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THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE ---, PAGE FIVE YOESDAY, MARCH 16, 1948 Reds Are Campaigning In Mines, Bush Camps EDITOR'S NOTE -- The Times . Gazette today presents * the sixth in a series of articles revealing Communists' prepara- tions for a Red revolution in Canada, based on facts gather- ed by Staff Reporter Don Cam. eron, of the Windsor Daily Star, in the course of a long and careful investigation that took ) JH 40 many parts of the Dom- on, By DON CAMERON Windsor Star Staff Reporter Why are the Communists so re- lentless in their attacks on Canada's "bourgeois" traditions, culture and religion? The unrestrained viciousness of their attacks have a deeper signi-|eq "Good News Travels Fast, Too" It has to do with a scoop scored not long ago by the Porcupine Ad- ficance than most people realize. Stewart Smith, of the inner circle of the Canadian Red leadership in Toronto -- the son of a one-time Methodist minister who was con- verted to Marxism--had a calculated purpose in mind when he wrote, some time ago, in the Communist Young Worker: "The paganism of 5,000 years ago lives in the Christian religion of to. day. It is perpetrated and support- ed by the master class. Ignorance, superstition and all that goes with these is in the interests of the mast. er class. But when the masses of the workers have shattered their chains of economic slavery, one blow will shatter all the chains of relig- ious supersition." When Communist Leader Tim Buck and his top-level aides in the national Red hierarchy--such men as Joseph B. Salsberg, Toronto, MPP. Leslie Morris, vituperative editor of the Canadian Tribune, and Harvey Murphy, born Chernikofsky --inveigh against expressions of pa- triotism and national pride, they have good reasons for their stand. When the Communist Party of Canada passed and published, for its restricted membership, resolutions condemning the Y.M.C.A., the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides, it was part of a carefully considered plan. Why do Communists fear these things? Here are three stories that reveal part of the answer. They come out of the northern gold fields and the bush, where this reporter spent sev- eral days observing Red activties and attempting to gauge their suc- cess. "The Voice of the Bush" The first story could not want a better title than that worn by a pro-Red radio broadcast that blank- ets the northland weekly: "The Voice of the Bush" A brace of Communist Bruce Magnusson's organizers for the Lumber and Sawmill Workers were doing a missionary job in a bush camp where some 40 Ukrainians re- céntly brought from displaced per- sons camps in Europe, were quart- ered with a dozen veteran loggers. In the tarpaper-seled recreation hall an impromptu meeting was go- ing well 'and at least half of the newcomers seemed eager to join the union. Confident that his audience was with him, one of the spellbinders deviated from the straight union story and began upon a line that would ordinarily have been reserved for a future meeting, when the neo. phytes would have beén subjected to further indoctrination. : He, began with half.truths about inequalities and injustices in the capitalistic system. ._ He spoke of the healthy and happy state of the workers under Communism in Russia and the Uk- raine, and when the applause came did not notice that it was confined to some of the veteran bush work- ers, who had long since been con- verted to revolutionary doctrine, Canada's reactionary government must be overthrown by the workers it had oppressed the speaker cried. Upon the ruins of greedy capitalism the workers must establish a prole- tarian dictatorship-- Too late he heard the mutterings and saw the angry looks on the faces of the new Canadians. A husky youngster stepped forward, firsts clenched. He shouted some- thing about the brand of Commun- ism he had witnessed in Europe, and it hadn't looked good to him. He'l been promised freedom and op- portunity in Canada, and so far he hadn't seen any lack of them. An Old Trick of Agitators It was one of those crises that could easily develop into a free- for.all fight. Swiftly the organi. zer who was not speaking resorted to a favorite trick of agitators. ficials of the Four of the indoctrinated loggers followed them. The rest, some with sheepish shame in their eyes, stay- ed to sing. There was no fight that night, nor were there any new recruits for Bruce Magnusson's Red-head. éd union. But for a solid hour afterward the cold winter stillness of the bush reverberated with the stirring sound of voices raised in songs of freedom, hymns of allegiance to the one undying tradition of 'men of good will everywhere--a tradi- tion Communists hate and must stifle before they can hope to win the battle for the world. Jockeyed By Reds The second story might be call. vance, a weekly newspaper pub- lished in Timmins, heart of the Porcupine gold-mining district. For weeks the townspeople and dwell. ers in surrounding territory had read disquieting news and heard disturbing rumors about thé activi. ties of Red-tinged labor agitators from the United States, led by Reid Robinson, eastern vice-president of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Reluctant miners were being jockeyed into a position where the union, dominated by these men from the States, soon would call a strike that would cripple the whole northland, the rumors said. Rank. and-file unionists were helplessly under the control of the alien leaders. Don Delaplante, editor of the Advance, was barred as a matter of course from a business meeting of imming Miners Union, Local 241, IUMM.S.W., but that did not stop him from getting the news of what took place at the meeting. hrough "cannections" he learned the full story--and it was one a good many thousand peorle in the Porcupine were waiting for. The rank.and.-filers and local of. union had shown plenty of fight. By a two-thirds vote "they had refused to let Reid Robinson address the meeting or have any voice in the local's af. fairs. The argument had been vio. lent and fisticuffs between non. Red miners and Robinson's coterie had been narrowly averted. The story got the eight.column streamer line in the Advance, but that did not settle the question of how to get the news to everyone in the district who Sod be in. terested. No newspaper outside a totalitarian state has ever had complete coverage in its territory, and this one had strong 'daily com. petition. Clergyman to Rescue The editor mentioned his prob. lem to a clergyman who happened to drop in--one who viewed with alarm the Kremlin . encouraged crusade of Communists against all he considered best in the Canadian culture. ¢ "Leave it to me," the clergyman said. "All you have to do is print as many papers as you thing will be needed. around." That afternoon schoolboys be- gan ta congregate in the Advance offices, across the street from un. ion headquarters. Nearly two score of them volunteered to dis. tribute the papers. That night everybody in the Por. cupine district, with the exception of the bling and the illiterate, if any, had a chance to read that headline and the story beneath it --because a man had gone to the trouble to speak to a group of Can. adian school children about the importance of people knowing and understanding events that have & bearing upon their welfare. Communists would put a stop to things like that. They can't af. ford to have the whole truth made public, ever. Invariably they have suppressed free speech and free. dom. of the press wherever they have gained power and through in. cessant propaganda have done their best to suppress freedom of thought and hope. Seek Priest's Advice JJ The title of the third story won't be any more original than the others. We'll call it: "Knowledge Is Power" A group of miners in another community, having listened to long harangues of ultra.radical agita- tors, could not make up their minds whether to join a local un. ion, They masked their parish priest, whose good sense had help. ed them often before, what he thought about it. "Unions can be fine, construc. tive organizations when their members try to make them 80," said the priest. "At their best they are honest brotherhoods of work- ers, beneficial to' their members, to the employers and to the commun. ity at large. Do you think you can contribute toward making your union one of the best?" It turned out that none of them knew much about unions, notwith. standing the speeches they had listened to. So the priest said he'd see that they had a chance to learn. Every evening for a week, after that, the miners listened carefully to a dissertation by a friend of the priest's, a man educated in econ. cmies and experienced in indus. | trial relations. They learned about | theories of costs, wages and profits. | They came to see that industry | should be--but isn't always--an honest partnership between the worker and the employer, based on | mutual honesty and respect. | "Now," sald the priest, at the end | of the week, "by all means join | your ynion and do all you can to | make this community a better | place for your friends, your fami. | lies and all who share it with you, | And don't forget, while you're | about it, that you're Christians!" Proves Disturbing Communists are deeply disturbed | by things of this sort. Whether | they are attempting to seize con. trol of a union, turn a reputable society into a Communist front or- | ganization, or just spread generally | the alse impression that Reds are | honestly trying to improve - the workers' lot, they always have trouble. with people who have been taught to thifik for themselves. There is no flexibility in the Communist creed, There is no room in it for argument or reason, or anything 'except blind accept- | ance. Where. Communists must I'll see that they get #4 7,000th British Immigrant Welcomed William Stuart McMullen of Edinburgh (left), the 7,000th British immigrant brought to Toronto by air under the Ontario immigration plan, is welcomed at Malton Airport yesterday by Premier Drew (right) and Planning Minister Porter after arriving on a TCA airliner. errr ---------------------------------------- temporize to meet changing situa. tions, and adapt their visible words and actions to needs of the mo. ment, their only chance is to lie, distort and creaté smokescreens of confusion to conceal their one and only aim in life--the overthrow of democracy, and the seizure of wealth and enslavement of popu- lations in the name of a tyranny that would command the respect of the most ruthless autocrats of history. The patriot, the artist and the priest have set mankind. free from tyrants, the ugliness of a material. istic and animal life, and the ter- ror of the unknown. The world will never be safe for Communism until these three are assassinated or banished to some Siberia from which there can be no return, and replaced by cynical teachers of treachery, spreaders of propaganda and apostles of hatred. The three stories you have just read show what patriotism, enlight- enment and ethical thinking can do to check the proponents of the Moscow-directed world revolution, Unfortunately they are minor bright spots in a large and dark picture. . Red Law in Bush A communist-dominated union still lays down the law for most of the workers in the bush. Reid Rob. inson and his lieutenants still dic. tate policies for the mimers, al. though it is likely the government will rid the country of them soon through: provisions of the Immi- gration Act designed to safeguard law and order. The miners in Timmins, Kirk. land Lake and neighboring com. munities still will go on strike MORE TELEPHONES against the will of the majority, unless in the next few weeks the balance of power within the union is shifted to more responsible hands. " But perhaps now you have a clearer notion why the Reds fight against the institutions closest to the hearts of loyal Canadians-- and how Canada may yet be saved from them. Next--Treason In Many 'Tongues. CREAM TASTER The difference between cream tasting and the tasting of many other foods is that the cream tast- er must swallow the sample, The cream that goes into some cream of mushroom soup it so rich it practically has to be spooned out of she canisters--and a busy day of | tasting and swallowing adds up to plenty of calories, as you can im- agine, . Under the circumstances you'd think the cream taster would be fat as a butter ball. He isn't though--because he just mkaes al- | lowances for those calories in his | daily diet. | And girls, he has the most di- |vine complexion! A dream of |'smooth pink and white. He's so expert he can tell you | exactly what the cows ate, what part of the country the cream | came from and, of course, the ex- |act degree of freshness and qual- ity. | THREE MEMBERS INDUCTED | Three new members were wel- comed by the Oshawa Rotary Club | at its luncheon meeting yesterday. They were: Fay Brooks, Al Hart. | shorn and James Skinner. Rotar- |ian C. R. McIntosh conducted the ceremony assisted by Rotarians A. E. O'Neill and George Ansley. THREE HAVE BIRTHDAYS | Roses were [presented to three | members of the Oshawa Rotary | Club yesterday in honor of their | birthdays. Those honored were: President J. Norval Willson, F. E. Ireland'sSons Honor St. Pat Festive Day By JACK McNEIL Canadian Press Staff Writer It's St. Patrick's Day tomorrow and the symbol of the shamrock will again enliven Irish hearts and recall to Irish minas vhe legendary figure of one of the most colorful saints of history. The date of St. Patrick's birth, and even the date of his death, are disputed - by scholars. But, it's agreed he lived in the fifth cen. tury and died at Abbey Saul in County Down--in the year 460, some say, while others maintain it wag 493. The place of his birth is pretty much a mystery. Histor. ians have conjectured him various. ly as a native of Ireland, England, Wales and France. There are those who assert that the Apostle of Ireland was really a Scotsman, born at Kilpatrick, near Dumbar. ton. In any case there's little dispute that he had a long and adventur- ous life, Kidnapped at the age of 16 from his father's farm by a band of pirates, he was sold into slavery to a pretty chieftain. Six years later he escaped, journeyed to France, and became a monk, first at Tours and later at Lerins, one of the most celebrated monas. teries in' Europe. In the year 431 he went to Rome; and some time after was sent by Pope Celestine to preach in Ireland. According to his Irish biographers, Patrick foundeq 365 churches and baptized with his own hand 12,000 persons. There can be little doubt he was a persuasive' missionary. It was while preaching at Tara that St. Patrick made the shamrock im. mortal. When a Druid priest chal. lenged the mystery of the Trinity, Patrick, stooping to the emerald sod, picked up a shamrock and held it high to prove that three could combine in one and one in three. After 20 years - of missionary travels, he fixed his see gt Armagh about the year 454. His relics were Abbey Saul, down to the period of "0ldat40,50,60?" -- Man, You're Crazy Forget your age! Thousands are peppy at 70. Try "pepping up" with Ostrex. 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E10 J 4 R30 NEY N J Today we Live in a Greater Canada +i. CANADA is the most desired of countries. It represents hope and opportunity. It is where they wan to be. La The dream of millions overseas is a reality for us. "To see ourselves as others see us" strengthens our realization of our country's new modern world. importance in the The Canada that emerged from the war is a far greater country than we ever thought possible Nudging the veteran beside him, he began to bawl a song at the top of his vbice, the first song that occurred to him, the Communist "Internationale." One--4wo.half a dozen voices joined in. Most of the veteran loggers were singing, or trying > by the time the first reached the line, "Arise, ye slaves, no more in thrall!" Some sang with a will, and some just because they didn't want to tangle with these strong young immigrants. For ar instant it appeared they would tangle, anyway. he Ukrain. -- a country of vastly increased and varied productivity -- with a million more employed than before the war -- with a new wealth of interesting careers awaiting those alive to the oppor. tunities around them. IN TWO short years we have added over 257,000 telephones, put in hundreds of switchboards and trained thousands of people to extend and improve your telephone ioe. 125,000 APPLICATIONS were on file ian who had stepped forward to. ward the nearest singer, drawing back his fist. But ancgher young fellow--one who had studied hard in the camp school to learn as We are adding more telephones to meet the continuing demand for service just as fast as in Ontario House, London, when Ontario began its immigration plan. It has been estimated thatat least 809, of the displaced persons in Germany want to emigrate to Canada. SIGNIFICANT, too, is the number of . new plants established here by foreign firms. Specially interesting are those built up by wartime refugees, of whom CANADA is increasingly attractive for visitors too! More tourists than ever cane to us in 1947 -- making an ever- growing contribution to continued Canadian progress and prosperity. much ag possible of the language and traditions df this new land-- grasped his arm, "0 Canada" Stops Them The second Ukrainian threw back his head, opened his mouth, and began to sing also. y His accent wasn't good and some of the words escaped him entirely, but the voice was rich and deep and the melody was unmistakable, It was "O Canada." A fellow immigrant picked it up, and another. The song grew like a peel of thunder. None knew all the words, but all knew the tune, and out of the hubbub 40 voices almost miraculously brought out a single line in perfect unison: "Glorious and free ..."" The "Internationale" didn't have | a chance. It faltered, was swal- lowed up, died altogether. With the slow, powerful ryythen of the anthem beating about them like ocean waves, the union organizers locked at one another and quietly left the hall. about 3,500 entered Canada. They established at least 56 new industries employing over 6,000. equipment becomes available. 4, All this is being done in the face of rising costs. Yet, up to now, there has been no increase in the basic telephone rates established 21 years ago. ! LOUIS FISCHL; escaping from Czechoslovakia, came to Canada in 1938 -- began manufacturing kid gloves in an old renovated Ontario factory. Canadians join- ed his original handful of skilled Czech workers to learn the new art, Today thousands of pairs of finest Canadian high-fashion gloves, in feather and in fabrics, are being produced both in Prescott, Ont. and St. Tite, Que., their new branch. For you, this means greater value than ever before: for us, the satisfaction of providing "the best telephone service at the lowest possible cost". One of a series presented by Wotaon to promote a fuller realization by Canadians of Canada's prosent greatasss. THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA Lours Fiscay says: "When I knew I was finished with Europe and had to begin a new life at 50, Canada was the country to which I' was most anxious to come. Here there is a future, Here is evérything needed for industry; vast resources for development; grat opportunities for new careers"'s . i