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Towards Tomorrow

S THE YEAR 1946 draws to a close it is timely for

all men and women in the great fraternity of labor to

look back on the events of this historic year, so that they
may face the problems of the coming year wiht firm confi-
dence and resolution.

The year 1946 saw the forces of peace within the ma-_

chinery of the United Nations emerge partially victorous
over the forces of ‘atomic diplomacy’ and reaction. This
victory was only possible because the million-fold voice of
the common people demand peace, self-determination and
freedom, and are alert to the conspiracies of those whose
only solution to their own difficulties is the organization of
a new war against the socialist and democratic people’s
states.

A fuli victory for peace can be won in 1947, but only
if and when the mighty power of the people is brought to
bear in routing the imperialist remnants of reaction and
war. This past year saw the United Nations, as an instru-
ment of peace, gain in strength and prestige, expressing in
greater measure the hopes and aspirations of all men of
goodwill.

The year 1946 saw in Canada and elsewhere the great-
est strike struggles in our history. With a magnificent
unity and morale, the workers moved into the battle-line
to secure those aims for which they had fought—decent

_Wages, jobs and homes and security, the right of men and
women in every calling to organize and bargain collectively
and to obtain a greater portion of the vast wealth they
alone produce.: The great strike struggles of the automo-
bile workers, lumber workers, steel, metal mining, seamen,
textiles, are without a parallel fer their unity and firm
resolve. True, the full objectives were not won, but the
militancy, unity and experience gained all point to greater

victories in 1947, the winning of that full measure of life _

and social security for which their members worked and
fought and died. ;

The year 1946 saw the rise of people’s governments in
a number of European countries, countries. whose peoples
are looking towards the bright dawn of progress and
socialism, rather than upon the dead past with its social
jungle, hunger, misery and war. The year 1946 also saw
the first great socialist state, the Union of Soviet Socialist
Republics, emerge from the fires of war, stronger, more
resolute—a mighty inspiration to toiling humanity in every
land. :

Yes, 1946 was a year of great events in spite of its
many seeming shortcomings. We didnt win homes for
all our veterans and workers who need them, but the
profiteers and their apologists in and out of _governmnets
are On the defensive. We didn’t win wage increases com-
mensurate with skyrocketing living costs, but every penny
added to the cost of a bottle of milk which deprived a
child by that much: weakened the monopolists who forced
the increase in face of public protest. The unity built in
the trade unions, and between the unions and the common
people of farm, village and town, is a happy augury for
full victory in 1947 when Canadian labor enters the ring
for round two in the age-long battle between exploiter and
exploited, — ee

The common people didn’t seek utopia when the guns
ceased} They knew that utopias are only for parlor phil-
-osophers. But they did resolve upon the battlefields, in
the skies, on the seas and in the workshops, that when
Hitlerism was smashed there would be no returning to the
exploitation and economy of starvation which produced
Hitler and his many vest-pocket imitators. That resolve
still holds good. The struggles of 1946 confirmed it: the
struggles of 1947 will clinch it.

With a world to win and the people of all lands march-
ing towards that goal with seven-league boots, the Pacific
Tribune editorial board and staff can say to all our readers,
contributors and supporters: A happy 1947, and may your
shoulder be hard on the wheel of history, moving it forwara
to happier tomorrows.

Our impartial judiciary (Quebec version): “EI would, if I could,
give you life imprisonment,” said Recorder Jean Mercier of Mon-
treal, sentencing John Maynard How to pay a fine of $100 or Serve
three months im jail. Wow’s crime: He @Mistribeted Jehovah's
Witnesses’ pamphiets on the streets.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 4

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AUNTS

As we see it

AOE By Tom McEwen

IN our last week's fan mail

was a bulky package of lit-
erature with an enclosed note
reading “poison—exhibit A” The
package consisted of two copies
of ‘Enterprise,’ organ of the
B.C. Federation of Trade and
Industry, and a booklet issued
by the same outfit containing
radio broadcasts by R. J.
Templeton, chief of the Federa-
tion‘s propaganda machine.

In his radio spiels Temple-
ton has five sanons of proper
behavior for labor:

* the elimination of the class
struggle.

%* the right of a worker to
join, or not join a union.

x a permanent arbitration
board and the outlawing of
strikes.

* abolition of the closed
shop concept of unionism,
as being the worst form of
dictatorship.

* government - management -

labor cooperation to see
that wages are not in-
creased.
These five canons of proper
labor deportment are the es-
sence of ‘The Labor Problem’

upon-which Templeton poses
as an authority, and for which
the CMA undoubtedly feels is
good value for their money.
The current issues of Enter-
prise are replete from cover to
cover with anti-labor, anti-So-
viet vaporings, the nature and
origin of which labor has be-
come well conversant prior to
and during the war years against
Hitler fascism. <All this is not
hew of course, nor is it the
first time the Pacific Tribune
has called attention to the
mouthings of this mercenary
anti-labor philistine. Were the
speeches and publications of
Templeton simply the frothy
verbiage of an individual with
anti-communist hallucinations,
labor could afford to ignore his
mental abberation.

But his whole cbjective and
that of the monopolists who
previde the finances for this

- ties,

brand of propaganda are direct-
ed towards smashing the trade

unions; for the establishment of
arbitrary fascist tribunals and
an open road to company.
unionism.

In short Templeton’s five
‘principals’ of correct labor be-

havior are copied from MHitler’s
‘Mein Kamf,’ and well illustrate
what kind of a labor movement
his paymasters yearn for.

EN organized labor ~across

the Dominion was protesting
the bringing of 4,000 Ander’s
Poles to Canada, department of-
ficials were
busily assuring
the public that
these fascists
would make
highly desirable
citizens; that a
commission had
been set up, in-
cluding a rep-
resentative o f

the RCMP to see
Tom McEwen to it that the

new ‘immigrants’ would have a
high social and political rating.
Meanwhile a radio network,
which does a good deal of white-
wash work for Ottawa, carried
a program or two, in which the
listener was led to believe that
these fascist Poles were such
good farm workers that scores
of Canadian farmers were tear-
ing their hair because they
hadn't placed orders for two or
three of such ‘help!’ ‘
After the wind comes the
deluge. Now we are informed
by an Ottawa press dispatch
that “government circles are
perturbed about the high inci-
dence of tuberculosis and yener-
€al disease found among the
4,000 Poles recently brought to
Canada.” In some quarters the

percentage of diseased ‘immi-
grants’ is rateqd at fifteen to
tweity-five percent. From the

Same news
“due to

item we learn that
lack of proper facili-
the Poles were neither K-
rayed nor given blood tests.”
From this we can only conelude
that the ‘examinations’ imposed

by the RCMP commision author-

ized to look over the ‘im-
migrants’ consisted in a few
simple questions, such as ‘are
you a communist? Have you

ever been in a trade union? Do
you believe in God? and What
is your opinion of the Soviet
Union?’ and so on.

Doubtless the training in fas-
eist terror and murder received
by Ander’s fascist Poles would
make the answers to such ques-
tions simple—and satisfactory.

Mere matters of tuberculosis,
syphilis or other venereal dis-
eases could be regarded as triv-
jal, in the selection of ‘immi-
grants’ who can be relied upon
as a source of strike-breakers
and provocateurs against
Canadian - Soviet friendship.
Farmers, indeed! Fascists, dis-
eased in body and mind, whom
the British Trade Union Gon-
gress has rejected and who aré
now scattered in Canada like 2
bubonic plague with government
aproval and direction.

FOUPTEEss those hardy souls

who plow through the annu-
al reports of bank presidents
to their shareholders must have
felt a bit startled when they
read the report of president ©
EH. Carlisle of the Dominion
Bank to the 76th annual meet-

ing of the shareholders. Wath
Duplessis ‘uncovering commuD-
ist plots’ almost daily im the
approved Reichstag fire tech-

nique, readers may have gath-
ered from Carlisle’s report that
the communists had seized the
Dominion bank. However, it
seems the bank is doing all

right, with total assets of $340>- =

000,000, and all other contingen-

cies being amply cared for, the

Shareholders cut a sizable melon

$650,000. Not so big s many of
.them may have hoped for, but

with ‘communism haying fallen
On so many localities through-

out Canada,’ net to be sneezed

at.

— Continued on Opposite Page

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1946

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