoy reading ‘This Is Your
Department!” As an ordinary
housewife I am going to write
what I please. While travelling
on the streetcar recently, I got
into conversation with a young
war bride who, like myself, was
attracted to an advertisement
of a postwar kitchen on Rich-
ards St “Qh,” said the young
bride with a sigh, ‘how I would
love a kitchen like that.’

Somehow that ad looks out
of place among those shabby
houses: She said: ‘Do you know
I had visions of coming back
to a grand new world from
overseas. What a Shock TI got!
Still the same old houses, and
“@s far as I am concerned, Tf
cannot get a house; have to
live in two rooms and my hus-
band gets so discontented” She
rambled on and said she was
going to howl plenty until she
got a decent home and a kit-
chen like the one on the ad-
wertisement board. I ventured to
Say perhaps if all the women got
tegether and demanded the
gevernment build homes, we
would get some action.

After all decent homes go a
long way. toward making de
cent citizens, to which my
young friend agreed. Then the
car came: to a stop and we wish-
ed each other goodbye. Now
ZI would suggest that we have
@ housewive’s or woman’s page

in your paper where women
could exchange ideas on the
postwar world. I handed the

war bride the Tribune, and she
asked ‘is there a woman’s page
in this paper?’ I think the paper
would attract more women rea-
ders if we had articles of in-
terest, IT mean apart from cur-
rent events, that the average
housewife would read.
A HOUSEWIFE.

Vancouver, B.C

A “must” book

Editor, Pacific Tribune:

I enjoy your paper very much,
but miss Cynthia Carter’s col-
umn. What happened to her?

Z have just finished reading
The Great Conspiracy Against
Russia, and if I had my way,
it would be on the required list
of every Man, woman, univers-
ity and high school student.

All this war hysteria, red-
‘baiting, ete., would soon stop
if we thought over very care
fully some of the facts put
down in thet book. To you par-
ents who shudder at the thought
_Of another more terrible war, I
plead, read it, have your teen-
age boys and girls read it and
think carefully of these facts:

Dees Russia want war?
Can't we all live peacefully, have
a better standard of living, social

Wo!

Security and happiness in our
old age? Yes! If we can stop
this war hysteria, red-baitins ana
all that it means by uniting all
our efforts, and demand from
these responsible a stop before
it is too late. :

(Mrs) D. Graveness.

Vancouver, B:GC.

On Mr. Templeton

Editor, The Pacific Tribune:
The other night I came home
tired and hungry, and after
Supper TI thought I would give
my digestive system a lift with
some good music. “Well,” TI
thought to myself, “ I wonder
if I can dial a good program
ithout once again meeting up

with that ‘eager beaver’ Bob
Morrison.” And wouldn’t’ you
know, the first program if
bumped into was a very un-

enlightening talk, called Keep-
ing Posted. On what, I couldn’t
imagine. Well, anyway, the
speaker was a gentleman called
R. J. Templeton.

Now again may I say that I
don’t want to criticize, but I
feel that certain statements
made*should be answered with
comments every bit as caustic
as those expressed by the
speaker.

Once again, it is the same old
story, one of malicious red-bait-
ing, communist (worker) hating
propaganda.

Yes, Mr. Templeton, we know
what would happen if this sys-

tem of private enterprise were.

to collapse. Do you tnihk that
it has had ample time to prove
itself the system of all systems,
one that can take care of the
weak, 2s well as the strong, the

poor as well as the rich? Or
don’t you think that it has
proven over and over again

that it breeds nothing but greed,
poverty and war—a sort of “sur-
vival of the fittest’?

To infer that the Son of God

taught the ideals of private en-

terprise to his disciples is a
sacrilege. When he caused the
loaves of bread to multiply, to
feed the starving multitudes,
did He first stop to consider
how much he would make on
the deal? Heaven help you,
sir, if you believe that the
Great God above has bestowed
his blessings on this tangled
mess of big business and inter-
national cartels you call free
enterprise. :

Would He smile with satisfac-
tion at the idea of doling out
@ mere two dollars a week for
food, and six dollars a month

for rent to the unemployed—

Dope peddlers

UWSSIA is no utopia and the

Russians don’t pretend it is,
nmor seek to represent it as such
to their neighbors. But the 29
years of the existance of Soviet
power, in which must be taken
into account 5 years of imperial-
ist intervention, and almost 5
years of destructive Hitlerite ag-
@ression, have sbown to the
world, if not to the quack doc-
tors of the kept press, that its
Social system is superior to any-
thing yet devised by man. Other-
wise why the need to concoct
anti-Soviet fabrications to bolster
the sagging morale of bourgeois
decadence, or use the departure
of a humble emigrant and his
family to invent new falsehoods?

Like a high priest of some yogi
cult Monseignor Hutchison utters
a final valedictory, “It is permiss-
able to doubt that they will like

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Russia after Vancouver, but they
will not return.” If someone with
infinite patience and time to waste
could plow through the volumin-
ous materials conceived in the
Huchison cranium, they would
find sufficient reason for not plac-
ing too much credence on this
literary quack’s political clairvoy-
ancy. They would discover what
is already known in the world of
literature, viz, that the contribu-
tions on Soviet social, economic

and political life which stand the |

stresses of time, are the product
of unbiased observation and de-
duction, while the other, such as
are fabricated by ‘Dr.’ Hutchison
in his ‘Mr. Shpihun is going back
to Russia,’ are simply a prepared
narcotic to a jaded jittery class,
who see in the success of Social-
ism their own demise. Doubtless,
like traffic in dope, the anti-So-
viet mixture brings a good price.

s

bad manners.

should. be

- George Drayton, is just

while tons of food were being
dumped and grain was piled
to overflowing in our elevators
for the want of a paying= mar-
ket? That was before the war,
Mr. Templeton, but of course
you wouldn’t know anything
about that.

AS for your hand-clapping
about freedom of speech et al,
in the same breath, sir, you
advocate the muzzling of any
person with the guts enough to
get up and speak of what is on.
his mind.

Do you also realize that you
do not insult a man when you
call him a communist? You are
complimenting him, for, accord-
ing to the best dictionaries,
communism is defined as: a
theory for the reconstruction of
Society on a cooperative basis.

I'm sorry if I spoiled your
fun, Mr. Templeton, now you
will have to think of some oth-
er “nasty” words if you (and
brother Morrison) wish to in-
sult the labor class.

You call us Pagans. Is it

paganism to want a square deal
from the country of your birth?
is it paganism to protest against
the awful poverty and hunger
which we, not you, experienced
before this last war? Qh, and
just one thing more, sir—the
idea of asking your listener if
he thinks you are right, and
in the same breath answering
“of course you do” is definitely.
Sort of putting
in his mouth, don’t
you think? How about letting
him have his freedom of
thought, a theme which was
most outstanding in your talk.

This. bogey. which capitalist
mouthpieces are conjuring up
with the word “communism”
stepped. Wes,--Mr.
Templeton, I am socialist-mind-
ed, a communist if you wish
to call it that, because I (and
hundreds of thousands more
like me) are bound that. we
shall not again return to the
pitiful conditions which existed
prior to 19389. Above all, that
our children and our ‘children’s

the words

children shall have peace of
mind in the knowledge that
they may) look forward to a

Square deal in life (although-
they may never get their pic-
tures in the society page) and
social security.
HERBER A. G CORMIER.
Vancouver, B.C. :

A job well done:
Dear Comrades:

It seems to me that the article
on “National Health” as affect-
ing the returned veterans by
about
tops. I know, personally, had I
any idea such a state of affairs
existed a year or two ago, would
have made a great difference to
me. Good work George, to put
down in black and white for the
first time, I believe, the actual
conditions at Shaughnessy Hos-
pital.

What a contrast to all one
ELears up and down the land; the
old rumor factory we know so
well in the first world war. Seems
to me if that article was touched
up and printed as a leaflet it
would go well with the agitation
for a better National Health pro-
gram.

Get all the veterans of both
wars to read the article. I would
say it will tend to counteract
much of this misplaced opposi-
tion (we read and hear so much
about) to all that exists here at
present, whether it is in the inter-
est of the working people or not,
and try for a “sub’ to the Tribune
after they have read it!

—LES FILLMORE.
Hot Springs, Nakusp:

Shor t Jabs by OF Bill

5 Vancouver is to have a first-time visitor next
Mike Buhay week in the person of Councillor Michael Buhay
of Montreal, “Mike” as we call him. He is an old friend of mine.
I met him first in 1922 at the founding of the Workers’ Party. He
Was a fluent speaker then and from what [ Can gather since I saw
him last in 1929, has, like many other good things, improved with
age.

it is not Mike’s eloquence, however, that interests us. We
have lots of eloquent visitors, to our sorrow. What males us com-
ment on Mike Buhay’s visit te Vancouver is that, unlike some of
those other eloquent visitors, he has spent almost all of his life in
fighting the battles of the oppressed. :

The occasion of his visit- to Vancouver at this time, is as he
Says, “te see that every man, woman and child in Canada (shall)
realize what kind of 2 biased, prejudiced trial Pred Rose was
given” on the charge that he, as they allege, imparted information
and engaged in conspiracy against the interest of Canada.

Councillor Buhay is now, just where we should expect to find a
man with such a record as his—at the head of the Fred Rose
Defence Committee. And his tour of the country is for the pur-
pose stated in the foregoing paragraph.

He has been in the trade union movement for the last 45 years,
always in the most progressive wing of it, active in building and
strengthening it for the improvement of the workers’ lot.

In that labor struggle he has won the confidence of the masses
in his part of the world so that they elected him .to the Montreal
City Council in 1942 where he fulfillea his election promises so well
that in the following election they doubled his winning vote.

He is a fearless, tireless and consistent advocate of the com-
munity’s needs in one of the most reactionary centers in Canada,
the birthplace and home of the infamous Padlock Law and other
measures inspired by fascism—Montreal.

it is quite in line with his whole life’s recora that Mike Buhay
is now fighting to expose the frame-up of Fred Rose by- profit-
mongers in Canada, nineteen years almost to the day after like-
minded elements in the U.S. sent Sacco and Vanzetti to the electric
ehair.

Mike will speak in the Boilermakers’ Halt on the last Sunday
of this month and along with him on the platform will be John
Stanton, one of the few members of the. Canadian public to “crash

the gate” at the Fred Rose trial which was practically a star
chamber affair.
Stanton is a lawyer. He knows the routine in these places

where trials are held. Hie knows the concepts of freedom and
justice that rule the courts. He is well-fitted to eriticize the kan=
8areo Character of that particular court. His impressions of the
trial will be well worth hearing.

Don’t miss hearing these two speakers.

° e One of the major crimes of Civilization in its
Capitalists world advance is the extermination of aborig—
inal peoples. The claim that these die out for the reason that as
individuals they cannot adapt themselves to new conditions of
life, is a corny one. It is only: a half-truth. Certainly the native
peoples resist the exploitation which one section of the civilized
faces practice on another section of their Own race. That, however,
is net a race matter, it is a class. question.

It is well exemplified in the contemptuous way the eapitalist
rulers of society today deal with the native peoples, particularly
here in B.C. A Victoria journalist is responsible for a story printed
in an Eastern paper about the founding of the first Canadian
branch of an organization known as the Society for the Preserva-—
tion of the Cigar Store Indian. “It follows naturally, that such an
organization should be composed, for the most part, of members
of the class who exploit white workers as well as workers of
every other color.

From the published names of some of the sponsors of this in-
sult to the original American people, this opinion is borne out,
Only two names of the branch launched in the swank Victoria
club are listed and they both have a familiar ring to the exploited
loggers of B.C——J. H. Bloedel and R. D. Merrill.

Among the few adherents in the U.S. whose response was
enthusiastic, four only are mentioned by name and of these three
are easily amongst the most despicable individuals in that country.

Col. (7) Robert McCormick, of the Chicago Tribune, for ex
ample; labor-hating cheer leader for everything reactionary in
Capitalist society, “a natural for such an invitation”; another is
George E. Sokolsky, Hearst columnist, whose literary efforts in
Leningrad were so offensive and counter-revolutionary in 1918, that
the sailors of the Baltic fleet raidea his print shop and smashed
his printing presses, but unfortunately allowed him to escape with
a whole skin from his just deserts; and Upton Close, whose anti-
Soviet fulminations on the American air-waves were SO vicious that
now no firm can be found to sponsor a program for him and no
Station will allow him on the air even if he should find a sponsor.

A society made up of such a collection of labor-hating Big
Business elements and their literary stooges and hirelings may eat
Chinook breakfasts and have a good time to themselves about
Cigar Store Indians, but they will make no move to do anything
for the real flesh and blood Indians who are victims, along with
the white workers, of the system of exploitation and robbery that
enables them to eat Chinook breakfasts.

The imperialist wiseacres at the Peace Con-
ference who still insist on the international-
ization of Trieste appear to be like the Bour-
bons in one respect, “they learn nothing”! In spite of the fact that
Trieste is an integral part of Yugoslavia and that the Yugoslavs
lost 1,500,000 of their people as the contribution to the defeat of
fascism, almost double the combined losses of the British and
Americans—the imperialists persist in their effort to make Trieste
into another Tangier.

Tangier has been an international city since 1911, but today,
after 35 years, the Moors are demonstrating in the streets demand-
ing the return of the city to their own rule, with the slogan
“Morocco for the Moors.’

That should be a lesson to statesmen who desire to establish
a peaceful world. But the Yugoslavs have the most realistic under
standing of the question, as they have of many others—for that is
one country that has wiped out the black market.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1946

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