_ Holdup

SEEING

Editor, Pacific Tiibune: ity to understang us. In radio

aa ee campaign now Se oe pee cee =

apant in Wes oF 3 € shooting of wo

ada has reached San eee Russian U.N. delegates by thugs

tiens that commentators and recently, was astounded that So-

ae ae use€ any and every eee Sees suspect

pretex © slander the Soviet £ e assassination (after

J people, their System and lead a ee at SeISE DESISTUS is

: es : and to undermine United = Co) ate now—or was if just
Wations Unity as a prelude to °Sed season for awhile?)

war. War may not
it certainly is not
majority of our people. But this
~ is the very reason for this helo-
Caust .of lies, slanders and abuse

Explaining that it was merely
a holdup (a la American style),
he said the Russians just do not
understand our way of life. He
Said further, that Such things as

be imminent.
Wanted by the

_ levelled at our wartime ally by eldups ang armed robberies,
these in high places who wiela 2re almost unknown in Russia
Sreat power through Control of Powe tae Simple reason that ebay
our radio and press to create 7¥€ “intolerable” there. We Am-
f€ar in. our minds, thus laying ericans are more tolerant in
the foundation for a hoped-for Such things (except, of course,
War against Russia. union activity.)

Sometimes, but not often, these Our commentators in their
falsehoods are debunked as, for zeal to defend our “legal rob-
instance, the Story of Soviet bery’~ system (or free enterprise
rockets falling on Sweden. This system) feel it their duty to
Story was played up for days defend even the small fry —
in nearly all leading American whenever, of course, by so do-

newspapers. When the Swedish ing, € punch may be taken at
physicist, Siegbohn, was Inter- the Soviet Union. :
viewed upon arriving in New Yours for a saner view of in-
Work recently, he said he had ternational affairs. .
personally examined a “rocket” A. CORDONTL
and it turned out to be a met-

€orite. This certainly opens up
new and bigger fields of en-
deavor - for our anti-Sovietters.
Any natural Phenomena or ca-
tastrephe such as earthquakes o1-
or floods may new be directly at
tributed to the Soviet Union.
@ne of the reasons of these
meéwsmen for the lack of har-

Carrots and milk

Editor, Pacific Tribune:

The carrot crop is now being
marketed jin Kamloops. I was
talking with one of the farmers
(Chow King) yesterday. The
Price of carrots this year is
$22.00 a ton. Last year with all

In day of old on palfreys, bold
The knights rode forth to battle

In armor bright with erest bedight
And many a squeak and rattle.

They sallied forth and harried north

: And south and yon and thither:

They dragons slew, made tyrants rue,
And ghosts and ogres wither.

They sailed amain with purpose fain
To rescue Cross from Crescent
(Lhough more for loot, I ween, the foot-
Ioose horde, both peer and peasant).

With lethal tilt of iIance they spilt
The blood of foe or neighbor;

To joust for sport, or storm a fort %
Was substitute for labor.

The modern knight, in armor bright
©f probity and manners,

Still plies the trade of tilt and raid
Neath orthoflammic banners.

His weapons words in place of swords
On ether wave or husting;

He seeks the chink his lance to sink,
With many a blow and thrusting.-

His heart is pure, his aim as sure
As Galahad’s in questing
The Holy Grail; he sets his sail

For office, high and lasting. Applause for

: . a raise sings
The welkin rings, his own Pp Let woe
raucous:

voice so loud and Who

In
Wo peer has he on Jand or sea,

@©n platform or in caucus.

With many a “but,” from his occiput
Draws words both sharp and wary;

With stinging gags he ably wags
His maxillary.

voters

Now may

The

inferior

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 5

assembly is Russia’s jinabil-

-™ony between the Soviets and expenses much lower, the price
the Western democracies at the Was $34.00 a ton. 2
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Imagine anyone Planting, cul
tivating and harvesting by hand
as there is no other method of
pulling and topping a ton of car-
rots, then hauling them to mar-

“ket for $22.00. The Sacks at an

increased price of 6 cents each,
plus irrigation and hauling,
would almost absorb the entire
price paid to farmers, a frac-
tion over a cent a pound.
Some city housewife should
go to the Ioecal grocer and pur-
chase 50 cents worth, then drop
them on the scales and see if
She has 50 pounds. The spread
between the producer and con-

sumer on some commodities
‘seems to “be astounding to say
the least.

It is generally agiveed that

‘the liftins: of price controls will

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| Knights . . . ancient and modern

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The distressed maid he scorns to aid
When city-states need saving.
“The robes of rank (a wee bit swank)

He covets not.

Is on his mind, and trams, the kind
That run on tracks and wobble,

And bonds and things, and cabs ang kings
And gobs and gobs of trouble.

(Let none deride the civic pride
That sets them office seeking.
Where such pride lags, lethargic dregs
Seep in, corrupt and reeking.)

Lo! riding swift, with shout and shift,
By many a bridge and ferry,

Three doughty- sirs, in plumes and spurs,
Hight Halford, Tom, and Gerry.

They ride by day upon the way,
His Nibs the voter wooing;

They shout by night by main and might,
Hach other’s thrusts undoing.

With promise glib the voters rib:
A roast on every table,

Free beer and milk, free satin, silk—
Three gen’rous lads and able.

The call goes forth for men of worth
By divers cliques and clans, ye-
Lept the strong of heart—and tongue—

Each to his task forensic.

him—Bob, Jack,
Whe duty knows and works it:
betide the voter’s hide

stays away and -shirks it.

The contest flares,

Are loud—the stock
reel,
the best man win

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only add ta the price to the
consumer, but will ngt increase
the price to the producer.

The farmer being a consumer
of manufactured goods at great
ly increased prices, will find it
difficult to continue to operate.
Dairy herds have been greatly

reduced already. In some dis-
} tricts where there were three
or four dairy farmers, two or

three herds have disappeared al-
together, which is the major
reason for the milk shortage.
It takes four years to produce
a dairy cow of any description,
So the milk shortage . will be
with us for 4 long, time to, come,
unless we have a drastic change
in our agricultural policy.
Seme of these Surplus carrots
Should be fed to cows, thus in-
creasing, the mill supply.
FRANK HALVORSON.

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a Laborite government, has fulfilled this

Situation too, the late unlamentea J.
were driven out of Georgia and will

W Maitland: we were credited with

ing,
may guess at, but we had nothing

At @ gathering of professional journalists with a Greek

that had befallen them in Many a day.
Papers are-in a sad plight because
they have to thank the A.P. for
Tribune put on a demonstration at the -gatheéring, probably of how,

who do not know anything about news distortion,
Manufacturing, as it is
ist world.

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Baron Munchausen

Foe months the world’s press was deluged by
daily in hundreds

stories about rockets and V-bombs being seen
Over the skies of Sweden and inland. The stories were elaborate

° v and lurid in detail and the spurte
It is reported y of the missiles was stated to be sonje—
where in the zone of Germany occupied by the Soviet forces. ~ ae

Tt now develops that these tales were not written as they should
have been. They really ought to have followed the pattern of the
reporter who wrote in fear of the law of libel, something like this:

“High military authorities are reported to have declared that
what purported to have been rocket missiles or VY-bombs are allestda
to have been seen over Sweden and Finland. It is understood hete
that these terror-weapons are stated to have been firea from the
direction of Russian-oceupied territory in Germany. Swedish miti-
tary authorities are quoted as Saying that these projectiles ase
probably excess stocks of German military Supplies now in the
hands of the Russians. It is believed here that Russia, is stazins
of nerves which is declared to be only the openings passases
ef what is charged will be a war against civilization.” - :

The truth has now come to light in the authoritative =snnounce-
ment of the Swedish defense staff that they investigated over 1,000
incidents, from various Parts of the: country, that had been brought
to their notice between May ist and Sept. 30th. ‘They have come
to the conclusion that these were ordinary celestial phenoments.
There was no evidence, according to them, to show that the objects
were V-bombs or any other type of space projectile. 7 R

LABOR senator from Australia named Grant, spoke st the UBC
without any rumpus such as there was in the case of Tim, Buek.
He was also the Subject of an interviewer for a loca] news-sheet. :
One of his comments to the interviewer
was partly correct by inference and partly
wrong by the same token. Speaking oF
Brynes and Bevin, he gave it as his opinion of things that it as
impossible to understand European évents without a knowledge of
Marxism “and” he said “the former has no knowledge of Marxism;
Such a statement makes his own knowledge of Marxism . “sus-
pect. He cannot surely ask us to believe that Bevin is anything
of a Marxist or is a Marxist in any sense of the term, even .jn. see
most vulgar Social-Democratic sense. : eo a
Bevin and his foreign policy, by, the way, has again ‘breken
into the discussions in the UN .in the matter, of. (his... .“Miarxis'
policies in Greece. It has been announced from London by ‘Spok
men for the Labor government that Britain will respond tos te
appeal of the Greek fascist government for additional men =:
arms, by supplying them with more artillery and rapid-fire weapons.
if that is what the Labor senator from Australia ‘considets
Marxism, it is no wonder that the Austratian delegates: at the]
Assembly are acting as a front for everything reactionary, playirs
the hand of the Labor-imperialists of Britain and their “American
allies against the peace proposals of the Soviet Union-- ~ a 3
it is only a few weeks ago, at the opening of the UN Assembky

“kAarxians?”’

WLS ese ee

that Bevin warned the world “that outside interference with
Greece must cease.” : aes aoe
Just who is interfering in the interna] affairs of Greece? Dife

war of the Greek fascist government, who are to be supplied wit
more arms, against the Greek people, is an apparent fact, even
to people who get all their information from the capitalist Press.
The attempt to place the blame for the “disorders” in Northern
Greece on Yugoslavia, Albania and Bulgaria is a plain tying effott
ef the gang maintained in “power by British arms, to embroil the
world in a war which will enable the Greek fascists te hamstring
the Greek people. : 5

Only the British, the Bevinites at least, are interfering in the
internal affairs of Greece and if Bevin is not a stupid, politica!
hypocrite, he should tke his own advice and move his troops out
of Greece. a 7 ©

This is not the first time British imperilaism, with the heip of
role. British treeps were
sent inte Georgia at one time to try to establish a governnient in:
power in that country against the wishes of the Georgian people

who were whole-heartedly with the Soviets. =

we had a Labor minister responsible for that
Ramsay MacDonald. But they
also be driven out of Greece. :

And note yell,

were blamed for the timely death of Attorney-General R. Li
driving Sheriff Kiell into an

untimely grave. So to safesuard ourselves, we wish to disclaim

z . any responsibility for Gerry MeGeer bust;
Disclaimer ! ing a gut. Whatever we would like to dc
to, or with, a labor-hating, Riot Act-read

police-organizing machine gunner, you
to do with McGeer busting a gut.

tear-gas-uSing, special

letter)
name, held a few days ago in Chicago, an executive director of

the Associated Press told the gathering that there are Some cound:

tries where freedom of the press existed be
Freedom fore the war but where “newspapers @are’
of press not now talk.” iE

According to him.it was “the worst tragedy”:
In many countries news
they cannot print “facts.” And:

helping them out. The Chicago :

to gather “facts”. i

may count for something with people:
faking and:

This kind of slobber

Only

This is a general routine performance with the AP ite you :
don’t know, read The Brass Check by Upton Sinclair. They +
threatened, and threatened, to sue him, but they never did. He had~

the goods on them.

if there is freedom of the press here in Vancouyer—why is AL

Parkin off the air?

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6. 1946