Anti - semitism, race hatreds breed fascism, Says noted Jewish author Born in Fngiand, he was educated at Dartmouth - University in the U:S. As a result of the Spanish civil ‘war, he became an active Am- erican anti-fascist writer. Today. he is president of the Jewish Fraternal People’s Order, co-au- thor of such widely heralded Books as Sabotage, The Pict Against the Peace, and the re- cent and enormously successful Great Conspiracy Against Hussia_ Interviewed by a Tribune report- er here, Kahn told about his Jewish activities: “Its only a few years since i became conscious of the fact that Iwas a Jew and had Jew- ish responsibilities,” he said. Dur- ing his adolescence and early maturity, that had meant noth- ing to him at all. It was only when he became an anti-fascist writer that his Jewish conscious- mess was stirred: Seriously, and talking in un- emotional terms, he continued: “As time went by and [I learmed more of the nature of fascism and nazism, I realized that these meant something more to me than to people who were not Jews. I realizeq that the struggle against them was quite literally 2 struggle for my life and for that of my family. “In fact I realized that if the | Nazis won the war, the Jewish " people of the world as a whole would be wiped out.” : Kebn’s very lack of dramatics _made his statements all the more emphatic. _ “Thats how I became aware _that to be a Jew meant some- . thing very special to me. It was /8 very good feéling. It was like coming home. “And it’s a fact,” he observed, that the more I was aware of my Jewish responsibilities, tke better I became as an anrti-fascist writer and as an American.” Kakn’s investigation of fifth column activities in his country has made him acutely aware of the rising threat of reaction. “Actually, the United States is faced with an extraordinary phenomenon,” he said. “We / have emerged with our fifth column intact. Anti-Semitism is . at an all-time peak. The reac- | tionary forces are gathering Strength every weelx. “Dhey can’t even be called a ‘ith column any more. It’s true _-hat originally they were financed ‘ey the Nazis’ But now they have sees made him a famous € about, and why. tely noticeable about Albert E. Kahn, whose speech ce of a widespread fascist move- Stocky and rigged in appearance, American athlete, he impresses ALBERT EF. KAHN cans. General Motors finances Gerald K. Smith, Henry Ford backs Coughlin.” Grimly he told of a conversa- tion he had two and a half years ago with Joseph MacWii- liams, a handsome rabble-rouser who headed the Christian Mobil- izers. Unaware whom he was talking to, MacWilliams had said candidly, “I really think that the Jews should be wiped out. I’m like a boxer who is just feeling his way. I’m waiting for the end of the war and the inevitable €conomic dislocation. That’s when you'll see me heading a real mass movement in the country. That’s when you"ll sse the industrialists whe are giving me chicken feed today giving me real support.” And then MacWilliams added quite off-handedly, “‘That’s when you'll see Jews hanging from every tamp-post in New York.” To Kahn, an important fact is that Negroes are facing identi- cal problems. He’ talkeq about the terrible Negro race riots in De troit when 34 men and women were slain, for the fun of it. He told about seeing elderly Ne- froes brutally beaten by thugs, and then knifed while other hool- igans stood around watching the ghastly spectacle. if the fascists have their way, it won't be long before they’re killing Jews in America too, he remarked. Only a short time be- fore he attended one meeting where the audience, after listen- ing to a hate-shrilling speaker, chanted relentlessly, “Let’s lynch 2een taken over by the Ameri- the Jews! Let’s lynch the Jews.’ “We have to face the facts,” : he said. “Anti-Semitism is not what it used to be. It’s taken on 2 new form. The inevitable objective of the anti-Semites is nothing less than the extermin_ ation of the Jewish people.” Kahn is the kind of man who doesn’t put blinkers over His eyes. tf the facts are cruel, he recog-— nizes them. “I am not too san- Suine about the future in this hemisphere,” he said. “I’m opti- mistic about ‘what's going on in the rest of the world, but the United States has become the world center of reaction. The re- actionaries are Stronger in my country than ever before. “But,” and paused to let this Sink in, “I think they can bs beaten. We have lots of friends and allies, We have a good chance of defeating the fascists, . if we unite to fight them and if we Jews realize what we must do. “We Jews have struggled hard,” he concluded. “Now we must struggle harder than ever. It isn’t only our lives that are at stake, but those of our chil- dren. We are at the crossroads.” Throne repairs a ‘top secret’ LONDON—The Royal House hold, which got a going-over in the press recently when it Was disclosed that palace ser_ vants get anything but union wages, is in the public eye - again for using searee pbuild— ing workers to make luxury repairs. The revelation that more than 150 building workers are being employed to repair the Royal Swimming Pool and re- decorate the Throne Room and other ceremonial halls caused Such displeasure among home- less Britons that workers on the palace job have been asked to sign a statement making it an offence to talk about their work. If the workers Sign, they would be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act for giving. any information to Members of Parliament or newspaper reporters. 4 “ith B.C. Federation of Labor of- icers, urging immediate. calling Pf 2 conference of all labor, vet- ‘fans, church; farmers and wo- mens groups to press for action a milk subsidy renewal and pr:ce /ontrol: 7 } & resolution emphasizing the feed of working with farmers rEanizations was endorsed with * Proposal that pamphlets deal- Ne with this question be circu- Sted. Approval was also given © 2 wire addressed to WEPTB -hairman Donald | Gordon pro- “sting the lifting of price con- Trois, The lea@ given Vomen’s Auxiliary by the IWA ®mb government on the issue of tices “and particularly the re- ent hoist in milk prices. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 3 IWA women’s auxiliary pressing united action on prices, pensions : Forty officers and delegates of IWA Women’s Auxiliary District Council at the quart- “tly meeting last weekend, appointed as a delegation Edna Brown, president, Mona Mor- 3@n and Rose Lesher, vice-presidents, Marge Croy, secretary and Marie Godfrey to meet Auxiliary members plan to lob- by all B.C. Members of Parlia- BS ment and mem-— bers of the legi- slature on price issues. The council en- dorsed the brief of the Canadian Pensioners’ Con- egress and will recommend t o all affiliates that the whole mem- bership join the Congress to aie ight to senior citizen’s deman Hee allowance of $50.00 per month and abolition of the means test. - : Dunean Auxiliary is taking steps to call an initial meeting to start a Pensioners’ Congress there and the council recom- mended that wherever branches Edna Brown of the Congress did not exist, the Awxiliary lecal should un- dertake to initiate such 2 meeting. The resolution is be ing forwarded to the TWA District Council and the B.C. Federation of Labor, A financial contribution was voted to the striking miners and letters are being sent to women’s auxiliaries of the Mine, Mili & Smelter Workers Union congratu- lating them on their stand and offering assistance. Approval was given the setting up of an auxiliary office in Van-— couver with Mona Morgan as full time director of organization. IWA MDistrict Secretary, Bert Melsness and IWA TIocal 1-80 President Owen Brown addressed the council congratulating the women on work already done and pledging cooperation in future campaigns. LPP leader raps UBC campus free speech ban “The ban of the UBC Student Council to prevent our National Leader, Tim Buck, from speaking on the University campus is an insult to the intelligence of the student body and a negation of the democracy that is supposed to be taught there,” Nigel Morgan, Said today. tunity if they so desire, to hear vepresentatives of any recognized democratic organization. There is no ban against political speakers on the Campus, so the ban against Tim Buck is rank discrimination against a recosnized Canadian political party. The Social Prob- Jems Club approached our party to have Tim Buck speak ang we gave eur permission. He has spoken to the university students on nearly every previous occasion that he has visited the Coast, but apparently there are some who provincial leader of the IL.PP “Certainly the students should have the oppor- are trying to hide facts that they fear the students to hear.” “The statement of the presi- dent of the Alma Mater Society. that, “You know how these fel- lows get up and have the girls in tears and have > fighting among themselves” is an insult to the intelligence of our Students and the gc00d work of Our university in Suggesting that students are incapable of hearing <.. various points of view and judg=_ ing them on their merits.” Help ‘Poppy Day’ appeal on behalf of veterans ‘Poppy Day’ like Remembrance Day belongs to the men who died in the service of democratic freedom. It also be- longs to the service men and women who have gone on living, who, having given the best cause of freedom, are not able to fit and to whom Canadians owe an imperishable debt. Poppy Day provides a small opportunity to repay a little of that debt: to help build up an emergency fund for’ war veterans and their fam-= ilies. Wovember 9 is Poppy Day. It is not a tag day. Nor is it tainted with the concept of charity. It is as we have said, a partial pay- ment on a debt that cannot be written off with fine promises or platitudes. For 28 years the Vancouver Poppy Fund Committee have ap- pealed to the public on behalf of the veterans. This year, more than ever before, because of the ever-increasing number of new veterans needing help and com- ing to the Poppy Fund for vital necessities—groceries, beds, medi- cines, glasses, etc., we urge the public to be especially generous. Wear a Poppy for Remem- “prance and wear it proudly know- ing that you are helping a worthy- cause. Mail all checks or other donations not made on the street to the Vancouver Poppy Fund Campaign, 302 Shelly Building, Vancouver, B.G. of their youth to the fully into civilian life, Canadian- Soviet Friendship topic Under the auspices of the Na- tional Council for Candian-Soviet Friendship, Thomas lL. Harris of San Francisco, executive director of the American-Russian Insti- tute for Cultural Relations, will address a public meeting at Uni- tarian Church, 1550 West 40th Avenue, on Saturday, November 9 at 8 pm. Subject of his ad-. dress will be ‘What kind of friendship does Russia want?’ On Sunday, Nov. 10, he will Speak on a Similar subject at the Rev. Dr. A. EF. Cook’s forum in St. John’s United Church. ; After 15 years in the Ministry of the Episcopal Church, Harris relinquished the pulpit for the platform to advocate mutual und- erstanding and friendship between the USA and the USSR. Members of the Financial Employees Guild, Office and Professional Workers (CIO) dragged the skelton of low wages out cf the Bankers Trust closet and added it to their picket line as New Yerk bankers shuddered. The union is out to organize the nation’s financial workers. FRIDAY, NOVEMBEE 1, 1946 the fellows ‘~