‘Fast buck’ treason

T he issue could well be defined as treason, with a glossy
Socred veneer. .

Couple of weeks ago B.C.’s Trade and Commerce Min-
ister Ralph Loffmark gave out with some observations
about a “customs union’, the elimination of all tariff or
customs barriers between Canada and the U.S.

The minister was also reported to have spiced his
“customs union” proposition with some rambling remarks
about “B.C. being driven by Ottawa” to the necessity of
“separating” from Canada, and becoming part of the
U.S.A. .
When the heat of public criticism and ridicule began
to mount anent such remarks, the minister fell back on
that well-established moth-eaten alibi, “I was mis-quoted.”

Last week Loffmark returned to the theme, —

“The advantages (of Customs Union) are so great,”
Loffmark is quoted as saying, “that it would be worth the
risk of political domination by the Americans... I don’t
personally think domination would result, but even if it
did, it wouldn't be the end of the world.”

Probably not, but right now, in the opinion of the
great majority of British Columbians, it should be the end
of Ralph Loffmark and his Socred regimg, before treason
to B.C. (and Canada) moves from the stage of ‘‘debate”
to that of reality.

No doubt the ready sale and give-away of B.C.’s rich
natural resources to U.S. monopoly for a quick profit buck
has fostered the opinion in a segment of Canadian big
business and its political hacks, that the issue of Canada’s
survival as a nation is “‘not a matter of top priority.”

It is certainly not difficult to understand why a seg-
ment of U.S. monopoly and its kept press holds such
opinions‘ In their resources, industrial and financial looting
of Canada, they have found the Tories, Liberals, and
especially B.C.’s Socred quick-sale regime, most “‘co-
operative.”

Socred Minister Loffmark would do well to read up
on a little of the history of a century ago, (1866-68). The
arguments of the home-based “annexationists” of that day
were very similar to his own, particularly with respect to
a quick profit buck, and to hell with Canada and its ulti-
mate future.

The people, including the Cariboo miners, put the
quietus on that treasonable attempt to sell-out B.C. lock
stock and barrel to the USA. A century later the same
treason, clothed in fine Socred verbiage, rises again. It is
time B.C. became alert to this danger and its ultimate
dire consequences—for B.C. and Canada.

Tom

22 1964 ~.... AND

—PACIFIC TRIBUNE

Time running out

W hile the cause of peace is not served by becoming
alarmist or setting ‘“‘deadlines’’ as to when, “shart
of a miracle’, the world goes “over the brink” into a nuc-
lear holocaust, it is indeed urgent that more millions of
people in Canada, the U.S. and throughout the world,
speedily realize the full import of the gravity of the move-
ment.

To realize, regardless of ideological differences, the in-
herent danger implicit in Washington’s undeclared war
upon the peoples of Southeast Asia and Latin America;
that inboth theatres of U.S. war operations, Vietnam and
the Dominican Republic, the process of rapid “escalation”
moves threateningly forward.

In face of continuing U.S. aggression, the realization
that “time is running out” is vitally urgent; that peace
efforts must be raised to new and unprecedented heights,
to the end that peace and sanity may prevail — and hu-
manity saved from the catastrophe of thermonuclear de-
struction.

the dictatorship, The authorities
had done their best to tear down
and erase these posters from the
smooth stone walls, but had not

“In Italy there are army pa-
trols on all railway stations and
rail intersections, On the secon-
dary stations mostly older veter-

“McEWEN |

ome years ago one of those
ate dames” from _ the
U,S.A,, the wife of some U,S,
embassy official in Moscow, got
into a street hassle with the city
militia (police),

It seems the lady objected
publicly to a group of tourists
taking pictures of eye-pleasing
buildings and civic scenery gen-
erally, and wanted to steer them
.into some rather dilapidated
areas where the scenery is (as
yet) not so good, The tourists
objected, of course, and the lady,
no amateur in “Billingsgate,”
had to be escorted off the scene
‘by Moscow’s “finest,”

We mention this because there
are tourists and “tourists,” Some
want to marvel at the native
beauties of a city or country,
others, for reasons not unpoliti-
’ cal, prefer the back alleys, the
garbage cans, the civic slums
(if any) or the civic dump to
illustrate their “impressions”!

Between those two extremes
there are tourists who also see
the people, love the people, and

-invariably display an acumen of

looking at the surface, and some-
times a bit below the surface,
How people live, their senti-
ments, their freedoms and their
“beefs”; the latter not always
similar, but fairly common to
all humanity,

Two grand old Pacific Tribune
builders have been touring Eur-
ope for some months now, going
a bit off the “beaten path” so to
speak, and jotting down their im-
pressions as they moved along,
Len and Mrs, Tornblad, Their
daughter Hedy sent us a long
“travelogue” on Mom and Dad’s
safari through Europe, and we
pass some of it along not only
because it is deeply interesting,
but illustrates the ability to see
what is to be seen!

“When travelling through the
three Southern European coun-
tries, Italy, Spain and Portugal,
one is immediately impressed
by the open use of the armed
forces of the state in the differ-
ent types of surveillance, A per-
son can see the varying forms
in which the class struggle finds
its expression,

ans are used to patrol, armed
with Mauser bolt-action rifles,
In the main centers regular army
men, armed with ‘Burp’ or‘Sten’
guns are on duty around the
clock, 33 :

“In Spain, the first thing no-
ticed at the railway stations or
in the country-side, are the

-@Guardia Civil.” They patrol

mostly in pairs, and their facial
expressions give them an almost
gangster-like appearance,

“On the trains, civilian-clad
police enter the compartments,
flashing their badges which are
worn under the coat lapels, de-
manding to scrutinize the pass-
ports, and the right to travel of
all Spanish citizens and foreign-
ers alike,...

“In Portugal the activity of the
armed forces on the railways are
no so obvious but the repressive
nature of theSalazar dictatorship
is as fierce as any in the world,

“One of the first things we
observed in the form of open
defiance and struggle against the
Salazar regime was in Lisbon on
one of the main thoroughfares in
the centre of the city, Over a
distance of three-quarters of a
mile every building has been
plastered with posters exhorting

the people to take action against

succeeded, ...

“As I was not familiar enough
with the language to understand
everything I could still make out
some of it which called upon the
people to resist the colonial war
in Angola, ‘Not one Portuguese
Soldier to Die for the War in
Angola’ was one in particular,
Others were directed against the
*P.I.D,E,,’ the Portuguese secret
police, and others against the
‘G.N,R.,’ Portuguese Republican
Guard, :

“There were also other slo-
gans chalked with some black
substance which seemed to be
ineffacable, against American

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Worth
Quoting

The Pentagon maniacs imagine the
are sowing terror in the hearts
Africans and Asians by their show ®
strength. The truth however is thal
they are only sowing hatred.

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If that hatred does not speak in the
same language of guns with which
the U.S. imperialists speak, it is °™)
because of an overwhelming desire
not to take any step, which cou!
plunge the world into war.

But patience in the face of provoce”
tion must have its limits. That is
the efforts for a stop to the aggress™
must be speeded up. There is no ti
to lose.

—NEW AGE, India,
March 21, '65.

*
The labor movement then was unde!
Meany’s thumb, and actually ran"
in the Santo Domingo papers ?@
the people they should put their f
in the armed forces to defend 9°
communism. ?

Well, we want the. people of ta
America to know that kind of unit
ism does not represent all labor. ©
ILWU is one section of fhe Amerit
labor movement that won’t stan? *
for that McCarthyite baloney- we
serving notice here and now that!
union is not in the business of Ma”
the Dominican Republic safe for on
absentee sugar‘owners.

—THE DISPATCHER, ILWU
President Harry Bridges,
May 14, ’65.

*

It is not enough to say
happen here ’’ We must be on gu?
to make sure it doesn't happen h
or there, or anywhere.

ont con

‘Tennyson has said, ‘‘Tis held the
sorrow makes us wise.”’ :

I fervently hope so and that we will
show our wisdom by outlowit
cruelty and inhumanity that dest’?
the men and women whose mem?

will forever be honored and whom "
honor today.

_PRIME MINISTER PEARSON ot
Association of Former :
Concentration Camp Inmaté
marking 20th anniversary ®
liberation. Ottawa, May 9

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imperialism in Vietnam,
the Americans as ‘U.S. ve
Vive Le V'it Nim’ (Long bY
Viet Nam),” :
There are several mor i
interesting pages in the TOM”.
“travelogue” which the
try and run in later edition
Especially a few pages ®
Portuguese students
“University Day,” which n°
encompasses our own stu vt
fee gouges, but the use of PO.
guese student books for purP ine
for which books never Were,
tended — to defend the oti
from the rifle butts of state ©
action, ; :
From the fewobservatl®
given above PT readers
agree that the Tornblads 4% ee
servant tourists! :

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May 28, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE-F°