2e or read the weekly your paper for help p worthy cause. As f of the Canadian Aid | Auxiliary, I herewith Ether appeal to all wo- 2rs 40 come down and ; 885 West Pender St. ‘ceive quantities of sior shipment to the lion,. but a great deal is entailed before they nt where they are so aeeded. They have to ; cleaned or washed, | and, mended before bready to pack and our | workers just now are mber—so please swell Ks. ; Canadian workers’ hs mo interest in such ease give uS some of 'e and so speed up a eck. j z = open daily from 9 md expect to see you * week—if only for a s weekly.

| GRACE GLEED. alism

ss item (A.P_) Times, 944, “Expunge names 2se Americans on Me- . . Hood River, Ore- A. : sartling article strikes sing one of the most iets of nationalism— ism, to come out of & of hate and upheaval fent conflict has up-

here in America ..- .- a, all over the world, ime democracy’s fight, the right then, to | Japanese - Americans ath our Armed Forces; ithem now overseas as er, Oregon has done— brasing: sixteen Japan- ican names from a Me- . Gommander Jess Ed- iimerican Legion, says them know we don’t m back here.” :

ve fighting fascism? rican legion prides it- being pure American, flere not danger in this nevicanism, National- juvinism. German fas- ang from seeds of ex- in nationalistic fervor. — beware. : macks so very much of *ejudice, fostered to 4 at has as yet never in those terrible days North and South War. ® Klu Klux Klan rode over black and white

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alike, who dared defy their orders. Hitler’s persecution of the Jews was fascism’s chief weapon. What must be the feel- ing of those Japanese service- men, when they realize the fangs of the beast they are fighting over there, has dared even to raise to strike at home?

Brothers all, come day of un- derstanding, neither race, nor eolor nor creed. I think all pro- gressive minded peoples, clubs, all trade unions, ete.. should protest this act of Hood River. We have had our Jap problem here in B.C., perhaps even more so than Oregon, but I think we have managed to ride the tide of racial prejudice, knowing full well that onee this War. has ended we shall work out a. decent solution for all peoples.

VERA A. PARSONS

Ulinder

Dear Editor:

In the November 25 issue of your paper there appears an article concerning certain charges which have been laid

-against me for allegedly con-

OU THINK?

spiring to attack IW A- officers and members. For your infor- mation and for that of your readers, I am not concerned with whom the officers of the IWA are, but, f am concerned With the policy of this Union, of which I am a member, and those who know me best are well aware that I have always tried to further the best inter- ests of the rank and file.

The article also states that I am a member of the CCE Provincial Council. It is with regret, Mi. Editor. that such is not the ease, L am sorry that I do not have the privilege of Sitting with that august body of men and women who are do-

ing their best to further the _

social and economic well-being of our citizenry. As an [WA member my only interest in the CCE is to see that it is treated

‘ with the honor and respect that

it merits. _— : / Again referring to the charges, it might be well to remember that, under British Justice, one is innocent until proven guilty. JOHN ULINDER.

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TO HAVE BOUGHT COAL LAST JULY.”

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=% 5 A Friendly Critic

[ GOT panned twice this week. First Walter Helund, who lost AA =p

battling fascism in Spain, thinks I made a mistake in this column

two weeks ago. In his own words: “I have to give you all 14 rounds

and gladly pay for my ¥Fingside seat, $2.00. In the 10th I think you

hit a little low when you placed MacInnes second to Beelzebub. We

know what to expect from the devil-and: guard ourselves, but MaciInnes

has some real Pearl Harbor on_his record and should actually be ~

No. One.”

That two bucks foes to the election fund $100.00, which we under- took to raise through this column. We have already made the $100.00, but $50,000 is\a lot of kail and there is still three weeks of the allotted

time to go I believe we should double it, make it $200.00. Who says for another ringside seat?

That two dollars of Walter’s meant more to him than ten times

~ as much would mean to many of us. I know he is depriving himself . of something he needs. So, if you want to, see fascism extirpated from

this world, don’t be backward with financial'help for the only party that has fought fascism consistently since it showed its ugly visage after the last war.

A Hypocritical Critic

[ES other panning comes from the anonimity who writes Left Hooks

in the €CF News. Apparently he did not like the roasting: he |

got i this column a couple of weeks ago, about which Walter Helund wrote. g, f

: At first I thought this name “Left Hook’ was from the prize ring jargon, like Short Jabs and the idioms of Walter’s letter. But after reading the CCE News this issue I am suré I was wrong. The source from which it comes is more likely to be one of Bob Edward’s bawdy. house stories. I may have lost my sense of humor as Left Hook says, but I am sure the CCF’er, Malcolm Bruce, one time ‘Red’, will under- Stand what that means. :

> We have a proverb in*Scotland among the Highlanders which says,

It’s not stealing to take a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill or a tree from the forest,” so, when I was informed that there was something about my humble self in the CCE News, I procured a copy. in the same way that, the Highlanders, used to get their salmon, their deer and their firewood. }

: I find from Left Hook that I am supposed to have ‘‘condoned scuttl- ing the Communist Party and just looked on while the LP. Party of reformism and class collaboration was formed.” Left Hook’s facts are out a little here, I wasn’t looking on, I helped to form the{Labor- Progressive Party, and when I read that splurge, I thought of old Marx, fighting for the eight-hour day and all the other reforms that made up the agendas of the First International at all its Congresses. I thought also of Marx, the class collaborationist, who contributed regularly for a time to the pages of the New York Tribune.

In the middle of last century, Tsarist Russia was the forefront of European reaction as Hitler Germany is today. While the Crimean War was being fought. Marx wrote in the Tribune (April 12th 1853), “Let Russia get possession of Turkey and her strength is increased nearly by half and she becomes superior to all the rest of Murope put together. Such an event would be an unspeakable calamity to the revolutionary cause. . .. In this instance, the interests of the revolu- tionary democracy and England go hand in hand.”

Today Tsarist Russia is replaced by Nazi Germany and yeaction calls itself fascism. The interests of the revolutionary democracy coincide with the interests of capitalist democracy today, as they did With the interests of Britain in 1853, in the defeat of reactionary fas- cism. Marx’ tactics apply equally m these circumstances as they did ine 1858. <A victory for fascism would be “an unspeakable calamity to the revolutionary cause.” -Marx did not demand “socialism” first and then defeat of reaction, but defeat of reaction with such allies as were interested in defeating reaction, Britain in’ that case. But maybe Left Hook would rather see a victory for Hitler Germany and fascism. So much for class collaboration slander, and from people- who boast that they are Marxists!

And says Left Hook, “Many reactionaries are going with the tide .

these days, in words. It is too risky to eontmue their slanderous at- tacks against the Soviet Union.” This, of course, is about Leon Lad- ner. It does not appear to be “too risky’, however, for some of Left Hook’s CCE party members to continue their slanderous attacks against the Soviet Union; to name only Angus MasInnes, Diorothy Steeves, Colin ‘Cameron and George Weaver.

Left Hook should reserve his criticism for these members of his own party, otherwise he will have no right to squeal if we label him an arrant hypocrite. :

He shows some concern for me personally, concern for which I do not thank him, when he interjects, ‘we like to believe that the speaker was uncomfortable and unhappy in such a presence.” I can answer that one without calling on Marx for help. No more uncomfortable or unhappy than Stalin would be in the presence of Churchill or Roose-

. velt.

Both the style and content of this diatribe of Left Hook, betray the author. -If I mentioned his name he would no doubt deny it so I refrain from doing so. It is one of the sad features of the revolutionary movement that this man who gained the confidence and respect of his fellows through forty years of association and worl lost that confidence and respect in a few short days.

The road upwards is a hard one, particularly for such as are cursed with an overweenine strain of egoism, who sometimes think the move- ment cannot do without them and who cannot adapt themselves to changed conditions. But when they make THE mistake of their lives, the descent into hell is eagle-swift. Their fellows renounce them for their mistake is treason to the working class. g

Since I have no intention of entering into a polemic on this matter, this will be my last word on it._ : :