Joe Bcereeneransncecenceectesesrceneernsseccesnent ‘Peace looks beautiful dur- ing the savagery of war — but it becomes almost hate- ful when war is over” —Bernard B. Baruch, U-S. rep- resentative on Atomic Energy Commission, in “World Ee port.” Pu&lished Weekly ai ROOM 104. SHELLY. BUILDING 119 West Pender Street Vancouver, B.C. bu the TRIBUNE PUBLISHING CO. MArine 5288 Mom Mech wen! ~~ 2-522. 5)- =) HWditer ibid Sitka eeel 5555s Ss55 40 cse55s SSa55Gnnss Manager Subscription Rates: 1 Year, $2.00; 6 Months, $1.00 Printed By UNION PRINTERS, 2303 East Hastings Street —_ — — Vancouver, B.C. Authorized as second-class mail by the\ post-office department, Ottawa The people can win HE entry of A. T. Alsbury, CCF candidate, into the | mayoralty contest cannot but be welcomed by all pro- gressive citizens in Wancouver. Into this CMPA-McGeer- Wilson civic circus, which has already hit a new low in cheap political opportunism, there will be injected a note of seriousness in the study and solution of civic problems. Whatever ‘differences the LPP or other sections of the labor movement may have with CCF policies and aims are not important at this time. The important thing is that organized labor, and all progressive people in the city, now have an opportunity of breaking the monopoly of the €a- nadian Manufacturers Association and taking control of their civic affairs. That possibility must supercede all minor differences and considerations. The windy McGeer and the racist Wilson—liberal and tory proteges of the CNPA—can be routed in the election of Tom Alsbury. That is the prime issue at stake. With Alsbury, Vancouver labor is now in a position to register a decisive blow against the monopolists and their political stooges who have crippled Vancouver's development and filched its revenues for yearss. On the front page of this edition of the Pacific Tribune is a reproduction of a page from the Vancouver Daily Pro- vince of May 19, 1935. It could well have originated in the warped brain of that master of Nazi propaganda, the late Doktor Joseph Goebbels. It was the product of Senator Gerald Grattan McGeer and those who now dub themselves the ‘Civic Non-Partisan Association’. e Whatever the name—Citizens’ League, K.K.K., Com- mittees of One Hundred (Black Hundreds), the technique and objective are the same. Under the pretext of combat- ting “communism,’ the purpose is to smash organized labor. With the backing of his Citizens’ League, McGeer con- trived to smash the International Longshoremen’s Union in 1935, at a cost to taxpayers of some $70,000 spent for additional police services to the powerful Shipping Feder- ation—one of the “big money powers’ McGeer pretends to fight. Ve collaboration with Duff Patullo and ‘Iron Heel’ Bennett in starving the unemployed and driv- ing thousands of young Canadians into slave camps at a wage of 20 cents a day further endeared him to monopol- ists. The political dividends accruing from his anti-labor activities miore than compensated for the temporary em- barrassment of his ‘monetary reform’ wind storms. It may be recalled that such German industrialists as Stinnes, Krupp and Thyssen felt much the same attraction for Hit- ler, and for similar reasons. McGeer’s achievements against labor gave him a high rating as a ‘strong man’ with British Columbia’s monopolists. McGeer is picked by the CNPA because it hopes that his clowning will divert the growing desire among the people for clean and progressive civic administration, and when buffeonery no longer suffices, that he will be able to give a repeat perfomance in 1947 of his 1935-36 union- smashing activities. The civic circus now being conducted by McGeer and Wilson is aimed at preserving CNPA domination at the City Hall. McGeer as the “choice’ of the liberal wing of the CNPA, cashes in on every neglect that mars the social, economic and cultural life of Vancouver, neglect in which the CNPA is wholly responsible. The discarded Halford Wilson, protege of the tory wing of the CNPA, smarting under an alleged let-down, charges “political domination of civic administration,” proving again the old adage that when political crooks fall out, the people get a look at the ‘mside.” Halford Wilson, racist and reactionary, is going to ‘fight’ CNPA domination at the city hall. One of the ironies in McGeer-Wilson ‘contest’? is that whoever loses the CNPA wins. Wilson will have no difficulty in affecting a ‘reconciliation’ with.the CNPA—he is one of the boys. Laber can win the mayorality seat with Alsbury. It can dismantle the CNPA trojan horse at the city hall. It can clear the way for a new era of civic progress in Van- couver. With Alsbury, labor can break monopoly control of civic affairs and send ‘Riot Act?’ McGeer back to the Senate, where his windy clowning does a minimum of damage. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 4 DARE ALTACE TTT TTT © AAA As we sce it | See ee eee eee MMA MMMM By Tom AcEwen IN a recent Canadian Press dis- patch from Edmonton, car- ried over a number of news- casts, Tim Buck, national leader of the Wabor-Progressive Party, was quoted as Saying that “if Bred Rose M.P. for Montreal- Cartier, loses his appeal he will be expelled from the party.” That neat bit of news-twisting is typical of the “freedom” which is enjoyed by the daily press and commercial radio. Waturally such ‘news’ was disturbing, to say the least, to thousands of Canadians who are not impress- €d with the Taschereau-Kellock- Gouzenko espionage ‘revelations.’ Here is a correct version of what Tim Buck stated, and what the Canadian Press distorted: “The Royal Commission KRe- port is in no sense of the word 2 judicial] document; it is a shameless political frame-up, engineered by the King govern- ment, and directed against the Labor-Progressive Party which is playing a leading part in de- fence of the working people against the government's poli- cies of price-raising, low wages, ditching of social security promises, and cold-blooded ne- glect of housing and health needs. It is because our policy ef anti-fascist unity and struggle menaces the big busi- ness pregram of fascism and war, that our party is the target of hysterical attacks. This is the issue—not ‘“espion- age,’ The LPP utterly con- demns espionage activity, and will expel from its ranks any member who should be proven guilty of such activity.” That is slightly different from the manner in which the press and radio ‘quoted’ the LPP lead- er, but quite in line with their concept of ‘freedom of the press” Fred Rose, M.P., and every Canadian arrested under the so-called ‘espionage’ charges, were declared ‘guilty’ by the Taschereau-Kellock-RCMP star chamber commission report, in Spite of the fact that several of them have already been re- leased by the courts of the land as not guilty. .-Rose has been denied bail pending appeal of his case, and every obstruc- tion placed in his way towards securing a fair trial. Advanced public opinion in Canada has al- ready condemned the Tascher- eau-Kellock Report as an abro- gation of all the most elemen- tary rights of the citizen. 2 fhe misqucting of the LPP leader’s Statements on Hose’s case is part of the over-all policy of whitewashing a judicial crime for the advancement of reactionary government policies. e Hon. Herbert Anscomb, provincial minister of finance and leader of British Columbia’s tories gave his party stalwarts a MHitler-like pep-talk in their sme quarterly meet- ing in the Ho- tel Vancouver last week. “Communism” boomed ‘Er - bert, “has been filtering into the political and economic life of this country for a long time—a CCE or a commun- Tom McEwan ist government in B.C. - and there is no difference in the basic ideologies of those parties which eventually become _ dic- tatorships—would have a_ seri- Ous adverse effect ...”’ and so forth. We admit that a government consisting of the CCF, the trade unions, farmers and the LPP would have a ‘serious adverse effect’ upon the political hi- jacking policies of the MHari- Anscomb Coalition and the pow- erful lumber, mining and power monopolies they serve with slav- ish obedience. Such a govern- ment would get things done, and the common people of the city and country would enjoy for once having ~*action accom- pany promises. it would be an error to term Ansscomb, McGeer and their ilk, who give vent to periodical red- baiting hysteria, fascists. They are the political fungus that sprouts on the manure heap of @ fascist ideology. Bruce WHuteh- inson once wrote of Anscomb that each night before he re tires he peeps under the bed to make sure no ‘bolsheviks’ are hidden there. It would all be quite funny if we hadn’t just concluded a war, with untold Sacrifices in life and human suf fering, rid the world of such elements. : - 2 @ : REMIER John Hart is in Gt tawa attending the ump- teenth session of the Doeminion- Provincial conference. Before leaving for .Ottawa he was quot- €d in the Vancouver press as warning that “if a reasonable agreement cannot be reached With federal authorities, — shall be reluctantly forced to suggest — that we (the province) go back into the income tax field.” That premontion of dual income tax ation shows that Hart is none too sanguine about the outcome of the conference. Together with Drew and Du- plessis, Hart has nailed