streets by police.

or hair styling.

LSD-marijuana ‘‘addict”!

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EDITORIAL

Symbols of sickness

n the current inspired public uproar in the press and
other news media, mainly directed against young
students in high schools and universities re theuse of LSD and
marijuana, one very dangerous result seems to be emerging,
viz; the reported accosting and frisking of young people on the

Obviously all that is required to make these people
“suspect” as LSB.or marijuana “users”, “pushers” or what
have you in the eyes of some policemen, is their mode of dress

The male with a goodly crop of hair on his pate or face seems
to be a ready “suspect”, likewise the female in extra-tight
jeans or a mini mini-skirt. Such attire to the more-than-
average dumb cop have apparently become the symbols of the

Whatever the pros and cons of LSD andits ultimate weal or
woe to Homo Sapiens, subjecting young people to police indig-
nities on the public streets is not goingto provide a solution to
the problem — if there is one?

All that is accomplished by this method of approach is a
gross and flagrant violation of the elementary civil and demo-
cratic rights of the citizen, whether young or old. The use of
one evil (the violation of civil liberties) to suppress what is ©
alleged to be another evil, will solve nothing,

It does however mark a dangerous step froward — not to
finding any solutions for the urge to “take a ride with LSD” —
but to a police-state ‘‘cure’’ for society’s ills.

This week in Victoria the government introduced a bill
which, among other things, is designed to impose stiff penal-
ties on the ‘‘unauthorized” use of LSD, This bill introduced by
Health Minister Black specified that LSD and marijuana users
must now secure a permit from the provincial department of
health before they can “legally” possess or use LSD or mari-

Already NDP-MLA Tom Berger has pointed out that the
proposed bill is a “criminal” bill which only the federal
government have the right to enact. Moreover, its provisions
that such drugs can be “legally” used under permit, stands
in direct opposition to the federal Narcotics Control Act,
which proscribes the possession of marijuana. ;

Such a bill is reminiscent of the old “prohibition” days
“which “banned” the sale and consumption of alcoholic ‘‘up-
lifters” — and incidentally upped the consumption of alcoholic
rot gut to unprececented levels, It also produced a new “‘af-
fluent’’ elite known as the big-time ‘‘bootlegger”.

And as is well known “prohibition” ofthe use of booze, drugs
or other hallucination stimulants, is in large measure one of
the prime symbols of a sick society!

COMMUNISTS SAY:

1 arch 8, 1967 should be a som-
bre day for labor to remem-
ber. On that day James R, Hoffa,
President of the largest trade un-
ion in America, the 1}-million
strong International Brotherhood
of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Ware-
housemen and Helpers, entered

an eight-year sentence for al-
‘legeds‘jury tampering,’

Beginning under the “justice”
regime of Robert F, “Bobby”
Kennedy when he was U.S, Attor-
ney-General in the J.F, Kennedy
administration, Jimmy Hoffa has
been hounded from one U.S, court
to another inan unrelenting effort
of “Bobby,” U.S. big business,
and the FBI to “get” Hoffa —
on anything. and everything they
could scheme up, Now they have
succeeded, for the time being at
least,

In this decade-long “judicial”
big business frame-up against a
militant American labor leader,
and as a means of weakening
and smashing his union, Jimmy
Hoffa had “one way out;” to
accept their offers to “play ball”

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Lewisburg penitentiary to begin ~

with/and in their anti-labor poli-
cies against his own and other
militant unions, and all would be
‘forgiven.’

This Jimmy. Hoffa staunchly
and consistently rejected. Now
the drama of his frame-up enters
its second phase — behind peni-
tentiary walls,

Few labor leaders in America
or elsewhere have been so much
maligned, slandered, schemed
against, hounded by the FBI,. and
condemned by the news media —
and phoney labor fakers as had
Hoffa, They’ve had him “assoc-
iated” with gangsters and all
sorts of underworld characters,
They’ve pulled out all the stops
at character assassination, and
what they didn’t know, they in-
vented,

They had him “misappropria-
ting,” “misusing,” “stealing” un-
ion funds, and when they failed
to make that stick the F BI hatched
up new Hoffa “conspiracies,” And
“Bobby” Kennedy, who aspires
to be president of these United
States, whom Jimmy Hoffa des-

‘Compensation Act should
cover all working peoplé

“Universal and complete cov-
erage for all industrial hazards
is a primary principal that must
be written into B,C’s new Com-
pensation Act,” declared Provin-
cial Leader Nigel Morgan on the
Communist Party’s weekly legis-
lative radio commentary Sunday,

“Many important improve-
ments were included inthe Tysoe
Commission Report, but there
are many urgently-needed
changes that are not, such as
coverage for sections of the fish-
ing industry,” he said,

“The combined strength of the
labor and progressive move-
ment must be brought to bear
to break through the Bennett gov-
ernment’s resistance to changes
that are helping monopoly in-
terests in cheating working
people of social benefits and
security that should be theirs,”
Morgan warned,

“A first requirement is legis-
lation that will ensure that all
fishermen, all working men and
women should know that they and
their families have the full pro-

_ tection of the Workmen’s Com- _

VALUES

CURRENT U.S. MARI

pensation Act, Withanything less
than that British Columbians can-
not be satisfied!

“The second basic essential
is the guarantee of coverage for
all diseases and disabling condi-
tions attributable directly or in-
directly to the nature of em-
ployment — silicosis, rheuma-
tism and arthritis, all hernia
claims and heart attacks on the
job,

“Thirdly, time loss compensa~
tion should be increased to 100
percent of gross earnings and the
minimum “average yearly earn-
ings under Section 27 substan-
tially increased,

“Fourthly, pension allowances
to the disabled and to widows
and dependents should be in-
creased to meet the full advance
in the cost-of-living — elimin-
ating the rank discrimination that
denied last year’s two percent
cost-of-living boost to those pen-
sioned prior to 1964,

“Fourthly, the three-day
claims waiting period should be
eliminated, And fifthly, areview

NEWS ITEM: For each ‘friendly’ civilian accidently killed by U.S. forces in
Vietnam, the Johnson Administration pays $35 to survivors (if any remain) but

when a rubber tree is destroyed the owner is paid $87 apiece.

cribed as “a spoiled rich kid,”
led the pack in the vendetta
against the Teamsters’ leader,

Why all the mountain of hate
against Jimmy Hoffa? True he
never pretended to star asa
paragon of “virtue” of the George
Meany brand. But in giving lead-
ership to a 1j-million member
union like the Teamsters, who
have had to fight every inch ofthe
way for their organization, their
wage standards and their unity,
the silk gloves of the phoney ‘virt-
uous’ do not fit sucha job, That
Jimmy Hoffa learned early in
life, °

In Canada we have had trade:
union “leaders” who have par-
roted the illusion that the “strike
weapon is obsolete;” that the
“class struggle no longer exists,”
etc., etc. The frame-up on the
Teamsters’ leader shatters both
illusions, The job he did for his
union, forging its unity, strength-
ening its organizations, lifting its
wage and working standards ona
nation-wide scale, Well, he just
had to be “got rid of,”

On the last court “ruling” that
closed the prison door on Jimmy
Hoffa, the International Execu-
tive Board of the Longshoremen
and Warehousemen’s Union had
this to say: “It merely con-
firms that Hoffa is the victim of
a dirty, anti-labor frame-up, . .
a move to decapitate a powerful

union is aimed not only at the

_ individual, but at the Teamsters’
—Union, the ILWU, and all Amer-

ican labor, . .”

The ILWU had extended an in-
vitation to Jimmy Hoffa to bea
main speaker at its biennial con-
vention in San Franciscoin April.
“IT want to make it absolutely
clear,” said ILWU President
Harry Bridges, February 17,
“that he is to be an honored
guest at our convention — and
if the government tries to inter-
fere, well, we’ll just take a
holiday until he shows up,”

Entering Lewisburg prison,
Hoffa issued a warning to Ameri-
can labor, “I hope that everyone
knows that this is not purely a
question of getting Hoffa, It’s a
question for every citizen. If
they can do this to Hoffa, they
can do it to every American

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of the system of medical ff
and selection of a compens!
counsellor from a panel of?
inees submitted by the trade
ion movement of this P¥

“Apart from these and
other improvements if
itself, there has been #
spread and erowing feelinga™
working people (and the
unions that represent the!
the Compensation Boardas?
ently constituted and adi
tering the Act, is im
instances unfair, unjust and
callously placing obstacles
way of injured workmen?e®
the compensation that 1
right, What are these 00%
that union after union COM
of?

«First — refusal togral!
pensation particularly
cosis victims, industrial
‘ness, back and head injurl
cannot be detected by ¥
other diagnostic tests. ©

“Second — arbitrarily
ting the reputable medi
dence of doctors and sp®
not employed by the
the Board was infallible.

«Third — sometime’

pelling workers to return
before they are fit to 0
sending them back to do
work” when no such work#§
able,
#And fourth’— inaae
claims the Board usually?
reason, which creates ©
difficulty in case of a
or even deciding whethet
sue the case further.

“These are but a few
many changes that the Com
Party believe are urgently
ed,” Morgan said, *nothll
than this is going to
rising discontent ove! P
inadequacies of Workme#
pensation, and the adminis
and interpretation of the
the present Board,”

to

working man, Thus I tell
one to look out for his *

There is little doubt
the back rooms of U.S. P é
ness and FBI circles be
great jubilation at the‘
of “Bobby’s” efforts to get
ster President Hoffa *%
packs,” and hope that
him they will now be able
the great Teamsters’ unio?
to size’ — including othe?
like the ILWU, Auto, etC
leadership and policies t
and fear.

But the area of miscal@™ 4
on their part is wide.
and strength which won the
sters better pay envVe”
shorter hours and great ri
advance — can also ope? : of
gates for those who set
cause of labor,

tl — a a ly — al

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