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As the sub drive ended its first week, we could record 101 new subscriptions and re- newals turned in.

Leading press clubs include North Vancouver City (2 subs), North Burnaby (8), Ad- vance (7), Broadway (7), Mount Pleasant (6), South Bur- naby (5), Kensington (4), Al- bernis (4), North Surrey (4).

The city clubs are leading the provincial clubs by a wide margin with 75 subs turned in as against 26.

“We're off to a good start,” said Harold Pritchett, chair- man of the sub drive commit- tee. ‘Now we must keep up the pace and overshoot our tar- get of 1,000 subs and renewals before November 15.”

Unions in Quebec face police terror

QUEBEC—In the opening sessions of the annual con- vention of the Canadian and

|Catholic Confederation of

Labor (CCCL), president Roger Mathieu charged that “nolice terror and mass. dis- missals” of active union members had reached-a new high.

Mathieu spelled out in de- tail the large number of com- panies and corporations doing the firing, their victims totall- ing over 400 “selective dis- missals”, emphasizing the con- certed and joint efforts of the bosses and police to destroy effective trade union organiz-

‘ation in Quebec.

Mathieu :also strongly con- demned the widespread use of police in the strike struggles of Quebec unions to win wage increases and other benefits. He cited harsh police treat-

ment of strikers with blud- geons and revolvers, and strike “investigations” in

which the provincial police “became the tools of employer propaganda” and repression. Mathieu contended that the police are being used as an

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The AEC lies

Dr. J. Gordon Kaplan, radi- ation expert at Dalhousie Uni- versity in Halifax charged last week that the U.S. Atomic En- ergy Commission’ is “deliber- ately deceiving’ the people by its minimizing of the terrible dangers of radio-active fallout.

Regardless of AEC state- ments to the contrary, Dr. Kaplan asserted that “stron- tium-90 has already reached the danger point . . . and fur- ther tests will elevate its con- centrations in children to lev- els known to cause fatal bone cancer in dogs now.”

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SPORTLIGHT

MONG the papers from all parts of the world which

come to our office is the People’s Voice of New Zeal- and, a Marxist paper which usually has pithy comments on many _ subjects, including sports.

In a recent issue George Jackson, national president of the Communist Party of New Zealand, delivers a broadside at the business interests which

control many sports. Here is| i gulf between work and cul-

what he has to say:

Most sports today seem to face new problems.

Recent headlines range from increasing deaths of mat- adors in bull-fighting, prob- lems in world championship boxing, tennis as a commercial business, to a recent one, “Too many people watch school rug- by in New South Wales.”

All these problems involve the spirit of sport and also pose the question: What is the purpose of sport and its place in life?

Before we can engage in sport, art or cultural pursuiis of any kind, we first of all have to earn our living in work. At all stages of society, work has always come first, because we cannoi live with- out the first requirements of life.

This has been true whether in the society. where men hunt- ed for an animal to eat, or, to- day, where the animal we eat is not hunted but produced for that purpose. It reaches us as food through a division of labor which includes farmers, butchers, railway workers, re- frigeration engineers, truck drivers, road makers and so on.

This production is the first requirement in life, and all else, no matter how remote or apparently unrelated, arises on the basis of how we do this.

“How we do this” is the/ relationship of men in work’

itself. Life is whole and any divisions must be ‘seen in their inter-connections.

When man worked with tools which he owned, produc- ing a product for his own use, all other activity also served the prime purpose of his own life.

When he was separated from his tools, due to changes from simple to complex, requiring division of labour, he lost the ownership of the product of his work. f

This altered the relationship between work and the rest of his life. Work became that part of his life which he sold to somebody else.

He came to see his “free time” as something separate

and apart from the prime ne- cessity of life.

September 25, 1959—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7

It is class ownership which causes the separation and con- tradiction between man’s work and man’s other pursuits in life. Z

With the growth of monop- oly, the class contradictions in production increase and are reflected in the rest of life.

The problems of sporti and culture arise from this base and do not accidentally fall from the heavens.

One of the effects of the

tural pursuits, which include sport, is the growth of onlook- |ers and the relative decline of participants in some form.

As Ross Jenson says: “Sport comes more under the control of promoters’; and is influ- enced by their commercial morality.

The working-class struggle for a greater share of the wealth they create, and for ultimate ownership once again of the tools of production, will restore a common purpose and balance between work and cul-

tural pursuits until they merge.

That may seem a_ pipe dream today. But, in their

lofty struggle, workers have a common human interest.

In its course and in its vic- tory; there arises a morality serving the common need.

The moral outlook so cOm- mon today, wise men of the world, cynical, individualist, unbalanced and seeking only escapism, is a capitalist out- look.

It makes problems every- where and is an enemy of the working class movement.

Classic Films open 7th season

The Classic Film Society-op= ens it’s seventh season on Oc- tober 9th, with Japan’s UGET- su MONAGOTARI. Other features to. be shown this year include Great Britain’s HAM- LET. Finland’s THE WHITE

the TERRIBLE, Part 1, .Ger- many’s CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI and France’s BAT- AILLE DU RAIL, to mention a few.

The Classic Film Society meets on the second Friday of each month at 8 p.m. at the Y.W.C.A. Coronation Room,. 997 Dunsmuir Street, Vancou- ver. After each showing a

sion on the feature of the month. Tickets may’ be obtained at.

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